MUHAMMAD ALI Celebrating the Life of a Boxing Legend and Activist
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DUVET DAYS: The top ten excuses for calling in sick in Britain Photo Credit: PA Images FOOD FOR THOUGHT All you need to know about staying healthy MUHAMMAD ALI Celebrating the life of a boxing legend and activist Vision StanmoreEdgware | Edition 3 | July 2016 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition3 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V1 Buy - Rent - Sell - Let PARKERS For a FREE no obligation, sales or lettings valuation please contact your nearest office Stanmore Office: Bushey Office: Tel: 020 8954 8244 Tel: 020 8950 5777 83 Uxbridge Road, Stanmore, HA7 3NH 63 High Road, Bushey, WD23 1EE V2 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition3 | to advertise call 01442 254894 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition3 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V3 100 95 75 25 5 0 ParkersFeb14 13 February 2014 15:17:39 6 HISTORY V Editor’s 11 FOOD & DRINK CONTENTS 14 FASHION notes... 15 BEAUTY Hello and welcome to the third 18 HOLLY WILLOUGHBY edition of VISION Stanmore & Edgware lifestyle magazine. 19 TRAVEL The magazine is really starting to take off now, 21 KIDS with lots of suggestions from readers and more 22 CAROLINE AHERNE Misha Mistry, Design Editor exciting content to bring you this month. 23 LOCAL NEWS Despite the frequent rain showers, the summer holidays are finally here, so we have everything you need to survive 32 JOANNA LUMLEY the next six weeks…from fun family activities, to top tips to survive those long train, plane or car journeys with 35 BUSINESS & FINANCE the kids. Mum of three, Holly Willoughby even shares her wisdom, following the release of her own parenting book. 40 GARDENING We pay tribute to ‘The Greatest’, Muhammad Ali, and relive his most talked about moments, alongside the 41 MUHAMMAD ALI impression he left on the world. The tragic news of his death has saddened many, including President Barack Obama and 47 HOME & DIY David Beckham, which you will see inside. With our own reporters at the Euros, turn to the 57 HEALTH & FITNESS back pages to see what we made of the violence, and what it was really like being at the tournament in the 69 MOTORING midst of all the excitement. July’s edition is full of plenty of local news to keep you 73 SPORTS up to date with everything happening nearby . Read all about London Fire Brigade’s 150th birthday celebrations, a junior doctor’s song to raise awareness, and why Harrow voted to CONTACT US | [email protected] remain in the EU. 01442 254894 | 07883 789530 And last, but not least, we have some of the best (and EDITOR | Nik Allen | [email protected] worst!) excuses for calling sick into work. DESIGN EDITOR | Misha Mistry | [email protected] Until next month, have a great one, CONTRIBUTOR | Gemma Wilson CONTRIBUTOR | Dean Shaw CONTRIBUTOR | Holly Worthington CONTRIBUTOR | Jerry Lyons Misha CONTRIBUTOR | Charles Rae CONTRIBUTOR | Leigh Smith handed, 5. Grumpy Cat Grumpy 5. handed, Left- 4. 1920’s, The 3. rabbits, Sniffer 2. more, times 100 1. 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He sped through Dealey Plaza outside their building just had unwittingly helped Oswald transport the rifle used after 12.30pm. in the assassination - a gesture that has haunted him Buell said he was excited to see the President - but for the last 50 years. wanted to get a good look at Jackie Kennedy. Not only was he accused of being an accomplice Buell remembers hearing the first gunshot which of Oswald but his he thought was a brief friendship with motorbike back firing. the killer has blighted ‘ When he heard two his life ever since. He more shots and saw lost jobs and was women in the crowd shunned by friends THERE ISN’T A DAY screaming and running once they found out he knew shots had he had given Oswald goes past that I do been fired. a lift to work on the What he didn’t know day JFK died. was that Oswald was He also said he has NOT REGRET firing from the sixth lived in fear of being floor window of the killed by people building. The shooting who want to exact what happened was captured by revenge for the death ‘ Abraham Zapruder of America’s most who filmed the entire beloved President. gory scene as the “There isn’t a day goes past that I do not regret what President was struck. happened,” said Buell. The 26 seconds of film have become the most DRIVENDRIVEN “If I could turn back the clock I would. When Lee got studied film in history. After the shooting and the TOTO KILLKILL THETHE PRESIDENTPRESIDENT into my car I had no idea what was going to happen. pandemonium that followed Oswald fled leaving the Ironically it was Buell who had helped Oswald find rifle behind. Police instructed managers at the school uell Frazier was just 19 on the morning of November On that day his passenger had placed a long package a job, packing school books at the seven storey book depository to gather the employees for a roll 22, 1963 and it started off just like any other day. on the back seat of the car. When he asked what it was, warehouse in downtown Dallas. They had only call - Oswald was the only one missing. B He had recently started work at the Dallas Book the passenger replied: “Curtain rods”. Hours later Buell known each other for about a month and lived near Hours later while visiting his step-father in hospital Depository in Texas and most days he gave a workmate would find himself at the centre of one of the most famous each other in Irving, Texas. Buell was arrested. He was questioned for hours as a lift to work. events of the 20th century - the assassination of President At the book depository Oswald, aged 22, hurried police suspected he was involved in an assassination The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963: Scene through the foreground convertible’s windshield, President races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas John F. Kennedy’s hand reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot V6 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition3 | to advertise call 01442 254894 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition3 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V7 mynews_Layout 1 1 14/04/2016 14/04/2016 09:4009:40 09:40 PagePage Page 11 1 1 Page 09:40 14/04/2016 1 mynews_Layout plot. “I just told them what I knew, and told the truth,” said Buell in his slow, Texan drawl. F “They kept on asking about Lee and the R F E R E E AT E V AT ride to work. I told them all I knew, but I N V N + A + T A 50 could see they suspected I was involved. IO T £ N IO 50 ER £ AL N V R FREE CATALOGUE D A O VE “I was just a simple country boy and it was EL L RS O IVE DEL RDE RY ONIVEO RS just a nightmare. I kept on telling the police RY ON ORDE I did not know anything. They kept on AVAILABLE NOW! asking me the same questions. Buell spent hours being interrogated before being released after passing a lie detector test”. Meanwhile, Oswald had been arrested when he was found hiding in a movie theatre. He had earlier shot a police officer JD Tippit who had recognised him from a description flashed to all law enforcement officers. The movie theatre where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after The assassin insisted he was a “patsy” U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. and denied killing JFK. Two days later he was shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being brought out of a police station. His death coupled with reports of a second gunman on the Grassy Knoll at Dealey Plaza have meant there are hundreds of conspiracy theories about the assassination. Buell, now aged 69, was called to give 01923 777 777 evidence to the Warren Commission, the inquiry set up in 1964 by the US FREE01923 NEXT DAY DELIVERY OF 777FASTENERS, FIXINGS 777 & TOOLS* Government to investigate JFK’s death. The Commission found that Oswald was FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY OF FASTENERS, FIXINGS & TOOLS* the lone gunman and dismissed all other theories. Buell said he doesn’t believe Oswald acted alone and said the Warren Commission was a “whitewash”. “People have not been told the real truth. Not for one minute do I think Lee was on his own. There were other people involved. It was a conspiracy to kill the President.” Lee Harvey Oswald is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for another round of questioning in connection with the Photo Credits: PA Images, Chris Bott & Jim Murray assassination of U.S, President John F.