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Bake Off winner puts Emmer Green in the news

THE WINNER of the Channel 4 Junior Bake Off competition this year, Austin, has put Emmer Green in the spotlight recently. Austin has grown up in the village and attends Emmer Green Primary School.
The series was filmed in summer 2024, but the final was not broadcast until this January. The family were not able tell anyone during the intervening months, which Austin said made it seem “unreal”.
He started baking whilst at Checkendon pre-school, where they ran a weekly Little Chefs baking session, and mum Georgina later taught him how to make a Victoria sponge. He has enjoyed baking ever since. His mum and sister encouraged him to apply for the Bake Off competition saying, “You could do that!” but it was Austin who put in his entry, “Spelling errors and all”. The filming was in Kent, in one-week blocks, although the final session was an intense ten days, spent with Georgina in a hotel…Read more

Longer Days

AS THE DAYS lengthen, we can really feel as if the Spring has arrived. Gardeners will already have planted the first potatoes, and with luck the cherry trees will be in blossom. We also have the Easter holidays to look forward to, with Easter Sunday on 20 April.
On the subject of Easter, our Talking Point article takes a look at Jesus’ encounters with his followers on the day of his resurrection from the dead, or soon after (p2). We have provided a summary of Easter services and events at our churches (p4).
In celebration of Spring, this month’s Creative Caversham features local landscape gardener, Hugh Netley…Read more