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A LONG-SERVING councillor has said she is getting scared to go into Bognor Regis town centre.

Cllr Elaine Stainton told her fellow councillors action was needed now to restore the town centre to being a pleasant place to shop.

She said: "I have really deep concerns about what is happening in Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. I really worry about young children. Something

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"We have to have more police in Bognor Regis and Littlehampton town centres.

There are drugs going on all the time and begging going on - people coming up to you asking for money.

"I like to shop in Bognor Regis but I really don't want to go in there.

"If I go out in the evening, I think it's going to be terrifying, to be quite honest.

"We have got to get these drug dealers.

We have got to have more control.

We need more police. It really is a desperate situation."

Cllr Stainton (C, Felpham W) made her comments during a debate at Arun District Council's meeting on Wednesday.

It had been begun by Cllr Dr James Walsh (LD, Beach). He said: "What the public are saying to me, and many other councillors, is that they are fed

up to the back teeth with increasing levels of anti-social behaviour and vandalism, like smashed windscreens and broken wing mirrors.

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Society's meeting to unveil proposal A PLAN described as a stunning and exciting way to kick-start the regeneration of Bognor Regis is to be unveiled next week.

Bognor Regis Civic Society is holding a meeting at 7.15pm on Wednesday in the Regis Centre to publicise its proposal.

Hugh Coster, the society's deputy chairman, said: "This plan is new and different from anything that has previously been proposed - and it is so obviously advantageous to the town that we are amazed nobody has thought of it before.

"It is designed to draw residents and visitors into the town on a regular basis all year round, providing exactly what the town needs and residents have asked for, all in an amazingly new and iconic package which will not damage the heritage of the town.

"And, just as important, it is affordable, practical and entirely feasible so there is no reason why it cannot proceed without delay.

"We are hoping that the new Arun District Council administration, after the May elections, will be pro-active and positive in running with this proposal to make it happen for residents and visitors alike to enjoy."

Entry to the meeting will be free and the society would like as many people as possible to go along and their views about the proposal. Any improvements or modifications will be welcomed.

"We want to hear everyone's views because none of it is set in stone," said Mr Coster, "and, unlike some others, we welcome the public's thoughts and opinions. Together, we can all make this one of the best things that ever happens to Bognor Regis - and this is just the start."

The society has been among the critics

of Arun's current plan to regenerate the Hothamton car park and Sunken Garden with the Pavilion Park and flats.

Another element of the council's scheme is to create a winter garden, with a bigger capacity theatre, on the site of the Regis Centre.

This will be the third major regeneration proposal for the town from Bognor Regis Civic Society.

The first was a modern masterplan in 2000 and the society was delighted when, according to Mr Coster, Arun copied many of its ideas for its town masterplan in 2003.

The second idea was two-hour free car parking in the town centre.

"Arun initially refused this," Mr Coster said, "and it took 15 months campaigning, a petition and an election to get it accepted, even though it is still less than Littlehampton's (scheme).

"Now, even Arun admits free parking has worked to help regeneration, so let's hope that they can be a little quicker and more positive with our latest proposal." *Results of a Bognor Regis Town Council survey about regeneration were given to Arun District Council this week.

The questionnaire showed 69 per cent of the 255 respondents were dissatisfied with Arun's plans. Almost the same number, 65 per cent, objected to Arun's Pavilion Park scheme and 63 per cent wanted the Sunken Garden to stay.

Cllr Jim Brooks (I, Marine) said: "There is lots of interesting stuff here for the new administration to take on board."

Cllr Matt Stanley (LD, Marine) said"This survey mirrors exactly what this council has been saying. We have done some excellent work highlighting the concerns."

Police officers have spoken to individuals over trolley throwing TWO of the perpetrators when a shopping trolley was thrown from one of the higher levels of the Bognor Regis multi-storey car park have been interviewed by police.

A Sussex Police spokesman said the investigation by its officers into the incident in mid-January was continuing.

"We are hopeful that we will identify the others involved but, in any case, those responsible will be dealt with robustly.

"Additional patrols in the area have been positively received by the local community and we remain steadfast in tackling anti-social behaviour."

The policing team in the Arun district was notified of the incident with the shopping trolley and have been diligently investigating and trying to identify those responsible.

"Thankfully, nobody was injured but we are acutely aware that the consequences could have been far more serious," the spokesman said.

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College's students put on good show CREATIVE Felpham Community College students put on the greatest show to a public audience.

The 15-strong cast took part in Dance House 2019 at the Alexandra Theatre in Bognor Regis.

They performed their own version of the hit movie, The Greatest Showman, about circus supremo PT Barnum.

Among those who took part was Year 7 student Tallulah Powell. She said: "In previous years, I have taken part in the primary school version of Dance House.

"This year it was better because you can make your dance longer in the secondary school production.

"We have been working really hard - we started before Christmas - and it has been fun to work with students in different year groups.

"Performing at the theatre is amazing.

It gives you a real buzz and is great because your family and friends can watch and then you can watch the other schools as well.

"I am really pleased the college take part in this and I definitely want to take part next year."

Her fellow performers were in Year 7, 8 and 9 and aged around 11-13. They are part of an extra-curricular dance group at the college and had to produce and choreograph a piece of dance to perform as part of the Dance House showcase along with other secondary and primary schools in the area. The event gives the young dancers the chance to showcase their work in a professional setting to audiences of people from outside their school or college.

Yasmin Tetra, the college's acting curriculum leader for drama, said: "The ideas the students came up with were brilliant and they put huge effort and time into rehearsals.

"The team worked really well together and they were excellent at editing and progressing their piece to get it as good as possible.

"Well done to everyone involved for their effort and enthusiasm."

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f Felpham Community College's The Greatest Showman cast The students on the Dance House team were: Emily Akmenkalns, Lucy Andrews, Matylda Czurejno, Nikole Glazuna, Polina Ivanova, Charlotte Kamp, Joseph

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ANGRY residents have held their latest protest about plans to exclude Shripney from a new A29.

Homeowners staged their biggest demonstration so far to call for their area to be bypassed by the planned route.

They fear the existing road will become increasingly unsafe with the extra traffic from the thousands of new homes in Barnham, Eastergate and Westergate funnelled past their homes added to the vehicles generated by new businesses to the south.

Protest organiser Gill Yeates, who lives in Shripney Road, said: “Residents in this area are very unhappy about the consultation that is taking place.

“People automatically think the new road is coming out at the Rolls-Royce roundabout so it meets the A259.

“The consultation doesn’t make it clear that is not going to happen. Local people have had to spend a lot of time and money making that point.

“That is why we have a lot of banners going up along the road.”

Kevin Ursell, who lives close to the Robin Hood pub, said other motorists had gone into his and his wife's cars outside their home.

“It’s dangerous at the moment. With all the traffic that is likely to be going along the A29 in the future, we will be prisoners in our own home because we will be unable to get out,” he said.

“The only time we can get out now is when the level crossing gates are

down because it creates a break in the traffic.”

Lidsey resident Peter Morris said: “We share the concerns of Shripney residents about the new road and its southern junction with the A29.

“The council are proposing to bring it in just south of the Lidsey bends right at the entrance to a caravan park and a little group of barns where we live.

“It will be an accident waiting to happen. The traffic will be on a stretch of 50mph road and will come to a potential queue of traffic at a roundabout right outside the entrance to a caravan park where there are more than 100 vehicles.

“The stretch of the A29 through Lidsey threatens to be extremely unsafe. That’s not just a problem for residents but for everyone who uses that road.

“It is blindingly obvious the new road should come out at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars roundabout (A259).”

Shripney Lane residents Joanna Wyatt and Jackie Spencer also joined the protest.

Joanna said: “The situation is being caused by private developers.

“They are driving this forward. The lack of government funding is making the county council dependent on these private companies.”

The road is set to be built in two phases, with the first north of the railway line. West Sussex County Council is consulting about its proposals ends on April 26. See page 4

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` Stabbing charge A MAN has been remanded in custody after being charged with attempted murder in Aldwick.

Akeem Adebayo, 23, a retail employee of Colindale Avenue, London, appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.

He will next appear by video link at Portsmouth Crown Court on April 12. He has also been charged with possession with intent to supply cocaine. He has yet to enter a plea.

Another man, retired Ian Hemmens, 80, of Bognor Road, Chichester, has been charged with assisting an offender. He has been bailed to appear at Worthing Magistrates' Court on April 9.

The alleged stabbing took place in Marine Park Gardens on Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 28-yearold Bognor Regis man, was taken to hospital with serious injuries to his chest, arm and head.

His condition was said earlier this week to be stable.

` Suspected rape THREE men have appeared in court after being charged with the rape of a teenager on Bognor Regis seafront.

Madalin-Daniel Nitu, 23, Genghiz Iasear, 27, and IonelMizel Ciocan, 24, all farm workers, of Groves Farm, Colworth, Chichester, appeared in custody at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

They have been charged with raping the 19-year-old woman in the early hours of last Saturday.

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A29 decision to be delayed WEST SUSSEX County Council has been asked to delay decisions about changes to the A29 until a public consultation has ended.

In an attempt to tackle the congestion along the road, plans are in place for a new 4.34km stretch east of Eastergate, Westergate and Woodgate.

The plans include a bridge to ease the pressure at the notorious Woodgate level crossing, where delays of 35 minutes have been known during peak hours.

However, concerns have been raised about the spiralling cost of the scheme, the route and level of consultation.

A decision to approve the scheme was made by Cllr Roger Elkins, cabinet member for highways and infrastructure, but it was called in for further discussion by members of the county Labour group.

That decision included launching a public consultation, which led to questions from Cllr Michael Jones (L, Southgate & Gossops Green) at a meeting of the environment, communities and fire select committee, in Chichester on Wednesday.

The committee told Mr Elkins it wanted him to withdraw the decisions he had made until all information from the public consultation had been considered.

Cllr Jones asked how anything could be approved before the views of the public taken were into account.

It was an opinion shared by about a dozen residents, who made their views clear during the meeting. In December, 2017, the road's cost was estimated at £35.1m – that figure is now £55.5m.

Cllr Jones told the meeting that questions were being asked about whether the scheme ‘stacked up’.

He also questioned the wisdom of the council underwriting phase two by £42.5m.

He said “I’m concerned that a few years down the line we may be regarding this as something that did not do the council any financial favours.”

The safety of people living in Shripney was also raised. While recognising the need for the improvements to the A29, Cllr Francis Oppler (LD, Bognor Regis E) said the lives of some villagers would be ‘put at risk'. Their driveways back on to the road. He feared the increase in traffic from thousands of new homes planned for the route would make leaving their houses dangerous.

The plan is for the new road to run from Fontwell Avenue, north of Eastergate, to the existing A29 Lidsey Road, north of Shripney.

Cllr Oppler called for an alternative route to bypass Shripney, cross Sack Lane and link into the Rolls-Royce roundabout.

But Cllr Elkins told members the preferred route had been put forward in 2014 and the council was ‘not likely to make any substantive changes to it'.

Stressing the scheme's importance to businesses, he said: “This is a significant scheme. It will provide a much-needed link from the Bognor Regis area and will ease the congestion around the [Woodgate] level crossing. There will clearly be environmental improvements in that area.”

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Women's centre backed by lottery to improve services DELIGHTED supporters of a unique women's centre in Bognor Regis have celebrated its biggest grant.

My Sisters' House will be able to continue to help hundreds more women recover from abuse and addiction thanks to the near £400,000 backing.

The grant has been awarded from the National Lottery Community Fund and is the biggest to a organisation in the town for at least three years.

My Sisters' House founder and chief executive Julie Budge said: "It is the biggest sum of money we have ever had.

"The amount we will receive each year doubles our previous income. It gives us real security for the future.

"It is a fabulous endorsement of our work and recognises the important role we are playing in the landscape of women-centred provision in West Sussex.

"This funding is most timely as we have reached the point where the need far outweighs our resources inadequate space, overstretched staffing, inadequate data management and the need for our impact to be collected in a more formal way."

The £370,850 will be paid equally over three years. It was announced last Friday to mark international women's day.

My Sisters' House staged a special event at the Phoenix Centre in Westloats Lane.

The news of the grant was greeted with acclaim by the 100-plus people present.

One of the women helped by the centre, 58-year-old Debbie, said the centre's staff and helpers had enabled her to recover

from emotional, financial and sexual abuse in her 30-year plus marriage.

"I filed for divorce and lost my house, my husband and my son. I was in a very dark place.

"I was looking for support in the community and My Sisters' House was the only place I could find.

"Going there makes me want to get up in the morning. I am in a peer group with people who have been in a fairly similar situation.

"We can talk to each other and support each other. There is no other help like that available. If I had not had that support, I would not be where I am today."

My Sisters' House was started by Mrs Budge in 2014 and opened in Bognor Regis the next year. It has been mainly based in London Road.

That period has seen it help more than 750 women by providing a space for them to overcome disadvantages like violence, abuse, poverty and poor mental health.

Last year saw 292 clients helped by its nine part-time staff, 42 volunteers and eight freelance workers.

Mrs Budge said the grant would be used to augment those numbers with some key management positions to include a volunteer co-ordinator.

A database will also be created with the funding and it will provide three years rent for larger premises.

"This grant places My Sisters' House women's centre on a firm footing on which we can build and grow to meet the need," she added.

Council's £1 buys hall A CHEQUE for just £1 has seen Felpham councillors buy a community facility.

The token payment was made by Felpham Parish Council to complete the deal to take over Felpham Community Hall.

It was given to district councillor Paul English (C, Felpham E) on behalf of Arun's leader, Cllr Gillian Brown, at the parish council's March meeting last week.

The building of the hall was part of the planning permission which Arun granted for the 600-plus homes in the location now known as Blake's Mead.

It was constructed by the developers, Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, in Meaden Way, among the new housing.

Arun's members agreed the hall should be handed over to the parish council for a minimal sum.

The parish council, which Cllr English chaired at the time, decided to take on the hall in principle.

"Over the next few years, there was a great deal of debate and many concerns were aired and much financial forecasting. With the clerk

and some councillors' assistance, we agreed to formally move forward.

"So, here we are today, and I am accepting the £1 on behalf of Arun District Council from Felpham Parish Council," he said.

"I believe that many thanks should go to those councillors that have worked to this end and to the other past chairman, David Edwards, and the present chairman of Felpham Parish Council, Dave Smart, and supporters and officers that brought us to this point. May there be many successful years going forward."

It has previously been described by a parish councillor as worth about £1.2m.

The hall opened in September, 2017, and has attracted a range of community users. The parish council has been based there since the previous month but Arun is in charge of the football pitch, changing facilities, multi-use games area and the play area which surrounds the building. Before that, the parish council had met at St Mary's Centre in Grassmere Close since it opened in July, 1995.

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"We need to make sure the situation is dealt with before it gets out of hand. We have seen nationally what happens when things get out of control."

Cllr Mike Northeast (L, Courtwick) said: "People want to see the police back on the streets. There's no doubt about that and they are willing to pay for it."

Cllr Michael Clayden, Arun's cabinet member for community wellbeing, said the Sussex police and crime commissioner, Katy Bourne, had committed to spending all the £24 increase in her share of a band D property's council tax on boosting community policing.

But he said many of the crimes were caused by changes in society.

"Arun does have an anti-social behaviour team getting to the root causes of these problems.

"From the police's point of view, and from Arun's point of view, we are doing the best with the tools we have," he said.

Outside the meeting, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton MP Nick Gibb said he was concerned about the amount of crime in the area.

"I am already in contact with Katy Bourne about how best to tackle the problem of anti-social behaviour in Arun as well as the threat posed by county lines drug crime," he said.

"I am also due to meet Chief Inspector Kris Ottery this week to discuss further measures we can take to address the local drugs problem and associated crime." See page 17

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sections of the code of conduct. The panel's ruling stated: "the panel recognised the offence and distress his conduct had caused locally, nationally and internationally.

“The panel believed that the subject member’s actions had not reflected the over-riding principles of conduct expected of a local government councillor thereby bringing local democracy into disrepute."

Seven sanctions were recommended by the panel for the town council to enforce.

These were deferred at the town council’s previous meeting in January while an unrelated court case which involved Cllr Enticott was waiting to be heard.

At the latest meeting, Cllr Adam Cunard (I, Pevensey) said action had to be taken against Cllr Enticott.

“It would send a very wrong message if we did not act on this. It does make it awkward because we are a small council and we all know each other.

“But we have got to deal with this issue.

We should follow what the assessment panel has come up with,” he said.

Cllr Tony Gardiner (C, Marine N) said he supported the sanctions.# But he was worried the timing of them, spread across the forthcoming elections in May, could lead to members of the new council facing legal action because Cllr Enticott could have been seen to be treated unfairly.

This is the point Mrs Frost will raise with either the National Association of Local Councils or its Sussex counterpart.

Cllr Enticott was absent from the town council meeting.

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SANCTIONS are set to be applied against a Bognor Regis councillor for offensive social media posts.

Town council members agreed unanimously at their meeting on Monday to take action against Cllr Damien Enticott (I, Hatherleigh).

They instructed the town clerk, Glenna Frost, to proceed with the measures subject to legal advice from local government experts. If the advice is to take a different action, another meeting of the council will be called.

If Mrs Frost is cleared to go ahead, the sanctions will take effect immediately.

They include a public reprimand for Cllr Enticott, a six-month suspension from all the council’s committees and sub-committees and the same exclusion from representing the council on any outside bodies.

The furore began last July when former Labour councillor Enticott made comments on social media which were highlighted nationally as being anti-semitic.

These led to three formal complaints by residents about Cllr Enticott being made to Arun District Council for breaches of the town council’s code of conduct.

All the complainants said the comments were anti-semitic. One said they were racist and another considered them highly offensive and inaccurate.

An assessment panel of four Arun councillors and an independent resident was set up to consider the complaints.

Cllr Enticott did not attend the hearing.

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said the site was outside the council’s built-up area boundary within which development was permitted.

But the need to find more land for housing, and the developed neighbouring sites, over-rode that consideration.

“The development is a mixture of detached and semi-detached houses,” he said.

Seven of the houses will have three bedrooms, two will have two bedrooms and one will be a four-bedroom property.

Each will have two parking spaces, with three for the largest property.

Cllr Stephen Haymes (C, Yapton) said Yapton Parish Council had sought to protect the land for employment use.

But it had since decided to agree to it being used for housing to count towards the additional 90 properties it needs to accommodate.

“There is no longer a convincing or valid reason to object to this application,” he said.

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The site of just under half a hectare is next to Orchard Business Park and was backed for housing by Arun District Council.

But the developer’s planning agent, Ellie White, said: “The site is not available for employment use and is not allocated for use by the business park.

“The site’s location means residents will be able to access schools, shops and basic facilities on foot.

“Yapton Parish Council would like the site to form part of the future housing land supply for the parish.”

A noise specialist had concluded no detrimental noise from the business units would affect residents of the housing, she said.

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The prison's staff have applied for planning permission to create the centre to enable visitors to buy hot food and drink before they visit inmates.

A farm shop behind the intended location at the Ford Road premises will be moved into the new shop.

This will be sited on the land occupied by the prison's old staff mess and will be smaller in size.

` Europe stand A STAND will be set up in Bognor Regis High Street tomorrow by the newly-formed Bognor Regis group of the European Movement.

Its members will be present in the morning with their Brexitometer to listen to the views of residents and promote the People's March in London on March 23.

Group members will be taking part in the march.

` House burgled A BURGLAR stole an iPhone 8 from a property in Scott Close, Bognor Regis, after entering through an insecure side door.

` Keys stolen A BUNCH of keys were stolen after an insecure garage in Hillsboro Road, Bognor Regis, was burgled overnight on February 21.

Friday, March 15, 2019 f Amnesty International supporters at the morning

Solicitor is backed with signed cards DOZENS of supporters from the Bognor Regis area have shown their support for an Egyptian lawyer.

More than 30 of them went along to an 'Amenstea' morning in aid of human rights defender Azza Soliman.

She is the focus of the current campaign by the Bognor and Chichester Group of Amnesty International because of the punishments she has been given by her government for defending some of the most vulnerable women in her homeland.

Margaret Robinson, who leads the campaign, said: "The event was a great success and very well attended.

Although it was a very relaxed and enjoyable social occasion, with lots of homemade cake and chat, there was also a serious purpose.

"Firstly, guests signed cards to the Egyptian authorities to end the

harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders in Egypt.

"Secondly, we are sending a direct message of support and encouragement to Azza herself. She currently risks a possible long prison sentence."

At least 60 cards were signed at the social event in Barnham on Saturday and at other times by those who sympathise with her plight.

They will be sent with others from around the country to the Egyptian government, as well as a note about them to its embassy in London, to let it know its actions are being scrutinised.

In addition, chains of cut-out figures made at the morning will be sent to Azza for her birthday early next month, along with a birthday card and photos of those who have signed messages of support to show her that British people are aware of her situation.

Race grants are a record

MORE than 30 good causes have benefited from a record sum handed out by Pagham Pram Race organisers.

Just under £16,000 was presented at a special night to represent the proceeds of last year's Boxing Day extravaganza and other fundraising events during the 12 months. The helping others grants were awarded to 34 organisations whose work benefits residents in the Bognor Regis area.

Tim Holland, Pagham Pram Race's vice-president, said: "This is the most we have ever raised.

"We had a very good night in the Inglenook Hotel and we have given the grants to people who carry out a range of activities in the area. The race seems to

have got its own momentum nowadays and goes from strength to strength each year.

"We are now on our third generation of races, possibly our fourth, and taking part has become a rite of passage for some people."

The race has been held continuously since 1946 and is billed as the world's oldest pram race. The most recent staging saw the most entrants ever, 234, in 54 teams being supported by several thousand spectators.

The organisations helped included: Bognor Regis & District Sea Cadets, Chichester Talking News, Pagham Friendship Club, Parkinson's Bognor Regis and St Ninian's Guild.

f Pagham Pram Race's 2019 presentation night

Bourne’s Business Breakfast Brings Local Partners Together On Friday, 8th March, The Bourne welcomed local businesses and partners to another successful Business Breakfast.

The event was well attended with guests including Chichester MP, Gillian Keegan, Councillor Martyn Bell, Mayor of Chichester, Shelagh Legrave, Chair of Governors and CEO of Chichester College amongst other friends and partners of Bourne Community College.

“I welcomed and chatted to our visitors including Gillian Keegan who I have been lucky enough to meet before. I enjoyed talking to her - she is such a down to earth person; smart, clever and humble who loves spending time with the students.

Spencer H, Head Boy. “It was good to meet with such inspirational people. I met Gillian Keegan who is a great role model for young people.”

Fran W. Teachers, Mr. Ellis and Mr. Carter, were joined

by Ali Khan of Chichester University who spoke about

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school partnerships to encourage students through STEAM activities.

They were followed by Simon Newman and “Hertha’s Warriors”, a group of Year 8 and 9 students, headed up by Mrs. McGarry, Leader of History, who together launched a campaign to coincide with International Women’s Day. Their aim is to gain recognition for Hertha Ayrton for her many achievements in Science, Engineering and Maths and we look forward to seeing the outcome.

Our Business Breakfasts are a unique way for our students to have a taste of the world of work and enterprise. They meet and present to a wide range of local partners which supports them in building confidence and skills for the future.

“I was invited to the Business Breakfast to meet various guests as well as represent the school. I enjoyed this event and found it interesting speaking to different people in the work place.”

Ellie W, Head Girl

“I was there to represent Hertha, a scientist who did not receive credit for her work. I enjoyed my experience of the Business Breakfast - it was great to see members of the local community come together and talk.”

Alanah E.

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Pioneering health and wellbeing event is a big success for town A PIONEERING event which combined health and care information around Bognor Regis is set to be repeated.

The first Regis BIG event was said to have achieved its goals for helping people to keep healthy, stay well and feel good.

Last Saturday’s occasion was organised by the NHS and brought together 44 organisations in a one-stop shop at the Arun Leisure Centre.

It was staged by the Regis local community network of health and wellbeing service providers. Its partnership manager, Michaela Hawkes, said: “This was the first event of its kind to be held in the area.

"It has been driven by the community for the community and enjoyed by the community.

“We are getting good feedback from everyone. It’s a good opportunity for all the groups here to get involved and to find out about each other.

“The plan is to repeat this event.

Everyone here is keen to do it again.

We will be having a meeting soon to discuss things.”

The partnership is chaired by Dr James Bramall, senior partner at Grove House Surgery in Rose Green.

He said: “Today is all about breaking down the barriers between

different organisations. They don’t often know about each other. We, as GPs, don’t either.

“It’s better if we work closer on matters and that goes for the NHS’ community trust and hospital trust as well.”

He cited examples of combined work on children’s mental health and falls prevention. Both required the intervention of a range of authorities to provide the best solutions, he said.

Scores of residents went along to the event. Taster sessions and activities which were available throughout the leisure centre included NHS health checks, yoga and t’ai chi and fitness activities.

Among those who went along was North Bersted resident Kirsty Parker, with her husband and their two children.

She said: “I thought it was a really good event. There were lots of different stalls giving out information and it was really interesting.”

The stalls on show included Cancer United. Its founder, Jan Sheward, used its presence to highlight the charity’s sessions at the Laburnum Centre in Bognor Regis for anyone affected by cancer.

She said: “This is about raising

awareness of what we do. It’s about reaching out to people who don’t know about us.

“It also gives us the chance to meet other groups and reach out to each other.”

Bognor Regis District Scouting was also present. Its district commissioner, Vicki Goodland, said: “This is a good experience for us.

“We are showing what young people can do when they join us. There are different activities for all ages.

“They learn skills for life, meet different people, work together in teams and find out about healthy relationships.

“We have about 750 young people in Bognor Regis and anyone can join us.”

Colin McCulloch, membership secretary of the Bognor Regis branch of the University of the Third Age (U3A), said: “We are explaining what we do and how we go about it.”

It has more than 60 activities in which some of its 550 members pass on their knowledge to others in subjects as diverse as English history and family history or enjoy pastimes such as Scrabble and table tennis.

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` Community centre COMMUNITY events are being staged in one of the area's newest centres to help to bring the people together.

The Bersted Park Community Centre will be staging a children's nearly new clothes, toys and equipment sale on March 24 and an Easter craft fair on April 14.

The centre in Lakeside Avenue, North Bersted, is managed by Freedom Leisure. A spokesman said: "The centre provides not only fitness classes but events that benefit and bring local communities together.

"The centre has two large gym halls which can be converted into one large hall, a stage and fully fitted kitchen. The centre also has a weekly nursery, Dizzy Ducklings, and several other smaller lounges for hiring."

` Retro gaming GAMING fans will be able to step back in time at an event in Bognor Regis later this month.

Zoe Pniewski will be staging her second Pixels At The Waverley session.

This will take place from 3pm-6pm on March 31 at The Waverley pub in Marine Drive West.

A host of computer games from the 80s to the early years of this century will be available to play in the function room at the rear of the pub. They will include Mario Kart, PAC Man and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Entry is £3 a person, though mums will have free admission on their special day. Under-fives also have free entry.

Friday, March 15, 2019

Packed church tribute to Ray STANDING room only ensured a memorable farewell for a former chairman of Pagham Parish Council.

The popularity of Ray Radmall was shown by the 150-plus size of the congregation which filled St Thomas a'Becket Church to overflowing for his funeral.

The service was a fitting tribute to Mr Radmall's unstinting work for the area during several decades.

It was led by the Vicar of St Thomas a'Becket, the Rev Mark Eminson. The lessons were read by Bognor Regis and Littlehampton's MP, Nick Gibb, Pagham Parish Council's deputy chairman, David Huntley, and a friend of Mr Radmall, Val Tomlinson, who was also a former parish councillor.

Last Thursday's service was followed by a cremation in Chichester and a celebration of Ray's life in Pagham Village Hall, attended by scores of people.

Mr Gibb said: "What was moving about the service was that the church was packed. The fact it was standing room only is a real tribute to Ray. "He was loved and respected throughout the village. We all owe him such a debt of gratitude for all his energy and work over many, many years."

Parish council clerk Nicola Swann said: "I have had so many messages about Ray coming into the office. They all say he was a genuinely nice guy.

"People have spoken about him in really lovely terms about the huge contribution he made to the area and the large legacy that has created by all the thing he has done."

Tim Holland, Pagham Pram Race committee's vice-president, said: "Ray was deeply involved in this area.

"He always supported us and he was always there for us. One of the points he often said to us about the race is that it brought people together and he was all in favour of that.

"But he was very self-effacing and he would walk away from getting any credit and his enthusiasm was infectious."

Mr Radmall passed away on February 16, aged 72, at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, from motor neurone disease.

He had lived on the Pagham Beach estate for decades and was a parish councillor for some 20 years. He had chaired the parish council for 13 years.

His dedication to village life saw him awarded the BEM in December, 2017.

As well as the council, he was heavily involved with the creation and running of Pagham Village Hall, Pagham on Parade and campaigns to protect the beach and stop large-scale housing.

He also took an active approach to a mass of other activities in the area such as planting daffodils and installing benches.

Mr Eminson said: "It is hard to imagine Pagham without Ray. He poured his energy, his creative working hands, his life into serving our community over decades and we are poorer without him.

"He was a politician in the best sense of the word: a public servant for Pagham and all its people."

Pagham Village Hall Trust's chairman, Philip Coleman, said: "Ray's passing has left a very big hole in community life in Pagham. "Absolutely everything you think of in Pagham, Ray had a hand in.

"You see things with his stamp on them everywhere you go. Not only did he have a strategic vision, he was very much a hands on man."

f Ray Radmall with his Pagham Parish Council chain of office

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Former town mayor Sylvia remembered WARM tributes have been paid to a former Bognor Regis town mayor.

Sylvia Olliver passed away on March 6. She had been the town mayor for an unprecedented four full years to reflect the passion and pride she felt in the role.

She held the position of the town's first elected citizen in 1993, 1996, 2000 and 2003.

Her death was formally marked at Monday's meeting of the town council.

A slideshow of photographs was shown on the overhead projector as councillors stood for a minute's silence at the start of the meeting. The display ended with the message: "Remembered with fondness by all at Bognor Regis Town Council."

Cllr Jim Brooks said: "That was a lovely selection of photographs of Sylvia. I'm sure we have all got so much to say about her.

"We can't do that now but we should find some way in which to remember her."

Cllr Adam Cunard said: I'm very saddened by Sylvia's passing. She did a huge amount of good work for the town."

Mrs Olliver, 88,, was a member of the town council for 17 years .

She was also an Arun District Council member, a Bersted parish councillor and served as a West Sussex County Council member for many of those years.

Further tributes to Mrs Olliver, who lived in North Bersted, followed at Arun District

Council's full meeting on Wednesday.

Its leader, Cllr Alan Gammon, said: "Mrs Olliver was a much respected member of Arun District Council, both as a councillor and in later years as an honorary alderman."

As a Liberal Democrat, she was one of Arun's Marine ward members from April 19, 1990, until she stood down in May, 2011.

The esteem in which she was held led to her being awarded the prestigious title of one of its three honorary aldermen in 2011.

Cllr Dr James Walsh said: "Sylvia Olliver was a much-loved and much respected member of the Bognor Regis community.

"She was passionate about Bognor Regis and something of an historian of the town. She collected many artefacts, some of which she gave to museums and other local collections. She was a great asset with that knowledge to both this authority and the town council at different times."

Cllr Gillian Brown, Arun's leader, said: "Everything Sylvia did was for the benefit of Bognor Regis and its residents.

"She was a very talented lady. She wrote several books on the history of Bognor Regis and Chichester."

Mrs Olliver was proud of celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary to Ken a couple of months ago, she added, and she had borne her illness with fortitude.

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` Children praised CARING children have been praised by a Bognor Regis town councillor.

Cllr Jan Cosgrove (L, Orchard) said the actions of the pupils of Slindon CoE Primary School in calling for refugees to be able to get council houses in this area had made him proud.

As reported, the children wrote letters to the Post, following an earlier story, saying they backed the refugees being given housing when they arrived in this country.

They also called for support for homeless people.

Cllr Cosgrove said: "These children have shown us true leadership and insight, real humanity and understanding. In a week when we have just heard of a UK baby perishing in a Syrian refugee call, this call is all the more significant.

"For very young children to have such maturity says much for their characters and for the paternal and educational support they get.

"Teachers struggle to cope with the demands of state education policy but we see here just how excellent their work is.

"To have guided children through such a very difficult subject and to have enabled them to express themselves so admirably and plainly is as good a news story as I have read in many years."

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Police pledge action in town

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SENIOR police officer Kris Ottery has told Bognor Regis councillors and residents: "We are listening to you'.

Chief Inspector Ottery updated the town council with the police's actions to answer the people's worries about crime in the area.

He said: "A high priority for us is to continue to tackle the issue of drugs in Bognor Regis, particularly in relation to county drug lines, where gangs in London send people down here to 'cuckoo' addresses and exploit our vulnerable people and drug users for the purposes of selling drugs.

"This tends to involve weapons, which is why it is so important to us.

"We do a great deal of work in the community safeguarding people. In the last two weeks, we have been to three different addresses and, on each occasion, taken four to seven people out of them for class A drugs offences.

"On each occasion, people from London county lines have been in those premises."

Ch Insp Ottery is Sussex Police's district commander for Arun and Chichester.

He also told the town council at its meeting on Monday about a multiagency action group which had been formed to address community and business concerns about the increasing number of town centre rough sleepers and incidents of anti-social behaviour.

Key representatives from Bognor Regis, Arun and West Sussex councils, Sussex

Police and the Bognor Regis business improvement district (BID) will meet next Monday to put together an action plan to tackle the situation.

Paul Wells, the BID's chairman, said businesses were suffering as a result of the deteriorating situation in the town centre 'where both anti-social and criminal behaviours and the appearance of the main shopping areas made the town centre feel unwelcoming'.

Arun's community manager, Georgina Bouette, said the meeting was a chance to find solutions to a complex situation that supported vulnerable people and backed the wider community.

Town councillor Steve Goodheart (I, Hotham) used the town council meeting to ask three questions related to rough sleepers and the need for action.

The situation was having a negative effect on the town for everyone and needed to be resolved, he said.

He asked for a location to be found for accommodation for the individuals and storage for their belongings.

A statement from Sussex Police, issued with its weekly crime summary yesterday, said: "We are aware of your concerns about aggressive street beggars and recent anti-social behaviour in Bognor Regis town centre.

"One individual who was responsible for a number of these incidents is receiving support from social services and has been banned from the town centre."

UNANIMOUS backing has been given for a multi-million pound bid to boost Bognor Regis town centre.

Town councillors agreed to support Arun District Council in its attempt to gain backing from the government's future high street initiative.

Arun is set to meet the first deadline next Friday for expressions of interest in the £675m available nationally.

If this is successful, a more detailed business case will need to be submitted towards the end of this year.

Bids which are backed will receive a maximum of £25m. Most supported schemes will get £5m-10m.

Cllr Steve Goodheart (I, Hotham) said: "It will be really good to have some investment in the High Street.

LEADING children's author Anthony McGowan had children gripped on a visit to a Bognor Regis school.

Anthony, pictured right, is an awardwinning writer of books for all ages, but he mostly known for his teenage novels.

His work, Rook, was shortlisted last year for the Carnegie Medal literary award for books for children and young adults.

Cathryn Rahaman, the school's librarian, said: "Anthony spoke to the students about his Donut Diaries series for younger readers and The Knife That Killed Me to the older students, which at present, is a very timely subject."

Anthony enthralled the students with a range of emotions from shock horror to fits of giggles on his visit to mark

World Book Day. He talked to all of those in Years 7, 8 and 9, read extracts and took part in question and answer sessions. He was available for book signings after each talk.

"The Regis School celebrated World Book Day with lots of other activities," said Ms Rahaman.

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"We should be aware of what is to happen because we have been promised all sorts of things in the past."

Cllr Matt Stanley (LD, Marine) said: "This is a really good opportunity for Bognor Regis.

"There is massive potential in the High Street. There is lots of momentum as well but there are challenges.

"It would be good to get some involvement to shape what is going to happen in our High Street."

Glenna Frost, the town council's clerk, said the funding was to be awarded for schemes which would have a major impact on town centres.

Extra information about the backing shows that will be achieved by improving shoppers' experiences and driving growth.

the library, puppet-making to show abridged novels as plays and activities based on The Hunger Games, such as den building, apothecary sessions and camouflage make up."

Book-based sessions were held in other lessons. Quidditch was played in PE and science featured a George's Marvellous Medicine lesson.

At Felpham Community College, world book day saw characters such as Willy Wonka (headteacher Mark Anstiss) and Mary Poppins (Jane Constantine, English curriculum leader) were present and

POLL cards will start to be delivered next week to electors in the Bognor Regis area.

Their arrival between Monday and April 3 signals the start of the official countdown to this year's council elections.

Monday will see also the publication of the notice of elections to Arun District Council and the town and parish councils around the district.

All 54 seats on Arun and 265 seats across the 24 town and parish councils will be up for election.

The polling will take place on May 2 and the names of those nominated to contest them will be published by the district council by 4pm on April 4.

Nigel Lynn, Arun's chief executive and its returning officer for the elections, said every elector's vote was vital.

"This is your opportunity to help to select the representatives who will make the laws and policies that govern how we live in this district.

"It is the main way in which you can influence decisions about your local area," he said. "Please use your vote by going to a polling station or by registering for a postal vote to make your voice heard."

Applications to register in the elections must be received by Mr Lynn by April 12.

The easiest way to register is online at: gov.uk/register-to-vote, phoning Arun's helpline on 01903 737616 of completing an invitation to register at Bognor Regis Town Hall or the Arun Civic Centre in Littlehampton.

Applications to vote by post should be made to Arun by 5pm on April 15.

stomping dinosaurs and Harry Potter students were also seen in its corridors.

The college's English department also held a great book exchange for all staff and students.

Ms Constantine said: "In previous years, it has been only the English teachers dressing up. It has been fantastic to open it up to everyone and see all departments and students joining up.

"Harry Potter seems to have been the favourite option but the variety of books represented illustrates the wealth and diversity of reading happening in school."

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LETTERS to the editor

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Sir, A few weeks ago we were subjected to major traffic delays along Aldwick Road at the junction of Victoria Drive and Park Road in Bognor Regis.

The traffic lights were replaced by temporary lights together with roadworks on all four approaches.

Having escaped this congestion, one carried on along the seafront to Hotham Park.

We were then confronted by further roadworks and temporary lights at the end of the High Street.

Two weeks ago it all disappeared and it seemed that all was back to normal.

Image my surprise when, this morning (March 8), I decided to take the dog for a walk in Hotham Park and found that the roadworks and temporary lights had returned in exactly the same places!

I have no idea whether this all concerns gas, electricity, water or anything else.

But, surely, it is not beyond the wit of the highways authority to organise any work that is required to take place at the same time. Has it ever heard of

the word 'communication'?

I am sure that this has all caused many people much frustration, especially when trying to get to work.

DN Lacey, Newhall Close, Aldwick

Sir, For the past three months I have been in regular contact with the clinical commissioning group as well as Arun District Council to try to ascertain the future of the health centre at Hothamton, pictured above.

From the initial linear park designs, it is clear that Conservative-led Arun intends to build two blocks of flats, one of the site of the current health centre and one on the existing Hothamton car park.

They must do this to fund the linear

park if they wish to continue to force this on the community.

What neither the commissioning group or the council are prepared to give a straight answer on, is what are their plans to provide a health centre to the people of this area.

They must understand by building these two blocks of flats they will therefore be substantially increasing the demand for its services, including doctors' appointments.

As a current ward district councillor, I

believe the group and the council need to produce a clear plan of where they intend to provide a health centre of the same or greater size prior to the submission of the linear park planning application.

Any reduction in services or access to health care for the community due to this development is simply unacceptable and I will challenge this all the way.

Cllr Matt Stanley, Marine ward, Arun District Council

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Thought-provoking, funny look at legacy Lucy Porter - Pass It On The Spring Arts Centre, East Street, Havant PO9 1BS Friday & Saturday, March 22 & 23, 8pm www.thespring.co.uk SHE'S inherited dodgy knees and global warming from her parents but can Lucy Porter leave a better legacy for her children?

Musing on what we receive from our ancestors and what we pass on to future generations, comedian, actor and writer Lucy Porter will be sharing her witty and thought-provoking ideas with audiences at Havant for two nights in her latest touring show, Pass It On. Lucy previewed her latest show at Edinburgh Festival's Fringe last summer and is now taking it around the country inbetween her regular television and radio appearances.

She has been a huge hit with stand-up audiences for more than ten years with her distinctive, bouncy, feel-good comedy, including internationally with gigs in the Far East, Switzerland, Paris and in the United States.

As well as her solo performances, Lucy is a regular

face and voice on television and radio panel shows and is a glutton for a good quiz show.

You may have seen her alongside Ed Byrne providing pointless answer after pointless answer on a celeb special of BBC 1’s Pointless, or seen her emerge victorious from a well-fought battle for the title of Celebrity Mastermind champion in a Children In Need special, where Lucy broke records by achieving the highest ever celebrity score.

Among her other broadcasting credits, Lucy has appeared on two series of QI, two series of Mock the Week, two series of Argumental, Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and What the Dickens? On BBC Radio 4, she has been heard on a range of panel shows and is a regular guest on BBC 6Music on THe Radcliffe & Maconie Show.

She remains among the most sought-after comedy writers in Britain and was one of the lead writers on ITV1’s prime-time Sunday night satirical animation series Headcases.

Lucy has also moved into the world of film, working on scripts and is a popular voiceover artist. She has contributed to various publications as a columnist, including City AM, Cook Vegetarian Magazine and Mother & Baby.

Music to banish the winter blues Colours of Springtime Alexandra THeatre, Belmont Street, Bognor Regis PO21 1BL Sunday, March 24, 2.30pm www.alexandratheatre.co.uk BANISH the winter blues and make yourself feel in the pink with o-range of music to suit all tastes - that's the promise from Littlehampton Concert Band.

A Sunday afternoon Springtime concert at Bognor's Alexandra THeatre will celebrate colour with a variety of pieces from across the musical spectrum to please all tastes.

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THe key to the band's achievement is the fun and engaging approach that it has towards music. Players of all abilities are welcome to join and the only thing expected of members is that they try their best and have fun.

As a result, the band has a wide variety of members of all ages and abilities. More-experienced musicians can try some challenging music and the less-experienced members have a great time developing their skills and learning from their colleagues.

Tickets cost £10 and are available from the theatre's box office online or by calling 01243 861010.

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CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEW PARK

Remarkable women and Ladykillers on film March 15-21

THE cinema’s 40th ruby anniversary celebrations continue apace with Ruby Tuesday films, a hot ticket choice steal at £2. This week’s much-loved The Ladykillers stars Alec Guinness in an Ealing comedy classic. Guinness heads a gang of robbers who struggle to conceal their dastardly station heist but a little old lady they lodge with - the gang posing as classical musicians - gets in their way.

Guinness introduced two films at the cinema, and in character.

Also screening this week is the Oscar-winner If Beale Street Could Talk, Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins’ highly accomplished film working as a timeless romance, family drama, legal thriller and a poignant social commentary. Set in 1970s Harlem, it tells the story of a couple’s unbreakable bond as told through the eyes of 19-yearold Tish Rivers.

Boy Erased follows the true story of Jared Eamons’ painful experiences in a Christian antigay conversion camp for teenagers in Arkansas.

Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe play the deeply upset Christian parents of 18-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges), director Edgerton

playing the unspeakable camp director, Victor Sykes.

Nicole Kidman also stars in Destroyer. In a smart and utterly absorbing performance, Kidman transforms her appearance to play an LA detective brutalised by her undercover work.

Serenity, with Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey, is anything but serene, shattered lives on the agenda in this family-triangle film, a question of right or wrong emerging in the setting, a seemingly tranquil tropical enclave.

Two remarkable women are the focus of documentaries this week, Marie Colvin, celebrated, fearless American war correspondent, played by Rosamund Pike, in A Private War, and Vienna-born Edith Tudor-Hart, communist, KGB spy, photographer, discoverer of a family secret in Tracking Edith. How and why did she end up selling antiques in Brighton?

Spitfire Ace Douglas is the focus of Lancaster Skies, the fighter pilot needing to overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Britain in 1944.

The year’s favourite film quiz, Mind for Movies, is at Chichester Festival Theatre’s Minerva Bar and Grill on Saturday, March 16, at 6pm with food and wine. Don’t miss this multiple-choice set of questions with clips, audio and more.

Pick up the hot-off-the-press ruby anniversary magazine at the box office while booking tickets.

Box office: 01243 786650.

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Comedy, Drama, Musical Screened at the Picturedrome FIVE fishermen, a shopkeeper, a potter, an engineer, and two builders - ten friends who went from singing in their local harbour to securing a record deal, a UK top ten album, and playing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury. The tale of Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends is so remarkable that it’s no surprise to see it receive the big screen treatment.

With an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman, Dave Johns, and Noel Clarke, Fisherman's Friends is a feelgood comedy-drama filmed on location in Cornwall that follows a big city music executive who finds himself in the small village of Port Isaac where he’s pranked by his boss into signing a group of shantysinging fishermen to their label. His attempts to lure the fishermen and their families into the music industry are met with scepticism, and as he’s drawn further into their community and traditional way of life, he comes to realise that success may not mean fame and fortune, but friendship and happiness.

From Kids In Love director Chris Foggin and the producers of Finding Your Feet, Fisherman’s Friends hopes to land similar success in finding an appetite for feel-good comfort food cinema.

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ELEVEN years after Marvel stunned audiences worldwide with Iron Man, the time has finally come for a new hero to change comic book cinema history once again, as Captain Marvel crashes into the Marvel cinematic universe with Brie Larson starring in Marvel’s first female-led standalone film.

Rewinding the clock to 1995, when renting videos from Blockbuster was cool and Oasis’ Wonderwall was on repeat, this all-new adventure follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the centre of the maelstrom.

Set long before the events of Avengers: Infinity War, her origin story will provide useful context as to why Captain Marvel was absent in the fight against Thanos and where she is to answer the call to arms for Avengers: Endgame.

For now, though, the half-human, half-Kree superhero teams up with a youthful Nick Fury to battle an army of shape-shifting aliens called the Skrulls. Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Lee Pace and Djimon Hounsou also return as Ronan the Accuser and Korath respectively.

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IN this gender-flipped remake of What Women Want, Taraji P. Henson stars as Ali Davis, a successful sports agent who's constantly boxed out by her male colleagues.

When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man's world... until she gains the ability to hear men's thoughts!

With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest to the test.

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FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY Biography, Comedy, Drama Screened at the Picturedrome

BASED on an incredible true story, Fighting With My Family follows reformed gangster Ricky, wife Julia, daughter Paige, and son Zak as they make a living wrestling together in tiny venues around the UK. When Page and Zak get the opportunity to try out for the WWE, the family grabs a oncein-a-lifetime chance to turn their wildest dreams into a dazzling future. However, as they’re shown the ropes at a wrestling boot camp, the brother and sister duo discover that to become superstars, both their talent and their relationship will be put to the test. Wrestling has always kept this family together; now it could tear them apart. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Nick Frost, and Lena Headey, with cameo appearances by writer/ director Stephen Merchant, Vince Vaughan and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Fighting With My Family is a heartwarming and smart comedy that proves everything is worth fighting for when it comes to family.

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Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi Screened at the Chichester Cinema at New Park BAKER Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is a fishing boat captain leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island. His quiet life is shattered, however, when his ex-wife Karen (Anne Hathaway) tracks him down with a desperate plea for help.

She begs Dill to save her - and their young son from her new, violent husband (Jason Clarke) by taking him out to sea on a fishing excursion, only to throw him to the sharks and leave him for dead.

Karen's appearance thrusts Dill back into a life he'd tried to forget, and as he struggles between right and wrong, his world is plunged into a new reality that may not be all that it seems.

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN KINGDOM (PG) SAT/SUN: 11.30AM

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Dan Snow makes history exciting An Evening with the History Guy Thursday, March 21, 7.30pm HISTORICAL facts about the area around Worthing, plus a 20-minute question and answer session, will feature in a talk with digital imagery by television historian Dan Snow.

THe son of legendary broadcaster Peter Snow and nephew of Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow, Dan is a great great grandson of British prime minister David Lloyd George.

Attributing his love of history to his childhood, when he recalls spending weekends being taken to castles, battlefields,

country houses and churches, Dan went on to study history at Oxford University.

When Dan left Oxford, he started presenting history programmes with his father and their series Battlefield Britain went on to win a BAFTA. Over the years, Dan has made programmes on a number of historical topics and has presented shows such as Armada, Grand Canyon and Vikings.

Dan runs his own online TV channel History Hit TV and has a regular ‘history’ slot on THe One Show, when he will share memorable anecdotes from his career as a historian and broadcaster.

He has also written and contributed to a number of books.

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X-Factor Sam gets stuck into musical Vampires Rock Friday, March 22, 8pm GET YOUR teeth stuck into a night of rocking music with Vampires Rock, featuring X Factor winner Sam Bailey.

Sam takes the role of the Vampire Queen in the hit touring musical extravaganza, stepping into the shoes of singer and actress Toyah Willcox, who played the part for two years, performing more than 200 shows.

Winner of the tenth series of X Factor, Sam went on to support Beyoncé on a date of her UK tour in 2014. Her debut album, THe Power of Love, reached number one in the UK albums chart and she has starred in the musical Chicago and Fat Friends - THe Musical.

She will be joined on stage by the creator of Vampires Rock,

Steve Steinman, plus a full cast of dancers, singers and musicians.

For the past 15 years, Vampires Rock has played to more than a million people worldwide and Steve has a fan base of which most rock stars would be proud.

More than 25 years ago, Steve shot to fame on the hit TV show Stars In THeir Eyes as Meat Loaf.

THis hilarious, musical show lives up to its rocking reputation.

A tongue in cheek storyline, spellbinding cast, guitar gods and sexy vampettes take the audience on a ride through some of the greatest eighties classic rock anthems.

THrowing just the right amount of fun and humour into his script ensures Steinman always has the audience roaring with laughter but also includes tracks from Queen, AC/DC, Meat Loaf, Journey, Guns n Roses and many more.

Pavilion Theatre, Marine Parade, Worthing BN11 3PX Tel: 01903 206206 Email: theatres@ adur-worthing. gov.uk Website: www. worthingtheatres. co.uk

Inspiring music of South Downs on new website www.southdownsmusic.com

A NEW website is celebrating the rich and varied music of the South Downs.

THe site - www.southdownsmusic.com brings together a range of songs, tunes and other resources that highlight the fantastic tapestry of musical heritage which comes from the area of the national park, across all of Sussex and into Hampshire.

THe project has come to fruition after Roger Nash, from the Bognor Regisbased Southdowns Folk Festival, and Alison Hildyard, from BigIAm, of Hove, worked closely with the South Downs National Park Authority, which provided funding through its Sustainable Communities Fund.

THe site's content of South Downs music is accessible for everyone but will be especially useful to schools, choirs, community groups and other organisations whose members want to learn and

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Roger said: “THe South Downs has a unique musical heritage going back many centuries, particularly in the folk genre, and this website brings it all together in one place. THe variety of musical resources on the site is wide-ranging and impressively eclectic.”

Putting together the website has been a labour of love for its creators and special thanks must go to Alison from Hove-based BiGiAM, who has co-ordinated the project, as well as Emily Longhurst and other members of the South Downs Folk Singers whose help and research has been invaluable.

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Students help Aldingbourne artists with show Pollen-Nation ArtOne, Bishop Otter Campus, Chichester University PO19 6PE Friday, March 22, 1-4pm TWO students from the University of Chichester, Megan Gray and Jessica Head, who have been working with artists at Aldingbourne Country Centre, have helped them mount an exhibition at the university's Bishop Otter campus.

Called Pollen-Nation, it is part of the pair's

project with centre users, focusing on bees and where they find their pollen.

THe studio at Aldingbourne allows artists with learning difficulties to express themselves and learn new skills in a creative and friendly environment. THe exhibition will showcase their talents and enable them to share their artwork with families, friends and members of the public.

THe centre's artists will also be showcasing their entry for the Jim Green Challenge, which Megan and Jessica helped them to develop.

THis will be displayed alongside the exhibition including photo documentation of the making.

All of the works will be on sale, all work sold at the exhibition will contribute to the expansion of the creative arts studio at Aldingbourne and to allow the artists to continue to develop.

Relive the music of pop giants of the 1980s The Best of Wham Thursday, March 21, at 7.30pm CAN IT really be 37 years since George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley formed one of the most enduring pop groups of the 1980s?

A 'fantastic’ new show, featuring the best of George, Andrew, Pepsi and Shirlie with sensational vocals, choreography, costumes and a live band, will give lovers of the original music and people who have

Return to West Sussex for award-winners Red Dirt Skinners Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall, Chidham Lane, Chidham PO18 8TL Sunday, March 24, 7.30pm Tickets: www.wegottickets.com WHEN West Sussex musicians Rob and Sarah Skinner literally sold everything they had, except for their instruments, and moved to Canada in 2017, it was not something they undertook lightly. However the move has proved to be the best decision they ever made and has resulted in them winning music awards right across north America where they tour frequently from their home in Ontario.

Sarah plays various saxophones and was voted instrumentalist of the year in 2014

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come to enjoy it in since the band folded, a chance to appreciate the talents of the duo.

In four short years Wham! sold more than 28 million records, topping the charts with three albums, four number one singles and 11 top ten hits. THey featured in the Live Aid concert of 1985 and were the first western pop group to ever tour in China.

THeir impact and influence on the eighties era and music today really cannot be overemphasised.

THe Best of Wham! show includes all those hits, a few B-side favourites and a couple of early George Michael bonus songs. THis fun-loving, vibrant, megamix tribute to the pop sensation will be loved by ‘Young Guns’ of all ages, so come along to the ‘Club Tropicana’.

Kings Theatre, Albert Road, Southsea PO5 2QJ Tel: 023 92828282 Email: box.office@ kingsportsmouth. co.uk Website: www. kingsportsmouth. co.uk

Girls get down to business in the British Blues Awards. Rob is the guitarist every other guitarist aspires to be and often uses special effects – so much so that they are described as ‘THe Pink Floyd of Folk Roots Music’ because of their intricate musicianship.

THe duo have released six albums over their ten-year career and Sunday, March 24, sees them return to Chidham Village Hall on their annual UK tour.

Promoted by WemsFest, the concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets, at £14, are available from Bookends (Emsworth), and online at: www.wegottickets.com

9-5 The Musical Alexandra Theatre, Belmont Street, Bognor Regis BN21 1BL March 22 and 23 www.alexandratheatre.co.uk 9 TO 5 THE Musical is about to get down to business with a rip-roaring production by Chichester’s celebrated Tour Company, the university's Triple THreat Students.

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THe show tells the story of Doralee, Violet and Judy – three workmates pushed to boiling point by their sexist and egotistical boss. Concocting a plan to kidnap and turn the tables on their despicable supervisor, will the girls manage to reform their office – or will events unravel when the chief executive pays an unexpected visit?

Inspired by the cult film, this hilarious new touring production is about teaming up, standing up and taking care of business.

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Victorian comic opera in stately home Extracts from the works of Gilbert & Sullivan Thursday, March 21, 7.30pm Tickets: Call 023 9241 2265 THE QUINTESSENTIALLY English lyrics and music of Gilbert and Sullivan will be brought to life in the ideal setting of the Music Room, at Stansted House.

Los Ladrones, a group of friends led by Geoffrey Porter, are celebrating ten years of performing in the magical setting of the stately home near Rowland's Castle with concert extracts from a number of the duo's popular works.

THese will include solos, duets, trios and quartets, from THe Sorcerer, THe Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Utopia Ltd, THe Yeomen of the Guard, Ruddigore, THe Gondoliers, Iolanthe, Patience and THe Pirates of Penzance.

THe first half will be preceded by a Victorian curtain-raiser, Cups and Saucers.

Tickets at £10 or £8 for Friends of Stansted Park, include interval refreshments.

Preceded by a Victorian curtain-raiser, "Cups and Saucers".

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A special day in 1966 It is Now Guildhall, Priory Park, Chichester PO19 1NS Friday, March 22, 7pm Tickets: www.thenovium.org

Champion maker of replica furniture recognised Just Champion Until April 26, 10.30am CHAMPION by name and by nature, the work of the former carpenter at the Weald and Downland Living Museum, Roger Champion, is being celebrated at the outdoor museum at Singleton.

Roger worked at the museum since its early days in the 1970s and, although officially retired, still supports it when he can. Over 40 years, he created 247 pieces of furniture which help interpret the social history of the houses and buildings - many

of which he also worked on when they were rebuilt on the site.

THe exhibition is a chance to see selected items together and find out a little more about the research behind then, put in a way that only Roger can, as well as images of the work in progress.

Museum director Simon Wardell is delighted to see Roger’s inspirational and hard work exhibited in the gallery.

He said: "THe furniture Roger has created for the museum has turned our collection of houses and buildings into authentic living spaces of the past”.

Roger will be in the museum gallery to give ten-minute talks at 2pm on March 20, April 4 and April 22. Entry to the talks and the exhibition is included in usual museum entry fees.

‘Just Champion’: Replica furniture made for the museum is in the Michael Burton Gallery within the Longport Farmhouse and is open until April 26. Until March 31, the museum is open 10.30am to 4.30pm daily, then, for summer time, it closes at 6pm.

Weald & Downland Living Museum Singleton, Chichester, PO18 0EU

THE FIRST of a series of theatre performances coming to THe Guildhall this year is It Is Now, a performance

by Anonymous is a Woman THeatre Company, supported by Applause Rural Touring Limited.

July 30, 1966, a date that would go down in history, the day of the World Cup Final between England and West Germany.

But it’s also the wedding day of Laura and Joe, a day when two sides collide, but also filled with A Groovy Kind of Love.

Can Laura keep everyone’s attention away from the most iconic game of football England has ever played and save her big day?

Whether you're on the side of the bride or bridegroom, of England or (dare you say it?) West Germany, you can expect an evening of romance, drama and the sounds of the swinging sixties.

THe production contains some mild swearing so is recommended for adults and children of over 12.

Tickets are £10 for adults and are available online or by calling 01243 816525.

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Restorative concerts for Lent Nos Miseri Homines: Victoria – Requiem 1605 St Paul’s Church, Northgate, Chichester PO19 6FT Wednesday, March 20, 7.15pm www.thenovium.org FOLLOWING an inspiring performance of Bach's Magnificat in Chichester Cathedral, Nos Miseri Homines are once again in the city for Reflections – a series of concerts for Lent.

Featuring outstanding instrumentalists and singers performing powerful and evocative music in beautiful surroundings, they are giving a meditative and restorative series in the fine acoustic setting of St Paul's Church, Northgate.

Under director Andrew Hayman, Nos Miseri Homines perform Victoria’s final, poignant work, which has been described as the masterpiece of the Spanish Renaissance.

Beautiful plainchant melodies are woven throughout the work – either exposed by a solo

voice or wrapped in sumptuous choral writing to create a work of mesmerising beauty.

It will be set alongside two other masterpieces by JS Bach – in particular his monumental eight-part motet, Komm, Jesu, komm – an uplifting plea for the coming of Jesus, followed by William Byrd's Emendemus in Melius and In Jejunio, by Tallis.

Soloists are sopranos Lucy Cronin and Victoria Meteyard, altos William Waine and Christopher Pilgrim, tenors THomas Perkins and Benjamin Durrant, and basses Michael Hickman and Piers Kennedy.

Nos Miseri Homines was founded in 2013 by a group of lay clerks and choral scholars from the world-famous choir of Christ Church, Oxford.

Now, it draws as well on outstanding young professional singers from London, Oxford and Cambridge colleges and consorts, and Winchester and Chichester cathedrals, and has attracted attention for its intimate performances and fresh exciting blend.

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Now, in 2019, a unique bunch of passionate individuals have come to reclaim and breathe life back into Woodies, up-scaling every aspect to create the ultimate restaurant and cocktail bar with something for everyone.

As part of Woodies opening plans they are inviting locals in and around Chichester to book and save 50% on food bills when ordering from the Brasserie menu, between Sunday the 24th March and Friday 29th March 2019.

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Although there is a menu of main courses and pasta dishes, including child-size portions, most people go to enjoy the choice of freshly-made tapas, a number of which have a Middle Eastern slant as well as traditional Spanish dishes.

A tapas banquet for four people at £19.50 is popular for groups with a selection across the menu but my husband and I, with help from Beyhan, settled in comfortable chairs, made our own choices from the vegetarian, meat and chicken, and fish and seafood sections, washed down with a house white pinot grigio

Treat mum to Spanish tapas and opera at city's restaurant

By Alicia Denny De Levante, Victoria Court, 24 St Pancras, Chichester PO19 7LT 01243 788700 info@delevante.co.uk MOTHERS can be wined and dined on delicious tapas food at a popular Mediterranean restaurant this month.

Children can treat their loved ones to speciality dishes from the region along with a free glass of prosecco or wine for Mother's Day. Key to the happy ambience of the converted wine cellar is the philosophy of owner Beyhan Cumali who treats everyone as guests rather than customers.

Beyhan took over the former Spanish restaurant El Castizo in St Pancras early in autumn last year and, after a lot of hard work in a complete refurbishment, including new kitchen equipment, custom-made furniture from Turkey and interior redecoration, opened the Mediterranean restaurant and tapas bar in November.

Spanish artefacts and murals adorn the refreshed walls and gentle guitar music adds to the laidback setting where Beyhan plans to hold regular Flamenco-type events when the restaurant is fully established.

Loyal patrons and friends from her Selsey restaurant of the same name, which she has run since 2015, filled the tables for the two launch evenings and since then word has gradually spread

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Vegetarians and vegans can enjoy a variety of 15 options and we plumped for champignons al ajillo (mushrooms), zazilki - a Greek-style yoghurt - and pimentos rellenos, which was an ovenbaked sweet red pepper stuffed with spinach in a cheese sauce. THe chefs are happy to adjust ingredients for dietary requirements on request, a typical example of the warm and pleasant attitude of all the team.

For meat tapas, we added pollo Marbella, which was pan fried chicken with chorizo, onion and peppers in a creamy paprika sauce, then the succulent chef's special prawns in sauce.

Luckily, there was enough ciabatta to mop up the flavoursome sauces and, feeling pleasantly full but not overstuffed, I was able to enjoy a moist, light tiramisu from the list of home-made desserts.

But as Beyhan said: "Seeing is deceiving, tasting is believing." And De Levante is a worthy successor to the legacy of El Castizo.

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MEDITATE -When you do this regularly you feel so different and no longer sweat over the small stuff.

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Add some feel good behaviours into your day and see the difference it makes.

1. Wish someone good. At least once a day, look at a random stranger and wish them all the best. You don’t have to say it out loud, but you can say it in your head and make a little good luck wish for them.

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your food slowly. Be mindful of everything you eat and if you are with other people, spend more time talking and making meal times last longer. Your digestion will thank you so much more than rushing! Digestion begins in the mouth and if you are stressed and emotional you cannot digest properly, let alone absorb the nutrients that your body needs.

3. Keep in touch. Once a week, or once a month, call or write a message to someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time. It’s the little things in life that matter and knowing that people care enough about you to be in touch can make someone’s day.

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Freeze your fat away ready for a slimmer summer Sculpt your body Solent Medi Spa, 16 Westgate, Chichester PO19 6EU Tel: +44 07926 907 126 Email: gosia@sculptyourbody.co.uk www.sculptyourbody.co.uk LACK of confidence in her body image meant Gosia Tomicka had always disliked summer with the prospect of wearing revealing clothes - but now

she can't wait for the sunshine and putting on her shorts.

THe reason is because she discovered cryogenic fat reduction, a safe and non-invasive treatment, which reduces stubborn fat in problem areas with bulges, such as the tummy and inner thighs.

THe more she investigated the treatment, now the number one cosmetic procedure in the United States,

THey proved freezing kills fat cells but, because fat cells freeze at a higher temperature than other bodily tissues, no damage is done to the surrounding areas.

Once the fat cells have been frozen and die off, they will disappear through the body's natural metabolic processes.

THe American trials resulted in 85 per cent of the study group losing between 20 and 40 per cent of the fat cells in the treated areas over a 12-week period.

Having tried the treatments herself, Gosia became more confident and happier with her body and looked for an opportunity to share her new enthusiasm and skill with other people who could benefit.

She explained her philosophy with her clients: "I have a background in teaching and I have come across many people who suffer from negativity, resulting from a poor body image, and this has an effect on every aspect of their life, especially self-esteem.

"I want to help people to be brave enough to change their bodies and be the best version of themselves they can be."

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the more Gosia became keen to try it so she took the plunge and went on a training course.

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to take up a room and equipment in central Chichester to continue with the existing successful Cryosculpt business there, based in the Solent Medi Spa at 16 Westgate, and now she is looking to spread the word of the benefits of the procedure, which is overtaking liposuction in popularity.

Every treatment and result is individual but most people will need two or three sessions to see a visible improvement but prior to treatment, a free no-obligation initial consultation will be given so Gosia can understand what clients want to achieve, based upon factors such as the amount and type of fat they want to get rid of and their general lifestyle habits.

Being non-invasive, the treatment is completely natural and safe, although there may be a little temporary redness of the treated skin.

As well as fat freezing, Gosia offers non-surgical facelifts involving radio frequency skin tightening.

Again, the latest technology is behind the technique with the skin being heated by high frequency waves to plump up the collagen under the surface, resulting in a firmer, smoother skin.

A combination of the cryo method and radio frequency can be used to reduce cellulite, especially in hard to treat areas, such as thighs.

THe treatment is completely pain-free and non-invasive and can be used to reduce the effects of pregnancy, weight loss or wrinkles due to ageing.

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Community News & Views fit A resort g for a Kin IT WAS 90 years ago King George V and Queen Mary came to Bognor for their historic visit.

THe Bognor Regis Post will be publishing weekly excerpts from archive editions of THe Times to show how it informed its readers about the monarch's recovery from a lung illness: Saturday, March 9 - The last bulletin, which warned the public that the King's recovery must still be slow and would occupy some months, is examined in the current issue of the British Medical Journal with a brief comment. The journal says: 'The bulletin issued from Craigweil House on Saturday, March 2, after an interview of a fortnight, laid stress upon two points.

One is that the King continues to make slow but steady progress.

'The other is that the complete recovery which is confidently looked for must not be endangered by premature exertion of any kind.'

The logic of this will be apparent to any medical reader who recalls the violence of the streptococcal infection, the length of the acute stage of illness and the prostation which follows such blood infections, even in young patients.

For weeks on end, the King's life hung in the balance, and restoration of health after so severe and so protacted an illness must be a matter of months.

Monday, March 11 - The King passed a good weekend and continued to make slow but steady progress. Lord Stamfordham, the King's Private Secretary, visited Craigweil House on Saturday, and was engaged for some time with his Majesty. He returned to London in the evening.

The Queen in the afternoon drove to Slindon Park, the residence of Lady Beaumont.

MEMBERS of a Bognor Regis charity's branch, pictured above, will be celebrating the 65th anniversary of its club next week.

The occasion at the Royal Air Forces Association (381) premises will occur next Wednesday.

Its press officer, Carol Penny, said: "Since those days, the branch and club have flourished and still welcome RAF veterans and serving RAF personnel to the branch and club in Waterloo Square.

"Most of our some 800 members are quite local - within Bognor Regis and Chichester - although membership to the branch is held by members across the globe."

The club opened its doors on March 20, 1954, almost nine years after the branch was established on October 16, 1945, soon after the end of the Second World War. Branch secretary David Hewings has been looking to the year ahead and the events which have been lined up.

The first is the latest Brew-for-the-Few on March 27 to raise welfare funds and remember at the same time those in the air and on the ground who saved this country from Nazi occupation in 1940.

Being held from 10am-midday, the morning is set to feature entertainment from at least one band. Refreshments will be available for a donation to the funds.

The Dam Busters Raid will be commemorated on May 17 and followed by the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6.

Soon afterwards will be the town's staging on June 22 of the national armed forces day.

"These are just a few of the highlights in the next few months," said Carol, "with many more during the rest of the year in which the branch will be directly involved.

"The diary, as always, is crammed full of events, with special organised trips to RAF-related places of interest, daily entertainment of all kinds - and well-stocked bar, too."

A BOGNOR REGIS-based radio station could soon be heard over the airwaves.

Radio Respect is applying for a community FM broadcast licence to be able to reach additional people to the listeners who log on to its website.

The community interest company operates out of Argyle Road and West Street and has 15 volunteers.

Their aim is to provide support to people who have been or are tackling mental health issues.

Bognor Regis and Littlehampton MP Nick Gibb visited Radio Respect last week at the request of Chris Collins, who founded it with his wife, Caroline Collins.

Mr Gibb said: "Radio Respect is an important local radio station that helps people with mental health issues.

MOUSTACHES made money when Bognor Regis Golf Club members decided to help a hospital.

The golfers decided to grow the facial hair to back an appeal to improve urology treatment in West Sussex.

Their efforts raised nearly £2,000 to take the appeal's total to more than £30,000.

The cheque was sent to Paul Carter, a consultant urological surgeon for Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Chichester Nuffield Hospital, as a surprise.

He said: "We have already raised a significant amount of money for Love Your Hospital and are keen to use these

"The organisation also helps those who are homeless with clothing and bedding and a place to meet.

"Chris and Caroline Collins do a wonderful job providing information and support via the internet to thousands of people who may be tackling mental health issues.

"I wish these dedicated and selfless people, and the volunteers who help them, continued success with everything they are doing."

Radio Respect was established in 2013 by Mr and Mrs Collins.

They run on a small budget from donations and the income they generate from the retro and vinyl record shop they operate.

Chris Collins, left, and Mr Gibb are pictured above in the record shop that helps to support Radio Respect.

funds raised by the members specifically to improve equipment used in our multi-disciplinary meetings where we discuss our local cancer patients."

Love Your Hospital is the dedicated charity for the trust.

The actions of the golfers stemmed from a 100-mile sponsored bike ride by the surgeons around West Sussex last October after the Velo South mass cycle ride was cancelled.

Golfers pictured above who grew moustaches are: (l-r) Alan Simmonds, Ian Pettie (club president), Norman Lee, Michael Martin, Gordon Catt and Ron Stevens.

CHANGES to the smoking shelter at a Butlin’s site in Bognor Regis were nodded through by councillors.

The holiday company received planning permission to move the shelter and alter its size and design in an unanimous vote without any debate.

Arun District Council’s development control committee granted the approval last Wednesday for St Joseph’s in Albert Road.

Its members had been told the original plans had been changed after an objection by their environmental health officer.

Butlin’s had wanted to change a permission given three years ago and enable up to six smokers to use the shelter from 10pm-7am instead of two and extend the hours the property’s conservatory could be used from 8am-7pm.

But Arun planning officer Daniel Vick said: “The application now proposes only the relocation of the smoking shelter and slight amendments to its design and size.”

The new shelter will be 2.52m long, 1.56m wide and 2.52m high compared to the existing 2.4m long, 1.8m wide and 2.4m high measurements.

It is being moved from a location between the Las Arenas and Blackbird Cottage buildings on the site to between Blackbird Cottage and Walton House. The original planning permission was granted in 2016.

Jeremy Pardey, resort director of Butlin’s in Bognor Regis, told the committee: “The purpose to do this is as much for residents as it is for our team.

“I have had some concerns from local residents about the position and the availability of smoking and the times people have been using that.

“We put this plan in, working with some of the residents of The Esplanade, asking them for their indications as to what they thought was best.

“We want to minimise the noise complaints that we have had and make it better for our local neighbours.”

Arun received 18 letters of objection to the proposal. They concerned excessive noise from the conservatory and the hours it was in use.

Bognor Regis Town Council also objected because its members believed noise, disturbance and smells would result from moving the shelter.

KEEN golfer Jake Stoneham is set to swap Felpham for Kansas to pursue the sport.

Jake, a Year 13 student at Felpham Community College, has achieved a scholarship at an American college to study business alongside developing his golf and playing for the college's golf team.

He said: "I started playing golf when I was nine nine and am a member of Bognor Golf Club as well as playing for the Sussex under-18s team.

"I want to get a business degree and this is a great way of doing it while developing my golf and seeing a bit of the world.

"I am focusing on my final exams now, looking forward to the golf season starting in May and then I leave for America in August.

Jake, pictured above, is studying business and sport courses at Felpham as well as A-level geography.

He was helped with his placement by Future Pro USA, an international company based in London.

He will complete a two-year business course at Dodge City Junior College in Kansas.

When the course ends, he plans to transfer to a National Collegiate Athletic Association university in America to finish his business degree.

He will then potentially focus on becoming a professional golfer.

Felpham college PE teacher James Ross said: "This is an amazing achievement for Jake. All his hard work...has paid off."

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Potions, pills and photos at town's chemists Residents' medical needs were looked after by a range of independent businesses WHEN you are looking for a chemist, for many today this is service attached to their doctor’s surgery, or prescriptions can be fulfilled on line. But what of the past?

I thought I would take a look at how many chemists there have been in the past, what services they offer and of course anything specific with which they have been involved.

One of the earliest was Long and Strickland, which was situated in the High Street at No 21 and was established as far back as 1853.

One of their adverts in 1916 lists a number of items that were available from the store to cure colds and flu at £1/11/2 (6p today) or what about chamomile, quinine and rhubarb pills to cure dyspepsia and biliousness selling for £1/11/2 per box?

I can remember this chemist being in the High Street, but some advertisements from the 1930s showed they had branches in Felpham, Rose Green and Aldwick. There was even an advertisement in 1944 advising that dispensing records from Rose Green and Craigweil were retained with them and they advised that they were retaining their regular opening hours ‘during blackout months’. The High Street site is today occupied by Subway.

During the 1890s the seaside resort of Bognor continued to develop. Visitors were coming into the town from London and other places in

the south of England to enjoy the seaside.

However, one shopkeeper, James Hughes, a chemist in West Street, was very concerned that the large number of children who visited the area could not obtain even a drink of water. James’s shop in West Street looked down the length of The Steyne to the seafront promenade, a site he believed would be ideal for a drinking fountain.

As with many new ideas, others did not perceive his suggestion as being of any importance, as many of the council in 1897 were more concerned with the celebrations for Queen Victoria’s 60th anniversary on the throne. James was very keen on his suggestion and started a fund to raise the necessary cash, and at the same time Bodie of Aberdeen selected a design.

The fountain was to cost a staggering £111 although the local water company did agree to supply the water at half price. The site was confirmed to be at the end of the Steyne, against the edge of the promenade. On July 6, 1898, the new drinking fountain was eventually unveiled and was to be a permanent reminder of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebrations, for the residents and all the children who came to the seaside, as well as supplying the much needed drink of water. His shop was eventually taken over

by CT Copper, as the Steyne Pharmacy, when

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The site was eventually taken over by West Side merchants and today is retirement flats.

In a 1916 Bognor Directory, there was a large advertisement for Shipman, Sudley Pharmacy who was eventually replaced by Radford Chemist Ltd, showing the address now as No 1 Albert Terrace, opposite our recent main post office.

Clive Radford moved to Bognor Regis from London with his family, initially to work with Boots at the newly-opened London Road store in 1934 in London Road. He left Boots in 1951 to take over the Albert Terrace premises and remained there until he was 73 years of age.

During the early days of Butlin’s in Bognor Regis, when it provided a full nursery service for guests, all the necessary provisions for the children was collected from Radford’s.

Further along the High Street one of the notable photographers was Cleeves, which was situated on The Esplanade and in the High Street, where today we have the NatWest Bank. This chemist was very active with the photographic side of the business and would take a variety of pictures of the town and then produce his own ‘home-grown’ postcards.

Within the Aldwick shops, there was Edwin Thorp, who advertised as an ‘analytical, pharmaceutical and photographic chemist'. He also advertised he had a ‘dark room for amateurs', thus continuing the photographic theme.

There was a church at the junction of London Road and the High Street which was very popular. However, in 1929, a number of approaches were made with regard to purchasing the site, as it was a prime location

in the town as developments were taking place, and so the decision to sell was made, as the congregations were being disturbed ‘by the uproar of traffic'.

It was eventually sold to Timothy Whites and Co for £17,000. A clause was inserted stating 'that no building now erected or hereafter to be erected on the land or any part thereof shall at any time hereafter be used as premises licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor other that medicated or medicinal wines'.

In addition, there was a ban made on the use of the site for theatre, cinematograph or dance hall. In 1968, Boots the Chemist merged with Timothy Whites and Taylors.

Boots at the time consisted of 1,252 chemists’ shops and large stores. Timothy Whites was operating a total of 622 branches, of which 486 were chemist branches, including 115 selling houseware goods, That year there was a chemist at No 7 Water Tower, namely Edward J Davis. Today, this shop is still there and occupied by Dexter’s, which is one of the few small independent chemists still operating in our town.

The Bognor Regis Kelly’s directory in that year listed 16 chemists in the area from Middleton across the area to Pagham. Some of these remain but many have closed, as the growth of the modern service of being attached to surgeries, supermarkets and being available on line, also being delivered direct to your home.

It is evident today that many of the varied services offered by the older pharmacists are now not available. The photographic side of the early chemist are now superseded by photographic shops, or the digital age of working on line.

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Blues chop Chobham down to size PostSport to cruise into a week off on a high CHICHESTER RFC have time to rest and reflect on a morale-boosting victory over relegation-threatened Chobham.

THe Blues head into a weekend off on the back of a convincing 39-22 victory over the second bottom side in front of a decent home crowd at Oaklands Park.

THe bonus point win gave Chi a five point tally and lifts them up to ninth in the 14 team London South One. With all of the bottom three losing, it also means that Blues have now put a bit of breathing space between them and the drop zone.

With just four matches of the season to play, Chi should be confident that the nine point gap is enough to guarantee another season at this level.

A trip to bottom side Hove next weekend (March 23) awaits Blues next and, after putting a series of tries past Chobham, they will be firm favourites to return along the A27 with the win.

In Hampshire Premier, Bognor - who also have a week off - kept up the pressure on the top two with a bonus point victory over Fareham Heathens.

THe Purple and Greens have turned Hampshire Avenue into a fortress this season and kept up their fine home form with a convincing win over their coastal visitors.

Darren Bidwell opened the scoring for Bognor before prop Tom James bowled over the whitewash to make it 14-0 at the break.

Fellow prop Chris Webb rounded off a fine all-round performance to charge through for a third try. THen it was over to winger Paddy Burnett to wrap up the bonus point.

Joshua Riggall and Webb rounded off the scoring to seal a comfortable win for Bognor.

--Chichester's Jess Breach is on the verge of helping the Red Roses to a Women's Six Nations Grand Slam.

England’s right-wing continued her phenomenal switch from sevens to the 15-a-side game during a stunning 55-0 victory over Italy.

Breach scored two tries and might have had a hat-trick in front of a record-breaking crowd at Exeter's Sandy Park.

THe Harlequins winger now has an astonishing 18 in six Tests and will look to add to that tally tomorrow when the Red Roses face off against Scotland at Twickenham (7.30pm).

DARTS: QE2 Cobras' Richard Ragless' 160 in shot was the star turn of week 18 of the Tuesday Double-In Double-Out Darts League. Here are the results in full DIVISION ONE - Chi Snooker Club 4 Legends ‘A’ 16; Friary Blues 17 Hunston Club 3; Fishermans Joy 11 Cabin 10; QE2 Cobras 13 the Hoffmeisters 11; Newtown Raiders - bye MAN OF THE MATCH - Roger Summers (Fishermans Joy) 18 & 22 darts [25.05 av]; Richard Ragless (QE2 Cobras) 18 & 23 darts [24.44 av]; Graham Harris (Friary Blues) 20 & 29 darts [20.45 av]; Micky Rowland (Legends ‘A’) 23 & 24 darts [21.32 av] 180s - Keith Robinson (Chi Snooker Club) x1; Ben Marley (Legends ‘A’) x1; Graham Hollis (Fishermans Joy) x1; Luke Nash (the Hoffmeisters) x1; Conner O'Hara (QE2 Cobras) x1 DIVISION TWO - THe Hoffmasters 8 QE2 Lions 12; Bersted Royals 18 Railway Club 3; Legends ‘X’ vs Richmond FORFEITED BY RICHMOND; the Lamb, Lamb Orange - bye MAN OF THE MATCH - Dave Wingate (Bersted Royals) 30 & 37 darts [14.96 av]; Dean Ardener (QE2 Lions) 31 & 31 darts [16.16 av]

f Blues cross for a score against Chobham

f Chichester on the charge during the 39-22 victory over Chobham at Oaklands Park last weekend

Seafront 10k is a breeze for TZ team BOGNOR Tone Zone's Jack Penfold kept the Bognor Tone Zone flag flying high as he tamed breezy conditions to land a top ten finish in the West Worthing 10k.

With strong winds blowing around the UK this weekend there was very little chance of personal bests being set.

But a very impressive turnout of 15 club members completed the seafront West Worthing 10k, which saw the second half run head first into strong gusts.

First to finish and seventh overall was Penfold in 40 minutes 9 seconds.

Daryl Fairbrother ran a strong race to finish under 45 minutes. Buddies Carl Bryant and Andy Miles finished in 51 minutes, just ahead of Natalie Tribe in 53.29 and Andrew Medlock in 56.35, with Zoe Hemes just sneaking under the hour mark with a time of 59.22.

THen came a flurry of blue and orange vests with Vicky Cooper, Sarah Spurr, Debi Haddleton, Catriona Power and Michelle Lloyd all finishing under 1 hour 5 minutes.

Rebecca Holden, Lea Hodgkins and Juliette Garrett all ran fine races against the strong wind to finish in 1.05.28, 1.06 and 1.06.57.

Despite the conditions, there was one PB for the weekend which came the way of Leigh Paige, who ran a personal best of 2.18 at the Surrey Half Marathon.

Joan Wooley was competing in another marathon this weekend, the Larmer Tree Marathon in Salisbury. She finished the tough hilly marathon in 7 hours 33 minutes.

Over in Cambridge were running duo Derek and Grace Natoli. Derek ran the half in 2.06 while Grace took on the marathon challenge and finished just under the 5 hour mark.

--THe second leg of the Chichester Corporate Challenge saw hundreds of runners take to the streets of the city centre on Wednesday evening.

More than 500 people of all ages took part in a series of races around the 700 metre lap.

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DARTS: Rob Collins threw just 34 darts, avergaing nearly 30 points per throw as he guided his Friary Z side to a comfortable win over Lamb Flamingos in week 14 of the Friday Benevolent Darts League.

Here are the results in full: DIVISION ONE - Newtown Amity 12 BRSA Ravens 10; the Legends 11 Pagham CC 'A' 10; Friary 'Z' 17 Lamb Flamingo's 3; Hunston Hares - bye MAN OF THE MATCH - Rob Collins (Friary 'Z') 17 & 17 darts [29.47 av]; Roger Summers (the Legends) 17 & 23 darts [25.05 av]; Alex Norgett (Newtown Amity) 21 & 23 darts [22.77 av] DIVISION TWO - the Lamb 10 Friary 'D' 13; Aldingbourne Mavericks 16 Newtown Clubbers 6; Pagham CC 'B' 9 Aldwick Legion 14; Claremont - bye MAN OF THE MATCH - James Riggs (Friary 'D') 23 & 26 darts [20.45 av]; Dave Bourne (Aldwick Legion) 23 & 31 darts [18.56 av]; Adam Judd (Aldingbourne Mavericks) 29 & 35 darts [15.82 av] DIVISION THREE - Lamb Chops 13 Richmond Rebels 7; Friary 'C' 7 Chi Snooker Club 14; Railway Sleepers 6 ASC 14; Royal Oak - bye MAN OF THE MATCH - Keith Robinson (Chi Snooker Club) 21 & 26 darts [21.32 av]; Martin Austin (ASC) 22 & 26 darts [20.88 av]; Justin Moore (Richmond Rebels) 25 & 30 darts [18.22 av]

SHORT MAT BOWLS: Infinity's short mat bowls season goes from strength to strength as the Boxgrove-based club keep on racking up the victories.

Recent weeks has seen the cohort of players head to England Short Mat Bowls Association County games and National qualifiers.

THis weekend saw five players take part in the Sussex County Singles Championships.

Defending champion Jack Rollings made it back-to-back wins, beating Southbourne's Anthony Bull in the final.

Chris Page also lifted silverware, taking the Vase competition.

On Sunday, Infinity returned to the league, travelling to THe Martlets. In very close games on both mats Infinity came away from Bury with four points.

A little further away from home, Infinity player Robin Armstrong has teamed up with Kent-based player THomas Coles at the European Open Pairs in Belgium.

THe duo performed well, winning six of their seven group matches to make it through to the knockout stages.

THe last 32 match pitched them against the Norwegian pair of Ronald Anderson and Freddy Forlan

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Job Dunn for City as Lancing win sends Chi ten points clear

f Lewry puts Chi in front over the Foxes

Chi urged to stop the rot CHICHESTER City Ladies are being urged to snap a three game losing streak and keep their fading title hopes on track.

Aaron Smith's side have defied the odds this season, climbing to the top of the FA Women's Southern Premier in just their second season at this level.

But recent weeks has seen City fall off the pace with last weekend's 3-1 defeat to midtable Loughborough Foxes the third in a row for City.

In comparison leaders Coventry United along with third-place Cardiff and Oxford United have all won their last five in a row.

It means with six matches of the campaign to go, City need to return to winning ways if they are to hold on to the coat tails of other sides around them.

Smith's side have the perfect opportunity of getting back on track on Sunday when they head to C&K Basildon (2pm).

THe Essex side have not won a league match all season, with a 4-2 defeat at Oaklands Park among 15 losses this campaign.

Despite their opponents' poor form, Chi will need to cut

out the errors which cost them dear in the 3-1 loss to the Foxes.

Jess Lewry opened the scoring, poking home after good work down the flank from Nadine Bazan.

But the Foxes hit back and took the advantage at half-time as Rebecca Knight headed home a corner and Chloe Young scored from the penalty spot.

Chances came for both sides after the break but it was Laura Steele who put the game to bed, her 25-yard shot powering in off the post.

Chi threw everything into the final 10 minutes including the kitchen sink and chances to try and get a point from the match came.

But Tash Stephens was denied by a defender while the rebound found Lewry, whose effort was parried wide by visiting keeper.

If there is a positive for Chi in recent weeks it's that four of their players have been selected for county honours.

Lewry, Jess Burke, Sarah Phelps and Sarah Tubby are in the Sussex FA representative squad to play Middlesex on Wednesday in the Southern Counties Cup Competition Final.

f City boss Aaron Smith watches on

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FOUR more wins should do it for tabletopping Chichester City as they look to wrap up the SCFL Premier crown sooner rather than later.

THe Oaklands Park side host relegationthreatened Little Common tomorrow (3pm) sitting ten points clear at the top of the table with just seven matches to go.

THe gap was extended last weekend after a 1-0 win at Lancing.

Canadian import Emmett Dunn got the winner for Miles Rutherford and Graham Gee's side in a match which a much-changed Chi dominated from start to finish.

THe youngster timed his run from midfield to perfection to slot home a Josh Clack cross and seal all three points for Chi. THe win for the league leaders extends their unbeaten league run to 17 games, with defeat last coming back in November.

Horsham YMCA, who notched a 4-1 victory at home to Arundel, replaced Newhaven in second spot with the Dockers one point behind YM in third.

But City head into the final six weeks of the season knowing that promotion to step four remains firmly in their own hands.

f Emmett Dunn celebrates Chi's winner at Lancing

Pagham chief backs bosses

PAGHAM chairman Tony Shea is backing his managers to get it right as the Lions look to recover from their worst run of results in recent memory.

Just a few months ago the Nyetimber Lane side were competing for one of the two promotion spots at the top of the SCFL Premier.

But a mixture of injuries, suspensions and players departing for pastures new have seen Pagham slide down to tenth.

Despite their best efforts, joint managers Tom Simmonds and Richie Hellen have

struggled to pick their side up, culminating in a 5-0 loss to Eastbourne Town a fortnight ago and a 4-0 loss last weekend at Hassocks.

With a trip to Eastbourne-based Langney Wanderers tomorrow, Shea is backing the duo to get things right.

Shea said: "I am absolutely backing them. It's not been great to watch, they know that and they know what we're looking for next season.

"But we're working hard to improve the side and we will continue to do that. THey are still managers and that’s what they will continue to do."

f Bosham beat Rottingdean 1-0 last weekend

It is the 4-0 loss at struggling Hassocks which will be of real concern to Pagham fans.

Earlier in the season, the Lions beat the Robins 5-2 in front of their home crowd.

But four months on, Pagham looked unlikely to reach such heights and stumbled to a disappointing away defeat.

Shea said: "We just have to try to regroup and try and win as many points as we can between now and the end of the season.

"It's not been a great three months, probably the worst three months since I have been chairman.

"But you take the good with the bad, players will come and go from Pagham FC, and at the end of the day we have to focus on the fact that we are in the county league and have had good times in last three years.

"Now is the time for us to roll our sleeves up and get it right."

In SCFL Division One, tenth-place Sidlesham head to Hailsham Town tomorrow (3pm) looking to bounce back after a disappointing 1-0 loss at Seaford last time out.

Meanwhile, Bosham will be looking to follow up a fine 1-0 win over fourthplaced Rottingdean Village when they head to Cowfold (2pm).

A solitary Alex Barnes strike just before the break was enough to seal all three points for the Walton Lane side. Robins have now won three of their last four but have just two matches remaining this season.

Pearce revels in the Blues' purple patch SELSEY'S search for a top four finish continues as the Blues' emphasis on youth looks to paying dividends for all at the Bunn Leisure Stadium.

Daren Pearce was given clear instructions when he took up the reins at High Street support emerging talent and improve on last year's mid-table finish.

With just four games of the season to play, it looks as though he has succeeded on both fronts.

In just a few months the former Sidlesham boss has moulded together an excellent young side which is making great strides in the SCFL Division One. Last weekend's 3-0 victory at home to Mile Oak was just the latest in an excellent run

which stretches back to the start of the year.

THose three points keep Selsey in fifth, just one point behind AFC Varndeanians in fourth.

It also means Blues have lost just once in 12 matches in the league, a run which has seen them put clear water between them and the chasing pack.

Results like last weekend have helped them close the gap, with Lindon Miller, Joe Bennett and Callum Dowdell all scoring in what turned out to be a comfortable victory.

But they will have to wait a fortnight before returning to action, with their next match coming on March 23 at struggling Midhurst & Easebourne. However, Pearce will urge against complacency, reminding his charges they lost the reverse fixture.

f Blues beat Mile Oak 3-0

t Lancing

e Oak 3-0

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f Mason Walsh on the attack in the Rocks' 1-0 loss at Margate | pics: T McMillan

Injuries continue to put paid to Bognor's fading playoff hopes Next Game

ENFIELD TOWN (A) Tomorrow, 3pm

BOGNOR boss Jack Pearce has hit back at fans who believe the management could be doing more to revive the club's fading playoff hopes.

THe injury-ravaged Rocks are now without a win in four in the Bostik Premier after a 1-0 reverse away at Margate last weekend.

THat result has seen Bognor fall to ninth, three points behind fifth-placed Enfield Town, who are occupying the last of the playoff spots All is not lost though with Bognor making the trip to the north London side tomorrow (3pm) looking to spring a surprise against one of their bogey sides.

Despite nearly a full team of players out with injury, Pearce vows that he and the rest of the coaching staff will be going all out to try and claim one of the four spots for the end of season contest.

Speaking after the match to Rocks Radio, Pearce said: "I would love to get in the playoffs.

"But if we go up then unless there are drastic changes in the club in terms of finance, unless we extremely lucky with injuries and players who do not lose form, with the players available and money we have we would be struggling in the bottom third of the National South.

"THat's the reality. But we will battle along and try and get the team out.

"I cannot fault the effort and we lost by an odd goal with four minutes to go so we must move on."

Rocks went into the match at Margate without seven first team players, including top scorer Jimmy Muitt, influential midfielder Doug Tuck and right back Calvin Davies.

A switch to three at the back seemed to improve the Rocks' solidity, even if chances were hard to come by.

THe majority of the 80 or so fans who made the trip to the Kent coast thought a point was in their grasp until Margate struck a winner with just minutes to go.

Rocks now turn their attention to Enfield, a side who they have not beaten in the league since October, 2013.

THen there is the tricky Sussex Senior Cup semi final against Brighton & Hove Albion under 23s at Nyewood Lane on Tuesday (7.45pm).

But any hopes of having some of the injured seven back available for this crunch week look to have been dashed.

Pearce said: "THere's not much we can do about it, we just have to keep battling along.

"Every club goes through it at some point of the season. But when you have this many people missing it does make it hard to string together results.

"No one is more frustrated than the management team, we're more devastated than anyone but where do fans want us to get the players from? We can't produce what's not there."

Theo extends his Rocks stay ROCKS' fading playoff hopes have received a boost with the news THeo Widdrington has extended his loan until the end of the season.

THe hard-working midfielder has become a fan favourite since joining on a temporary basis from Bristol Rovers.

His tough tackling and energy from the centre of the park has pushed the Rocks on since making his debut in the 2-0 away win at Worthing just before Christmas.

After returning from injury last month, the 19-year-old has continued his fine form for the Rocks - which is why large sections of the Nye Camp will be pleased to hear he has put pen to paper to extend loan deal from the League One side Widdrington, who joined Rovers from Portsmouth last summer, couldn't help the Nyewood Lane outfit from slipping to a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Margate on Saturday.

But Pearce and coach Robbie Blake hope he can help Bognor get back on track when they travel to Enfield Town tomorrow.

Pearce said: "THeo has come in and done ever so well for us and we are delighted to be able to secure his services for the rest of the season."

f Theo Widdrington in action at Margate

AFTER picking up just one point in the last two matches, we seem to have hit a bad run of form at the wrong time of the season.

Injuries to key players are not helping.

I think we have got more players injured than we have available for selection When it gets like this especially considering the injuries that we have - we all have to just keep plodding on.

It's difficult to say what’s happening with our club at the moment.

Saturday's defeat at Margate was probably a fair result, I think, on reflection.

We didn’t really look like scoring and I think those watching will say that it was only ever going to be a draw or a win for them. We just didn’t do enough to win the game.

THat's nothing against Margate who are a good side and will always be pushing towards the top of this league or challenging in the next.

When you go there and turn up without players like Doug Tuck or Jimmy Muitt it will always be harder than it might have been.

Because of missing players we had to adapt the way we played.

We opted for a 3-5-2 as for the first time in months we had a full complement of centre halves to pick from.

In fact, looking around the dressing room, it seems that's all we have at the moment!

THe formation was all about trying to get them on the pitch with two wing backs either side.

But, while that plays to our strengths of available players, that means losing some of our midfield dominance which has been our main game for a while.

It doesn't get any easier either as we have the trip to Enfield tomorrow.

It is one of the worst grounds I think I've been to as I can’t ever remember winning and I

normally get injured too!

THere's no doubt though that we are capable of getting a result.

But that task is always a bit easier when you have the likes of Jimmy, Doug and Joe Tomlinson who you know can pull something out of the bag if you need it.

THere's also the Brighton cup match too, although I am not available for that one.

Again it will be a tough one, albeit with the incentive of a nice day out at THe Amex in May as a reward.

But I think the main focus has to be on Saturday and getting a result then.

I know a lot of the fans are still talking about the playoffs.

It's hard to say how things will go between now and the end of the season.

I think I'm being realistic when I say that it will be tough given that we have fallen off it slightly.

But personally, it is always a matter of pride to try to get as many points as we can so I will be going out there to win every game.

THe injuries do make it tough, though, with Calvin and Joe Tomlinson joining Jimmy, Doug and others on the sidelines.

While we have some of the lads coming back to fitness, they will need time to get match fit.

It’s not really fair to rush people straight back but we don’t really have too much choice at the moment It is what it is. Whoever gets out on the pitch, we all get paid good money to give the right attitude and approach any match with the correct mentality.

THe teams we are putting out are good enough but for whatever reason we are just not performing. It's something we need to work on.

We need to keep on giving everything what we have.

Out of personal pride we have to get as many point as we can.

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