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MARCH 2021
Issue 47
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WHAT’S IN THIS MONTHS LOVE CHESTER MAGAZINE
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What’s This Month Auto Review Supporting Puzzle
Happening In History by Local Corner
At Our Zoo Tony Yates Charities
Love Chester Dear Friends,
Spring is finally on it’s
The Local Magazine way!
I am so glad all that rain
for Businesses in and has eased off. This
warmer weather is very
around Cheshire. welcome and it is lovely
to see so many people
out when I am walking
our 4 pugs.
Victim of Medical Negligence? 7 Love Chester magazine is
all about promoting our lovely part of the country.
Do You Know? 10 It’s important that we use our local tradespeople and
shops to keep it that way, more importantly than
Joshua Charity News 12 ever if we want to keep our high streets, villages
and the city centre alive after we see the back of
What’s Happening At Our Zoo 14-15 COVID-19. Many shops are managing click & collect
and shops are going to start re-opening very soon!
This Month In History 20-21 Our advertisers are quality, local and reliable
tradespeople offering great services at affordable
Recipe - Sweet & Sour Pork 24 prices. Using local businesses means they can invest
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Auto Review by Tony Yates 26-27 live and work!
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DO YOU KNOW?
1. The correct 21. During your lifetime you will produce
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hat is a chef’s
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number of recipes a chef had mastered for 22. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first
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taller the hat the more the chef 23. In the 16th century, Turkish women could
knew about the foods that they initiate a divorce if their husbands didn’t
were preparing. provide them with enough
2. A baby puffin is called a coffee.
puffling 24. Recycling just one tin can
3. M&M stands for Mars & can save enough energy
Murrie. to watch television for
4. You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from three hours.
more than two miles away. 25. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are all
5. The hashtag symbol is
technically called an
octothrope.
# banned in China.
26. A 68 year old grandmother got quite a
surprise when a swarm of 20,000 bees
6. The Lyrebird can mimick almost any sound it followed her car for two days because their
hears including chainsaws. queen was stuck inside.
7. Elvis only won three 27. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so
that they don’t drift away from each other.
Grammys. 28. Hewlett Packard’s (also known as HP) name
8. The speed of a computer was decided in a coin toss in 1939.
mouse is measured in 29. Pokemon
“Mickeys” Hitmonlee and
9. About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine. Hitmonchan are
10. Fear of the number 13 is based on Bruce
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11. The Crown Jewels contain the Chan.
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earth. times, that we know
12. Baby sea otters cannot swim. of, that snow fell in the Sahara Desert.
13. If facebook was a country, it 31. Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper
would have one billion more $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla.
people than China. 32. Queen Elizabeth II visited the set
14. 11% of people are left of Game of
handed. Thrones, but she
15. August has the highest percentage was not able
of births. to sit on the iron
16. A bear has 42 teeth. throne because
17. An Ostrich eye is bigger than it’s brain. of an obscure
18. Lemons contain more sugar than rule.
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cancers. the Cheshire Freemasons for their
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Fundraising ‘superstars’ help to
save Chester Zoo from extinction
• After a roller coaster of year, Chester Zoo took a
look back at some of their fundraising Dr Mark Pilgrim, Chief Executive Officer at Chester Zoo,
superstars who helped to save their favourite said:
charity zoo. "Although the zoo was able to reopen, which is vital to
our future survival, there’s still a long way to go before
• Three months of closure pushed the UK’s biggest we’re fully back on track. Our closure due to the
charity zoo to the edge of extinction, which pandemic has left a huge £5.5m scar in our finances, so
triggered 130,000 donors and 1,300 fundraisers there is no denying that there will be some very
from 90 countries to step up and help save challenging times ahead for this great charity zoo.
Chester Zoo from closing its doors forever.
“This has been one of the worst crises in the zoo’s
• From running challenges and bake sales to head history, but our hearts have been warmed by seeing the
shaves and virtual mountain climbs, supporters endless kindness, love and support flood in from our
raised an incredible £3m when Chester Zoo supporters. We’ve seen whole communities and individuals
launched the ‘Save Our Zoo’ campaign after from all walks of life come together with one common
lockdown left a £5.5m hole in the charity’s goal - to help save our zoo.
finances.To save Chester Zoo head to: www.chesterzoo.org/saveourzoo
“We’re so incredibly grateful to our wonderful supporters Brendan said: “The zoo is very close to my heart. I've
who have and continue to fundraise for us – taking on all been working with children with special education needs
manner of weird, wonderful, and remarkable challenges. for the last 12 years and have taken them to the zoo
We’re truly overwhelmed by the kindness that’s being many times and they've absolutely loved it, as have I!
shown to us when times are hard for everyone, not just us. 'When I heard about the zoo’s plight due to the
Each and every fundraiser is absolutely crucial to us - coronavirus pandemic and saw it had launched its urgent
helping to make sure we have a future in our mission to Save Our Zoo campaign, I had to do something to help. I
prevent extinction.” decided to test myself and take on this fancy dress
With revenue from visitors making up 97% of the zoo’s running challenge. With the year we’re all experiencing so
income, the long period of closure has had a devastating far, I just wanted to do something fun, make people
impact on the future of the UK’s most visited zoo. laugh, smile and inspire them to donate.”
It costs £465,000 a month just to care for the zoo’s 35,000 Sadly, Brendan caught COVID-19 during his second
animals, with additional outgoings to keep the zoo ticking challenge and has had to pause his running. He’s hoping
over, the global conservation projects and scientific research to re-start in the New Year.
being carry out, the zoo says it needs £1.6m a month just Seven-year old Layla Powell sprang into action to help
to keep going. save the zoo she’s loved since a baby when she heard of
their struggles. Layla and six school friends decided to
Six-year-old Jimmy Roose from Mold was devastated to climb the height of Everest using the stairs at home
learn about the zoo's difficulty and was determined to do during lockdown to raise vital funds for the zoo. The
something about it. He set out to complete a marathon run group climbed a staggering 8,848m between them, raising
of 26 miles around Mold, running a mile a day an astounding £3,330.
throughout June to help save the zoo he has loved ever
since his first visit as a baby.In just 19 days, Jimmy finished Vicky Powell, Layla’s mum and the zoo's Retail Buyer,
his 26 miles and smashed his target of £500, raising an said: “Layla and her friends were so excited when they
incredible £4,690. had the idea to climb to the top of Everest by climbing
their stairs at home, which is a huge challenge for seven
For his penultimate mile, two local Mold residents and children aged between six and nine. They were so
Chester Zoo employees, joined Jimmy dressed as a gorilla passionate about it - one girl even climbed her stairs 100
and a tiger. times on day one!
Carl Askew, Facilities Manager at Chester Zoo, said: "What “Lockdown has been difficult for everyone to get through,
Jimmy has done for the zoo is amazing and living so locally to but with the girls not being able to meet up and see each
me made me feel even more proud of his achievement.” other, this challenge has really made them feel like they
were doing something fun together. They showed real
Many other supporters took up gruelling running challenges to team work and really kept each other going, it definitely
raise money for the zoo. Salford Teaching Assistant, Brendan helped take their mind off everything that was going on at
Rendall, ran an epic 31 marathons in inflatable animal the time.
costumes, raising over £12,300 for the conservation charity.
“We all absolutely love the zoo and the vital conservation
The 41-year old ran a half marathon every day in June, a work it does and are so happy to have been able to raise
marathon every day in July, then pounded the pavements so much for them. I’m so proud of what the girls have
from Salford to Chester Zoo in August. Brendan ran a total of achieved.”
1,204 miles in soaring temperatures and torrential downpours Launched in June 2020, the zoo’s ‘Save Our Zoo’
dressed as a penguin, rhino and two-metre tall giraffe. campaign continues to appeal for public support. You
can support Chester Zoo by adopting an animal,
But he didn’t stop there. When the second lockdown was donating or becoming a member. Find out more by
announced, Brendan dusted off his animal costumes and visiting www.chesterzoo.org/support-us/
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THIS month will give true
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH
1985 MARCH 5 1936
The Supermarine Spitfire -
the British fighter aircraft that
became the iconic plane of
the Battle of Britain - made
its first flight on this day in
1936.
On the night of March 5, the
chief test pilot at the parent
company Vickers-Armstrongs
- took off in the Type 300
MARCH 3 1985 K5054 prototype from
Eastleigh airfield in
On this day in 1985, Britain's miners voted Hampshire.
to return to work after an ultimately
fruitless strike that dragged on for almost a At the end of the eight minute
full year. flight, Summers climbed out
of the cockpit and said to the
The longest-running industrial dispute in small group of observers
British history was a direct response to a "I don't want anything
series of proposals laid out by Margaret touched", indicating that
Thatcher’s government.
nothing required correcting
The strike began in March 1984 over plans before his next test flight.
to close up to 20 pits at the loss of around
200,000 jobs. A further 75 pits were
1936
earmarked for closure over a three-year
period. The bitter industrial dispute played
out across TV and newspaper as a war of
words between the government and the
leader of the National Union of
Mineworkers (NUM), Arthur Scargill.
The former miner believed the NUM was in
a strong position - and for a very good
reason. His representatives had been
instrumental in organising the strikes that
precipitated the 'three-day weeks' which
ultimately brought down Edward Heath's
government.
20MARCH 16 1935 1987
Voluntary driving tests were
introduced in Britain and became
compulsory in June of the same
year.
Mind you, given that some of
these people had already been
driving around since 1903 – when
the first licences were issued –
maybe it wouldn’t have fased
them too much.
Back on March 16, 1935, a
voluntary driving test was
introduced for UK drivers.
The first person to pass the test MARCH 6 1987
was a Mr Beene.
The ro-ro Herald of Free Enterprise
capsized in just 90 seconds on March 6
1935 1987. She was sailing out of Zeebrugge
at the time, headed for Dover, and 150
passengers and 38 members of the
crew lost their lives.
The eight-deck ro-ro had been
designed for rapid loading and
unloading on the competitive
cross-channel route, and there were no
watertight compartments. When the
ship left harbor with her inner and outer
bow doors open, the sea immediately
flooded the decks, and within minutes
she had capsized and was lying on her
side in shallow water.
MARCH 13 1764 - The birth, in Falloden, Northumberland, of Charles Earl Grey,
British Prime Minister. He is linked with Earl Grey Tea, after a blended tea was
supplied to him as a gift and the sample was copied.
MARCH 3 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor of the
telephone, photo phone, graphophone, microphone and a host of other really
useful phones was born on this day.
MARCH 20 1917- Dame Vera Lynn was born in London and by the age of seven,
was singing on a regular basis in working men’s clubs. She made her first
broadcast in 1935. During the Second World War Vera found fame as the “Forces
Sweetheart”, keeping up the spirits of the public with such songs as “We’ll Meet
Again” and “White Cliffs of Dover”. These songs, and some films, catapulted Vera
Lynn into what would now be referred to as superstardom.
MARCH 22 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of musicals including Cats,
Evita and Phantom of the Opera, to name but a few was born on this day.
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5008 Allure. First off, the 5008 is a machine every time you want to change a
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control systems in check – so you Peugeot 5008 is now something you can’t
can be assured if you make a ignore because it looks good, drives
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be there to steer you in the right
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