Category Archives: On The Show

Flushed with success

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How time flies! It’s been a year since menopause campaigner Deborah Garlick last joined the Girls Around Town. But she’s back this weekend with an update on what has been an incredibly busy – and very successful – 12 months…

When she was on the show in October 2016, Deborah and her Henpicked colleagues had just created the Twitter sensation #HotFlashMob and put World Menopause Day and Nottinghamshire on the map.

Since then, she’s taken things to the next level, getting blue-chip businesses to develop menopause support programmes for their staff. And with companies such as Severn Trent, Next and PepsiCo involved, as well as Nottinghamshire Police, real change is on the way.

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon to find out exactly what Deborah’s been up to since her last visit to the studio. And to say ‘goodbye’ for the time being at least to Fiona, who’ll be handing over the reins as the show’s wellbeing guru to Rosalyn from next month…

She’ll be back before long though, with updates on her own new adventures working with Inspire – watch this space for news of her return!

Passion on a plate

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From bikes to bakes on this week’s show, when the Girls Around Town meet Jade Ostler…

Still in her early 20s, Jade has already achieved almost as much as many people do in their entire working lives. And she’ll be in the studio on Sunday morning to tell June and Tina all about it.

After a hectic 10 years, three of them spent living and working in Australia, she’s now back in Lincoln where she’s recently launched Jade’s Bakes.  From cakes to cordials, pies to preserves, traybakes to truffles – if you’ve a sweet tooth, merely reading the descriptions on her website of all the goodies on offer will make your mouth water!

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon tomorrow to find out more. She’ll be talking about her time spent working in bakeries and restaurants both at home and abroad, including a three-week spell at Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, and explaining how the experience she gained gave her the knowledge and confidence to launch her own business.

So just where do the bikes come in?

Well, not so long ago Jade was all set for a sporting career. At 10 years old, she played tennis for her home county, then later switched to cycling and qualified for the British team for the 2012 Olympics.

But her long-time passion for food won out. She turned her attention to baking and, four years later, she’s now sharing that passion, to the delight of cake-lovers in and around Lincoln and beyond!

A very modern morality tale

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Earlier this year, Jackie Buxton joined the Girls Around Town in the studio to talk about her book Tea & Chemo…

During that interview, there was barely time to give more than a brief mention to her debut novel, Glass Houses, which was published by Urbane Publications in July 2016.

So she’ll be back next weekend to pick up where she left off nine months ago, explaining what inspired her to write this modern day fable of crime, redemption and hypocrisy.

An amazing book about the consequences of our actions, how making one stupid mistake can be felt by so many like a shockwave…will keep you transfixed from the first page to the last

When 51-year old Tori Williams sends a text while driving on the M62 motorway and allegedly causes the horrific crash in which three people die, her life implodes. Public and press are baying for her blood but Tori is no wallflower and refuses to buckle under their pressure or be a pariah in society.

Instead, she sets about saving the nation. But can she save Etta, the woman who saved her life? Or will Etta’s secret be her downfall?

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday when June, Tina and Sue find out more about Glass Houses and catch up with what Jackie’s been doing since her last visit to Radio Newark.

Is there another book in the pipeline perhaps? And, if there is, can she be persuaded to share at least a hint or two about the tale she’ll be telling next?