fulking.net - This is the community website for the people of Fulking, West Sussex

Nomads top Premier League

Last year’s Champions Preston Nomads top the Sussex Premier League after four games ahead of Cuckfield and East Grinstead following a three wicket win at Three Bridges .. Horsham are within five points of the leaders who they meet at Fulking next Saturday.

Town councillors in Midhurst are losing patience. Colin Hughes said “I wouldn’t mind if there was work being done, but there is no indication of any work whatsoever”. Gordon McAra said he was very concerned about the obtrusive fencing around the SDNPA’s Capron House property with apparently little happening behind it. Earlier this month the Midhurst and Petworth Observer revealed that the cost of the project had soared from £1.5m to almost £3m and was continuing to spiral despite little work having yet been carried out. A spokesman for the SDNPA said “we are looking at how we can improve the hoarding”.

Action in rural Sussex – Orchards

orchard1 Action in rural Sussex and Brighton Permaculture Trust have now guided over 70 community groups and schools through the process of designing, planting and maintaining a small orchard (and occasionally , a larger orchard!). If you have ever thought that you would like to help the landscape of Sussex to be as fruitful as it once was, or to share with a new generation the pleasures of fresh orchard fruits and local apple varieties, just click on the link below. Community orchards offer a fantastic opportunity to grow an array of apples and other fruits you won’t find in the shops, are a haven for all kinds of wildlife, and are lovely places to enjoy, at all times of year.

http://www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk/community-orchards

Please do get in touch to find out more or ask any questions. Email me on this address for all orchard enquiries:

anne-marie.bur@brightonpermaculture.org.uk

Anne-Marie Bur
Co-ordinator Local Produce
PLEASE NOTE NEW DIRECT LINE NUMBER!
Direct Line: 01273 407310 Mobile: 07849 233294

AIRS_logo Action in rural Sussex
Sussex House
212 High Street
Lewes
East Sussex
BN7 2NH

Tel: 01273 473422
Fax: 01273 483109
Action in rural Sussex is a registered charity, number 1035401

Nature Tots

The Sussex Wildlife Trust has developed a Forest School programme specifically for pre-school age children (2-5 year olds) starting at Woods Mill Nature reserve. Nature Tots is a brand new programme focused around getting pre-school children engaged in wildlife and outdoor activity. More information here.

Landfill Money for Pyecombe

The Veolia Environmental Trust has awarded Pyecombe Church a grant of £20,000 towards installing new toilet facilities. The new toilets are part of a larger project that will also extend the church and install a new, modern kitchen.

Libellula depressa at Woods Mill

The View from Bahrain

It is reassuring to discover that the “Round-the-clock Security News Service” of the Police Media Center at the Ministry of the Interior in Bahrain is keeping a close eye on important developments in Fulking. They seem to have missed the recent burglary in Clappers Lane, though.

Fulking Drama – Land Rover plunges over the top

Land Rover - white roof still in place — Land Rover – white roof in place

Local Fulking resident Sheena Trist quickly called the emergency services last night when she heard screams for help.

Incredibly luckily, Sheena was saying goodbye to someone on her drive when she heard cries for help coming from the hill. A man called out from the crashed vehicle and they had to shout to each other. Sheena realised that she’d better phone for an ambulance.

Emergency vehicles very quickly turned up in large numbers. There were reportedly about twenty Police, Ambulance and Fire Brigade vehicles at one stage parked along the Edburton Road near Perching Drove. Many were left with their engines running and windscreen wipers wiping as the emergency service personnel had rushed on foot up the hill to come to the aid of the trapped people.

Land Rover - Roof Removed by the Fire Brigade — Land Rover – roof removed by the Fire Brigade

The 26 year old driver was trapped for over two hours as the Fire Brigade gradually cut bits off the Land Rover to free him. He was then airlifted away to hospital by the Coastguard helicopter.

The white Land Rover had been driving along the top of the hill on the South Downs Way with three occupants on board. At some stage it seemed to lose its grip and careered down the very steep side of the hill. The hill is about 400 feet high at that point. The car hit a bank and then came to rest about half way down the hill. The location it ended up made it inaccessible to all the emergency vehicles.

The BBC News website reports that Sussex Police said the driver had suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries, while two other men had minor injuries.

You can also read reports at The Argus, Brighton and Hove News, the BBC and The Mail Online (video footage too).

The Aftermath