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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News4 December 2000
The Latest Developments of the New Monks Farm, Lancing, Development Brief (sometimes called Mash Barn)A Planning Application SU 98/0231/5 Ref: L/87/00/TP
has been submitted ostensibly for a Golf Course on 120 acres of land right in the centre of the Adur District at New Monks Farm by Wheelwright Estates (Michael Cox).Planning & Development Services Committee 4 December 2000
Councillors Pass the Development Brief and the Statement of Case to the Ssecretary of State on the Planning Application for the Golf Course.
A special "New Monks Farm" edition of Adur Torpedo will be prepared before the Public Enquriry which looks likely now.
Meanwhile most of the information is on the Adur Valley eForum.
A new link has been added to the "UK Environment and Planning" Document Area by Ray Hamblett.Name: A personal look at New Monks Farm, Lancing. Land
Description: A personal look at New Monks Farm, Lancing. Former farmland on the Adur flood plain. Designated in local plan for Golf Course.
Location: LancingRing2009.htmray.hamblett/MonksFarm/golf1.htm
Direct Link to Messages/Information on the Adur EForum (click on this text)
National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
Weather Forecast
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
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Wildlife Reports
3 December
2000
A
flock of over 200 Crows
congregated over the northern part of the Dovecote estate (TQ 218063)
Shoreham. There was also a Kestrel.
30
November 2000
A
Kestrel
was
hovering over the grass to the east of the bridge over Widewater,
and swooped down quickly, but it quickly rose again so the strike must
have been unsuccessful.
Late
November 2000
A
Black
Redstart was seen on on Lancing Beach
Green and in Shoreham a Purple Sandpiper
was a notable discovery.
This
wader is a winter migrant that occurs more often on the River Ouse where
it reaches the sea at Newhaven.
Sussex Ornithological SocietyReport by Barry via Ray Hamblett
22 November 2000
UK Environment and Planning
EFORUM PAGE
A storm of short duration (2 hours) before dawn, with thunder and lightning battered large hailstones vertically against the window panes.
17
November 2000
The
winter months are not all that productive on the strandline
of Shoreham beach, even after storms, as the sea scours the shingle
beach and takes the deposited marine remains back out to sea and increasingly
eastwards with the longshore
drift. Scattered amongst the weed there were the omnipresent
Slipper
Limpet shells, with more Oyster shells than normal and the battered
remains of Lobster,
Spiny
Spider Crabs, and the inevitable
cuttlebones.
All were of the Common Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis. An egg case
of the Skate was blown inshore and a fully intact Lesser
Spotted Dogfish had not yet been spotted and scavenged by the gulls.
16
November 2000
I
saw a single Jay
feeding on the acorns the evergreen Holm Oak in St. Mary's Churchyard,
Shoreham-by-Sea, for the very first time in the centre of the town. A Grey
Squirrel simultaneously made a leap of over twice its body length from
the neighbouring broadleaf tree.
A new link has been added to the "UK Environment and Planning" Document Area by Andy Horton.
Name:
South
Downs National Park
Description:
Proposed
Timetable
Location: (Click on the Text)
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1 August
2000
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Words of the Week
sinistral
| snstr()l | a. & n. LME. [f. SINISTER + -AL1.] A adj. I
1 Attended by misfortune or disaster, unlucky, unfortunate. rare. Only
in LME. 2 = SINISTER 1. M-L16. II 3 Situated on the left-hand side;
of or pertaining to the left hand or left-hand side. E19. 4 Conchol. Of
a spiral shell: having the whorls ascending from right to left (of the
observer); reversed, left-handed. M19. 5 Of a person: (predominantly) left-handed.
E20. 6 Geol. Of, pertaining to, or designating a strike-slip fault in which
the motion of the block on the further side of the fault from an observer
is towards the left. M20. B n. A (predominantly) left-handed person. E20.
Opp.
DEXTRAL.
sinistrality
n. the state or quality of being sinistral; esp. left-handedness: M19.
sinistrally adv. (a)rare adversely, falsely; (b)in a sinistral direction,
to the left: M16.
vraic | vrek | n. E17. [Fr. dial., var. of vrec, vrac f. MLG, Du. wrak WRACK n.2 Cf. VAREC.] In the Channel Islands: seaweed, esp. as used for fuel and fertilizer
wrack
| rak | n.2 LME. [(M)Du. wrak (= MLG wrak, wrack, whence G Wrack),
corresp. to OE wraec WRACK n.1 In sense 3 cf. VAREC, VRAIC.] I 1 A wrecked
ship or other vessel. Now chiefly Sc. & dial. LME. b transf. A broken-down
person or thing. L16. 2 Remnants of, or goods from, a wrecked vessel, esp.
as driven or cast ashore. Formerly also, the right to have these. arch.
LME. 3
Seaweed
and other marine vegetation cast ashore by the waves; any of certain seaweeds,
esp. of the genus Fucus, growing in the intertidal zone. Also, weeds, rubbish,
etc., floating on or washed down a river, pond, etc. Cf. WRECK n.1 2a.
E16. b Roots of couch grass and other weeds, esp. as loosened from the
soil to be collected for burning.
Cf. WRECK
n.1 2b. Chiefly Sc. L16. 4 Disablement or destruction of a vessel; shipwreck.
Now rare. L16.
3
bladderwrack, grass-wrack, sea wrack, etc.
II
5 That which is of poor or worthless quality; waste material. Now rare.
L15.
spelunker | spelLk | n. N. Amer. slang. M20. [Joc. formation, f. (as) prec. + -ER1.] A person who explores caves, esp. as a sport or pastime; a caver, a speleologist.spelunk v.i. explore caves as a sport or pastime (chiefly as spelunking vbl n.) M20.
bucolic | bjuklk | n. E16. [L bucolica, Gk boukolika (both pl.), f. as next.] 1 A pastoral poem, e.g. Virgil's eclogues. Usu. in pl. E16. 2 A pastoral poet; joc. a rustic. rare. L18.
bucolic | bjuklk | a. E17. [L bucolicus f. Gk boukolikos, f. boukolos herdsman, f. bous ox: see -IC.] Of shepherds, pastoral; rustic, rural. bucolical a. (now rare) bucolic E16. bucolically adv. L19.
feisty | fLsti | a. N. Amer. colloq. L19. [f. FEIST + -Y1.] Aggressive, excitable, touchy; plucky, spirited.feistily adv. L20. feistiness n. L20.
diamanté | dmnte; foreign djam~te (pl. of n. same) | a. & n. E20. [Fr., pa. pple of diamanter set with diamonds, f. diamant DIAMOND n.] (Material) given a sparkling effect by means of artificial gems, powdered crystal, etc.
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Poem of the Week
A new folder has been added to the "Marine Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean" Document Area by Andy Horton.
Name:
Poetry
of the Sea
Description:
Links to Literature and Poetry of the Sea
Location:
http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/glaucus/Poetry%20of%20the%20Sea?action=list
You
can add this to Poet's Corner if you like. Hawker, saved my Great
Great
Grandfather
the sole survivor of the crew of the "Caledonia" (see poem &
picture
of figurehead), and my ancestor could not swim! he also went on to
be
wrecked two more times!
http://msnHomepages.talkcity.com/ProjectPl/jerseyseals/hawker.html
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2 August
2000
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You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then
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