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THESE three loveable pooches are in desperate need of a new home. Pippa, Daisy and Todd are all in the care of the City Dogs' Home and staff there are keen to find a new owner for each of them - preferably in the care of a family with slightly older children.

Man's Best Friend Needed Own Pal ; Honey and Blake After 20 Years Without Any Pets, the Bubbly Labradors Were a Welcome Addition to the Roden Household

AS FAR as best friends go, you don't get much closer than Honey and Blake. The adorable Labradors have shared a home together for the last 12 months and continue to get on like a house on fire. "We've had Honey for two years after my daughter Charlotte kept begging and begging us to get a dog," says 46-year-old catering supervisor Sandra Roden.

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FILM Anna Drinkwater, aged 37, from Emery Avenue, the Westlands, is a member of the Newcastle Players. She prefers the lighthearted comedy of Walt Disney's The Three Musketeers, to other, more serious films. I THINK it's the fact that there is a lot of action involved in The Three Musketeers, with the characters going from one disaster to another, that makes it my favourite film. It has the typical Disney feel of the goodies winning against the baddies, and has Chris O'Donnell, playing D'Arta...

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BOOK Sue Beech, aged 53, from Congleton, is the Chair of Society at the Congleton Youth Theatre. She explains the impact Johanna Spyri's Heidi had on her childhood. I WAS drawn to this book as a young girl, and I have read it at least four or five times. The story is so endearing and sad, as Heidi is an orphan, sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss mountains. When she is taken away to the big city, she experiences homesickness for her grandfather and eventually she is reunited with him.

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RECIPE Keen baker Laura Martlew, aged 19, from Woodlands Road, Trent Vale, is a student at Staffordshire University. She shares her recipe for fairy cakes with vanilla cream topping. Laura says: "I really enjoy baking, especially cakes, and this recipe is quite simple but can be enjoyed again and again."

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Staff Learn to Use Signs

DEAF customers can look forward to a better service after staff at an opticians after the team took part in a sign language course. The team at Specsavers, in High Street, Newcastle, have completed a six-week sign language course by Sign for Life that has been tailor-made for optics. The eight participating members of staff have learnt how to ask a patient for their name, address and date of birth, and are also able to introduce themselves and sign about available frames and offers in-store.

Estate Lights Up Fireworks

THE Shugborough Estate's firework and bonfire extravaganza will take place next weekend. The display, organised by Stafford Round Table, is one of the largest events in the county, pulling crowds of thousands of people every year.

Raf Fly in for College Visit

COLLEGE students are to receive life skills training from the Royal Air Force. The RAF's motivational outreach team will be visiting the construction and engineering students at Newcastle College on Thursday and Friday.

Artists Show Work at Fair

MORE than 20 regional artists will display their work at a craft fair next week. Visitors to Stafford's Shire Hall Gallery will be able to buy items made by the designers at the Handmade Contemporary Craft Fair on Friday and Saturday.

Pounds 400,000 Help to Bring Up Children ; Parent Services Boosted After Consultation

FAMILIES are to get a brand new information service, tips on coping with teenagers, and access to an army of support workers after parents drew up a list of priorities for improvements in services. The changes are part of a major parenting strategy for Staffordshire, which will see more than Pounds 400,000 of Government cash invested in helping mums and dads manage the stresses and strains of bringing up children.

Woodhouse's Soapbox

ROY is in turmoil as he tells Hayley about Tony's shock confession over the murder of Liam, pictured right. The revelation has so shocked him he can barely do up his duffel coat.

Memorable Walks

MADAM, - Reading an article Saturday's Sentinel a while ago brought back many happy memories of when I was at Queensberry Road Boys School in Normacot, Longton, where Laurie Landon, pictured, with his award from the YHA, was a teacher in the 1950s. While I was there Laurie Landon took me and many other boys on YHA trips to many hostels all over the British Isles, including the Antrim Coast, and the Isle of Arran. These where times I have never forgotten, he inspired my love of walking, climbi...

The Tech Was First Class

MADAM, - In All Our Yesterdays a while ago you printed a picture of the Old Haywood Hospital but I felt the caption accompanying it was somewhat misleading. The old Hospital became Burslem Junior Technical School in 1932 and retained that name until 1949.