At Sheringham town community newspaper. North Norfolk England UK.

Cook's Corner

Your fortnightly recipe to
tantalise your taste buds

Lamb chops with Apricot Sauce
6 lamb chops
1oz dripping or butter
1 clove gaelic
1oz sugar
3 tbsp white wine vinegar
4oz dried apricots (soaked overnight)
1 level teaspoon curry powder or to taste
juice of 1 lemon
2 onions chopped
Salt and black pepper to taste

Method:

Cook apricots, which have been soaked overnight, then into puree, melt dripping or butter, frying onions until soft. Add all other ingredients and simmer for a few minutes.

Pour this over RAW lamb chops and leave overnight to marinade, lift out the chops and remove all traces of sauce that is possible and grill for 4 minutes each side. Meanwhile, heat sauce and simmer gently until the chops are grilled. Pour sauce over chops before serving.

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READERS LETTER

To @ Sheringham
Three ideas for improving the town's facilities:

1.    Sheringham Little Theatre. Getting rid of the boring Bridge Company programme in the summer for something livelier is the best news for Sheringham other than a Tesco near the crossroads, but who really wants old-fashioned farces or celebrity shows instead? Why don't the District Council get rid of the Little Theatre altogether and use the site for what local young people want, somewhere they can go clubbing until late without having to go all the way down to the front?

2.    North Norfolk Public Facilities. Every tolerant person welcomes the news that our gay fellow-citizens will soon be allowed to meet together in public conveniences, but the government adds the stupid proviso that cubicles must be completely shut, when they know full well there are spaces underneath the doors. The disabled community have their own lavatory compartments, so why discriminate against the gay community and other sexual minorities? Surely they should have purpose-built rooms in every public toilet, including those beside Sheringham Old Station and (while it stays open) in the Little Theatre?

3.    Church Hall. The simplest and cheapest answer to this argument is to leave the hall intact and pull down the Church itself. All the present activities at St Peters, with its "non-theist" notions and its dying congregation, could be transferred to a new Multi-faith Community Hall in Waterbank Road. The larger site could then be cleared for use either as a two-storey town centre car-park or as a housing complex for the forthcoming Iraqi asylum-seekers and African AIDS victims, thereby adding the multi-cultural vibrancy that will make our town a Beacon of Progress throughout the EU.
P Hitchcock. Beeston Regis

FLOWER POWER FOR LOCAL YOUNGSTERS

Local Children are being invited to celebrate this year's Mother's Day with a "blooming lovely" present for their mums - in a competition being held by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society!

Staff at the Society's branch at 29 High St, Sheringham, are inviting local youngsters up to the age of 12 to put their creative talents to the test! All they need to do is go along to the branch and collect a paper plate. Their challenge is to make this plate into their mum's face! They might want to add wool for the hair, paint long eyelashes on, or make some glasses from pipe cleaners! The best 'face' taken into the branch by Thursday 13th March will win its creator a fantastic art set for themselves and a beautiful bouquet of flowers to give to their mum for Mother's Day (Sunday 30th March).

Mother's Day originated from an ancient Greek festival. Every Spring, the Greeks held a celebration to honour Rhea, the Mother of the Gods and Goddesses. It is thought that the early church in England adopted this ceremony to celebrate Mary, the Mother of Christ. This developed in the 1600s when servants returned home on Mothering Sunday, taking small gifts and trinkets to their mothers.

Caroline Knowles, Manager of N&P's Sheringham branch said, "Mother's Day is the perfect time to celebrate the special bond between children and their mums. We want to give local youngsters the chance to win a super bouquet of flowers to show their mum just how much they care. I can't wait to see all the entries, I'm sure it will be hard to pick just one winner!"