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10 - 17 August

Cover story: Give and take

Charities have got your number. Relying increasingly on the ‘event’ to boost their funds, everything from running marathons to jumping off tall buildings even walking around in your bra (Moonwalk, pictured) is now fair game for raising funds, and if you're not taking part, you'll be sponsoring someone who is. But some feel the participants are just chancers, seeing charity fundraising as a way to fulfil their dreams whilst keeping their wallet intact. We asked a trio involved who the real beneficiaries of this boom are, and whether the money raised from treks to China justifies the cost of sending globetrotters there for free. Feature starts on page 6.

Also in this issue

10 Crazy golf Jay Richardson checks out the new adventure goIf' facility. So what's he doing with a stuffed snake round his neck?

40 Discomfort food In the second of our two-part series on books ‘.'.II|CII are changing the way we view the food industry. we review Joanna BI'1.'IITITIRITS new volume.

48 Mick Hucknall The Simpli, Red front man once had a webSite named after him, called '1000 people more annoying than Mick Hucknall'. Can he "eaII; be such a pain in the butt? We couldn't possbly comment. But ca can get the €‘.ICI€ITC€. straight from the horse's mouth.

2 A bottle of Sailor Jerry for the Letter of the Issue 4 WIN a \firgin hot air balloon ride for two

4 WIN tickets to the Mull of Kintyre Music Festival 4

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Agenda

2 LETTERS

7 NEWS I What sOn Z7 AROUND TOWN

31 BOOKS 34 CLUBS

44 COMEDY 91 THEATRE

46 FILM 51 DVD

98 TV

99 VISUAL ART

' Life&Sty|e

107 EAT & DRINK 114 ENGAGE 118 CLASSIFIED

' Rear View

128 ANSWER MACHINE: MICK HUCKNALL

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