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     22 June  2001: Volume 3  Issue 22
Local News

19 June 2001
Conservative Independent Alliance
Adur Conservatives have formed an alliance with the Shoreham Beach Residents Association and now this new alliance has an overall majority on Adur District Council.

State of the Parties
 
 Conservative Independent 
 Alliance 
 (including Shoreham Beach
  Residents Association  2 )		  20
 Labour  12
 Liberal Democrats   7
   

14 June 2001
Shoreham Airport:
Crash Averted: Eye Witness Report

An aeroplane with a disabled pilot made an emergency and successful landing, gliding down on to the airfield after the engine cut out. 

I saw the entire episode from Lancing Beach. Was getting in a bit of sun and a swim with planes going over at a regular interval. One was climbing over the western end of the Widewater Lagoon when the engine spluttered and cut out. The pilot dived a little (by now over the sea) and I believe this is done sometimes to "bumpstart" the engine. The engine spluttered again but failed to catch. The plane then swooped in a tight circle back to the shore by now fairly low. At one stage I thought it would go into the sea in front of us or even crash into us. I was a little alarmed. The wind was blowing briskly from the southwest and this seemed to give the plane some lift and it gained a bit of height and cleared the rooftops on the north perimeter of Widewater. It then flipped and banked steeply onto its port side and disappeared over the rooftops of the Hasler Estate. There was clearly no possibility of a second attempt. I waited for a while for a distant muffled impact or a plume of smoke. I was not convinced the pilot had made the runway, I thought it had gone down in the fields in front of it or worse hit the railway embankment. However there was no impact noise nor plume of smoke and no sound of emergency vehicles. I guessed he made it but blimey it was close.

South Downs National Park : Proposed Area
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The footpaths to Lancing Ring are now open.

West Sussex County Council announce most paths are now open, unless they are inhabited or used by farm livestock, or farm animals are nearby. 

The cycle path from Old Shoreham is officially open.
 
 

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Wildlife Notes
21 June 2001
The weather remained sunny if not particularly warm at 22° C for the Summer Solstice, and at night Mars shined brightly to the south before midnight, and looked silver-pinkish through the binoculars in the clear Moon less sky. No detail could be seen in low-powered 10 x 25 binoculars.

Common Tern (Photograph by Nick Jouault)
 
Terns can be seen over the sea at this time of the year and in the Adur estuary when the shoals of Sand Smelt arrive

18 June 2001
A small shoal of juvenile first year Pollack, Pollachius pollachius, came as a great surprise to me on a mussel collecting expedition at Kingston beach. In well over a thousand observations I have never seen shoals of these fry before. The mid-water shoals are usually Sand Smelt Atherina presbyter; Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax; or Grey Mullet, Chelon labrosus. Pollack shoals are are a characteristic of Cornish and Devon estuaries. At first the back of the tiny fish up to 40 mm long looked a coppery colour so I suspected a Pouting, Trisopterus luscus, but even in the postlarvae the more streamlined nature of the Pollack was clear, but if any doubt was needed the marked gaps between the three dorsal fins was decisive. The fish also lacked the barbel of the Pouting. Out of sunlight the back looks more greenish-brown. The shoal numbered about 200, maybe more, as my view was obscured. Thousands of Sea Gooseberries shared the same sea as the juvenile Pollack. 

Dogwhelks, Nucella lapillus, have just returned to this shore after an absence from 1982. They are all old specimens and even 20 years I do not recall any eggs. With a covering of mud, one Dogwhelk could be mistaken for a Common Whelk, Buccinum undatum, especially as its size at 52 mm is bigger than average. Dogwhelks usually average about 20 mm to 30 mm, and specimens can reach 60 mm. On Kingston beach, they still need looking for, and are rarely below 35 mm in length. 

17 June 2001
Over McIntyres field near Lancing Ring, House Martins, Swallows and Swifts dissect the air with  precision flying as they collect airborne food on the  wing. Over farm buildings at Sompting and at the nearby Open Space near St Mary's Close all three species were seen in spectacular form as they darted around buildings and over hedgerows.  (TQ 156052)

Report by Ray Hamblett
Nearby Malthouse Meadow is owned by Adur DC as part of a planning gain from the building of St Mary's' Close and its management was indeed initially supported by BTCV and a volunteers group supported by Sompting Parish Council. 
(from Councillor Daniel Yates)


Lancing Nature & History - June 2001 Newsletter 
(Link to the web site by Ray Hamblett)

    Words of the Week

    torpedo  | tpid |  n. & v. E16. [L = stiffness, numbness; also, the electric ray, f. torpere: see TORPID.] A n. Pl. -oes. 1 An electric ray (fish), esp. one of the genus Torpedo. Also torpedo ray. E16. b fig. A person who or thing which has a numbing effect. L16. 2 Orig., a timed explosive device designed to detonate under water. Now, a self-propelled submarine missile, usu. cigar-shaped, designed to explode on impact with a target. L18. b In full aerial torpedo. A shell designed to be dropped from an aircraft and explode on impact L19. 3 Any of various explosive devices; spec. (a)an explosive shell buried underground, detonated by pressure from above; (b)a firework exploding on impact with a hard surface; (c)a cartridge exploded in an oil-well to renew or increase the flow; (d)a device on a railway line detonated by pressure to give a danger signal. US. L18. b transf. A gangster, a gunman. US colloq. E20. 4 a (A vehicle with) a motorcar body tapered at both ends. Also torpedo-body. E20. b A tablet or capsule of a narcotic drug. slang. E20.

    encapsulate  | nkapsjlet, en- |  v.t. Also in-  | n- | . L19. [f. EN-1, IN-2 + CAPSULE n. + -ATE3.] 1 Enclose in or as in a capsule. L19. 2 fig. Exemplify the essential features of; epitomize, typify. M20. 
    2 V. GLENDINNING A story that encapsulates the confusion of social change. 
    encapsulation n. M19. 

    capsule  | kapsjul, -sjl |  n. & a. Formerly also in L form  -ula, pl. -lae. LME. [Fr. f. L capsula dim. of capsa CASE n.2; see -ULE.] A n. 1 gen. A small case or container; an envelope, a sheath. LME.  2 Anat. A membranous or fibrous envelope around an organ, joint, etc.; a sac. L17. 3 Bot. A dry seed-case which opens when ripe by the parting of valves. L17.  4 Chem. A shallow vessel for roasting or evaporating. E18-L19. 5 A top or cover for a bottle. M19. 6 A small case of gelatin etc. enclosing a dose of medicine. L19. 7 A detachable nose-cone of a rocket, compartment of a spacecraft, etc., containing instruments or crew. M20.
    1 fig.: N. MAILER This is all very sketchy, but I'm trying to put seven years into a capsule. time-capsule: see TIME n. 2 Tenon's capsule: see TENON n.2
     B attrib. or as adj. Brief, condensed; small and compact. Chiefly US. M20.capsular a. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a capsule M18. capsulitis  | -lLts |  n. (Med.) inflammation of a capsule, esp. of a joint M19.

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