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Amazing use of cornflour
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Amazing use of cornflour

Cornflour is one of those staple pantry items, it has so many uses for cooking. In the world of culinary delights, corn flour is used as a binding agent for puddings and similar recipes. It is commonly used as a thickener for soups, stews, sauces and other dishes. The completely wheat free version is used quiet heavily for gluten free recipes. Corn flour is also used as breading in Italian cuisine. Chaffing Using Cornflour to dust around sweaty areas like your upper legs can help stop chaffing

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Welcome to Yorkshire Chelsea Garden Wins BBC RHS People’s Choice Award
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Welcome to Yorkshire Chelsea Garden Wins BBC RHS People’s Choice Award

The Welcome to Yorkshire garden, inspired by the iconic Yorkshire Dales, won the highest honour of gold, Best Construction Award and the coveted People’s Choice Award back in 2018 at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Blooming great news … today the cultivated creation, complete with cowpat and vegetable patch, received the most public votes and is the garden to come out on top as the BBC RHS People’s Choice Award favourite from the last decade, as just announced on BBC ONE. Lovingly cre

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The gateway to summer
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The gateway to summer

June is often referred to as the gateway to summer and a very busy month for a keen gardener. The recent weather combined with the extended lockdown has encouraged many who have not had the time to enjoy their outdoor space before, to also learn new skills. Here are some hints and tips for those who are keen to plant out and sow seeds during the month. Plant out summer bedding and seed-raised plants, ensure they are well watered in and keep moist during dry weather. Plant out Dahlias now t

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Blogging and books
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Blogging and books

Sarah Hardy is a Yorkshire lady who is an avid book lover and reader. Starting from today, she will be sharing her book reviews and we look forward to hearing her views. As a child, books were a constant companion and you could always find me with my head stuck firmly between the pages. Never really knowing what I wanted to do in life until I reached the milestone of being 40, I have spent most of my working life in retail. That all changed when my husband bought me a Kindle for Christmas. It

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Garden Centre steps in to help create lockdown TV garden
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Garden Centre steps in to help create lockdown TV garden

The team at a Bradford garden centre responded quickly to a request from a TV production company to provide plants to create a lockdown garden. With regular filming of ITV's Love Your Garden suspended due to Coronavirus, Tong Garden Centre stepped in to deliver peat free compost and plants to presenter Katie Rushworth's Baildon home for her to create a grow your own garden for a new series, Grow Your Own at Home with Alan Titchmarsh. Capitalising on the rising interest of growing your own food

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Dakota Hotels - Give. Gift. Enjoy!
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Dakota Hotels - Give. Gift. Enjoy!

We know we’ll all be in need of a treat once this difficult time has passed, but our friends working on the frontline will certainly deserve one. So for every voucher purchased during this time, Dakota will give you TWO additional vouchers – one for you and one for a nominated key worker of your choice! Each monetary voucher will be to the value of 25% of the original purchase price. For example, purchase a £100 voucher and you will receive a £25 to enjoy, plus we will give a £25 voucher to you

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Leeds Playhouse announces the co-production of Barber Shop Chronicles with National Theatre
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Leeds Playhouse announces the co-production of Barber Shop Chronicles with National Theatre

Never-before-seen archive recording of Inua Ellams’ smash-hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, a co-production with Leeds Playhouse and Fuel, will be streamed live by the National Theatre on Thursday 14 May at 7PM BST. Captured at the National Theatre in January 2018 during its second sold-out run at the Dorfman theatre, the production went on to tour internationally including performances at BAM in New York with a return to London’s Roundhouse last Summer. The play tells the interwoven tales of bl

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MEPC encourage community to get creative
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MEPC encourage community to get creative

Developer and Asset Manager, MEPC, is encouraging the Leeds community to get creative during these difficult times with their newest virtual activity - Leeds in Colour competition. Whether you prefer to paint, use colouring pencils, chalks or felt tip pens, you can let your imagination run wild, colouring in scenes inspired by the city of Leeds. What’s more, with a £100 Amazon e-Gift Voucher and a £100 donation for your chosen charity up for grabs, there’s never been a better excuse to reach f

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An outdoor living room
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An outdoor living room

For many, the opportunity to spend more time in the garden recently has been a rewarding experience. As garden centres prepare to re-open, we have invited avid gardener Anj Handa, Founder of Inspiring women changemakers and one of Grant Thornton's "100 Faces of a vibrant Economy" in 2018 to share with us her own garden transformation story. I walked into the back garden and gasped. Not with delight, but with horror at the jungle before me! It was 2008 and I had gone to view a house, built in

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A-List celebrities and authors support Yorkshire Brownies bookmark project
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A-List celebrities and authors support Yorkshire Brownies bookmark project

Auction opens 11th May 2020 7pm and runs until 25th May 6.30pm 2020 www.jumblebee.co.uk/bookmarkproject2020 A group of Yorkshire Brownies, has received support from A-list celebrities such as Dame Helen Mirren and author Sir Quentin Blake for its project to raise funding for a school in Zimbabawe. Every year the girls of the 1st Burley Brownies, based in Burley-in-Wharfedale near Ilkley, write letters to their favourite authors, illustrators and celebrities asking them to design a bookmark. T

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One for the children
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One for the children

You may recall in our latest edition, we ran a feature about Chris Madeley, the creator and author of childrens books, Cones. To help keep the children entertained whilst working at home, Chris and Keith Madeley have created a competition for the little ones. It is time to get the crayons out… or paints, pencils, pens… The team are delighted to provide free colouring sheets of The Cones. Each Cone is in a separate PDF page which you can download by simply clicking on the images on the website

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Race for Life events postponed - so why not take part at home?
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Race for Life events postponed - so why not take part at home?

Race for Life 5K, 10K and Pretty Muddy events across the region have now been rescheduled for the Autumn ORGANISERS of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Yorkshire have announced new dates this autumn for the much-loved event. The charity has postponed Race for Life events across the UK to protect the country’s health during the coronavirus outbreak. This includes the Race for Life 5K, 10k and Pretty Muddy events across the Yorkshire region which can no longer take place this Summer. But e

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