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A baker from Clitheroe paid “atten-shun" to detail to make alife-size Grenadier Guards­ man.:, from cake.


Rose Dummer, of Whalley Road , C l i th e r o e , w as commissioned by Cake Masters Magazine to make a 7ft Grenadier Guard out of cake'to raise money and awareness for this year’s Poppy Appeal. The mother-of-four


recruited helpers, includ­ ing Lancashire-based Lee Binch, Becca Ginley and Molly Robbins, to create the life-sized sculpture in


■ time for the BBC Good Food Bakes and Cakes Show in London. And after being giv­ en the thumbs up by the king and queen of baking - Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry - “Guardsman


Gus” joined his fellow Gren-' adiers, the First Regiment of Foot Guards, at Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace. Once there, Gus was pictured on parade with four guardsmen who will mount the Queen’s


\ Guard on Armi- i stice Day (next; .■ Tuesday) this


; year. The cake was . then served to the


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MP urges no more houses before core plan in place


Local MP Nigel Evans this week presented a petition to the House of Commons signed by more than 1,000 RibbleN


Valley residents


stating their opposition to the building of excessive numbers of houses in the area. '. The petition declares


that: “Small rural towns and villages like Longridge, Clitheroe and Whalley up and down the country are under siege from hous­ ing developers seeking to build excessive numbers of homes to encouragepeople to migrate from industrial towns and cities to rural communities.” Mr Evans said: “I do not


e> H'-i Rose Dummer serves Guardsman Tom Batty a big wedge of “Guardsman Gus”.


hungry Guardsmen and their comrades. Before becoming one of the UK’s top cake de­ signers, Rose had a very dif­ ferent career, serving with the Armed Forces. She was


• the Army Air Corps’s first fe­ male helicopter pilot, and


subsequently the first female Lynx pilot. With more than a million likes on her “Rosie Cake-Diva” Facebook page, she brought together her two careers for this special event to raise awareness of the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.


' “Cake Masters asked me


to bake a fantasy cake for the show and when I saw when it was taking place inthe runup toRemembranceSundaylwas determined to do something


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believe that the Govern­ ment intended to arrive at a situation where local authorities would feel un­ able to say no to developers without a Core Strategy in place. “But that is where we


are and I am supportive of the proposal in the pe-. tition to suspend the pre-


. sumption of approval for applications until 90% of local authorities have an approved-local develop­ ment plan.” '


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