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Clitheroe 422324 (Editorial), 422323 (Advertising), Burpley.422331 (Classified), www.clitheroetoday.co.uk NFU comes up with a CD of the top 10 tunes - specially for the turkeys!


IT won't jus t be your granny doing the funky chicken a t this year's Christmas party - this sea­ son the turkeys themselves will have some tunes to chill out to. The NFU is sending turkey farmers a "relax­


ation" CD to see if playing music gets the birds shaking their tail feathers. The NFU has drawn up the experiment after


consultation with animal behaviour experts from the Roslin In s t i tu te in Edinburgh. Farmers


involved in the NFU's Turkey Hotline, a dedicat­ ed number to put shoppers in touch with their nearest farm selling fresh turkeys for Christmas, will take part. The "turkey top 10" contains a range of tracks


aimed at having a positive calming influence on the birds: •Wind chimes


• Happy turkeys • Gregorian chanting


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• Dawn chorus • Sounds of the forest • Sounds of the seaside


' • Wind on the moors • Trotting horses


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• Farmyard sounds • Whale sounds NFU turkey spokesman Mike Bailey said: "It is


well known among farmers that a background of constant sound calms birds, probably because it


drowns out unexpected noise. “British farmers care ■ about their animals so now we want to put this the­ ory to the test and get a definitive answer which , will help turkey producers in future years. \ "Our ‘turkey top 10’ includes many naturally calming sounds that we hope will have a positive affect on the turkeys' behaviour. There won't be a Birdie Song in sight." All the farmers signed up to the Turkey Hotline have been sent the CD with a survey form to fill *7


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1 a t the Rehoming Centre gates on Christmas Eve to make way for the new puppy. These are just three of the hundreds of stories Dogs Trust sees every Christmas. The UK’s leading dog welfare


charity may have changed its name to Dogs Trust, b u t its message remains the same "A Dog is for Life, not Just for Christmas." This year the charity is again warning people against buying puppies as Christmas presents. Dogs Trust Chief Executive and


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a puppy this Christmas, please con­ sider the following: • Owning a dog is a lifetime com­


mitment. The average dog lives for 13 years. • Dogs are not cheap to care for.


You should expect to spend around £8,000 over his lifetime. • Puppies can be extremely hard


work for an owner, particularly if there are young children in the house - do you have enough time to spend with your pup? • Dogs do not come fully trained.


They can cause a lot of damage to your possessions through chewing


EACH’year in the UK, over £200 million is spent sending paper Christmas cards. If laid end to end, these same cards would circle the M25 more than 117 times. To help Christmas greetings be more than


pieces of card thrown away in the New Year, Help the Aged has joined forces with Birth- dayAlarm.com to introduce a unique Charity e-cards fundraising service. Help the Aged is calling on Christmas wellwishers to send e- cards and donate the money they would have spent on paper cards to Help the Aged online. A special message will be displayed to e-card recipients informing them about this fun new


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and accidents. How committed are you to training your dog? • Christmas is always a very hec­


tic time of year. This is not the best time to introduce your new dog to the house. There were more than 111,000


stray and abandoned dogs in the UK last year - unwanted Christmas present pups may account for many of these. So. serious is the Christmas: Present Pup situation th a t all 15 Dogs T ru s t Rehoming Centres across the UK will not be rehoming any dogs over the festive season. Although the Rehoming Centres are open for viewing, no dogs will be going to new homes from December 20th right through to January 1st. More than three million "A Dog


is for Life, N o t Ju s t for Christmas(tm)" car stickers are sent to Dogs Trust supporters each year. If you would like one, please send a SAE to: Dogs Tru st Car Sticker Appeal, Dogs Tru st, 17 Wakley Street, London, EC1V 7RQ. If after all of this, you decide you


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E-cards support for Help the Aged


charity to continue its support and campaigns such as tackling winter deaths and isolation suffered by many older people during the fes­ tive season. Hilary Birch, Fundraising Development


Executive a t Help the Aged, says: “Taking the hassle out of shopping and posting, e- cards are a far more convenient and environ­ mentally friendly way of sending a greeting. You can make a real difference to the lives of older people at no overall cost to yourself.” To send ch arity e-cards, simply visit


www.birthdayalarm.com/helptheaged and pledge to send e-cards instead of paper cards for the next 12 months. A suggested minimum donation of just £5 allows you to send Chari­ ty e-cards for one year.


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THE Dogs Trust’s slol to help people think bel buying a dog as a Christ! present has been one of| most successful campal to raise the public’s awl ness. The message is a .1 pie one; make sure that! recipient is aware that a [ needs a ttentio n all y| round. More than three-quartel


the annual sales of port ol during the few weeks leal up to Christmas, and yeti unique style of wine coma enough guises to be apprej ed all year round. The vineyards of the D |


valley are a beautiful sight, i as terraces into the steep vJ sides as the Douro river wenq intricate path to the sea at ( to.


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varieties are authorised for | production, but the key coif nents are Touriga Natic Tinta Barocca, Toul Francesca, Tinta Roriz (Sp| Tempranillo) and Tinta What makes port wine specl that it is a ‘fortified wine’, \\ | the wines’ normal ferment/ has been halted by the add! of spirit before all of the grl natural sugars have been | verted to alcohol. The result is a red (or wH


wine that is sweet and witl alcohol level somewhere beti 16.5 and 20% by volume. There are two basic genrl


port; those th a t are wootf cask) aged and those th a j destined to be bottle aged, designed to be aged in bil spend a short period in oak f (perhaps two or three yd before being bottled un-filt| requiring something close i 25 years to reach matil Wood-aged ports are filterel therefore generally ready f drunk when bottled. There are several diffd


styles of port within thesl genres, each of which with| vidual characteristics and i The list below gives you a I idea of the styles and soml ommended producers for y | look out for. RUBY - Usually the chel


and simplest style of port, I in bulk for a couple of }| before being bottled young f it still has plenty of its zest J sonality. Two producers m l reliable Ruby Port are Dow| Cockburn’s. TAWNY - This term ajl


to a largish range of p o r t / have spent varying lengtl time in wood, losing coloul taking on a characteristic t J brown hue. Lots of TawnitJ bottled with an indication ( on the label, 10, 20, 30, and 40 years old can be found. 1 tends to happen is th a j longer the port spends inT the more its taste moves! sweetness to a slightly f style, also taking on dried! fig and date flavours as \v| subtle oaky tones. Ten-yel Tawny is the favoured dril the port vineyards, whereT choose to serve it chilled


out. Last year 114 farmers signed up to the scheme after paying a £20 subscription. I t received 1,400 calls and generated an income of £50,000. Mr Bailey added: "By choosing a turkey straight


from the farm, shoppers are assured of buying good quality and value fresh local meat raised to high a n im a l welfare standards;” The hotline number is 0870 060 3436. I t will operate from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday, ending on Christmas Eve. Calls are charged at the national rate.


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