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Hot cup of goodwill comes to Denbigh

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A cafe owner has launched a Welsh version of an ancient Italian custom – giving a free cuppa to people who are down on their luck.

The first Suspended Coffee scheme in Wales was set up by Mark Young, who runs the Denbigh Chocolate Shop.

Another two cafes have already signed up and Mark is hoping the idea will lead to a network of coffee houses and restaurants across Wales taking up the idea.

He explained “It’s a nice, hot cup of goodwill. You buy a ‘suspended coffee’ and it’s banked for someone who needs it.”

The idea was born in Naples, and spread to Bulgaria, where 150 cafés have reportedly established it as a formal scheme.

Now, thanks to social networks, it is not just cafés in the US, Russia, Canada, Australia, Asia and Continental Europe that have signed up to the goodwill initiative.

It is based on good faith, both by the stores and the recipients. Anyone can enter a café and ask for a “suspended coffee”, and they are unlikely to be asked for credentials.

The initiative has become an international internet sensation with coffee shops in Europe and North America participating in the movement. the UK Facebook page alone has more than 28,000 “likes.”

The tradition of “suspended coffee” — or “caffe sospeso” in Italian — is a long-standing, centuries old tradition in Italy that increased in popularity after the Second World War.

Mark added: “It’s a fantastic initiative so we decided to help out. I had been pretty much been doing it anyway, just not under a banner. During the winter weather, we have been giving away anything from – coffee, tea or cake.

“The Facebook initiative was drawn to my attention by a regular client, and word has spread quickly since we set up www.facebook.com/WelshSuspendedCoffees this week.

“I thought it was a great idea because it’s like having a mobile food bank.

“Every time someone pays, they have the option of paying for somebody else – that could be a drink or a cake or a sandwich.

“We’ve had 23 in one day and unbelieavably five people have already come in to claim their free drink.

“I’ve got to say, they’ve come from all walks of life. Some come in and want to leave very quickly.

“There are some pretty sad stories out there and it certainly makes me feel better being able to give them a drink.

“We do it in a way that does not embarrass anybody, particularly the recipients.

“I got the idea from a customer who is Italian and I saw on the Internet that the Irish have started a Suspended Coffee Scheme.

“After Easter, I was feeling a bit guilty because I had eaten a bit of chocolate and I thought this was a wonderful thing to set up.

“The response has been phenomenal and I challenge some of the bigger coffee companies who’ve had some bad press to redeem themselves by joining the Suspended Coffee movement.

“We are doing our little bit in Denbigh but the big companies can obviously reach so many more people. It would be great if some of the major ones came on board and get some brownie points back off the community.

“I would like to see a network of coffee houses and restaurant across Wales coming on board.

“Our Facebook page has already got more than 200 Likes – it’s a great cause and I think everyone should join in.

“If there’s anything left over the equivalent in cash will be donated to Denbigh Food Bank – so it’s a win win.

“It’s a beautiful idea and you can help people who are having a hard time for whatever reason.”

Sunday April 21st, 2013

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Sea loving Kit from Anglesey defies doctors after freak sleep-walk accident

Pictured is Sailor kit Farmer with Davina Carey-Evans at Deganwy.

A love of the sea brought life-long sailor Kit Farmer back from the brink after suffering devastating brain injuries in a freak accident while sleep-walking.

Doctors warned Kit’s family to prepare themselves for the worst and friends even posted heartfelt tributes on Facebook, convinced he was not going to survive.

As it was, Kit, 53, was at death’s door and in a coma for four weeks and after he came round, he was told he’d never walk again and would always have a speech impediment.

He’s since made a “remarkable and miraculous” recovery and. according to Kit, his passion for all-things maritime was instrumental in helping him to get better.

Now, he’s about to fulfil a life-long ambition by staging the first ever All-Wales Boat Show with his wife, Davina Carey-Evans, a highly experienced event organiser.

Davina’s career has taken her from the world famous Food Hall at Harrods to putting on the One Ton Cup, one of the most prestigious events in the sailing calendar, when it came to Wales in 2001.

The All-Wales Boat Show, from July 24-28, will be split between the Conwy and Deganwy Quay marinas and uniquely visitors will be ferried between them across the water.

The couple are hoping the event will help Wales grab a bigger share of the marine industry that generates around £3 billion in the UK every year.

But that ambition looked like an impossible dream when the terrible accident happened three years ago.

Kit, who previously travelled the world working in the chemicals industry, suffered the injuries while sleep-walking, something he’d never done before.

He crashed over a first floor gallery at home in Llandegfan, on Anglesey, and plunged 16 ft to the ground, landing on his head.

The impact smashed his skull and pushed his brain violently to one side. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he broke all his left hand ribs and punctured a lung.

Kit said: “I was unconscious for about four weeks and I was badly mentally damaged.  My brain was pushed to one side.

“I’m very fortunate, some say it’s a miracle I’m still alive – it was certainly touch and go.

“Davina  thought I wasn’t going to live and she knew I didn’t want to be a vegetable.

“When I did wake up, one of the doctors  told me I would never walk or speak again.

But Kit defied medical opinion and was speaking again within a few months and is now well enough to go out running every morning.

The road to recovery has been long and hard though. After spells in three hospitals, Walton, Clatterbridge and Ysbyty Gwynedd, Kit’s rehabilitation continued for 12 months at the Leonard Cheshire Acquired Brain Injury centre in Colwyn Bay.

The family has now moved to a new home and office in Beaumaris, from where the All-Wales Boat Show is being organised.

Kit said: “The surgeon is  amazed that I’ve recovered so well given the scale of the damage to my head.

“Much of the credit though must go to the skill of the doctor who inserted a large titanium plate to replace a large portion of my skull.

“I still have a passion for the sea – I love being on the sea, by the sea and in the sea.  Boating has always been the thing I love to do.

“The  two marinas in the county of Conwy are the perfect backdrop for the All-Wales Boat Show.

“It’s  a marriage made in heaven because of my maritime background and Davina’s fantastic in marketing and organising.  We make quite a formidable team.”

In the aftermath of the accident, Davina never imagined that Kit would ever be well enough to be involved in staging anything like the All-Wales Boat Show.

She recalled: “It was a terrible shock. When you’ve damaged your brain like Kit did, it’s touch and go whether the brain will allow the other organs to work, even the breathing.

“Kit was on a ventilator for at least two months so it things were pretty precarious for a long time.

“The surgeon said the likely scenario would be that he’d be paralysed down the right side, have a speech impediment and cognitive issues because of the area of the brain where the damage occurred.

“Initially, in the first year, Kit had no top left skull so as the swelling went, for a whole year, he had no top left side to his head until the metal place was inserted.

“It is remarkable, like a second beginning. The situation was so dire initially that friends posted tributes on Facebook.

“It’s not often that people ‘die” and then come back and see what people really think of them. It was a weird and very strange thing.

“The doctor said is he’s been lucky because he’s got a high level of intelligence and he’s got a hunger for what’s going on so he’s re-taught himself to do lots of things, everything from the basics like breathing and swallowing.

“While Kit was recovering I would take him to watch the sailing and it was the only thing that really got him excited. It kept him alive.

“It was something he was very passionate about and the idea of organising the All-Wales Boat Show grew from there.

“We’re very excited about the huge potential of the event. We’re staging it at the Quay marinas in Conwy and Deganwy so it’s the only boat show that uses the water to actually transport people.

“It’s the first ever National Boat Show for Wales and what’s interesting is how far and wide the exhibitors are coming from – from all across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.

“We believe the timing is perfect, too, because it’s taking place the same time as the Conwy River Festival.

“Two million adults in the UK enjoy water-based activities and the marine sector generates £66.7 million in Wales alone.

“Wherever you go in Wales, you are never far away from a river, lake or coastline which is why it’s renowned for not only offering every water sport activity possible but also some of the very best facilities to do so, so it is only fitting that we have our own boat show.

“Conwy boasts two marinas and a reputation for outstanding water sport amenities.  It is also a major tourist attraction in its own right being a world heritage site with its own medieval castle so is the perfect location for a show of this stature and size.

“And with its easy accessibility whether by car, plane, train or even boat, it will appeal to a wide target audience from not only all of Wales but also the North West, Midlands, Isle of Man and Ireland.”

For more details on the All Wales Boat Show please call 0845 123 5438, email to:enquiries@allwalesboatshow.com">enquiries@allwalesboatshow.com or visit www.allwalesboatshow.com.

Saturday April 20th, 2013

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Royal composer’s musical odyssey

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Royal composer Paul Mealor will be swapping the bright lights of Hollywood for the sacred surroundings of a cathedral when he takes on a prestigious new role.

Raised in Connah’s Quay, Professor Mealor, who wrote the music for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, has been made a Vice President of the North Wales International Music Festival in St Asaph.

The festival, supported by the Arts Council of Wales, was created 41 years ago by another royal composer, the brilliant Professor William Mathias, who was Professor and Head of the Department of Music at Bangor University between 1970-88.

Appropriately, his daughter, Dr Rhiannon Mathias – the writer, broadcaster, lecturer, flautist and director of the William Mathias Music Centre – has also been appointed as a Vice President.

They will take up their posts at this year’s festival at St Asaph Cathedral from September.

Artistic Director Ann Atkinson was delighted that two such distinguished musicians had agreed to become vice presidents.

She said: “The festival is now firmly established as one of the main highlights in the UK’s cultural calendar and the fact that Rhiannon and Paul are joining us as vice presidents will help to cement our growing reputation.”

Prof Mealor, who shot to international fame when his composition for the royal wedding in 2011, Ubi Caritas, attracted an audience of some 2.5 billion people has gone on to have his work performed in Hollywood to a standing ovation.

He also gained huge acclaim after writing the music for the chart-topping Military Wives’ Choir.

Prof Mealor, a reader in composition at Aberdeen University, whose family home is on Anglesey, said: “This is a massive honour because this is where I received my early musical education. I came here to the concerts as a boy.

“There were very few rural places where you could get top quality music like this. William Mathias, who was the founder of the festival, taught me for a while so to come back to where I started as a vice-president, is fantastic.

“My role will be to support the festival, to promote it and to be its standard bearer. I’ve supported and attended the festival for many years and I will be here again this year, as will my mother and father and three of my uncles and aunts.”

And what a standard bearer Paul will be. Last October he was in Los Angeles for a performance of Ubi Caritas by the hugely respected Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

“It was fantastic. This is one of the major choirs and it was a sold-out concert, performing my composition and it got a standing ovation. Unbelievable!”

He also heard his work performed at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. “I stayed in Hollywood Hills, just below the Hollywood sign. It was great meeting such interesting people. I’m also going back to hear my work performed in Princeton when there will be an American premier of my work Crucifixus.

“On home territory I have just recently been honoured by the Welsh Music Guild who presented me with the Glanville Jones Award for outstanding contribution to Welsh music.”

Paul Mealor was described by the New York Times as “one of the most important composers to have emerged in Welsh choral music since William Mathias” and there are amazing similarities between the two ‘Royal’ composers.

Professor William Mathias started the NWIMF at St Asaph Cathedral in 1972. He taught for a short while in a Scottish university, Edinburgh, and was commissioned to write the anthem for the wedding of Charles and Diana in July 1981. He also was a frequent visitor to the United States and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Westminster College Choir of Princeton in 1988.

His daughter Dr Rhiannon Mathias, said on being made a festival vice-president: “It’s very exciting and it came as a complete surprise. I had a letter from the Dean inviting me to consider becoming a vice president. I was absolutely thrilled, it was a great honour to be invited and for me, it was very unexpected.

“The festival has played such an important part in my life. I’m not sure what my duties will be but I know the vice presidents are expected to attend many of the concerts which will not be a problem for me!

“I have probably attended virtually all the festivals since it started in 1972. Even though I was only small my mother would take me to the concerts, even the late ones and I would sleep all the way home in the car.”

Dr Mathias has had a busy year since the last St Asaph festival.

“In the last 12 months I have had a book published which looks at three contemporary British composers. It’s not about my father but he is in it because one of the composers is Grace Williams, who was from that older generation of Welsh composers.

“My father actually commissioned Grace to write a piece for the 1973 festival and she wrote a choral work Ave Maris Stella so there is that link between Grace, my father and the festival. It was her last choral work and she died in 1977.

“She did much to encourage my father as a young composer.”

The other two composers featured in the book are Elisabeth Lutyens, daughter of the famous architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, and Dame Elizabeth Maconchy.

“They all studied together at the Royal College of Music in the 1920s and each one of them made a mark on music in 20th Century Britain. The book was published last year and launched at the National Library of Wales and there was a London launch at the British Library. And I gave talks on the subject at Oxford and the Royal College in London so it was quite a busy year.”

Dr Mathias was also recently talking about Grace Williams when she took part in filming for an S4C series about women who have left their mark on Welsh history, presented by Ffion Hague – wife of the Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Monday April 15th, 2013

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Wrexham: Charity volunteer re-opens new look M&S at Eagles Meadow

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When Marks and Spencer in Wrexham’s busy Eagles Meadow were looking for a ‘celebrity’ to re-open the store after a major re-fit they chose a volunteer from the local charity they have supported for years.

That meant Eve Tilston, Volunteer Co-ordinator for the Clwyd Special Riding Centre, at Llanfynydd, had the honour of cutting the ribbon and declaring the revamped store open for business.

M&S Store Manager Deborah Hitchen was delighted to invite Eve Tilston along and she said: “For many years, as a store, we have supported Llanfynydd’s Clwyd Special Riding Centre’s so it seemed only right to invite Eve along to cut the ribbon and declare the store open again following our refit.

“We are thrilled with the work that has been done to give us a smart new look and with new signage and with all our staff in smart new uniforms, the store has a lovely welcoming feel to it.

“I’m sure our regular loyal customers will really notice the difference and appreciate the effort that has gone into giving the store a more modern and bright new feel.”

Eve Tilston said she was thrilled to be asked to carry out the re-opening duties and added: “M&S here at Eagles Meadow have been so supportive ever since they opened the store four years ago.

“Staff really go out of their way to help and even raised £2,000 to buy a horse, Charlie, a few years ago. Charlie is still working with us on a daily basis today and is a lovely gentle horse.

“We are invited into the M&S store here at Eagles Meadow twice a year to fundraise and can raise as much as £5,000 in a week.

“We spend a week at Easter and a week at Christmas in store bag packing in the food hall and generally helping out, clearing tables, in the café.

“The Wrexham public are incredibly generous and the money we raise can cover our running costs for a week, that’s how important M&S at Eagles Meadow are to us as a charity.”

Kevin Critchley, Manager of Eagles Meadow Shopping Centre, said: “We’re delighted to have M&S back in full swing and looking better than ever.

“They’re such an iconic name and such an important part of the Centre and hats off to them for their support for Riding for the Disabled and for choosing Eve to do the re-opening honours.”

Eve emphasised how important M&S’s support is at Eagles Meadow: “We really need all the help we can get at the present time. We have suffered really badly with the recent snow which has damaged stables and meant we have to cancel sessions.

“We are a unique charity offering riding, carriage driving and equestrian vaulting, which is gymnastics on horse back, for disabled children and adults. And we have holiday accommodation too.

“Of course running a venture and a charity such as Clwyd Special Riding Centre is expensive and we rely on the generosity of the public to continue providing the service that we do.

“And no one has been more generous than M&S staff and customers here at Eagles Meadow. It was lovely to be invited to cut the ribbon and declare the shop open after its refit and to celebrate with a glass of Buck’s Fizz.”

The new-look store now also has instant online access to the entire range of M&S goods and store manager Deborah added: “We now have three members of staff who carry an iPad with them around the shop floor.

“As we don’t carry every item that’s available in our bigger stores customers can now order items which, if ordered by noon, will be available for collection here in Wrexham by noon the following day.”

Monday April 15th, 2013

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