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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
Weather Forecast
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
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Wildlife Notes
3 February 2002
Professor Richard Ivell visited Widewater Lagoon, Lancing, West Sussex, to show a group of naturalists and local residents where he discovered the very rare sea anemone Edwardsii ivelli. He also explained how they were discovered which should enable us to try and and discover then again this summer when the water recedes more. After the recent rain the the lagoon was in flood, covering the Glasswort, Salicornia sp, completely. The miniature sea anemones were originally discovered on a study of the Lagoon Cockle, Cerastoderma glaucum, which buries deeply (to 10 cm) in the soft sediment. They revealed themselves in the bucket of mud and cockles.
A flock of about 35 Pochards cheered us up in the rain. These ducks appear like a black blob at first, their grey backs camouflaged quite well against the rippled water, repeatedly diving under the surface. In the shallows a Little Egret was repeatedly feeding right on the edge, probably not on the abundant Three Spined Sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus, although I am not quite sure what the Egret was stabbing at.
JNCC Proposal to remove Edwardsia ivelli from Schedule 5 protection (Link)1 February 2002
Waves and high spring tides pound the beach by Widewater
Photograph by Ray HamblettAlthough the tides were forecasted at 6.8 metres, as high as any in the last 25 years, the sea did not rise exceptionally or even particularly high at the Surry Yard on the River Adur estuary.
Beaufort Scale (sea)
Beaufort Scale (land)
29 January 2002
A group of five Long-tailed Tits arrive in a Shermanbury garden and feed on bread underneath the feeder. This bird feeds on insects so it is a rare visitor to bird tables. This lightweight bird is not a true titmouse of the genus Parus but classified in the family Aegithalidae.Report by Allen PollardReport from Cuckoo's Corner 2000
28 January 2002
The Redshanks sound the alarm call and 1000+ Lapwings and 500+ gulls took to the air near Old Shoreham Toll Bridge.26-27 January 2002
RSPB Annual Garden Bird Count
Survey Form (link)Top Five Garden Birds in West Sussex 2001:
1. House Sparrow
2. Starling
3. Blue Tit
4. Blackbird
5. Great Tit24 January 2002
A Public Meeting at Lancing Parish Hall to discuss with the Environment Agency the effect shingle movement is having on water levels in Widewater Lagoon. There are presentations by Rupert Chubb (Flood defence Manager, Environment Agency), Derek Neate (Friends of Widewater Lagoon) and Councillor Tony Nicklen.
Glasswort Page
22 January 2002
Gliding less than a metre above the road surface, south of Cuckoo's Corner (TQ 201 064), a male Sparrowhawk flew at least 20 metres along the road before veering suddenly in the hedgerow on the right. It was identified as a male by its slate-bluish colour, and as a Sparrowhawk by its behaviour including the fanning of its tail as it swerved adeptly between the bare hedgerow branches in a way that would not be common for the Kestrel. A Kestrel, a regular sight on waste land, had spent some time gliding and hovering near Old Shoreham on the east side of the Adur, so I was able to contrast the two falcons.
ADUR VALLEY NATURE NOTES 2001 WINTER Nature Notes 2001 JANUARY - MARCH SPRING Nature Notes 2001 APRIL - JUNE SUMMER Nature Notes 2001 JULY - SEPTEMBER AUTUMN Nature Notes 2001 OCTOBER - DECEMBER
Lancing Nature & History - December 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for October
Poem or LiteratureSlow Train Coming
People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting
Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it.
They say lose your inhibitions, follow your own ambitions,
They talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to
live it.
There's a slow, slow train comin' up around the bend.I was riding Number Nine
heading south of Carolinia
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
I got in trouble
I had to run
Left my gal
I left my home
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
Just a kid acting smart
I went and broke my darling heart
I guess I was too young to know
They took me off the Georgia Main
Lock me to a ball and chain
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
Alone I bear the shame
I'm another foolish name
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
I'll I do is sit and cry
As the evening train goes by
I heard that lonesome whistle blow
I'll be locked here is this cell
Until my body's just a shell
And my hair turns whiter than the snow
I'll never see that gal of mine
Cause I'm in Georgia doing time
I heard that lonesome whistle blowHank Williams
- British
Web Sites
Dragonflies
of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders
Flight
Times (First Seen)
- Historical
Snippets
- Santonian Age (87.5 to 84 million years ago). The stage's name derives from the town of Saintes in western France, the area surrounding which is the classic type district for rocks of this age.
85
million years ago, Cretaceous Period
(144 - 66.4 million years ago): Sussex is covered by a warm sea inhabited
by ammonites, Micraster and other urchins, molluscs, at a lower
latitude (Continental Drift: Tectonic Plate Theory). Sedimentary deposits
of foraminiferans such as Globigerina and coccoliths (microscopic
plankton with a calcium carbonate shell) lay down the chalk which is rock
of the South Downs near Shoreham.
Fossil
bivalve Spondylus spinosa (pic).
Chalk deposition in eastern England from Cenomanian to Maastrichtian time.
Ref. for the chalk beds.
Adur Valley Book ListSussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
- Words
of the Week
anemometer | anmmt | n. E18. [f. ANEMO- + -METER.] 1 An instrument for measuring the speed or force of the wind, or of any gas in motion. E18. 2 An apparatus for indicating wind-pressure in an organ. M19. anemometry n. the measurement of wind speed; the use of anemometers: M19.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Image Gallery
Flooded
Adur Levels around Shermanbury, October 2000
Photograph
by Neil Drury
- Tucows
Software Reviews
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Web
Monkey :
The Web Developer's Resource
Location:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
Digital
Photography Review
http://www.dpreview.com/
The default files created
have the suffix *.html so anybody using the program has to be a little
bit cautious about overwriting existing files.
Computing
Net Support Site
(for computing problems) ****
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
The upsurge of EFora
on all subjects (a
few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way
in which the Internet
will change the world.
A list of recommended eFora
are shown in the left hand column. Please make any suggestions.
Sussex History PASTFINDERS
Archaeology in Sussex to AD 1500 ****
WSCC
LIBRARY *****
Excellent
and essential service with a full catalogue of books, CDs, videos, on-line
renewals, book ordering.
- The
Glaucus 2000 CD-ROM includes the complete Shoreham-by-Sea
and Adur Valley web sites, as well as shareware
and free programs
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ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
Events
Monday 4 February 2002
SEEDA DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
January 2002 Working for England's World Class Region
The newsletter for residents in the Ropetackle area
ROPETACKLE
NEWSLETTER
PUBLIC
MEETING
SEEDA and its development partner, Berkeley Homes would like to invite you to attend a Public Meeting to discuss the latest proposals for the Ropetackle site.
The meeting will be held at the Shoreham Community Centre in Pond Road on Monday 4th February, from 7 pm onwards.
Following Adur District Council Planning and Regulatory Committee's resolution to grant Outline Planning Permission for the development and the conclusion of the Ropetackle Compulsory Purchase Public Inquiry, SEEDA and its development partner Berkeley Homes are will now be progressing the design of the outline scheme towards the detailed stage.
Fully aware of the need for continuing public consultation, we have therefore arranged to hold a public meeting in order to present the latest ideas for the site and take account of feedback from the local community.
Primarily, we will be introducing the changes to the layout of southern end of the scheme. The detailed design process has only just begun in earnest and therefore the presentation will generally be limited to form and function rather than specific architectural detail, which will come at a later stage in the process.
We
will also be presenting an update on the design ideas for the new arts
and education facility to be provided. These ideas have been guided by
the invaluable work of the Community Representatives group, chaired by
Tim Loughton MP. The proposals, formulated in conjunction with the Adur
Arts Festival look to provide brand new facilities for a variety of arts
based activities including performing arts, plays, small concerts, cabaret,
training classes, exhibitions and conferences with a bar as a place for
people to meet. The building will also look to provide rooms for continuing
education
classes.
The options for tackling the road works required by the Highways Authority at the Brighton Road/Old Shoreham Road and the Victoria Road/Old Shoreham Road junctions will also be presented so that we can share with you the pros and cons of the two main alternatives
We sincerely hope you will be able to join us.
Issued
by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Cross Lanes, Guildford,
Surrey GUI IY
Second Saturday every
month.
Farmer's
Market
Fresh
produce
East
Street, Shoreham-by-Sea
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