No. 42 Spring 2018

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Dear readers on a boat trip to see it up close. of the week. WCHP could really You may Some interesting discoveries do with a venue that could notice we’ve were made – see for yourselves be opened every day—there increased on pages 14 and 15. are plenty of volunteers to the size of Unfortunately by the time cook and serve the food (and Caring4Sussex we heard that our county is to it smells nice, believe me), but These helplines are free. yet again, get a new duke and duchess they need somewhere to cook as there’s just so much to we were already about to go it and serve people without the The Silver Line 0800 4 70 80 90 pack inside, with our regular to print, so we only had half a stability of a home. If anyone 24 hours features, letters, news, health, page to devote to Harry and has ideas please contact us – gardening and Spotlight pages Meghan – but nonetheless I’m details below. Samaritans and now a new ‘Notes From the sure we’d all like to welcome The sun is finally out, and 116 123 Districts’, where we’ll bring you them to Sussex, and look we’re forecasting a long, hot 24 hours the highlights in planning and forward to their first visit as a summer so make the most of it Elderly Care Support local issues around the county. married couple. and go exploring plenty of that BUPA (Non-members welcome) Mon-Fri 8am-8pm Our cover story is about the Worthing Homeless Churches gorgeous Sussex countryside. Weekends 9am-5pm wind farm at Rampion – we’ve Projects very kindly took me 0800 001 010 all seen it go up, but how much to Horsham, where I saw the do we actually know about breakfast club run out of the Independent Age 0800 319 6789 it? C4S has been doing some Salvation Army in Depot Road Advice and information digging to find out about it, on Monday mornings – but Mon-Fri 8am-8pm and your editor actually went they’ve only got it for one day Saturdays 9am-1pm Contents

4-5 Caring 4 News Read the latest in our round-up Page 4 7 Caring 4 Homelessness An update on the situation in West Sussex 12 Caring 4 Royals When can we expect the new Duke and Duchess to visit? 13 Caring 4 Dementia The long-awaited Dementia Hub opens near Chichester 14-15 Caring 4 Energy COVER STORY Rampion is impressive – but just how much will it do? 16 Caring 4 Travel Peter Simpson visits Pompeii – to see Pink Floyd

Page 14 17 Caring 4 Music Vinyl’s back! And a lot of it’s under one roof in Worthing

Page 18-19 Caring 4 Districts NEW Updates from the district councils 16 21 Caring 4 Care Worthing’s Guild Care celebrates 85 years 22 Caring 4 Sussex Under the spotlight – Ditchling 24 Caring 4 Opinions Your letters 25 Caring 4 Books Two works under review

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5 foods that could help soothe arthritis The Express

Arthritis affects around 10 in osteoarthritis by stimulating million people in the UK – and the activity of osteoblasts World’s top climate scientists confess: it’s a condition that affects [bone-building cells] and Global warming is a QUARTER what people of all ages, according to chondrocytes [cartilage cells].” the NHS. Brazil nuts we thought – and computers got the It’s usually caused by a Brazil nuts are the best dietary wearing down of the smooth source of selenium available, effects of greenhouse gases wrong cartilage that lines the joints. which helps to improve the Mail on Sunday Tendons and ligaments have quality of cartilage proteins. A leaked copy of the world’s 15 years, recorded world temperatures to work harder after cartilage Just a single brazil nut most authoritative climate have increased at only a quarter of is worn away, and it may even contains at least 50mg of study reveals scientific the rate the IPCC claimed when it lead to bone rubbing on bone. selenium, Brewer says. forecasts of imminent doom published its last assessment in 2007. Symptoms can include joint Curry spices were drastically wrong. Back then, it said observed warming pain, restricted movement and “Curry spices – such as anise, The Mail on Sunday has over the 15 years from 1990-2005 inflammation. chilli, cloves, cumin, fennel, obtained the final draft of had taken place at a rate of 0.2ºC per But you could lower your ginger, mustard and turmeric a report to be published decade, and it predicted this would risk of pain by adding these – can reduce inflammation later this month by the UN continue for the following 20 years, foods to your diet, according to and improve arthritis pain in a Intergovernmental Panel on the basis of forecasts made by nutritionist Sarah Brewer. similar way to aspirin. on Climate Change (IPCC), computer climate models. Apples “Curry spices can modulate the ultimate watchdog But the new report says the “Eat an apple a day for their the activation of immune whose massive, six-yearly observed warming over the more anti-inflammatory polyphenols,” cells and reduce expression of ‘assessments’ are accepted by recent 15 years to 2012 was just she says. “One large apple inflammatory cytokines. environmentalists, politicians 0.05ºC per decade – below almost all [100g] provides the same “Turmeric contains curcumin, and experts as the gospel of computer predictions. benefits against inflamed joints which reduces cartilage climate science. The 31-page ‘summary for as 1,500mg of vitamin C. destruction in osteoarthritis, They are cited worldwide policymakers’ also reveals: IPCC “Wash but don’t peel your and is as effective as ibuprofen to justify swingeing fossil scientists accept their forecast apples – the polyphenols are for reducing joint pain.” fuel taxes and subsidies for computers may have exaggerated the five times more concentrated in Onions ‘renewable’ energy. effect of increased carbon emissions the skin than the flesh.” Arthritis patients should Yet the leaked report on world temperatures – and not eat more onions to reduce makes the extraordinary taken enough notice of natural Avocado is a great superfood symptoms. The vegetable works concession that over the past variability. that may even reverse by reducing inflammation in osteoarthritis, Brewer says. painful joints. “Avocado supplies “Onions are rich source The Independent unique anti-inflammatory of polyphenols and Elderly people grow as many new brain cells as young, study finds substances that suppress joint thiosulfinates, that suppress Elderly people grow as many hippocampus – a part of the brain inflammation by reducing the production of inflammatory new brain cells as teenagers, important for memory, emotion and production of inflammatory cytokines to reduce according to a new study which cognition – at a similar rate to young cytokines. inflammation. counters previous theories that people. “These have been found to “Red onions have the highest neurons stop developing after Researchers examined the brains of promote the repair of cartilage content of antioxidants.” adolescence. 28 previously healthy people who died Healthy men and women suddenly between the age of 14 continue to produce new and 79. neurons throughout life, “We found that older people have suggesting older people similar ability to make thousands remain more cognitively of hippocampal new neurons from and emotionally intact than progenitor cells as younger people previously believed, researchers do,” said the study’s lead author found. Maura Boldrini, associate professor of For decades it was thought neurobiology. that adult brains were hard- “We also found equivalent volumes wired and unable to form new of the hippocampus across ages.” cells. The ability to generate new But a Columbia University study hippocampal cells, a process known found older people continue as neurogenesis, declines with age in to produce neurons in the rodents and primates. 5

‘Letting go’ really is good for your health HealthDay News

The advice to “let go” of negative feelings is repeated in yoga classes and self-help books. Now a new study suggests it really brings a lasting health benefit. The study, of more than 1,100 middle-aged adults, found that those who had a hard time track of their daily hassles and getting over daily stressors their emotional responses to typically had more physical them for about a week. health problems a decade later. Each day, participants And it wasn’t just that people described their mood changes who were less healthy to over the past 24 hours -- And they cannot explain why without mention. begin with had more negative estimating how much time world average temperatures have This year has been one emotions. they spent feeling nervous, sad, not shown any statistically significant of the quietest hurricane The researchers accounted for angry or upset, for example. So increase since 1997. seasons in history and the any physical health conditions the researchers were able to They admit large parts of the US is currently enjoying its that participants had at the look at whether people were world were as warm as they are now longest-ever period – almost outset – and the ability to “let still out of sorts the day after for decades at a time between 950 eight years – without a single go” was still tied to better an everyday stressor, like an and 1250 AD – centuries before the hurricane of Category 3 or health 10 years later. argument or a bad day at work. Industrial Revolution, and when the above making landfall. The findings, Ten years later, participants population and CO levels were both One of the report’s own 2 published recently in the rated their physical well-being much lower. authors, Professor Myles journal Psychological Science, – including whether they had The IPCC admits that while Allen, the director of Oxford don’t prove that getting over chronic health conditions, computer models forecast a decline University’s Climate Research a bad mood will boost your trouble exercising or limitations in Antarctic sea ice, it has actually Network, last night said physical well-being. in daily tasks, such as climbing grown to a new record high. Again, this should be the last IPCC But they do add to evidence stairs or carrying groceries. the IPCC cannot say why. assessment – accusing its that our reactions to stress Those issues were common: A forecast in the 2007 report that cumbersome production take a physical toll, said James By the 10-year mark, only 17 hurricanes would become more process of ‘misrepresenting Maddux, a researcher who was percent of study participants intense has simply been dropped, how science works’. not involved in the study. were free of physical health “What’s interesting here is conditions, and only 20 percent Elderly people grow as many new brain cells as young, study finds The Independent that the researchers looked at had no complaints about the ‘day-after’ effects,” said physical limitations. Declining production of neurons University of California study Maddux, a senior scholar at But those problems were and shrinkage of parts of the brain suggested adults do not George Mason University’s more common among people which help form new episodic develop new neurons. Center for the Advancement of who had reported letting memories were believed to occur in Shawn Sorrells and Mercedes Well-Being in Virginia, US. negative emotions linger in ageing humans as well, explaining Paredes, who co-authored If you tend to ruminate over response to daily hassles, the why younger people find it easier to that research, said: “For now, daily hassles -- running through findings showed. learn skills and languages. we do not think this new every “what if” and “if only” “Some people believe that But the Columbia University study study challenges what we – it amplifies the impact of a worrying can actually prevent found similar numbers of newly have concluded from our own minor event, Maddux said. bad things from happening,” formed cells in old and young brains. recently published observations: “You probably find you feel Maddux said. So it can be However, the researchers also if neurogenesis continues in even worse after a night of hard for them to see that noted fewer blood vessels and the adult human hippocampus, ruminating,” he said. same mindset as a source of connections between cells in the it is an extremely rare If that cycle is repeated over older brains, which Ms Boldrini said phenomenon.” problems, rather than solutions. “may be linked to compromised However, other scientists time, “there’s an accumulation But, he said, it’s possible. cognitive-emotional resilience” in the said the Columbia University of physiological responses that “You can start to see that elderly. findings were promising and will wear you down,” Maddux maybe the problem is in the The findings, published in the could be helpful in developing explained. way that you think -- and not in journal Cell Stem Cell, are likely to be new treatments for neurological The study results are based on what other people are doing,” hotly debated. conditions such as Alzheimer’s 1,155 people who took part in a he said. “Anyone can learn to They come just a month after a Disease. national health study. 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It is a quite staggering feat of deteriorates as they age: Cost engineering. professor Gordon Hughes, C4S was told the cost of the Whether you’re for or against an economist at Edinburgh installation, which is owned by wind farms, the 116 steel turbines University and a former energy E.On and its partners the Green of the Rampion wind farm 8-12½ adviser to the World Bank, says Investment Group and Enbridge, miles off the Sussex coast are a generating power is likely to a north American energy remarkable sight from the beach, reduce by half within 15 years. supplier, was £1.3 billion, with but they’re astonishing to see up The land for Rampion has no government subsidy. Some close. been leased from the Crown estimates put the figure at Twenty-six square miles of Estate, and in 25 years’ time twice that, but the group still ‘Rampion’ was the name chosen for the the English Channel are now there will be an option to has to pay back its shareholders wind farm from a competition among dotted with the 140-metre tall extend the lease or take the – and thanks to the tax payer- local schools, and is actually a wild Sussex flower turbines (from foot to blade tip), turbines down and re-install funded Renewable Obligation each roughly a third of a mile them – if they last that long. Certificate (ROC) scheme that makes an annual income of £123 apart, and they’re the kind of The power generated at was in operation when Rampion million from the tax payer. construction that’s so huge you brand new Rampion is currently was approved, it should bring in On top of that, E.On will receive never seem to get up to them meeting predictions, and at least £170 million a year. around £35 per Mwh from its until suddenly you’re craning is collected at the offshore ROCs are a complicated customers – another £47 million a your neck beneath the gigantic substation, some 3,000 tonnes system of compensation, year, totalling £170 million a year. blades, each 55 metres in length. of technical equipment and whereby companies are Environment We took a boat trip to see cable, which is permanently awarded two ROC’s (worth The wind farm was installed in line them – there’s a choice of tour based in the wind farm. £47.22 each, according to with current policy to cut carbon operators that will take you from Parked next to the substation Ofgem, the government’s gas emissions. Brighton Marina – and depending when we were there was the and electricity administrators) Josh Snape, from the Department on tide and weather, they depart jack-up barge, MPI Discovery. per Megawatt hour (MWh) for Business, Energy and Industrial most days. This ships the equipment and generated. This means they Strategy (BEIS), says wind supplies It took about 50 minutes, tools and accommodates up earn just over £90 per MWh. 15 per cent of the UK’s energy. then the engine was turned off to 140 engineers. It has six Based on E,On’s calculations According to the trade and we sat in the midst of this legs, which are carried above that they will generate 1,367 association Renewable UK, there futuristic steel forest. the body of the vessel until it Gigawatt hours a year, this are now 8,889 on- and off-shore It was a calm sea that day, anchors, when they are lowered wind turbines in the UK. though raining, and the blades to the sea bed. Once firmly A quick envelope calculation will were barely turning. It’s a well- planted, the body of the ship tell you we’d need nearly 60,000 of known fact that new wind is jacked up above the waves, them to supply 100 per cent of the turbines generate electricity on providing a completely stable UK’s energy. average 30-40% of the time, platform from which to Of course no one is suggesting and this ‘load factor’ is taken balance a bridge to the we aim for that, and there are into account when the amount substation. other forms of energy – wind is just of electricity they generate is one part of the green energy mix. calculated, which according to But just how green is it? E.On, will be enough to supply The driving force behind 350,000 homes a year with Rampion – and all other renewable electricity, reducing carbon energy projects – is the fear of emissions by 600,000 tonnes, it carbon emissions, much of which claims. comes from the burning of coal. To begin with, anyway. Coal is needed to produce steel, Some reports say the capacity and according to the World Coal Association, it takes half a tonne of MPI Discovery is the jack-up barge that coal to produce one tonne of steel. sails to and from the offshore substation 15

Rampion comes online to power 350,000 Sussex homes

Each steel turbine and foundation government continuously weighs an average of 1,300 tonnes. A failing to provide enough quick couple of sums will reveal that subsidies for renewables. 75,000 tonnes of coal were burned This has made it more in making Rampion’s turbines – and expensive to develop at the before it was burned it had to be scale that we need for a truly mined and shipped, resulting in more low carbon future.” carbon emissions. Friends of the Earth That’s just the coal. The steel then spokesman Chris Todd said Each turbine is held in place by a transition piece that sheaths a had to be processed, shipped and the charity was in principle 700-tonne steel monopile installed – using yet more fossil fuels. supportive of wind farms, while The Royal Society for the millions of pounds of subsidy, The thousands of tonnes of rocks aware of sensitivities. Protection of Birds had nothing they wouldn’t have done it,” for scouring had to be dug and then “We had reservations and to say about Rampion, but did he said. “Sea water is salty – shipped. criticism over aspects of it, but say the importance of climate thus corrosive – the turbines Wind turbines also need an E.on addressed some of the change meant it was in favour are metal – they will probably enormous amount of rare earth for main ones,” he said. “One was of wind farms as long as they not even last ten years. their gear boxes and generators, the impact of the heritage were sited with concern for “With wind, it has to be according to the US-based Institute coast around Seaford and conservation. blowing at just the right speed of Energy Research. Beachy Head, which is fairly Chairman of UKIP for Mid- and if it blows too hard they Minerals like neodymium and remote. Originally the wind Sussex Chris French opposes have to turn them off. The dysprosium, for instance, are mined farm was quite expansive and wind farms in their entirety, takeaway from this is Germany almost exclusively in China, IER says, the view would have been and set up a Facebook page in and Denmark, who have been in toxic conditions with scant regard affected, but they moved them protest while Rampion was in going hell for leather for for local populations. slightly further away. its planning stages. wind farms and now have the And because of wind’s “They set up lots of “From an economic point most expensive electricity in intermittency, a gas power station working groups and from an of view, if E.On didn’t receive Europe.” has to be kept running all the time engagement point of view a lot – although BEIS’s Snape says modern of work was done, with fishing RAMPION TURBINE FACTS power stations are responsive and environmental groups.” enough to be kept off until they are Although there are claims Each turbine’s foundation is a single steel monopile (between 550 required. – and some evidence – that and 800 tonnes) drilled into the sea bed. This is sheathed by a We showed the Green Party these turbines slaughter a lot of birds, 250-tonne yellow transition piece, and the turbines are connected calculations, and they said: “When we didn’t see any feathered in strings of 9 to 10 by 70 miles of array cables linked up to the it comes to the carbon emissions at corpses floating on the calm offshore substation via another 27 miles of cable, which have had installation, the reality of any major waters, and our guides said they to be repaired at least twice already. infrastructure project is that there hadn’t noticed any in all the The seabed is protected by ‘scouring’, the piling of rocks around will be some, but once the turbines trips they have made. 46 of the bases. are generating electricity, that Each tower is 167 tonnes of steel, and the nacelle at the top carbon will be compensated by the (the housing for all the generating components, such as gearbox lack of fossil fuels involved in the and brakes) 163 tonnes. Each of the blades weighs 12 tonnes. process. At the top of the transition piece, on the steel tower, an Alice “On the subject of cost, the £1.3 in Wonderland door leads to an internal lift, which elevates billion cost is a consequence of the engineers to a balcony at the top. The total weight of each turbine, including its foundation, is on average 1,307 tonnes – it varies because of the varying water depth and geological site conditions of each one. Power is sent to Brooklands Pleasure Park at Worthing, then through cables buried in a trench through the South Downs National Park to the power station at Twineham. ‘Rampion’ earned its name from a school competition. It’s the name of a wild flower indigenous to Sussex.

WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? Let us know: [email protected] Cari 16 ng 4 T ravel Pink Floyd – on the walls of ancient Pompeii by Peter Simpson

Bouncing off the ancient walls Pink Floyd numbers are not for during what was to become garden; headed to the gym of Pompeii’s amphitheatre, Pink the faint-hearted or appreciated one of his and rock music’s most for a sauna and bath; visited Floyd’s synthesised sonics were by those suffering from tinnitus. celebrated drum sequences. the theatre; threw parties with as much of a surprise to my In its prime, the amphitheatre So vast is Pompeii that on free-flowing wine; and indulged fellow tourists as the first deep – the oldest known example from that sunny April day I had entire passionately in civic life. growl from Mount Vesuvius the Roman world – could hold streets to myself. I hopped Roman graffiti must have been to the city’s 20,000 spectators. It was built in a from one side of the street to Details of everyday Roman life inhabitants 1,900 years before. peripheral part of the metropolis the other, making good use of in the 1st Century are perfectly A fan on a bucket-list close to the city walls, partly to the large stepping stones that preserved. I found satisfaction pilgrimage, top of the list was avoid disturbing the daily lives allowed Pompeiians to cross the Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii of those Pompeiians who were without risking a foot dunking and comfort in the politically Underground exhibition at the too busy to attend gladiatorial into the mire – Pompeii’s charged and often bawdy UNESCO World Heritage site blood and gore matinees, animal roads doubled up as the city’s graffiti. There’s hardly a wall – but I hadn’t realised the little- sacrifices and human executions. drainage and sewage system. in neighbouring Naples free known showcase of the band’s of modern spray paint graffiti; iconic 1971 gig would offer some are exceptional, artistic, a visual delight as well as an political and generally thought- audible feast. provoking, much of it lazily Along the passageways under produced squiggles of plain the tiered seating are hung ugly nonsense. 250 never-before-seen photos No doubt Pompeii’s graffiti and other memorabilia of the received similar tuts from the band eerily performing in the conservative middle-aged, but empty stadium, observed only even 1,900 years on, you can by the small film crew and at least read them. Among French director Adrian Maben, (the printable) are C. Iulium who conceived “rock’s wackiest Polybium aedilem oro vos idea, ever” half a century ago, and who curated the current David Gilmore of Pink Floyd faciatis. Panem bonum fert — exhibit. Two large screens It’s a 40-minute hike to the Eruption “I beg you to make C. Julius play the legendary concert amphitheatre from Pompeii’s At the time of the eruption on Polybius a magistrate. He makes documentary on a loop, and main entrance, which is close August 24, 79AD, Pompeii was a good bread”, and Lucilla ex a series of speakers play the to the train station that serves prosperous and attractive place corpore lucrum faciebat — soundtrack that follows visitors Naples. I found my quarry in to live in and visit; tourists from “Lucilla made money from her along the stone tunnels, the much better shape than that the Eternal City, Rome, a 225km body”. psychedelic melodies adding to seen in Maben’s 47-year-old chariot day’s ride away to the Aboard the return train, the ethereal atmosphere. film. Instead of feral weeds north, flocked to the pastoral commuters mingled with The exhibition is not and mounds of volcanic ash and and fertile setting near to the tourists and the babble of mentioned in the guidebooks pumice, the arena is now neatly Amalfi coast, flanked by the international languages and and many of my fellow manicured and white gravel verdant Sarno river valley and tinny acoustics jarred on the travellers wandered into the crunches satisfyingly under foot. in the shadow of the Lattari ear, so I turned on Spotify chasms unaware of what they Sitting with my back against Mountains and Vesuvius. and again zoned in to Live at would find. the antique walls eating my Indeed, Rome’s empire Pompeii. The sun’s red disc sank “Let’s get out of here!” lunch with the spring sun on my was enjoying its Pax Romania into the Bay of Naples and as exclaimed a young woman, a face and with Mount Vesuvius’s period at the time of the the graffitied suburbs rolled by I child of the noughties perhaps, summit looming over the north eruption, a time of relative chuckled to myself as I renamed to her boyfriend as a much- stand, the trippy A Saucerful peace and stability, with most one of the songs Careful With altered version of Seamus, of Secrets wafted out of the of continental Europe, North from the band’s seminal southern entrance followed Africa and much of Britain That Spray Can, Maximus. album Meddle and renamed by Careful With That Axe, conquered and the barbarians Mademoiselle Nobs for Pompeii, Eugene. I wandered back in either slain, on the run or I flew with British Airways struck up. As captured on to see a small crowd gathered secretly plotting revolt. from London Gatwick for film, Richard Wright holds a around one of the screens Before all hell let loose a four-night and five-day microphone to the mouth of his showing drummer Nick Mason in Pompeiians did pretty much visit, staying in a traditional Afghan hound, named Nobs, the zone, his long hair blowing what we 21st Century homo- Naples apartment booked which duly starts to howl like in the Campanian summer sapiens do. They worked and on Airbnb just short walks a tortured banshee at David night breeze, bashing away to partook in leisure; they raised to the centre, old city and Gilmour’s harmonica playing; One Of These Days I Am Going families; indulged in home Spanish Quarter. there’s no debate some early to Cut You into Little Pieces, makeovers; revamped the 17 C c aring 4 Musi Revolutions 33 embraces vinyl revolution

“It’s so much warmer, and because it’s recorded in analogue it’s not digital, and that makes a difference to the sound.” Laine, who studied music at university, says it’s with orchestral music that you can really hear the difference. And it’s classical music that some of his most important clients are after. “The most thriving market for it at the moment is China,” he says. “They have a real eye for quality. They want the vinyl records that were pressed in the fifties and sixties, because they Owner of Revolutions 33 Leslie Laine with some of his iconic vinyl LPs know that was when this country You only have to tune into “The vinyl reawakening This was the highest level had the best pressing machines, the Antiques Road Show and started about 20 years ago,” of sales since the early 1990s, the best engineering. There was sooner or later one of the eager he says. “When I went to this and meant that out of every no comparison and it really was participants will breathlessly be car boot sale I hadn’t realised 15 albums bought, whether as the golden age of vinyl. telling Fiona Bruce that they vinyl had a particular value, a download or on CD, one was “I have one client who comes picked up a priceless piece of but when these dealers were vinyl. from China to look for records,” porcelain at a car boot sale. interested I started looking on The BPI says the majority of he says. “It’s a massive market.” The most valuable records The car boot sale has become the internet, which had only albums released now also have are the limited releases, even if a great British weekend really just become popular in a vinyl release, with rock the they’re by lesser known artists. institution, having been those days, and I went to a few most popular music genre. Some record producers will imported from Canada by a more sales to find more. That Quoting the survey company bump up the value by releasing Catholic priest who realised was how it started, and now, Kantar’s Worldpanel research, just a few vinyl record – some they were a good way to raise over the past five years, there BPI says most vinyl buyers are will even produce just one. money – in his case, for charity. has been a steady stream of male, with women making Others now release vinyl Nowadays they’re for getting new vinyl.” up 39 per cent, 45-54-year- records and include a CD inside. rid of your junk and making a According to the British olds making up the largest Laine says the most he’s sold few quid on a Sunday morning, Phonographic Industry (BPI), a single purchaser group and a a record for was an Andre Levin but as we know, one person’s trade body that promotes the remarkable 30 per cent aged Bach cello recording, for a cool trash is another’s treasure. interests of its 400 independent under 35. £8,600. When Leslie Laine was music and record company “When you play a young And you never know where struggling to find his rent as a members, 2017 saw an increase person a vinyl record, if all you’ll find them. poor student at the University in vinyl sales of 26.8% over they’ve heard before is CDs or Indeed, come Sunday you of Sussex, he took a few of his 2016, in total 4.1 million vinyl downloads they are shocked by still may find him with his nose LPs along to one such sale. To LPs sold. the sound,” says Laine. in a few car boots. his surprise, a couple of dealers found him among the chipped mugs and tarnished candlestick holders, immediately snapped up his offerings – and the idea for Revolutions 33 was born. C4S found Leslie hidden behind metres-tall stacks of record sleeves in his 300-square metre business space in Worthing, packed to the rafters with row upon row of vinyl records, from Beethoven to Handel’s Messiah conducted by Soviet violinist Leonid Kogan Revolutions 33 also deals in pop, Black Sabbath, from Pavarotti to the late British conductor playing a Beethoven concerto has and has many limited releases – Pink Floyd. Sir Thomas Beecham a price tag of £7,000 like the Beatles 18 Caring 4 Di stricts

Horsham District Arun District Revised incinerator application submitted to planners Improvements to child’s play areas but messy dog owners beware A revised application for a said more than 4,000 people controversial waste incinerator had signed the group’s online and refurbished, and in in Horsham has been submitted petition against the application, Littlehampton, the play area at to West Sussex County Council with another 1,500 letters Southfields Recreation Ground by owners Britainiacrest received by planners. will provide a wide range of Recycling, with a planning “Incinerators are going new equipment. meeting scheduled for June 19. backwards,” she told C4S. “We Parents should also welcome Under the plans, the should be focusing on recycling. another health and safety incinerator, by the Wealden This is just a private company decision by the council – to give Brickworks, off the A264, using the planning process to The play area at Littlehampton’s enforcement officers greater will be built on an existing feather their own nest.” Southfields Recreation Ground powers to punish dog owners waste treatment site owned Pavey said the proposed Three Bognor parks and one whose pets foul in public or are by Britainiacrest, where waste 95-metre chimney will be visible in Littlehampton are to see in the wrong place without a sorting and transfer is already as far away as Box Hill in Surrey, upgraded play areas thanks to lead. carried out. and that ash coming from the Arun District Council’s decision On-the-spot fines have Keith Riley, project advisor plume will spill over three to provide a little extra for the increased to £100 (£75 if paid for the private company, drinking water reservoirs and district’s youngsters. within two weeks) for dog told C4S that the incinerator new housing in nearby Crawley In Bognor Regis, the Hotham, fouling or lead offences, and will generate 21 Megawatts and Horley. West and Hampshire Avenue for general littering you could of electricity, which will be Riley said all emissions would parks will be revamped face a £80 charge. pumped into the local grid – a be filtered and there would be a connection he says Britainiacrest limit on any particulates coming will pay for. out of the chimney stack. 4,230 new homes for Chichester – Installing the incinerator will also mean waste will no work on first 750 to begin longer be exported to European countries, which Riley says benefit from burning the waste and producing their own electricity at the cost of the UK taxpayer. Sally Pavey, a spokesperson for the protest group NI4H Britaniacrest Recycling’s proposed (No Incinerator 4 Horsham) new incinerator at Horsham

Mid Sussex District Building for 750 homes has West of Chichester Strategic been approved in the first phase Development – is the largest Major overhaul for the Triangle in Burgess Hill of Chichester District’s largest by far of seven strategic £600,000 has been earmarked ever housing development developments that will total for a range of improvements to project, which will eventually 4,230 homes, all detailed in the the popular leisure pool at the see 1,600 homes built. 300-page Chichester Local Plan Triangle, which should get a Legal documents were 2014-2029. new slide, renovated flumes and signed by the district council on The others include: even traffic lights in the pool in April 11 for the development • Tangmere, 1,000 homes time for summer. at Whitehouse Farm, to the • Westhampnett, 500 homes Off goes the pirate ship west of Chichester, which will • Shopwycke, 500 homes – to be replaced with new Leisure company, is one of the also include a primary school, (work has begun) interactive water features for county’s best-known sports ‘employment land’ of six • Southbourne, 300 homes children of all ages. centres, offering a whole range hectares, a community hub with • East Wittering & The Triangle leisure centre, of sports and classes as well as a shops and community centre, Bracklesham, 180 homes owned by the Places for People training pool and the leisure pool. and a country park. • Selsey, 150 homes. The homes will be built Each of the developments Do you have a view on any of these issues? by Linden Homes and Miller will have a combination of Let us know by writing to us at [email protected] Homes. amenities ranging from business or by post to 19 Ruskin Road, Worthing BN14 8DY The Whitehouse Farm areas to open spaces and development – called the community facilities. 19 Adur & Worthing District At last – it’s the wrecking ball for Worthing’s eyesore

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Work on the derelict Teville flats) with cafes and outside Morrisons across the road. Gate with preparation works Gate site by Worthing’s central spaces, a public gym and The owner is an investment taking place foundations station has at last begun, with parking for 300 cars. company called Mosaic Global being made safe for the hoardings barely masking the The complex will comprise Investments, which is listed with demolition of the multi- construction machinery tasked three blocks, with the tallest, Companies House as a family storey car park and other with demolishing it all by the 20 storeys high, next to the A24 business headed by the Tyne derelict buildings,” says the autumn. dual carriageway to the east. and Wear-based Aizek Sheikh. council. Replacing it – a 375-apartment Two walkways will serve “Work is well under way See plans on the website at complex (including affordable Worthing town centre and on the demolition of Teville http://ourstationsquare.com/.

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If you want bright, gorgeous sowing seed directly into a drill slugs and snails last time; birds But there’s a lot to keep on top oranges and burnt browns, try is to water the drill first before can be a problem too, especially of, so it’s important to get the gazanias or French marigolds. sowing the seed – especially pigeons, which tend to rip up essentials out of the way first… with naturally dry soils – to succulent vegetable leaves. The extra light and warmth improve germination. At home, I hang up old CD’s produces a massive spurt of around my vegetable garden – growth, which also means quite effective when there’s a that weeds will get out of breeze, as the spinning beams control unless prompt action of light scare them away. is taken. All borders must be Otherwise, it is sensible to hoed regularly to stop them know which pests will attack taking over; and remember – Gazanias individual crops – such as carrot roots of perennial weeds like fly or leek moth. 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On the other establish, containers, seedlings hand, if you prefer more subtle and most fruit and vegetables. colours which blend in smoothly Collect as much rainwater as with their surroundings, cosmos you can in water butts – plants or antirrhinums are superb, prefer rainwater anyway, also providing some height and especially if they’re ericaceous a plentiful source of nectar. (lime haters). Hanging baskets Impatiens (or Busy Lizzies) used may need watering twice a day, to be one of the nation’s best CD defence system especially on sunny, windy days. loved bedding plants, especially Early June is the ideal time useful in a shaded spot, but Malcolm Linfield is horticulture manager at to start planting your summer the prevalence of Busy Lizzie Ferring Country Centre, a day service charity for bedding plants, since the Mildew has become a real adults with learning disabilities. The seven-day-a- danger of frost is past. 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Explore this village with an artistic history that village as an important centre Next door St Margaret’s survives today By Judie Chambers for visual arts and crafts in church dates from the late 12th Britain. Eric Gill’s House, Sopers, century. Built on top of an earlier can be seen in North Street and Saxon church referred to in the is marked with a blue plaque. Domesday Book, remains of Today the village is a bustling which can be found in the lower community, with two pubs, walls of the nave, St Margaret’s several cafes, restaurants and was built by Cluniac monks from interesting shops and galleries Lewes in the 12th century. Eric to browse in addition to the Gill and other members of the Ditchling Museum of Arts and artist’s Guild are buried in the Crafts, St Margaret’s Church and churchyard. Turner Dumbrell’s Workshops, Flying the flag for local wines at just north of the village, housed Ditchling Common, on Haywards in former farm buildings where Heath Road, is the Ridgeview St Margaret’s Church, Ditchling you can find artists’ studios, a Wine Estate, where you can Tucked away in the Sussex the Arts and Crafts movements, jewellery maker and a hand- sample their products and if you Downs, just seven miles inland with several notable artists made leather handbag shop, as fancy a tour, book one online – from Brighton, nestling below settling in Ditchling. This artistic well as other craft workshops. www.ridgeview.co.uk/tours. Ditchling Beacon, lies the tradition survives today; and The Ditchling Museum of Arts To the east of Ditchling, off historical village of Ditchling; the village has a thriving artistic and Crafts, off Keymer Road, the Hassocks Road, is Stoneywish a pretty village with a long community with painters, stores work by Eric Gill – who Nature Reserve, a 50-acre stretch history and many places to visit. jewellery makers, leather crafts designed the war memorial of Sussex countryside as it used Ditchling is a picturesque drive and other craftspeople living outside – and other members to be – meadows, wetlands and north from the coast via the A23 and working there. of the Guild, including the woodland full of native flowers and A273. This road crosses part The artist and print designer calligrapher Edward Johnston, and home to a wealth of wildlife. of the South Downs National Eric Gill moved to Ditchling in the painter David Jones, the Take gentle walks among the Park and passes Clayton Hill with 1907 and was soon followed by printer Hilary Pepler and the farm animals and gardens while its twin Jack and Jill windmills en other craftsmen. In 1921 they weaver Ethel Mairet. The children enjoy the dedicated route. founded the Guild of St Joseph museum café offers locally play area. Much of the reserve is The village dates back to and St Dominic, a Roman sourced refreshments and a wheelchair accessible. Anglo-Saxon times; in the mid- Catholic community of artists range of products influenced by If you would like us to 9th century it was held by Alfred and craftsmen, inspired by ideas the museum’s collection and the shine a spotlight on the Great. In the Domesday book of the medieval guilds and local area. All purchases directly your area, let us know: the population was recorded as the Arts and Crafts movement. support the work of [email protected] 50 households with a church The community had its own the museum. and mill also listed. In the late workshops and chapel, and 19th and early 20th century thrived until 1989. Their it became a centre for impact established the

Main picture: Ditchling’s famous residents – past and present Ditchling Museum Left: Turner Dumbell’s yard Raymond Briggs, much-loved author of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas; Dame Vera Lynn, famous WW2 singer; Herbie Flowers, jazz musician; Eric Gill, sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker; Edward Johnston, craftsman regarded as the father of modern calligraphy; David Jones, poet and artist; John Vernon lord, author and art teacher and illustrator of Aesop’s Fables; Peter James, writer of crime fiction stories; Rowland Emett, Punch cartoonist and madcap Right: Eric Gill’s house on the inventor; S. F. Edge, early 20th century motor racing driver; James High Street Hodson, 19th century cricketer; John Neal, 1950’s Sussex and England cricketer; Artist Sir Frank Brangwyn; and Bernard Holden, railway engineer and president of the Bluebell Railway. y 23 C tor aring 4 Direc

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It yard in Canterbury Road – you I eat vegetables, after a while I had been said at school. My is important I believe for any would have to be a certain age want to eat more of them. daughter was oblivious, as was magazine, newspaper or journal to remember this and I am. In Asian countries children eat my wife. to have one. I enjoy reading With the increase in housing, a lot more vegetables from a Nothing was said on the radio the public’s views on whatever population and traffic increase, young age, and that’s why their buildings come and go, and – and when the BBC announced subject, together with the fact adult diets are so much healthier. very close to Tarring Village the birth of the Duke and they have taken the time to We need to nurture these habits ‘The Priory’ care home is being Duchess of Cambridge’s third express their views, however from the minute our children eat rebuilt as a 75-bed care home. child, I would have considered they chose to do so. I prefer solid foods – and then they won’t In Parkfield Road another care it rather timely that the fifth in good old-fashioned letter even look for the rubbish when home was demolished, I believe line to the English throne should writing myself although in the they get older. the new building will be flats, be born on St George’s Day. minority these days, I know. Tracy Warner, Haywards Heath when completed. I hope the But not a word. Secondly thank you for your council have given serious Spotlight on Tarring feature It’s true that certain less thought to the extra traffic this in your Spring edition. Most favourable elements of our will incur. Local food producers of the village hasn’t changed society have in the past rather The worst aspect in the area is much over the years, shops It’s nice to see our local food hijacked the occasion for their West Worthing railway station. however have changed hands, I producers supporting Sussex’s own unsavoury objectives, but I’ve always felt it should have do miss the old post office, the farmers, who I’m sure are feeling why allow the hijackers to been named Tarring Crossing government in their wisdom the pinch for a range of reasons, triumph? or Tarring Station. It has the having a cull as they do, in this like the supermarkets buying I hardly need mention the dubious distinction of being case it was on post offices. The from cheaper producers to other nations of our United in the top three worst railway people not shopping locally. Kingdom and their own national building now is a tea room junctions in the UK. How many of us make the days, and it would be a rare establishment. 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