Category: Education

• 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…
• January 14, 2026

  Art and culture, Business, Education

  The impact of the EEC on UK farming in the 1980s – and the call to buy local produce today

  Thames TV YouTube clip from July 1983 By HILARY GAVIN THERE’S no denying that I felt quite superior donning a scientist’s white coat for my holiday job at the EEC Food Intervention Board’s grain mountain in Tangmere, West Sussex, in the summer of 1984. Of course, I would have appeared even more imposing to strangers…
• November 28, 2025

  Education, Feature writing, Uncategorized

  Lessons from Aberystwyth: Charity begins at home

  By HILARY GAVIN CHARITY, they say, begins at home and it’s a proverb that I have, on the whole, equated with selfishness in my life. Saying that, I’ve begun to view this short truism in a different light over the past two years as our modern-day individualistic society continues to eschew the extended family in…
• 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…
• August 5, 2025

  Education, Movies, TELEVISION

  How watching Shetland on telly has whetted my interest for philosophy

  By HILARY GAVIN I’D forgotten how gripping old movies and telly shows can be until I re-played the first series and beginning of the second series of Shetland on BBC iPlayer over the weekend. Now, I’m not sure why the BBC decided to feature crime writer Ann Cleeves’s third novel Red Bones in Series One…