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The Green Room (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7729112.stm A campaigner has won a legal victory in a long-running battle with the government over the use of pesticides. A High Court judge ruled Georgina Downs, who lives near Chichester, West Sussex, had produced "solid evidence" that residents had suffered harm. Mr Justice Collins said a European order aimed at defending rural dwellers from possible exposure...
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BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The Earl of March has announced the dates for the 2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed, held on the Goodwood estate in Chichester, West Sussex. The annual festival comprises of a celebration of motor sport, it’s heritage and future as well as being a superb venue for fans of anything automotive to get very close to [...]
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SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Smoke Fairies The Smoke Fairies are Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire, whose folk-blues and bluegrass playing seem a world away from their birthplace in Chichester, West Sussex. They met at school there (where tales are told of their scientific pyromania) and it was where they first started playing music. They spent time in New Orleans and then travelled around the Southern states for three months...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Hundreds lined the streets of Chichester the 47th Regiment Royal Artillery received the freedom of the West Sussex city.
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Eidelblog (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
From This Is True : "Several residents in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, reported a trash can in a creek, polluting it. Trash collectors refused to touch it because it was not a council-owned container. But despite call after call, no one dragged it out of the water. Harting parish councilor David Barnard finally got an explanation: "[The district spokesman] said, and I quote, 'We...
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Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
The first registration number plate to be issued in Edinburgh – ‘S1’ – was sold today (19 September 2008) by Bonhams for a staggering £397,500 – a new world record price at auction. The sale took place at the company’s annual Goodwood Revival Sale in Chichester, West Sussex. Following a lengthy bidding battle between several people on the telephone, a buyer in the room eventually secured the registration...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
A DIRECTIVE to members and staff of Chichester District Council, West Sussex, instructs them to resist and desist form using the phrase “the man in the street”. The phrase is deemed “inherently sexist, not a fair reflection of reality, and makes the views or work of women invisible”. Quite so. Staff are instructed to use “a [...]
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
EAST SUSSEX has the cliffs but West Sussex boasts the great swimming beaches, the mysterious tidal inlets full of seabirds, the picturesque villages with waterside pubs and the atmospheric old city of Chichester with its great Roman palace and towering cathedral spire.
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AutoMotoPortal.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars today confirmed details of a unique outdoor promenade performance of Toad of Toad Hall, to be performed by the Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in the company’s grounds at Goodwood, West Sussex. A cast of over 60 young people aged between 11 and 19 will play much loved characters including Ratty, Mole, Badger and, of course, the car-loving Toad.
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londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Rizla and Crescent Suzuki are preparing to rev up the crowds at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed which will be held this weekend at Chichester in West Sussex. Rizla Suzuki’s current BSB contender, Tom Sykes, will be wowing the fans with his GSX-R1000 race bike as he takes to the famous Goodwood Hill climb. Also on hand to entertain the crowd is triple British Superbike Champion, John Reynolds,...
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auntie joanna writes (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
...of Chichester Cathedral soars above West Sussex, a landmark from coast and Downs alike. So it was interesting to read, in an excellent historical display in the Cathedral, of how it collapsed in the 1860s one ferociously stormy night, after great cracks had been appearing in the walls and despoerate engineering work had failed to stem off the disaster. The spire was rebuilt thanks to the speedy...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
"The limited run on Broadway wasn't a preordained hit. About 20,000 people saw the show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music before the transfer. Laced with video imagery, Soviet-style military costumes and blood, it originated at the Chichester Festival Theatre in West Sussex, south of London. The cast was almost entirely British, and the move to Broadway required a waiver from Actors' Equity."...
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The Brand Surgery (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
Wow! Wow! Wow!* Worthing Hospital has beat Brighton and Chichester and will become the county’s Major General Hospital, because as Mr Wilderspin, chairman of West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) says, “Worthing provides the best access for the greatest number of people, including those areas with the poorest health outcomes and the highest levels [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
In 1963, when I was 15 months old, my father, a solicitor, was offered a job with a firm of lawyers in Chichester, West Sussex. We moved from Cheam, on the outskirts of London, to a house in Fishbourne, a small village west of Chichester, famous for its Roman palace. In those days, it had a post office, three pubs, a shop and a church. Divided by the main road, it was not a Miss Marple English village...
