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Heath and Wellbeing You should be enjoying some sunshine this month - well 26-29 according to the Weather Forecasters anyway. Please do be careful in the sun and remember your pets too. We’ve got a 36-37 Pets feature Health and Wellbeing feature this month, so if you’re looking to get fit for the summer or fancy a manicure or pedicure, do check out pages 26-29. If you’re out and about this month 39 Trout n’ About Festival remember our monthly walk and we also remind you about the ‘Trout n About’, the Stockbridge annual Food and Craft Festival (7th August), find details on page 39. 40-41 Abbotts: A complete home In other news, Test Valley Business Awards announce improvement service record number of entries, Test Valley Arts Foundation 25th Anniversary with their Art Bus in Romsey for Dementia Awareness week and we have many other stories. Local 50 Monthly Garden Gazette Schools, don’t’ forget that we offer a free platform to show how you are inspiring children to learn and we are always tips looking for colleges to contact us too. We always look forward to local people getting in touch with news for our 58-59 This month’s walk community magazine, so please do email us using tracey@ testvalleygazette.co.uk. Please also provide any details of local events you would like advertised on our website 64-66 Classified (www.mlggazettes.co.uk) or in our What’s On section in the publications. 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