The Dun Valley News October 18

:: East Grimstead :: Farley :: Pitton :: West Dean :: This month inside:

Team Letter After the dry times ...

Rural dispensing Protecting our service

Three Chequers Update on progress

Pitton and Farley Parish Council summary

Pitton Youth Updates Schools, Guides ...

The Grimsteads Parish Council Summary

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms This month, the British Library is opening a landmark exhibition on the history, art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. It spans six centuries, from the eclipse of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest. The exhibition will even feature the Domesday Book, one of the most iconic manuscripts in English history Overall, highlights from the British Library’s outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts will be presented alongside a large number of exceptional loans. Some of the manuscripts have not been in the British Isles for over 1,000 years, some are of the earliest writing in English, and some are recent discoveries such as the Staffordshire Hoard. Among ‘must-see’ displays are the Codex Amiatinus, one of three giant single- volume Bibles made at the monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the north-east of England in the early eighth century. It was taken to Italy as a gift for the Pope in 716, and is now returning to England for the first time in more than 1300 years (on loan from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence). It will be displayed with the St Cuthbert Gospel, also made at Wearmouth-Jarrow around the same time, and acquired by the British Library in 2012. See https://www.bl.uk/events/anglo-saxon-kingdoms for more details. 1

The Dun Valley Churches are members of The Clarendon Team THE CLARENDON TEAM MINISTRY OF CHURCHES TEAM RECTOR Revd Nils Bersweden has now left. His post will be advertised shortly. TEAM PRIESTS Revd Beth Hutton Tel: 01722 238504, [email protected] (with responsibility for Alderbury, West Dean, East and West Grimstead) Revd Jane Dunlop Tel: 01794 884793, [email protected] (with responsibility for Whiteparish) Revd Cynthia Buttimer Tel: 01980 862017, [email protected] Revd David Perry Tel: 07749 199453, [email protected]

OTHER CLERGY V Revd Alec Knight, Revd Canon Jeremy Davies, Revd Canon Roger Sharpe, Revd Anthea Cochrane CLARENDON TEAM OFFICE Team Administrator 01980 863635 [email protected] TEAM LAY LICENSED MINISTERS Mr Bill Thompson, Mrs Debbie McIsaac, Mr Michael Barratt CLARENDON TEAM WEBSITE – www.clarendonteam.org You can find details of how to book baptisms and weddings, as well as Team Worship Services, news and activities around the Clarendon Team. For the Team Worship Rota go to www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.htm,

WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD CHURCHWARDENS Mr Bob Trott, Oakley, East Grimstead (Holy Trinity) 01722 712685 Mr Mike Marx, The Old Vicarage, West Dean (St. Mary’s) 01794 340271 FARLEY WITH PITTON CHURCHWARDENS Mrs Sara Bossom, Stockbottom House, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Jane Bawden-Jeanes, The Barn, Farley 01722 712854

WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD FARLEY WITH PITTON

TREASURER LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536 Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Val Powley, Pitton 01722 712 746 SECRETARY Bob Trott, 01722 712685 TREASURER Ms Mandy Kerley 07971 679466

ORGANISTS Ms Janice Brown

MAGAZINE EDITOR Ged Mirski-Fitton, Bells Cottage, Church Road, Farley, SP5 1AD Tel 01722 712520 E-Mail: [email protected] ADVERTS EDITOR Tim Hawkes, Lodge Farm House, Elm Close, Pitton, SP5 1EU Tel 01722 712577 E-Mail: [email protected] 2

Pitton Methodist Society The Pitton Methodists worship together with the Anglicans at St. Peter's Church and have a Methodist led service there once a month (currently the 3rd Sunday).

Minister: Rev. Bryan Coates, [email protected], 02380 252960

Superintendent: David Hookins, 01722 320858

Team letter Revd Cynthia Buttimer

Dear Friends, a dry time, or a time of escape. It happens to all of us. When you I’m writing this in early September receive this Harvest Festivals will be with the hot summer weather still in full fling, our preparations are lingering on. Its been an odd going ahead for Remembrance summer in the garden as through Sunday services and the anniversary June, July and a lot of August I hardly of the Armistice, and of course there did any gardening. The lawn and are services every Sunday at a church shrubs died and it looked pretty near you. We have lovely, grim. In some ways it was a nice welcoming congregations and escape, one less thing to have to do, everyone is welcome. but the pleasure I usually have in it was gone. So, as I go to fill in dusty holes and plant grass seed, re greening my Two days ago, my two-year-old dog, garden, I think of the wonder of who has had a pleasurable summer God’s creation and how he can digging holes in the lawn, and one refresh us in so many ways. Escaping enormous one in a flower bed, which is lovely, but I look forward to a I nearly broke my leg in, decided to beautiful autumn and renewed life. make a break for it. A neighbour discovered him digging his way out, (or he could have been trying to dig Cynthia. his way back in!) either way he too had decided to escape into the wider world and have a look. Having barricaded his escape route while he was shut in, he made a bee line back to it and was disappointed to find it inoperable! The summer is a time of escape, escaping on holidays to a bit of unreality, escaping through August from meetings and our usual pursuits, escaping from thick winter clothes and cold and huge electricity bills and a lot of things that bring stress into our lives and its quite hard coming back down to earth. I’m now tidying up the ravages in my garden and taking pleasure in re- planting and cutting out the dead bits. Sometimes faith is like that, it needs refreshing and re growth after 4

From the registers

Baptisms Funerals No baptisms in this period John Frederick FRY at Winterslow on 21st September 2018 Weddings Dora PIKE Matthew Henry BURROWS at and Farley Catherine Bennett McISAAC on at 18th September 2018 Farley on Marian Freda REED 15th September 2018 at Whiteparish Adam James SMITH on and 15 August 2018 Charlotte Louise SIMMONDS at Sandra DAFFERN Whiteparish at on East Grimstead 8th September 2018 on 29 June 2018

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Protect local rural dispensing services Jo Hobbis Last month most of you, like me, will more of us who sign up, the greater the have received a letter in the post from a loss of dispensing income to the practice, company called Pharmacy2U. Let me say and this threatens the viability of first of all that this is undoubtedly a dispensing services provided by the reputable business and they have a practice. This would be detrimental to perfect right to advertise their services in the health and wellbeing of all of us, but this way. The idea of a company offering particularly to that of the most to deal with your prescriptions and post vulnerable members of our community. your medicines to you at home, avoiding May I please ask you all to give careful the need to go to the surgery does, on thought to the wider implications before the face of it sound attractive. Some of deciding whether or not to sign up with you may be tempted by this offer Pharmacy2U? Thank you. particularly with the recent teething troubles with our surgery’s re-jig of the There is a letter on this subject, from Dr dispensing arrangements. However, Sam Dominey, on page 9. there are wider implications to signing up to this deal, which may well put our current dispensing services at risk. General practice finance is somewhat complex, but one aspect is that in rural areas, doctors’ surgeries may undertake to dispense medicines to patients who live more than a mile from the nearest chemist. The practice is paid for dispensing each prescription, just as chemists are. The practice, with their knowledge of peoples’ particular circumstances and needs, are also able to provide emergency prescriptions and home delivery of drugs in difficult times, often much more flexibly than can high street chemists, and certainly more flexibly than a postal service. (The Pharmacy2U service would not, for example, be able to get a supply of antibiotics to a patient on the day that they are prescribed by the doctor, and so a trip into town would be necessary to collect these from a chemist.) This is a valuable service to communities like ours, but is expensive to run, and the income from dispensing supports this provision quite significantly. When patients of the more rural areas of the practice sign up to have their medicines dispensed by Pharmacy2U or any similar company, the practice will lose part of their dispensing income. The 7

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Dispensing and Medicines Management Dr Sam Dominey My name is Dr Sam Dominey and I am a this is hugely important in helping us GP partner at the Three Chequers provide extra services in our more rural Medical Practice, I guess I may have met areas. a few of you by now. It has been over a year now since we completed on the On behalf of all the team we thank you merger of the Endless Street, St Anns for your continued support. and Three Swans surgeries. Time seems This letter refers to Jo Hobbis’ letter on to have flown by and as you can imagine page 7. we have been busy and through a lot of change as a team. As the dispensary and medicine management lead GP I am grateful for the opportunity to try and provide a quick update, and I hope some reassurance, regarding the progress we are making following our merger. Why are we changing things? I think we may have asked ourselves the same question a few times, but as always we are trying to make things better. We want to make things more efficient, more convenient and safer. We want to improve our comprehensive dispensary service, to be able to provide repeat, acute and emergency medicines quickly when needed, and to support our most frail and vulnerable patients with home deliveries when required. We have faced a lot of challenges with some unforeseen setbacks but things are beginning to improve. We are very pleased to have recruited some excellent new staff and they are being trained up now. This will help support our aim of continued growth in our branch surgeries. As a big organisation things can’t change overnight, but we are striving to provide excellent care and we ask for your patience while we implement these changes. I am very grateful to Jo for providing such a good letter which highlights some of the issues around the threat that is posed by online services such as Pharmacy2U. We as a practice want to make people aware that using our dispensary supports the practice and that 9

Pitton and Farley Parish Council Meeting Summary Pitton and Farley Parish Clerk Speeding and Traffic the first heavy rains of the summer. Bark In the public session, concerns were chippings from the trees recently raised again about speeding, particularly removed have now been spread across down White Hill towards Pitton the playground surface. A new chain link crossroads. The Parish Council has fence and gate will be installed; contributed financially to the installation quotations were reviewed at the meeting of the two “Road Narrows” signs at each and a selection made. end of the blind bend at the bottom of Noticeboard Pitton Hill. Wiltshire Council has included the resurfacing of this area in its capital The Council is replacing the broken works programme for 2019/2020. noticeboard currently outside Pitton Post Rumble strips can then be laid to slow Office. down vehicles from the Farley direction. Farley Village Hall A metro count (rubber strip data Farley will be applying for funding to collector) has been requested; it will be replace Farley Village Hall windows. The outside Pitton School. The results from conservation officer wants a style in this will determine other speed calming keeping with the neighbouring listed measures to be introduced. buildings. New Councillor Farley Phone Box Chris Fry was co-opted to the Pitton The Council will press BT to remove the ward and warmly welcomed by fellow derelict phone box at the corner of Oak councillors. This leaves just one vacancy Close and The Street. to fill in Pitton. Planning Challenges Flooding in Pitton Wiltshire Councillor Devine reported that The Parish Council’s efforts to get cost- Wiltshire Council can no longer challenge effective solution to the ground water the conversion of barns in open farmland flooding problems in Pitton continue. to dwelling houses. The civil engineers commissioned to assist, have issued a draft report. Pitton’s Data Protection Flood Action Group are pressing to meet Councillors will use new email and data the Environment Agency’s new engineer, storage, in order to help meet responsible for the River Dun. obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation. Bus Shelter Demolished The bus shelter in Slate Way had been Broadband demolished by a vehicle; the culprit has The speed and reliability of village not owned up. A replacement shelter broadband was discussed. The Clerk will will be installed at the expense of the contact neighbouring parishes for their Parish Council. experiences, and councillors will attend a meeting with Wiltshire Council to voice Play Area concerns. The play area in The Close is muddy. This was due to really unfortunate timing; the The next meeting is ground had been rotavated as part of 17 October, 19:30, Farley Village Hall routine maintenance, closely followed by 10

Pitton - Schools, Brownies, Guides and Rangers Nicki McCarney Brownies, Guides & Rangers to have author Andrew Cope (the Spy The new programme is up and running in Dog series) come in to school and talk to all of the units! The Brownies are finding them about creative writing, whilst out all about charity work and learning Clarendon Class have just spent 2 nights DIY skills, the Guides are map reading, away at Tile Barn near Fordingbridge on campfire cooking, learning about their residential trip. We are now getting budgets and healthy eating whilst the ready for our whole school sponsored Rangers are finding out all about their walk at the beginning of October. strengths and weaknesses. The hall is We welcomed a number of prospective buzzing as we now have 6 Rangers, 30 parents to the Open Day in September. Guides and 26 Brownies! If you are interested in looking round the Away from the unit, we had 3 of our school for a place for September 2019, younger Guides attend an international then our next Open Day will be on 14th selection weekend in the middle of the November, with a choice of either a month – we are waiting to hear whether 9.30am or 1.30pm session. they were successful or not - and 30 Please book by contacting the school on Guides and Rangers enjoyed a ‘The 01722 712322 or Greatest Showman’ sleepover which [email protected]. included a circus skills workshop and the change to watch the title film! A fantastic weekend. Pitton Pre-School Coming up in October is a trip to We welcomed 11 new children to pre- Wembley Arena for the annual school in September, as well as our new Girlguiding concert, the ‘Big Gig’. This Keyperson, Daniela. The children have year we are looking forward to watching already enjoyed finding out all about The Vamps, New Hope Club, Rae Morris different eggs, meeting a chicken, trying and others – we can’t wait! We are then out yoga, enjoying Rugby Tots and taking on the BBC Radio Wiltshire making apple crumbles and soup to walking challenge and will be walking enjoy at lunchtime. This year we will be around the Fovant badges. cooking every week as this teaches the children so many different skills that can be used at home. Pitton Primary School We have very few places available for Our 18 new Reception pupils have new children, but if you are interested in settled in to school really well. After 3 finding out what Pitton Pre-School can weeks of ½ days, they are now full-time offer your child, then please do contact and joining in with all school activities! us on The yurt has been well used since 07785 933966 or returning in September, with the Juniors [email protected]. using it for story-time at the end of the day and the Infants enjoying craft activities in it. We are looking forward to a wide range of special events this year and have already had a couple of memorable activities. The Juniors were lucky enough 11

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The Final Frontier Editor As the harvest celebrations get underway A number of businesses are using the in the villages in the area, it is easy to offshoots of space research in innovative forget the contrasts we’ve had this year. ways to help with farming problems. The summer heat wave was enjoyed by Farming makes up half of one percent of millions as it scorched the various food the UK economy, but it employs one and and feed crops. Just before all that, we a half percent of the workforce and takes had late freezing conditions delaying place on three quarters of the UK land sowing and decimating the lambing area. Producing the raw materials for season. large proportions of our food industries, The weather, and its extremes, is it is difficult to think of another sector something that farmers have learned to that impacts day to day life in this live with. Experience gives them options country. for the scenarios faced every year. I was So what can farming take from the space told by one experienced hand, “You can’t industry? Space technology is pretty just have one plan. You get on with your good at collecting data and making main plan, watch what is happening, decisions based on that data. When you guess what is going to happen and are controlling a probe on Mars, signals respond.” take anything between 3 minutes and 22 The guess work isn’t just about the minutes to bounce backwards and weather. It is about the underlying forwards so you need autonomous economics for many farmers. The machines. Space hardware is very Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) passes robust, too. It is designed to operate in £3.1Bn to British farmers each year. That hazardous and toxic environments, so will end in March next year. The the farm is reasonably well covered. Government has pledged to pay the Chickens require constant monitoring to equivalent of CAP to the end of this make sure that they are gaining weight. parliament (2022, but possibly more That’s a time consuming job for a manual guesswork required). After that, there worker who can only hope to weigh a will be a phased move to a new system, sample each week. An innovation from currently on the drawing board. the space industry uses a roving robot Whatever that system turns out to be, it equipped with cameras that can will determine the future of many farms accurately weigh chickens by sight. as well as the way the countryside looks Various sensors prevent it from running and operates. over slow moving or spatially unaware At this stage in the last decade only a few chickens. people used a smartphone. In 2017 85% Another approach uses autonomous of the adult population in the UK own drones to detect unhealthy crop patches and use one for a wide range of tasks. and to kill weeds. By the end of the next decade, the replacement for CAP will have reshaped So farming rather than space may turn farming and the countryside, so too will out to be the final frontier. technology. Talking to experienced farmers, who just take many uncertainties in their stride, you get the feeling that it just takes time to understand some simple rules - it’s not rocket science. But is it? Or will it be? 13

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Grimstead Parish Council Meeting Summary Grimstead Parish Clerk All councillors were present together their land. It is very important that the with six members of the public and footpaths are kept open and walkable. Wiltshire Councillor Richard Britton. Bugmore Lane Ditch Gays Drove Wiltshire Council will be asked to clear Still waiting for Wiltshire Council signs at this ditch which is very overgrown. each end of the drove. Yet more Vision Update incidents of fly tipping, but Cllr Britton A Communications sub group has been reported that two arrests had been set up to improve the effectiveness of made. There is one fly tipping camera Parish Council communications. for the south of Wiltshire and this is Noticeboards will state that ALL placed at various hot spots for a short documentation is available at the Clerk’s period before being moved on. house for those who do not have access Hazel Hill to a computer. The County Ecologist has objected to Standing Orders/Financial Regulations the recent planning application. An and Privacy Notice extension has been granted to the 26th The Standing Orders are all being September in order to agree a solution. complied with and the document was West Grimstead Playing Field adopted by the Parish Council at its last The petanque terrain is now complete. meeting. Cllr Sowerby, is revising the The official opening will take place in Privacy Notice and Financial Regulations October when all parishioners will be and it is hoped to adopt these at our invited together with Cllr Britton. The next meeting. headmaster of Alderbury and West Planning Grimstead School is very keen for the Certificate of Lawfulness at Dragonhead children to come down and play which Barn. The Council objected to this. will provide another link between West Proposed agricultural building at Grimstead and the school. The Hall Butterfurlong Barn. The Parish Council Committee has agreed that the hall will considered this application even though be opened for toilet facilities during pre- the address was incorrect. There is organised games. We hope to provide a already a Butterfurlong Barn and a picnic table or seat and to have the see- Butterfurlong Farm. saw back in working order soon. The Parish Council does not object in Ponds principle but the size of the proposed The big pond in East Grimstead is needs barn seems excessive for such a small clearing and tidying. Many residents farm. have offered to help. Please contact Defibrillator/First Aid Training Anthony Cooper if you can help. A training session will be held in East Horsepond in West Grimstead also Grimstead Reading Room during needs clearing, but this is difficult due to November/December. We hope that its position by the road on a dangerous the two doctors who led the evening bend. course in West Grimstead will be willing Footpaths to come to East Grimstead. The Circular Footpath is now complete Next Meeting and needs to be officially opened, Next meeting is 8th October at West (probably) in October. Grimstead Village Hall, 19:30. Landowners are reminded of their [email protected] obligation to cut back brambles, etc. 01722 710746 around the stiles where footpaths cross 19

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War of the Worlds Paddington Bear David Winter Tim Lenton Orson Welles’ famous radio adaptation Paddington Bear made his first of War of the Worlds by H G Wells was appearance 60 years ago, on 13th Oct broadcast in the USA 80 years ago, on 1958, when the book A Bear Called 30th Oct 1938. It was said to have caused Paddington, by Michael Bond, was nationwide outrage and panic as – in the published. tense political atmosphere just before the Second World War – listeners Paddington is of course a fictional, thought the events described in the anthropomorphised bear who has broadcast were real. featured in more than 20 books that have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies. He has also starred in two major films and has been described as a worthy successor to Winnie the Pooh. He comes from darkest Peru, and has a tendency to get the wrong end of the stick. Nevertheless, he is always polite, kind-hearted, hospitable, generous and loving. Paddington Brown – to give him the Later accounts played down early name of his adopted family – also has “anecdotal” reports of the “terrified” the gift of transforming other people’s reaction, but it is certain that Welles’ lives through his own goodness. realistic and uninterrupted presentation, which replaced the original place names with American ones, caused panic in some areas, with many calls to emergency services and to the radio station itself. "Houses were emptying, churches were filling up,” said Welles many years later. The programme was part of a series called Mercury Theatre on the Air, which had relatively few listeners, and there was an initial announcement warning of what was to follow – but this may have been A Paddington Bear soft toy was the first missed by people who switched channels item passed through the Channel Tunnel during the broadcast. by British tunnellers to their French The newspapers made the most of what counterparts when the link was made in happened, but there is little doubt that 1994. many people were badly frightened by what they heard. Speaking two years later, H G Wells himself asked if all the fuss wasn’t a “sensational Hallowe’en spree”.

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Green Cathedrals Charities slide David Pickup Sue McCarter More than 5,500 churches and 15 Many British charities are experiencing a cathedrals, including Salisbury, decline in donations, thought to be Southwark, Liverpool and St Albans, have linked to recent scandals involving converted to using 100% renewable charities. The Charity Commission for energy. The Church of England has said England and Wales has recently that the issue was "one of the great published its Trust in Charities 2018 moral challenges of our time". report, which finds that charities now have an average score of 5.5 out of 10 on With an average annual church electricity trust. Previously, charities were rated bill of around £1,000, it is estimated consistently at 6.7. British churches have diverted more than £5m from fossil fuels to clean energy The Report also compares trust in providers. charities with other key contexts, finding that charities are less trusted than The number of cathedrals running on doctors (7.4), the police (6.4), and even 100% renewable electricity has been than the average person in the street boosted by the Church of England's (5.7). procurement initiative Parish Buying changing its bulk energy purchase to 100% renewables.

Cake and Conservation Take hoarding seriously Friends of Bentley Wood Tony Horsfall Sat 6 October 2018 How much stuff do you have? Do you find it really hard to throw things away? CAKE AND CONSERVATION. You are not alone! But the problem is so OPEN TO ALL – FOBW members and non serious for some people that hoarding -members! has now been classified as a medical disorder. The World Health Organisation Meet at Livery Gate at 9.30 for a 3 hour (WHO) says this could benefit thousands session of interesting conservation work, of people, because they will finally including a refreshment break with tea, qualify for medical help. coffee and home-made cakes. Tools and gloves provided. No experience is But lots of us like our stuff without being necessary as friendly guidance will be ill. So, what does it take to ‘qualify’ as a given during the session. Please wear real hoarder? (About 2 to 5 per cent of sturdy footwear, and clothes suitable for us exhibit some symptoms.) WHO practical work. Try it! You’ll love it! defines it as someone with an ‘accumulation of possessions due to excessive acquisition of, or difficulty discarding possessions, regardless of their actual value.’ For example, a hoarder might have a cup of tea – but then be unable to throw away the used tea bag. Signs of a problem hoarder include: keeping items of absolutely no value, such as junk mail and old newspapers; struggling to organise themselves and make decisions; an over-attachment to various items; and increasing difficulty with everyday tasks. The results can be awful: living spaces fill up with clutter that makes the proper use of the room impossible, and even dangerous. Such impairment will slowly ruin a person’s personal, family, social, educational, and working life. Anyone who is a serious, compulsive hoarder needs help. The mental health charity Mind may be useful for starters: www.mind.org.uk

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Diary of a momentous year October 1918

October 1918 was the month when both Versailles negotiations, on the other sides, in their different ways, decided that hand, would be complex, though they had had enough war. The Germans, somewhat simplified by the fact that the following their defeat at Amiens, no Germans came naked to the table. They longer had any hope of a strong were desperate to save their land from negotiating position in peace talks, let occupation, whatever the cost. In fact, it alone victory. Their economy was cost them £6.6 million in reparations struggling, and morale was low. The (probably about six billion pounds Allies, now sure of final victory, wanted it today). all over without further disastrous casualties. The politicians, fearful for Each of the Allies had important items for their own futures, wanted time, but the the peace agenda. France wanted Alsace- generals were now calling the shots. The Lorraine restored to French sovereignty, time had come for a ceasefire, then let and the Rhineland demilitarised. Britain the negotiating begin. wanted German military power negated and problems in the Middle East solved. The military won this battle, at least. The The Americans wanted democracy word ‘Armistice’ was banded around: not restored and the will of the people a treaty, but simply (as the Latin word recognised throughout Europe. The three suggests) as a laying down of arms. The leaders – David Lloyd George and three most influential national leaders on Presidents Clémenceau and Woodrow the Allied side agreed, and the Germans Wyatt agreed about most of the agenda, and their dwindling band of associates including the carving up of The German had no choice but to go along with the colonial empire in Africa. solution. An Armistice was agreed for a memorable date: the eleventh hour of Peace would come at last, but not, as one the eleventh day of the eleventh month wise man observed, the ‘kiss of peace’. of the year. Following preliminary discussions, a negotiated treaty would be finalised at Versailles in the following January. Compared to Brexit, that is express progress! The Armistice was, in some ways, simple. The guns would go silent, killing would cease from that designated hour. The 29

Crime in the countryside Alan Planer Following the publication of the NFU Mutual Rural Crime Report 2018, the Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, the Church of England’s lead bishop on rural affairs, said: ‘This is no surprise for those of us who are in touch with rural areas and highlights the scale of crime in the countryside. One important aspect is the increasing incidence of fly tipping, which is a problem I hear raised repeatedly in my diocese. “The Government claims that it has given councils sufficient powers to deal with the problem. Yet Defra’s own figures reveal that 51 per cent of local authorities have yet to have a single prosecution and there have been no fines imposed by 44 per cent of local authorities. If local authorities are not prepared to act, then surely central Government needs to take more drastic action to tackle this crime?”

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