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.
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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.
Not a lot to do
According to the National Parks Authority, no events have been organized in the South Downs as part of National Parks Week. Congratulations to the SDNPA for their resolve in keeping visitors at bay, and residents’ diaries free of clutter.
Henfield Summer Fayre
This month’s BN5
Many residents of Fulking, Horn Lane and Oreham Common will have noticed that their copy of the July BN5 arrived yesterday, 10th July. This was thanks to a new scheme initiated by the Royal Mail sorting office in Rochester: they now send new periodicals off for ‘responsible recycling’ prior to delivery thus saving individual recipients the bother. In this instance, they sent 288 copies of the latest BN5 directly to the responsible knacker’s yard. When the BN5 team learned of this (from those of you who notified them), they managed to hastily assemble 200 out-of-area copies and the Henfield delivery office distributed these yesterday.
If you have a shed full of periodicals that you would like to have ‘responsibly recycled’, give the folks at Royal Mail in Rochester a buzz.
Truleigh Hill Health Walk
Five miles, Tuesday July 14th 2015, 2:00pm–4:00pm, five miles starting from the High Trees car park (by the roundabout where the A2037 joins the A283). Organized by Horsham District Council, free, led by trained volunteers. No need to book, just turn-up at start point.
