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Local high tech wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

The West Sussex County Times reports:

Sussex creative technology business 7thSense Design in Upper Beeding has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation ten years after being founded. ..

7thSense is renowned for its Delta® Media Server product – a state-of-the-art video server and pixel management technology designed to take the highest quality films and content and plays back onto any giant screen or projected surface ..

Ploughing the Downs in 1940

British Pathé have recently released a large number of film clips from their news archives. One from 1940 shows sixty seven seconds of a farmer checking his fields on the Downs and his men ploughing them with heavy horses and early tractors. Click the still above to watch the clip on YouTube and read Geoffrey Harris’s Farmers in Fulking for his recollections of Downs farming in the 1930s and 1940s.

Bramber hotel fire

There was a fire at The Castle Inn Hotel in Bramber in the early hours of Friday morning. It is reported that eighty per cent of the building was damaged by smoke, forty per cent by fire. There were no injuries and the owner managed to extinguish the fire himself before the fire brigade turned up. There’s a fuller report at the West Sussex County Times.

Changes to the website

There are three main changes:

The calendar widget in the right sidebar has been removed and replaced with a large icon. If you click the icon you get to see the current month displayed in the central section of the page. The calendar widget was not working well with phones and tablets.
The various search options have been put together at the top of the left sidebar. Ordinary (Google-style) keyword search may not always deliver what you want or expect on fulking.net. Category search will sometimes provide you with a better result.
We have introduced a permanent slot for local adverts at the top of the right sidebar. The contents at any given time will be determined by importance and urgency. Thus you may see ‘Fulking Fair’ there for a week or two (it’s important), then something alerting you to an emergency closure of Clappers Lane (that’s urgent), then back to ‘Fulking Fair’ for a while.

“Keep checking for more details.”

Lionel Barnard, Cabinet Member for Residents’ Services WSCC, has a a new letter [PDF] relating progress in the West Sussex broadband roll-out. There is nothing in it to interest Fulking residents. They haven’t even started the network planning yet.