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BLADE Runner. The fastest man on no legs. However he is tagged, Oscar Pistorius is a man who makes history.

At about 10.40 am in the Olympic Stadium on Saturday 4 August, the South African sprinter rested his carbon fibre prosthetic feet on the blocks of lane six. He settled himself for the first heat of the men’s 400m. Seconds away from being the first amputee to compete in an Olympic

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‘CHARIOTS OF FIRE’ TAKES TO THE STAGE

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CHRISTIAN Aid is working through organisations in Metro Manila to provide food, medicines and blankets to people fleeing from floods. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants left their homes and are now staying with family and friends or at one of the evacuation centres that have been set up.

Continuous heavy rains in the Philippines led to landslides and flash floods which killed at least 19 people and left half the city under water.

Christian Aid has become

concerned about the prospect of worsening health problems among the people made homeless.

‘There are increasing reports of fever, coughs and colds which could turn into serious epidemics given the current situation,’ says Ted Bonpin of Christian Aid. ‘There are concerns too about tetanus and other infections caused by rats and snake bites.’

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THE War Cry has a selection of official Olympic and Paralympic pin badges to give away to readers who can answer the following question:

South African runner Oscar Pistorius has some words from the Bible tattooed on his shoulder blade – but what is the Bible reference?

Send your answer on a postcard to Olympic Badge Competition, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London

SE1 6BN or email your answer to warcrycomp@salvationarmy.org.uk with the subject line ‘Olympic Badge Competition’. Include your name and address in your entry.

Entries must be received by Monday 3 September. The senders of the first randomly selected 20 correct entries will receive a selection of badges. The Editor’s decision is final.

Theatre company presents ‘lost props’A THEATRE company has given The Salvation Army thousands of items that it used as props in a production. Many of the items were lost property col-lected by Transport for London, which gave them to the Manchester Library Theatre Company on the condition that they would eventually be donated to The Salvation Army.

The items formed the set and props of the theatre company’s play Manchester Lines, which was set in a lost property office.

Rachel Steward, community man-ager of The Salvation Army in Sale, said that crutches used in the play were being taken to a hospital in Zambia. Some other items were to be sold to raise money for The Salvation Army’s work.

A CHURCH in Nigeria donated food to six mosques to assist less privileged families with their post-Ramadan feasts. The Rev Yunusa Nmadu of the Evangelical Church Winning All in Tudu Nupawa, Kaduna, said: ‘We exist for the community in which our church is situated, which is 99 per cent Muslim. We seek to build trust.’

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Oscar’s achievement is worth more than a gold medal

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Africa were out of the running long before the baton was slapped into his hand for the last lap. But if it’s the taking part rather than the win-ning that is important, then Oscar’s achievement is worth more than a gold medal.

As Oscar was born without shin-bones, his legs were amputated below the knee when he was just 11 months old. While playing rugby as a 17-year-old, he smashed a knee and was ruled out of sport.

To help his rehabilitation he began running. In 2004, he won a school 100m race nearly half a second faster than the Paralympic record. Later that year, equipped with his ‘Cheetah’ legs, he set a Paralympic world record in the 200m.

Four years later in the Beijing Paralympics, he won the 100, 200 and 400m, setting a world record of 47.49 seconds in the 400.

The bigger challenge, though, was to convince the authorities that the Cheetahs did not mean he was a cheater. Only after he showed that

the blades do not give him an advan-tage was he allowed to compete with able-bodied athletes. And then all he had to do was to run a qualifying time!

Oscar, who is due to run at the Paralympics in London, does not regard himself as disabled.

‘We make this huge thing out of a disability,’ he says on YouTube. ‘I am not disabled in any manner. I’ve never seen myself as being worse or better off. Physically speaking, I do more than 99 per cent of the world.’

Spiritually speaking, it is worth noting the tattoo on his left blade – shoulder blade. It is a quote of some lines from the Bible, which in one translation read: ‘I do not run

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like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize’ (1 Corinthians 9:26, 27 New International Version).

The verses speak about the dis-cipline needed to win the big prize. The writer, Paul, is looking further afield than an athletics field. His goal is the glory of a place, not in the finals, nor in history, but in Heaven.

He knows the obstacles, doubts and temptations that life throws up. He knows it is easy to be distracted. To lose focus. To settle for an easy life. To follow selfish desires rather

than the way Jesus set out. Making that first step of

faith – confessing our sin to God and asking his forgive-ness – is not the whole nine yards. It is those who go the distance – starting with God again, if necessary – who will hear him say: ‘Well done!’

Games, he went on the B of the bang.It looked like a stroll in the Olympic Park.Easing up before the line, he recorded a season’s

best of 45.44 and beat three other athletes to finish second. He was through to the semi-finals.

The next day in the semis, though, he ran out of road – finishing last behind the eventual Olympic

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But apparently film-makers changed her character so that her role could represent Eric’s conscience. By dis-approving of his running, Jennie is displaying that there was a part of Eric which was always saying: “Are you doing the right thing?”’

Natasha also had to get to grips with Christianity. As she had no religious background of her own to draw on, she asked different people about their experience of faith and what it meant to them.

‘I got mixed responses,’ she reveals. ‘Some people said their religious upbringing was really rigid and they found it oppressing. Others said that they took strength from their faith and that it helped them to be more generous.

‘I don’t think people talk much about spirituality these days, so it was nice when they opened up to me. Their responses also made me consider my own beliefs. I have a lot of respect for people of faith who are trying to work

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NATASHA BROOMFIELD saw the film Chariots of

Fire a long time ago. She enjoyed it. But she could not have expect-ed that one day she would be performing the story on stage at London’s Gielgud Theatre.

‘I play Eric Liddell’s sister, Jennie,’ says Natasha. ‘She’s lively, passionate and con-stantly striving to be a better person. She cares a great deal about other people and works at a Christian mission to help them.’

Like the film, the play focuses on the life of devout missionary and runner Eric Liddell and his refusal to run on a Sunday at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. Although he and Jennie have a close relationship, tensions arise when Jennie feels that her brother is putting his love for running above his commitment to God.

‘Eric and Jennie share a passion for doing God’s work, but they differ in their interpreta-tions of how to do it best,’ says Natasha. ‘Jennie has found that she feels close to God through her missionary work, so when Eric stops doing so much of that in order to concentrate on his running, she can’t get her head round it. She doesn’t understand that by running, Eric is still worshipping God, just in a different way.

‘I also think Jennie feels that she and her brother are growing apart – and that hurts her. It’s painful when someone you love no longer wants to do the same things as you. And when Eric chooses to run – rather than focus on the mission – his decision challenges everything that Jennie holds dear.’

To get into her role, Natasha did some research into the life of the real Jennie Liddell. She made some surprising discoveries.

‘In real life Jennie didn’t disagree with Eric’s racing,’ she says. ‘She was totally up for it.

Eric Liddell (Jack Lowden, left) competes with Harold Abrahams (James McArdle), and (right) Natasha as Jennie Liddell

NATASHA BROOMFIELD tells Claire Brine about playing Eric Liddell’s sister on stage

out how to live the best way.’As Natasha discovered more about

faith, she began to understand the different attitudes that Eric and Jennie have towards it.

‘Eric has a real ease with his faith,’ she says. ‘He gets joy from it, by running. I don’t think Jennie connects with that idea quite so well. She does God’s work at the mission

– but such work doesn’t have to result in her suffering. Suffering is not what God wants. Life is

meant to be joy-ful. I think Eric under-

stands that a bit better.’The story of Eric Liddell – who, after his running

career, spent the rest of his

life working as a missionary in China – has been inspiring people for decades. Natasha explains why she thinks his story has so much influence.

‘It’s not every day that we see a person who is prepared to deny them-

selves an instant suc-cess because they are holding out for something greater than glory. Eric’s sacrifices and the way he achieves success in spite of his chal-lenges is inspiring.

‘I love the question that comes up in the

play: “Why do you run?” Eric runs not for himself, but to feel closer to God. And the same type of question can be applied to all of us. Why do any of us do the things that we do? When we are up against huge challenges, when we have failed, what is it that makes us get back up and keep going?’

Towards the end of the play, Eric’s rival Harold Abrahams is called the ‘faster’ runner, but Eric is labelled the ‘better’ runner. Natasha suggests why this could be the case.

‘Eric runs to celebrate something greater than himself,’ she says. ‘He isn’t out to prove anything. He runs with an incredibly generous spirit. Eric doesn’t care about ego. That’s what’s exceptional about him.’

Chariots of Fire is scheduled to run until 10 November. Natasha says that performing during the Olympics was particularly exciting for the cast.

‘Watching real athletes during the day got us in the mood for perform-ing at night,’ she says. ‘It helped to bring Eric’s story alive. It’s wonderful being able to go on stage and celebrate a man who didn’t focus on acquiring individual glory, but cared more about giving to other people.’

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PUTTING on the York Mystery Plays was ‘a tremendous act of faith’ and is ‘richly rewarded’, reported The Daily Telegraph in its review of the production and its cast of 500 volunteers.

According to the paper, the production made up of Bible stories – in which former Coronation Street actor Graeme Hawley (pictured) plays Satan – is a ‘spectacle … [and] rivals the Olympics for sheer theatrical heft’.

The review went on to say that the event is ‘piercingly moving’ and ‘brave’ in the way that it ‘takes on huge theologi-cal questions’.

The plays are staged

at the York Museum Gardens until Monday 27 August. The city has been putting on mystery plays since the 14th-century.

THE production company which makes the BBC TV series Rev could ‘take the adventures of Adam Smallbone … to the big screen’, reported The Guardian. In an interview with the paper, Kenton Allen, chief executive of Big Talk Productions, said that, were the title to be made into a film, the action

would not be transferred to Hollywood. The paper also said Allen was ‘discussing an American version of Rev’.

A BROTHER and sister presented features and conducted interviews on Premier Christian Radio after winning a competition.

Ten-year-old Matt and 12-year-old Emma Westray from Croydon beat 50 other pre-teens to get the chance to work for the station during the school holidays.

The siblings – who aimed to provide a kid’s-eye view of the world and current events – are pictured with breakfast show host John Pantry.

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LIKE this year’s summer, the Olympic Games were a long time coming and didn’t last for long. But in spite of wall-to-wall coverage of them, the inevitable still happened. Buried beneath swaths of reports of athletes’ emotional reactions to winning a medal (and narrowly missing out or being disqualified), the surefire shoots of the silly season appeared in the Metro newspaper. And it was a traditional seasonal favourite – the face of Jesus.

According to the commuter paper, ‘the “face of Jesus Christ” has been spotted in the middle of a tree trunk and is beginning to attract a large number of visitors in Northern Ireland’.

The ‘likeness’, the paper continued, is on a hewn tree-stump in Belfast City Cemetery. Crowds were said to be ‘flocking’ to see it, and some people have been reportedly praying beside the tree.

UnexpectedTo remind readers that this is not

the first time the divine image had appeared, it offered the ‘Top five unexpected appearances of Jesus’. The list included Jesus in a Marmite lid, a Google map image and a pancake. A seasoned watcher could also add Jesus in beer froth and on a crisp. Unexpected, definitely.

So where do we expect the real Jesus to appear – if not physically, then spiritually?

Many people believe that the sun shines on the righteous – that Jesus is interested only in good, charitable churchgoers. Religious people.

That’s not so. The Bible records that Jesus spent a lot of his limited time with people who were valued less than others by society – children, women, foreigners, ill people.

He appeared to them and changed their lives.

He values everybody – nobody is outside the love of his Father, God. That’s the whole point of him appearing in the first place. And why his body is not to be found in a cemetery or anywhere else.

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WAITERS clock up an average of 22,778 steps a day, according to research by diet consultants Jenny Craig. The findings show that waiters are among the fittest workers because their job includes a huge amount of incidental exercise.

Using pedometers to track 100 Australians in ten occupations, the weight-management specialists investigated how many steps people take throughout a working day.

By walking the hospital corridors at an average of 1,088 steps per hour over 12-hour shifts, nurses came second with 16,390 steps a day.

Retail workers came third, taking14,660 steps a day.

In contrast, people working in call centres took a mere 6,618 steps.

Jenny Craig spokesperson Nathan Johnson says: ‘To get the basic benefits of physical activity, such as improved heart health, lower cholesterol levels and a boost in wellbeing, we should be aiming to take a minimum of 10,000 steps a day.

‘But people who are trying to lose weight may need to walk between 12,000 and 15,000 steps a day.’

On average, people in the UK spend six hours a week doing sports and other exercise. People working in construction

and engineering, retail, wholesale and transport report spending about five hours a week being physically active.

Those working in legal occupations and human resources claim to be the most active, spending seven hours a week on physical activity.

The research supports the idea that you don’t need to spend hours in the gym to exercise – you can incorporate activity into your daily routine.

Jenny Craig makes these suggestions for including fitness in the working day:

1. Instead of emailing or phoning your colleagues, get out of your seat and visit them.

2. Walk to work or get off the train or bus one stop early.

3. Opt for the stairs instead of lifts or escalators.

4. Go for a walk during your lunch break.

5. Have standing or walking meetings with your colleagues.

6. Wear a pedometer to help you reach your daily step target.

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Lifestyle

…and workAS there is so much competition in the jobs market, it is essential that your application for a vacancy stands out from the others. Developing a CV is more than just filling in boxes in a template.

Your CV needs to look professional and be easy to read. It should paint a good picture of your personality and be free of irrelevant information.

Your CV needs to stand out from the crowd for the right reasons. No CV ever got anyone a job – but a good CV has opened the door to many an interview.

Do not use coloured paper, fancy boxes and ornate typefaces – they don’t create the right look. The same rule applies for handwritten CVs on lined paper.

A word-processed or desktop-published CV will not get you invited to an interview if it is an endless list of examination passes with grades and a full list of all modules taken in a degree course.

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employer wants to know how you will do the job that has been advertised.

It is good to illustrate how you have done a similar or complementary job for another employer – how you have increased business, customer loyalty, sales and staff morale.

Point out that even the part-time jobs that you may have done after school hours or during holidays were not just to get a bit of extra spending money, but an introduction to the world of work.

Previous work shows how you have been acquiring the know-how required to run a business, offering and providing proper customer care, learning to work as a member of a team and beginning to stand on your own two feet.

Think of your CV as a self-assessment document which you send to someone to consider whether they want to interview you for the position.

A good CV can help you get a foot on the career ladder

Walk to work to get some exercise

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characters that viewers have grown to love include Captain Mainwaring, the pompous commander of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard and Sergeant Wilson, his suave and overly civil second-in-command; Lance Corporal Jones, a nostalgic army veteran and Private Pike, a naïve youngster who confuses the reality of war with Hollywood films; Private Walker, a spiv, Private Frazer, a doom-monger and Private Godfrey, a gentle soul unlikely to strike fear into the heart

of any Nazi invader.And what of His

Reverence? ‘I don’t think he

was a terribly nice character,’ Frank suggests. ‘He was very tetchy and

were filmed – has a small museum dedicated to the show. And when the classic comedy was 40 years old, the BFI held a Dad’s Army: Oddities and Rarities evening at its Southbank centre in London. The guest that night was Frank, the actor who played the Rev Timothy Farthing, the character more usually called simply ‘the vicar’ or – in the case of over-deferential verger Mr Yeatman – ‘His Reverence’.

Dad’s Army fans enjoy meeting Frank, who still makes public appear-ances to reminisce about his time on the sitcom. Among his engagements are visits to churches, where he talks about his on-screen role and his real-life Christian faith.

Speaking on the telephone, Frank Williams reflects on the success of the sitcom.

‘Whereas some comedy is based on modern allusions which date, Dad’s Army was history even when it was writ-ten,’ he says. ‘The writers, Jimmy Perry and David Croft, nearly always set their comedies in the past. It Ain’t Half Hot Mum was also set in the Second World War, You Rang, M’Lord? was set in the 1920s and Hi-de-Hi was set in the high days of holiday camps. In the case of Dad’s Army, people warmed to a vision of England as it used to be. There is a nostalgia for a world in which – although it was at war – people pulled together.

‘But mainly Dad’s Army worked because it was based on characters. Jimmy and David created some mar-vellous characters, and viewers grew to love them.’

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IF you are one of the millions of people who over the past 44 years have enjoyed

Dad’s Army, you have been watching … Frank Williams.

The sitcom was first broadcast in 1968 and, though the last episode was made in 1977, it is still a regular in the BBC schedules. Thetford – where some of the outdoor scenes

‘Dad’s Army’ worked because it was based on characters

rather bad-tempered. I don’t think he was a good advertisement for vicars at all.’

The Rev Timothy Farthing may have been irritated by having his church buildings taken over by the Home Guard and ARP, but Frank was having a great time.

‘It was the happiest time of my life, because they were a wonderful group of people to work with,’ he says. ‘We did Dad’s Army on television, we made

a feature film, we did a radio series and we put on a stage production that ran for six months at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London and then went on tour for six months. So it was an enormous part of my life for eight or nine years.

‘When we filmed on location, we went away for a fortnight up to Norfolk. There were three villages that had been taken over by the War Office at the beginning of the Second World War. The people had been evacuated and the

area had been used for military train-ing. It had been left exactly as it was in the 1940s, so it didn’t have any of the modern things to show that we were in the 1970s. The location scenes were filmed there and later dropped into the episodes.

‘I have so many happy memories of filming those scenes – of being on one of those railway trolleys going up and down the train line and of conducting a harvest festival service in the open air. The whole time seemed like an idyllic summer. We worked hard, but we also enjoyed being together socially.’

Frank joined up with the cast of Dad’s Army because of a

series of events stretching back years. ‘When I was a boy living in Edgware, I was a keen theatregoer. I used to go to see plays at the nearest repertory com- pany, which was at the Palace Theatre in Watford. It was run by a couple called Andrew and Winifred Melville. When they gave it up, it was taken over by Jimmy and Gilda Perry. By that time, I was already in the acting business and I did a couple of plays for them there. I was also chairman of the sup-porters’ club and I got to know Jimmy well. So when he wrote Dad’s Army with David Croft, he thought of me.’

Frank can trace another – some might say mysterious – link with Dad’s Army back to his schooldays.

‘Oddly, I didn’t do very much drama at school, but at the end of my time at Hendon County, when we had done our Higher School Certificate, there were still a few weeks of term left. So the teachers had to find things for us to do.

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I have so many happy memories of filming those scenes – of being on one of those railway trolleys going up and down the train line and of conducting a harvest festival in the open air

One of the things we did was to produce a play, not for the public or parents but just for the rest of the school. The play was Arnold Ridley’s The Ghost Train, and I played the lead-ing role. Little did I realise that years later I would be working with Arnold [who played Private Godfrey] in Dad’s Army.’

Frank, who was born in 1931, was gripped by the cinema and ‘quite early on’ decided he wanted to be an actor .

‘Like a lot of people in my genera-tion, I didn’t go to drama school. When I left school, I went to work in a kind of apprenticeship at the Gateway Theatre in Westbourne Grove in London. It was quite common then to become an assistant stage manager at a repertory theatre, where you would be given the chance to play the odd small part. And that’s what I did.

‘Television was the up-and-com-ing medium. There was only one channel, and by looking at the Radio Times you could find out who all the directors were. You knew they were working for the BBC, because there wasn’t anywhere else for them to be working. So I wrote to them, saying that I was a young actor and asking whether they had anything suitable. That paid off, because I was given a role in a dramatised documentary about some boys doing their first six weeks of National Service.’

Later, Frank got his first ‘big break’ when he was given a

part in The Army Game, a popular sitcom on Granada Television. He also appeared in some of Norman Wisdom’s big-screen adventures, including The Bulldog Breed and A Stitch in Time.

‘I have spent most of my career doing comedy,’ he says. ‘Like most

actors who have, there is a bit of me that likes the opportunity to do some-thing more serious. I think of myself as an actor rather than a comic. Once I got into Dad’s Army, I became known as a comedy actor and I tended to land those sort of parts, but I did do three seri-ous plays at Vienna’s English Theatre, where they didn’t know about Dad’s Army.’

Frank reflects on his career during his speaking events at churches – along with another aspect of his life. At the events – where he is interviewed by Chris Gidney, the founder of Christians in Entertainment – he also talks about his faith.

‘I grew up with Christian parents who went to church and, as a lot of children did in those days, I went to Sunday school. Then I sang in the church choir, and I have been a church-man ever since.’

Frank recalls the early stages of his faith.

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childlike trust in God. I would go to bed at night and my parents would come in and I would say my, as it were, “formal” prayers with them. Then, when they went, I used to chat to God, because God was absolutely as real to me as my mother and father. I felt that there were three people who looked after me: my mother, my father and God.

‘Sadly, but perhaps inevitably, that total, simple trust didn’t last, because I grew up. But, as the apostle Paul says in the Bible, I had to move on from milk to meat – so my faith has developed.’

Frank says that over the years his faith has changed and he has appreciated different kinds of Christian worship. ‘But I still see God as the bedrock of my life. My faith is a solid thing even when other things are falling around me.

‘An actor’s life is quite a precarious one, and you

spend a lot of time in moods of uncer-tainty. I have had a reasonably good career, but there have been a lot of times when a job has finished and I have wondered whether I was ever going to work again. If you want security, an actor’s life is not the one to choose, unless you become a megastar. There are a lot of actors like me who would call themselves a jobbing actor. I was very fortunate to have some good breaks.

‘There have been a lot of times when things have worked out, but there have also been times when they haven’t. My Christian faith has held me through-out my life.’

For more information on Frank’s church appearances visit shorehillarts.co.uk

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do which are not law-breaking: we gossip, we act selfishly, we hurt another person’s feelings. We may not find ourselves in court for those things, but there are still consequences to face.

We could lose a friendship or find that someone takes revenge and treats us badly.

Sometimes we may feel we deserve our punishment, particularly if we are sorry for what we have done wrong.

In the Lord’s Prayer, when we pray ‘Forgive us our trespasses’ we are asking God to forgive us for all the times we have strayed into doing wrong things, whatever they are. The great news is that God will forgive us without imposing any penalty on us.The Bible writer John says:

‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins’ (1 John 1:9 New International Version).

Along with God’s forgiveness comes a new start.

Because of his love for us, we might even imagine a sign that says: ‘Trespassers will be pardoned.’

Life can apply similar rules. If we do something we are not meant to, we have to be ready to face the consequences. If our actions are criminal, it could well mean we face legal prosecution.

But there are other harmful things we

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Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,As we forgive them that trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil.For thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the

glory,For ever and ever.Amen.

THERE was a tangle of barbed wire at the top of the high wall. The sign attached to the brickwork said: ‘Private property. No trespassing. Violators will be prosecuted without further notice.’

The message was clear. Outsiders were not welcome and if those outsiders strayed into forbidden areas, there would be trouble. trespasses

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NO sooner had drought warnings been issued than the heavens opened. In many parts of the UK the rain poured.

I live only a short distance, as the crow flies, from the wettest place in England. Seathwaite in Cumbria has the dubious honour of having the most rainfall, so it isn’t surprising that we have had more than our fair share of torrential downpours.

At a recent Sunday church service, one of our members spoke of the devastation at his home after flood water poured down the hillside, through the back door of his house and out at the front. The damage meant he and his family would need to evacuate the property for several months while it dried out and was made habitable again.

He went on to ask if anyone could help with the packing and clearing of his home to enable the clean-up to commence.

So, along with about 20 others, I spent the next evening wrapping, stacking and sealing boxes of items for storage.

After an hour or so of working we stopped for a break and had a cuppa. On my mug I read the words: “Keep calm and carry on.” How appropriate for the situation!

This slogan (which originates from a Second World War poster) has been used on all sorts of items recently and

certainly struck a chord with me at that moment.

It’s not a new idea either. More than 2,000 years ago, people were worrying about what was happening and whether the future would be any better. But the prophet Isaiah passed on words of comfort from the Lord: ‘Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear for I’m your God’ (Isaiah 41:10 The Message).

It is a timeless message. God is always with us. He helps in our distress and promises hope for the future.

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I’M Michael Darracott; I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.

I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

Email your recipes and questions to chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

Ingredients:

330g plain flour

2tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

35g caster sugar

60g butter

55g sultanas

150ml milk

1525 August 2012 The War CryWhat’s cooking?

Method:Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/

Gas Mark 6. Place the flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar in a bowl and mix together. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sultanas.

Add the milk a little at a time until you have made a firm dough.

Scones

Do you have any hints and tips for cooking in an electric fan oven?

Jacob asks:

I have always used a fan-assisted electric oven, because of the consistent quality it gives me.

Always ensure your electric oven is up to the required temperature before you start cooking. If you find a problem with food coming out overcooked, check the temperature with an external hand-held thermometer to be sure that your oven thermostat is working correctly.

Be aware that the heated air created by an electric oven is much drier than that created

by gas, so read up about your recipe requirements before cooking.

Some people place a small amount of water in a tray to create moisture. I vent the oven by opening it at certain stages. The position of the heating elements can also affect the way an oven works.

Fan-assisted ovens cook food more quickly so get used to the speed of cooking.

Electric fan-assisted ovens are said to be about 20 per cent more energy-saving, so they should save you money.

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Cook with chef MICHAEL DARRACOTT

Ingredients:150g dry pasta 3tbsp vegetable oil2 small onions, finely chopped2 x 185g cans tuna chunks in oil420g can chopped tomatoes,

drained1tsp dried basil1tsp sage1tsp rosemary1tsp oregano115g frozen sweetcorn, thawedSalt and pepper150g mature cheese, grated

Method:Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas

Mark 6. Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions.

Pour the vegetable oil into a frying pan, then fry the onions until they turn fairly soft. Stir in the tuna with its oil, and add the tomatoes, herbs, sweetcorn and seasoning. Keep the pan on a low heat for about 2 minutes, then mix in the cooked pasta.

Place the pasta mixture in an ovenproof dish, sprinkle the grated cheese over the top, then bake for 20 minutes or until cooked.

Serves 4–6

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Tuna pasta bake

Dust the worktop with flour, then roll out the dough until it is 1–1.5cm thick. Use a 12cm pastry cutter to cut out the scones.

Lightly grease and flour a baking tray, then place the scones on top. Bake in the oven for 10–15 minutes. Serve with jam and clotted cream.

Makes 8

Last year, singers Billy Bragg and Mavis Staples and comedian Milton Jones took to the stage to entertain crowds.

This year, Greenbelt has loosened a notch on its sched-ule and plans to be even bigger. Music lovers can expect to hear Mercury prizewinner Speech Debelle give her latest offering.

For those who like a good chuckle, Frank

Skinner will be taking to the stage. American author Thomas Lynch will be one of many guests giving talks.

Greenbelt focuses not only on celebrating Christian artistic creativity, but also on values that are rarely head-lined in society, such as justice, tolerance and equal-

ity. Greenbelt’s head of communications,

Phil Smith, tells The War Cry: ‘As ever, we want people to leave feel-ing inspired to make their corner of the world a little brighter.’

Society can be self-centred. We can harshly treat the people

who least deserve it. We can be unforgiving of people’s mis-takes and choose to take revenge rather than resolve disagree-ments. It is easy to dismiss those who are less fortunate than us.

When people experience such things, they are hurt and destroyed. They wonder why the world is such a cruel place. But we can take comfort from the example of Jesus.

He came into the world to spread love. At the beginning of his ministry he said: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free’ (Luke 4:18, 19 New International Version).

Thousands of years later, Jesus remains the same. If we invite him into our lives, he will forgive us for being self-centred. He will teach us how to live right.

No matter how bad things get, we will experience his goodness. Now that’s some-thing to sing about.

Greenbelt Festivals/DREW McLELLAN

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IT’S the annual field festival that ploughs its own furrow. Celebrating arts, Christian faith and justice, Greenbelt is back for its 39th consecutive year.

Organisers of the festival, which runs until Monday (27 August), are expecting more than 20,000 people to rock up to Cheltenham Racecourse to enjoy the diverse and cultur-ally rich line-up of acts and entertainment.

writes RENÉE DAVIS

Mavis Staples and Billy Bragg at last year’s event

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