Author: LocHist

Power cuts

Powercut
In the event of a power cut, you can:

  • Call 105 to report power cuts and damage to the electricity network, or 0800 3163 105 (from a corded phone or mobile phone if you have no power);
  • Visit www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk for the latest updates;
  • Visit www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/powercut and type in your postcode to view the live power cut map;
  • Tweet @ukpowernetworks to report a power cuts or to receive updates;
  • Dig the Valor out of the barn and top it up from the can of Mazola that has been cluttering your kitchen ever since you switched to macadamia oil.

Your Parish Council

Robert's Rules
Fulking Parish Council (FPC) is a branch of English local government and operates accordingly. Meetings are open to the public and so any villager can attend. If you just want to listen to the proceedings then all you need to know is the date, time and location of the meeting (normally Fulking Village Hall). But if you want to participate in some more active way, by speaking, say, or by getting a topic onto the agenda, then you need to know the relevant rules that govern the proceedings. Some of these rules are generic to all formal meetings (as in ‘Robert’s Rules’) but others are specific to English parish government. Our website now has a Q&A reference page for FPC which you should probably look at if you wish to ensure that your views are properly considered.

Shoreham Fort Open Day

Plan of Shoreham Fort
Shoreham Fort, Forthaven, Shoreham-by-Sea, BN43 5HY, on Sunday 25th February from 11:00am–4:00pm. Come and join the volunteers and see what they’re up to. Tour of the fort will be at 2:00 pm and is free, although donations will be appreciated. The tour will take you into the tunnel, which is not usually open. Food for Fort will be serving hot drinks and home-made cake.

The Royal Sussex at Gallipoli 1915

Royal Sussex Regiment
Matthew Jones, Assistant County Archivist at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester, will talk about the Royal Sussex Regiment’s role at Gallipoli, using photographs, letters, posters, diaries, and regimental records held by the Record Office. If you missed this talk when it was presented in Upper Beeding a couple of years ago, you can hear it at 7:45pm at The Steyning Centre on Wednesday 14th February.

Discomfontulator

discomfontulator
St. Andrew’s offers complete cardiac security for christenings: it has placed a defibrillator right next to the font. You can now be confident that the godparents will survive the event. Cases of human spontaneous combustion (less common) can be tackled with the adjacent fire extinguisher.

The HART team from Henfield are coming to St. Andrew’s on Sunday 4th February at 12:30pm, immediately after Graham Jeffery’s 11:00am service. They will demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of the new defibrillator. Everyone is welcome: turn up at 11:00am for the service, or 12:15pm onwards for the tutorial session.