Daily Mail - 17.08.2019

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Tar very much

Former mayor: Vince Hunt

Could spicy

dish from

Korea be

a cure for

baldness?

IT is known for helping maintain

a healthy gut, but now scien-

tists have found kimchi could

be used to reverse hair loss.

The Korean dish of fermented

cabbage, onions, garlic, fish

sauce and spices is already

popular with health-conscious

consumers and known for its

probiotic qualities.

But research shows a kimchi

drink sold in South Korea helps

thicken existing hairs and grow

new ones within weeks.

Researchers at Dankook Uni-

versity near Seoul studied 23

men, some in the early stages

By Andy Dolan

By Pat Hagan

Track outside councillor’s isolated country home is

resurfaced – as major local roads remain potholed

Tale of two roads: A pitted street in Oswestry and the resurfaced

lane outside Vince Hunt’s house in neighbouring Trefonen

Daily Mail, Saturday, August 17, 2019

Oswestry if other roads had been

relaid instead.

Sandy Best, who serves alongside

Mr Hunt, 55, on Oswestry Council

said: ‘The main street in the town is

full of potholes. There’s also a grid

sinking down in it, which had warn-

ing lines sprayed around it so long

ago that they are now fading away.

Other main thoroughfares also need

attending to. People in the town are

saying “What about our roads?”’

The road where speaker of Shrop-

shire County Council Mr Hunt lives

bisects fields in countryside south

west of Oswestry. His home includes

stables and peacocks have been

known to roam the grounds.

Paul Wiseman, who set up Shrop-

shire Friends to hold elected offi-

cials to account, said: ‘Councillor

Hunt’s lane doesn’t see a lot of traf-

fic which is why it is surprising that

it has been chosen to be resur-

faced... how nice of Shropshire

Council to think of Mr Hunt and his

neighbours in these trying times.’

The lane was relaid just before

Christmas last year, 17 months

after fellow councillor and Trefo-

nen resident Joyce Barrow had

contacted council officers.

In an email in July 2017, titled

‘Vince Hunt’s Road!’, she wrote to

highways manager Chris Fisher,

asking: ‘Vince has asked me to find

out when the middle bit of the

[lane] will be resurfaced as he was

promised some time ago.’ Mr Fisher

replied: ‘We have been unable to

get Ringway [the council’s then

highways contractors] to do any

patching for us this year. I will sub-

mit this as a scheme and keep you

and Vince informed.’

By October 2018, the work was

given the go ahead. Unsurprisingly,

most of Mr Hunt’s neighbours

welcomed the work. Peter Long,

who lives nearest the councillor,

said: ‘The road before was awful,

full of potholes and dangerous.’

Shropshire Council said: ‘High-

ways maintenance is prioritised on

the basis of need, not by council-

lors demanding specific work to be

done.’ Mr Hunt, a father-of-two, did

not return requests for comment.

‘The lane doesn’t

see a lot of traffic’

THe lane outside the afflu-

ent village of Trefonen

serves just six properties,

including the sprawling

country home of leading

councillor Vince Hunt.

So when the one-mile track –

which the former town mayor

rides his shire horse down – was

resurfaced while other key

roads in neighbouring Oswestry

remained pitted and potholed,

eyebrows were raised.

A fellow councillor said there

would have been a greater econom-

ical and environmental boost to

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of hair loss and others visibly

thinning on top. They were told

to have a kimchi drink before

breakfast and at bedtime.

After a month, the average

number of hairs had risen from

about 85 per sq cm of scalp to

90, and then 92 after four

months of drinking the liquid.

The scientists said this was a

significant increase that

appeared to have reversed hair

loss in most of the men.

In a report on the findings,

published in the World Journal

of Men’s Health, the research-

ers said: ‘Current drugs can

have adverse effects so their

use is usually temporary.

‘We found kimchi could pro-

mote hair growth and reverse

baldness. It is a safer treatment

strategy for patients.’