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M A R / A P R 2 0 2 4<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
InsideJ’aime this month...<br />
6 Vindication Swim - Director Elliott Hasler talks<br />
about filming his latest project celebrating<br />
Mercedes Gleitze, the first woman to swim<br />
the English Channel, in Birmingham<br />
10 Lichfield Literature Festival - Join celebrated<br />
authors for Lichfield’s spring literature festival<br />
12 Lichfield Garrick - Liverpool band The Coral<br />
bring their debut album to the Lichfield<br />
Garrick stage two decades on<br />
14 Property - Top tips for renting your property<br />
16 Property - Stylish community living for over-60s<br />
in Lichfield<br />
18 Interiors - Refreshing and soothing Green Teainspired<br />
decor<br />
22 Interiors - Elevated entertaining<br />
28 Gift Guides - Celebrating Easter<br />
31 Competition - Win one of five family tickets<br />
to Staffordshire County Show<br />
34 Food and drink - A look at the best seasonal<br />
produce with Dubberley Delicious<br />
38 Food and drink - Spring dining from Thyme<br />
Kitchen<br />
40 What’s On - Events around the Midlands this<br />
spring<br />
44 Wealth Matters - Exploring the world of<br />
finance with financial adviser Kevin Jenkins<br />
46 Fashion - Embrace all things preppy for spring<br />
48 Beauty - Peachy keen for glowy makeup looks<br />
50 In the news - A centenary of excellence in<br />
education at Mayfield Prep<br />
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Welcome to <strong>J’AIME</strong><br />
As we go to press with this issue on International<br />
Women’s Day, it seems fitting that our first feature<br />
of the month covers a brand new film, launched<br />
on this very day, to commemorate the remarkable<br />
achievements of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British<br />
woman to swim the English Channel in 1927.<br />
Vindication Swim is the culmination of a threeyear<br />
passion project for director Elliott Hasler, and<br />
covers Mercedes’ incredible swim, and the build-up<br />
to her Channel attempt, which saw her take part in<br />
training swims around the Midlands. We caught up<br />
with Elliott ahead of the film’s launch in cinemas<br />
nationwide to find out more.<br />
Elsewhere, there’s plenty going on around the<br />
Midlands to keep the whole family entertained<br />
this spring. We take a look at the impressive lineup<br />
for Lichfield Literature Festival, plus we chat<br />
to Liverpool band The Coral, who are bringing<br />
their eponymous debut album to the stage at the<br />
Lichfield Garrick more than two decades after<br />
its release for an intimate evening of music and<br />
conversation. And it doesn’t stop there; we’ve<br />
got tickets for the whole family to enjoy one of<br />
Staffordshire’s flagship countryside events, the<br />
Staffordshire County Show, up for grabs for five<br />
lucky winners.<br />
With the latest in seasonal food from Lichfield chef<br />
Jack Dubberley, plus fashion, beauty and interiors<br />
trends to update your home, wardrobe and more,<br />
there’s plenty going on here at <strong>J’AIME</strong> this spring!<br />
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FEATURE<br />
An inspiring swim to victory<br />
A FILM CELEBRATING THE FIRST BRITISH WOMAN TO SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL<br />
HAS BEEN RELEASED TO MARK INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY THIS MONTH - WITH<br />
KEY SCENES FILMED AROUND THE MIDLANDS. AMY NORBURY CAUGHT UP WITH<br />
VINDICATION SWIM WRITER AND DIRECTOR ELLIOTT HASLER TO DISCOVER MORE<br />
VINDICATION SWIM TELLS THE<br />
STORY OF CHANNEL SWIMMER<br />
MERCEDES GLEITZE<br />
In celebration of International Women’s Day on<br />
March 8, the much-anticipated biopic Vindication<br />
Swim hit cinemas across the UK, taking a deep<br />
dive into the extraordinary life of Mercedes Gleitze,<br />
who became the first British woman to swim the<br />
English Channel in 1927. The film depicts Mercedes’<br />
upstream struggle in overcoming both the cold<br />
waters of the English Channel and the oppressive<br />
society of 1920s England. However, after a rival<br />
comes forward claiming to have accomplished the<br />
same feat, Mercedes is forced into battle to retain her<br />
record and her legacy.<br />
Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker<br />
Elliott Hasler, Vindication Swim stars British-Irish<br />
actress Kirsten Callaghan in her debut role as<br />
Mercedes Gleitze, as well as Darkest Hour and The<br />
Favourite star John Locke as Gleitze’s trainer Harold<br />
Best, alongside Gosford Park’s James Wilby and<br />
Douglas Hodge, star of Joker, The Great and Black<br />
Mirror.<br />
Notably, key portions of the film were shot at the<br />
Aston University Swimming Pool, the Grade II listed<br />
gothic renaissance Moseley Road Baths, and the<br />
Black Country Living Museum, adding a local touch<br />
to this global tale of determination and triumph.<br />
This connection not only adds a layer of authenticity<br />
to the film, but also reinforces the West Midlands’<br />
place in the broader narrative of Gleitze’s incredible<br />
life.<br />
“”I stumbled across the story around five or six years<br />
ago, and I was just taken by it,” explains writer and<br />
director Elliott Hasler. “Mercedes was an incredible<br />
woman, and so inspiring, so that just drew me into<br />
her story.<br />
“We’re also both from Brighton, which gave me a<br />
strong connection to Mercedes, as well as the fact<br />
that we were born exactly a century apart, so there’s<br />
a nice synergy. I felt a connection with her from the<br />
start.”<br />
Vindication Swim is the result of a several-years-long<br />
passion project for 23-year-old Elliott. But the shoot<br />
didn’t get off to the best start.<br />
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“The challenge of filming out at sea was integral<br />
to the project; filming at sea is incredibly difficult,<br />
and the challenge of going out there and doing<br />
everything in the most realistic way possible was a<br />
very interesting aspect of the film for me too,” Elliott<br />
says.<br />
“But on the first day of filming out at sea, everyone<br />
was really badly seasick. Conditions weren’t<br />
quite good enough to go out but we didn’t have<br />
the experience at that point so we went out, and<br />
the waves were pretty big, and two or three days<br />
afterwards people still felt ill from the motion<br />
sickness!<br />
“That day was very challenging, and none of it<br />
ended up in the film, so it was just a learning curve.<br />
But we realised how it was when you’re filming out at<br />
sea and could put in measures to help.<br />
“We had a great crew and a great cast, and everyone<br />
was willing to give their all to make this story come<br />
alive. It’s dangerous filming out at sea, and everyone<br />
needs to be in sync and work towards the same goal.<br />
“You have the weather to contend with, the swell, the<br />
tides, so it has to be a well-oiled machine - which it<br />
was by the end!”<br />
Taking the lead role in the biopic is Kirsten<br />
Callaghan in her feature debut, who has garnered<br />
critical acclaim for her portrayal as Mercedes.<br />
“We held an open casting call for Mercedes, and had<br />
a few different actresses audition for the role, but<br />
Kirsten Callaghan came in and it was just uncanny,”<br />
says Elliott. “She looks exactly like Mercedes,<br />
they’re nearly identical, and she just embodied the<br />
character traits we were looking for, that sense of<br />
determination, resilience and perseverance. All of<br />
those things that Mercedes had, Kirsten shares and<br />
could bring to the film. It was a no-brainer - Kirsten<br />
was the only real choice for the role.”<br />
Impressively, Kirsten performed all of her own stunts<br />
in the water, undertaking a gruelling three-month<br />
KIRSTEN CALLAGHAN<br />
AS MERCEDES GLEITZE.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER STUDIO ESSY<br />
DIRECTOR ELLIOTT HASLER.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHER MARTIN TOMES<br />
training schedule before filming began.<br />
“Everything within those swimming sequences is<br />
real, not tanks, or blue screens, or body doubles,”<br />
says Elliott. “It was our aim to really submerge the<br />
audience into the waters of the Channel, so they feel<br />
as if they are swimming alongside Mercedes on her<br />
incredible journey and get to share in her love affair<br />
with the water.<br />
“Kirsten was adamant that this was the best way to<br />
represent Mercedes, her spirit and who she was, and<br />
I think that comes across in the film - you can tell<br />
that everything is real. It’s as close to a recreation of<br />
Mercedes’ actual swim you can get.”<br />
With the majority of the action taking place<br />
outdoors, and more so at sea, the great - or not-sogreat<br />
- British weather had a vital role to play.<br />
“Sometimes we’d go out there and get two<br />
shots before the weather would change<br />
and we’d have to come back in; other days<br />
we’d be on the dock and the weather would<br />
change before we’d even finished loading the<br />
boats so we wouldn’t make it out that day,”<br />
says Elliott. “It was very difficult, but when<br />
everything came together and we had these<br />
magical days when we could get all the shots<br />
we needed, it was incredibly rewarding.”<br />
“And because of the nature of filming out<br />
at sea, we could only do it in the summer<br />
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months, so it took three<br />
consecutive years to get<br />
everything we needed.<br />
The weather wasn’t great<br />
in a couple of those years<br />
so we missed a whole<br />
month here and there.<br />
It was tough, but people<br />
were great about keeping<br />
their schedule’s free so we<br />
could pick up - COVID<br />
actually helped with that<br />
because no-one was going<br />
on holiday!”<br />
But Vindication Swim’s filming schedule started just<br />
before COVID forced the country into a shutdown<br />
- meaning production was a stop-start process,<br />
shutting down three times with various lockdowns<br />
and setting production back by around a year.<br />
“It was a challenging film for many reasons,” says<br />
Elliott. “It’s an independent film so everything was<br />
done on a budget, we didn’t spend much money<br />
but needed to still do everything in the best way to<br />
honour Mercedes and her incredible achievements.”<br />
One of Mercedes’ standout achievements in the<br />
Midlands took place between July 18 and 19, 1930,<br />
when she completed a mammoth 39-hour endurance<br />
swim at Wolverhampton’s Municipal Baths,<br />
witnessed by more than 5,000 people.<br />
“Spectators came in and lined the poolside just to<br />
watch Mercedes swim for hours and hours,” says<br />
Elliott.<br />
“It was great to bring Mercedes back to the areas<br />
VINDICATION SWIM IS IN<br />
CINEMAS NOW<br />
ACTORS KIRSTEN CALLAGHAN<br />
AND JOHN LOCKE<br />
she swam in nearly a century ago. We had a lot of<br />
support from all of the locations we filmed in; we<br />
did some scenes in Aston at the university swimming<br />
pool, which is a lovely pool so it looks amazing in the<br />
film.<br />
“We also filmed at the Black Country Living<br />
Museum and they were so great there; it’s a fantastic<br />
location - they use it in Peaky Blinders, so it was a<br />
great place to film. You’re immediately immersed<br />
in the 1920s and that world, so once you fill it with<br />
all the extras it’s so cool, it looks like you’ve stepped<br />
back in time. As a director watching it through the<br />
viewfinder it was a really cool experience.<br />
“We filmed all of our scenes there in one day, and<br />
there were about ten scenes to film, so it was a long<br />
day but it was definitely a highlight of the shoot.”<br />
Following her Channel feat, Mercedes also became<br />
the first person to complete many other incredible<br />
swims around the world, including the Straits of<br />
Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the distance between<br />
Robben Island and Cape Town.<br />
As we celebrate International Women’s Day,<br />
Vindication Swim serves as a poignant reminder of<br />
the indomitable spirit of a woman who dared to<br />
dream beyond the confines of her era.<br />
The film’s release will be accompanied by a Q and<br />
A tour by Elliott and key cast members, which<br />
invites Midlands audiences to pay homage to a<br />
local connection that shaped Gleitze’s remarkable<br />
legacy. Whether you’re a history enthusiast, a<br />
sports fan, or simply someone seeking inspiration,<br />
Vindication Swim promises a cinematic experience<br />
that celebrates not only the achievements of<br />
Mercedes Gleitze, but also the collective strength and<br />
determination of women who have left an indelible<br />
mark on our world.<br />
Vindication Swim is in cinemas nationwide<br />
now. For more details visit<br />
www.vindicationswimfilm.com<br />
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FEATURE<br />
A literary celebration<br />
LICHFIELD FESTIVAL’S FOUR-DAY LITERATURE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE CITY FROM <strong>MARCH</strong><br />
21 TO 24, WITH A FABULOUSLY FULL LONG WEEKEND TO CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD<br />
There are best-selling authors from the worlds<br />
of history, politics, economics, the natural world<br />
and current affairs, plus new fiction, memoir and<br />
biography for Lichfield audiences to immerse<br />
themselves in as Lichfield Literature Festival returns<br />
to the city this month.<br />
Guest authors who will be taking to the stage in a<br />
superb series of events in the centre of Lichfield,<br />
at The George Hotel, The Hub at St Mary’s and<br />
the Garrick Theatre include former BBC journalist<br />
Rory Cellan-Jones, whose memoir Ruskin Park is a<br />
heartfelt account of a family mystery with a shoe box<br />
of letters as clues.<br />
Festival favourite - and the Festival Writer/Historian<br />
in Residence <strong>2024</strong> - Alison Weir brings the middle<br />
book of her Sunday Times best-selling Tudor<br />
Rose trilogy to Lichfield, while Ian Dunt digs<br />
deep into our political system and its never-ending<br />
machinations in How Westminster Works...and Why<br />
It Doesn’t.<br />
Two books look at the English and US Civil Wars<br />
respectively, as popular historian Jessie Childs (The<br />
Siege of Loyalty House) makes a first visit to the<br />
Festival, joined by the returning Peter Moore (Life,<br />
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness).<br />
Former BBC Radio 4 Today editor, Sarah Sands,<br />
also returns to Lichfield with her natural world<br />
and memoir crossover The Hedgehog Diaries, and<br />
there is more from the animal world as Rosamund<br />
Young, author of a Times’ book of year, The Secret<br />
Life of Cows, turns her attention to The Wisdom<br />
of Sheep and Other Animals. In fiction, there is<br />
much anticipation over the new release Small Hours<br />
by Bobby Palmer, whose Isaac and the Egg was a<br />
smash-hit in 2022/23.<br />
The Festival also welcomes Bob Cryer, son of<br />
comedy legend Barry Cryer, who reveals the story<br />
of the man behind the jokes in his memoir Same<br />
Time Tomorrow? and, in a joint event with the<br />
Lichfield Garrick Theatre to close the Festival, Nick<br />
Wallis, one of the journalists at the forefront of the<br />
Horizon investigation, takes the stage to discuss the<br />
jaw-dropping miscarriage of justice that is The Post<br />
TRACY BORMAN IS THE NEW<br />
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Office Scandal – The Inside Story.<br />
Lichfield Festival is also delighted to announce its<br />
newest patron, author, Tudor historian, broadcaster<br />
and joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces,<br />
Tracy Borman.<br />
Damian Thantrey, Lichfield Festival director, said:<br />
“Tracy has been a regular and much-loved visitor to<br />
both our Literature and Summer Festivals in recent<br />
seasons, and we were very proud to have her as our<br />
Festival Writer/Historian in Residence in 2023.<br />
Despite her extremely busy and ever-growing career,<br />
she still always finds time to come to support our<br />
Festival – her every event is a guaranteed sell-out,<br />
and we are thrilled that she has agreed to become a<br />
Festival Patron.”<br />
Tracy Borman added: “It is such an honour to be<br />
invited to become a Festival Patron and means a<br />
great deal to me, given how close the Festival - and<br />
the city - are to my heart. Lichfield Festival is already<br />
such a huge success, and I will look forward both to<br />
taking part in future events and shouting about it<br />
from the rooftops!”<br />
Lichfield Literature Festival runs from<br />
March 21 to 24. For tickets and more details<br />
visit www.lichfieldfestival.org or call 01543<br />
306271.<br />
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FEATURE<br />
An evening with The Coral<br />
IT WAS DESCRIBED BY NME AS BEING THE FUNNIEST, MOST REFRESHING BRITISH DEBUT IN<br />
YEARS, AND MORE THAN TWO DECADES LATER, LIVERPOOL BAND THE CORAL’S EPONYMOUS<br />
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Sonically unique, wilfully leftfield and<br />
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a remarkable debut that has proved to be<br />
timeless.<br />
And now, some 22 years on, that record<br />
sounds as fresh as it did when it was released<br />
in July 2002. Produced by the Lightning Seeds’<br />
frontman Ian Broudie, the band’s sojourn into<br />
psychedelia and folk rock was refreshing and<br />
inventive, compelling and precocious. It helped<br />
to change the musical landscape, while also<br />
adding The Coral’s name to the remarkable<br />
inventory of classic British beat bands from<br />
Liverpool – a catalogue that began with The Beatles,<br />
in whose famed Cavern Club The Coral cut their<br />
teeth.<br />
And now, singer-songwriter James Skelly and<br />
keyboardist Nick Power will be reflecting on<br />
their debut in an intimate evening of music and<br />
conversation at the Lichfield Garrick on March 29.<br />
James Skelly reflects on the band’s roots on The<br />
Wirral: “We’d stand on the beach and if we looked<br />
one way it would be Wales then you’d look in the<br />
other direction and see Liverpool. That sense of<br />
identity was important. We thought that if we could<br />
bring those two things together, nobody had really<br />
done that.<br />
“There was the rebellion between the two of them –<br />
Wales and Liverpool. There was this quirkiness and<br />
uncool thing. It was almost the opposite of London,<br />
almost the opposite of bands like Radiohead. Not<br />
that there was anything wrong with Radiohead, they<br />
were a genius band, but I remember at the time that<br />
they seemed like this big prog band and we wanted<br />
to be the opposite of that. We wanted to bring the<br />
Welsh psyche thing and the Liverpool thing together,<br />
the skiffle thing. We wanted that wackiness and<br />
psychedelia with that hillbilly thing of the Welsh.”<br />
THE CORAL’S EPONYMOUS DEBUT<br />
ALBUM WILL BE BROUGHT TO LIFE<br />
AT THE GARRICK THIS MONTH<br />
Universal acclaim followed, while BRIT Award<br />
and Mercury Music Prize nominations were duly<br />
conferred. The Coral raced to number five in<br />
the chart, while also charting in France, Ireland,<br />
Japan, Scotland, and the US. The band toured the<br />
UK twice while also supporting Pulp and Oasis.<br />
V Festival was next on their list as the band’s<br />
second single, Dreaming Of You, helped provide a<br />
breakthrough.<br />
Two decades provide perspective, of course, and The<br />
Coral holds up remarkably well – a testament to the<br />
band’s invention.<br />
James says: “We found an identity together. We just<br />
clicked. By the time it came to making an album it<br />
was almost telepathic. We almost lived like a mini<br />
cult. We just did the album ourselves. In some ways,<br />
the album was almost an afterthought. Making a<br />
record wasn’t even really discussed, really. It was just<br />
telepathic.<br />
“We were very different. That was our thing. When<br />
we’re at our best that is our thing. Maybe it’s not the<br />
thing that sells most records but that’s our thing.”<br />
Join James Skelly and Nick Power for an<br />
evening at Lichfield Garrick on Friday,<br />
March 29. For more details visit www.<br />
lichfieldgarrick.com<br />
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PROPERTY<br />
Property news<br />
JAMES GREAVES, DIRECTOR AT JAYMAN LETTINGS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT<br />
IN LICHFIELD, SHARES HIS TOP TIPS FOR RENTING OUT YOUR PROPERTY<br />
The demand for property to rent is at a historic high<br />
at present. With mortgage borrowing costs still at<br />
high levels and landlords having held off from buying<br />
in case of further drops in house prices, the supply<br />
of available property to let has reduced dramatically.<br />
The consequence of this imbalance is that rents<br />
have increased very quickly across the whole market.<br />
Many properties are now achieving rents 15 to 20<br />
per cent higher than in 2022.<br />
For landlords, this is good news as the return on<br />
investment is increasing and for those who are in a<br />
position to now purchase another buy-to-let, they can<br />
do with knowing that the average property now takes<br />
three to seven days to go under offer from a would-be<br />
tenant – and often for above the asking rent.<br />
For tenants, this means competition when you are<br />
looking for a property is fierce. My advice would be<br />
to ensure you have all your supporting documents<br />
(proof of earnings, previous landlord references)<br />
lined up and that you monitor Rightmove closely for<br />
new properties coming on the market.<br />
When you see a property you like, bear in mind that<br />
you are competing with many others and you should<br />
be as flexible as possible to attend a viewing at the<br />
earliest chance. If the property is the one for you, I<br />
would advise you to apply immediately with all your<br />
supporting documents and follow up with a call to<br />
the agent to ensure your application is complete and<br />
no information is missing.<br />
Also keep an eye on the date the property becomes<br />
available to move in. A landlord will want it occupied<br />
as close to this date as possible, meaning if you can’t<br />
leave your existing property until a few weeks after<br />
this date, you are likely to miss out. Many applicants<br />
now, in order to secure the property, find themselves<br />
signing papers and starting to pay rent on their new<br />
property while still having a week or two to also pay<br />
on their existing one.<br />
We work with landlords across Staffordshire and the<br />
West Midlands to help advise on the current market<br />
rent to ensure you are achieving the best rent given<br />
this current market imbalance. We also have over<br />
200 pre-vetted tenants seeking property to let so<br />
please get in touch if we can assist you with finding<br />
your new tenant.<br />
PROPERTY OF<br />
THE MONTH<br />
Melrose Avenue, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6NT: £1,500 pcm<br />
On the market with Jayman Lettings and Property Management: 01543 417559<br />
A three-bedroom detached bungalow with large driveway, garage and rear garden, available to rent now.<br />
For further information or to arrange a viewing, contact Jayman Lettings and Property Management.<br />
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Multi-Award<br />
Winning Agency<br />
Covering: Four Oaks, Lichfield and surrounding areas<br />
Jayman Lettings have just won The British Property<br />
Lettings Award for Lichfield!<br />
Their team performed outstandingly throughout the extensive judging period,<br />
which focused on customer service levels.<br />
Jayman Lettings have now been shortlisted for a number of national awards<br />
which will be announced shortly.<br />
The British Property Awards provide agents throughout the UK with an<br />
invaluable opportunity to compare the service that they provide against the<br />
service provided by their local, regional and national competition.<br />
Agents who go that extra mile and provide outstanding levels of customer<br />
service are rewarded with our accolade, which acts as a beacon to highlight<br />
these attributes to their local marketplace.<br />
FREE LANDLORD INFORMATION PACK with tips and advice on renting out<br />
your property. Contact us on 01543 417 559 or email lettings@jayman.co.uk<br />
and we will send one to you straight away and answer any other questions<br />
you may have regarding letting out a property.<br />
James Greaves LLB<br />
Director
PROPERTY<br />
Community living in style<br />
OFFERING STYLISH LIVING IN A THRIVING COMMUNITY FOR THE OVER 60S,<br />
PEGASUS LICHFIELD BONDS IS HOSTING A GRAND LAUNCH EVENT FOR<br />
PROSPECTIVE HOMEOWNERS AND TENANTS THIS SPRING<br />
Pegasus Lichfield Bonds is a stylish<br />
collection of independent living<br />
apartments for those enjoying life over<br />
60. The show homes are now open<br />
to give you an insight into life in this<br />
modern and thriving new community.<br />
Pegasus Lichfield Bonds enjoys a<br />
prime location, offering beautiful<br />
views across the treasured landmark,<br />
Lichfield Cathedral. Just a stone’s<br />
throw away through Cross Keys you’ll<br />
find Lichfield Market Square, which<br />
hosts vibrant markets throughout<br />
the week, including the popular<br />
Farmer’s Market. Lichfield also has<br />
the additional benefit of being very<br />
well connected. You can catch a train<br />
to London and arrive in 95 minutes or<br />
Birmingham in 35 minutes. The M6<br />
is close by making it just an hour to<br />
Leicester, Loughborough or Derby.<br />
The new community spreads across three buildings<br />
and offers a mixture of one and two-bedroom<br />
modern apartments. Pegasus Lichfield Bonds boasts<br />
a communal lounge, social kitchen, patio seating<br />
areas and a communal garden.<br />
Each home is designed to the highest standard, with<br />
built-in appliances in every kitchen and luxurious<br />
bathroom fittings. Flooded with natural light,<br />
spacious living areas are perfect for hosting family<br />
and friends, who are welcome to spend a night in<br />
the community by staying in the purpose-built guest<br />
suite.<br />
Construction of the third building at Lichfield Bonds<br />
completed in March, and prospective homeowners<br />
are invited to join the grand launch event from<br />
12-3pm on April 17. Enjoy complimentary drinks<br />
and canapes as the pegasus Lichfield Bonds team<br />
celebrates the completion of the homes and<br />
communal spaces, and welcomes the people of<br />
Lichfield to look around and get a feel for life with<br />
Pegasus Homes.<br />
Prices for the luxurious apartments start from<br />
£300,000, with apartments available to rent from<br />
£1,850 pcm.<br />
Register now to join the event and the<br />
celebration of this new community at<br />
pegasushomes.co.uk/pegasus-lichfieldbonds,<br />
email lichfieldbonds@lifestory.group<br />
or call 01543 648728.<br />
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INTERIORS<br />
Time<br />
for tea<br />
REFRESH your space and add a little more zen into your<br />
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As we head into the season of new beginnings, green<br />
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And one of this year’s most on-trend green hues is the<br />
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Queens, Emperors and the masses alike.<br />
Light, pastel green shades offer an airy feeling to any<br />
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Drench your walls in green tea and, to make a real impact<br />
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AND GREEN COLOUR BLOCKS AND IL GIARDINO DEI<br />
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PIANCA NAAN ARMCHAIR, AVAILABLE FROM<br />
BLEND INTERIORS, SUTTON COLDFIELD.<br />
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OLIVE GREEN VELVET THROW,<br />
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IDRA WALL LIGHT IN AGED BRONZE AND<br />
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EVIE VASE, SPICER AND WOOD.<br />
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PHOENIX WOOL RUG, £360, FROM<br />
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INTERIORS<br />
Elevated<br />
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RAISE the bar at your next dinner party with some fresh<br />
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Bring your entertaining A game by going beyond the<br />
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Start with the foundations and ensure your entertaining<br />
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LASKASAS KELLY DINING TABLE, £POA,<br />
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Little Bath & Body Barn<br />
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Browse our website to view more of our featured artists work.<br />
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NOW. THIS MONTH, IT’S THE SEASON OF ABUNDANCE FOR WILD GARLIC<br />
As winter finally gives way to warmer climes,<br />
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“The best time to get it is now, because it’s the<br />
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can use garlic, you can replace it with wild garlic,”<br />
says Jack.<br />
“The first thing to do is just use the leaves as a veg<br />
JACK’S SIGNATURE WILD<br />
GARLIC POPCORN<br />
WILD GARLIC IS IN<br />
ABUNDANCE LOCALLY<br />
NOW - AND CAN BE<br />
USED IN SO MANY WAYS<br />
replacement. Add a few leaves to your plate as a<br />
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One of Jack’s signature dishes is a delectable wild<br />
garlic popcorn, which features as a snack on many of<br />
his fine dining menus, while wild garlic pesto, oil and<br />
mayonnaise are all firm favourites too.<br />
“You could make a really rustic mayo by running<br />
finely chopped wild garlic through a plain<br />
mayonnaise, or you could use wild garlic oil instead<br />
of regular oil when making mayo,” says Jack. “Or for<br />
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“It’s delicious with prawns, and amazing on<br />
buttermilk chicken for a delicious burger, which is<br />
A TASTY MORSEL OF PRAWN WITH<br />
WILD GARLIC MAYO AND PICKLED<br />
WILD GARLIC BUDS<br />
something we did a couple of years ago when we did<br />
our barbeque season.”<br />
Apart from the leaves, you can use wild garlic<br />
flowers, buds and capers as the season progresses,<br />
says Jack. The buds and capers are particularly good<br />
for pickling and using later in the year, while the<br />
flowers are lovely as a delicate garnish and for a burst<br />
of garlic flavour in salads.<br />
Wild garlic pesto<br />
Ingredients:<br />
200g wild garlic leaves<br />
150g pine nuts or cashews, toasted and cooled<br />
150ml neutral oil such as vegetable or rapeseed - you<br />
may require more oil depending on your desired<br />
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100g grated parmesan<br />
WILD GARLIC PESTO<br />
Pesto is a really simple sauce which can be made in<br />
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2 whole eggs<br />
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125g butter, melted<br />
5 tbsp white wine vinegar<br />
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4-5 black peppercorns<br />
1 bay leaf<br />
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2 slices prosciutto<br />
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In 2050, neuroscientist Dame Julia Anderton is about to launch the next phase of her pioneering<br />
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WHEN: UNTIL <strong>APRIL</strong> 7<br />
One of the most successful musicals of all time, Wicked has been casting its magical spell around<br />
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WHAT: SHREK THE MUSICAL<br />
WHERE: THE ALEXANDRA THEATRE, BIRMINGHAM<br />
WHEN: <strong>APRIL</strong> 9 TO 146<br />
Join Shrek and his trusty sidekick Donkey as they set out on a quest to defeat the fearsome<br />
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The stellar cast is led by theatre legend Antony Lawrence as Shrek, whose powerful voice<br />
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WHAT: COPPELIA<br />
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WHEN: <strong>APRIL</strong> 16<br />
See Coppelia as you’ve never seen her before! Following sold-out performances in<br />
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This retelling explores eccentric toy maker Dr Coppelius’ intent behind creating a life-size<br />
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of villagers and on Swanhilda’s relationship with her fiancé, Franz.<br />
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WHAT: ST GEORGE’S DAY EXTRAVAGANZA<br />
WHERE: TAMWORTH CASTLE GROUNDS<br />
WHEN: <strong>APRIL</strong> 20<br />
The countdown is on to Tamworth’s free annual St George’s festival with lots of<br />
entertainment and activities on offer for the whole family. Medieval fun, sporting activities<br />
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April 20, from 11am to 5pm.<br />
With thousands of people flocking to the grounds each year for Tamworth Borough<br />
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at www.tamworthartsandevents.co.uk.<br />
WHAT: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL - OVO<br />
WHERE: UTILITA ARENA BIRMINGHAM<br />
WHEN: <strong>APRIL</strong> 25 TO 28<br />
Cirque du Soleil returns to the UK for the first time ins ix years with its newly revisited,<br />
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Through show-stopping acrobatics highlighting the unique personalities and abilities of<br />
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Wealth Matters<br />
A BI-MONTHLY LOOK AT THE WORLD OF FINANCE FROM LICHFIELD<br />
FINANCIAL ADVISER KEVIN JENKINS APFS, CERT CII(MP)<br />
TAX YEAR END PLANNING<br />
Firstly, as we close in on the end of the tax year, planning<br />
is worth considering. The tax year ends on the April 5th<br />
each year and many tax allowances are lost if not used by<br />
this date.<br />
Among these allowances is contributions to an Individual<br />
Savings Accounts (ISA). This allows each individual to<br />
invest £20,000 in either a Cash ISA or a Stocks and Shares<br />
ISA. Returns are free of income tax and capital gains tax,<br />
where applicable.<br />
It is also important to look at whether a pension<br />
contribution is suitable. Dependent on an individual’s<br />
income it could be possible to make a contribution of up<br />
to £60,000. It is also potentially possible to use unused<br />
allowances from previous tax years, going back three tax<br />
years, though the current year allowance must be used first.<br />
In terms of inheritance tax, the annual gift exemption<br />
of £3,000 is a useful way to reduce the potential of<br />
inheritance tax on an individual’s estate. It is also possible<br />
to use the previous tax years allowance, where this hasn’t<br />
been used. Inheritance tax is charged at 40% above the nil<br />
rate band and residence nil rate band (if applicable), which<br />
will vary from person to person.<br />
There are other tax allowances that can be used to benefit<br />
individuals depending on circumstances and seeking<br />
professional advice can add substantial value.<br />
PROTECTING YOUR ESTATE FROM<br />
INHERITANCE TAX<br />
If affected by Inheritance Tax then there are a myriad of<br />
options to help protect the wealth you have built up to pass<br />
on as much of it as is possible.<br />
Naturally, you can do nothing and allow your heirs to pay<br />
any tax liability due and that will be the default position<br />
for those who don’t make plans to navigate this tax, often<br />
called a tax of choice.<br />
Someone famously said, tongue in cheek, that those who<br />
don’t plan must trust the tax man more than their family/<br />
heirs.<br />
Having advised clients for more than two decades I am<br />
always quizzed about a little extra return or slightly lower<br />
charges, whilst the spectre of 40% inheritance tax looms<br />
where no planning is undertaken. In other words, making<br />
a little more each year can be scuppered by this large tax<br />
threat.<br />
WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS?<br />
For most, gifting means loss of assets they need in<br />
retirement. Ignoring the exemptions then generally<br />
surviving seven years will make gifting inheritance tax<br />
effective.<br />
Using the annual exemption of £3,000 and the most<br />
underused, ‘gift out of ordinary expenditure’ is the first<br />
place to start. The latter allows a regular gift each year and<br />
the seven year rule should not apply provided the gift is<br />
affordable and from excess income, which doesn’t affect the<br />
ability to cover ordinary expenditure.<br />
Among many other options are insurance to cover a<br />
liability, various trust solutions and reviewing the treatment<br />
of existing pension and death in service/life insurance<br />
death benefits.<br />
Many assume the latter are Inheritance tax exempt,<br />
though generally in the absence of planning, death benefits<br />
fall to a spouse/civil partner and form part of their estate<br />
for inheritance tax purposes. There is NO inheritance tax<br />
on assets passed between spouses/civil partners.<br />
IN CONCLUSION<br />
It makes sense to discuss with the family your aims and<br />
objectives and seek professional advice to determine what<br />
your options are to protect your assets from various risks<br />
including taxation.<br />
The value of an investment with St. James’s Place will be<br />
directly linked to the performance of the funds you select<br />
and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You<br />
may get back less than you invested.<br />
An investment in a Stocks and Shares ISA will not provide<br />
the same security of capital associated with a Cash ISA.<br />
The levels and bases of taxation, and reliefs from taxation,<br />
can change at any time and are generally dependent on<br />
individual circumstances.<br />
Trusts are not regulated by the Financial Conduct<br />
Authority.<br />
Please note that St. James’s Place does not offer Cash ISAs.<br />
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products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/products.<br />
SJP Approved 04/03/<strong>2024</strong><br />
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IT was only a matter of time before 2023’s most<br />
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This year will be a momentous<br />
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Mayfield Preparatory School<br />
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preparatory school for Queen<br />
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boys and girls. For many years, it has now been a<br />
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West Midlands and nationally. Mayfield is currently<br />
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Mayfield’s thriving school community is planning<br />
to mark this occasion with a range of celebrations<br />
throughout <strong>2024</strong> to commemorate the anniversary<br />
with the children, beginning with a whole school trip<br />
to the Black Country Living Museum to experience<br />
a school classroom in 1924; there will be displays of<br />
children’s work around the school reflecting upon<br />
children’s books and authors from the last 100 years;<br />
the theme of British Science Week this year is Time,<br />
providing the perfect opportunity for the children<br />
to investigate and research inventors, inventions,<br />
major events and historical figures from the last 100<br />
years; and the School Council are also planning and<br />
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always seeking to excite and stimulate the pupils, as<br />
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for their academic education, while nurturing their<br />
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for the whole school community to join in the<br />
celebrations, such as the centenary Summer Garden<br />
Party, due to take place on the spacious school fields<br />
on Saturday, June 29.<br />
The school is oversubscribed, with waiting lists<br />
in operation for the older year groups. However,<br />
there are currently still spaces in the Early Years<br />
department for children aged two to five. The school<br />
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