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Peas Please: award for school veg scheme

Peas Please: award for school veg scheme

A school dinners scheme ensuring children in Blackpool get enough fresh fruit and vegetables in their diet has been recognised for its good work. David Simper tells us why a change in attitudes is as important as a change in diet A sudden and unexpected drop in income during my under graduate years led to a switch to a largely and then completely vegetarian diet in order to eke out the money available. That was the mid '80s and I'm still making those recipes (often with my homegrown veg, pictured). Thus a life long interest in food and food politics was…
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Blackpool Skateboard Stories: Big Woody

Blackpool Skateboard Stories: Big Woody

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I wonder a lot about skateboarding after studying Fine Art in Northampton once the home to the largest skate park in the UK, Radlands.  It was there I found a peer group making work about skating and it felt like the very fabric of Northampton was made up of the sights, sounds, and musical influences of four wheels and a board. I remember speaking to a tutor who told me about a student in a previous year who painted landscapes, works depicting how he saw the world as a skater - a series of flat surfaces and potential spaces…
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Cards for Kindness Campaign Brings Christmas Joy to Care Homes

Cards for Kindness Campaign Brings Christmas Joy to Care Homes

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Time to send Cards for Kindness to care homes to provide Christmas joy. One of my personal favourite things about the Yuletide season is the opportunity to send and receive Christmas cards, perhaps with an update letter enclosed. Some of those circular letters people send attract ridicule, but I'm all for them myself and look forward to receiving them. Come on people, this is the annual chance to renew a relationship that might be decades old, so why not take it? I know there's e-mail and any number of other messaging platforms, but there's nothing like a card and…
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Cybele Velo – A New Cycling Space In Layton

Cybele Velo – A New Cycling Space In Layton

Recently AltBlackpool's editorial team met, and wanting to avoid the town centre we went to the new Cybele Velo facility on Coleridge Road.  We were so impressed we agreed we would do a piece on it, and here it is. Primarily Cybele Velo is a training facility for keen cyclists and triathletes.  There are fixed 'bikes' where member and visitors can take part in a wide programme of classes where the machines are set to the ability of the user.  Clips from the Tour de France and other cycle races on the giant screen add an air of authenticity to…
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