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Buy local and save nearly £900 a year
Family shuns supermarkets and SAVES £900 a year after switching to local shops and markets following birth of daughter
- Ian and Rebekah Pugh gave up supermarkets to save money
- Experiment began before the birth of their daughter Lizzie
- Over the year they have saved £900 and say their diet is better
- Now they plan to stay supermarket-free forever
By David Wilkes
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Realising that supermarkets were costing them a small fortune, they set themselves the challenge of shunning them for a year.
Sticking to ten strict rules, the couple limited their food budget to £50 a week and began buying all their groceries from local shops and markets.
Shop swap: Ian and Rebekah Pugh gave up supermarkets before the birth of their daughter Lizzie and say they have saved money and have a better diet
Christmas is a normal working day for us
Real people – whose time with their family is often postponed.
5:00pm Saturday 21st December 2013 in Local News By Ian Weinfass
Christmas is a normal working day for us
WHILE most of us are watching the Queen’s Speech, the Doctor Who Christmas special or tucking into our turkey but for some, it is a normal working day.
We all take it for granted that help is available for us 24 hours a days seven days a week, even on December 25.
But behind the uniform of these dedicated people, there are real people – whose time with their family is often postponed.
Barry Cryer backs The Big Issue’s Caring at Christmas campaign
Comedy titan and top chap Barry Cryer insists he’s enjoying being an oldie at Yuletide, but like The Big Issue’s Caring at Christmas campaign, he says we should spare a thought for those who are less lucky.
“Well I’m lucky, I’ve got a big plan,” the 78-year-old said. “The Big Issue knows about this – loneliness is the most awful thing. And I was spared, been dogged by good luck all my life. We’ve got four children and seven grandchildren, so it’s a big family.
“With the extended family – the in-laws and the outlaws – we’ve got huge group photographs. Very lucky. We’re going to be moving about quite a lot at Christmas. It’s a family thing and I’m so grateful for it.
“The build-up to Christmas gets to me a bit: the frenzy, the rushing about, people going, ‘Oh, I haven’t bought that present and blah blah blah.’ You can feel it in the air, you can smell it.
“I retreat a bit, back from the frenzy. But once it’s arrived I love it. It starts so early commercially, it seems they’re all cashing in very early on. But once it arrives and you pull up the drawbridge… if you’re lucky, as I am, to have a family and a whole gang… I love every minute of it.”
