Nick Herbert reports:
If party conferences can seem remote affairs to most people, this one had direct relevance to us in West Sussex when the Transport Secretary, in his speech, said: ‘Soon we’ll set out plans to improve vital congested roads like .. the A27’. The only other major roads he mentioned were the A1 in the north and the A303.
October 19th — a traditional Harvest Festival Service at 11.00am will be followed by our ever popular harvest picnic — bundles of harvest/ploughman’s food tied up in a knapsack and eaten inside or if fine in our grounds, allowing us to take a little ‘time out’ and relax and enjoy our surroundings.
Picnics (£6.50) should be ordered in advance — phone Chris on 01273-857322 or Jane on 07812-465-559.
The Fulking Parish Council will gather for their quarterly meeting at 7:30 on Thursday October 9th in the Village Hall — agenda. Guest speaker: Matt Roberts from the BlueBird Community Partnership. Members of the Press and Public are welcome to attend.
Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451060/andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
Look out for the story on LAMBS’ battle against Mayfield Market Towns to be broadcast on The One Show tomorrow evening from 7:00pm.
The One Show was filming in the locality yesterday looking at Mayfields’ proposals and the wall of opposition from local people. Andy Kershaw and the film crew began at The Royal Oak in Wineham just after breakfast where they spoke to leafleting volunteers before moving to Twineham to interview a local land owner. By lunchtime they were up on Devil’s Dyke talking to LAMBS and the CPRE and then on to Haywards Heath for comments from Mid Sussex District Council and a spokesman from Mayfields.
Found in Clappers Lane, apparently en route to Knole House, and immediately adopted by the team from the website.
The new Pigeon will consist of two sides of A4 and be based on the website. It will appear on the first of each month. One side will consist of the calendar/diary of events for that month. We will depend on you to tell us about all the things that need to be included. Telepathy is insufficient. The other side will contain (i) routine Fulking items that pertain to the coming month — church and parish council matters, social committee matters, etc., and (ii) text contributed by readers — letters, rants, pleas, anything legal. Just send it in to the email address in the banner above. All Pigeon Post material will also appear on the website.
Pigeon Post has come a long way since Nick and Jill Bremer put the idea together quite a few years ago. The biggest leap forward since then has been the contribution from the most recent editor, Aidan Walker. His imagination and artistic ability had made it a village newspaper to be envied by other villages. I, for one, am terribly sorry that an era has passed and that his format has had to be discontinued but I quite understand the reasons.
Many thanks, Aidan, for doing us proud.
Bob Rowland
