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There’s an urgent demand in these islands to be able to travel abroad without restriction, or that’s what the newspapers and TV journalists tell us. Undoubtedly many people’s livelihoods depend on international travel for business and pleasure. You o

Editor Norman Wright Sub Editor/Writer Simon Evans Office Manager Caroline Kingdom Your Money and Your Rights Teri Harman Design Kirsty Craner, AT Graphics, Peterborough Publisher Clive Nicholls Manager Jayne Cureton Advertising Director Adrian Major

The CDs are: Moments of the Heart music for the soul- Various Artists. From the soothing melodies of Peaceful Lament and Confidence of Hope to the haunting ambiance of Natural Elements and Awakenings, Moments of the Heart music for the soul is the pe

Email your poems to: (editorial@choicemag.co.uk) or post to Your Poetry, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX There’s a train that runs on barren track, along the side & at the back,of the caravan. The children laugh & sho

ONE TRAVELLER, the family-run specialist in holidays for mature single travellers, has launched its new 2021/22 brochure. The programme features a range of holidays, covering not just summer and autumn 2021 but also the festive period and early month

SINCE THE Covid-19 pandemic took its grip on the nation some 3.2million households have introduced a pet into their household. With the proven benefits to wellbeing that owning a pet brings and with 41 per cent of people stating their mental health i

AS WE start to emerge (torn lockdown, one way of coping With our changed world is to write about our memories, especially for those who are still having to endure the pain of isolation and loss. And for older people it can provide a perfect project t

FROM THE mature, natural grey tones to those ‘want to be greys’, there’s plenty on the market now to ensure you evolve from dull, to dazzling in just a few washes – and some fantastic products to help keep your hair in perfect condition. Grey hair is

A COMPANY is offering those over 65 discounted access to a wide variety of activities that support their physical and mental wellbeing. The Joy Club is a membership website with a mission to help older people afford a more active retirement by connec

It was a terrible moment for the signalman half a mile north of Peterborough station as the magnificent streamlined A4 locomotive left the tracks and ploughed towards his box. The accident occurred on September 1, 1955 as the 3.50pm King’s Cross to L

I KNOW the travel industry is desperate to make up for its losses from the Covid pandemic, but I have been dismayed by its blatant exploitation of the situation. I understand that when demand outstrips supply, prices rise but the scale of the increas

WHILE THE inability to spend as normal during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns has meant some people have benefitted from additional saving every month, for many older people there have been added costs associated with staying at home – such as higher

THROUGHOUT HUMAN history, death is something that has been held in high regard, observed with reverence, and feared with spiritual significance. Death is a focal point for many spiritual beliefs, and long-held traditions are central to many cultures

Q I am the executor of my brother-in-law’s Will and I foresee a problem with a clause which leaves the contents of his home to be divided between three nieces. He was unmarried and lived in a rented home on a residential park. The contents do not con

THE BIG Lunch is the UK’s annual big date to celebrate and give thanks for our neighbour and communities – a time when people can come together, expand their local connections and get to know one another a little better. The idea is simple. In June e

A LOT of gardeners hold dear memories of grandparents – or older aunts and uncles or another significant adult – teaching us how to grow plants, care for the soil, and sharing their tips and tricks. I used to follow my grandfather around his vegetabl

JUNE IS one of our most colourful months, as flowers bloom, the grass is lush and green and – best of all – the days are longer for us to enjoy more time in our gardens and to make the most of this energy burst. One of the best things to do in the ga

It is the Silver Jubilee summer of 1977 and at Trent Bridge the third Ashes Test is under way, with England one up in the series. The match is notable for marking both the debut of the 21-year-old Ian Botham and the return of master batsman Geoff Boy

I was sitting on the boundary grass at the County Ground in Northampton with sandwiches, bottle of squash, mini cricket bat and tennis ball in my duffle bag ready to start an impromptu game on the outfield at every break. Then a Kent batsman came to

Line of Duty Series 6 (Acorn Media International) Blu-ray and DVD The big reveal of what may or may not be the final season of the police corruption drama almost inevitably divided fans. Some saw it as a cop-out, others a work of genius, but you have

Honky Tonk Essentials Apple Music, 49 songs, 2hrs 9mins Edgy, drink-fuelled and hormone-laden, the rather disreputable bars of America, especially in rural areas, were known as honky tonks, and in the Forties and Fifties gave their name to the style

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2021 (Bloomsbury, £55) has everything the cricket lover needs to know about the past year and forthcoming season. Inevitably this edition is dominated by the toll the Covid pandemic has taken on the sport but also celebrat

AFTER A successful year of sales at its Bicester Heritage base – with a 93 per cent sale rate – Bonhams Motorcycles is returning to Stafford for the first auction of 2021. The Summer Stafford Sale takes place on July 3 and 4 at the Staffordshire Coun

When France lifted the World Cup for the first time in 1998 they appeared invincible, but it soon unravelled for Les Bleus and it was another 20 years before they scaled those heights again, thanks in no small part to Kylian Mbappé. France’s rise, fa

Triple Cross by Tom Bradby Published by Bantam Press Price £12.99 Pages 368 ISBN 9781787634251 After her husband’s betrayal and her own enforced departure from MI6, Kate Henderson is attempting to get her family life on track. After an unexpected and

IT MAY lack historical detail but Gyles Brandreth’s gossipy but revealing Philip: The Final Portrait (Coronet, £25) captures the complexity of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, a man whose sense of honour, duty and decency seemed to belong to a lost

BY HEATHER DHONDY Before reading on, cover the East and West hands on the deal below. Playing teams, South opens one heart (playing five-card majors), and West overcalls two diamonds. What call do you make with the North cards? Cue bid three diamonds

COVENTRYHAS launched its UK City of Culture 2021 programme with an engaging and diverse cultural line-up and exciting commissions in the city, which will be also welcoming some new properties such as the acclaimed Telegraph Hotel. The 365-day Coventr

Actor and writer Henry Dawe has released a song, Two Paces Back, as a tribute to the life of the Duke of Edinburgh and also to raise funds for Esther Rantzen’s charity Silver Line. The song had been originally planned to celebrate the Duke’s 100th bi

It didn’t seem odd at the time but as a keen young snooker player, to make sure of a game, I went to the town’s biggest tailor’s shop – then called Montagu Burton. There, up some stairs beside the shop doors, was a man at a desk allocating tables and

DON’T YOU just love this time of year, and the sounds of early summer? Tinkling back-garden fountains, chimes from ice cream vans. The hypnotic drone of a distant lawnmower, the creak of a deckchair being opened after a long winter… The world warming

My grandson, like most teenagers today, has more ‘stuff’ than I would have even dreamed of at his age, including bits of technology that have me gazing in puzzlement, like a caveman happening upon a Rubik’s cube. Curious as to what he valued most in

Fill in the words missing from the following proverbs (the answers are over the page). 1 You can’t have it……. ……… 2 You can’t make a……….. out of a sow’s ear. 3 You can’t have a rainbow…….. 4 You can’t….. with the.….. and hunt with the hounds. 5 You c

…that in June 1979, the pound sank like a stone, losing 25.2 per cent of the value it stood at four years before. This news was accompanied by the release of inflation figures showing that in the UK it had reached a record 22 per cent …in this month

Recently I witnessed a debate started by a claim that there was a delicacy called Welshman’s caviar. It turned out he was glorifying laver bread, the seaweed concoction that was (and sometimes still is) an accompaniment to a fried breakfast in the pr