A teacher is retiring after more than 40 years at St Bart’s School in Newbury. Linda Eastman was first offered a job at St Bart’s while visiting the school on teacher training, then aged 21. “It was literally a one-second decision,” she told newburytoday. But Mrs Eastman, who is now 64 and lives outside Andover, decided it is time to hang up her apron after nearly 44 years as a food technology teacher. She remembers serving Margaret Thatcher chocolate cake in 1985, and says the former Prime Minister told her the only cooking she did was boiled egg on toast for her and her husband on a Sunday n…