Thieves target several cars overnight in Lindfield
Several vehicles were broken into in the Lindfield area overnight on Wednesday 11 September into Thursday 12 SeptemberSix vehicles in Appledore Gardens, Pelham Road and Dukes Road were believed to have...
View ArticleBalcombe Cuadrilla site police costs reaches £2.449m
In a week where arrests in the on-going operation to police the protest at Balcombe have topped 100, the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, Katy Bourne, has revealed that the cost has now reached...
View ArticleCampaigners set to question future of healthcare in town
QUESTIONS over the future of health provision in the Shoreham area are to be raised by campaigners in the town.Members of Sussex Defend the NHS are planning to quiz the NHS Coastal West Sussex Clinical...
View ArticleGetting prepared for a guilt-ridden holiday trip
Leaving John to take my granddaughter Jessica on holiday invokes guilt, anticipation, apprehension and an industrial cooking programme to ensure that he has enough meals in the freezer to copeOne...
View ArticleConcentration all the way on a butterfly count
My weekly five mile trudge around Kingley Vale counting butterflies gave a moment of pure joy last week. It can get tedious, this walk. Two thousand of us throughout the British Isles make the sample...
View ArticleShoreham mum sets up concert business from her kitchen table
A MUM who has worked in the music industry in the USA an UK has set up a concert business of her own.Julia Collins-Parsons, 50, of Shoreham, has launched Music Majors, which organises speaking tours of...
View ArticleDispelling foster myths
AS the south east faces a shortage of foster carers, Action for Children aims to dispel myths about fostering.Research showed people believe over-55s, singles and men can’t foster.Drop-in events are...
View ArticleGet lyrical about town
EAGER wordsmiths can enter a free competition by crafting a poem about their local town or village.Entrants can be any age and the winner will receive a £1,000 prize.The competition is being held by...
View ArticleAnnual ‘Rideout’ helps Princess Royal patients
Patients at the Princess Royal Hospital will benefit from more than £1,000 worth of new equipment thanks to the generosity of 60 motorbike enthusiasts.They met up at St Francis Social Club and raised...
View ArticleBy-election timing ‘shows total lack of compassion’
The decision to call a by-election by an opposition party has been branded ‘shameful’ by Horsham Conservative Association.It was called for the West Sussex County Council division of Warnham and Rusper...
View ArticleDEVELOPER: Residents should ‘embrace opportunity’ on North of Horsham...
Adam Walker, director at Horsham-based Crickmay Chartered Surveyors and property advisor to developer Liberty Property Trust, provides some background to proposals for North Horsham.Following the...
View ArticleHARRY SHUTT: Economic argument on North Horsham homes is ‘seriously flawed’
By Harry Shutt, freelance economist, consultant and author of numerous books on the world economy.I am a long-standing resident of North Horsham (of over 20 years) and object very strongly to the...
View ArticleChopping down tree would be ‘criminal’
A silver birch tree in Horsham was reprieved after the council rejected an application to fell it.Nick Tasquier, who lives in Smithbarn, wanted permission to fell the 13 metre-high tree in his front...
View ArticleNick Herbert: Britain needs such risk-taking entrepreneurs
Last week I attended a special event at which a local company was presented with an award by the Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex on behalf of The Queen.ADF Milking Ltd, based in Slindon, was awarded The...
View ArticleFrancis Maude: Improvement in literacy desperately needed
Last week didn’t just mark the start of a new school year – some historic changes in the field of education were also implemented. Significantly for many teens, the ‘participation age’ has been raised...
View Article‘Indie’ bookshop moving to Swan Walk, Horsham
A local ‘pop-up’ independent bookshop is moving to Horsham’s Swan Walk Shopping Centre for the winter.Daisy White’s Pop-up Indie Bookshop is relocating later this month after four months at Horsham...
View ArticleWest Sussex county councillor remembered at meeting
A tribute was paid to Frank Wilkinson, the County Councillor who sadly died in July, at a meeting of Chanctonbury County Local Committee on Wednesday (September 11).Chairman of the committee David...
View ArticleScuba diver died of ‘natural causes’
A company director from Shermanbury died after getting into difficulty while scuba diving, an inquest heard.Nicholas Packwood, 55, of Brighton Road, Shermanbury, is thought to have suffered a heart...
View ArticleApprentice diaries: ‘praying that the day’s not a disaster’
FIRST days at a new job are always nerve-racking, and it was no different for two of Northbrook College’s latest apprentices.Holly O’Neill, 19 and Jessica Cleary, 18, both work at the college, training...
View ArticlePublic flock to another successful sheep fair
A STELLAR programme of attractions and around 250 well-groomed sheep drew the crowds at another successful Findon Sheep Fair on Saturday.The annual event, on Nepcote Green, is always a crowd-drawer,...
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