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NEWS BULLETIN FOR THE ADUR VALLEY |
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| Adur Flood Plain |
| Chalk Downs |
| Coastal Fringe |
| Intertidal (Seashore) |
| Nature
Notes for
Lancing Ring |
| River Adur Estuary |
| River Adur |
| Sea (off Sussex) |
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| Widewater Lagoon |
| AREA MAP |
| Shermanbury (Adur Valley) |
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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local NewsMarlipin's Museum
Planning Application: SU219/01/TP
South Downs National Park : Proposed Area
On 27 November 2001, the Countryside Agency will be starting a public consultation on the designation of a National Park for the South Downs. Detailed 1:25,000 scale maps will be available from 27 November 2001, for further information about the designation process visit the Countryside Agency's website at
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/southdowns.htm
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/SDmap1.htm
Old Boundaries:
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/Areaofsearchmap.jpgClick on the URL for the complete map
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Notes30 October 2001
Amongst the moist grasses of the Adur levels, west of the Waterworks (TQ 209 068), the large white mushrooms with a long white stalk appear to be Volvariella speciosa. The appearance of the cap varies in colour from off-white in the parasol-shaped specimens to a dirtier white almost brown in the larger specimens which were flat, and in the older-looking specimens the cap was upturned to form a shallow cup. The underside and gills vary from a light straw colour the dark brown of a commercial mushroom. The cap of the largest of seven specimens in a square metre was at least 150 mm in diameter.
British Fungi Discussion ForumOn the east riverbank south of Old Shoreham, a Black-headed Gull repeatedly mobbed the resident Kestrel with a lot of cawing. The Kestrel, a smaller male with its pale bluish underside of the wings, noticeable even at 50 metres distant, could soar out of the way with ease. There were hundreds of gulls on mud flats between the Railway Viaduct and the Toll Bridge.
25 October 2001
The equinoctial neap tides show a small range receding to 2.3 metres above Chart Datum but only rising at 1:00 pm (BST) to 4.4 metres, compared to equinoctial spring tides with a range up to 7 metres.22 October 2001
I do not know if this will be the last butterfly of 2001, but a Red Admiral fluttered out from an ivy bush in the Old Schoolhouse, in the central town part of Shoreham-by-sea.
31 August 2001
A Wasp Spider, Argiope bruennichi, was found on Lancing Ring (TQ 180 065) by dog walkers Alex Wilkinson and his mother Vicky. It a large (bigger than a fifty pence piece) yellow, black and white spider in a big web..."
The discovery was verified by Dr Gerald Legg at the Booth Museum of Natural History.
Although fairly rare, these immigrants are gaining a foothold in Sussex and according to a spokesman at English Nature found at several locations around the area including Rye, Heathfield, and Hastings. They are normally to be found on land surrounding the Mediteranean they have spread northwards. They have established themselves in southern England since the 1990's.Report by Ray Hamblett via the Friends of Lancing Ring Newsletter
WINTER Nature Notes 2001 JANUARY - MARCH SPRING Nature Notes 2001 APRIL - JUNE SUMMER Nature Notes 2001 JULY - SEPTEMBER AUTUMN Nature Notes 2001 OCTOBER - DECEMBER
Adur Wildlife GalleryLancing Nature & History - October 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for October
Poem or Literature
Shoreham Town
In Shoreham River, hurrying down
To the live sea,
By working, marrying, breeding, Shoreham Town,
Breaking the sunset's wistful and solemn dream,
An old, black rotter of a boat
Past service to the labouring, tumbling flote,
Lay stranded in mid-stream;
With a horrid list, a frightening lapse from the line,
That made me think of legs and a broken spine;
Soon, all too soon,
Ungainly and forlorn lie
Full to the eye
Of the cynical, discomfortable moon
That, as I looked, stared from the fading sky,
A clown's face flour'd for work. And by and by
The wide-winged sunset wanned and waned;
The lean night-wind crept westward, chilling and sighing;
The poor old hulk remained,
Struck helpless in mid-ebb. And I knew why-
Why, as I looked, my heart felt crying.
For, as I looked, the good green earth seemed dying-
"Dear God, it's I !"W.E. Henley
Suggested by Ray Hamblett
- Wildlife
Web Sites
Dragonflies of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
THIS LINK HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
- Historical
Snippets
The name Regni for the tribe that ruled in the south east of England seems to have come into existence after the Roman Invasion of AD 43. It appears that it was not until the Romans arrived that Cogidumnus became King [Rex]
- Words
of the Week
Zeitgeist | tsatast, zLtLst | n. M19. [G, f. Zeit time + Geist spirit.] The spirit of the age; the trend of thought or feeling in a period, esp. as reflected in its literature, art, etc.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Photographic Gallery
Dahliaman by Paul Parsons (Lancing)
- Computer
Tips
The Adur Wildlife Gallery web pages were constructed using the Express Thumbnail Gallery program which is shareware and can be discovered on the following web page:
The default files created
have the suffix *.html so anybody using the program has to be a little
bit cautious about overwriting existing files.
- Star: Latest Virus Information
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.
See the Profusion Search method below.
SHOREHAM AIRPORT NEWS
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
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
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Events
- Adur
On-line Events page
- http://appspace.nexus-solutions.net/arc/asp/diary/diaryoutput.asp
- Please send in any details of local events.
- Web
Sites
American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth
Edition *****
- SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
For any company or organisation wanting nationwide green publicity, there is an opportunity to sponsor the journal "Glaucus" of the British Marine Life Study Society.
There remains sponsorship opportunities on the BMLSS (England) web site and other publications, including Torpedo.
Sponsorship is also available for the Adur Torpedo Electronic News Bulletin and the Shoreham-by-Sea web pages (which preceded the Adur Resource Centre web site), which would be more suitable for a local firm(s).
Web Site Design Services are available from Hulkesmouth Publishing
Normal
advertisement rules apply.
Submissions
accepted by EMail only.
| 55 | Adur World Oceans Day Committee Meeting |
| 56 | Ropetackle - Group Consultation with SEEDA |
| 57 | Train Crash at Lancing |
| 58 | Ropetackle Outline Plan Initial Comments |
| 59 | Plane Crash at Sharpthorne |
| 60 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions |
| 61 | Repair of the Old Fort |
| 62 | Plane Crash at Shoreham |
| 63 | HMS Shoreham |
| 64 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Update |
| 65 | Adur Festival 2001 Preview |
| 66 | Ropetackle Outline Plan - Objections |
| 67 | Shoreham May Day Celebrations |
| 68 | Ropetackle Outline Plans - Plan |
| 69 | Plane Crash at Lancing |
| 70 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Lifted - Footpaths Open |
| 71 | Escape of King Charles II Exhibition |
| 72 | Adur World Oceans Day Preview |
| 73 | Adur World Oceans Day |
| 74 | General Election |
| 75 | End of the Adur Festival |
| 76 | Plane
Crash Averted at Lancing
Conservative Independent Alliance |
| 77 | Farmer's Market |
| 78 | Ropetackle Public Meeting |
| 79 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Reminder |
| 80 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Report |
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| 82 | Shoreham
Air Show
350th Anniversary of the Battle of Worcester |
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| 85 | Closure
of the Marlipins
Widewater Information Booth |
| 86 | Round the World by Helicopter |
Adur
Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy
Horton.
