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Do you recognise this cat?
Is this your cat or do you recognise it? It was found curled up asleep behind a bulk bag of sand (and not wanting to move) in a driveway at the top of Clappers Lane. It has no collar on so cannot be identified – please bear this in mind if you are a cat owner. It is smallish, creamy colour with hint of ginger and longish fur.
We’re going to Brighton shortly to get it chip read (if it has one) – we may need to leave it there as it doesn’t seem that well.
Please ring Kate or Clive on 795 if you can help.
UPDATE: cat now reunited with owners.
Surplus to requirements
The Mid Sussex Times reports:
[Planning Inspector Geoff] Salter said it was up to HDC to decide how best to revise its housing strategy, and considered a new settlement was ‘not required in current circumstances’.
An Affair to Remember
Due to a very brief and quick affair between my very beautiful dalmatian and my stunning pharaoh hound, together they have produced eight very wonderful and healthy puppies in chocolate with white trim and black with white trim, Both boys and girls are available.
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Seven years
[Robert] Austin was a director of a company within the Mackintosh and Partners group, a timber firm based in Small Dole, near Brighton and in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, of which his father was the owner.
“Austin stole £2.6m from the group of companies between 2002 and 2008, falsifying records required for accounting purposes in order to do so,” said detective constable Dan Clark of the Sussex Police major fraud unit.
The firm went into liquidation as a direct result of the losses. It was an otherwise profitable company which had successfully traded for some 70 years.
The company had been one of southern England’s leading manufacturers of planed and moulded timber.
Satisfy your inner botanist
We need to turn your water off
Check your letterbox for an A5 card flyer with a red top. Houses along (at least) The Street/Poynings Road have been warned that mains water is to be disconnected between 9:00am and 1:00pm tomorrow, 17th December. Read the card but don’t bother checking the South East Water website for ‘Fulking’ — there is no information there at the moment.