On the Market Place yesterday there was a Market with a difference. A dozen young enterprise teams, each with a company name and business idea were selling their product – a bit like the Apprentice on TV.

Pictures here are Nascent, a young enterprise team from Larkmead School. They had produced and were selling a cook book called ‘Oh Crumbs!’ with some of their staff’s favorite recipes. It included among others: Mr Crowe’s simple sausage and pasta, Miss Dering’s Lentil Dahl, and Mrs’s Box’s Fruit cake. They are seen here with the Mayor Cllr Alice Badcock, who went to Larkmead a few years ago.

A team from Abingdon School had developed a line of mobile phone products

including speakers that amplified the sound of the phone without the need for any wires. They went under the name of Acc.ESS.

Belindas Jewellery Box in West St Helen Street has started the first of a number of craft workshops in the shop

First one is a henna craft course.

For more information see Belindas Jewellery Box on facebook

We have been spoilt over the last eight or nine years having the wonderful Patisserie Pascal just up the road. Pascal retired a few months ago and new owners took over, but they have not managed to continue the success. They closed a few days ago, and the shop will re-open as a different sort of retailer. Good luck to the new venture.