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Parish Council 9th October 7:30pm Village Hall
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
The BBC to film Mayfield — update
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.
Pigeon rehomed
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.
Aidan’s Pigeon Post
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
The Secret Sussex Resistance
A talk on the Sussex Auxiliary Units to be given by Stewart Angell, the country’s leading authority on the topic, at Ditchling Village Hall on Friday 10th October at 7:30pm. Booking is essential.
Auxiliary Units were a secret resistance network of highly trained volunteers prepared to be Britain’s last ditch line of defence during World War Two. They operated in a network of cells from hidden underground bases around the UK. [CART]
The Sussex Regional Headquarters was at Tottington Manor. Volunteers in Sussex, as elsewhere, were mostly local farmers. Small Dole had a unit based at Old Erringham Farm. If you have never previously heard of the Auxiliary Units but want to learn more, then the book to read is Stewart Angell’s (1996) The Secret Sussex Resistance, 1940-1944, Midhurst: Middleton Press (readily available).
Book Nook opening hours
During the winter months we will be changing our hours. For those of you who don’t know about this exciting venture we have transformed part of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, by the Village Hall in Fulking, into a bring and buy bookshop and have an ever changing selection of bargain books, CDs, DVDs, etc. for sale. All have been generously donated, and last year we raised over £500 from our sales.
Opening Hours from October 1st 2014
All Wednesdays 10:30am–12:00pm
One Sunday each month 11:00am–4:00pm (October 12th, November 9th, December 14th, January 11th, February 8th, March 8th)
We look forward to welcoming you.
P.S. Book Nook now has a large ‘sale’ section of books at reduced prices.
The BBC to film Mayfield
The BBC’s One Show is coming to the area this Monday evening/Tuesday morning to film a story on Mayfield, LAMBS, the local councils, the MPs and the land owners. Their schedule is unknown but LAMBS hopes to see the immediate area saturated with yellow ribbons to show how strong local opposition to Mayfield is.