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New plans for hotel revealed alterations, namely the Jack Rabbit Slims facade, alterations to the bay window at ground floor and enclosure to the lower ground level amenity areas will greatly enhance the building, especially when viewed from the promenade.

"The proposed additions are sympathetic to the existing building, harmonising the former Jack Rabbit Slims to coalesce with the former Royal Hotel."

The new restaurant is expected to have some 60 covers and 12-18 staff.

The five-storey hotel, on The Esplanade, was built in 1888. It is in an historic area of Bognor Regis, The Steyne Conservation Area, but is not a listed building.

Some of the building was converted into apartments several years ago alongside its continued use for visitors.

But it closed in the past decade. Plans to change its use by adding a further ten flats were approved by Arun in 2015. This scheme failed to be developed.

Another application for 18 flats was backed by councillors two years later. But work has again not taken place.

Jenny Keith, Metamorph's planning agent, says in a statement to Arun: "Despite acceptance of the loss of the hotel use and the grant of permission for two different conversion schemes to flats, the hotel has remained vacant and not attracted any commercial interest.

"The current applicant attributes this to the size of the flats making the scheme unviable in the local housing market."

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NEW LIFE is set to be given to a neglected former hotel in Bognor Regis.

Metamorph Management Ltd has submitted the latest plans to restore The Royal Hotel.

The company wants Arun District Council to back its scheme for flats on the building's upper floors and a restaurant on two floors so diners can enjoy the sea views. Its application seeks to refurbish, externally alter, extend and reconfigure the previously permitted conversion to rebuild the restaurant and provide 27 flats.

These will be split evenly between one and two-bed properties, with a three-bed flat on the third floor.

This will entail adding two storeys to the western side of the building once occupied by Jack Rabbit Slims nightclub.

A statement by Metamorph's architects, Randell Design Group, to the council says: "The existing property has been left to fall into disrepair and is in great need of extensive work to ensure its long-term future."

The costly repairs which are needed include re-roofing, new and restored ironwork, new rendering, new uPVC windows, lower ground level waterproofing and rewiring.

"The outcome of the proposal will result in the restoration of the iconic former Royal Hotel into high quality apartments and a destination restaurant," says the Randell Design Group.

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Poverty fear over reduction in cash A FIVE-FIGURE cut in funding could trap people in poverty, the head of a Bognor Regis help centre has warned.

Luca Badioli said he feared the £11,500 annual reduction in backing for Arun and Chichester Citizens Advice would affect some of the poorest residents in the area.

West Sussex County Council has agreed to slash the amount of local assistance network it pays to the charity by 50 per cent from this April.

Mr Badioli, Arun and Chichester Citizens Advice's chief executive, said: "This money is important to us because a lot of charities are struggling to make ends meet.

"We have to be inventive in finding new sources of income or changing how we work. We have to look at what it means for us - cutting staff or stopping some of our services.

"We can absorb the cut at the moment but we are certainly concerned that the county council will continue to cut its funding because of its financial position.

That gives us some concerns."

The funding is used to point clients at Citizens Advice's three centres - in Chichester, Littlehampton and Bognor Regis - to more suitable sources of help such as food banks or fuel top-up services - as well as grocery vouchers for those desperate for goods.

"We also look at how we can prevent people getting into the same crisis again and again," said Mr Badioli.

He has reached his first anniversary in charge of the charity after a busy time.

"It's been a challenging time. A couple of

years ago we could still take some things for granted," he added. "But now it's a battle for everything."

The increasing introduction of universal credit in the area has increased the number of clients. That is likely to continue during 2019, though Citizen's Advice advisors have been working closely with the town's Jobcentreplus on a pilot project - as reported last week - to help overcome many of the problems which have plagued the new benefit nationally.

The pilot scheme has worked so well it will become permanent from April around the country.

Another service which is being boosted

by Citizens Advice is its home visiting service. This is in its fifth year of providing help with welfare benefits for people aged 60-plus with mobility problems. This has helped them gain nearly £6m in benefits or £4,166 each client every year.

"We aim to extend that to people under 60," said Mr Badioli. "Hopefully, that will be in the coming year. We are having discussions with potential funders."

Another home visiting service, for those unable to pay their fuel bills, is to be extended from its initial year-long trial from last March.

Mr Badioli said: "That has been a success and we have been able to obtain funding for a further year. We have seen 21 clients since last September and 28 in all. It's only once a week and we have a waiting list up to mid-February."

Mr Badioli has 25 staff, of whom seven are full time, and 150 volunteers.

New barriers to make Yapton crossing safer being installed MAJOR safety work has seen a Yapton road closed for the past week.

North End Road and Yapton Lane have been shut to enable new barriers to be installed at the level crossing which divides them.

The closure began last Friday and and the road is due to re-open for Monday. Train services across the crossing will also be suspended during this weekend.

The period of work is the final stage of the upgrade of the half-barriers at the crossing.

Some four dangerous drivers a day swerved around the previous barriers

to make the crossing one of the worst safety hazards in Network Rail's south-east region.

John Halsall, Network Rail’s managing director in the South East, said recently: “Yapton is one of the most misused crossings in the south east, with drivers either ignoring or trying to beat the red lights, queuing over the crossing or swerving around the barriers as trains approach."

The new barriers will also allow a speed restriction imposed on trains in 2012 for safety reasons to be lifted. But they will stay down for much longer up to 45 minutes every hour.

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f Olivia Moss TOP-RATED singer Olivia Moss will be among those performing at Bognor Regis Music Club tomorrow.

The evening with Chris Coote and friends will include a wide selection of music by gifted performers with links to the Bognor Regis and Chichester areas.

Organiser Chris Coote said: "Olivia, 23, recently won the coveted Gus Christie award for most promising singer after completing the Glyndebourne Academy programme. She will sing songs and arias by Mozart, Debussy, Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten."

The other performers will include 16-year-old Bognor Regis-based cellist James Dew. He has been awarded a place in the

National Youth Orchestra and will play the first movement of Elgar's cello concerto and Popper's Tarantella.

Also in the line-up are Mark ZarbAdami playing Lizst's Liebestraum and Earl Wild's piano transcription of Gershwin's Embraceable You. Ian Clark will sign songs from the shows, flautist Paul Dorrelly will play Chaminade's Serenade aux Etoiles, and the Haydn Gypsy Rondo trio will be played by Gill Stevenson (violin), Elaine Monery (cello) and Chris Coote (piano).

To complete the programme, the Full House Wind Quintet, comprising Gerda Willcocks (flute), Spence Bundy (clarinet), John Prescott (horn), Clare Thornton-Wood (oboe) and Alison

Woodward (bassoon) will play an arrangement of Piazzolla's Libertango.

"I am delighted to have persuaded such as a talented group of musicians with local connections to perform for us," added Chris.

"For some of them, this will be their first visit to the club and we look forward to hearing their performances."

The concert will take place at 7pm at the club's regular meeting place in its concert room at 2 Sudley Road.

Entry at the door is £6 for members, £8 for visitors and £4 for students. New members and visitors are welcome.

More details from Chris Coote on 01243 773276, Helen Woods on 01243 861620 or BognorRegisMusic.org.uk

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EXTRA support for homeless people in Bognor Regis is on offer from the town's community radio station.

Kind-hearted volunteers at Radio Respect are opening one of its premises to provide help in the winter for rough sleepers and those on low incomes.

The sessions take place from midday and 4pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday weekly.

They are held in its Blue Room at 36 Argyle Road opposite the food bank.

Free hot drinks and ready-made snacks and meals are available as well as clothes, blankets and other items, subject to donations received.

Radio Respect owner Chris Collins said its helpers were spurred into action after a chat on one of the online community station's recent shows.

"Following an on-air conversation on Doug Everitt's Friday evening show regarding the homeless, we have been inundated with donations of clothes, blankets and food by the local community, who have kindly dug deep to help out. One gentlemen even bought us a new microwave.

"So, we thought we needed to get organised here and, although we are short of volunteers to run our shop and radio station seven days a week, we can do this," he said.

Two volunteers from Customize Events help to run the kitchen and chat with those who call in. But more help, even if for only a couple of hours a week, is needed.

"We're provisionally only planning

to run this for January, February and March, as there are other organisations who have funding and work with the homeless all year - like Bognor Foodbank, Stonepillow, the Salvation Army, Grandad's Front Room and some local churches," said Mr Collins.

"But, if we can do our bit to help, then that's what we're all about, helping the community."

As well as long-lasting food, clothes and blankets, workable laptops are also being sought for the kind-hearted venture to enable those who use the Blue Room to email their family and friends and to find out information which can help them.

"The other thing we need is funding for an FM community radio licence so we can reach the homeless and other sectors of our community who can't here us online.

"We also need funds for wheelchair access to The Blue Room. Any donations towards those targets would be appreciated," said Mr Collins.

Donations can be made to the studio, which shares the premises with The Blue Room, or at Radio Respect's shop at 32 West Street, opposite the town's museum.

Radio Respect is also hosting craft workshops in February and March in The Blue Room with acrylic paints and craft making. This means the book sales which took place there have been moved to the shop in West Street.

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` Singing invitation A CHANCE to sing pop and contemporary music this year is being offered by the Regis Singers.

Everyone from eight to 80-plus is invited along to the community group's sessions in the Regis School of Music in Sudley Road.

The 6pm-7pm get-togethers on Wednesdays are ideal for families who want to sing together.

The first session is free. Subsequent weeks cost £4 adults, £2 full-time students aged 18-plus and children are free. More details: fabbaritone@ outlook.com

` Councillor in court A BOGNOR REGIS town councillor has been remanded in custody after he admitted assault, burglary and theft.

Damien Enticott, 34, an Independent member of the council, appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court on Wednesday via videolink from prison. He admitted burgling the William Hardwicke pub in High Street on September 24.

He also admitted the theft of £2,700 from the pub's general manager and assault by beating on September 23.

He will be sentenced at the crown court on February 1.

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Friday, January 11, 2019

Views are sought on future of town A PEOPLE'S vote on Bognor Regis regeneration is about to take place.

Town councillors are to issue a questionnaire seeking the comments of people in its six electoral wards about the key topic.

The survey is set to be delivered to 11,000 households in the next month.

Replies will be sought by the end of February.

Their responses will be considered by town councillors at their March meeting before being presented to Arun District Council at its full meeting.

Arun is committed to creating the Pavilion Park, formerly known as the linear park, on the Hothamton car park and neighbouring Sunken Garden.

But Cllr Matt Stanley (LD, Marine) told his fellow town councillors on Monday the £3.5m scheme lacked public backing.

He said: “We should be seeking short, focused views on people’s opinion of the linear park or and whether the Sunken Garden should be retained.”

The survey will contain six questions asking residents to rate their views about regeneration in the town and the Pavilion Park idea.

Cllr Steve Goodheart (I, Hotham) said all the known regeneration projects should be displayed at a public exhibition.

“People would get the chance to look at what Arun is proposing and a look at what other developers are proposing,” he said.

The exhibition should focus on the future of both the Hothamton car park/ Sunken Garden and Regis Centre sites.

Both were essential to the town’s future.

He said four regeneration schemes are still being promoted - from Arun, the Sir Richard Hotham Project, 4BR and ReInvigorate.

Town councillors also used Monday’s meeting to demand that residents’ views about regeneration in Bognor Regis should come first.

They have agreed to write an open letter to Arun District Council and the town’s MP, among others, to ensure the views expressed at an electors’ meeting are taken into account.

The decision was backed by all ten councillors present at Monday’s meeting of the town council.

“Our community has shown numerous times how they feel about this concept and tonight we have to deliver on those views.

"Every time the community have shown they are not supportive of the concept of the linear park. There have been Facebook polls, public meetings and byelections,” he said.

“Every possible opportunity the public have had to say about the linear park, they have turned it down.

“If Arun had any confidence in its plans, they would have a detailed public consultation before their planning application is published.”

Inviting public comments about the application would limit the views to those concerned with planning matters, he said.

Arun has given itself planning approval to install four information boards about the park around the site.

f An artist's view of the Pavilion Park plans

'Last chance' for regeneration TIME is running out to regenerate Bognor Regis, a councillor has warned.

Cllr Jan Cosgrove (L, Orchard) said residents should be given the choice between Arun’s multi-million pound scheme and the cheaper option of upgrading the Sunken Garden.

“We are in the last chance saloon for the regeneration of this town,” he said, “and this is the tip of the iceberg – and that iceberg is Arun.”

Arun had stated back in December, 2017, its aim for the linear park was to produce revenue by selling some of the car park to developers for flats.

“They have decided on handing over public land to build flats, which have no regeneration value," he said.

A residents’ meeting last November

called on Arun to abandon its current scheme and allocate funds to upgrade the gardens with features wanted by the community.

Of those present, 35 residents of the town council’s area backed the resolution and two abstained. None voted against.

Cllr Jeanette Warr (LD, Hotham) said: “We have heard what the public want.

It is up to us as elected councillors to do our best to work with the public’s views.”

But Cllr Sandra Daniells (I, Pevensey) said Arun was close to submitting a planning application for the new park.

“It would be better to work with them rather than to keep fighting them,” she said. “It’s too far down the line.”

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Pagham housing plans to be discussed again soon PLANS for hundreds of homes in Pagham are set to be debated again by councillors later this month.

Arun District Council has arranged to hold a special meeting of its development control committee on January 23 to decide the large-scale outline proposals for land north of Hook Lane.

Committee members will be asked to decide if the scheme by Hallam Land Management should be approved.

They deferred the proposals at an earlier special meeting last November to enable an independent road safety audit on the accesses to the site in Hook Lane and Pagham Road.

The audit has been completed by highways consultants, Wilbar Associates.

Its report says more work is needed about the details of the routes in and out of the intended development of up to 300 homes.

But this can be carried out at a later stage when the detailed designs for the housing are created.

A potential care home with a maximum of 80 beds and a possible two-form entry primary school have also been included in the initial plans.

Wilbar Associates has told Arun: "The proposed junction access on to Pagham Road and Hook Lane as part of this development have been (the) subject of a stage on road safety audit in accordance with good practice for highway design.

"The proposed accesses and and the stage one road safety audit has been reviewed

by the overseeing organisation, West Sussex County Council local highways authority, who have raised no objections to the development proposals subject to a number of planning conditions.

"However, having reviewed the documentation, there are a number of issues surrounding the road safety audit process. A formal brief was never strictly prepared and submitted for approval to the overseeing organisation.

"The details submitted to the road safety audit team were not entirely complete and did not appear to include the development proposals themselves, nor details on traffic movement.

"Nevertheless, with the subsequent reviews by the road safety audit team, and the checks undertaken by the county council local highways authority of the transport assessment, the designs submitted to the local planning authority (Arun) have no outstanding significant road safety risk which cannot be resolved as part of detailed design."

A total of 631 letters of objection to the housing was received by Arun. Parish councils, such as Pagham, also protested.

One of the more recent protestors, Roz Faulkner, told Arun the development - as well as those expected in North Bersted would create a host of difficulties.

"Just dumping a high level of housing in this way will ensure there are major problems to be resolved in the years ahead," she said.

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Cycle area criticised RAILWAY station bosses have been urged to improve facilities for Bognor Regis cyclists.

The area at the historic building set aside for cycles and mopeds to be stored has been labelled as 'disgusting'. Felpham resident Andy Perry said: "It creates a threatening and unpleasant atmosphere and needs to be addressed urgently.

"Around one million passengers' journeys start or finish at the station each year, many of whom will be visitors to the town. Many will use the entrance by the cycle storage area and taxi pick-up point. What sort of first impression does this create?"

Mr Perry cycles to the station for his commute to Crawley. He said the storage area next to Richmond Road had become worse since the station's refurbishment was completed a year ago.

"True, there are many racks, all under cover - to a degree at least - but, quite frankly, the area is disgusting and feels threatening. It was so much better when bikes were stored on Platform 3.

"Apart from cycle thefts, which I have personally been a victim of, but which are thankfully reducing

the area suffers for many reasons."

These included becoming a haven for street drinkers, he said. He said: "Recently, I returned around 8pm to find two people there, one of whom was unable to sit, let alone stand, he was so drunk.

"I have witnessed people using the area behind the large black cabinet to urinate, and possibly worse, leaving a terrible stench."

Rough sleepers occasionally used the area and it had become the unofficial smoking zone.

Adding to the problems were the occasional working of the security lights and the excrement left by pigeons in many places, he said.

A Southern spokesman said: "We are aware of these issues and are currently tackling those within our control.

"We will improve security and cleanliness in the cycle storage area, by installing additional railings to create a single entrance covered by CCTV cameras, replacing the existing lighting with new LED units, and replacing the old pigeon netting."

f An initial masterplan for the Hook Lane site

` Yapton car crime FOUR men were arrested after a number of car break-ins in Yapton.

Police were alerted by a member of the public to suspicious behaviour in Church Lane on Sunday evening.

Officers and a dog unit attended and conducted a search which led to the men's arrest.

All four suspects have been released under investigation while police enquiries continued.

Witnesses to the alleged incidents are being sought by the police.

DC Ben Nield said: "We are appealing to anyone who noticed any suspicious behaviour in this area to get in contact with us immediately.

"We would like to speak to anyone who has fallen victim to this crime or has noticed anything missing from their cars.

"Please remain vigilant and remember not to leave anything valuable in your car, park in a welllit area and ensure all windows and doors are locked."

Three of the arrested men live in Portsmouth. One, aged 20, is suspected of theft from a motor vehicle. The second, aged 19, is suspected of the attempted theft of a motor vehicle.

The other, a 21-year-old, is believed to have interfered with a vehicle and to have been in possession of a knife blade or sharp-pointed article in a public place.

The fourth man, a 20-year-old from Havant, was arrested on suspicion of vehicle interference, going equipped for the theft of a motor vehicle and possessing a class B drug.

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Aldi store plan is submitted AN ALDI store for the Bognor Regis area would sell some £17million of goods a year, it has been predicted.

A retail analysis of the impact of the proposed outlet of the fast-growing discount retailer says about 80 per cent of the sales would be convenience goods, such as food. The rest would be ancillary non-food items.

Most of the customers for the store at the intended Salt Box development on the A29 would come from the existing Shripney Road stores.

A statement by Mango Planning & Development, the planning agents for the scheme's applicant, Landlink Estates, says: "It shows that following the closure of Lidl at the Peel Centre, the impact of the new Lidl is confined towards other out of (town) centre stores, notably Tesco and Sainsbury's on Shripney Road.

"The Aldi proposal will, unsurprisingly, divert a proportion of the new Lidl store's trade and will similarly have a trade draw pattern focused on the larger out of centre stores.

"In terms of the town centre as a whole, shoppers who have opted not to shop in the town centre have the option of a number of out of centre stores already, including the new Lidl store when it opens.

"Those shoppers who have opted to shop in the town centre notwithstanding existing out of centre provision are likely to do so for specific reasons, eg proximity to work or home, preference for the brands represented.

"And those customers are unlikely to change their habits materially with the introduction of a new fascia at the

application site."

Sales in the town centre were also relatively healthy, Mango Planning & Development said. Morrisons was doing better than its size would predict and Iceland was also doing reasonably well.

As revealed last month, the store - with a 1,785sq m gross internal area - will form part of a revised development for the site north of Rowan Way. The initial scheme for the 12ha location was backed by Arun last August but the latest detailed proposal has swopped some elements, such as an hotel and gym, for the Aldi store and a Richmond Motor Group showroom for three car brands.

A distribution centre for Warburtons the bakers and two drive-thru restaurants remain the same. Two further warehouses are planned.

Warburtons is keen to move into its building. If Arun grants permission, the baker wants to open early next year.

At least 500 jobs are set to be created by the site through direct and indirect employment once it is fully developed.

Two further warehouses units are subject to outline permission, as part of the overall application, to be built when their occupiers have signed up.

Arun has been keen to see the site developed to create new jobs under its Enterprise Bognor Regis initiative.

Mango Planning & Development adds: "The layout and design...meets the key design objectives to create a well integrated mixed use scheme in a commercially viable and practical way which is sensitive to the site's surroundings and respects the character of the surrounding area."

Work will create a safer road junction WORK is set to start this month on building a mini-roundabout in Felpham.

West Sussex County Council's contractor is due to begin creating the traffic improvement scheme at the junction of Summerley Lane and Felpham Way on January 21.

The work is due to take six weeks, subject to severe weather and other factors outside of the workers' control.

Three-way, temporary traffic lights will be in place for most of that period.

They will include temporary pedestrian crossing signals.

A West Sussex highways spokesman said: "We apologise for any inconvenience and delays caused during the works.

"Please be assured we will do all we can to try to limit this as much as possible by manually controlling the temporary traffic lights during peak periods."

The £140,000 is being funded by money from the developers of nearby housing.

Both the county councillor for the area

and Felpham Parish Council identified the junction as needing improvement.

Consultation in the area led to the new mini-roundabout being included in an overall improvement scheme for Felpham.

It is aimed at reducing the impact of increased traffic from new developments nearby.

The mini-roundabout will: * make it easier for motorists to get in and out of Summerley Lane * improve safety for those making a right turn out of the junction * help to reduce traffic speeds in that section of Felpham Way The introduction of the miniroundabout also means the controlled pedestrian crossing in Felpham Way will need to be moved - to outside the petrol station.

The existing pedestrian refuge islands will be enlarged to provide safer places to cross the road.

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Cllr Sandra Daniells said she feared vigilante action was being contemplated by some people. "People are told to keep reporting and reporting but they are getting very frustrated. They know who these kids are. They know what is happening," she said.

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` Talk by author BEST-SELLING author Kate Mosse will be talking about her life and career in Pagham next week.

The writer of books such as Labryinth and Citadel will be guest speaker at the French Exchange Group's meeting on Tuesday. She will also be answering questions from the audience about her writing.

The event is taking place at St Ninian's Church in Pagham Road.

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` Store quiet hour DISCOUNT retailer Home Bargains has begun a weekly quiet hour at its Bognor Regis store to create a calmer atmosphere for shoppers with autism.

The shopping time takes place from 9am-10am on Saturdays. The music in the store, in the Bognor Regis Retail Park in Shripney Road, is being turned off and the tannoy only used for urgent messages.

` Pond funding MORE than £28,000 has been given to help stop flooding in Middleton.

The Willowbrook Flood Action Group will carry out flood alleviation work, including concrete bag work, to stabilise the village pond. Funding has come from West Sussex County Council's Operation Watershed antiflooding project.

Chef Mae's got a recipe for success CULINARY queen Mae Pinnock-Quirk is cooking up ideas for her next success for a Bognor Regis school.

Mae, 14, of The Regis School, has to create a three-course meal in the district final in February of the latest young chef of the year contest.

She wowed the judges with her recipes for Spanish paella and chocolate dream cake.

She said: "I was delighted to win the local heat of the young chef competition.

"I entered last year and didn't even get a mention. A year on and I’ve won.

"I would like to thank Miss Bailey (food technology technician Lucinda

Bailey) for all her help, support and encouragement.

"I am busy now preparing for the district final where I have to produce a three-course meal."

Second place in the school's heat was won by Minnie Prior, with her spiced belly pork and chocolate fondue. She will join Mae in the district final.

Isabelle Lacey took third place in the school's heat with fresh fish cakes and tartare sauce followed by parkin.

A total of ten students entered the event and devised a range of mouthwatering tastes to tempt the taste buds of the judges.

Latest friends finish course NEW DEMENTIA friends in Eastergate have found out how to help people with the condition.

Some nine individuals attended the latest information session about making changes the way they view dementia.

Those who attended Monday's event - the second to be held - at Eastergate Village Hall were parish council officials, clergy, carers and members of the public.

Organiser Peter Rolt said they thought it had been a worthwhile occasion.

Peter and his wife, Cheryl, are dementia friends champions. Cheryl is the home manager at Walberton Place care home.

The home, in Yapton Lane is due to open later this year. Operated by Country Court

Care, it will have 80 en-suite bedrooms, each with a walk-in wet room.

The home will provide care for people who have residential needs and for those who have dementia.

Cheryl and Peter, who is the home's customer relations manager, feel it is important to spread the word about how to help those with dementia.

"We just want to get people to talk about dementia, without having the stigma attached to it, to inform others and realise that people with dementia can still live well," she said.

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Council seeks court case against Arun LEGAL action is being taken by Pagham Parish Council about plans for hundreds of homes.

The council is seeking a judicial review into Arun District Council's approval of 400 dwellings south of Summer Lane.

Arun backed the scheme by Hanbury (PM) Ltd two months ago, despite 789 letters of objection from residents and protests from Pagham, North Mundham and Oving parish councils and the RSPB. District councillors agreed by two votes the proposal should go ahead subject to strict conditions.

But the parish council's clerk, Nicola Swann, told its members on Tuesday the paperwork to pursue a judicial review had been lodged with the High Court.

"We now wait for the judge to decide if we have a sufficiently strong case to go to the next part of the process," she said.

It is unknown how long it will take for a decision to be announced. If the judge backs the parish council, the review will take place in the High Court, possibly this summer.

In a letter of claim to Arun, the parish's planning consultant, Paul Collins, says he believes four grounds exist on which the approval should be overturned.

The first is Arun’s alleged failure to grapple with two requirements in its

local plan land use document for a masterplan for the development and to have any adequate regard to the parish council’s representations.

“There is no masterplan endorsed by the council…against which the application for a portion of the land within the allocations could have been assessed," he said. "And, since the application was made in outline with all matters reserved except for access, no means by which the council could properly satisfy itself that the proposals would result in a development which complied with strategic policy H SP2a.”

The second ground was an alleged misdirection on two respects to councillors on the impact of the housing on heritage assets.

Mr Collins claims Arun’s conservation officer failed to pass on the full opinion of Historic England about the potential impact of the housing on Grade I-listed St Thomas a’Becket Church to the south.

Ground number three for a potential judicial review, according to Mr Collins, concerns Arun’s supposed failure to consider alternatives and satisfy itself all adverse impacts on the wildlife in the Pagham Harbour special protection area can be mitigated.

“The habitats assessment undertaken

by the council on October 18, 2018, found the likelihood of significant effects, either alone or in combination with other developments, in relation to disturbance of birds, supporting habitat and water pollution,” says Mr Collins.

“At no point, however, does the council move to consider alternative sites which would avoid the impact…”

Mr Collins says the final ground amounts to a breach of legitimate expectation around setting up an advisory group, including parish councillors, to discuss the Summer Lane application and two other sizeable housing plans for Pagham.

The group failed to meet in the form envisaged before the plans were agreed, he adds.

Arun declined to comment about the legal action.

But Karl Roberts, its director of place, stated in reply to Mr Collins it had received his letter of claim.

"This is receiving due and proper consideration by the council and will be responded to separately," he said. *A previous, confidential, meeting of Pagham Parish Council showed its members agreed to budget £55,000 to spend on housing court cases by hiring specialist barristers and other advisers.

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Sir, One of the most surprising and heartening news items on housing developments last year recorded that in November Arun District Council had ordered a developer to halt work on a 90-home North Bersted site because conditions had not been adhered to - these related to ecological surveys and issues concerning the protection of trees and hedges during construction.

Such care, on the other hand, has seemed entirely lacking in the council's eagerness to rush through planning permission on the Pagham Road and other large Pagham sites.

Although so recently granted, subcontractors to the developers have already surveyed the perimeter of the main field planned for 400-plus houses to establish the water-table and condition of the soil - which in all Pagham sites is obviously waterlogged.

In addition, Arun seems to have hastened to put a limited six-month temporary preservation order on five trees in the hedgerow, which itself creates a natural shield between the road and farmland or housing, whereas it had always been understood that the council would as far as possible protect the rural character of the area and its wildlife instead of helping to change it into a garden suburb.

The notice from the council ominously set a time limit of less than a month which ended on December 5 in which only residents directly affected could express their views on the five specific trees, plus other groups of trees or woodlands covered by their order, while the whole treeline and hedgerow are in fact features appreciated by the wider community and others.

Its destruction seems pointlessly Philistinic and will hopefully be averted through wider protests from people who care, addressed to: planning @arun.gov.uk for the attention of D. Easton. If the discussion about the future of the five named trees is open until May, there is surely time for a more considered response to the proposal for the annihilation of the whole hedgerow ecosystem in which they thrive.

To revert to specific conditions relating to the largest development, many were stipulated during the planning process and Southern Water has recently restated its original reservations.

The sewage pipework from Church Farm to Pagham wastewater treatment works runs diagonally across the main

field, although its exact siting is not mapped. However, it is stated there should be no development or new tree planting within three metres either side of the external edge of the public sewer; no new soakaways within 5m; and other existing infrastructure should be protected during construction.

The sustainable urban drainage system should be developed and maintained in perpetuity by good management, to avoid the flooding of the surface water system, which may result in the inundation of the foul sewerage system.

Even with present sewage levels, it has been shown raw sewage has been dumped into Pagham Harbour on more than 55 occasions since 2011 with the approval of the Environment Agency, in total disregard of the fact the wetlands reserve has received prestigious international recognition for its uniqueness as a Ramsar site, as well as being a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a RSPB reserve.

This amounts to a shocking lack of awareness and to neglect on the part of local advisory bodies whom one would expect to be leaders in conservation. Both aspects have been manifest already without any extra pressure impending from 400plus new houses. We must request the same level of surveillance over the developers as that accorded by the council to North Bersted, and ourselves also become monitors.

Recent months have been tense ones for those who live on the seashore at Pagham; with storm conditions and high tides, flooding in the area of the yacht club has on several occasions been widely predicted.

I would finally like to ask councillors whether they took the trouble to look at a map of Pagham before approving planning permission for the main body of housing. Pagham Yacht Club is about 0.4 mile from Church Farm caravan site, at the end of the sewage pipeline and Pagham Road projected housing and the councillors may remember the enormous effort and amount of funding which has been needed over the years to protect existing beach houseowners from inundation. To give approval for 400plus more properties on an adjacent site, as well as a similar number in other soggy areas of Pagham, is clearly irresponsible.

Please could we ask Arun to seize any opportunity to reverse or at least modify their decision.

Angela MacTavish Pagham Road, Bognor Regis

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` Town's council tax HOUSEHOLDS in Bognor Regis face a council tax rise of just under three per cent in the year from April.

Bognor Regis town councillors agreed on Monday to increase their share of the tax by £3.56 a year.

Policy and resources committee chairman Adam Cunard told the meeting the budget for 2019/20 would enable the council to carry out all its duties and support events in the town.

"The council's finances going forward are sound. This is a balanced budget," he said. "Whatever councillors are elected in May, they will have the resources they need."

The council's budget for the year was agreed at £916,001 for a 2.93 per cent increase for a band D household. This was unanimously backed by members of all parties.

` Fishing gear theft EXPENSIVE fishing gear was stolen when a window in a vehicle parked in Norfolk Street, Bognor Regis, was smashed overnight on December 19.

A vehicle parked in Saxby Close, Barnham, was broken into overnight on December 28 and a Garmin satnav and a pair of Rayban sunglasses were stolen.

` New Rox session OAKVILLE PETE will be bringing his style of 'countrybilly' music to the latest Rox session in Bognor Regis.

The musician will be appearing at the Hothampton Arms in London Road next Friday.

Friday, January 11, 2019

Rink return is to be sought ICE RINK fans could be getting their skates on again in Bognor Regis.

Operators Kara and James Cole are keen to return to the town.

The couple want to come back for a third Christmas on the town's seafront later this year. They said the continued backing from the public made them want to stage their seasonal icy wonderland again.

James said: "I would say we have done a little better than last year. We want to thank all the people who have supported us and, hopefully, we will be back again.

"The rink will be same size - we can't get any bigger here - but we have a couple of surprises up our sleeves for the other attractions if we are able to return."

The rink's last skaters took to the 20ft X 30ft area of ice before it closed on Sunday - just over six weeks after it opened on the Place St Maur for the second year.

The first time the rink was put up was during the Christmas and new year period of 2017/18. The smaller structure immediately proved popular and some 10,000 got their skates on.

This year has seen the rink become a third bigger and more attractions placed around its entrance after approval was given by owner Arun District Council.

The early days saw wet weather but the start of drier conditions brought all ages of skaters through the entrance.

Kara said: "We've still had people from a lot of different places. We've even had a family from Aldershot come here regularly. People have liked the fact the rink is bigger than last year.

"There's more room on the ice and to move around off the rink. That has meant people have spent more time here."

James added: "It's been great to see grandparents with their grandkids here.

Coming to the rink is something that families can do to spend time together."

The couple said they didn't believe the new Chichester rink had greatly affected their business.

They thanked Arun, Bognor Regis Business Improvement District (BID), the Regis Centre volunteers and residents of adjoining Mountbatten Court for backing them as well.

Among the skaters at one of the final sessions was Lucy Pierce, nine, of Felpham. She said: "I like skating. I can teach some of the other children how to do it. I feel like I am dancing gracefully when I'm on the rink. I usually start by going round the rink a couple of times and then go into a corner to practise spins."

Her mother, Karen Pierce, said: "We've been here four times this year after visiting the rink several times last Christmas.

"The kids love it. It's an attraction for everybody. It's a really safe environment for the kids."

She and her friend, fellow Felpham resident, Alison Boon, were with three of their children at the rink.

Alison said: "It's good to have something like this for the children to enjoy and it's something different and safe for them."

Rovetska Myroslava travelled to the rink with her family from Littlehampton.

"We've come here for the first time and this is bigger and better than the rink in Worthing. It's good to spend some time with the children and they get some exercise as well," she said.

Bognor Regis BID chairman Paul Wells said: "The ice rink has gone down really well this Christmas. It has attracted people who have travelled from far afield as well as residents. We hope it comes back for next Christmas."

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` Gardens scheme KEEN gardeners in the Chichester and Bognor Regis areas have been asked to join a national fundraising initiative for charity.

THe National Garden Scheme is seeking new members to open their gardens in 2020.

THose who join will be expected to share their carefully cultivated lawns and borders for a few hours in aid of nursing, cancer and health charities.

In 2017, openings around the country enabled more than £4million to be raised. THis included £500,000 each to Macmillan Cancer Support and Hospice UK. Philip Duly, the scheme's West Sussex publicity officer, said: "In order to continue to raise these vast sums, we must continue to attract new gardens to the scheme and replace any gardens whose owners are no longer able to welcome visitors."

Group openings are also welcomed in which proceeds from plant sales and refreshments can be retained by the organisers. Anyone interested should contact: ngs.org.uk

` Ambulance service WEST Sussex County Council’s health and adult social care select committee will meet on Wednesday next week.

THe committee will be joined by representatives from the South East Coast Ambulance Service who will discuss their latest quality inspection report.

THe committee will also receive the annual report of the Safeguarding Adults Board during the meeting next week.

Friday, January 11, 2019

Call-in refusal is condemned A REFUSAL to allow further scrutiny of housing support funding cuts by West Sussex County Council has been branded 'disgraceful'.

THe county has ruled out enabling a further look to be taken at the decision by Cllr Amanda Jupp to reduce its housingrelated support budget from £6.3million to £2.3million by 2020/21.

As reported, Cllr Jupp - the county council's cabinet member for adults and health - announced her decision just before Christmas.

A coalition of charities involved in providing housing and helping homeless people has objected to the move.

A group of 11 Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative county councillors said Cllr Jupp's decision made a mockery of the scrutiny process and asked to call it in for further examination.

THey argued that recommendations put forward by the council's health and adult social care select committee which asked Cllr Mrs Jupp to delay the plans for up to a year and to leave the funding for 2019/20 had been largely ignored.

Cllr Kate O'Kelly (Lib Dem, Midhurst) led the call-in request. She said: "THis rejection of the request makes a mockery of the scrutiny process and will increase public anger about the cuts and decrease the electorate's confidence in the democratic process.

"It is a dangerous decision, which will cost lives, and will also cost the taxpayer more, not less, in the long run."

Cllr Dr James Walsh, leader of the

council's Lib Dem group, said: "At a time when homelessness and street sleeping is increasing rapidly due to austerity and benefit cuts to the poorest in society, we should be heeding stated government policy to be aiming to halve the numbers, and not doing our best to worsen the problem."

At a meeting of the select committee on December 12, some of the coalition's members made stark warnings the cuts would lead to more deaths among rough sleepers. Police officers and the probation service shared concerns about their abililty to monitor and support hundreds of sex offenders after their release from prison.

"All the evidence heard from police, probation service, the NHS, the homeless charities such as Stonepillow, Turning Tides, YMCA and from leaders of all the district and borough councils in West Sussex emphasised the likely increased costs to the public purse of these cuts," said Cllr Dr Walsh.

County council leader Louise Goldsmith said the cuts were 'probably' one of its hardest decisions - but the financial situation made them necessary.

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Gardens for new hospice TWO LANDSCAPED gardens for the new hospice in Bosham are being planned by a Petworth garden maintenance service.

Lady Penelope Gardens has announced a collaboration with St Wilfrid’s Hospice.

THe company will be working with the hospice’s team of gardening volunteers to deliver two landscaped gardens at the new hospice.

Angela Palmerton, owner and founder of Lady Penelope Gardens, said: "I have always wanted to do something special for a hospice, following personal experience of the fantastic work they do.

"THe chance came when I heard that St Wilfrid’s was building a new hospice – a DreamBuilding – with the space and modern facilities they urgently needed."

Angela has donated her time to implement the soft landscaping designs for the new hospice garden. She has also offered to provide support and advice on an ongoing basis.

THe Lady Penelope Gardens team will work with the long-standing team of volunteers in the aftercare and establishment of the new scheme.

Diana Duffell, volunteer gardener at the hospice, said: “THe team are looking forward to working with Lady Penelope Gardens, creating beautiful outdoor spaces that can be enjoyed by our patients and their loved ones.”

Lady Penelope Gardens has also been busy fundraising for the hospice.

In May, Angela, along with business development manager Beverly Law, completed the Moonlight Walk.

Additionally, the team sold handknitted gerberas (the Lady Penelope logo) and other items at THe Floral Fringe Fair at Knepp Castle, bringing the total they have raised to over £900.

Fundraising continues for St Wilfrid’s Hospice DreamBuilding appeal, which still has over £900,000 to raise in just three months.

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Crackdown on drink-drivers

BY KELLY WICKHAM kelly.wickham@sussexpost.co.uk OVER the Christmas period, a total of 240 people were arrested in Sussex on suspicion of drink and drug-driving offences.

THe arrests were made as part of a Surrey and Sussex Police campaign, which aims to target offenders at peak times of the year and to keep all road users safe.

THe operation ran from December 1, 2018, to January 1, 2019, and the figure is an increase on the previous two Christmas campaigns (195 arrests in December, 2017, and 187 arrests in December, 2016).

Of those arrested, a total of 29 have so far been convicted and 81 have been charged to appear in court. THe remaining 130 have either been released under investigation or released without

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Chief Inspector Andy Gooch, of the Surrey and Sussex Roads Policing Unit, said: “It is bitterly disappointing to see so many people arrested on suspicion of drink or drug-driving in such a short period of time.

"Of course, we want people to have fun and enjoy the festivities, but don’t let that be at the expense of risking your life – and others’ – on our roads.

“THe risks of such actions are well documented, yet despite our repeated warnings, there will always be a minority of people who make the conscious decision to get behind the wheel having consumed alcohol or drugs.

“While the number of arrests is an increase on the previous two years, it is encouraging to receive reports of suspected drink or drug-drivers from members of the public.

"Our officers can’t be everywhere all the time, and we appreciate the public’s

assistance in helping us detect potential offenders.

“We take all reports of this nature extremely seriously and will respond to them as quickly as possible to achieve our two main aims of this operation – to keep all road users safe and to bring to justice those who break the law.

“I’d also like to thank our staff and officers who work tirelessly to raise awareness of the dangers of drink and drug-driving, and to crack down on drink and drug-drivers 365 days a year.

"We have two dedicated campaigns at peak times of the year – during summer and at Christmas. However, we will still actively pursue offenders all year round as part of our routine policing."

People in Sussex can text officers on 65999 with details of people they suspect of drink or drug-driving, or visit the Operation Crackdown website. If you know someone is driving while over the limit or after taking drugs, call 999.

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` Energy-saving advice ENERGY switching events are being staged this month by Arun and Chichester Citizens Advice.

THe charity's energy champions will be present to support residents to change suppliers, get support and save money.

Ken Porter, of Citizens Advice, said: "THis year, big energy saving week is focusing on supporting consumers to switch energy suppliers, access support and make savings."

Six sessions will be held from 10am2pm around the area. THe first will take place at Arun District Council's offices in Littlehampton on January 21.

It will be followed on January 22 at Petworth Children and Family Centre and the next day at Grandad's Front Room in Bognor Regis High Street.

January 25 will see a session held at THe Grange in Midhurst (9.30am-2pm) before one takes place from 10am-2pm on January 30 at Witterings Medical Centre.

THe final session will take place from 10am-2.30pm on February 1 at Bognor Regis Library.

"No appointment is necessary. Just drop in with your energy bill or details of how much you pay," said Mr Porter.

As well as Citizens Advice, the Arun Wellbeing Home Service will also be hand to provide advice.

THis can include advice about how to obtain energy bill savings, such as the Warm Home Discount scheme, and take energy efficiency measures around properties. THey could also suggest other ways to increase a person's income.

More details about the events are available at the Citizens Advice Bognor Regis office on 01243 866233, its office in the town hall, or by calling its advice line on 0344 477 1171.

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BY KELLY WICKHAM kelly.wickham@sussexpost.co.uk THE Bognor Regis and Chichester return the plastic group held a special event in Sainsbury's, Chichester, at the weekend.

THe store found the time and space to accommodate the group's event on Saturday to encourage shoppers to rethink their shopping habits and to return unwanted plastic to the store.

THe #returntheplastic group met in the entrance to Chichester's Sainsbury's store in Westhampnett and collected a trolley-full of waste plastic in just two hours.

Sainsbury's manager, Martin Cawdry, also shared some of the plans the supermarket had to reduce their plastic waste.

Sarah Sharp, city councillor for Chichester south, said: "We were told

that Sainsbury's accept not only plastic bags but also other plastic packaging back in their store.

"Shoppers can collect these items which Chichester District Council doesn't recycle and bring these back when they are next shopping and put them in two large black bins in the store.

THis plastic is then compacted and recycled and doesn't go to landfill."

Victoria Hulatt, who is spearheading a new EcoBrick project in the area, working with local schools, said the morning was successful with 'positive vibes' from many shoppers the group talked to.

Liz McCallum, another founder member of the group, also used the opportunity to start a new petition about deposit schemes having seen a trial elsewhere in the UK. She said: "THere was a really good feeling from shoppers today- everyone's fed up with the lack

of progress in our supermarkets. I am really pleased that we filled two pages of the petition on the plastic bottle deposit return scheme."

Sarah Sharp, who brought the issue of single-use plastic to the city council in a motion in December, also wants people to do more in 2019 and get involved with recycling company, Terracycle.

"I hope that schools, groups and the councils can find out about Terracycle and we, as a city, can start collecting crisp packets, toothbrushes and toothpaste containers etc.

"THere are lots of opportunities out there for groups to reduce our waste still more and also gain money for charities.

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by Chichester City Council and one of the areas I hope the group will be looking at is how to get involved with Terracycle. co.uk," she said.

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#returntheplastic is a new group active locally which plans to do regular events outside different supermarkets the first Saturday of every month.

Last month the group campaigned outside Tesco's in Bognor Regis and February will see the group outside Marks & Spencer in East Street, Chichester.

If you would like to find out more about the group or are interested in helping, please see their Facebook page or contact Sarah on: 07789843556 if you would like to help with the petition.

Alternatively, shoppers can join the nationwide campaign and take individual action to leave plastic waste at the till after having bought goods. THis acts as a clear message to supermarkets that they need to take radical action to introduce more compostable and sustainable packaging and cut down on our reliance on single-use plastics.

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Snap happy at exhibit Advanced Workers Exhibition 2019 North Mundham Village Hall, School Lane, North Mundham, Chichester PO20 1LA 01243 264028 www.chichestercameraclub.org.uk January 19-20 CHICHESTER Camera Club's photographic exhibition will be held at North Mundham Village Hall next weekend.

THis forthcoming event will be the 18th year the exhibition has been held, always at North Mundham.

It is open to all advanced members of the club and is slightly unusual in that exhibitors have a choice of display screen sizes and are totally free to exhibit photographs of any subject, size or technique they wish.

THere is no judging whatsoever and because of this the exhibition has become an exciting display of photographic artistic freedom.

In addition to the predominant print displays, there will also be sets of projected images and audio visual sequences.

Other attractions will be print raffles, tombolas, a sales table and the provision of refreshments and light lunches served each day.

Over the years, the exhibition has attracted an increasing number of enthusiastic visitors and during the last two or three events the club has had well over 500 people going to see the displays. As such it is now regarded as one of the finest photographic exhibitions in the whole of the south of England.

THe exhibition held next weekend opens at 10am both mornings, closing at 5pm on Saturday and 4pm on Sunday.

THere is an entry fee of £1.

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Musical family comedy The Addams Family Alexandra Theatre Belmont Street, Bognor Regis PO21 1BL 01243 861010 www.alexandratheatre.co.uk January 24-26 PRESENTED by the University of Chichester Musical THeatre Performance Company, this devilishly dark and daring musical comedy comes to Bognor Regis.

THe Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.

Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia.

Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

EARLY 18th century, England. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne but her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper.

When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah who takes her under her wing. But as politics and war with the French becomes time consuming for Sarah, Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots and the two become locked in competition for the place as the Queen's closest companion in an absurd period comedy from the director of THe Lobster.

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For sheer escapism from our mad world Cinema: Chichester Cinema Tickets: www.chichestercinema.org

Painting a perfect picture with Art 5 Theatre Art Chichester Festival Theatre Oaklands Park, Chichester PO19 6AP 01243 781312 www.cft.org.uk January 24-February 2 ART IS a phenomenon and one of the most successful comedies ever staged.

Having opened in 1996, it took both the West End and Broadway by storm, won the Olivier, Tony, Molière and every other major theatre award, and has been packing in audiences worldwide for more than 20 years.

When Serge spends an extortionate amount of money on an all-white modernist painting, his close friends, Marc and Yvan, are baffled. But does their violent reaction to this provocative canvas mirror more dangerous antagonisms towards each other? Yasmin Reza's dazzling study of friendship, prejudice and tolerance is a masterpiece.

THe all-star cast features BAFTAnominated Nigel Havers from Downton Abbey and Chariots of Fire, Olivier award-winning Denis Lawson from Bleak House and New Tricks and British comedy award-winning Stephen Tompkinson from THe Split, Wild at Heart and Ballykissangel.

FOR sheer escapism from our mad world, book a seat for Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, a comedy of memory, nostalgia, fondness and good cheer by the master of French comic timing, Jacques Tati.

Hulot is in Brittany, decked out in holiday gear and smoking a pipe and friendly to a fault, but he is the man nobody quite sees. THe holidaymakers are distracted by their own worlds and notice Hulot only when something goes wrong, as it often does. THis joyful film is joined by a Classic Comedy Genius talk on Tati with film clips (11 Jan).

THe Favourite is director Yorgos Lanthimos' ('THe Lobster') deliciously catty comedy about the power struggle inside the castle of Queen Anne, played by a marvellous Olivia Colman. Rachel Weisz is Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, who is Anne's right-hand

woman, which affords her great political power, but her position is threatened when Abigail Hill (Emma Stone), a maid, jockeys for Churchill's position.

Lizzie features women out of kilter, too, but these two, Lizzie and Bridget, go in for murder, the film based on the true story of Lizzie Borden and her family in 1890s Massachusetts. Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart star alongside Fiona Shaw.

THe Guilty should stand out as one of the best thrillers of the year for those lucky enough to catch it. Danish police officer Holm takes one last call, talking a woman through a coded conversation as she’s been kidnapped by her husband and engages in a game of cat-and-mouse with the husband in the hope he can keep the woman from being hurt.

Don’t miss either the thrilling Free Solo. A rock climber without safety ropes, Alex Honnold rises to the occasion of his greatest challenge with only a bag of chalk to keep him steady in the US’s Yosemite National Park. Give a thought to the cameraman and woman, too.

Other high-flying experiences this week are THe Tragedy of King Richard the Second, live from the National THeatre. with Simon Russell Beale,

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Stan & Ollie Release date: January 11 Cinema: Picturedrome Tickets: www.picturedromebognor.com Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama THE untold true story of Hollywood’s greatest comedy double act, Laurel & Hardy, is brought to the big screen

Adriana Lecouvreur from the Met Opera, New York, and the return of Edie, starring Sheila Hancock, in the title role who decides to climb a mountain at 84. www.chichestercinema.org for details.

All tickets are reservable for the cinema's plush red seats. Bar. Box office: 01243 786650. Chichester Cinema at New Park, New Park Road, Chichester PO19 7XY.

for the first time with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly starring in the heartwarming story of what would become the pair’s triumphant farewell tour. With their golden era long behind them, the duo embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule and with the support of their wives, Lucille and Ida, their love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public.

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PostSport It's top versus bottom as flying Chi DARTS: It was a red letter day for Lamb Orange as the trio of Mike Few, Dave Bourne & Lee Passey, pictured below, took the Bognor Tuesday Double In Double Out division two crown.

Nearly 70 players took part in the contest at Newtown Social Club with the number of 23 teams taking part being just two short of the overall record.

After some good play from all sides the Division Two final pitched the Lamb Orange team against Ashley Clements, Ian Dendy & Rob Tite (Bersted Royals) THe match started with a 108 from Passey followed by a 130 from Few. Clements & Dendy, had both hit 140's to catch up.

With both teams on doubles, Few stepped up with 8 on the score board, and took the first leg with his last dart.

Leg 2 saw Clements hit a 140 and 97, leaving 52, but consistent scoring from Few, Bourne & Passey left Few with 40 which he finished again with his last dart.

THe third leg went down to the wire with both teams on doubles. It was left to Bourne to hit the winning shot to take the match 3-0 and the overall title.

look to extend their five point lead CHICHESTER CITY'S promotion charge continues as Miles Rutherford's side look to extend their lead at the top to eight points.

After months of the SCFL Premier top spot changing hands, Chi have strung together a run of seven wins from eight in the league.

THat purple patch has put City five points clear at the summit and in prime spot to secure promotion to step four of the nonleague pyramid for the first time in their history.

THat run continued last weekend with a comfortable 2-0 win away at Loxwood. Gicu Iordache and Dave Herbert both scored in the first half to seal the victory.

Next up for City is a trip to bottom side Eastbourne United tomorrow (3pm) to face a side who have won just twice all season.

Fellow SCFL Premier side Pagham are in need of a win as they have tasted victory just once in eight in all competitions.

THe last week saw a 0-0 draw against Broadbridge Heath in the league followed by a 3-0 defeat by Bostik Premier side Burgess Hill in the Sussex Senior Cup. Lions welcome struggling Little Common to Nyetimber Lane tomorrow (3pm).

f Chi celebrate Gicu's opener in the Loxwood win

Blues blossom as winter run rolls on

In Division One, the final was contested between Lee Franklin, Jack Danahar & Wayne Green (QE2 Cobras) and Graham Hollis, Roger Summers & Ian Bennison (Fishermans Joy) A good 56 finish from Green sealed the first leg for the Cobras while Franklin scored 125 then a winning double to take the second.

Joy took the third leg but the fourth saw another excellent shot from Franklin as he hit 12, 20 and double 20 to take the match 3-1.

-----------------FOOTBALL: Chichester City Ladies will look to make it two from two as they face league rivals Coventry United in the FA Women's National League Cup. Aaron Smith's side returned from the Christmas break in style, chalking up a 2-1 victory against Plymouth Argyle in front of a home crowd.

After falling behind, a brace from Helen Ogle secured the three points for Chi against their mid table opponents.

It was a welcome return to the side for the attacking midfielder who received plaudits for her second, a 30-yard freekick which dipped just under the bar.

More importantly was the result as the three points sees Chi return to the summit of the FA Women's National League Southern Division.

Hot on their heels though are Coventry who are two points behind and have two games in hand.

In a weird twist of fate, United are next up for Chi, albeit in the third round of the League Cup on Sunday (2pm) at Oaklands Park.

THe match will give City an ideal test against one of the strongest sides at this level of women's football.

f Blues battled to a goalless draw against Steyning

SELSEY'S starlets continue to blossom as the Blues' march up the SCFL Division One continues.

Daren Pearce's side are on a run of just one loss in seven in the league, a string of results which has seen them consolidate their position in fifth.

Blues continued that run over the last week, picking up four points from six in testing circumstances First was a goalless draw against leaders Steyning Town before ten men Blues defeated Southwick 2-0 away in midweek.

With a home match against Littlehampton Town coming tomorrow (3pm) Pearce will be hoping his young Blues side can continue their good run of form.

It was a case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object when the two best defences met at the Bunn Leisure Stadium last weekend.

Selsey matched the leaders Steyning all the way but could not break down the miserly Town defence.

In midweek, Blues needed to show another side to their character when they were reduced to ten men in the first half.

But they rallied and second half strikes from

Remi Coates and Lindon Miller secured the victory.

Fellow SCFL Division One side Sidlesham also continue to impress.

Avoiding an immediate return back to intermediate football has always been the goal for Steve Bailey's side this year.

But recent weeks has seen the side string together an impressive run, something they continued this past week.

An excellent showing on the road at Littlehampton last weekend saw Sids make the short trip home with all three points.

Cameron Corell gave the yellow and greens the lead in the first half before David Rough and Joe Gromett struck late to seal a 3-2 victory. Sids followed that up in midweek with a 2-2 draw against Mile Oak, Matt Boulton and Frazer Smith getting the goals.

Next up is a home match against Worthing United tomorrow (3pm) who are revitalised after appointing a new manager.

In SCFL Division Two Bosham welcome third-place Roffey to Walton Lane tomorrow (3pm) keen to extend their unbeaten run to eight matches. Robins drew 2-2 with Brighton Electricity last weekend thanks to an Andy Reynolds late equaliser.

Yellows hurt Blues as slump continues CHICHESTER RFC are looking for their first win in four as they look to halt Camberley's promotion push tomorrow (2pm).

Blues head north into Surrey looking to arrest a poor run of form which has seen them slide back towards the London One South dropzone.

THree defeats in a row perhaps does not give the true picture as injury-plagued Blues have had bad fortune and ill discipline to blame.

But on the road tomorrow the 11th-placed Chi will fancy their chances with many of their key players back to full fitness - even though Camberley are well-positioned in fourth.

Blues put in a good showing last time out against high-flying Medway when they fell to a 19-30 loss against the Kent side.

After falling behind to an early try, Rhys THompson wrong-footed two defenders and squeezed through to dot down. 7-5.

Chi then had to turn to defence and a failed interception saw them reduced to 14.

Medway retook the lead before Blues responded through Sam Drayson to take the lead. Another sin bin followed for Chi and it was only thanks to a late penalty that Medway went in at the break 14-15 up.

Into the second period and Medway added another three points before Chi retook the lead through winger Matt McLagan.

Ill-discipline costs Blues again and a high tackle led to a yellow and penalty try. Medway added another to seal the 19-30 win late on to deny Blues a bonus point.

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f Theo Widdrington goes close with a free kick during Bognor's 2-0 home win against Carshalton

Bognor must be 'on their guard' as another Sussex derby looms Next Game

BURGESS HILL (A) Tomorrow, 3pm

ROCKS coach Robbie Blake is urging his side to not rest on their laurels as they lock horns with yet another Sussex rival - as this one will have revenge in their sights.

First it was Worthing, then it was Lewes and Whitehawk. Now it is Burgess Hill as Bognor's run of fixtures against local rivals continues.

Jack Pearce's side, who are seventh in the Bostik Premier, head to the Green Elephants Stadium tomorrow (3pm) on a good run, having taken seven points from nine in their recent encounters with near neighbours.

From afar, it may seem that Burgess Hill offer the easiest test of the lot having suffered an 8-0 loss at Nyewood Lane earlier in the season. But the Hillians have picked up form of late and are unbeaten in four, a run which has lifted them up the table.

For those reasons Blake is urging his side to avoid complacency when they take to the field tomorrow.

He said: "It's football and we have all seen cup upsets in recent days.

"Burgess Hill have had a few good results of late and turned it around a little bit.

"It will be a tough game, they will be well up for it knowing the result in the past.

"So we will have to be on our guard and be better than we were against Brightlingsea as if we are not we will come unstuck again."

THat defeat in midweek on the road in Essex halted a run of four games without defeat for

the Rocks.

THe 288-mile round trip was eventful throughout as a depleted Bognor side were held up in traffic resulting in a delayed kick off.

THen an early penalty shout was turned down before Brightlingsea bagged three goals to seal victory.

It came just three days after a very different performance which result in a 2-0 home win against Carshalton Athletic on Saturday.

Mason Walsh opened the scoring with a fine individual goal before Jimmy Muitt slotted home after good work from Jimmy Wild.

Blake is keen that Rocks learn from the defeat in Essex and admitted the players looked "off it a little bit".

Speaking to Rocks Radio after the match, he said: "THat game typifies that we're not good at this kind of game "THe pitch was a bit bobbly and it was a game of second balls. We need to be better than them at passing the ball as at this level once you keep it then gaps open up."

Bognor go into the match at Burgess Hill with a few selection issues.

THe major one is upfront where it is not clear if Portsmouth loan duo Brad Lethbridge and Dan Smith will be available.

One replacement could be Kaleem Haitham who made his Rocks debut in Essex on Tuesday after dual-signing from Chichester.

Blake: 'We're still in the mix' IT may not have been the perfect Christmas break for Rocks fans but it wasn't half bad.

Heading into the traditionally busy festive season Bognor were on a real low, having slumped into the bottom half of the Bostik Premier.

But five games later they have found their verve again, having picked up ten points from a possible 15 since that memorable trip to Worthing the Saturday before Christmas.

THe only blemish in the run was the 3-0 defeat to Brightlingsea in midweek.

Given the problems getting to the ground, the poor pitch and the lack of players available for selection, Rocks fans will hope this is more of a blot on the landscape rather than a return to poor form.

THe hope now is that Bognor can use that the momentum developed over Christmas as a springboard to power on to a good run of form in the second half of the campaign.

Rocks coach Robbie Blake said: "I can't thank the players enough for their effort over Christmas. THey've been dedicated and we've had three wins, one defeat and a draw "Although [the result at Brightlingsea] was disappointing we have to look at the positives that we're still in the mix."

f Jimmy Muitt's strike left Rocks jumping for joy

HAPPY new year to everyone, including all of the Rocks fans across the globe.

Some of you may know that this season I've been joining Lee Roberts on Rocks Radio broadcasting games live on the air.

It means that wherever you are, if you're not at the match you can still keep up to date with all the action.

It’s amazing how we have fans listening into Rocks Radio every game from Spain, Vietnam, India, Canada and many other far-flung places.

Bognor has truly got an international reach - whether that is with people who have been involved in the club before or family and friends listening in.

THose fans will have enjoyed the past few weeks as on the pitch Bognor have been good over Christmas.

Ten points out of a possible 15 isn’t bad!

THe win away to Whitehawk was another pleasing victory against another local side with the Rocks storming to a 4-1 result.

It was another game against a Sussex rival who at the TerraPurra Enclosed Ground, have been difficult for us to overcome in recent years.

But the difference here was we took the chances given to us, whereas Whitehawk were woeful in the final third.

James Fraser missed a couple of good chances, as did Connor Tighe (both had spells in the white and green).

Fraser was a prominent figure in the Rocks getting promoted not too long ago.

But despite the Hawks’ efforts, they seem to be stuck to the bottom of the Bostik Premier League at present.

On the back of a Worthing win and a hard-fought draw with Lewes at Nyewood Lane, this was a key result to get out of the way, which gave us great momentum going into the home game against Carshalton Athletic this past

Saturday.

We drew against the Robins earlier on in the season so I was expecting a difficult afternoon against a team not too far behind us in the division.

But I was impressed by how we performed.

Playing out of the back, we took the lead through Mason Walsh who has had a great month.

THen, Jimmy Wild, getting a rare start for the Rocks, teed up Jimmy Muitt with a well-timed pass before he slammed home the second.

THe Robins had no real response and Bognor defended really well to win this game and move up to sixth in the league.

A 288-mile round trip followed this past Tuesday night away to Brightlingsea Regent.

I was not able to go due to work commitments but I listened in again on Rocks Radio and it sounded like we had a penalty appeal turned down just before half time.

THe game ended 3-0 to the hosts and I felt really bad for my fellow fans who travelled all that way to see the team lose.

THere were over 90 fans listening in on Rocks Radio at one point in this match - not sure if this was a record but a really impressive number of listeners.

It’s amazing to think the commentary station is over a year old already!

And as an added bonus I think we now have a Rocks Fan in Lee Roberts!

I think we got him after the Worthing victory just before Christmas! Havant who??

Lee and myself will no doubt see you all in Burgess Hill tomorrow.

It will be important that we bounce back again and hope that the Brightlingsea Regent loss was a slight bump in the road. Onwards and upwards.

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