Month: May 2025

• May 31, 2025

  Uncategorized

  Time’s running out. Join me to raise the plight of farm labourers putting their lives in danger walking along our country roads.

  I WASN’T going to post anything on my WordPress site today – but I’ve been forced to do so after trying to log my complaint about the state of the road surface at the Green Lane T-junction by the Stagecoach bus stop on the WSCC website AGAIN but getting thrown off it as usual because…
• May 28, 2025

  Chichester District Council, Council reporting, Parish council stories, WSCC Highways

  Chichester planning and rural road safety: Are councillors asking the right questions?

  By HILARY GAVIN Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 IT WAS a squally, blustery English summer’s day this afternoon when I drove past the Green Lane T-Junction bus stop which I consider to be a DEATH-TRAP. As you can see from the photo I took of the north-bound Stagecoach bus stop on Saturday (May 24th, 2025), the…
• May 26, 2025

  Council reporting, Parish council stories

  Possibility of new village hall is “not a done deal” says Hunston Parish Council Chair

  Proposed scheme is still a talking point as councillors seek residents’ views By HILARY GAVIN I’M not sure if any of you, my readers, can tell me what the record is for the shortest Annual Parish Meeting in England and Wales – but my village, Hunston in West Sussex, might just have clinched the title!…
• May 22, 2025

  Chichester District Council, Council reporting, Parish council stories, WSCC

  Concerns Over Bus Stop Safety Raised at Parish Council

  Watch my footage of Hunston Parish Council’s meeting in May, 2025 By HILARY GAVIN AN OLD and dear friend of mine WhatsApp’d teasing me yesterday by referring to the well-known proverb: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. I’d been struggling, you see, trying to upload my footage of Hunston’s Annual Parish Council meeting…
• May 19, 2025

  Council reporting, Parish council stories, Uncategorized

  Watch our local parish council online on my blog and social media sites

  Hunston councillors meet tonight for their Annual Council Meeting By HILARY GAVIN (UPDATE Thursday, May 22, 2025, 9.45pm : You can watch Monday’s Annual Parish Council Meeting in my latest blog post Concerns Raised Over Bus Stop Safety at Parish Meeting (see link below) which I posted on my WordPress site earlier today. In it,…
• May 16, 2025

  Feature writing, Journalism

  T.S. Eliot and the Cruellest Month: A Personal Journey

  Why I’m looking ahead to a busy summer after an eventful April By HILARY GAVIN I’M not sure if any of the very few of you who follow my WordPress blog are poetry-lovers like me but I’d like to share the opening lines of TS Eliot’s epic poem The Waste Land with you today, courtesy…