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WIN TICKETS
WITH Southport Reporter®
TO THE DAILY MAIL IDEAL HOME SHOW 2005!
TAKE A FRESH LOOK AND DISCOVER THE DIFFERENCE…
NEDITERRANEAN living is the spectacular theme for this year's Daily Mail Ideal Home Show in association with npower (2 March to 28 March 2005, Earls Court). So if you've ever dreamt of swapping your home for a French Chateau or even a Cave Home, next year's show is the place to be!
The show will feature four authentic show homes including a stunning 'Property Keysol' Spanish Villa styled exclusively by Linda Barker, a beautifully designed Venetian Apartment complete with canal and gondola, a French Chateau courtesy of Allied Carpets, and finally a 'Cave Home', one of the trendiest living spaces currently to hit the Mediterranean. Showcasing the latest interiors and forthcoming trends, the Cave home will be styled and designed by interior experts Justin Ryan & Colin McAllister.
Each show home will be positioned around a central Piazza, which will be used to convey the passion and culture for each country using street performers, live entertainment and much more!
Plus there are so many new features that this year's show cannot be missed:-
Ideal Home Magazine Room Designs & JJA ADA Interior Design Clinic - A double decker feature area that will showcase stylish room designs courtesy of Ideal Home magazine downstairs, as well as an interactive workshop area upstairs offering all visitors 15mins free interior design consultations courtesy of JJA ADA Interior Design Clinic
This Morning LIVE at the show! Don't miss your chance to see Fern & Phillip in action. Come and watch your favourite daytime programme broadcast live from their very own sofa at the show for a whole week (7 to 11 March)
The Freestyle® Men's Gadget Zone - For the first time ever, the Show is introducing an exciting area that is totally dedicated to the latest gadgets and gizmos sponsored by Freestyle® Mortgages Crown Town, Want to pick up the latest colour trends? Our team of experts from Crown Paints know everything there is to know about paint, so whether you want to learn how to mix and match colours or take away colour wheels, this interactive area has something for everyone
Garden Ideas Haven with Magic 105.4 - Brand new for this year's show, a unique area for those passionate about their gardens. So whether it's an English Country rose garden, a Mediterranean landscape or an urban roof terrace, our garden designs will showcase different ways to maximise your outdoor space
The Heart 106.2 Makeover Challenge - Presenting the first ever on-air home make-over challenge! Vote for your favourite designer from one of ten contestants battling against each other to design, build and create a stylish room in the house DIY Theatre. Take your pick from a series of masterclasses with host of celebrity experts sharing their know-how on absolutely anything to do with DIY and interiors Sizzling Kitchen. Leading celebrity chefs will be cooking up mouth-watering specialities and easy to follow recipes with a Mediterranean twist!
Concept Product Awards - See short listed designs from students across the UK to reveal the next generation of design talent, judged by celebrity interior designer, Kevin McCloud
Junior Concept Products Awards. From the success of the Concept Product Awards, this year's show is also inviting budding young designers (aged 8 to 11) to get creative and design a product for the home, with winning entries being displayed at the show Indulgence Zone. The place to unwind with free manicures and make-up consultations courtesy of London College of Beauty Therapy and Color Me Beautiful.
Plus there will be bags of shopping, the latest products and exclusive show bargains so make sure you don't miss out on this great day out!
We've joined forces with the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show to offer 4 pairs of lucky readers the chance to win a pair of tickets, worth £24 each, for a weekday of their choice. Just email us your name, phone number and address and answer this simple question...
"What is the venue of this years show." For your chance to win and if you're not lucky enough to win. Why not call the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show hotline on 0870 606 6080 or log onto www.idealhomeshow.co.uk for a discounted ticket.
Ticket Information:- Discounted tickets are available by calling the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show ticket hotline on 0870 606 6080 (booking fee applies) or visiting the website at www.idealhomeshow.co.uk.
The Show will open from 10am until 8pm every day, except Thursdays when the show is open until 10pm.
On the door ticket prices are as follows:-
Adult Weekday ticket costs = £12.
Adult Weekend ticket costs = £15.
Concesstion Weekday ticket costs = £7.50.
Concesstion Weekday ticket costs = £8.50.
Concesstion are for children 5 to 16yrs and senior citizens 60+ (Under 5s are free entry).
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Mobile Phone Masts
THE issue of society's growing dependence upon mobile phones versus strong reactions to the sitings of the accompanying masts had yet another local focus when a public meeting was held in Formby on Monday, 17 January, 2005, at the Park Rd Resource Centre.
Questions were invited on the possible risks to health and environment posed by radiation from mobile telephone masts to be answered by prominent speakers such as Dr Gerard Hyland and staff from the EM Radiation Research Trust.
Although this particular meeting was arranged by Debi Jones, the Conservative Parliamentary Prospective Candidate, people from all political persuasions are also involved. There appears to be a ground swell of public reaction to the presence of such masts, on health, environmental and aesthetic grounds. Recently Geoff Williams, a retired electrical engineer and chairman of SRAM (Southport Residents against Masts) and also regional director of the national campaign Mast Sanity stated that people were particularly aggrieved that the precautionary approach to sitings, after the publication of the Stewart Report in 2000, has not happened. Nor have the promised public consultations taken place. He felt that the general feeling of mast protestors is that the Government is too sympathetic towards the Telephone Companies and Mast Operators.
Guidelines imposed upon Local Planning Authorities are not helpful. The great dilemma involved is peoples' increasing expectations of efficient coverage and service for users of mobile networks.
It appears that there is a great need for more information to be made available to the public to enable people to appreciate all the aspects involved. Formby's Meeting was one attempt to meet this problem.
Please contact us if you have any views regarding this issue either way.
Green Light for new Speke Centre
A NEW district centre for Speke, including new shops and a health centre has been given the go-ahead. Morrison's supermarket were given approval by Liverpool City Council's Planning Committee in October to build a two-storey supermarket, 15 shops, health centre, petrol station and car park between Speke Boulevard and Conleach Road.
The development will replace Speke's original centre, Central Parade, and will create 450 jobs. Because of the scale of the development it had to be referred to the Government. However, they have decided not to call in the plans.
"This is great news for people living in Speke. I am only surprised that it has taken so long for Government officials to make a decision on a plan which brings immense benefits to the area and for which there was very little objection from local people.
It gives Speke not only a new high quality shopping centre but also better transport links and creates improved access to the whole of the estate.
It is a major part of the continued regeneration of Speke and Garston which shows how the regeneration process can breath new life into areas. I regard this as the icing on the cake for Speke."
said Councillor Peter Millea, Executive Member for Regeneration.
Patient Choice at the Point of GP Referral
THIS week Health Minister John Hutton commented on the National Audit Office's report called Patient Choice at the Point of GP Referral.
He said:- "We welcome this report. It confirms that providing greater choice over hospital treatment will deliver very real benefits to patients. We are pleased that the NAO, the BMA and the Royal College of GPs continue to agree with us on this.
The report also acknowledges that Primary Care Trusts and GPs are moving in the right direction to deliver choice by the end of thisyear. Offering the choice of four or five providers for hospital referrals to patients by December 2005 is a big challenge for the NHS. As we set out in the Department of Health document Choose and Book, published last August, this will be offered mainly through IT but also other means, such as phone booking.
We have implemented the choice IT programme in stages. First we procured the equipment, second we made sure it worked, now the challenge is to roll out the service across the NHS. That is why since the Autumn, as planned, we have intensified our efforts to engage with GPs. More than 2,500 GPs have already been involved in developing systems to support choice and booking, and this engagement will increase during this important next stage of implementation."
Letters to Editor:-
"Prince Harry"
To the Editor, Southport Reporter, U.K. "Why is everyone down on Prince Harry for a harmless, costume party prank? When he gussied up like one of Rommel's men he didn't kill anyone, did he? Tony Blair and George Bush are liquidating people by the hundreds of thousands in Iraq and where's the uproar? Since the Iraq war is illegal and the Bush & Blair Comedy Team tricked both their publics into supporting it based on a lie, that puts them in the same class with Hitler, don't it? So why shouldn't Harry ape the PM by dressing up like a Nazi? Churchill condemned Hitler for invading Russia and Kofi Annan condemned AngloAmerica --- or should I say, AngloAustralAmerica -- for kicking in the door of Hussein's butcher shop. And yet the world pours opprobrium on poor Prince Harry for a harmless bit of playacting! Why, after he's done Sandhurst he'll be ready to quit play-acting and to go to Iraq and kill for the Crown for real. Then they'll give him a medal. He's just got an early start on his basic training, that's all. Funny thing, how the old Axis are all good fellows now: the Italians, Germans, and Japanese, all splendid citizens of the world. And will you just look who's taking over Hitler's role? Blimey! In my book, Prince Harry could redeem himself by telling Sandhurst to bugger off and join the Peace Movement. Maybe he could use his prestigee to work up a boycott going against American products. He'd make a good salesman for Toyota or Honda, too, what with his popularity and all. Sell cars for a country that works for peace, don't need an army, and plays by the rules, Harry -- and don't sell your life for a quid less. It's Blair & Bush who got to apologize, Harry. So don't you apologize for your prank before they apologize for their massacre."
Sherwood Ross, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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