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Shoreham-by-Sea and District, West Sussex, England
Local NewsAdur Quality of Life: Our Shared Vision
The Adur Strategy for Sustained Development
This document is being prepared to go before the Committee for circulation in draft form for contributors comments to be received
circa 10 October 2000.
Contact: Natalie Brahma-Pearl, Adur DC. Tel: 01273 26334723 September 2000
Brighton & Hove Local Plan 2000
The First Deposit Draft has been published.
This is a large document with colour maps.
Future of Shoreham PortDavid Vaughan (I am sure of his first name) spoke about Port of Shoreham at the Southwick Royal Legion on 19 September 2000.
The following items arose, which have not been all confirmed before:
1) The plan involves consolidation of the Port (removing the wharfage space by over 50%) which in common English means making the Port smaller with less business, jobs, and less port traffic, (although if homes and small businesses are built the actual total volume of road traffic will increase). Timber vessels can be unloaded much quicker nowadays to a faster turnaround.
2) The plan involves the reclamation of Southwick beach for warehousing space, effectively, and probably actually totally removing this amenity from public use.
3) The harbour has lost trade to other ports who are able to provide better facilities, e.g. Cocoa, and to road hauliers e.g. Wine (now shipped bottled.)
4) The existing inadequate roads not effect the running of the port, and they will only be improved e.g. a tunnel, to lessen the impact on local residents.
5) There will be another Moss pretty pictures presentation next summer.Comments and further information are on the
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE
(you have to join the group, and think of a password)Latest:Halcrow Group Ltd are in the process of undertaking the Environmental Assessment of the contaminated land on the south side of Shoreham Harbour canal and they will be presenting an Exhibition in October 2000.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
The lizard originally identified as the European Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis, which poked its head out of flint wall in which a sprig of Bittersweet was growing, on the Old Fort, Shoreham Beach is almost certainly an adult Common (or Viviparous) Lizard, Zootoca vivipara.
Postscript: these lizards have now been definitely identified as the Wall Lizard, Podarcis muralis.
23
September 2000
Humming
Bird Hawk-Moth, Macroglossum stellatarum.
Another
one of these attractive moths was seen in Dave Mason's front garden just
north of Shoreham railway station.
22
& 24 September 2000
In
light rain on both days I came so close to low flying Sparrowhawks
whilst
cycling, I thought we going to collide, but this bird of prey's superior
eyesight enabled to soar quickly out of the way. The blunt forehead of
this bird was particularly noticeable and it looks a much bigger bird close-up.
15
September 2000
The
rain has finally arrived, with squalls throughout the afternoon, and thunder
with torrential rain in the evening. Chris
Alcott spotted a waterspout/ tornado off the
Shoreham coast. Small tornadoes are commoner than realised off the Sussex
coast in the autumn.
National
Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
14
September 2000
A
clump of Ivy on the riverside of the old railway track path south of the
Toll
Bridge on the east side of the River Adur at
Shoreham was covered with Red Admiral Butterflies,
well we counted 20 in a 2 metre square area. The most I've seen in one
place this year. TQ 211 054, is about the spot, We also saw one Comma
Butterfly,
(it's markings were of generation 1) and 1 Clouded
Yellow.
Butterfly Conservation Society
UK-Leps eForum (Lepidoptera)
12 September 2000
The unidentified Dragonfly of the last Adur Torpedo has been tentatively identified as the Common Darter (frequent 15+) Sympetrum striolatum
Wildlife Records on the Adur eForum (you have to join)
WILDLIFE FEATURE by Andy Horton
Cockles
Cockles from around the British Isles.
Top:
the small specimen is the Lagoon Cockle, Cerastoderma glaucum.
This
cockle can be found in Widewater Lagoon.
Middle: the Common Cockle, Cerastoderma edule.
Bottom: the Prickly Cockle, Acanthocardia echinata.
Butterfly Conservation Society
Look
for the butterfly photographic competition.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife
Marine
Life eFora (Link)
UK-Leps
eForum (Lepidoptera)
British Naturalists' Association (link)
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
- gibbous
| bs | a. LME. [Late L gibbosus, f. L gibbus hump: see -OUS.] 1 Convex,
rounded, protuberant. LME. b Astron. Of the moon or a planet: having the
visible disc more than half but less than fully illuminated. L17. c Bot.
Very convex or bulging, esp. of solid convexities. M19. 2 Of a person or
an animal: hunch-backed; having a hump. Of a part of the body: hump-shaped.
LME.
-
Star:
Latest Virus Information
1b A. S. BYATT Hethrough the window saw the irregular lump of a gibbous moon.
gibbously adv. M19. gibbousness n. (rare) L17.
antagonist
| anta()nst | n. & a. L16. [Fr. antagoniste or late L antagonista
(Jerome) f. Gk antagonistes, f. as next: see -IST.] A n. 1 An opponent,
an adversary; an opposing force. L16. 2 Physiol. A muscle whose action
counteracts that of another. Cf. AGONIST 3. L17. 3 Biochem. A substance
or organism which interferes with or inhibits the action of another. Cf.
AGONIST 4. L19.
1 E. GLASGOW Some have said
that Nature is the antagonist of happiness. C. V. WEDGWOOD The outbreak
of the second war convinced the King's more ruthless antagonists that no
peace could be made while he lived.
B attrib. or as adj.
= ANTAGONISTIC. Now rare. L17.
MILTON None daring to appear
antagonist. COLERIDGE Antagonist forces are necessarily of the same kind.
antagonistic a. actively
opposed, of the nature of an antagonist M17. antagonistical a. (rare) =
ANTAGONISTIC E17. antagonistically adv. E17.
Cimmerian | smrn | n. & a. L16. [f. L Cimmerius (f. Gk Kimmerios) + -AN.] A n. 1 A member of a people fabled to live in perpetual darkness. L16. 2 A member of a nomadic people of antiquity, the earliest known inhabitants of the Crimea, who overran Asia Minor in the 7th cent. BC. L18. B adj. 1 Of or pertaining to the legendary Cimmerians; (of darkness, night, etc.) thick, gloomy. L16. 2 Of or pertaining to the nomadic Cimmerians. M19.
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Excerpted
from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed
by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
in Greek mythology, the river that flowed around the Earth (conceived as flat). Beyond it, to the west, were the sunless land of the Cimmerii, the country of dreams, and the entrance to the underworld. In Hesiod's Theogony, Oceanus was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), the husband of the Titan Tethys, and father of 3,000 stream spirits and 3,000 ocean nymphs. In Homer's works he was the origin of the gods. As a common noun the word received almost the modern sense of ocean.
Excerpted
from 1996 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Computer Tips
Under
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5,
go
to Internet Options/Advanced/Underline Links and click on the Hover option.
Then, links will only be underlined when the cursor moves over them. This
makes the web pages look tidier. Many link-heavy sites (like mine) are
designed with this option in mind.
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.
Marine
Life eFora (Link)
UK-Leps
eForum (Lepidoptera)
Poem of the Week
Anonymous (later version of Mother Goose rhyme)
"I," said the Sparrow,
"With my bow and arrow,
I killed Cock Robin."
Who saw him die?
"I," said the Fly,
"With my little eye,
I saw him die."
Who caught his blood?
"I," said the Fish,
"With my little dish,
I caught his blood."
Who'll make his shroud?
"I," said the Beetle,
"With my thread and needle,
I'll make his shroud."
Who'll dig his grave?
"I," said the Owl,
"With my spade and trowel,
I'll dig his grave."
Who'll be the parson?
"I," said the Rook,
"With my little book.
I'll be the parson."
Who'll be the clerk?
"I," said the Lark,
"I'll say Amen in the dark;
I'll be the clerk."
Who'll be chief mourner?
"I," said the Dove,
"I mourn for my love;
I'll be chief mourner."
Who'll bear the torch?
"I," said the Linnet,
"I'll come in a minute,
I'll bear the torch."
Who'll sing his dirge?
"I," said the thrush,
"As I sing in the bush
I'll sing his dirge."
Who'll bear the pall?
"We," said the Wren,
"Both the cock and the hen;
We'll bear the pall."
Who'll carry his coffin?
"I," said the Kite,
"If it be in the night,
I'll carry his coffin."
Who'll toll the bell?
"I," said the Bull,
"Because I can pull,
I'll toll the bell."
All the birds of the air
Fell to sighing and sobbing
When they heard the bell toll
For poor Cock Robin.
P.S.
To
all it concerns,
This notice apprises,
The Sparrow's for trial,
- Submitted by Ray Hamblett
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ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
2
August 2000
The
Adur
Valley eForum covering all aspects of life in the Adur Valley commences.
You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then
you can post messages on almost anything about life in Shoreham-by-sea
and the Adur Valley, including, Lancing, Sompting, Southwick, Steyning
and the smaller villages in the valley.
ADUR VALLEY eFORUM
is to click on the link to the
logo, and register as a new member. Allow 10 minutes on-line, but the process should be much quicker.
Then you can go to the Adur Valley page and register to join.
The following choices will have to be made:
1) Receive mail in a daily bulletin.
2) Receive each EMail individually (this may result in too many EMails)
3)
Choose not to receive EMails, which means you can visit the web page to
choose what subjects look interesting. You can, also, just receive a list
of the subjects in a daily digest.
If
the latter applies, you will have to click on the menu item Messages.
4) It is also possible just to receive a daily digest of the subject headings.
These choices can be altered at a later date. They can also be altered by me, (except for 4) if you cannot work out how to do it.
Historical Snippets
Conjectural
Medieval Map of the Adur Estuary
See
the web page: ancmap.htm
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