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

According to Phil Dibsdale (SEEDA) he expected the landowners to agree to a price for the pouststanding areas of land that they have not already purchased.

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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
 

Chalk pit on the downs north of Beeding Hill
with Chalkhill Blue Butterflies
(from the footpath down to Horton)

The maps are supposed to be uploaded at the following locations (although I was not able to get the very detailed maps to open):

South Downs National Park Proposals:  Maps
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/sd_boundaryintro.asp
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/sd_boundaryintroEast.asp
(the detailed maps do NOT seem to work)

Clearest Map  (but not detailed enough)
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/sd_draftboundary.htm

Worth looking at:
South Downs Landscape Character Area Map
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/sd_lca.htm

The Countryside Agency is to hold a series of road shows to get feedback on the South Downs National Park proposals. Provisional details are:
 
 

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

Sat 2nd Feb, The Shoreham Centre 11.30 - 15.30
 
 

Please consult the Countryside Agency website http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks for latest info

Click on the URL for the complete map

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Local Urban Transport Plan (West Sussex)
 

Comments will be raised at the Urban Transport Forum in March 2002.
 

West Sussex  Highways & Transport
http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/HT/hthome.htm

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Weather Forecast

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

Wildlife Notes

29 November 2001
A couple of the large white ducks, with a bright orange band around their long necks, were Shelducks, which appeared a large duck when they waddled around much larger than the convoy of Mallards, but when on the surface water of Widewater Lagoon the Shelducks appeared smaller. Shelducks are the largest of the British ducks and they feed on molluscs and crabs which are not to be found in any quantities in Widewater Lagoon.

27 November 2001
A very late brown-looking  Red Admiral Butterfly is seen fluttering around Shermanbury.

Report by Allen Pollard

25 November 2001
A seal was seen off Brighton beach, Sussex in the English Channel. This is outside the normal range of all species of pinnipeds. It was swimming between Brighton's two piers heading east to west. The seal swam at the surface and dived on occasions and appeared to be in good health. They have been seen as occasional vagrants before, notably off Shoreham a few miles to the west.

Report by Stephen Savage
Sussex Regional Co-ordinator for the Sea Watch Foundation

BMLSS Seal Page
Seal Conservation Society
Sussex Marine Life
 
 

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

Song:  Within You Without You
Duration: 
Track No.:      8
Composer:    Harrison
Vocals:         George Harrison
Year:            1967
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We were talking - about the space between us all
And the people - who hide themselves behind a
   wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late -
   when they pass away.

We were talking - about the love we all could
   share - when we find it
To try our best to hold it there - with our love
With our love - we could save the world - if
   they only knew.

Try to realise it's all within yourself no-one else
   can make you change
And to see you're really only very small,
   and life flows on within you and without you.

We were talking - about the love that's gone so
   cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul -
   they don't know - they can't see - are you one
   of them?

When you've seen beyond yourself - then you
   may find, peace of mind is waiting there -
And the time will come when you see
   we're all one, and life flows on within you and
   without you.
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Instruments & additional info.:
Recording commenced in studio two at Abbey Road on March 22 1967.
Album version mixed from take two. Writer: George. Lead vocal:
George. Producer: George Martin. Recording engineer: Geoff Emerick.
Second engineer: Richard Lush.

[*1:]

Harrison: vocal, sitar, acoustic guitar, tambura
Uncredited Indian musicians: dilrubas, svarmandal, tabla, tambura
Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman,
Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein, Jack Greene: violins
Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan: cellos
Neil Aspinall: tambura

Rec.: 15th/22nd March, 3rd/4th April 1967
Rel. UK: 1st June 1967 (LP Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Rel. US: 2nd June 1967 (LP Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

Other versions on
Anthology 2
 

Web page for lyrics: http://web.mit.edu/scholvin/www/harrison/hbeatles.htm

Wildlife Web Sites
 



Dragonflies of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders

Flight Times (First Seen)

Dragonflies of Ireland

Marine Life Courses



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Historical Snippets

The Burrell Arms in the days of the Horse-drawn trams

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

SUSSEX PAST
Sussex Archaeological Society  EGroup

Words of the Week
syenite

any of a class of intrusive igneous rocks essentially composed of an alkali feldspar and a ferromagnesian mineral. A special group of alkali syenites is characterized by the presence of a feldspathoid mineral such as nepheline, leucite, cancrinite, or sodalite (see nephelinesyenite). Chemically, syenites contain a moderate amount of silica, relatively large amounts of alkalies, and alumina. The name was first used by Pliny the Elder.

The texture of syenites, like that of granite, is granular, and these rocks differ from granite only by the absence or scarcity of quartz. The alkali feldspars present may include orthoclase, perthite, albite, or, more rarely, microcline; the ferromagnesian mineral may be biotite, hornblende, or pyroxene. In the alkali syenites, the amphiboles or pyroxenes frequently contain sodium.

The more normal syenites are divisible according to their prevalent dark-coloured mineral into augite-, hornblende-, and biotite-syenites; but, like granites, syenites are also divisible according to the type of alkali feldspar into potash and soda syenites. The accessory constituents include sphene, apatite, zircon, magnetite, and pyrites. Syenites are much less common than granites and diorites. The rocks known as nordmarkite and pulaskite are soda syenites. Rocks transitional between syenites and diorites are known as monzonites. 

Extract from the 1996 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
The rock sea defences on Shoreham beach are Larvikite, a variety of syenite.

Image Gallery

King's Head 1982

Computer Tips

A new Badtrans computer virus was discovered on 24 November 2001. It has already been the fastest spreading I have known, with one received on 25 November 2001 and 24 received on 26 November 2001 and another 28 on 27 November 2001. These number are already exceeded on 28 November 2001 with a few other viruses for good measure (e.g. Magistr.a , Magistr.b, Sircam.c, MTX.a).  I have never received more than 12 viruses in a day before. If you are an irregular upgrader of AV software, now is the time to do it.

It is spread through EMail (just Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook w/o adequate protection).
Other users catch the virus but it does not seem to do anything other than replicate. It can steal or your passwords and other viruses can do this as well. This itself is a thorough nuisance to other users.
However, there is always a chance that a related virus will include a nasty payload and as the attachment is downloaded it could be opened by accident with tragic results.

W32.Badtrans.B@mm is a MAPI worm that emails itself out as one of several different file names.

Link to Information File

 


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:

Express Thumbnail Creator

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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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 are shown in the left hand column. Please make any suggestions.

See the Profusion Search method below.

Smart Groups
 

• Star:  Latest Virus Information

•  Sussex Web Sites 

 
SHOREHAM AIRPORT NEWS

Archaeology in Sussex to AD 1500   ****

Shermanbury (Adur Valley)  **

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

Events

Second Saturday every month. 
Farmer's Market

Fresh produce
East Street, Shoreham-by-Sea

 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
•  
WORLDWIDE: RECOMMENDED SITES: 1 TO 5 STARS

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

British History Web page ***

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	Vol. 3
55	1	Adur World Oceans Day Committee Meeting
56	2	Ropetackle - Group Consultation with SEEDA
57	3	Train Crash at Lancing
58	4	Ropetackle Outline Plan Initial Comments
59	5	Plane Crash at Sharpthorne
60	6	Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions
61	7	Repair of the Old Fort
62	8	Plane Crash at Shoreham
63	9	HMS Shoreham
64	10	Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions  Update
65	11	Adur Festival 2001 Preview
66	12	Ropetackle Outline Plan - Objections
67	13	Shoreham May Day Celebrations
68	14	Ropetackle Outline Plans - Plan
69	15	Plane Crash at Lancing
70	16	Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Lifted - Footpaths Open
71	17	Escape of King Charles II Exhibition
72	18	Adur World Oceans Day Preview
73	19	Adur World Oceans Day
74	20	General Election
75	21	End of the Adur Festival
76	22	Plane Crash Averted at Lancing Conservative Independent Alliance
77	23	Farmer's Market
78	24	Ropetackle Public Meeting
79	25	Ropetackle Planning Meeting Reminder
80	26	Ropetackle Planning Meeting Report
81	27
82	28	Shoreham Air Show 350th Anniversary of the Battle of Worcester
83	29
84	30
85	31	Closure of the Marlipins Widewater Information Booth
86	32	Round the World by Helicopter
87	33
88	34
89	35
90	36	Ropetackle Compulsory Purchase Planning Enquiry Proof of Evidence of Contamination
91	37
92	38

Adur Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy Horton.