Category: Chichester District Council

March 17, 2026

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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

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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

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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

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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…
October 10, 2025

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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

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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

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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…
July 22, 2025

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Stopcock Issues: Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in Southover Way in Hunston

By HILARY GAVIN (UPDATE: Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, 10.22am) Dear readers, I’m updating this blog after receiving a reply to an email I sent to Woody Wilcock, a Flood Resilience Engagement Advisor and manager, at the Environment Agency about possible erosion to my stopcock from leaking engine oil in cars parked in my road which…
June 18, 2025

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Wellington’s scum of the earth: Are we repeating history by writing-off modern-day “undesirables” as anti-social drunkards?

By HILARY GAVIN IN THE Napoleonic Wars Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington branded his own common British soldiers as “the scum of the earth.” The Duke was venting his anger in a dispatch to the High Tory Earl Bathurst as his troops began looting in the aftermath of the joint Spanish, Portuguese and British…
June 12, 2025

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Mum Bex’s call for action at B2145 and Sidlesham school to save lives

By HILARY GAVIN IMAGINE being too scared to get off a Stagecoach bus to cross the road to your home that you’d rather stay onboard for an extra 20 minutes while the driver does his or her rounds in a nearby town before returning to your village. It’s shameful, I know, but I almost didn’t…