Local News

7 May 2001
A small Piper Cherokee aircraft heading for Shoreham Airport crash landed on Lancing beach missing the small expanse of sand at low tide and crashing into the shingle bank. Luckily, the crowds on the beach recognised the plane was going to crash and were able to get out of the way. The pilot and a young child in the aircraft escaped without injury. 

28 February 2001

Food & Mouth Disease Restrictions
The Food & Mouth Disease regulations have come into force to empower Local Authorities to close footpaths and rights of way. Notices have been put on in the Adur Valley, with good reason. The Police have made sure they are enforced and they have been complied with. 
MAFF Information Page
Public Rights of Way and Foot & Mouth Disease
WSCC Information
ESCC Information

National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
Weather Forecast

Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com

Wildlife Reports

9 May 2001
Two relatively fine but windy days come to an abrupt end with a thunderstorm with continuous flashes of lightning and showers of heavy rain in the late evening. 

8 May 2001
My first butterfly (species unidentified) of the year over the shingle on the sea side of Widewater, but attention was simultaneously distracted by a female Kestrel overhead, from underneath the pale blue with streaks stood out from the blue sky of the first fine and sunny day of the year. The female looks much larger than a male and could be mistaken for a Sparrowhawk. This bird glided and than paused for the familiar hover, before swooping off on the wind.  It is usually the male that is blue underneath. 

Report by Andy Horton

Lancing Nature & History - April Newsletter 
(with excellent photographs)
(Link to the web site by Ray Hamblett)

March 2001
The Glaucus journal has been sent out to members of the British Marine Life Study Society.

National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188

Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)

Wildlife Web Sites
 

The British Marine Life Study Society has an alternative web site address for its Homepage only:
 

http://www.glaucus.co.uk
 

1 August 2000
The Marine Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic (formerly the British Marine Wildlife Forum)  ***** commences.

PLEASE JOIN
 
 

MARINE WILDLIFE of the NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC EFORUM PAGE


UK Wildlife eGroups Forum

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife

Marine Life eFora (Link)


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UK Environment and Planning  EFORUM PAGE

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British Naturalists' Association (link)


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Find the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends of the Earth SSSI Navigator


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Words of the Week

attainder  | tend |  n. LME. [AN attainder, atteinder, use as n. of inf. atteinder, (O)Fr. atteindre ATTAIN v.: see -ER4.] 1 Hist. The action or process of attainting; spec. the legal consequences of a sentence of death or outlawry, i.e. forfeiture of estate, deprivation of rank or title, and loss of civil rights generally. LME.   2 fig. Condemnation; dishonour; slander. L16-M18.
1 act of attainder, bill of attainder: introduced in Parliament for attainting a person without trial. 2 SHAKES. Rich. II Have mine honour soil'd With the attainder of his slanderous lips. S. JOHNSON A resumption of ancestral claims, and a kind of restoration to blood after the attainder of a trade.
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Excerpted from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc. 

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Computer Tips

 

Small Publisher EFORUM PAGE

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Computing Net Support Site  (for computing problems) ****
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/wwwboard.html


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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 will appear soon. Please make any suggestions. 

See the Profusion Search method below.

Smart Groups
 

• Star:  Latest Virus Information 

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Poem of the Week
 

In the old days, the god Thor was fond of sitting on the top of Treyford Hill for a rest. One day the Devil came by, and seeing the five barrows, he took it into his head to amuse himself leaping through the air from one to another. All this thumping and jumping disturbed Thor, who woke up in a temper, and shouted: 'Go Away!'.   But Old Nick only laughed and jeered at him. 'Poor old Thor!' he said. 'Don't you wish you could jump like me? But your too old to be jumping about', said he.   The words were no sooner out of his mouth than Thor upped with a huge stone and hurled it straight at him. It got him full in the midriff, just as he was in the middle of his finest jump. So the old Devil, he gave a great yell, and he took himself off double quick. And he has never been seen there from that day to this, though of course the mounds are still there." 

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•  Sussex Web Sites 

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

Sussex & the Downs Discussion Group (with new images of Sussex)
 
 

ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE

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Historical Snippets
 

Pagan Saxon Place Names In Sussex
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/pagasname.html

Thundersbarrow 
From : Þunor and Burh (Fortified place) or Beorg (Barrow)
Early Forms : 
Thunder Borough (Edwards 1801 Plate. 8) 
Notes:
Thundersbarrow Hill lies within the Downs north of Shoreham in West Sussex. The features that probably give the hill its name lie on the southern summit of the hill (TQ 229084) and include a Barrow and an enclosed settlement. Though the current form would indicate the site has been named after the barrow, which is the generally accepted view, the word borough recorded in 1801 could derive from either a barrow or a fortified place, both of which are present on the hill. Only earlier forms will decide which word the second element of the name is derived from, along with whether the site is named after Thunor at all. It should also be noted here that some lynchets on the south side of the hill are known as Thunders Steps (Gurd & Jacobs 1924 p.83). Coates (1980 p.316) considers the name possibly relates to Thunor pending the discovery of earlier forms. The enclosure, when excavated, produced dating evidence from the early Iron-Age to the Romano-British period (Curwen & Curwen 1930 p.258,Burstow 1942 p.192). 

Dave Staveley

I thought it was a relatively modern invented name (Andy Horton)
 

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Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk

SUSSEX PAST
Sussex Archaeological Society  EGroup

Flintman on Flint (Link)

Sussex History Discussion Group

Brief History of Shoreham-by-Sea
 

Events

18 April 2001 Adur Festival Programme The Adur Festival programme has been delivered to Adur residents and is available at the Civic Centre with lots of exciting events, including World Oceans Day, Glastonwick, Beach Dreams, Escape of King Charles II, Marlipins Museum Exhibitions,  Music Workshops and Performances including Richard Durant, John Renbourne, The Hofners, Harry Strutters, as well as Adult Education, Art  Exhibitions and Talks, Special Religious Services, Comedies and much more.

 

Adur World Oceans Day 2001 Please express any interest before 30 April 2001: Andy Horton (British Marine Life Study Society) Glaucus@hotmail.com or Natalie Brahma-Pearl (Adur District Council) natalie.brahma-pearl@adur.gov.uk Adur World Oceans Day 2001 web page AWOD Marquee Floor Plan

BIODIVERSITY DISPLAY at Adur Civic Centre  Ham Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. Monday 4 June 2001 to 15 June 2001 weekdays. If you wish to contribute please contact: The first contact is: Andy Horton   Glaucus@hotmail.com Tel: 01273 465433 I will need details of your exhibits, so the preferred method of the first communication is by EMail with full details. Further Details (link)

 Adur On-line Events page
•  http://appspace.nexus-solutions.net/arc/asp/diary/diaryoutput.asp
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• Please send in any details of local events.

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Web Sites
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WORLDWIDE: RECOMMENDED SITES: 1 TO 5 STARS

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: 
Fourth Edition *****
 
 
 

British History Web page ***


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