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Hot off the press

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Fiona’s back on the show next Sunday and the week’s hot topic (apart from a quick mention no doubt of Wednesday’s Great British Bake Off final!) is one that will strike a chord with many Girls Around Town listeners: the facts and myths surrounding the menopause.

In the first hour, she’ll be talking about how she’s helped lots of ladies through the transition of menopause over the past 16 years. Realising that women are very keen to help themselves and open to lots of different health ideas to achieve this, she’s put together some of the most successful things she’s seen work into a presentation which she’s now offering as a girls night in with a difference.

And the best part of it is, Fiona will come to you…

Then, after 11am, Deborah Garlick joins Fiona and June hotfoot from the successful launch of the Henpicked book, Menopause: The Change For The Better.

Find out why Deborah feels so strongly about the need for women to embrace the change, how the book came about and how its launch on World Menopause Day last week saw her #HotFlashMob tweets trending in the UK’s top 10 topics!

Tune in or listen online from 10am to 12 noon to discover how, as the women who will live longer post-menopause than any others in history, we can all make it count!

Sing as if no one is listening!

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Do you shy away from singing in public because someone once told you to ‘shut up and stop spoiling it for everyone else’?

Would you like to unleash your inner songbird somewhere other than under the shower just once in a while?

Well now you can, with a little encouragement from this week’s guest Nikki Whittaker!

Regular listeners to the show will have heard the Girls Around Town talking about the recent launch of Newark’s Tuneless Choir. Tina and Sue both went to its first meeting back in September – take a look at the video and you’ll be able to spot them singing (and swinging!) along to Delilah…

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday, when Nikki will be joining June and Sue in the studio to explain what prompted her to set up the Newark choir.

And how, even if you think your voice is a bit more Kermit than Kylie, there’s a place in its ranks for you and you could soon be singing and swinging along too!

Working together to make a difference

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Every year, 10 October is designated World Mental Health Day, a time to educate and raise awareness of mental illness and its major effects on people’s lives worldwide.

So, although the day itself was earlier this week, it’s particularly appropriate that on Sunday the Girls Around Town will be turning the spotlight on Newark MIND and The Newark Carers Group.

You’re probably thinking mental illness is something that happens to other people, that it’s nothing for you to worry about. But according to the World Health Organisation, ‘if we don’t act urgently, by 2030 depression will be the leading illness globally’.

And other statistics from The Mental Health Foundation include the following

  • Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental disorder in Britain
  • As many as 10 per cent of people in England will experience depression in their lifetime
  • Ten per cent of mothers and six per cent of fathers in the UK have mental health problems at any given time
  • One in five teenagers will experience a mental health problem in any given year

Join June, Tina and Sue when they meet Shirley Novak and Sarah Robinson, who’ll be talking about the services and support Newark MIND and the Newark Carers Group give to those experiencing mental health and emotional issues and to their carers and families.

Tune in or listen online from 10am to 12 noon to hear how local businesses and schools in the Newark area are getting involved, along with information about the new Let’s Work Together campaign being launched on Monday and the second Healthy Minds Week for schools next month…