GUARDIAN ANGEL Watching Over the Green Belt

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GUARDIAN ANGEL Watching over the Green Belt

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07 HIGH FLYER 37 STAY ON THE TAY 13 TO THE RESCUE Kimberly Lewis is relishing her life WIN an exclusive break at Bristow launches new civilian as a member of Eastern Airways Ballathie Country House Hotel on Search and Rescue service cabin crew and you could join her the banks of the River Tay 14 SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY 09 NEWS Southampton entrepreneur What’s happening around Eastern Steve Hughes reveals his recipe Airways destinations for success

21 BOOK REVIEW 16 IN CHARACTER Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Adam Jacot discovers a treasure Cooke trove of words and phrases among our rich dialects 25 PROPERTY HOTSPOT Swanland in East Yorkshire is the 18 GEORGE CLOONEY place to warm to SLEPT HERE… Kevin Pilley visits Llangoed Hall, ENERGYLATEST DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS EXTRA IN THE ENERGY WORLD • SPRING 2015  27 EXPLORATION EXPRESS the UK’s 2014 Hotel of the Year Royal Navy Museum docks in FEELING THE HEAT Hartlepool A look at geothermal prospects in the UK 22 OLIVIA COLEMAN We talk to the Norwich-born, 38 BARE ESSENTIALS Bafta-winning actress Eastern Airways’ network map, passenger information, essential 30 MARMALADE OSCARS goings-on and destination guides Visiting the crazy world of the charity jamboree 47 ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Fly easternairways.com GREEN BELTS ii 34 GONE FISHING All within easy reach of Eastern SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Searching for salmon on Airways destinations ENERGY EXTRA the River Tay 50 THE LAST WORD Harry Pearson feels his age

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Eastern Airways is recruiting cabin staff. Kimberly Lewis explains why work as cabin crew is a dream come true…

It was working on check-in at Newcastle Airport that first “I really enjoy my job: in the beginning it was a little daunting gave Kimberly, now 23, the flying bug – and introduced her to but obviously now I am in the flow of things,” said Kimberly. Eastern Airways. Since her initial training, Kimberly is subject to a “line check” “I have always wanted to fly and, previously, I worked with and spot checks at regular intervals and an annual refresher Swissport for four years and checked in Eastern Airways flights course, also including CRM. She mostly flies from Newcastle a couple of times,” she said. “The passengers were really on Eastern Airways’ Jetstream 41 aircraft, to Aberdeen, Cardiff nice and so I looked at the website and was attracted by how and Birmingham. professional it all looked. I decided I wanted to fly but other “You get to know the passengers on a weekly basis, especially airlines didn’t appeal to me.” on Mondays and Fridays when the regulars are going home. So Kimberly attended the airline’s Humberside headquarters You get to know what drinks they like and their preferred for an interview early last summer and was invited in August snacks.” to begin her training in September. Having studied Airline and A typical day’s work might begin with a six o’clock reporting Airport Operations at Newcastle College, it was the break she’d time, meaning an early start from her home in western been hoping for. Gateshead, where she lives with her mother and sister, 20 “There were eight of us training together, beginning with minutes’ drive from the airport. classroom training, then going on board an aircraft in “After security, you meet your flight crew in the crew room, the hangar and doing role plays on different emergency where you check how many passengers you’ve got, print off procedures; practising the drills; learning to use the trolley; your paperwork, handover form and passenger manifest and learning how to complete all the paperwork. We had a look prepare your papers for the day ahead. at the flight simulator too, to appreciate how the flight deck works.” “Then you have a brief with the flight crew, who will talk through the weather, anticipated flight time and any risk of turbulence. After her three-week initial training, which also included Crew The flight crew discuss safety questions and check that you are Resource Management (CRM) to ensure cabin attendants happy with everything prior to the flight. work safely and effectively with the flight deck, it was time to take to the sky, where she completed 20 sectors, mostly under “We arrive at the aircraft about 30 minutes before departure. the watchful eye of trainer Lindsay Maitland who had been You do your security and equipment checks and check all responsible for her three weeks of ground school. catering is on board. >> 7 FD8774_EA_Cabin Crewad.indd 1 NEWS FROM EASTERN AIRWAYS DESTINATIONS “ALL REALLY THE FLIGHT ARE CREW NICE: I OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T AND I BEAND COULDN’T WITH A WORKING BETTER GROUP OF PEOPLE.” WHATKNOW TO EVERYONE BUT EXPECT YOU FEEL MAKES AT EASE so yougothrough thecabinwithsweetsagainandoffer “By thattimeyouare probably 20minutesfrom landing the firstserviceofdrinksandsnacks. announcement andservesweets.Aftertake-off it’s timefor With thecabinconfirmedsecure, it’s timetomakeaservice a welcomefrom theflightdeckandsafetybriefingbegins. give theseatmaptoflightdeck.Thencaptainwill a safetyexitare happytobethere; maketheWelcome PA; The flightitselfhasitsown routine: checkthatpassengersby they are ready, thenweare ready forourpassengers.” the flightcrew the‘cabincheckscomplete’signal,andonce “Once youhavedoneallyourchecksandsearches yougive AirwaysMagazineandSpectator,Eastern andsickbag. in therightorder intheseatpockets–safetycard, timetable, the lifejacketisindate;checktrolley andthateverythingis “You checkthetoiletsandthatmegaphoneworks have tousetheextinguisher. same withthesmokehood,whichyouhavetoputonif extinguishers andwhetherthesealhasbeenopened, “You checktheexpirydateonallequipment–fire continued from page7 doesn’t feellikework!” friends: Iloveitandreally enjoygoingtoworkbecauseitjust For now, however, shesays:“Ialwaysrecommend ittomy possibly tomovetheairline’s SaaborEmbraerfleets. Kimberly’s longertermambitionisbecomealinetrainerand be workingwithabettergroup ofpeople.” to expectbuteveryonemakesyoufeelateaseandIcouldn’t “All theflightcrew are really nice:Iobviouslydidn’t knowwhat different Airwaysbase,suchasLeedsBradford. Eastern Stornoway. Occasionallyshewill“nightstop”andworkfrom a a charterflightorscheduledservicefrom Aberdeen to 1000 toAberdeen, thentakeanairportbreak orsometimes A splitshiftdaymightseeKimberlyreport at0920totakethe sheet forthenextcrew, ifleavingtheaircraft. gone, it’s timetorecheck thecabinandprepare ahandover and theenginesare windingdown.Oncethepassengersare about collectinghandbaggagewhentheaircraft isonstand passengers totheirdestinationandthengiveinstructions Landing signalsfurtherannouncementstowelcome minutes tolanding.” passengers’ seatbeltsare fastened,andbythattimeit’s ten hot towels.Thenyoutidyupyourgalleyandcheckall THE SKIES THE TAKE TO to findoutmore Visit easternairways.com/careers - Flying thelengthandbreadth - There areexciting new - Fancy arewardingnewchallenge - If you’reover 18yearsofage of theUK opportunities forCabinCrew 27/02/2015 11:39

Eastgate Image © Oliver Dixon, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Licence NEWS FROM EASTERN AIRWAYS DESTINATIONS NEWS Former site to drama quarry become home for new TV later becomesking oftheGeats. Beowulf goeshome toGeatlandand and isthenalso defeated. Victorious, him, Grendel’s mother attacksthehall known asGrendel. AfterBeowulfslays hall hasbeenunderattackbyamonster Hroðgar, kingoftheDanes,whosemead is nowSweden,comestotheaid of Beowulf, ahero oftheGeats,inwhat the eighthandearly11thcentury. Init, British Library, anddating from between known astheNowellCodex,nowin The fullpoemsurvivesinamanuscript next January. anonymous Anglo-Saxonpoet,willair drama, basedontheepicpoembyan October yearly. Thefirst seriesofthe days eachmonth,from March to expected totakeplaceabout12 in themiddleofthisyear, withfilming Construction workshouldbecompleted Northumberland. off-site, whileotherlocationsare in shots attheMeadHallwillbefilmed the mainlocationforseries.Internal and jettiesaround alake in thequarry, as hall, 20houses,aforge andwalkways The production teamwillbuildamead the newBeowulfdramaforfiveyears. which willprovide locationsforfilming the green lighttoITVbuildafilmset, Now DurhamCountyCouncilhasgiven was withdrawnaspartofnationalcuts. foundered grant whenagovernment million pound“energy village”butplans had beendestinedtobecomeamulti- cement works,whichclosedin2002.It in Weardale, waspartoftheLafarge The limestonequarry, atEastgate, screen mega-drama. setting forITV’s latestbigbuckssmall- A formerquarryinCountyDurhamisthe Energy Extra supplement Extra Energy See Stepping up the heat inour audiences. a lessenthusiastic51percentfrom the Rottentomatoeswebsite,butgets a decent71percentfrom thecriticson Angelina Jolieamongothers.Itscores Anthony Hopkins,JohnMalkovichand out in2007andstarred RayWinstone, recent Hollywoodinterpretation came to bringBeowulfthescreen. Themost The venture willbebynomeansthefirst benefits. local companiesare already reaping the £25,000 perdayduringfilmingand project willalsogeneratespendingof development agency, estimatesthe the regional mediaandcreative FilmMedia, in themeantime.Northern location willbecomeatourismdraw complete, itisanticipatedthatthe to beremoved afterfilmingis Although thestructures are required Anglo-Saxons, 1909 the North,andBeowulf, theheroof Illustration from Siegfried,thehero of Site of the former quarry at Site oftheformerquarryat Eastgate inWeardale food-drink/food-trails www.visitscotland.com/about/ as awholeworthalmost£14bnyear. omy, withthefoodanddrinkindustry worth £2.5millionperdaytotheecon- food anddrinktourismindustryis Recent figures estimateScotland’s experiences. land’s naturallarder andspecialdining 2015, a12-monthcelebrationofScot- itScotland’s Year ofFoodandDrink The free onlineguideispartofVis- Aberdeen Angusbeef. the area’s fresh fishandworld-famous Food andDrinkTrail, whichhighlights south andtheAberdeen CityandShire in thenorth,rightdowntoBarra Drink Trail, coveringtheIsleofLewis include TheOuterHebridesFoodand about eachproduct. Thetentrails local businessesandinteresting facts trails withinformationaboutrelevant combines detailsofScotland’s food A Taste ofScotland’s FoodieTrails the country. visitors toundertakeaculinarytourof VisitScotland ishopingtoencourage try localfood,anewebookby half ofpeoplevisitingScotlandwantto n page 41 See Afeast in store in Aberdeen, Scrimgeour, from Forres. competition was Sandra DoubleTreeLeeds byHilton from Newcastle; ofour the winner competition was Steven Jones, ofourThe Hart’s winner Hotel MAGAZINE ISSUE 50 MAGAZINE AIRWAYSEASTERN Withfigures revealing thatalmost 9 Wilton Advert_180x122_Eastern_Airways_24.02.15.qxp 26/02/2015 16:08 Page 1

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n Aberdeen Airport will see the arrival over the next 18 months feature 193 standard rooms and a breakfast and dining area. of two brand new hotels within walking distance of the terminal, Crowne Plaza Aberdeen Airport and Holiday Inn Express in a development by the Dominvs Group. Aberdeen Airport join four other IHG properties in Aberdeen: IHG’s 165-room Crowne Plaza will open next year and will Holiday Inn Express, Aberdeen City Centre; Holiday Inn Express feature meeting rooms, outdoor terrace, gym, restaurant and Aberdeen Exhibition Centre; Holiday Inn Aberdeen Exhibition bar, and ample car parking. Centre; and Holiday Inn Aberdeen West. The new-build Holiday Inn Express hotel will be right next door These are in addition to the Station Hotel Crowne Plaza and is expected to open towards the end of this year. It will development by the Cairn Group. 11 TAXING MATTERS Have you considered whether you are UK-tax compliant while working offshore? ADVERTISING FEATURE ADVERTISING CASE STUDY Our client works on an oil platform in Greenland and has done since 1995. He has also worked in various other offshore waters, such as Denmark and Norway, for shorter periods of time.

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It meant that the timeframe paid, then a tax return may also need family is located, whether you have spent more than 90 days in the UK in was limited to the tax years 1999/2000 to be prepared in the UK and any either of the previous two tax years, onwards, and penalties were restricted further taxes paid. or if you work “sufficient” hours in to ten per cent for the majority of the disclosure period. The main factor to consider is whether the UK. you are resident in the UK, which is If you are UK-resident, a tax return will We have now reached a settlement covered in more detail below. need to be submitted in the UK and with HMRC and the final liability was any taxes paid. Tax relief is usually agreed to be just 6.5 per cent of the total income earned offshore. 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“I would like to thank all of those here in “Iwouldliketothankallofthose here in continuing thegreat workofthemilitary. of great needandweare committedto is aservicethatpeoplerely onintimes service across theUK.We knowthis to havebeenchosendeliverthisvital Helicopters Ltd,said:“Itisanhonour UK Search andRescueat Bristow Samantha Willenbacher, Director of and care”. legacy forward withtheutmost pride over manydecades.We willtaketheir have donebothinlandandonthecoast recognise theoutstanding workthey like tothankthemfortheirserviceand the barincredibly high,andIwould “The RAFandRoyalNavyhaveset UK forthelast30years. been providing inselectedareas ofthe the high-qualityservicethatwehave service. Forusthisisacontinuationof the UK’s search andrescue helicopter Coastguard hasbeenentrustedwith said: “Iamhugelyproud that HM Coastguard AgencyChiefExecutive Sir AlanMasseyMaritimeand will surely savelivesfrom April1.” resides inallthatworkhere andwhich professionalism andcommitmentthat forward tohearingaboutthe rescue isneeded,Iverymuchlook which asearch andrescue helicopter everyone avoidthecircumstances in “Although Iwouldclearlyrather new state-of-the-arthelicopterservice. we are onthecuspoflaunching this Humberside onthishistoricdaywhen Coastguard, Iamdelightedtobein responsible forHerMajesty’s John Hayessaid:“AstheMinister Chief ExecutiveoftheMaritimeandCoastguard Agency Rt HonJohnHayesMP, MinisterofStateattheDepartmentforTransport andSirAlanMassey Samantha Willenbacher, Director ofUKSearch andRescueatBristowHelicoptersLtd,

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Financially, 2014 was a strong year for Delicious Dining, with a turnover of £15million. Over the past two years it has recorded growth of more than 12 per cent, which Steve puts down to the company’s ability to offer customers a wide choice and evolve when the market dictates. It now employs 300 people.

“We’ve created a lot of businesses from scratch,” says Steve. “Success is not all about me. I am very much aware that you’ve got to surround yourself with clever people to be able to keep progressing – people who know more about certain aspects than I do. I have operating partners who work with me; they have a share in the business so they put all their energy into it.” “I AM VERY MUCH AWARE THAT YOU’VE GOT TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CLEVER PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO KEEP PROGRESSING.”

There’s lots of new growth and development in Southampton. The new Cultural Quarter being developed around Guildhall Square will include an art gallery and a theatrical space. Delicious Dining has taken a new unit there for a tapas bar, Tapas Barcelona. It is also looking to build on its boutique hotel offering.

Now 53, Steve is very driven, always wanting to expand, evolve and move forward, but wouldn’t he like to slow down a bit?

“No,” he replies without hesitation. “That would be so boring.” Eastern Airways flies to Southampton from Aberdeen and Leeds Bradford 16

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, “HOW MANY BORROW“HOW BEGS, AND MANY GIVE TAKE…?” AND YOU RECKON,DO OLD THE IN EXPLORATION EXPRESS 17 Y A PLACE FIT FOR ROYALTY Llangoed Hall, in mid-Wales, was named the 2014 Hotel of the Year in the UK and WHERE TO STA Ireland. We sent Kevin Pilley along to find out why…

At Llangoed Hall I slept like a Queen. – alongside one from John Major. knew how to go their own way”. And ended up smelling and shod like Although they were oblivious to it. The eminent are never far away: they are one too. around every corner. I spent a lot of time Every step around Llangoed Hall (Holy The definitive luxury country house hotel in the shower with a famous Meeting Place) is a step into history. in the Wye valley – nestled amid the Cornishman. When I was out of it I was Back to civilisation. Black Mountains, near Brecon – has surrounded, in the oak-panelled library Step inside the shower or your bath hosted the Clintons, the Clooneys and and along the pillared gallery of the and you meet William Penhaligon, the Prince Charles. There is a thank you classic Jacobean-style manor, by “true Cornish court barber of Queen letter from him hanging in the Grand Hall modern dandies and bold women who Victoria, who in 1902 invented

Bedroom with original Laura Ashley wallpaper – exclusive at Llangoed Hall Hotel 18 Blenheim Bouquet toilet water for the the bathrobes by Mitre, the retro radios and pupil of William Morris, Sir Frank Duke of Marlborough. And was rewarded by Roberts, the carpets, Brintons, and Brangwyn. by being made “The manufacturer of the stationery – only the very best – by The hotel is an art gallery. It boasts – toilet requisites” by Royal Appointment. Smythson, of Bond Street. For discerning dandies. discreetly – a collection of 19 Whistler You are treated like royalty at Llangoed Hall. lithographs (1888-1902). As well as works by The royal family has issued more than 850 Andrew Melville, William Sickert, John The eggs are supplied by Mrs Miggins. royal warrants. There is a royal chimney Duncan Ferguson, Albert Lynch and Head gardener Steve Heath will introduce sweep and even a royally endorsed maker Tenby’s Augustus John. of “corsetry, lingerie and intimates”. you to a very important member of staff: the chief Black Rock and her egghouse It is rather unsettling to tuck in to canapés When you go for a walk by the river at team of bantams and ducks, who are delivered by the charming white-gloved Llangoed you choose your “by Her responsible for the pastries, omelettes and Hungarian restaurant manager, Norbert, Majesty’s Appointment” footwear from a soufflés. And your boiled, poached or fried while being watched by John’s daughter selection of Hunter wellies, as worn by egg at breakfast. They supply head chef Poppet, a pig and “an intimate but objective monarchs. The bedding in the hotel is the Nick Brodie. depiction of a female nude”. same as that used on the Crown Estates. The pillowcases are filled with feathers Llangoed is one of few places where you The hotel is a very popular wedding and from ducks resident at Sandringham, the dine with a pig’s head looking over your honeymoon venue. Honeymooners return baths and toilet cisterns are by Chadder shoulder. It’s a crayon drawing by Belgium- frequently. The couples are transported in a and Co, the china tea sets by Caverswall, born Anglo-Welsh artist, virtuoso engraver Rolls Royce given to the Queen Mother on

19 the birth of Elizabeth, Princess of York (now visit the Brecon Beacons National Park and Queen Elizabeth). the Elan Valley, where Barnes Wallis tested his bouncing bombs before the 1943 Says Managing Director Calum Milne, a relative of AA, creator of Winnie the Pooh, Dambusters raid. As well as Llandrindod “What’s good enough for the Queen should Wells (where August sees a Victorian be good enough for anyone!” Festival and exhibitions of “things old time”), Hay-on-Wye (its celebrated literary The new owners have invested in festival is held in May), Brecon (August jazz refurbishing what its former owner Sir festival) and the Royal Welsh Showgrounds, Bernard Ashley wanted to be “A country at Builth Wells, where you can watch the home from home”. Janet in the dining room pony sales and bid at auction for your very tells a story about how Sir Bernard (who died in 2009) asked his butler to bring his own speckled faced breeding ewe. Wales’s shotgun. He promptly shot the TV when only whisky distillery, Penderyn, isn’t far Arthur Scargill appeared. Calum says: “We away either. won’t see his like again.” But Llangoed is the place to stay. An engineer and pilot (model trains are on Under chandeliers you enjoy petit fours with window ledges and Airfix Spitfires hang infusions, beetroot macaroon canapés, from ceilings), the former Fusilier and artisanal cheeses with quince paste, Gurkha officer married Laura Mountney in homemade scones, Bara Brith (Welsh 1949, having met her in a London youth Rhydoldog, in Machynlleth, Paultons, in speckled or mottled currant bread), club. Laura was born in Dowlais, Merthyr Brussels, Treveraux, the family château, in elderflower champagne, Llangoed hen Tydfil, the daughter of a civil servant. Picardie, and Lyford, in the Bahamas. truffled eggs and Miss Milligan’s signature While a Royal Navy wren, she started In a simple frame along the corridor from the and very bespoke egg and watercress doodling designs for headscarves, napkins, Paultons master deluxe suite is the first item finger sandwiches. tablemats and tea towels. The couple set up Laura Ashley designed – a striped apron a printing press and the ultimate cottage from 1950. Room 7 is a tribute to her flock. All that chintz, all that high life and industry – Laura Ashley fabrics – was born sophistication, the four-poster beds and in 1953. Over the fireplace in the hotel’s drawing classy valances, the crystalware, the room is a motto of former owners, the complimentary sherry in a decanter in your This year marks the 90th anniversary of Christy clan, Sic Viresco (Thus do I Flourish). Laura Ashley’s birth and the 30th of her room, the Drambuie in your porridge, the death. The Ashley family moved to Wales in The Hall was probably the seat of the first Camden Town group and Slade School on 1961. Originally located in the social club in Welsh parliament, back in 560AD. It was an the walls, the gouache and gum arabic, the Carno, Montgomeryshire, where they are episcopal grange, owned by a prominent thin wash, the aquatints on wove paper, the both buried, the factory moved to the hatter. And once, in the Regency days of the renowned bohemians, Scottish colourists, village’s railway station. Hellfire Club, it was lost in a game of cards. the masters of “blottesque” and the Glasgow Boys. In 1966, Laura produced her first dress. In In 1912 it was redesigned by Clough 1974 she opened shops in Paris and San Williams-Ellis before he created the quirky And all the royal warrants. And the Laura Francisco. At the time of her death the Italianate Welsh coastal village of Ashley connection. Llangoed Hall is enough company had 220 shops in 12 countries. Portmeirion, setting of The Prisoner. Work to drive a sane person Paisley. And Her first shop, at 35 Maengwyn Road, on Llangoed’s “majestic chimneyed monarchist, to boot. Machynlleth, is still open for business. outlines” was completed in 1919. Sir Bernard Ashley bought it in 1987 and turned www.llangoedhall.com The suites in the 23-room hotel, which it into a hotel in 1990. stands in 17 acres of Powys countryside, Eastern Airways flies to Cardiff from are named after the Ashley family homes: Llangoed is ideally and idyllically placed to Newcastle and Aberdeen THE NEW OWNERS HAVE INVESTED IN REFURBISHING WHAT ITS FORMER OWNER SIR BERNARD ASHLEY WANTED TO BE “A COUNTRY HOME FROM HOME”. Smithdon School, Hunstanton BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW: HER BRILLIANT CAREER by Rachel Cooke SMASHING THE GLASS CEILING

Icons of the so-called Brutalist about how cold the building, a veritable post-war architectural movement have greenhouse, would be in winter, and been falling like flies in recent years – how hot in summer.” Owen Luder’s “Get Carter” car park in Gateshead and Portsmouth’s Tricorn In fact, the lower window panels were Centre, to name but two. changed for opaque black ones in the 1980s, to the consternation of But one of the British architects at the architectural purists, to address the centre of the movement, inspired by huge temperature differences in the Le Corbusier, is celebrated in a new building. book that looks at the lives of ten women who bucked the trend by But the building – now very much part achieving significant careers during of the landscape – was loved by the the 1950s. architectural press and is now Grade II* listed. The celebrated architectural Alison Smithson’s story is told by the commentator, Nikolaus Pevsner, called Observer writer, Rachel Cooke, in Her the school “the paramount example Brilliant Career, published by Virago. among the innumerable interesting post-war schools of England of a rigidly A brutalist development in Tower formal, symmetrical layout”. Cooke Hamlets remains unloved and may yet suggests that “for a Modernist be knocked down but one of her masterpiece, it is surprisingly dinky” but earlier works, Smithdon School, at Her architectural partner was her goes on to praise many of its features, Hunstanton, Norfolk, is one of the most husband and fellow Modernist, Peter not least the water tank that sits atop a celebrated buildings of the Modernist Smithson, from Stockton-on-Tees. tall tower in a way that is reminiscent of period still surviving in Britain today. the pitheads of the Smithsons’ youth. Most importantly, 60 years on, it Hunstanton School, as it was originally continues to perform its original function known, was their first big commission The Smithsons went on to abandon light efficiently, even if the school itself found after they won a competition to replace and airy for the chunky concrete lump itself in Special Measures a few years the old school, destroyed in the War. forms of Brutalism and this journey is ago. described in Her Brilliant Career. It’s an “It took four long years to build what is extremely readable book, which taps Alison Smithson (née Gill) was born in now known as Smithdon High School,” into much of what has been written in South Shields and studied architecture writes Cooke. “And when the scaffolding the past year about the earlier at what was then the University of finally came down, there was the most Suffragette movement. It explodes many Durham, in Newcastle, where her tutor tremendous fuss. Local people hated it. myths about the role of women in an age was Gordon Ryder, who helped design They worried that passers-by would be when their place was largely believed to Peterlee New Town and founded an able to see up the skirts of female be in the home. Alison Smithson and all architectural practice in Newcastle, students and there were concerns – the other subjects are now dead, but which is still at work today. these admittedly more well-founded – Cooke brings them very much to life. 21 21 22

Julian Makey/REX INTERVIEW on-screen personas… presents a surprising contrast to her actress the Bafta-winning finds he coffee interviewer for Preston John her meets Flowers, for Channel 4, but when our pilot, comedy to in a star commissioned Colman drama. was recently ITV murder-accused in the successful hugely she plays the detective wife of the by the of success Broadchurch, in which comedy hasscreen latterly eclipsed been insuccessful career TV, radio and big with Footlights. Cambridge Her Holt, Olivia Colman got her acting break Girls and Gresham’s School, in nearby educated at the city’s High School for inBorn where Norwich, she was John Preston John Preston INTERVIEW: COLMAN OLIVIA talks to the Bafta-winning actress to Bafta-winning the talks Thanks to broken-down trains, stationary traffic and a “You what?” I ask. crucial miscalculation about how long it will take to get to the café in Peckham where we’re meeting, I am late arriving “I got really angry,” she says, lifting her chin. “I walked over for my interview with Olivia Colman. Inside, she sits alone at and took a photo of his car. The man backed straight into a table, frowning at a tiny cup of coffee. When I explain why another neighbour’s fence and then sped off. I suppose I do I’m late, she uses a phrase I haven’t heard in about 20 years: get more attention now, but normally it’s only when “You poor dear.” Then she opens her enormous brown eyes something is on telly. After it’s over, they realise I’m quite very wide and for one awful moment I think she might be boring and move on.” about to cry. You can get a pretty good idea of just how busy Colman is Olivia Colman in tears is fast becoming one of the great these days by the fact that she had no idea which of her two unmissable sights on British television. She cried very new television dramas she made first. “I know it was warm memorably in Broadchurch, in which she and her fellow when we shot The 7.39… But hold on, it was warm too when police officer, played by David Tennant, investigated the we shot The Thirteenth Tale,” she says, referring to a BBC murder of a child, and she does it again in The 7.39, a new Two adaptation of Diane Setterfield’s ghost story in which two-part romantic drama written for BBC One by David she stars opposite Vanessa Redgrave. “Um, sorry, I can’t Nicholls (broadcast early in January). Here she plays the wife remember.” of a man who has an affair with a fellow commuter he meets One thing she’s sure of is that she’d never previously worked on his journey into work. with Redgrave. “I was so nervous on the first day of “I do sometimes wonder if people think, ‘Oh we’ll have her rehearsals that I didn’t say a thing. I just kept thinking, ‘What because she cries well,’” she says. “The odd thing is I don’t if she doesn’t like me?’ Also, I was very aware that I was the really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I underdog, and when someone is that high up the ladder it can usually cry without too much trouble – in fact, the hard seems only polite to shut up. But she couldn’t have been thing is trying to get me to stop. But I’m not really a crier in more supportive.” real life. I’m not a dramatic person, you see.” Then she It wasn’t always like this. Once, not so long ago, you could pauses, tucks her hair behind her ear and adds, “I’m actually have found Colman on her knees in a Cambridge bed and a very happy person.” breakfast cleaning toilets. Typically, she did this with a song in her heart. Indeed, the memory of it makes her break into Which is probably why Colman in tears is such a moving another beaming smile. sight. With her jolly, breathless manner and her wide-open smile, the 39-year-old doesn’t look as if she’s built for “It was my favourite job – honestly, I loved it. I used to cook unhappiness. So when her face crumples and tears start breakfast for the guests, and then I’d clean the lavatories.” pouring down, audiences instinctively want to put an arm around her because her emotions are so naked. She’d wound up in Cambridge after a childhood spent in Norfolk, where her father was a surveyor and her mother a Although she’s a lot less tearful in the flesh, she still seems nurse. “We moved around a lot because my parents did up unusually guileless – even if she’s not as trusting as she was. houses. But that was great because I got to choose a new She had a bad experience when she appeared in a 2006 film, bedroom every couple of years.” Confetti, about nudists. Colman had been assured that the producers would pixillate “intimate parts of her body”, but in I bet she was regarded as “A Good Sort” at school, I say. the event they didn’t. And after her triumph at the 2013 Baftas, “Oh God, I suppose I was. I was always quite confident – where she won two awards – best comedy actress in Twenty and happy – even if I wasn’t particularly academic.” And Twelve, and best supporting actress in The Accused – she’s what about boys? Was she popular with them? Immediately been having to cope with the less welcome aspects of fame. she turns very red. “Oh dear, I’m blushing, aren’t I? How embarrassing. Well, I wasn’t the one they’d look at first at a “I’ve been followed by a photographer, and then on another party, but I could certainly make them laugh.” occasion this person turned up outside our house. The first I knew about it was when a neighbour came up and said, When Colman was 16 she starred in a school production of ‘Excuse me, but I think someone’s watching you from a car.’ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and all at once everything Initially, I was a bit nervous and freaked-out, but then I got a changed. “I’d never been very good at anything at school – right cob on.” I’d certainly never been better than anyone else. Afterwards “I’m not really a crier in real life. I’m not a dramatic person, you see… I’m actually a very happy person.” OLIVIA COLMAN – BECOMING AN ACTRESS AND GETTING HER MAN

Along the way, her now husband decided that he wanted to be a Colman with writer instead, but Colman stuck doggedly at acting. “There was David Tennant in never a big-bang moment, just a very slow sizzle. But after a ITV’s Broadchurch while I felt I could put ‘actor’ on my passport and not feel like a fraud. Also, I think if you’re not a complete pain in the backside, people will invite you back.”

For years she hung around in the shadows, often with her friends Mitchell and Webb, and also on radio, where she did a clutch of Radio 4 comedies. Slowly, though, she emerged – or sidled – into the light. She had a memorably disastrous marriage to David Mitchell in Peep Show and went quietly bonkers as an overworked mother-of-four in Green Wing. Then she starred in Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine’s first feature, as an apparently wholesome charity shop worker with a dark secret. “Things did change quite a lot after that. I think possibly people realised that I could do more than I’d done before,” she says and promptly turns red again. “That sounds very immodest, doesn’t it?”

everyone said, ‘Well done, that was really good’ – and that was She immediately went on to play Carol Thatcher in The Iron a revelation to me.” Lady – Meryl Streep called her “divinely gifted” when she picked up a Bafta as best actress. Reminded of this, she turns redder However, it wasn’t until a few years later that she thought still. “Frankly, I was astonished she even remembered my seriously about becoming an actress. She went to Homerton name.” College, Cambridge University, to train to be a teacher, but realised she’d made a terrible mistake. “I just knew that I could Ever since, people have tended to treat Colman as if she’s some never be one of those teachers who turn a light on inside sort of acting guru – an idea she’s keen to scotch. “To be children’s heads.” honest, I don’t think that much about acting. If you’re genuine and you’re reacting truthfully to what’s being said, you don’t While at Cambridge, she auditioned for the Footlights. Comedy have to do any more. You’re still acting, but really it’s just supremos David Mitchell and Robert Webb were vetting honesty.” applicants. “I remember I ate a cigarette butt in the audition, which surprised them a bit.” Perhaps because she’s so good at conveying pain, Colman frequently finds misfortune heaped on her shoulders – she It was also at the Footlights that she met Ed Sinclair, who would always seems to be the long-suffering wife, never the become her husband. smouldering seductress. “I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it’s never bothered me. They’ve never “It sounds really odd, but I did fall in love with him at first sight. been weak – they’ve always got steel in them. Mind you, one When he walked into the room, I just went, ‘That’s him!’ Mind day I’d like to play an absolute bitch.” you, I suppose if he hadn’t wanted me, then I might have gone, ‘That’s him!’ at someone else a week later.” With two young children – born in 2005 and 2007 – she tries to spend as much time as possible at home. That said, she spent As Colman tells it, though, Sinclair didn’t have much say in the four months doing the second series of Broadchurch. matter. “I set my cap at him completely – I really gave him no choice. To begin with I think he was completely bamboozled by Last year she was in the feel-good romantic comedy, Cuban the whole thing. He kept wondering why this jolly, smiley person Fury, in which she starred opposite Nick Frost. “They made me kept turning up and laughing hysterically at everything he said. look really good – mainly because someone else was doing But the fact that he was unaware and a bit puzzled was one of most of the dancing. It turned out that I could only do three the things I liked about him. I’m afraid I just kept plugging away. spins before I felt really sick. Even so, I loved doing it.” But he did say recently that he was really pleased that I had.” And this, I think, is the key to Olivia Colman – she really is an When Sinclair went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, unusually happy person who just happens to be brilliant at Colman trailed along devotedly in his wake. “I said, ‘I’ll come being unhappy when the occasion demands. “I do think I’m along with you and support you. I’ll temp and clean.’ However, someone who appreciates what I’ve got when I’ve got it – and he seemed to be having so much fun that I thought I’d apply that’s probably a good thing.” too, and amazingly I got in.” The bill arrives. I reach for it, but she gets there first. Then she By now you might be thinking that Colman’s career has been a does something that no one I’ve interviewed has ever done, series of happy accidents, but that isn’t the case. something that says a lot about the person she is: she insists on paying. “I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can’t do anything else – apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, ‘I suppose you’ll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?’ And I said, ‘No Mum, 24 I think I’ll give it ten.’” John Preston / The Daily Telegraph / The Interview People PROPERTY HOTSPOT

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The Boardwalk, Kemp Road, Swanland, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, HU14 3LZ PRICE ON APPLICATION Residents of Swanland, not far from the Both boast several million pound-plus The Boardwalk, Kemp Road, northern end of the Humber Bridge, were not properties, some replacing smaller, older Swanland. Described as surprised when their village received the houses demolished by new buyers with “classical, colonial style”, the accolade of Best Commuter Town in the ambitious architects. Many, like River six-bedroomwww.fineandcountry.com individual home most recent Family Hotspots Report. Grange, on the market at £2,995,000, have has more than 6,500 sq ft of living accommodation, The report, published by Family Investments, views of the river estuary, the Humber Bridge and north Lincolnshire. including a 60ft long identified the highest-scoring postcodes open-plan living/dining/ within easy reach of major cities. “But because Swanland has a lot to offer kitchen area. If you prefer And the picturesque East Yorkshire village, everyone, many buyers move within the privacy, you can close the dominated by its pond – sadly no longer village as their needs change,” she says. doors in the formal lounge, home to any swans – and seven miles from study and office. Leisure Young professionals are attracted by the centre of Hull, came out top of the pile. choices are the second floor apartments in the converted Georgian cinema room or the outdoor Swanland is close to the A63, leading to the mansion, Swanland Hall, with a communal heated swimming pool, with M62 and the motorway network. swimming pool, where one-beds start at nearby hot tub and barbecue Humberside Airport is less than 30 minutes around £120,000 rising to £250,000 for area, overlooked by the rear away across the bridge, and King’s Cross two-beds. balcony accessed from the two and a half hours on a direct train from gallery landing. nearby Brough. Family homes on the market include a three-bedroom cottage at £199,950 and On sale from Fine & Country Families are attracted by its primary school’s modern four and five-bedroom detached department of Beercock, excellent results, a vibrant community spirit homes from £389,000 to £430,000. Wiles & Wick, price and low crime rate in a village, which Retirement apartments in Haldenby Court £1,200,000. supports a pub, Post Office, doctor’s surgery, chemist’s and convenience store. start with one-bedroom flats at £170,000 www.beercocks.com The tennis and bowls club and playing field rising to £250,000 for two bedrooms. ensure lots of outdoor activities. The latest report sparked an increase in Debbie Limb, director of Matthew Limb enquiries, says Debbie Limb. “All the villages estate agents, which specialises in villages along the A63 corridor follow a similar west of Hull, says that Kemp Road and pattern, showing increased activity last year Tranby Lane are Swanland’s equivalent of with people driven mainly by career moves or Monopoly’s Mayfair and Park Lane. education choices for their children.” PROPERTUNITIES We present a round-up of some of the more unusual opportunities for buyers near airports served by Eastern Airways. The information presented in this feature was correct at the time of going to press. However, property is put up for sale because it is… for sale! For this reason some properties featured may no longer be on the market later in the shelf-life of this issue of the magazine…

LIVE LIKE A LORD A rare opportunity to buy a Grade II listed mansion on the CITY CENTRE GEM western edge of Newcastle – if Tucked away in the heart you’ve got £1.5 million burning of Southampton, this four- a hole in your pocket. Formerly storey house on Holt Road is owned by the Duke of a very special modern home, Northumberland and the LOFTY LIFESTYLE IN BIRMINGHAM described by the agent as “a birthplace of Ann Potter, This two-bedroom duplex apartment, in one of the original loft masterpiece of contemporary mother of the famous inventor developments on Grosvenor Street West, takes its quirky, open living”. The four-bedroom and industrialist Lord industrial style from exposed brickwork, glass briquette and solid house has a detached office- Armstrong, Walbottle Hall is a girders – and fittingly is at the heart of the city’s canal basin, once studio. But for those who magnificent eight-bedroom an industrial hub. With a balcony overlooking the canal, the work in the city or commute, Grade II listed property set in Sherborne Lofts apartment, with concierge and underground it’s just a ten-minute walk to more than an acre of grounds. parking space, is close to Brindleyplace, one of the city’s main the station. The house, which The East Wing, a part-stone, business and leisure hubs. It is just a five-minute walk from Five has never before been on the part-brick manor house, is Ways station and less than ten from New Street. open market and is now for believed to have been built in www.jameslaurenceuk.com sale at £675,000, also boasts the 1700s, while the West extensive grounds, including a Wing, an adjoining stone-built hidden patio. castellated tower in the www.pearsons.com Scottish Baronial style, was added in 1897. Strutt and Parker, Morpeth www.struttandparker.com

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HARTLEPOOL A TALL SHIP STORY… Stan Abbott visits a town that counts an apocryphal story about a monkey in its history and true stories about exotic birdlife in its contemporary portfolio.

I only live 20 miles from Hartlepool, but Her first naval commission only came in Hartlepool was selected for the last time I spent any significant 1847, since when she enjoyed tours of Trincomalee’s new life on the strength of length of time there was back in 2010, duty in the Caribbean, The Gulf of St the impressive restoration of HMS when the port hosted the Tall Ships. Lawrence, the Crimea, and the Pacific, Warrior, which began in 1979, the Royal before becoming a training vessel in Navy’s first ironclad currently on display The reason for this 2015 visit, on a Sunderland, West Hartlepool and in Portsmouth. sunny but chilly day in January, was to Southampton. get up close to the town’s own Tall Ship, The prelude to a visit to the restored HMS Trincomalee, which recently In 1897 she was rescued from the vessel – 65 per cent of whose timbers became part of the National Museum of breaker’s yard and renamed TS (training are still the original teak – is to learn the Royal Navy. ship) Foudroyant. After being more about her life and times by visiting the well orchestrated displays in the requisitioned during World War II, she buildings of the reconstructed port. Beautifully restored, and welcoming was eventually fully retired in 1986, visitors since 2001, she is the central signalling the start of a long mission to Richard Davison regularly dons feature of Hartlepool’s Maritime restore her to something like her original captain’s uniform to bring the post- Experience and, as we go to press, state just after Nelson’s days. Napoleonic experience truly to life and there are plans for her setting at the proves he has an answer to all reconstructed historic Jackson Quay to questions nautical. The more hardy (in be more fully integrated with the the non-Nelsonean sense) among us national museum. rise to the challenge of climbing the ship’s rigging to the crow’s nest from Named after a port in what was then where, I am reliably informed, you can Ceylon, the frigate HMS Trincomalee see all the way to Whitley Bay, in the was built of teak in India because of the north, and Boulby Head cliffs, to the shortage of oak by that time in England. south. She was launched in 1817 and sailed to Portsmouth, where she was promptly Richard is at his most knowledgeable mothballed as part of a reduction in when asked about the ship’s armoury of naval strength at the end of the Richard Davison fires a cannon and, above, cannons, the firing of which has Napoleonic wars. HMS Trincomalee bequeathed to us the term “loose 27 Gordon Ednie, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Ednie, CC BY-NC-ND Gordon Clockwise from above: Andy Capp statue, Haugh Battery, Church of St Hilda, ring-necked parakeet, Hartlepool marina

cannon”, being one that has broken away via the quayside buildings is the Museum of region as being beyond even the reach of from its rope moorings and careered Hartlepool, where one of the displays recalls the Empire, hence the addition of the dangerously backwards across the deck. the day a hundred years ago when “British” prefix to differentiate West We learn about the “powder monkeys” Hartlepool (and Scarborough) came under Hartlepool from its neighbour. Both the late whose job it was to ferry explosive charges attack from German warships. This is an Jimmy Edwards and Tony Hancock are to each gun as required. excellent curtain-raiser to the next stop on credited with the popularisation of this our tour: the restored gun battery on the old name, which, as I had to point out to one of This in turn prompts reflection on fortified Headland area of the town. our party, carries no racial overtones. Hartlepool’s most famous story: the hanging of the monkey. For those few who When I was a young boy growing up in Today the Headland is looking increasingly don’t know it, Hartlepool’s principal claim to North East England, we used to talk about attractive, with its fine Victorian terraces and fame is as the place where an unfortunate “British” West Hartlepool. Hartlepool was, restored defensive walls. The Grade I listed primate had been washed ashore from a until 1967 two separate towns – the “new” Church of St Hilda, on the site of the original wrecked vessel during the Napoleonic wars town of West Hartlepool that grew up monastery, has a visitor centre, telling the and, thinking he was a French spy, the around the docks and railways in the story of Old Hartlepool. The Headland Story townsfolk tried him for espionage, found mid-19th century, and the much older Trail is illustrated by 18 information boards. him guilty and hanged him. settlement on the Headland. There is even You can even do a selfie beside that evidence that the Headland was once a celebrated Hartlepudlian, the Daily Mirror’s It’s an apocryphal tale of which the complete island, though probably long Andy Capp. townsfolk are quite proud. But what if the before it became an important early “monkey” had actually been a powder Northumbrian Christian site with a Our own specific destination was the monkey? monastery dedicated to St Aidan and later, restored Heugh Battery, which – in the St Hilda. confusion of fog – was unable to respond Richard and his colleagues demonstrate the swiftly to the deadly German bombardment firing of canons (with only wadding for Old Hartlepool had a reputation in the of 1915. This historic gun emplacement ammunition) and muskets, without live shot. And thus we learn the origin of another English phrase, “a flash in the pan”, deriving from when the tinder charge in the musket WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY GROWING UP IN ignites in the “pan” without firing the main explosive load. NORTH EAST ENGLAND, WE USED TO TALK

Tees Valley Unlimited Valley Tees Adjacent to the historic quay and accessed ABOUT “BRITISH” WEST HARTLEPOOL.

28 WYNYARD HALL The last time I had visited Wynyard Hall was more than ten years ago to interview Sir John Hall, creator of the Metrocentre at Gateshead and one-time owner of Newcastle United.

These days Sir John and his wife live in just one wing of the fine building, accessed via a long drive on the boundary of the Borough of Hartlepool.

The greater part of the hall, built in the mid-19th century for the coal-owner, the Marquess of Londonderry, is now a very fine 19-bedroom country house hotel. John Armagh, CC BY-SA 4.0 John Armagh, CC BY-SA

was falling to rack and ruin on my last Ward Jackson Park, in a leafy suburb in visit so it was a real pleasure to see the the west of the town. Our interest in product of a real community-led Hartlepool’s colony of ring-necked renovation project. parakeets was prompted by the arrival in our garden at Durham of a similar Duty Director Joe Foster proudly tells green parrot, which was feeding on the the story of the restoration and the ivy in our tall trees. A little research building of a collection of guns of all established the Hartlepool colony of shapes and sizes, transforming the site these colourful birds (descended from into a real attraction and educational escapees) as the most northerly in the venue. UK, although there have been odd sightings in Newcastle and Edinburgh, You can sit on the old anti-aircraft guns too. There’s another well-established and spin the handles to raise and lower colony in Kirkby Stephen, in Cumbria. the barrel, or see the extensive We stayed in the beautifully appointed collection of machine guns and other We saw no parakeets on this visit, as it Frances Anne room, whose en suite facilities weapons of war. All disabled, I hasten to was by this time very nearly dark. But sit in a self-contained “pod”, which does not add. there was a lot of ivy, just like that in our compromise the essential architectural own garden! Sadly, subsequent qualities of the room. It offers views over the Also worth a visit is the town’s art research established that “our own” extensive lake, home to a huge number of gallery, in a converted church whose garden visitor was in fact most likely an geese. 100ft clock tower may provide a less orange-winged Amazon parrot. We do scary way to see the town than climbing hope he survived the winter or returned the rigging of HMS Trincomalee, and the The hotel spa does not boast a pool but it has to his owner’s home. The Hartlepool the most attentive staff and two illuminated resort of Seaton Carew, with its art deco parrots, on the other hand, are very real: railway station. Seaton Carew is blessed hot tubs, from whose warming waters we more so than either the monkey or Andy gazed out over the fresh covering of snow. with fine beaches and an ancient Capp. submerged forest. It is also where the This is a wonderfully informal hotel, retaining fraudster John Darwin staged his death www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk many of the qualities of a family home in a canoe before being photographed www.heughbattery.com alongside the grandeur of the lavishly in Panama with his wife and later decorated dining room and the intimacy of the convicted, giving rise to the alternative Hartlepool is 23 miles (40 sitting room, lined with bookcases and moniker of Seaton Canoe. The town’s minutes) from Durham warmed by two lovely log fires. nuclear power station has a few years of Tees Valley Airport and life before it is decommissioned and has 40 miles (one hour) from Wynyard also boasts a 700-seater marquee, its own visitor centre and tours by Newcastle Airport, both while an ambitiously elaborate rose garden arrangement. served by frequent and visitor centre are due for completion in Eastern Airways flights. August. With good access to all of Teesside, Not far away is the seal sands RSPB County Durham and Tyneside it can also nature reserve, at the mouth of the River be the ideal place to wind down after a Tees, where you can see a huge variety hard day’s business. of birds enjoying the inter-tidal mudflats, as well as the eponymous grey and www.wynyardhall.co.uk harbour seals.

We wanted to see another type of bird altogether, however, and so headed for Stan Abbott visits the World Marmalade Awards at Dalemain in Cumbria – which FOOD AND DRINK this year had a record number of entries thanks, no doubt, to a certain little marmalade- loving bear from Peru…

30 It’s a little more than ten years since Jane Hasell-McCosh was first struck by the idea that making marmalade was a metaphor for community and caring. Jane, who is “lady of the manor” at the historic Dalemain estate, near Penrith, wanted to do her bit to help a local charity, Hospice at Home, which provides palliative care at home for people near the end of their lives. And so, in 2005, were born the world’s first Marmalade Awards. From small beginnings, the Marmalade Awards have grown astonishingly, with more than 2,600 jars of marmalade – from amateur and artisan producers all over the world – arriving for judgement in this year’s event. With the Paddington Bear movie already reported to have stimulated previously moribund sales of this most British of preserves, thanks to the ursine Peruvian’s liking for marmalade sandwiches, this year’s event was a record-breaker. Food historian Ivan Day, who lives locally, is just one of many people who’ve become part of the vast infrastructure that delivers the awards each year and he’s got the measure of things across a decade. “The thing that appeals to me is that it’s total madness – two days of total lunacy!” I’m inclined to agree, as we trudge through the mud in a blizzard from the temporary car park at Dalemain, home to 11 generations of Hasells. Dalemain’s impressive Georgian frontage conceals an older medieval heritage and the old cobbled courtyard to the rear of the house is today replete with stalls selling country goods that seem to have more in common with a point-to-point than a “jamboree”. But it’s well-controlled lunacy: and lunacy in support of not just one, but three good causes, the other two being Action Medical Research and Marie Curie Scotland. With entry fees all going to charity, Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Cumbria had received £150,000 before this year’s event. >> Doreen Cameron and Eileen Wilson

Jane Hasell-McCosh

With Fortnum and Mason, Aga, Laithwaite’s and the Worshipful as to what makes a marmalade and he shares the sticky story in Company of Fruiterers among sponsors and supporters (not to a fascinating lecture and a marquee display that includes quince mention Mackays, the marmalade people), you might be forgiven for pastes and a knobbly citrus fruit called citron. wondering if marmalade-making is the preserve of the entitled. “For me it doesn’t need to have any citrus fruit in it at all and we even But the spoons on evidence today – as we enter the hallowed have two recipes from the Roman occupation, made with English portals of the event itself – are far from silver: rather, little plastic fruits. ones by the thousand, at the ready for 3,000 visitors to sample “I’m very interested in the history of food in general but in particular some of the jars of lovingly-made marmalade, which have filled just confectionery, or anything to do with sugar. Originally ‘marmalade’ about every flat space in the medieval hall and the marquee, a new could be made from a combination of various fruits and the first addition this year. But remember: “no double-dipping”! Marmalade- ones were made from quince, which is ‘marmello’ in Portuguese. making may be a great leveller but a line is wisely drawn at sharing our germs with all and sundry. “We started making it with oranges in the 18th and 19th century and Britain became synonymous with preserves. So the name The air hangs heavy with the bitter-sweet of the preserves and the ‘marmalade’ found its way into English and it was made with a fruit piles of Seville oranges awaiting their sticky afterlife – and with a we couldn’t grow here and sugar from cane grown in the Caribbean. palpable sense of warmth and joie de vivre. Jane and her marmalady Just like we got tea from China and turned it into the British works for charity are clearly the stuff of legend and her personal institution of teatime.” warmth seems to seep down through the army of wellie-clad helpers who ensure that, amid the lunacy, a jam-packed schedule of talks Marmalade, of course, is more of a breakfast institution than a and demonstrations runs like clockwork. teatime one: except for one famous bear from darkest Peru. “Jane is the warmest-hearted person you could ever meet,” says Ivan. “It was a stroke of genius to come up with a theme that suited the bleak days of January and February. The first run was a very small event and none of us could remember it very well and then the idea came through to repeat it.” But Jane didn’t feel she was qualified to judge the qualities of the growing number of entries that began to come not just from enthusiastic amateurs, but also from artisan producers for whom a prize might spell commercial success. Step forward the redoubtable ladies of Penrith Women’s Institute, Doreen Cameron and Eileen Wilson, who tirelessly award points to every single entry and produce neatly completed score sheets that are posted out to provide feedback from the experts. The artisan entries are judged by a panel comprising big names in food writing, TV and hospitality. The focus at the event is very much on the Seville orange – renowned for its “just right” bitterness and chunky peel, but in season for just a few weeks each winter – and its citrus cousins. 3232 But Ivan’s food historian pedigree encourages a more catholic view I ask the awards’ inscrutable PR, Lou Lou pitted against his brother-in-law and his Graham, who it is inside the giant Paddington mother-in-law.” who is making his presence felt at the festival. I take my plastic spoons and tuck into some “Well, Paddington, of course!” she says without of the professional and amateur offerings. a hint of irony. “Mmmm, lime with vodka and tonic! Chocolate Well, she and the team do have a lot to thank orange! Champagne! Christmas pud! Bathtub Paddington for. “We had 2,600 entries this gin!” year, which is more than ever before and I think Unclaimed entries will be offered by Dalemain Paddington definitely helped. The film has to visitors in return for charity donations. Any brought marmalade to children who hadn’t tried that are left will provide a treat for Dalemain’s it before. At the same time, every year more bees. Lucky bees, say I! chefs and food writers get behind the idea of using marmalade, not just on toast but for BEAR FACTS With 15 amateur categories alone, I’ll bring cooking with.” you highlights only of this year’s winners, with n 24 per cent – increase in sales Double Gold homemade awards for Catie Lou Lou talks more about how the care that of Golden Shred marmalade, post- Gladstone’s rich and smooth Hamilton Honey people take with packing and presenting their Paddington Marmalade in the Stirring of the Clans category entries reflects the charitable aims of the event. – alongside the Gardening Leave Army Indeed an entry from the Scottish service n 20 per cent – increase in sales Veteran’s Charity Marmalade. Both winners veterans’ charity, Gardening Leave, lifted of Seville oranges at Waitrose this will be offered the opportunity to have their the Double Gold in the Armed Forces entry year marmalades stocked in Fortnum & Mason. category this year. n 24 per cent – increase in sales of Four of the Gold homemade winners hail from “The entries sometimes arrive with the sweetest preserving sugar for jam-makers Scotland, two from Japan, one from New things, such as family histories – people are n 282 per cent – increase in York and seven from England. The Political very proud of their recipes. But the awards are numbers downloading Waitrose Marmalade award goes to Lord Henley, of about community: bringing people together and quick marmalade recipe Cumbria. bringing people to this part of the world and supporting local people.” Four Artisan producers win Double Gold and will also have their recipes stocked in Fortnum & Mason. Winning Indeed, not only do the entries arrive from all over the world features include Amontillado sherry and lemon and mochito. (even service personnel in Afghanistan), but so do the guests, as evidenced by transatlantic accents and the young man from Anjou, Wemyss House B & B, in Bayfield, proudly take home the Hotel, B & France, who tells me about his jam-making. Marmalade, however, is B & Restaurant Double Gold, adding to Scottish glory at the awards. one of those curiously British things that French people tend not to I leave feeling uplifted and eager to come up with new recipes to understand. challenge the judges next year. Jane’s words are ringing in my ears. The awards may be in the best possible taste and a spirit of fairness, “Every entry is treated properly, with care. And that reflects what’s but that’s not to say that competition isn’t intense. important with palliative care. When people are dying they should be treated properly, Marmalade-making is a metaphor for people and After all, the best confections will be on the shelves of Fortnum life.” and Mason for a year. And nor do the amateurs relish being pipped at the post particularly with Australia currently ahead in the Dalemain Mansion and Gardens are about 90 minutes’ drive from Marmalashes, which have been going since 2011. Only a British win either Newcastle or Durham Tees Valley airports and are normally in 2014 prevented an Ozzie orangewash. This year the Brits pip the open from the end of March to the end of October, Sunday to Ozzies by just two points as they continue to claw back the deficit. Thursday. The Marmalade Awards are held in late February. Lou Lou continues: “My partner, who is in the forces, takes it very www.dalemain.com seriously and was determined to win this year and found himself www.dalemainmarmaladeawards.co.uk n When I started in journalism we were additions, As my entry was simply taken off supposed to be neutral observers and even the shelf, rather than honed to the exacting the use of the “I-word” was frowned upon. competition requirements, I expected little. The advent of the internet and “citizen So, imagine my delight when I found that Jar journalism” is just one of the things that’s 1987 had earned a Certificate of Merit and changed all that, so in the spirit of the “new was just one point short of a Bronze Award. journalism” I ransacked my shelves for a jar I scored two out of two for appearance, of marmalade that might fit into one of the three out of five for colour, four out of six 15 amateur categories at the “Marmalade for consistency texture and quality, and five Oscars”. I settled in the end for a sweet out of seven for flavour and aroma, making orange marmalade with rhubarb and ginger, 14 out of a possible 20. “An interesting which I’d made last summer. marmalade,” said the judges. I entered it in the special Tenth Anniversary In the words of a film star who’s much less category for marmalade with interesting cuddly than Paddington: “I’ll be back!” SA 34

Anglers at sunset © Visions-AD - Fotolia LEISURE about the current trials and tribulations of this king of the Scottish river of Scottish the king of this tribulations and trials about current the Abbott Stan CATCHING UP WITH SALMON tries his hand at fishing for salmon on the River Tay out River on more for the salmon finds and at fishing hand his tries describes a method of fishing peculiar to the Tay, in part because of the river’s sheer size. The Tay is the UK’s largest river by volume of water, equivalent to the combined might of the Thames and Severn or the Dee, Tweed and Spey. George takes the tiller, Garry the prow and I sit in the middle. We cast three lines and one is propped on either side of the boat and the third from the stern. We are using spinning The Tay at Ballathie House rods, which are about 12ft long, compared with 16 or 17ft for a fly rod.

George McInnes has never really looked Well, let’s begin by setting the scene… “Spinning”, I learn, covers the deployment of back since the day his luck changed. In Salmon fishing on UK rivers is not enjoying a variety of different lures and George opens an afternoon he went from unlucky ex-pro the best of health at the moment, although his “war-chest” to show me a few, and to footballer to angler with the Midas touch. the juries (of which there seem to be many) put me straight on a couple of fundamental are out on just why that’s the case. And my points. I had assumed that all these lures, The good luck that saw him land half a own outing is at a time when the waters are like flies, were designed to trick the fish into dozen fine salmon one afternoon more than arguably at their coldest and any salmon thinking there was a tasty meal to be had. 50 years ago introduced him to the joys are either somewhat exhausted fish that of fishing on the Tay – and later opened Not so. In fact, the salmon hates having its spawned last year or, less likely, the very personal space invaded and when it attacks the door to nearly a quarter of a century of vanguard of this year’s ocean returnees. messing about in boats and on the banks of the lure (or the fly) it is actually reacting Scotland’s finest salmon river. You’ll get the idea then that I may be to the presence of an unwanted intruder. preparing you for disappointment so, to Furthermore, salmon don’t actually even eat I was privileged to spend half a day in the avoid the suspense, I’ll tell you that I do while in fresh water, so even a fly would be of company of George, a ghillie on the estate, indeed catch a 7lb salmon. I also enjoy no interest. They do all their eating at sea – which is attached to Ballathie Country House a very vigorous, if partial, debate about mainly krill, giving them their distinctive pink Hotel, on the banks of the River Tay, a few conservation and some paradoxes inherent flesh. Having piled on the pounds they will miles north of Perth. “I came here for six in the same. live off their fat reserves for as long as they weeks in 1992 because they were short of a stay in the river before and after spawning. ghillie and 23 years later I am still here,” says It’s impossible to write about fishing for the George. “It was always my hobby so it’s nice king of the Scottish river without at least The shorter rod and line can deploy a spoon- to be doing a job you get paid for that’s your acknowledging that the tales for which shaped metal lure, which attracts the fish hobby as well.” anglers are famed are presently less about by reflecting light or a variety of others, the one that got away and more about many of them from Rapala and having the It’s not that he didn’t enjoy being a footballer, the one that never came. Scottish salmon appearance of a brightly coloured fish. graduating to professional at Aberdeen stocks may have declined by as much as after being Highland League top scorer with There is no prospect of casting a fly 80 per cent over the last 45 years. Such is today and wading into the waters in the Inverness Clachnacaddin. It’s just that he the concern that this year has seen a ban on suffered three (“or was it four”) broken legs archetypal “angler at play” manner, and not taking salmon from the Tay up to the end of just because the water is not much above in his short career, before moving on a free March, and there is talk of a total ban or a to then Southern League Oxford United – freezing. The fly will come into their own system of tags that would effectively require when the fish start to return in numbers. where he suffered another broken ankle. He each fishery to purchase a quota that would went back to Scotland and joined the police. They do this in Spring, Summer and Autumn, limit the numbers that could be landed. depending on where their feeding grounds “My biggest regret is perhaps that I didn’t However exceptional a line-caught salmon are, some being as far away as Greenland. take the chance I had to go to Chelsea, but may taste, however, this is not the primary Garry points the boat upstream and holds Aberdeen was so much closer to home,” purpose of the sport, George and fellow the power so as to just permit it to zig-zag he says wistfully as we drift lazily on the ghillie Garry McErlain tell me as we leave the backwards with the current. After a while Tay, three lines trailing into the chill February shore. “Only about 20 per cent of the salmon there’s a jerk on one of the lines: “That’s waters. “Perhaps my football career would caught at Ballathie are killed,” says George. have turned out differently.” yours,” says Garry. “Wind the line in to take Today we are “harling”, a Norse word that up the slack.” It sounds rather like the proverbial “one that >> got away”, I reflect. For my part I’m here to gain no more than a short introduction to the sport of angling. There’s a programme on Radio 4 called I’ve Never Seen Star Wars, GEORGE McINNES: in which celebrity guests try out activities, which – usually out of prejudice – they’ve “A GOOD FISHERMAN never tried before. In my own version of the show I tried golf a while ago, and – more IS SOMEONE WHO CAN recently – paid to hone my golfing skills and rather enjoyed it. Previously both golf and ‘READ’ THE WATER AT ALL angling had belonged in my box labelled Life’s-Too-Short-For. Could angling join golf DIFFERENT LEVELS… ” outside that box? I do as bidden, letting the clutch on line slip as Orri Vigfusson, founder of the North Atlantic BALLATHIE COUNTRY the fish pulls and then winding it closer as it Salmon Fund. He advocates a move to a goes slack. “Now bring it in towards the boat.” universal catch-and-release policy to permit HOUSE HOTEL After a couple of minutes Garry is able to slip stocks to rebuild. the net beneath my seven-pounder, lift it from • The netting of salmon, which continues on the water and slip the hook out. some estuaries, for example at Montrose, If I discount the roach and stickleback I fished continues to pose a threat to stocks. out of streams as a kid, and the cod and • The use of hatcheries to restock rivers whiting casually hauled on board seagoing should be extended. Scientists don’t like this boats in Arctic waters, it is my first ever catch – as they say it compromises the genetic purity even if the ghillies did the work, really. of salmon in each river. The ghillies reject this, What makes a good angler? “A good pointing to the success of the reintroduction fisherman is someone who can ‘read’ the of salmon on the Tyne, now England’s best water at all different levels,” says George. “If salmon river. you are only up here once a year, you’ll need a • The clubbing of seal cubs in Arctic Canada I was a guest of Ballathie Country House retentive memory. I have fished here all my life years ago has created a lasting legacy in Hotel, which is about two hours’ drive and I can read the river like a book.” from Aberdeen Airport. whose context it is close to impossible to Now there are some that catch fish but aren’t control seal numbers. The hotel is one of those rare places at all popular with anglers… “There could be • Scientists would do well to sit round the table where you end up thinking: “I could two or three thousand seals in the Tay estuary with ghillies, whose knowledge of fisheries is, actually live here.” It fits, snug as a glove, at Dundee. Not only do they eat a lot of fish, by definition, infinitely wider. its rooms a comfortable mix of tradition but they will take a bite out of several fish and and modern facilities, such as WiFi in all just discard them.” I’m wondering how much it would cost for areas, including the log fire lounges. a day’s fishing on the Tay. Ballathie sells At numbers two and three of the ghillies’ hate timeshares on its waters (there’s one for sale Dining overlooking the lawns and the river list are the goosander and the cormorant. through Savill’s right now) and, in the peak is courtesy of head chef Scott Scorer and They can legally kill 12 goosanders a year, salmon season of September and October, it we found both the food and the service but say this is neither here nor there. Beavers will probably cost about £500 per rod per day. close to faultless. I will mention only some – although not “officially” present here – are, highlights: the black pudding amuse- for a variety of reasons, another creature that Eastern Airways flies to Aberdeen from Wick bouche in a crust with mulled wine curries little favour with the ghillie. John O’ Groats, Stornoway, Newcastle, chutney; the curried cauliflower soup; Durham Tees Valley, Humberside, Leeds George takes a call from a couple of ghillies the hake with mussels; the chicken liver Bradford, East Midlands, Norwich, Cardiff, from the next reach and it’s the signal to take parfait with pistachio crumb and candied Southampton, Bergen and Stavanger. walnut. lunch at one of Ballathie’s riverside lodges. Garry warns me: “You get 40 ghillies round a Besides fishing, we joined gamekeeper table and you get 40 different opinions.” He is Gordon Clone to shoot clays and try our wrong: you only need four ghillies to generate hand at archery. I will say only that we 40 opinions, but I’ll try to distil the essence of did better with bows and arrows and that their wide-ranging banter. 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BARE ESSENTIALS: WHAT’S GOING ON BARE ESSENTIALS: WHAT’S Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 250th anniversary with the opening concert Porgy & Bess, BIG Nightmare Music with Igudesmann & Joo and the concert, Nordic prism. In the latter they perform Grieg’s Concerto in A Minor and a commissioned work by Danish Magna Carta Vault composer Per Nørgård. Later that night, these performances will be LINCOLN CASTLE REVEALED transmitted through headphones and The £22m, four-year restoration of will show the full text, with key phrases staged with lights, dancers and video 1,000-year-old Lincoln Castle will be picked out in gold, while an in-the- on the lake in the city centre. unveiled in April as a new heritage round cinema brings its history to life. Members of the Bergen visitor attraction. This year marks the 800th anniversary Philharmonic Orchestra On offer will be new wall walks with of the sealing of Magna Carta and panoramic views over Lincoln Lincoln Castle’s Vault is the only Cathedral and across the historic city, new-build Magna Carta visitor improved access to the atmospheric attraction opening this year. Victorian prisons (used as a filming A celebratory programme of events is location for Downton Abbey and Call being planned including Lincolnshire’s the Midwife) while the state-of-the-art Great Exhibition, which will display a underground David P J Ross Magna nationally important collection of Oddleiv Apneseth Carta Vault becomes the new home for pictures, documents and artefacts with n Lincoln Cathedral’s 1215 Magna Carta, a Lincolnshire connection; and the Discover 600 millions years of one of only four still surviving. Eastern Three Choirs Festival, involving Midland history at the Stones and Cathedral Choirs of Lincoln, Bones exhibition at the Library of The subterranean vault will, for the first Peterborough and Southwell (June Birmingham (until May 17). It explores time, provide a permanent and 18-June 21). what impact historical discoveries dedicated exhibition space for Magna have had on the region, culturally and Carta. A double height “wall of words” www.lincolncastle.com industrially, and what these investigations can tell us about our world today. The exhibition will have a strong family focus with interactive workshops, family events and talks.

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n A Roman Weekend at Cardiff Castle (May 16-17) provides a vivid flashback to 2,000 years ago, when the castle was a Roman fort and soldiers lived on site. 40 A FEAST IN STORE IN ABERDEEN This year is the VisitScotland designated the UK, plus traditional cider and perry, Year of Food & Drink. As part of this local along with the finest foreign bottled beers. organisations have come together in and • A Taste of Grampian, June 6, is a great day around Aberdeen to collectively promote the out for all the family. As well as offering array of food and drink events and abun- visitors a taste of all the best Grampian has dance of great local produce the area has to to offer, the festival programme also offer, under the new brand of FoodFest15. includes music, children’s entertainment, Events coming up include: arts and crafts, cookery competitions and • Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, April demonstrations with celebrity chefs Nick 30-May 4, when visitors will be able to Nairn and Paul Rankin. discover the delights of the dram with tours • The annual Beer Happening in and tastings at many of the area’s 50-plus Stonehaven, June 18-20, showcases beer, distilleries (including exclusive access to local food and music, and this year takes distilleries usually closed to the public). place under canvas in a custom-built marquee in the town’s Baird Park. • The Great Grampian Beer Festival, June 4-6, offers 100 cask ales from throughout www.foodfest15.com

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THE GREEN BELT ESSENTIAL GUIDE ESSENTIAL GUIDE We take a look at Green Belts close to Eastern Airways destinations and highlight the possible threats to their survival…

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To suggest that opinions are divided not only because of their extent, but In the opposing camp are not just about the value, and indeed the very because they provide a breath of fresh Chancellor of the Exchequer George future of Britain’s green belts is to make air for 60 per cent of the population – 30 Osborne and Planning Minister Nick something of an understatement. million people – living in the urban areas Bowles, but a range of academics and within Green Belt boundaries.” others who challenge the CPRE While the greatest debate surrounds position. Even Natural England’s then Green Belt land in England, there are The concept has its roots in Ebenezer Chair, Martin Doughty, argued in 2007 also Green Belts in Scotland and Wales Howard’s 1898 vision of Garden Cities, for a review of the whole setup, while the and nobody sits on the fence in this one, providing people with space to enjoy the Town and Country Planning Association whether it be fences marking lazy beauty and tranquillity of the wants a more flexible approach, with boundaries between idyllic rolling fields countryside nearby. It evolved in the “green wedges” and “strategic gaps”. or fences dividing the gardens of 1920s, with campaigns seeking a clear Some suggest that not only do Green 150,000 new homes that will be built on physical distinction between town and Belts force more development onto English Green Belt in the next few years. country. open countryside beyond the In the “green corner” are those who CPRE argues that Green Belt does constraints of the belt (with longer believe Green Belt is our single biggest work, slowing the rate of development commuting times and urbanisation of defence against the onward march of on greenfield sites, pushing developers rural areas), but they also cause huge urbanisation, North America-style. They towards brownfield areas and helping in development pressures on parkland and are led by the Council for the Protection the management of World Heritage other green space within conurbations. of Rural England (CPRE), which says Sites, such as Saltaire, Bradford. that some government ministers are With no particular axe to grind, we take giving out signals that the Green Belt is Where development does take place, it a look at Green Belts close to Eastern Airways destinations, highlighting their “up for grabs” by developers. tends to be small-scale and low density. best features, as well as specific In its report, Green Belts: A Greener Nearly a third of us have visited Green “threats”. Major urban areas without Future, CPRE says that, despite some Belt on a day trip and a quarter of us Green Belts include Teesside, Hull, losses: “England’s 14 Green Belts cover have done so in search of peace and Leicester, Norwich, and Southampton nearly 13 per cent of England, significant quiet. and Portsmouth. >> Scotland Hall, near Newcastle Airport. Proposals for WEST AND SOUTH YORKSHIRE opencast mining on the high escarpment at A huge tract of Green Belt extends from ABERDEEN Whittonstall, near Consett, are vehemently the southern Yorkshire Dales, through the Aberdeen’s Green Belt was established in opposed. but ambitious Durham County gritty Brontë moors and valleys of the 1958 and is credited with preserving the Council plans for development, including south Pennines, and even into the Peak thousands of new homes, a business park city’s coastal strip, the two river valleys and National Park and Derbyshire. To the east, and new roads, are now in doubt following backdrop of hills. A change in Scottish it reaches well into the gently rolling a damning interim assessor’s report after a planning policy five years ago has meant farmland of the Vale of York. The long public inquiry. On the plus side, much that the Green Belt has had to be reviewed woodland of Shipley Glen and open of the Green Belt is now attractive forest as part of a new development plan. The moorland of Baildon create a rural and woodland, thanks in part to the Great long-awaited Western Peripheral Route is backdrop to Sir Titus Salt’s model village, North Forest initiative. The iconic Angel of likely to form a new boundary to the Green at Saltaire, a World Heritage Site. But pride the North and the magnificent “parthenon” Belt. The jewel in the crown of Aberdeen’s of the Green Belt is surely that very symbol of Penshaw Monument stand guard over the Green Belt is the beach and the green strip of Yorkshireness: the Cow and Calf Rocks best of the Belt. separating it from the city – alongside the on Ilkley Moor. Land around Bradford has Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Newcastle granite architecture it’s surely the city’s been removed from Green Belt, while defining characteristic. more than 19,000 new homes are planned YORK on Green Belt round Leeds and another Nearest Eastern Airways Airport – Aberdeen The historic city is tightly girdled by its 4,500 around Dewsbury, Bradford and Green Belt, meaning that pressures upon it Barnsley. Green Belt has been eyed for North of England – given York’s general prosperity – are warehousing at Wakefield, a leisure perhaps inevitable. Consultation on the complex at Rotherham and a new road at NORTH EAST ENGLAND draft local plan was halted because city Doncaster. The Green Belt wraps a tight corset around council plans for more than 20,000 new greater Newcastle and Sunderland, with homes, many in new Green Belt Nearest Eastern Airways airports – Leeds Bradford a large extension that has constrained communities, were deemed not to be based and Humberside development in the Tyne Valley commuter on sound evidence of need. York University, zone and a further spur that includes a at the edge of the city, also has ambitions to Midlands second tight ring round the city of Durham. expand into the Green Belt and an out-of- Newcastle City Council believes the “corset” town outlet shopping centre was approved NOTTINGHAM AND DERBY is laced too tightly and won the release of without even a public inquiry. Green Belt Plans for 6,500 new homes at Broxtowe, some land for the building of Newcastle highlight is the Knavesmire race course, approved by the borough council last year Great Park, home to the Sage software where a finger of Green Belt extends up the and subject to a possible legal challenge, business and low-density executive homes. River Ouse towards the city centre from the are the major threat to the Green Belt that Sir John Hall wants to create a five-star hotel Bishop’s Palace, at Bishopthorpe. rings Nottingham and provides a and build executive homes at Woolsington Nearest Eastern Airways Airport – Leeds Bradford development buffer between the city and

Foal in heather in the New Forest National Park. Right: Bridge of Don, Aberdeen New Forest NPA New Forest Aberdeen City Council Aberdeen ©VisitBritain / James McCormick Keith Turner Top: The Cow and Calf rock formation high up on Ilkley Moor. Above: Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire neighbouring Derby. There are also plans for notably at Bromsgrove and Warwick. The SOUTH WEST HAMPSHIRE AND a major sports development, opencasting philanthropic George Cadbury was SOUTH EAST DORSET and road widening. HS2, should it ever be among those whose generosity enabled Defenders of the Green Belt concept have built, will bring a new station and the Lickey Hills, ten miles south west of contrasted the protection that interchange to the Green Belt. Lord Byron’s the centre of Birmingham, to become Bournemouth’s hinterland has enjoyed in former home at Newstead Abbey, set in permanent parkland. Today’s country comparison with unprotected open beautiful parkland, is the Green Belt park is an important element of the countryside near Southampton. The highlight. Green Belt and is visited by 500,000 former’s belt-and-braces protection also Nearest Eastern Airways airport – East Midlands people a year. includes the relatively recently designated Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Birmingham New Forest National Park and a number of BURTON-ON-TRENT AND national nature reserves and other protected SWADLINCOTE OXFORD habitats. But in an area where money tends The baby of all Green Belts, these 714 Like York’s, Oxford’s is a Green Belt tightly to talk quite loud, more than 2,000 new hectares provide a buffer against the merger encircling a historic city and it faces similar homes could be destined for such of the two modest urban areas. The local pressures – exacerbated by the city’s picturesque locations as Corfe Mullen, CPRE fears that proposals to designate strategic location between Birmingham and Wimborne, Verwood, Ferndown and West Burton-on-Trent as a “sub-regional focus” London. To raise awareness, the local CPRE Parley. for development may intensify pressure to has devised a 50-mile circular walk on rights Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Southampton permit incursions here. of way within the Green Belt, from which to Nearest Eastern Airways airports – East Midlands “explore historic villages and picturesque and Birmingham riversides, and discover new views of Wales Oxford’s dreaming spires”. WEST MIDLANDS Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Birmingham NEWPORT AND CARDIFF The fourth largest Green Belt in England Wales has only one Green Belt – and it is in (after London, Yorkshire and the North reality only a “notional” one, serving as a West), this one primarily rings East Anglia and South buffer between Cardiff and Newport. Birmingham and the Black Country, Councillors in the latter have recently called merging into discreet belts around CAMBRIDGE for more formal designation so as to help Coventry and other smaller centres. To Everything we’ve said about York and maintain their own city’s identity and the west of Wolverhampton, it extends to Oxford also applies to the Cambridge integrity. Cardiff’s local development plan the very banks of the River Severn and Green Belt – in spades! This boom city calls for the creation of a second “green the World Heritage Site at Ironbridge, all could see 12,500 homes built on its Green belt” to the north of Cardiff, separating it the way down to Worcester and, to the Belt, whose highlights include the chalk from Caerphilly and the Rhonda. Plaid east, as far south as Stratford and the downland of the Gog Magog Hills, which Cymru has called for Welsh green belt to be fringes of the Cotswolds. There are plans remind you that it’s not all flat fenland legally enshrined, as in England and for business parks near Coventry Airport, round here! Scotland. as well as major housing developments, Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Norwich Nearest Eastern Airways airport – Cardiff 49 THE LAST WORD with Harry Pearson CALL ME OLD FASHIONED BUT…

As you progress through your 40s it becomes increasingly difficult to resist the steady slide into sounding like your father. The trouble is that everyone seems to be part of a conspiracy to bring it about as swiftly as possible.

Only the other day a friend of mine remarked: “I can’t listen to 5Live any more; it just makes me too angry.” And if it hadn’t been for the fact that I’d immediately rushed off and shut myself in the pantry there is little doubt I would have nodded and growled: “The presenters don’t pronounce their words properly,” or “It’s all the ruddy nicknames that drive me mad.”

One of the surest signs that a man is entering his dadage is when he starts comparing the namby-pamby “I DO FIND MYSELF WONDERING WHEN SELF- language of today with the blunt commonsense speech of yesteryear. BELIEF BECAME A SYNONYM FOR BOASTING…”

You know the sort of thing: exponent of this approach, greeting he abstained for sex before races, “Nowadays they call it a coma, in my any announcement of success with journalists did the maths and day we called it bone bloody idle.” I the comment “Be careful you don’t concluded that his ten-year marriage am as reluctant to get into that way of get your head wedged in the door” or to wife Linda must still be thinking as I am to say: “If you don’t “What do you wear for a hat? an unconsummated. finish your dinner it will be sat there umbrella with a peak on it?”. on the table when you come down for The great man came from the small breakfast,” or “In those days the What he’d have made of the County Waterford community of policeman would have given them a contestants on The Apprentice, Carrick-on-Suir. In 1978 he became clip round the ear and sent them on heaven knows, though I have a feeling the first Irishman since Shay Elliot to their way.” Nevertheless, I do find the TV screen would not have win a stage of the Tour De France. His myself wondering when self-belief remained intact for long. cousin was beside himself with glee became a synonym for boasting. at the news and rushed down into the One of my favourite sports stories of village to tell everyone about it. The all time shows that this attitude is not Admittedly, my view of what first person he met was his uncle. just confined to England. Along with constitutes showing off was forged in “Uncle! Uncle!” he cried, “Fantastic Tour de France winner Stephen the puritanical atmosphere of North news! Sean has just won a stage of Roche, Sean Kelly is the greatest pro Yorkshire in the 1960s. This was an the Tour de France.” environment in which any child cyclist Ireland has ever produced – he performing moderately well in public won the Vuelta a España and dozens Unmoved, the uncle looked him up was generally greeted with something of one-day classics. and down. “Sure and why wouldn’t that sounded like applause, but on he?” he said eventually. “After all, he A tough and fiercely private man, closer inspection was revealed to be does nothing else all day but ride that Kelly was so laconic that he once the noise of dozens of adults cuffing bloody bike.” famously responded to the questions him or her round the ear while of a radio interviewer with a series of Whenever a TV pundit describes barking: “Nobody likes a show off, shrugs, nods and shakes of his head. something a professional footballer Sunny Jim.” So dedicated to his trade was Kelly has done as “unbelievable”, I think of

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Suitcivil – CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Thailand atthebottom,with just0.3MW. of thelistwith3,187MW installed,and energy plants. TheUnitedStateswastop energy online from installedgeothermal published in2012,of24countries with energy”. Itdidn’t evenfeature onalist, the worldinutilisingthisso-called “free The UKhaslaggedbehindtherest of Lincolnshire, Worcester andWessex. the UK,primarilyinEastYorkshire and in groundwater insandstone areas of Aquifer-based systemsuseheatstored methods ofheatdelivery. emissions, incomparisontotraditional offer significantreductions incarbon connected totheUKpowergrid,they is believedtobethefactthat,when every year. Themaindriverforthis source heatpumpinstalled intheUK between 3,000and5,000ground Energy Council,there are currently heating bills.According totheWorld and hotwatertohelpreduce domestic ground, anduseitasasource ofheat stored intheupper10-15metres of relatively constantheatoftheEarth, Ground source heatpumpstapthe and deepsalineaquifers. source heatpumps,shallowaquifers available viashallowgeothermalground research, aplentifulheatresource is (BGS), andleaderofBGSgeothermal Coal attheBritishGeologicalSurvey Renewables, Energy StorageandClean to JonBusby, Team Leaderfor Civic Centre, theWest Quayshoppingcentre, RoyalSouthHantsHospitalandSolent University. The So uthampton DistrictEnergy Schemenowheatsanumberofbuildingsinthecitycentre, includingtheSouthampton The Southampton District Energy emissions by10,000 tonnesperyear. helping thecity to reduce itsCO2 hours ofelectricityperyear. Itisalso 30,000MW hoursofheatand4,000MW Southampton isproviding more than Already ageothermalschemein and developtheirinterests inthesector. companies totapintotheseresources, effective forUK-basedgeothermal it isexpectedtobecomemore cost- to reach deeperheatdeposits falls,so As thecostoftechnologyneeded contributing 8.4GigaWatts ofpower. and Spain,foritswindpowercapacity, And theUKwasthird, behind Germany total to647MWacross 112 projects. adding 443MWin2013,bringingthe utility scalesolarpowerschemes, energyalternative sources, inparticular the wayindevelopmentofother geothermal energy, incontrastitleads catching upintheutilisationof While theUKmaystillbeslowly since 2008hasindeedbeenintheUK. the useofgeothermalenergy resources Energy Council,thelargest increase in However, according toTheWorld (1MW) were allonthelist. (16MW), Germany(7MW),andAustria (82MW), Portugal(29MW),France (661MW), Turkey (93MW),Russia In Europe, Italy(883MW),Iceland approximately 100 MWofelectricity, based onexisting heatdemand,was Cornwall’s geothermal potential, The resulting report suggestedthat geothermal powergenerationin theUK. to assessthepotentialfordeep commissioned bytheUKGovernment In 2013,consultingfirmAtkins Ltd, was geothermal potential. recognisedinternationally foritsdeep isalreadygeothermal nations,Cornwall feature intheleaguetableoftop Despite thefactthatUKdoesn’t most oftheselocatedinCornwall. suitable fordeepgeothermalpower, than 20siteshavebeenidentifiedas In theSouthWest, meanwhile,more residential buildings. shopping centres, andmore than1,000 centre, hotels,oneofEurope’s largest Hampshire Hospital,the council’s civic BBC’s televisionstudios,RoyalSouth City Council,currently includethe in partnershipwithSouthampton by CofelyDistrictEnergy, working Customers ofthescheme,operated pipes. city through 11kmofinsulated service circulating waterpumpedaround the in Southamptoncitycentre, with serves more than20majorcustomers time, thefirstinUK.Itcurrently 30 yearsagoin1986,andwas,atthat Scheme (SDES),waslaunchedalmost Cheshire EastCouncil isalready customers within atwo-mileradius. demand from publicandprivatesector 100 Gigawatthoursayearofheat estimated thatthere are approximately near Leighton,Crewe, anditis An initialtrialsitehasbeenidentified geothermal resources intheUK. near Crewe, asoneofsixmajordeep has identifiedtheCheshire Basin, The BritishGeologicalSurvey(BGS) On theothersideofPennines, magazine. new TVdrama”,onpage9ofthemain sitetobecomehomefor quarry “Former million grantaspartofnationalcuts.See withdrewwhen theGovernment a£1 was deemedviable,plansfoundered Although ageothermalenergy scheme the formerLafarge works,atEastgate. a viewtocreating an“energy village”at work wascarriedoutinWeardale, with In CountyDurham,extensivesurvey exploration activityintheregion. looking toengageingeothermal will assistothercommercial ventures a potentialgeothermalsource andthis indicate Newcastleissituatedabove geothermal gradientandsalinewater as anenergy source. However, the water wasn’t highenough toexploit football pitches–theflowrateof eight-inch holeonasitethesizeof18 research borehole wasdrilled–an At theparticularlocationwhere the hottest geothermalwatersintheUK. geothermal source andsomeofthe of 73°C,demonstratingaviable right andtheyrecorded atemperature Drilling 1,820mtheteamwasproven geothermal source inthePennines. Fell Sandstoneandlinkedtoaproven land suggestedthecitywasbuilton University exploringthegeologyof Previous research byNewcastle Central siteintheheartofcity. geothermal potentialoftheScience launched in2011toinvestigatethe In Newcastle,aresearch project was results. Geothermal energy havehadmixed Northumberland, planstoaccess the country, inCountyDurhamand across theUK.Atotherendof However, suchprojects aren’t replicated required investment. are ready tocomeonstream, withthe bothofwhich permission inCornwall, geothermal projects withplanning There are currently twodeep considerably asthesectormatures. which itclaimscouldincrease Newcastle Science Centraldevelopmentsitein A 2kmborehole wasdrilledonthe up ofgeothermal energy iscurrently reliable the technologyis.Thetake- perception ofjusthowsafeand could dependon thepublic’s energyother alternative sources grand planstodeveloptheseand geothermal energy intheUK, any with thelong-termdevelopment of Despite allthepositivesassociated Newcastle andGlasgow. and theuniversitiesofDurham, between theBritishGeologicalSurvey, BritGeothermal, aresearch partnership European countries,according to to developintheUK,thanother Such networkshavebeenslower coming years. deep geothermalprojects overthe be instrumentalinthesuccessofother district heatingnetworksisexpectedto In factthedevelopmentofviable energy revolution.” able tobenefitfrom thenewgreen ensure thateveryoneinGlasgowis this newsource ofheatingandhelp future withprojects whichcoulduse communities tocomeforward inthe “We wantdevelopersandlocal Councillor Gordon Matheson,said: In addition,theleaderofcouncil, and environmental impacts.” address anyissuesrelating todesign ensure itspotentialisutilised,andto council willbringforward newpolicyto prove anattractiveproposition, the stating: “Shouldground source heat energy initslocaldevelopmentplan, far astoincludeplansforgeothermal Glasgow CityCouncilhasgoneso scheme inGlasgow. its potentialtoprovide heatingfora has beenassessedbytheBGSfor a source ofgeothermalenergy and mine workingshasbeenidentifiedas In Scotland,waterfrom abandoned the solution. and seesgeothermalenergy aspartof as wellreducing carbonemissions, committed totacklingenergy poverty, CONSIDERABLYAS THE legislate toallowdrillingaccessgas, plansto opposed togovernment of respondents tothedocumentwere Despite this,astaggering99percent carbon targets”. energy security, create jobsandmeet resources, and“helpingtoimprove potential foraddingtotheUK’s energy geothermal energy couldhold The paperclaimedthatdeep the viewsofinterested parties. and sustainablemanner, andsought indigenous energy sources inasafe position onthedevelopmentof Department setouttheGovernment Change, inSeptember2014,the Department ofEnergy &Climate Drilling Access,publishedbythe In aconsultationpaper, Underground type oftechnology. constrained bytheunfamiliarityofthis users ofgeothermalenergy. in theleaguetableofproducers and in theUK,andcementUK’s place centre ofexcellenceforgeothermal – couldleadtothedevelopmentofa technology, which–inthelong-term supporting thedevelopmentof trained engineersandscientists, willleadtodemandfor This inturn for endusers. power, andwillalsoprovide direct heat tech industrieswithlarge demandsfor provide thebaseloadenergy forhigh and regarded assafe,geothermalwill the technologybecomesmore familiar geothermal plantsare constructed,and BritGeothermal that,aslarger However, itisbelievedby 300 metres. oil andgeothermalresources below ELECTRICITY, WHICH POTENTIAL, BASED BASED POTENTIAL, ON EXISTING HEATON EXISTING SECTOR MATURES.” COULD INCREASE INCREASE COULD APPROXIMATELY GEOTHERMAL GEOTHERMAL DEMAND, WAS “CORNWALL’S “CORNWALL’S 100 MW OF OF 100 MW

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ENERGY EXTRA specialised floating vessels for use in deep water or arctic oil oil arctic or water deep in use for vessels floating specialised of provision The Russia. in projects oil shale and production, for deep-water or arctic oilcompletion exploration services and prohibit industry gas and oil to the relevant most Those business. of types particular on imposed were sanctions Further designated EU under relating sanctions to and Ukraine. Russia 23 companies 141 and currently are individuals there and and entities of resources designated persons and economic funds with to deal offence acriminal it made UK EU and The imposition of sanctions. 17 Flight to the led Airlines Malaysian of down shooting the and Ukraine the of rest the in rebels separatist for support Russian continued and That, US. the EU or by the recognised not amove Russia, of part became Crimea the March, In forces. by pro-Russian Crimea the of occupation subsequent the and country the fleeing president its saw Ukraine the in crisis constitutional and 2014 of apolitical February In Europe. Eastern in rolling were tanks rolled, times good the as even But, 2013 in £13.5bn. of investment record all-time an saw Sea North the and years boom enjoying been had It buffeted by events beyond its control. being was industry the shock, price oil recent the before Even OUT IN THE COLD THE IN OUT Spring in Gazprom’s Bovanenkovo gasfield

the provision of drilling, well-testing and logging, and and logging, and well-testing drilling, of provision the hold. on put to be had have now pipeline the in were that projects significant and to that astop have put However, sanctions the Russia. in is market that –of annually £20m perhaps – fifth one and world the over all fields oil in industry offshore the for primarily works bed, sea the on to function systems vehicle operated remotely of manufacture and design the SMD, a Newcastle company in which engineering specialises investment.’’ and trade Russia, UK, the on impact major fairly falling oil and rouble price devaluation are obviously having a the with along generally, “Sanctions says: RBCC, Commerce, of Chamber Russo-British the of director executive Trevor Barton, offshore industry. UK’s the for time agood at come not does this Obviously, hold. on put been has investment new and affected be may projects of its some although sanctions, despite in Russia working continue would it said has Shell industry. gas and oil Russia’s to and investment expertise equipment, technology, advanced brought Shell Dutch Royal as such companies but and Japan US from the come today industry oil in the equipment and communications systems control automated of the Most exploration and production is also prohibited.

other.’’

to take decisions on the ways in which they relate to each toeach relate they which in ways the on decisions totake

politics. We understand and respect the right of governments governments of right the respect and We understand politics.

effect on business but the RBCC does not give views on on views give not does RBCC the but business on effect

The RBCC’s Barton says: “Sanctions are clearly having an an having clearly are “Sanctions says: Barton RBCC’s The

Others are similarly cautious in giving their views. their giving in cautious similarly are Others

significant hit on their business.” business.” their on hit significant

sector who provide other equipment, and it’s having a a it’s having and equipment, other provide who sector

but I’ve been speaking to some of the large players in our our in players large the of tosome speaking been I’ve but

Hodgson is on record as saying: “I can’t quote who they are, are, they who quote can’t “I saying: as record on is Hodgson

that are in a worse position. position. worse a in are that

However, there are other offshore supply chain businesses businesses chain supply offshore other are However,there

not taking us backwards, but it’s cost growth.’’ it’s cost but backwards, us taking not

We’ve seen growth in other sectors to accommodate it so it’s it’s so it toaccommodate sectors other in growth We’veseen

had been working on for a long time and they just stopped. stopped. just they and time long a for on working been had

He says: “We had a significant pipeline of opportunities we we opportunities of pipeline significant a had “We says: He

“hard impact” it is having. impact” “hard

supports the government’s sanctions stance but points to the tothe points but stance sanctions government’s the supports

Chief Executive Andrew Hodgson emphasises that he that he emphasises Hodgson ChiefExecutive Andrew

act as a brake on its growth. its on brake a as act

look for business elsewhere, although sanctions will inevitably will inevitably sanctions although elsewhere, for look business SMD is fortunate in that it has diverse export markets and can can and markets export diverse has it that in fortunate is SMD

sanctions, Peter as reports… Jackson prices not is being helped by economic offshore by hit falling industry An

So, is the West cutting off its nose to spite its face? its tospite nose its off cutting West the is So,

at peak capacity. atpeak

happen is a slight delay before these projects start operating operating start projects these before delay slight a is happen

will they stop it from drilling for shale oil. The worst that could could that worst The oil. shale for drilling from it stop they will

projects, nor nor projects, extraction offshore oil and gas natural Russian

Now, however, the sanctions will neither be able to affect toaffect able be neither will Now,however, sanctions the

few years ago, the impact would’ve been quite considerable. considerable. quite been would’ve impact the ago, years few

He says: “If these sanctions had been imposed on Russia a a Russia on imposed been had sanctions these “If says: He

industrial sectors require. sectors industrial

producing not just pipes, but the high-quality steel that many many that steel high-quality the but pipes, just not producing

with heavy-gauge pipes. Russian factories are now capable of of capable now are factories Russian pipes. heavy-gauge with

and Izhorsky Pipe Works are the ones supplying Gazprom Gazprom supplying ones the are Works Pipe Izhorsky and

Metalworks, Tchelyabinsky Pipe Plant, Volzhsky Pipe Works Works Pipe Volzhsky Plant, Pipe Tchelyabinsky Metalworks,

He points out that Russian companies like Vyksunsky Vyksunsky like companies Russian that out points He

well-versedsubstitution. in import

extraction projects, as Russian companies are already already are companies Russian as projects, extraction

halt the development of Russian natural gas and offshore oil oil offshore and gas natural Russian of development the halt

ban on the export of technology to Russia won’t be able to to able be won’t toRussia technology of export the on ban

Institute, writing for media brand Sputnik, has argued that the the that argued has Sputnik, brand media for writing Institute,

Sergei Pravosudov, Sergei of Russia’s Director Energy National

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