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joys of reading. The role is open to all ages, and it is particularly popular with retired individuals as it
offers a structure and the opportunity to give back to the community.

Beanstalk also launched their ‘Get Luton Reading’ campaign in 2015 and since then they are already
supporting over 60 local children. Charity representative Rebecca Carter said ‘We have seen
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to support even more children through the help of more dedicated volunteers’.

Training and a DBS check is provided as well as ongoing support from Beanstalk. You can call 01604
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Money Matters By Martin Lewis

Children’s Savings
Masterclass

@moneysavingexpert Many parents, and especially grandparents,
are switching to opening savings accounts for
little‘uns.
So I want to give you a kid’s savings masterclass -
the best ways to save for your child or their future.

Before I start though, a thought. Don’t do this all for it for them, and you can only do that if you’ve your
children. Instead do it with them, get them involved own Santander current account.
as early impossible. Everyone knows I’ve campaigned - Alternatively, www.HSBC.co.uk’s My Savings ac-
for years to get financial education taught in schools, count pays 2.75% AER on up to £3,000. Any child
but it can be taught at home too. aged over 7 can manage this on their own.
It’s not just about saving, but also where to save to - For larger sums, the www.Nationwide.co.uk Smart
get the most from their money. So if they’re old Limited Access account pays 2.25% AER on savings
enough, sit down with them, and pick the savings up to £50,000, though it only allows you to withdraw
account together, running through the pros and cons cash once a year.
of each. Turn it into a fun financial game. And make Are there any accounts grandparents can open?
them responsible for monitoring the rate afterwards For younger children, an adult needs to open the
in case it drops, and you need to ditch and switch. account on the child’s behalf and be a trustee or
What are the best-paying children’s savings signatory. (Children don’t usually need to be present
accounts? but you’ll need ID for them, such as a passport.)
The www.Halifax.co.uk Kids’ Regular Saver pays 4% Your name will then be on the account with the
AER fixed for a year, but you can only pay in be- child’s, but it’ll be your signature that controls it, not
tween £10 and £100 per month, and can’t withdraw theirs. Some accounts are parents only, but grand-
any money until the year’s up. parents can do this with the Santander, Halifax and
The www.SaffronBS.co.uk’s Children’s Regular Saver Nationwide accounts.
is similar and lets you withdraw from it whenever What about Junior ISAs (JISAs) – should I open
you want.After a year, the rates on both accounts one of these?
will drop, so get your child to set a diary reminder to JISAs are special savings (or investments) that let you
move their money to a better account when it does. save £4,080 with tax-free interest for under 18s.
I need to save a lump sum though? The money is locked away until your child’s 18th
The regular savings accounts don’t suit if you want birthday. After that though, it’s theirs to do what they
to put in a stash of cash in one go. want with – so if you’re thinking it’s a ‘uni fund’, they
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a debit card to use in shops. poor, you’re not locked in, you can transfer it to a
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Types Of Extensions New Year, New Hair,
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Snippets By Paul Heley National
Service
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This article might appeal to those (older) men Fortunately for me, it was obligatory for a DI to ask
amongst your readers who will have suffered/en- if any member of his new intake was a musician. So,
dured/enjoyed their days serving King/Queen doing on the second morning, our lovely chap asked, very
National Service. I, too, did my two years stint in the *Rp*oe*mli*t*ee!lmymbouefsriiccnoigaunmr?s"ey,Hf"raieenndydaor'sefdaydaovnuiyc*oe*,n*Ie*p*tol!ulscittkteelped*fuo*p*rw*c*ao*rusdr.a-
RAF. However, I suspect that, unlike many others, I age and did so. With a face like thunder, he enquired,
look back on those days not only with fondness but, "what *****! instrument do you *****! well play, then
additionally, with considerable gratitude since the ?"
RAF unconsciously mapped out what I would later "The drums, Corporal", I replied. "Oh, we have a
become and how my life would develop (in a most a*r*e**y*o!ud?r"uWmimthert,hdaot, we s;ean*t *m**e*o! fliftttloe drummer boy,
unexpected manner). he the band room
This might sound rather dramatic but, having left for the mandatory audition with the encouraging
the former Dunstable Grammar School in 1949 (I'm comment that if I failed, he would be very pleased to
very ancient!) with a mediocre School Certificate, I see me back in his flight again because he had some
immediately went into the Merchant Navy and learnt special treats in store for people like me.
how to steer ships around oceans and how to load In the band room, I was given a drum and invited to
them properly. When I came out of the MN a few repeat a set of phrases which the senior drummer
years later, I had no Civvy Street experience but was played for me. It was ferociously complicated Scottish
still warm and breathing and under 26 years of age pipe band drumming and I'd never heard anything
so therefore eligible for National Service. At first it like it; there were rolls, paradiddles and all sorts of
seemed like a travesty of justice but there was no way intricate phrases I couldn't get anywhere near. Noth-
out so I had to go. I didn't fancy the Army; and since ing like the "yumpty, tumpty, diddley, widdley, rollicky,
I'd already discovered that one bit of sea looks very jollicky, splat" stuff I'd been used to in the drum and
much like another bit of sea, I thought I'd give the bugle band.
Navy a miss. This left the RAF, where I was accepted. It was blisteringly obvious I had failed. Miserably.
Previously, whilst at naval college, I'd been a drum- Hopelessly. I suppose I looked crestfallen (and
mer in the drum and bugle band and, knowing this, thoughts of a salivating DI awaiting my return didn't
a pal of mine (who had already done his two years help) so the senior trumpeter asked me if I could
bash) said "if you get a chance to join the band, take play a cavalry trumpet. Never having seen one before,
it. You get away with murder and they can't touch I said I didn't know but that I'd mucked about on
you". It sounded like good advice. a bugle before. He said "it's like a big bugle" and
For square bashing, I was sent to RAF Hednesford invited me to have a go. From somewhere deep and
- an unlovely spot near Cannock - and within a very primeval - driven by a sense of self preservation - I
short time, we were introduced to our friendly Drill played some of the tunes from my naval band days.
Instructor (DI). This loving, caring and considerate And sufficiently well, apparently, to be invited to join
fellow eased us gently through the elementary stages the band as a trumpeter.
of drill via the medium of screaming at us in a voice With great relief - it having saved my life - I returned
registering 110 decibels above the threshold of pain to the flight and informed Corporal Vlad the Impaler
whilst continually comparing our clumsy movements that I'd passed. He was not at all pleased. There was
with those of various unattractive animals in states no "Well done, old chap". His plans for me had been
of sexual arousal! And, like others of his breed, our dashed on a piece of brass tubing!
DI had been to an RAF finishing school where he'd As my pal had suggested, from now on I got away with
been specially trained in a particular form of English murder. Whenever something nasty came up, I always
in which every other word is some form of expletive. invented a job which needed to be done immediately
I thought I'd heard everything in the Merchant Navy
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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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On their own admission, the the Senior Judges will have to be paid.
government is spending more My Question is, who will pay the cost of
than its income gained from this hearing? It certainly will not be cheap.
The cost should fall, in my opinion, to the
taxation. We are now in the position where government and not the tax payer. This is
we are borrowing even more due to the only one case where the government have
BREXIT debacle and the decision that started an inquiry to which massive costs
these discussions are best dealt with by the have arisen and paid for by the tax payer.
government rather than by parliament it- For Example "The Chillcot Enquiry”
self as is the prescribed method laid down which ran into several years before the fin-
by our laws to deal with such matters. ished papers were available for comment,
So what is the problem that has increased I forget the cost but it ran into several mil-
the governments requirement for money? lion pounds. But what did it achieve? Who
It is to get permission to change the law actually read it? the millions of words of
to allow the government to deal with the testimony, what did it achieve? Was it really
matter rather than allowing parliament, as a needed? I don't know the answers, but I
whole, to deal with this exercise regarding know who paid for it, the tax payer. We
decisions on BREXIT and our leaving the pay for everything including their salaries.
European Union. Is it not time that parliament, as a whole,
So what will be the cost of the litigation remember who pays the wages and suggest
to decide that the law can be changed that common sense is applied to govern-
and who has been tasked to carry out the ment programmes. How many millions
investigation on behalf of the government have been spent on programmes that went
on this matter? nowhere, yet we cannot get a programme
The answer is that the government have for Social Care, apart from paying an-
applied to the Law Lords themselves to other 6% on Council Tax that will come
make a decision on whether the law can no where near the actual sum required.
be changed in this instance to allow a Pensioners will be expected to pay the
government to make decisions that are increase on council tax without getting any
not open to parliamentary debate. Sev- increase in pensions, so we shall be worse
enteen Lords from the Supreme Court off in the new year. If we have to tighten
are involved in the discussions which we our belts to meet government require-
know will take some weeks to come to a ments, can we not expect the government
decision. The question has to be asked on to watch its spending. After all, they can
behalf of the tax payer as to who will meet only spend what we supply through taxa-
the payment of there learned panel who tion. The whole wider picture of spending
will decide the matter. No matter whether within ones limits should also apply to our
the government wins or loses the case, government. We should not borrow.

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