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The Village Hall gets wi-fi

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Village Hall wi-fi
The Village Hall is an instance of a ‘Faraday Cage’. Although the building is basically a large wooden shed, the walls and roof are covered with earthed corrugated iron. This acts as a barrier to electromagnetic radiation including mobile phone and wi-fi signals. Until now it has not been possible to take a laptop or tablet into the hall and use it to connect to the internet.

Owners of metal caravans face the same problem and the solution they employ is to install a wi-fi repeater inside the caravan and connect it to an access point plus antenna outside. This is the solution that has now been adopted for Fulking Village Hall. The good news is that it works. The bad news is that the user interface is dire. The installation is likely to find its first role during Fulking Parish Council planning meetings.

West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service Integrated Risk Management Plan

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Poynings rescue
West Sussex County Council has initiated a six week public consultation regarding their Integrated Risk Management Plan. The consultation runs until Monday 28 May. The plan explains the fire service’s activities in detail on:

  • Prevention — educating the community on how to reduce risks through safe and well visits, school visits and other training.
  • Protection — providing safer public spaces within the built environment, fire safety inspections and enforcement.
  • Response — sending fire appliances and firefighters to emergency incidents. This can include fires, road traffic collisions, flooding etc.
  • People — how we address the challenges we face in delivering a highly trained, diverse workforce.
  • Value for money — ensuring everything we do is as cost efficient as possible (see photo, above).
  • Partnership and collaboration — how we will work with other organisations to achieve our organisational aims.

People are asked to comment on the priorities identified by the West Sussex Fire Authority. To read the draft plan and to take part in the consultation please go to www.westsussex.gov.uk/IRMP2018.

Bus Strategy Consultation

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Bus Strategy Consultation
This may be of interest to those Fulking residents who make use of the various local bus services:

West Sussex County Council is developing a new Bus Strategy which will explore ways in which we can work with bus companies and other partners to help sustain and improve bus services. We would like your views on our proposals for the new strategy and if there is anything else you think we should include. For further information and to take part in the consultation please go to:
www.westsussex.gov.uk/buses
or call 01243 642105 to request an information pack. The closing date for your feedback is 6th June 2018.

Come Dine With Me

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Come dine with me
ITV series Come Dine With Me is looking for couples in Brighton and Hove and the surrounding areas, such as Haywards Heath, Lewes, Firle, Worthing, Shoreham, Eastbourne, Plumpton and Fulking to take part in its new series. Couples must be over 18, available for filming between June 13th and 15th, and not working or trained as a professional chef. A spokeman for the show said:

Do you and your partner host the best dinner parties in town? Think you and your partner have what it takes to walk away with a £1,000? If so, you could soon be part of the nation’s most favourite teatime show.

To apply, send your name, age, contact details, postcode and too much about yourselves to cdwm@shiver.tv.

Newtimber Place Gardens

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Newtimber Place NGS
The gardens at Newtimber Place will be open as part of the NGS (National Gardens Scheme) on Sunday 15th April between 2:00pm and 5:30pm. The gardens are lovely at this time of year with stunning daffodils and beautiful fritillaries. Beautiful Grade I listed C16/C17 moated house (not open). Gardens and woods full of bulbs and wild flowers in spring. Herbaceous border and lawns. Moat flanked by water plants. Mature trees. Wild garden, ducks, chickens and fish. Tea and home made cakes in aid of the church. There are ducks, chickens and guinea fowl wandering around so dogs need to be kept on a lead. Admission £5.00, children free.