According to this newish SDNPA website, Fulking is in the midst of a desolate area in which it is impossible to buy or eat local produce. Saddlescombe Farm provides an oasis — they are the only local food producers. Perhaps the SDNPA will give them an award for raising sheep on sand.
Latest News of Local Interest
‘Tell Us Once’ service launches in West Sussex
Losing a loved one can be a traumatic experience.
There are lots of things that need to be done, at a time when you probably least feel like doing them, including informing what can feel like a never ending list of government departments and local authority services.
That’s why West Sussex County Council, in partnership with District and Borough Councils in West Sussex, is introducing the ‘Tell Us Once’ service in July.
‘Tell Us Once’ is a Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) service which is offered during death registration appointments.
It’s a free service, which notifies several government and council agencies of the death. These include:
- The DWP
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Identity and Passport Services
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and
- Council services, such as Adults’ Services, Blue Badge, Children’s Services, Council Tax, Electoral Services
At registration, the Registrar will add the details of the deceased to the Tell Us Once national database.
You will then be given a unique reference number which will enable you to activate ‘Tell Us Once’ with a visit to the website or a single call, should you wish to take up this service.
For more information, please visit www.westsussex.gov.uk/births-marriages-and-deaths.
Cakes please…
Fulking Fair urgently needs your homemade cakes and biscuits this Sunday!
With the impending return of the Great British Bake Off, it could be your chance to practise. (Mary & Paul won’t be judging)
Please deliver to Ceri at Four Acres as early as you can on the 26th.
Poynings to enter C21
Yes, they are planning to get a defibrillator ..
LAMBS Ball 2015
Booking is now open for this year’s Yellow Ribbon Ball at Hickstead on Saturday, 26th September. You can reserve a table and bring your friends for an evening of food, fun and dancing. Tickets are £65 (per person) and include a three course meal, dancing to Cinnamon Street and illusions from magician Tom. Email lambsfundraising@gmail.com now to reserve tickets for this year’s event (and save the countryside at the same time).
Dogservation No. 3
Fido was confused. He decided that, on balance, it would be best if he set off for Upper Beeding on Sunday morning after breakfast. If the show wasn’t there, well, he could continue on to Steyning via Bramber. He wasn’t sure about Shoreham — it was a long way and his legs were rather short. He had done it once but he had been much younger in those days and a nice lady from Shoreham Dogs Trust had still had to drive him home.
Fido wasn’t ambitious, or vain, but he had always secretly hoped that he might one day receive a ‘Third Reserve: Well Done!’ beige rosette in the ‘Any Other Dog’ category. Next Sunday was going to be his chance to make that dream come true.
SDNPA Cabling FAQ
Work is due to start this month on the cable ducts that will provide Lancing and Worthing rats with a safe and sheltered route from Brooklands Pleasure Park to Bolney. Click on the image above for the SDNPA’s notes on the matter. A map of the Edburton rat underpass can be found here.
Clappers Lane Drainage, Episode LXXVII
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Three Belles at Royal Oak
Saturday 18th July at 2:00pm. Seafood barbeque, champagne and Pimms bar.
Call the pub at 01273-857389 to book.
When you’ve recovered, you can head back to the Shepherd & Dog for what’s left of their Gin & Jazz Festival.
Bug Shot Competition
Just get out your camera (or phone) and take a close-up of any insect you come across in roughly the area that Mayfield Market Towns hopes to destroy (the rectangle of the Low Weald bounded by the A23 to the east, the A272 to the north, and the A281 to the south and west). Your photo may just prove to be the vital piece of evidence which ends up protecting the area forever. The subjects of all your photos will be identified by our wildlife experts and then judged in the categories of: Beauty or Beast, Weird or Wonderful, or Most Notable Species. Given the rationale for the competition, the quality of your photo is not as important as the subject. The winners in each category will receive copies of the both of first two books in Nils Vissers’s Wyrd Wood Series which are based in the Sussex Weald. Nils is a huge supporter and has already pledged half of the proceeds of his second book to our campaign. Please take part if you can and encourage your family and friends to enter as well. There is no limit to the number of entries.
Submit entries by September 1st 2015 via Facebook or by email to press@lambs.org.uk.