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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
2 August 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 28
Local News
2 August 2000
The Adur Valley EForum covering all aspects of life in the Adur Valley commences. You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then you can post messages on almost anything about life in Shoreham-by-sea and the Adur Valley, including, Lancing, Sompting, Southwick, Steyning and the smaller villages in the valley.The EForum may appear a slow starter. It is really up to the subscribers to make it a success by sending high quality messages and inviting other people to join.
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE30 May 2000
Kingston Beach fails to comply with the mandatory levels of minimum sewage pollution, exceeding the coliform count. This is not the EA figures but samples taken by Adur District Council
EU Legal Requirements (link)
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Reports
1 August
2000
A
most unusual appearance on Kingston
Beach was a solitary Snakelocks
Anemone, which reach their most easterly point of distribution up the
English Channel (northern coast) at Worthing,
with an occasional stragglers on the shore at Shoreham, and almost entirely
absent from Brighton.
31
July 2000
A
Clouded
Yellow Butterfly was spotted on a Childing
Pink are still in flower in the minute area of sand dunes remaining
on Shoreham Beach. These rare plants seem to have increased in number,
but are still under threat from encroaching vegetation.
26
July 2000
A
shoal of about 150 adult Grey Mullet, Chelon labrosus, varying
in length from 40 cm to 90 cm (excluding the caudal fin) followed the neap
tide in in the shallows of the River Adur on the southern side outside
Emerald Quay. In between the high density flats, the small weir keeps a
depth of water of just under a metre and makes a huge rock pool trapping
up to perhaps half a dozen Grey Mullet and shoals of hundreds of small
(first year) Bass
where they spend the summer. The Bass were "flashing and the inevitable
Shore
Crabs crawled along the bottom and around the mooring ropes.
British
Naturalists' Association (link)
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Words of the Week
cell (in biology) The structural and functional unit of all living organisms. Cell size varies, but most cells are microscopic (average diameter 0.01–0.1 mm). Cells may exist as independent units of life, as in bacteria and protozoans, or they may form colonies or tissues, as in all higher plants and animals. Each cell consists of a mass of protein material (see *protoplasm) that is differentiated into a jelly-like substance (see *cytoplasm) and a *nucleus, which contains DNA. The protoplasm is bounded by a *cell membrane, which in plant and bacterial cells is surrounded by a *cell wall. There are two main types of cell. Prokaryotic cells (bacteria) are the more primitive. The nuclear material is not bounded by a membrane and chemicals involved in cell metabolism are associated with the cell membrane. Reproduction is asexual and involves simple cell cleavage. In eukaryotic cells the nucleus is bounded by a nuclear membrane and the cytoplasm is divided by membranes into a system of interconnected cavities and separate compartments (organelles), e.g. *mitochondria, *endoplasmic reticulum, *Golgi apparatus, *lysosomes, and *ribosomes. Reproduction can be either asexual (see *mitosis) or sexual (see *meiosis). Plants and animals consist of eukaryotic cells but plant cells possess *chloroplasts and other *plastids and bear a rigid cellulose cell wall.
cell body (perikaryon) The part of a *neurone that contains the nucleus. The cell processes that are involved in the transmission and reception of nervous impulses (the axon and the dendrites respectively) develop as extensions from the cell body.
cell division The formation of two daughter cells from a single mother cell. The nucleus divides first and this is followed by the formation of a cell membrane between the daughter nuclei. In *mitosis the daughter nuclei are identical to the original nucleus; *meiosis results in daughter nuclei each with half the number of chromosomes in the mother cell nucleus.
cell membrane (plasmalemma;
plasma membrane) The semipermeable *membrane forming the outer limit
of a *cell. It consists mostly of protein and lipid. The membrane regulates
the flow of materials in and out of the cell and plays a role in the production
or assembly of the *cell wall or *capsule (when this is present).
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Computer Tips
The upsurge of EForums on all subjects (a few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way in which the Internet will change the world. One controversy is the effect of pressure groups and professional media manipulators will move in on this field. Another is the Government's inclination to censor this anarchic media. This is just another subject will doubtless be a matter of heated debate.
Poem of the Week
Here
leaps ashore the full sou'west
All
heavy-winged with brine,
Here
lies above the folded crest
The
channel's lifted line;
And
here the sea-fogs lap and cling,
And
here, each warning each,
The
sheep-bells and the ship bells ring
Along
the hidden beach.
More Information on Lancing (by Ray Hamblett) ***
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SHOREHAM-BY-SEA
PLANT LIST (NHM)
Entries
are not that specialised
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- Historical Snippets
ingas:
this is a Saxon place name/word which is generally accepted to mean "groups
of people" and was originally thought to be indicative of the early Saxon
settlers. However, this theory is not shared by all Saxon historians, presumably
because this theory was based on the questionable evidence of the Saxon
Chronicle, and they preferred the more reliable evidence of burial finds
(from studies in Sussex). They think the suffix ton
is earlier.
My tendency is accept that
these place names are indicative of early Saxon settlers.
e.g. Patching, Lancing,
Worthing, Goring, Ferring, Angmering, Sompting, Climping#, Tarring, Upper
Beeding#, Poling, Annington (near Botolphs, and originally Anningdun).
High Salvington, Offington,
Torrington, Durrington, Rustington,
Erringham# (Erringham is
just north of Mill
Hill),
are all in the small area
(#or just outside) between the rivers Adur
(Shoreham) and Arun, formerly Tarrant {Tarente c.725} (Littlehampton).
Other names in this are
of Sussex slightly further afield are:
Steyning, Fulking, Ditchling,
Wappingthorn, Winding,
West Chiltington, West Blatchington,
Storrington, Washington, Aldrington, Ashington.
Ovingdean, Rottingdean,
Woodingdean.
plus many more (about 19)
in Sussex including Birling Gap, West Wittering, Billingshurst, Hastings.
Other smaller names in Sussex:
Bidlington, Buddington,
Warmingshurst, Atherington, Pallington, Poling, Tottington, Bailinghill.
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1 August
2000
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Marine Wildlife Forum commences. PLEASE
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