Sussex Wildlife Trust will frighten your kids for a small fee. They’ll be led on a candlelit walk around the woods, meet some real owls and bats and learn some interesting facts about these not so spooky creatures. Fancy dress costumes welcome. Suitable for children aged 5-11 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Thursday 31 October 17:30 – 19:30, members £10 per child, non members £13 per child. Book here.
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Bus burns in Pyecombe
More information at The Argus and the Mid Sussex Times.
Updated 26th September 2013.
Autumn Potluck Supper – 19th October 2013
An open invitation goes out to all to an Autumn Potluck Supper to be held on Saturday 19 October at 7pm in the Village Hall.
Like the Summer Potluck, the idea is to keep it as informal as possible so that everyone can get involved by making their favourite food. Just bring along your own plates and cutlery to save people washing up at the end. Again to make sure there’s a good range of food, just let us know what you’re planning to cook.
The Summer Potluck was great fun and very much in the spirit of the Village Hall project of cherishing community. It was a great chance to meet new neighbours and catch up with old friends.
A big thank you to Chris, Jen and Tricia for setting up the hall and to Kate for making the tables so pretty. And the food was delicious………
For details email Paula on paula@hazzy.net or call evenings on 957.
Electricity at risk from fly-tippers
The Shoreham Herald reports:
The UK Power Networks site, off the A283 Steyning bypass, has been targeted, along with more than 150 substations which deliver essential power supplies in the south east, London and the east of England.
The incidents can put power supplies at risk by delaying access to vital equipment and endanger staff visiting the sites to carry out inspections, maintenance or repairs.
A piano, builders’ rubble, guttering and downpipes have all been found outside the Steyning substation.
Fly-tipping is a criminal offence under the Environmental Protection Act, carrying significant fines and even prison sentences in more serious cases.
The CPRE parse Boles
It seems that the Campaign to Protect Rural England does not share Nick Herbert’s benign interpretation of what the minister said. The West Sussex County Times reports:
A ‘huge solar farm’ could be built in the South Downs if national parks were made to promote economic growth, warned the Sussex-Horsham district chair of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
The chair, Dr Roger Smith, said: “Even under the present regulations, the South Downs is subject to the threat of a huge solar farm development.
“This is the kind of development that could be pushed through if National Parks were given a duty to promote economic growth.”
Tree Health Survey
Parsing the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Nick Herbert has told the West Sussex County Times :
We are not going to see house building all over the South Downs National Park, and the Minister [Nick Boles] did not say that there should be a relaxation of planning controls in parks, as press reports implied. He said that the parks should not become museums, and I agree with him about that.
I also agree with what the minister said about the need to express localism more fully in parks. I have always warned about the democratic deficit in national parks, which was reflected in the controversy over the South Downs National Park’s decision over to allow a travellers site at Crossbush.
It was the backbench MP who moved the debate [Simon Hart] who suggested that the duty to conserve parks should no longer be given primacy over the duty to secure economic well-being. The minister did not endorse this view, and it is not Government policy.
Mansions of the Soul
The Shoreham Herald reports:
A painting designed for an Upper Beeding church more than 30 years ago has finally been hung on permanent display there.
The late Margaret Nethercoat-Bryant, a renowned artist in the village, painted the large triptych for St Peter’s Church, in Church Lane, in the late 1970s or early 80s.