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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
Ropetackle Compulsory Purchase Planning Enquiry
28 November 2001
Shingle Sea Defences at WidewaterDerek Neate, Vice Chairman of the Friends Of Widewater reports that the Environment Agency has gone back on it's agreement NOT to build the shingle bank on the shoreline behind the Lagoon.
The consequence of this appears to be that the water level in the Lagoon is particularly low and the action may be a threat to the future of the Lagoon.Supporters of the Lagoon have rallied to object to the action, the press and media have been informed and MP Tim Laughton has agreed to arrange a public meeting.
I will have more news on this soon, meanwhile the Widewater Web pages have
some information.Go to http://www.lancing-nature.bn15.net//nature/Widewater/fowl1.htm for notes from the Friends of Widewater Summer Newsletter where it shows that the Agency appeared to understand the situation and agreed to make provisions.
Derek Neate can be contacted by phone on 01903 754393
Regards
Ray Hamblett
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.jpgThe Countryside Agency is to hold a series of road shows to get feedback on the South Downs National Park proposals. Provisional details are:
Tue 27th Nov, The Town Hall, Eastbourne 12.30 - 19.30
Wed 28th Nov, The Ship Hotel, North Street, Chichester 12.30 - 19.30
Fri 30th Nov, St Marys Hall, Arundel 12.30 - 19.30
Sat 1st Dec, The Public Hall, Rottingdean 11.30 - 15.30
Sat 8th Dec, Priory Park Clubhouse, Bishops Waltham 11.30 - 15.30
Wed 12th Dec, The Village Hall, Pulborough 15.00 - 20.00
Thurs 13th Dec, The Village Centre, Hurstpierpoint 13.30 - 20.00
Sat 15th Dec, The Guildhall, Winchester 11.30 - 15.30
Mon 17th Dec, Leconfield Hall, Petworth 12.30 - 19.30
Fri 4th Jan, Lewes Town Hall 12.30 - 19.30
Mon 7th Jan, Brighton Town Hall 12.30 - 19.30
Wed 9th Jan, Petersfield Festival Hall 12.30 - 19.30
Fri 11th Jan, The Downs Leisure Centre, Seaford 12.30 - 19.30
Mon 14th Jan, The Steyning Centre, Steyning 11.00 - 18.00
Thurs 17th Jan, Worthing Town Hall 12.30 - 19.30
Sat 19th Jan, Hove Town Hall 11.30 - 15.30
Mon 21st Jan, Capron House, Midhurst 12.30 - 19.30
Fri 25th Jan, The Memorial Hall, Clanfield 12.30 - 19.30
Sat 26th Jan, Cosham Community Centre 11.30 - 15.30
Mon 28th Jan, New Alresford Community Centre 12.30 - 19.30
Wed 30th Jan, Selborne Village Hall 12.30 - 19.30
Sat 2nd Feb, The Shoreham Centre 11.30 - 15.30
Wed 6th Feb, The War Memorial Hall, Alfriston 11.00 - 18.00
Please consult the Countryside Agency website http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks for latest info
Click on the URL for the complete map
Local Urban Transport Plan (West Sussex)A meeting was held about this for local people, but I missed it.
The County Councillor chairing the meeting was Clive Williams. Did anybody go who could provide a report on the meeting?
Natalie Brahma-Pearl at Adur DC has kindly found out from her colleagues and provided me with an address to write to with any comments:
Mr. Mike Link
Head of Transport & Planning Policy
West Sussex County Council
The Grange
Tower Street
Chichester
PO19 1RH
Comments will be raised at the Urban Transport Forum in March 2002.
West Sussex Highways & Transport
http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/HT/hthome.htm
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Notes
14 November 2001
A Green Woodpecker is spotted up a Beech tree on Lancing Ring near the Dewpond. This attractive bird can be found in country gardens and occasionally in large town gardens in the Adur district, notably St. Michael's vicarage in Southwick and at Shermanbury.Report by Ray Hamblett
November 2001
Green & Spotted Woodpeckers seen and heard around Lancing Clump. Yellowhammers and Stonechats present on the western hillside. Long-tailed Tits and a single Goldfinch were seen on the south meadow. Skylarks were spotted and heard particularly towards Steep Down and the Trig point.
Red Admiral Butterflies flew strongly on sunny days.Report by Veronica Altringham
13 November 2001
A due north (boreal) wind brought a chill to the air. On the Kingston beach the low spring is recorded at 0.7 metres but it receded almost to Chart Datum. On the Sussex coast, the mobile shore fauna almost completely disappears in after the first spring tides in October with hardly a straggler prawn or Shore Crab left behind. Just the sessile residents, mussels and winkles in superabundance, limpets of all sizes to 60 mm in diameter and highly domed, cockles were common but mostly hidden, with oysters and venerids frequent, an occasional dogwhelk, and it was too cold to stay around to find any of two species of piddock or two species of chiton which are occasional finds on thissheltered shore. The small chitons looking like a legless wood lice are best seen in winter when the algal cover is exiguous, although small clumps of Irish Moss could be seen in the shallow pools and the Fucus draping down from the groynes and concrete slabs.
Under rocks there were some very small (to 12 mm) juvenile Rock Gobies, and a couple of Netted Dogwhelk shells appearing unoccupied but discovered to be occupied by tiny Common Hermit Crabs. The small crustacean Athanas nitescens was common (50+) under one small boulder, and there were undoubtedly more populations. This tiny (6 mm) small shrimp-like animal can be recognised by the pale stripe down its back. Its occurrence on the shore is sporadic, overlooked frequently.12 November 2001
It's turned into a typical soggy November day here in Lancing.
In the garden the Starling population seems to be increasing noticable since
the weather took a chill. Their chit-chat whistles and calls from their
perches in the Hawthorn trees are only drowned by the sound of somebody
cutting paving bricks a few doors away !.
A pair of Blackbirds occasionally visit as does a Song Thrush which is
always a welcome sight.The Sparrows and Greenfinches now have to compete with the Starlings for a position at the hanging feeders. A sprinkling of food on the bird table helps to distract the Starlings.
The spilt seed scattered on the ground beneath the feeders is collected by most of the birds, the Robin seems most content to take a meal from there.
There are beginnings of quite a few green shoots appearing from germinated
seed which I will have to weed out.
The 'John Downie' Crab Apple tree from which the feeders are hanging is
still holding many of it's leaves but the fruit has long since fallen.Report by Ray Hamblett
WINTER Nature Notes 2001 JANUARY - MARCH SPRING Nature Notes 2001 APRIL - JUNE SUMMER Nature Notes 2001 JULY - SEPTEMBER AUTUMN Nature Notes 2001 OCTOBER - DECEMBER
Lancing Nature & History - November 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for October
Poem or Literature
Cautiously the Vikings
Creep along the Channel;
Seeking after plunder.
Man or beast or metal,
What it is they care not.
Only when the War-god
Calls them to battle;
That they may die fighting
With their faces foe-ward,
And so gain Valhalla;
Is their one petition.
Fair-haired fighting Saxon,
In your blue eye shineth
Fearlessness and freedom!H. STOVOLD BRIGDEN
(coinciding with the Viking documentary series on BBC Television)
- Wildlife
Web Sites
Dragonflies of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
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THIS LINK HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
SeaxeThe general belief is the name 'Saxon' comes from the knife called a
Scramasax commonly carried by the Saxons, i.e. they were the people of the Sax (or Seaxe or one of 20 different variations). Ownership of one signifies
you were a free man. The blade length varied from a couple of inches up to
18 inches, my own (for re-enactment purposes I hasten to add) is 10 inches
long.Jason
<museum@horsham.gov.uk>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sussexpast/message/1813
Regia Anglorum http://www.regia.org/
Saxon Ships
http://www.regia.org/booking%20event.htmThames Scramasax
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/scramasax.htmlFrom Rapier to Sword
http://www.vikingsword.com/smithy/seax.html
Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
- Words
of the Week
capstan
| kapst()n | n. Also capstern & other vars. LME. [Prov.
cabestan (earlier cabestran), f. cabestre halter f. L capistrum, f. capere
seize.] 1 A revolving barrel on a vertical axis for winding cable etc.,
esp. on board ship: worked by persons walking round pushing bars fitting
into the barrel, or by electricity, steam, etc. LME. 2 A revolving
spindle on a tape recorder etc. M20.
Comb.:
capstan lathe: with a revolving tool-holder.
windlass
| wndls | n.1 & v. LME. [App. alt. of WINDAS.] A n. 1 = WINCH
n. 3. LME. 2 Any of various similar smaller contrivances, esp.
one used in discharging a crossbow or pistol. Cf. WINDAS 2. L15-E19.
1
Spanish windlass: see SPANISH a.
B
v.t. Hoist or haul (as) with a windlass. M19.
Spanish windlass Naut. a device for tightening a rope etc. using a stick as a lever.
winch
| wn(t) | n. See also WINCE n.2 [Late OE wince f. Gmc base also of
WINK v.1] 1 A reel; a roller; a pulley. LOE. b spec. An angler's reel.
M17. c Naut. A small machine used for making ropes and spunyarn.
Also, a quantity of yarn so made. M17-E20. 2 A well-wheel. Also,
a well. ME-M17. 3 A hoisting or hauling apparatus consisting of a horizontal
drum or axle round which a rope, cable, or chain passes, turned by a crank
or motor. L16. b Hist. On the River Thames: a riverside winch used to haul
craft through difficult places; a toll levied for the use of this. E17.
4 The crank of a wheel, shaft, axle, etc. M17. 5 Dyeing. = WINCE n.2 2.
L18.
Comb.:
winchman (a)a person who operates a winch; (b)a person lowered by a winch
from a helicopter, esp. to rescue people from shipwrecks etc.
winch | wn(t) | v.1 obs. exc. dial. ME. [f. AN var. of OFr. guenchier turn aside, avoid, f. Gmc: see WINK v.1 Cf. WINCE v.1] 1 v.i. = WINCE v.1 2. ME. 2 v.i. = WINCE v.1 1. L15.
winch
| wn(t) | v.2t. E16. [f. WINCH n.] 1 Hoist or haul (as) with a winch;
lift up thus. E16. 2 Dyeing. = WINCE v.2 M19.
1
Sunday Express Ten crewmenwere winched to safety by helicopter.
marlinspike | mlnspLk | n. Also -line-. Orig. (now rare) marling- | ml- | . E17. [App. f. marling pres. pple of MARL v.2 + SPIKE n.2, the 1st elem. being later interpreted as prec. Cf. MARLIN n.2] Naut. A pointed iron tool used to lift the strands of rope in splicing, as a lever in marling, etc.
marline | mln | n. LME. [Du. marlijn (f. marren to bind + lijn LINE n.1) & marling (f. marlen frequent. of MDu. marren + -ing -ING1).] Naut. Light rope of two strands.
peregrine
| perrn | a. & n. LME. [(O)Fr. peregrin f. L peregrinus foreign,
travelling, f. pereger that is abroad or on a journey, peregre (adv.) abroad,
f. as PER-1 + ager field: see -INE1. Cf. PILGRIM.] A adj. 1 peregrine falcon,
falcon peregrine [tr. med.L falco peregrinus pilgrim falcon, so called
because the bird was caught full-grown as a passage-hawk, not taken from
the nest], a falcon, Falco peregrinus, of cosmopolitan distribution
and much valued for hawking on account of its fast and accurate flying.
LME. 2 Foreign; outlandish, strange; imported from abroad. Formerly
also, extraneous to the matter in hand. E16. 3 Astrol. Of a planet: situated
in a part of the zodiac where it has none of its essential dignities. L16.
4 Travelling; wandering. Formerly also, on a pilgrimage. M17.
4
G. M. BROWN A single stroke took him on the forehead; and, a peregrine
spirit, he shook this world from him.
Special
collocations: peregrine falcon: see sense 1 above. peregrine praetor Rom.
Hist. a second praetor appointed at Rome to administer justice between
Roman and non-Roman citizens and between non-Roman citizens themselves.
peregrine tone one of the tones used in plainsong, in which the reciting
note changes halfway through.
B
n. 1 A peregrine falcon. L15. 2 A person who lives or travels in a foreign
land; an immigrant; a pilgrim. Long rare. L16. b Rom. Hist. A resident
in ancient Rome who was not a Roman citizen. L19.peregrinity n. (a)the
condition of being a foreigner or alien; (b)foreignness, strangeness:
L16.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
Photographic Gallery
This main photograph by Andy Horton is of the Adur Levels (Flood Plain) looking north-west from Mill Hill. The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly was found settled on a Fleawort at the edge of the green fields in the photograph, and this butterfly lays its eggs on nettles in the rougher places.The butterfly photograph was superimposed on the original photograph using the Adobe Photoshop 4 program. The text was typed in using the same program.
- Adobe Photoshop
is a the most popular professional photo-manipulation program.
At first it is far from user-friendly (partially intuitive if you know both about photography and computing), but because it is so good it is worth persevering and for a photographer this facility to manipulate prints makes it worthwhile reason to get a computer on its own.
Abridged procedure:
Save a with new file name > Erase (select brush size) and draw around image you want to transfer > Erase (or fill) to remove the rest of the background. (You may have to draw lines or make minor adjustments when removing the unwanted background.)
Magic Wand > Select > Inverse > Copy > Paste onto new file > Layer > Free Transform (adjust size & rotate) > Save as *.psd > Layer > Flatten Image > Save as *.jpg
On the older computers, only the early versions of Photoshop will work, I use Photoshop 4 on my Pentium II computer. The latest version is Photoshop 6.
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.
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| 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 |
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