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IVE your skin, lungs and mental health a helping Ghand by filling your home with foliage and flowers. As the urban footprint becomes larger, more people are destined to be living in properties without a garden – yet houseplants can help bring the outside in. From giant rubber plants and ferns as feature pieces to a Tuesday, October 30, 2018 spiderTHEplantPOtrailingST from a shelf, they can completely21 change the look of any room. But beyond the aesthetics, there’s evidence to suggest n Comprehensive entertainmenthouseand leplantsisurearerounalsod-ugoodp for in the Warrington GuayordurianhealtheveryandThuryoursdaywellbeing at the same time. Dr Tijana Blanusa, principal horticultural scientist at the Work never stops for teachers Royal Horticultural Society Tuesday, October 30, 2018 (RHS), offers five suggestions as THE POST 21 A swto how houseeetplants can benefit 12 THE POST Tuesday, October 30, 2018 your body and mind. You can get more advice and By Nina Massey related psychological, physical mental health symptoms will Because life matters festtips onivhoweto grow houseplants House plants can boost healh Educationn CoComprrresehpondentensive entertainmeor behant anviourald leisurissuese roun. d-up have a negative impact on their by visiting the RHS website. in the Warrington GTheuardstudiaynreevveeralsy Th47%ursday pupils’ studies. experience depression, anxiety Stress at work affects 67% of Starr to come forward. Varieties such as peace lilies stomata, by diffusion through By Damon Smith chokehold of drugs and night or panic attacks due to work. teachers, while 56% of school As protests light the fuse and ivy with higher plant cuticle on the leaf surface MORE than three-quarters of [email protected] gang warfare. The index also looks at factors leaders and 49% of teachers on a powder keg of raw 1. THEY CAN REDUCE ‘SICK transpiration rates appear to be and via the activity of soil teachers in the UK experience Amandla plays Starr THE POST GLAM rockers The Sweet Tuesday, October 30, 2018 such as work-life balance, believe their personal emotion, Starr embraces 20 BUILDING SYNDROME’ better than most other micro-organisms. work-related health issues, a Carter (Stenberg) who lives will be bringing their Ball workload and mental health relationships have suffered as a her family’s history with houseplants. Varieties of dracaena (a small survey suggests. TAKING its title from the in Garden Heights, Georgia, Room Blitz to the Parr Hall guidance at work. result of psychological, cautionary message inked with ex-con father Maverick fierce pride. shrub), ficus (figs), nephrolepis The data also indicates 80% of A sweet By Dr just beforeHouseChristmas.plants can help reduce Almost three-quarters (74%) physical or behavioural into rapper Tupac’s ‘thug (Russell Hornsby), who “If you don’t see my The band, who rose to (ferns) and syngonium (vines) senior leaders suffer from work- Dan the impact of ‘sick building 2. SOME PLANTS TRAP CHEMI- have the potential to remove the said the inability to switch off problems at work. 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Cooking can make the kitchen The figures are released in negative work-life balance, implement mandatory The Hate U Give doesn’t the phrase ‘winter is coming’ is a violence in 21st-century with wife Lisa (Regina Hall). to the music world, will chokehold of drugs and Starr to come forward. while 72% said workload was provision of personal mental n This is a To ensure her children project Starr’s journey of They help moisturise the skin smell wonderful, as garlic, wine By Damon Smith charity Education Support night America. perform their Blockbuster gang warfare. As protests light the fuse the main reason for them health and well-being guidance warning that winter is on the way The Hate U Give is have a brighter future, Lisa empowerment through a and alleviate dry eyes by and spices fill the air. 3. THEY DO THE DUSTING FOR [email protected] Partnership’s (ESP) Teacher Christmas Show in Amandla plays Starr on a powder keg of raw considering leaving their job within initial teaching training and that the people of Westeros collection of sensitively adapted by sends them to rose-tinted lens, pretending increasing relative humidity But the aftermath of a good YOU (WELL, ALMOST) Wellbeing Index 2018. GLAM rockers The Sweet Warrington on December Carter (Stenberg) who lives emotion, Starr embraces and 74% said they felt they did and access to an employee need to be vigilant. Audrey Wells from Angie predominantly white that one girl can magically inside the home or office. fry up or casserole is also a In a survey of 1,502 teachers, will be bringing their Ball our readers’ 21. her family’s history with not have enough guidance assistance programme for all Taking the lead from the people of salve the deep emotional This happens via plants range of potentially harmful Likewise, houseplants are TAKING its title from the in Garden Heights, Georgia, 76% of the staff in different job Room Blitz to the Parr Hall Thomas’s young adult novel, Williamson Prep, where Known for hits like about mental health at work. staff in schools and colleges. Westeros, one essential way to wounds of her divided increasing air humidity levels gaseous and volatile chemical great at capturing little cautionary message inked with ex-con father Maverick fierce pride. roles in the early years, just before Christmas. views and which chronicles the Starr shares classes with Blockbuster, Fox On The The survey indicated two in One of the other changes it prepare for winter is to ensure you community in the space of through evapo-transpiration - compounds (VOCs). airborne particles that would into rapper Tupac’s ‘thug (Russell Hornsby), who “If you don’t see my primary, secondary, further, The band, who rose to anguished rites of passage boyfriend Chris (KJ Apa). Live likeRun andaLove Is Likboe ss on island urges is for regulators to the movement of water from However, plants can capture otherwise be breathed in. life’ tattoo, George Tillman turned his back on drug blackness, you don’t see five senior leaders and teachers have your flu vaccination. comments of a teenager, who finds her Starr keeps the two sides 133 impassioned minutes. Oxygen, The Sweet are adult, and vocational education fame in the 1970s bringing leaves and soil into the these in three ways: via small This is simply by providing Jr’s drama rages against dealer King (Anthony me,” she tearfully informs believe having time off work for prioritise staff well-being in The flu vaccination is available voice in the most tragic of her existence separate Tillman Jr’s film ripples still in demand all over the sectors say they had work- androgynous looks and every year on the NHS to help posted on circumstances. until the fateful night she with fury and despair, but FROM Necker Island to South atmosphere. pores in their leaves called the additional surface areaeveryon need – but I’ve never stayed racial division and police Mackie) to raise a family Chris. crunching guitar pop world. violence in 21st-century with wife Lisa (Regina Hall). 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12 THE POST Tuesday, October 30, 2018 18 THE POST Tuesday, October 2, 2018 20 THE POST Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Travel By Dr Dan Online views FOR anyone who knows the TV programme Game of Thrones, Live like a boss on island the phrase ‘winter is coming’ is a n This is a warning that winter is on the way and that the people of Westeros collection of FROM Necker Island to South every need – but I’ve never stayed need to be vigilant. Africa and Verbier, Richard somewhere so tranquil. Taking the lead from the people of our readers’ Branson has homes all over the There are three individual villas Westeros, one essential way to views and world. to choose from – Sa Terra Rotja, prepare for winter is to ensure you And yet, there’s one place he Son Balagueret and Sa Punta de have your flu vaccination. comments holds particularly close to his S’Aguila – and each feels very The flu vaccination is available heart – Son Bunyola, a luxury different. every year on the NHS to help posted on retreat in Mallorca, which is open With handcrafted terracotta to the public as a Virgin Limited flooring and local Binissalem protect adults and children at risk of social media Edition property. But how often stone used throughout, the vibe is flu and its complications. does the busy business magnate undoubtedly traditional – and yet, Flu can be unpleasant and and our actually get to visit the sprawling there’s a clever contemporary symptoms can come on and develop website in 680-acre estate with three villas contrast thanks to pops of bright very quickly. nestled among seemingly endless artwork. These symptoms include: response to rows of trees? I stay in Sa Punta de S’Aguila, General manager Lee Bowes which translates as ‘Eagle’s Point’ n a sudden fever – a temperature stories reveals her boss rocked up to stay – a five-bedroom villa. of 38c or above twice this year, and on his most My room feels light and airy, n aching body featured recent visit, he even challenged thanks to the exposed beam n feeling tired or exhausted in the some guests to a game of tennis. ceiling, large windows and n dry, chesty cough Eager to sample the place for traditional dark green shutters n sore throat Warrington myself, I head over for a long opening out onto a terrace. n headache weekend. I have access to a private heated n difficulty sleeping Guardian The founder of Virgin group first swimming pool with a great choice n loss of appetite visited Mallorca as a child, and he of fun inflatables, and relaxing throughout later took his own children to the with the mountains in view is a n diarrhoea or tummy pain Cultivated terraces in Banyalbufar n nausea and being sick the past Spanish island for summer picture-perfect holiday memory. holidays. In fact, the Bransons are and is perfect for an adrenaline upon rows of crumbling terraces the estate was used as farmland. Post-swim, I relish my huge such fans of this region, his son, walk-in shower – it takes up the If you are otherwise healthy it will week. junkie like Branson. It’s also lead down from it, making As for the future? Plans are in the Sam, even named daughter Eva- patterns on a landscape dotted pipeline to transform the finca entire length of one side of the usually clear up on its own within a peacefully unspoilt. Deia after the town Deia. On the helter skelter of a drive with vines and towering olive into a villa, and olive oil will be bathroom. week. Surrounded by the Tramuntana down from the main road, you’ll trees. produced on the estate within a A seven-night stay Sa Punta de However, flu can be more severe in Send us your mountain range, jutting out from gasp at the central 18th century Amazingly, some members of the year. S’Aguila costs from £20,300 per certain people, such as: views to the lime green coastline to the finca building, typical of the grand team who work at Son Bunyola Perhaps it’s the secluded location week, sleeping up to 10 and n anyone aged 65 and over azure sea, Son Bunyola is close to farmhouses that can be found all today actually lived in the finca as or the fact guests have their own including all drinks and meals. n pregnant women children and newsdesk@ plenty of hiking and cycling trails over Mallorca and Spain. Rows children in the 1970s. Back then, team and chef on hand to cater for Visit virginlimitededition.com. adults with an underlying health condition (such as long-term heart guardiangrp. co.uk Wild flowers blooming on Westbrook Crescent as autumn takes hold and summer is a distant memory. Photograph Flu vaccine is the captured by Nick Platt-Higgins THE news that Warrington that doesn’t involve speculation or And not one of these trips was should attend. best protection we South MP Faisal Rashid has discussion on the other side of the paid for out of taxpayer expenses. Amina Alansi benefitted from almost world. If you all care to read the story have against the £10,000 worth of free Avril Bell fully, really don’t see what the I’m a supporter of Faisal and he virus overseas trips – including to issue is here. has been a good MP so far and I Qatar and China – since he That’s really disappointing. There Brad Galloway have no issues with MPs making won the seat was a big talking is plenty going on in this country transparent foreign trips. However, given his prolific social or respiratory disease) point on Facebook. to keep him busy. Interesting that He has done more for our town in the other MP didn’t receive any the last two years than most media profile, I do not recall any n children and adults with free trips?! people who have commented on postings from foreign climes at all. weakened immune systems Surely we want our MPs to be Karen Rylance this post have done in their lives. I may have missed musings from informed about world trade after Tony Longmore Beijing, queries from Qatar and Anyone in these risk groups is more Brexit. It’s not as if we are paying It’s fair to point out that these trips problems from Pakistan but if any likely to develop potentially serious and these contacts could easily were paid for by others, who would His job isn’t only to ask what the MP is going to make trips they complications of flu, such as attract investment and jobs in be undoubtedly trying to establish people of Warrington want (which have an obligation to be very pneumonia (a lung infection), so it’s Warrington. some form of trade deal with he does and also fights for what upfront with their electorate as to recommended that they have a flu Martin Ellis-Hall Warrington. As long as others are local people want). As a country why they are going on the trip, vaccine every year to help protect paying, it’s not so bad, though we have links to all of these who paid for it, why they paid for them. They don’t need trips to learn their intentions should be clear so countries in some way or another. it and what did they uncover. 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IN BRIEF Good neighbours Historic win to Travel change landscape THE man who made history by becoming the first independent to become good friends win a borough council election in Forgotten Dutch master Warrington believes the political landscape is changing. By Isobel Cotogni Geoff Fellows stunned Labour’s WHEN most people think of a beautiful courtyards of hidden Make your own Royal Delft [email protected] Kenny Watson to secure the mini-break in The Netherlands, houses, originally almshouses ASIDE from Vermeer, Delft’s most Penketh and Cuerdley seat on they imagine the romantic built for maids who worked for famous export is pottery - the aristocracy when they retired. exclusive Royal Delft. The last PUB landlords from Thelwall have October 11. winding canals, late-night bars remaining earthenware factory been named the north west’s Although there have been and red light district of hedonistic Stroll around the pretty canals ‘Neighbours of the Year’. independents on the council in Amsterdam. of Delft that has produced original Delft Christine and Jim Hartley, who the past, after they left their But a 25-minute train ride from IF it’s quintessentially Dutch Blue for 365 years is now also a run the Pickering Arms pub, were parties they were elected with, it Rotterdam, now serviced by a new canals you want then Delft, a short museum. The real highlight, is an nominated by their neighbour, Pat is believed that Mr Fellows is the direct outbound Eurostar route tram ride from the Hague, is made opportunity to make your own from London, is the home of the piece of pottery under the McLaren and won the prize first independent to win a up of 11 ‘islands’, 88 bridges and a Dutch parliament, royal family canal system that’s more than 750 supervision of a Royal Delft organised by Co-op Insurance and borough council election in the Neighbourhood Watch. and the International Court of years old. A huge fire destroyed painter. It will be fired in the same town. Justice. two thirds of this small city in 1654 way as the professional It completed a successful year And he hopes he can encourage after the pub was named the The Hague is in many ways The but some of the surviving stone earthenware, and sent back to you. others to stand as independent Netherlands’ most important city, buildings still remain. Tickets: E13.50, or tour plus vase Warrington Guardian’s pub of the candidates in the future. year for 2018 in our annual Food and hosts some of the most Discover Dutch history at the workshop: E49.50. Book at He said: “Times are changing in significant Dutch art masterpieces. Museum Prinsenhof royaldelft.com and Drink Awards. our society and also for the Pat said: “Christine and Jim are Here’s how to explore the Hague IT began as a convent, then became Go back in time at Hotel Des truly lovely neighbours and we’re political landscape and I would and its smaller neighbour Delft. the court of William of Orange, Indes really lucky to have them. like to encourage more people See the masterpieces at the known as the founder and ‘father’ FOR a trip bathed in history, “In the three-and-a-half years within their own parish and Mauritshuis of Holland, and it’s now an staying in the Hague’s Hotel Des that they’ve been at the pub, borough areas to consider MANY come for one painting only Delft city centre excellent museum. Indes seems fitting. Built in 1858 as they’ve transformed it into a place standing as independents.” - the Girl with a Pearl Earring by There’s a portrait of each King or a palace for an advisor to the king, where everyone is happy to meet Delft artist Johannes Vermeer - masterpiece in itself, hailed as one there’s a very real possibility of Queen since William I (aka Prince the marble pillars and circular and have a chat. which inspired a novel in 1999 and of the world’s greatest small bumping into the prime minister of Orange), right up to the current inner court were a carriage “A s a result of creating such a Blighty club a film with Scarlett Johansson in museums, and sitting next to outside the Gothic Binnenhof head of state King Willem- entrance, but now you can friendly atmosphere, many strong 2003. parliament buildings on the castle or (perhaps) catching a Alexander, and visitors can learn breakfast in the velvet-clad A SPECIAL ‘Blighty Club’ will take It’s held at the world-renowned Hofvijver pond. glimpse of royalty exiting all about how the much-loved, restaurant instead. Prices start at friendships have been formed Jim and Christine Hartley at The Pickering Arms have been named the north west neighbours of the year among people who may not place at the Pavilion in Bank Park Mauritshuis, home to some of the Tickets: E15,50 (under 19s are Nooredeinde Palace. uber-modern Dutch royal family E155 per night. most famous paintings from the free) mauritshuis.nl In the Hague, you can get lost in came about (today, many of them hoteldesindesthehague.com. ordinarily meet. ” neighbours, the community looks including looking after keys, residents, in addition to a free after the town’s Remembrance Golden Age of Dutch art, which the higgledy-piggledy streets, with have normal jobs and send their n Eurostar London St Pancras- Christine said: “We are stunned out for us too.” feeding cats, giving their Christmas lunch and bingo session Day service on Sunday. Marvel at The Hague’s spanned the 17th century. medieval and art nouveau styles kids to comprehensive schools). Rotterdam on the direct three-hour to win the award yet delighted The couple were chosen for the neighbours lifts and putting on for pensioners. Beginning at 12pm and running architecture There are three Vermeers, existing in harmony with the Tickets: E12, audio tours are E1 service from E35 one-way. Onward with it. award following a nomination free events for everyone to enjoy. They will even deliver meals to through to 3pm, the Blighty Club IT’S pretty unusual to be able to several Jan Steens and more extra, and tours with a guide can travel to the Hague under E5. “We enjoy what we do, but it’s not from Pat, detailing how much they Christine and Jim arrange a elderly neighbours who can’t get is one of a number being held. stroll between parliament modern skyline. Rembrandts than Amsterdam. be arranged for E80 per group. 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