Category: Council reporting

March 17, 2026

Chichester District Council, Parish council stories, Uncategorized, WSCC

Hunston parish councillors discuss flooding and crackdown on drugs at March meeting

By HILARY GAVIN HUNSTON parish councillors met for their March meeting in the Annexe of our village hall in West Sussex yesterday on Monday, March 16th 2026 when they welcomed newly co-opted Cllr Jani into their fold. This was the last meeting of the parish council in the fiscal year 2025/26 and the councillors discussed…
February 20, 2026

Chichester District Council, Council reporting, Education, Journalism, News reporting, Parish council stories, POLICE, WSCC, WSCC Highways

Naming and shaming the local parish Cllr who likens the police’s Speedwatch scheme to spying

By HILARY GAVIN IT’S BEEN a long time in the offing – but it had to be done. I’m publicly shaming irresponsible Sidlesham Parish Cllr Tricia Tull for decrying the Speedwatch campaign targeted at inconsiderate – and darn right disrespectful – drivers who race through villages. If you read my Facebook comment on the police’s…
February 12, 2026

Chichester District Council, Council reporting, Journalism, Parish council stories, Water, Water companies, WSCC

Watch my YouTube footage and report of February’s Sidlesham Parish Council to discover how your council tax money is spent

By HILARY GAVIN THE first video footage of the Sidlesham Parish Council meeting held in St Mary’s Church Parish Rooms on the Manhood Peninsula on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026. Please excuse my shaky camerawork but I had to resort to holding my camera for reasons explained on my Facebook page on social media. Seven members…
February 2, 2026

Chichester District Council, Council reporting, HISTORY, Journalism, News reporting, Parish council stories, Uncategorized

Parish Councillor Martin Simms resigns as Hunston continues to debate future of its village hall

By HILARY GAVIN I’M NOT sure where January went, but we’re now into the first working week of February so I thought I’d update you – my readers – on Hunston Parish Council matters. As you know our parish councillors have been deliberating over the future of our village hall. This morning I decided to…
January 7, 2026

BANKING, Council reporting, Golf feature, HISTORY, Journalism, Movies, News reporting, Parish council stories, Uncategorized, Utilities companies, WSCC, WSCC Highways

Reflections on a year in local journalism on the Manhood Peninsula in England

By HILARY GAVIN IF YOU’RE following me on social media, you’ll know that I’m fast approaching my WordPress blog site’s first anniversary. Of course, my regular blog readers know that I christened my site in February 2025 with a feature on my “big break” into journalism courtesy of the IRA Bognor Regis bike bombing in…
November 18, 2025

Council reporting, Parish council stories

Hunston Parish Council: November 2025 meeting update

By HILARY GAVIN IT APPEARS winter is setting in here in Hunston, West Sussex, as it was rather nippy today, and wet. Sadly, I didn’t film yesterday’s scheduled Hunston Parish Council meeting so I’m not sure if the councillors were able to make a quorate for proceedings to go ahead at the annexe of our…
November 13, 2025

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

Sidlesham Parish Council’s November 2025 meeting: Police called to Infinity FC match

By HILARY GAVIN I’M POSTING a brief report on this month’s full Sidlesham Parish Council meeting as the trustees of the Sidlesham Community Association (SCA) prepare to meet with the committee of Infinity Football Club tonight (Nov 13th, 2025). If you’ve read my Facebook post and YouTube footage of yesterday’s meeting held at the village…
October 10, 2025

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

Sidlesham Parish Council October meeting highlights – including trustee resignations from community association

By HILARY GAVIN Friday, October 10th, 2025 I AM writing this report on Sidlesham Parish Council’s full meeting held in the St Mary’s Church Hall Parish Rooms on Wednesday, October 8th, after downloading two YouTube videos of the proceedings which is always time-consuming. As you can see from the footage, Wednesday’s meeting covered a great…
September 13, 2025

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

Sidlesham Parish Council Meeting Highlights

By HILARY GAVIN SIDLESHAM Parish Councillors were few in number when they convened on Wednesday, September, 10th, 2025, for their full meeting which Chairman Martin Mellodey described as being “quite an important month”. There were apologies for absence from Cllrs Lewis Ramm, Tricia Tull, Tracy Parsons and Nick Wade – although Cllr Adrian Harland explained…
August 18, 2025

Chichester District Council, Council reporting, Education, Journalism, Parish council stories

Addressing telecommunications failures in local policing and politics

How I felt like the black sheep in the community by asking questions we should all be raising in a democracy, not an oligarchy or theocracy By HILARY GAVIN WHEN I was a nursery school child I remember getting very jealous of one of the girls in our ballet class who had been chosen to…