Thoughts on Antiquity (Free subscription) | yesterday
No, it’s not Jimmy Hoffa (he was American, remember?). Instead, someone in West Sussex: A 2,000-year-old body has been uncovered in North Bersted. The rare find has excited archaeologists who have labelled the discovery as being of international importance. The skeleton is believed to have been a warrior who died around the time of the Roman invasion [...]
Rodney McAree Forever! (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
West Sussex have a problem with holes at the moment, it seems. The first is the kind that any driver, cyclist or motorbike rider in Crawley can tell you about - potholes. There are more and more of these things popping up all over town, along with growing cracks, raised or sunken metalwork, uneven pavements and any other signs of poor maintenance and the use of cheap materials. To help them to know...
4 Drivers Only (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
© mockney_piers ECO-TOWNS' SHORTLIST Bordon, Hampshire Coltishall, Norfolk Elsenham, Essex Ford, West Sussex Hanley Grange, Cambridgeshire Imerys, nr St Austell, Cornwall Leeds city region, West Yorkshire Middle Quinton, Warwickshire New Marston, Bedfordshire Pennbury, Leicestershire Rossington, South Yorkshire Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire Weston Otmoor, Oxfordshire One person in every household should...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Taxi drivers in West Sussex are calling for more funding for CCTV cameras after a series of attacks in Crawley.
AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Here’s this week’s lineup of local events of interest to Jane Austen fans. Check them out–one might be near your hometown! July 26-7, 2008, Petworth House, West Sussex - Dandies, Duelling and Dancing…. Petworth in the time of Jane Austen, 1820 - Petworth House (”Dude…it’s PEMBERLEY!” she said, her eyes wide in astonishment) hosts a two-day [...]
AutoMotoPortal.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today confirmed details of a unique outdoor promenade performance of Toad of Toad Hall, to be performed by the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in the company’s grounds at Goodwood, West Sussex. A cast of over 60 young people aged between 11 and 19 will play much loved characters including Ratty, Mole, Badger and, of course, the car-loving Toad.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Part of a major a road through West Sussex is closed following a fuel spillage on the A22 in East Grinstead.
The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The weekend saw one of the biggest matches in the polo season calendar take place in rural West Sussex – the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup final at Cowdray Park Polo…
Rodney McAree Forever! (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Duncan Crow, Tory councillor at both West Sussex and Crawley has got himself a blog, as I mentioned a couple of posts ago. He recently put this little missive up: Our last honest Prime Minister , about John Major. Of course, Major was fairly well respected for his honesty and integrity (if not his competence or personality) until it came out afterwards that he'd had an affair with Edwina Currie. However,...
David Llewellyn (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
It's the FBI's 100th birthday this Saturday so watch out for the fireworks. It is also the first anniversary of the landmark House of Lords case brought by HM Revenue against a small husband and wife IT services firm from West Sussex, called Arctic Systems. That case had big implications for hundreds of thousands of other family companies and partnerships. But&nbs...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Star Trek actress Marina Sirtis is among TV stars from both sides of the Atlantic filming a new movie in West Sussex.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Loro Piana triumphed in a riveting, close encounter over Ellerston at Cowdray Park, West Sussex, winning 11-10 to lift the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup, and with it the British Open Championships, while Juan Martin Nero highlighted his great skills.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Fairytale, as everyone knows, is all about the dark forests of unconscious desire. Faeries, on the other hand, the new family show from the Royal Ballet's Will Tuckett, is all about, and only about, fairies. But this isn't a cue for you to stop reading. Anyone curious about the power of theatre will be enthralled by this unusual conjunction of fine writing (by Rebecca Lenkiewicz), puppetry (Blind...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Hospital campaigners and MPs from six counties are invited to have a final say on the NHS in West Sussex.
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
It has been announced that yesterday TV star Hugh Lloyd died at the age of 85 at his home in Worthing, West Sussex. It’s said that Lloyd fell ill last week after suffering shortness of breath. Lloyd was most famous for his role in the 60s sitcom Hugh and I. and its said that he was [...]
