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Shale: council cut doubled

The Midhurst and Petworth Observer reports:

WEST Sussex County Council and the South Downs National Park Authority could be set to make millions following an announcement made by David Cameron. Councils that give the green-light to ‘fracking’ projects will be allowed to keep millions of pounds more in tax revenue, the Prime Minister has announced. He said local authorities in England would receive 100 per cent of the business rates collected from shale gas schemes — rather than the usual 50 per cent.

You can read the full story here.

Sloe Gin

Sheila Marshall writes:

The Poynings Sloe Gin and Homemade Liqueur competition (2013 only) has a new section for our neighbouring villages (Fulking, Edburton, Newtimber, Pyecombe, Saddlescombe, and Woodmancote). Monday (cheap meal night at Royal Oak) 20th January 8pm — £1.50 per entry. This is a community organised event hosted by The Royal Oak.

Bob’s butterflies

Bob Rowland has a new page about butterflies in Fulking. You will find a link to it listed as ‘Butterflies’ under Environment in the sidebar menu.

Henfield is ready for the polar vortex

The history of Saddlescombe

Thanks to the efforts of Janet Kennish and Graham Wellfare, the National Trust webpages for Saddlescombe have recently been enhanced with a lot of interesting new material:

[Note added in December 2018: as is their custom, the inexcusably awful National Trust website has now changed or removed all the URLs linked above. The material is probably still there but you will need to search for it.]