Hilary Gavin

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Hilary Gavin

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SHOCKWAVES: London Road in Bognor Regis after the IRA blast in 1994.
PIC CREDIT: Stuart Blunden
MODERN TIMES: Selsey’s High Street as it is now in 2025 – twenty-seven years after a tornado stuck the town in 1998
WINDS OF CHANGE: the Lal Bar was once an Indian restaurant where Sir Patrick Moore enjoyed eating curries
BACK IN BUSINESS: Bognor Regis's plucky and defiant Chamber of Commerce members one month after the IRA bombing
BACK IN BUSINESS: Defiant message from Bognor Regis’s Chamber of Commerce after the IRA bombing
ZEBRA CROSSINGS: is the new layout st the Westgate roundabout more suited to an urban jungle than a cathedral city?
TALKING POINT: getting to the bottom of the £950,000 Dutch-style roundabout revamp at Westgate in Chichester
INSIDER KNOWLEDGE: My little Select Local magazine focused on village news for village people in Surrey in 2012
TIME TO WAKE UP: Is it too late after my generation led society down an Alice in Wonderland rabbit-hole?
MiSSION IMPOSSIBLE?: Will I ever uncover the identity of these “rogue heroes” from WWII?
SMILING THROUGH ADVERSITY: I remember happy holidays with my Welsh family in the mining villages of the Rhondda Valleys
TURNING THE TIDE: Selsey is Holding the Line against coastal erosion
SHEDDING LIGHT ON LOCAL ISSUES: the venue for the Hunston parish council meetings

Hilary Gavin

A freelance journalist who wants to see a return to public accountability in the local press
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