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Women brave freezing waters to celebrate body positivity

THEY came from acrossthe country to brace the icywaters and celebrate womeneverywhere.More than 60 women gath-

ered at Wardie Bay on Inter-national Women’s Day foran invigorating sunrise swimin sub-zero temperatures tochampion body diversity.Organised by activist

Danni Gordon of The ChachiPower Project and photog-rapher Anna Deacon of theWild Swimming PhotographyProject, the swim drew par-ticipants from the central belt,Fife, East and West Lothian,including revered Arcticexplorer Hazel Robertson.Danni revealed the event

was organised to promotebody confidence after givingevidence at The Scottish Par-liament on the barriers facingwomen and young girls get-ting involved in sport when it

came to body image. She said:“I had terrible body confidenceissues for a huge amount ofmy life and I only flipped mythinking in the past few yearsthanks to learning about thebody positive movement,changing my thought pat-terns and stopping destructivebehaviours.“This wild dip in the sea for

International Women’s Daywas a challenging yet wonder-ful way to come together andlet us all celebrate our amazingbodies.”Wild Swimming has been a

growing trend across the UK,with organised events takingplace throughout the UK dur-ing the year.Hazel added: “International

Women’s Day is a perfect timeto reflect on how lucky we areto be exactly who we are. Tohave these bodies that allowus to express our individualityand uniqueness as we take onthe world.”

‘You realisewe are

lucky to bewhowe are’

■ DIANE KING

TAKING THE PLUNGE: Women of all ages from all walks of lifegathered at Wardie Bay to dive into water that was at sub-zerotemperature to raise awareness of body diversity

Pictures: ANNA DEACON

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NewsLaptop taken from car in HeadingtonTHIEVES smashed the window of a car in Headington and stole a laptop computer.

Thames Valley Police said the theft took place in Collinwood Road on Thursday night or during the early hours of yesterday.

Officers are advising drivers not to leave any valuable items on display when they leave their vehicles.

The force has issued a series of tips to drivers on how best to keep their vehicles and their belongings safe.

This includes advice on closing windows and sun roofs to prevent thieves from using coat hangers to unlock vehicles. Visit thamesvalley.police.uk/cp/crime-prevention/theft-from-a-vehicle/vehicle-safe-and-sound

Window plan rowAN Oxford homeowner who was refused planning permission to replace seven windows in her house has appealed to the government.

‘Mrs M Tate’ of Church Way in Iffley has gone to the Secretary of State over the planning row.

She originally submitted her application to Oxford City Council but planning officers there refused to give her permission for the home improvements.

The Secretary of State will now make a ruling on the case in due course, probably later this year.

Cold caller warningAN increase in cold callers across Oxfordshire has prompted a warning from the county’s trading standards officers.

County council staff said during the past fortnight they have received a growing number of reports about cold callers, who may be thieves or conmen, offering services such as roofing and gardening.

‘The job of a firefighter can be relentless but very rewarding’

A NEW push to get more women signing up as firefighters launched yesterday, Internation-al Women’s Day.

Oxfordshire Fire and Res-cue Service teams are urging women to visit taster days as part of the diversity drive.

Among those backing the recruitment campaign is Bicester firefighter Clare Crisp, a former primary school teacher, who has been battling fires for a year.

She said: “I had been think-

ing about becoming a fire-fighter for years and, to be honest, I wish I had done it sooner. It is the best job in the world.”

Ms Crisp joined the fire service after a ‘taster’ day at Didcot Fire Station in 2017.

The freelance writer said she had attended 200 call-outs, including fires at HMP Bullingdon, animal rescues, including a horse stuck across the partition in its horsebox, and property fires.

She said: “One close to home was the Lisseters shop fire. That was a long job and quite risky, with the thatched

roof next door.“I was up a ladder with a

hose for several hours, but we managed to save three of the four walls of the proper-ty, which is quite satisfying.”

On-call firefighters often have day jobs, which they drop at a moment’s notice if called into action.

The hours are flexible to each person and can be worked out with the various stations around Oxfordshire.

There are 330 on-call fire-fighters across the county, with just under eight percent being female.

Ms Crisp said: “You never

Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service push for more women to sign up. Pictured is Bicester firefighter Clare Crisp

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Fire and rescue service to hold taster days for female recruits

know what’s coming next. During last year’s heatwave, field fires were a major prob-lem. Each time we put one out, there’d be a fresh call from another farmer.

“It is relentless, but very re-warding to know you’re sav-ing people’s lives, property and livelihoods.”

She added: “Fire doesn’t discriminate and neither does the fire service. If you think you have what it takes to be an on-call firefighter, we want to hear from you.”

The taster day for women is on April 6 at Didcot Fire Sta-tion.

Gaz Coombes and Elkie Brooks to rock CornburyGAZ Coombes, Echo & The Bunnymen and Elkie Brooks are among the latest names to be announced for Cornbury Festival.

They join The Beach Boys, Keane and The Specials for the 16th instalment of the three-day music event at Great Tew near Chipping Norton.

They will be joined by musical theatre star Alfie Boe and pianist Billy Lockett – both making their debuts at the festival, from July 5-7.

Also added to the bill yesterday were KT Tunstall, Beverley Knight, The Shires, Paul Carrack, The Hothouse Flowers and the Trevor Horn Band – who have all played previously.

Also making a return visit are TV’s The Hairy Bikers, who will bring back their popular barbecue tent.

Gaz Coombes is one of Oxfordshire’s biggest stars.

His former band Supergrass were one of the biggest bands of the 90s, scoring six top 20 albums, three of them platinum – including the classic I Should Coco, the biggest-selling debut for Parlophone since the Beatles released Please Please Me in 1963.

His solo albums World’s Strongest Man, Matador and Here Come the Bombs have also been highly acclaimed and feature a host of local artists in his studio and live band.

Festival director Hugh Phillimore said: “We’ve won the musical jackpot here at Cornbury HQ. With The Specials, Keane and The Beach Boys already announced and national treasures The Hairy Bikers hosting their unique Festival Feast we think it’s our best line-up ever.”

The Specials will top the bill on the opening day of the festival. The legendary Coventry ska band have just returned to the UK album charts with their first new record in 38 years, which reached the No. 1 spot.

Day tickets this year will start at £75, weekend tickets from £180 and camping tickets from £215. Concessions are available and under-threes get in free.

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doesn’t matter what gender you are, as long as you have the drive, brains and daring it takes to be a success.

So here are some of the business women Plymouth can be proud of:

Are you a business leader who deserves recognition? Don’t forget to enter The Her-ald’s Business Awards 2019 by visiting plym-outhbusinessawards.com. Entries close on Sunday March 17.

Women driving change in the business worldIn the future there will be no female leaders, Facebook chief Sheryl Sandberg famously said, there will just be leaders.

Well, perhaps the future starts now. Yester-day was International Women’s Day so what better time to look at Plymouth’s female busi-ness leaders who are already proving it

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Diane Nettleton – spa builderDiane is the director of Fistral Beach Hotel and Spa, esplanade Hotel, and Boringdon Hall Hotel. Leading the way in a spa revolution, the flagship new Gaia Spa retreat, treatment menu and product range was unveiled exclusively at Boringdon Hall

in spring 2016, and was Diane’s special project.

The destination spa on the edge of the city boasts over 1,600sqm of immersive relaxation and has been a major success helping Boringdon Hall to five-star status.

Soo Brizell, charity chiefSoo makes tireless efforts as a parent and head of employability at Shekinah – which provides opportunities for people in recovery from homelessness, drug and alcohol

Lindsey Hall – social enterprise executiveLinDSey Hall is co-founder and chief executive officer of the Real ideas Organisation (RiO) group.

RiO was formed Ms Hall and Matt Little.

The community interest company “went live” in September 2007 primarily as an educational organisation, working with schools

nationally and internationally. But a few months later the

prospect of taking on Devonport Guildhall came into view.

RiO took over the Victorian pile and its neighbouring column, on a 25-year lease via a community asset transfer from the council, in 2011 and set about masterminding a £1.75million one-year renovation.

Jean Rogers – beauty business bossJean is a prominent businesswoman and passionate champion for Plymouth having worked from the ground up to build her GHQ training centre, hair and beauty salon, and model agency; becoming a well-established and integral part of the Plymouth business sector.

She has worked from the

ground up to build her training centre, hair and beauty salon,

and model agency having started her working life as a teacher before moving into setting up Glenbeigh Model and Promotion agency in 1986. She founded sister

company GHQ Hair & Beauty and a third company, GHQ

Training, in 1990.

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Liz Lawson – retail linchpinIn 1998 Liz succeeded her father John as Managing Director of the long-standing homeware firm Lawsons, which has outlets in Plymouth and Totnes.

The company was founded by FTB (Tom) Lawson in 1904. The son of a missionary Tom was born in the Caicos Islands but returned to the

UK and settled in Plymouth. The business passed to his son Francis and then his son

John, so Liz is the fourth generation to run it.

Liz was a founder of the City Centre BID in 2005, the first BID to be established in the UK outside of London, and then the lead and driving force behind Flavour Fest. She stood down as vice-chair of the Plymouth City Centre Company and its BID in 2016.

Sophie Glover – fashion guruSoMe of the country’s most fashionable clothing is now being made in Plymouth – in a factory tucked away inside the building that once housed the famous Jaeger plant.

Makers HQ only started operating in August 2018, but already it is gaining a reputation for producing chic outfits for the capital’s ultra-cool clothing brands.

Sophie is studio

manager. She has a degree in robotics and engineering, but then embarked on a high-flying career in the fashion industry, working for Top Shop, Gap, M&S and ASoS, in London, before setting up the women’s wear brand Finery London. But the mum-of-two yearned to return to Devon.

Louise Pasterfield – e-learning entrepreneurAMerICAn-Born entrepreneur Louise Pasterfield founded e-learning business Sponge in 2004 and the chief executive has won a string of awards including being named The Herald’s entrepreneur of the

year in 2017.now one of

Britain’s fastest growing digital learning companies, the business creates innovative workplace learning solutions for global organisations.

Plymouth Sponge opened a new UK office in 2017 after another successful year which saw turnover jump by nearly 60%.

In 2018 Sponge opened offices in Bristol and Dublin – its first eU base – as well as expanding its London office and growing headcount at its Plymouth headquarters.

Plymouth’s outlet in Drake Circus shopping centre is run by the Drakes Jewellers family business, now in its third generation.

the late harry hirshman opened Drakes Fine Jewellers in 1951.

his son John took over in 1975 and John’s children monique and Andrew joined the

monique hirshman - jewellery shining lightcompany 30 years ago, now

running it as directors.Drakes group has

expanded and has outlets in truro, Exeter, swindon, two in Bournemouth, and another in taunton.

In 2014 it refitted and relocated its Plymouth

Pandora store, and opened one in Poole.

DonnA is operations director of recruitment company talem Group and is a director of Plymouth Age Concern.

she owns talem which incorporates Astra, mitrem and next Generation Care.

she has worked in the recruitment industry for more than 20 years and was

previously area sales manager for Concept staffing.

she launched Astra in 2010 and it has since become part of the larger entity talem.

Donna became vice chair of Devon and Plymouth Chamber of Commerce in 2018.

sheila snellgrove – theatre top gunshEIlA and her team founded the Barbican theatre company in 1980 from a ground floor flat in Wyndham street, stonehouse with no financial resources, no grant income and no rehearsal space. the theatre is now a dynamic charity offering as many people as possible, but especially the young, access to, participation in,

and enjoyment of high quality artistic activity, without prejudice.

sheila has just announced an exciting partnership with Plymouth Athenaeum. they have come together to launch Pl1 Partnership and develop the

Derry’s Cross building as “a vibrant theatre, music, comedy,

dance, lecture, and screenings venue”.

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Women’s Day event toinspire girls’ careers inscience and technologyCity hosts firstUK roadshow

On International Women’sDay, 120 girls from 10 schoolsacross the region took part ina Stem (science, technology,engineering and maths) dayat the INEOS TEAM UK head-quarters.

With only 22 per cent ofcareers in science and engi-neering taken up by women,the aim was to inspire girlsto consider a career in theseindustries.

The day was organised andco-ordinated by Portsmoutheducation charity, 1851 Trust.As reported in The News,after receiving £100,000 offunding from the Departmentfor Transport the event isthe first of 10 national road-shows focused on inspiringthe next generation of femaleengineers and scientists.

Development manager,Beckie Denny, said: ‘Today isabout building the girls’ confi-dence to challenge genderstereotypes and consider acareer in Stem subjects. The

girls will get the chance tospeak to female role modelsfrom industry and sailing aswell as taking part in a rangeof exciting activities on theTech Deck. Hopefully theywill come away thinking Stemis fun and is a career path theywould like to take.’

Miltoncross pupil Char-lotte Green, 12, said: ‘It hasbeen really fun to try newthings which you can’t do at

school. I think it is good ideato get more girls involvedin Stem subjects as they aregenerally seen as less confi-dent in certain careers.’

Portsmouth Academystudent, Shannon Hoskin, 11,added: ‘This event is a reallygood idea as it breaks downstereotypes. Girls have oftenbeen looked down on forcertain careers and this helpsto show that we can be just asgood at science and engineer-ing.’

One of the first key aims isto try and encourage a higherproportion of girls to opt forStem subjects in their GCSEs,

Miltoncross’s head of IT,Sharon Stone, said: ‘In mycomputer science class I only

have two girls in a class of16. Similarly there are only10 girls across my three ITclasses. The girls here todayare choosing their optionsthis year and so hopefullytoday will open their eyes tojust what Stem career possi-bilities are out there.’

The event was supportedby organisations includ-ing Airbus, BAE Systems,University of Portsmouthand Helical Productions. Alsosupporting the event wasformer Olympian, INEOSteam member and 1851 Trustambassador, Annie Lush.

Annie said: ‘As a profession-al sailor, I should have certain-ly studied engineering and sotoday’s event is really impor-

tant in educating girls as tothe different career possibili-ties out there. Whilst societyhas made great strides thereis still a lot to do to ensuregirls are confident to operatein what have been traditionalmale environments.’

Priory School pupil, FreyaHawkes, 12, said: ‘Today hasbeen great and I have learnedso many things about jobs inStem. It is really importantthat girls are better represent-ed in engineering and sciencecareers.’

by NEIL FATKINEducation reporterneil.fatkin@thenews.co.uk

CAREERS ADVICE 120 girls from schools around Hampshire took part in activities promoting science at the INEOS TEAM UKbase Pictures: Sarah Standing (080319-1432)

HI TECH Freya Hawkes and Talula Goldring fromPriory School with Chloe Healy, student ambassa-dor for the technology department at the Univer-sity of Portsmouth, with a 3D printer

LEADING THE FIELD Annie Lush, ambassadorfor the 1851 Trust who competed in the LondonOlympics as part of the INEOS team

RECIPE Jemma Green and Bronny Fulford from ThePetersfield School, making slime

It is really important that girlsare better represented inengineering and science careers.

Freya Hawkes, 12

MORE than 100 school-girls piloted a virtualreality boat, used nitrogencooling to make ice cream,programmed computer-coded robots and operated amodel of the Mars Rover at anevent which aimed to encour-age more women into scienceand engineering careers.

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Excerciseon carrierplans fordisaster

Firefighters and paramed-ics took part in the drill whichsimulated a massive fire andmass casualties on the RoyalNavy's £3.1bn aircraft carrier .

HMS Queen Elizabeth's offi-cial account tweeted on Thurs-day: ‘It got smoky on boardtonight as we again welcomedon @Hants_fire @scas_hartand the Emergency ResponseTeam from @BAES_Maritimefor an exercise simulating amajor fire and mass casual-ties.’

HMNB Portsmouth had sentout a warning to residents onWednesday to alert them tothe forthcoming exercise andtelling them not to be awarethat it was just a drill.

The exercise was a three-hour operation and it tookplace on HMS Queen Elizabethbetween 4.15pm and 7.15pm.

The future flagship iscurrently docked at the navalbase in Portsmouth.

She is due to sail up to thedry dockyard in Rosyth for herfirst set of major maintenancework.

The timeline for her depar-ture from out city has not beenconfirmed but HMS QueenElizabeth will spend six weeksin Scotland.

The Ministry of Defencealso confirmed the Queen Eliz-abeth-class carrier will returnto the USA in 2019.

The defence secretary GavinWilliamson has announcedplans for HMS Queen Eliza-beth to be deployed to thePacific, Middle East and Medi-terranean on her first opera-tional mission in 2021.

AN exercise simulating adisaster took place on-boardHMS Queen Elizabeth.

Nick Knowlesfilms scenesfor TV show

Former I'm a Celebritycontestant and DIY SOS hostNick Knowles was spotted inLee-on-the-Solent and Titch-field.

On social media, NickKnowles confirmed he wasin the area filming for a newseries of the BBC show CloseCalls: On Camera.

Replying to a fan asking whyhe was in Lee-on-the-Solent,he tweeted: ‘Filming for a newBBC daytime series of CloseCalls – love it here by the seaon a bright blustery day.’

Other people took to socialmedia after spotting the TVpresenter in the area.

The series, which airs onBBC, shows the split-secondmoments when everydayevents are transformed intodisasters.It premiered in 2014.

CAMERA crews visited thearea this week to film a newepisode for a popular BBCseries.