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This week, we take a look back at Horsham’s headlines in our special two page feature.

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Mum-of- four Nicky Maidment was deeply depressed and feeling suicidal when a long-term rela-tionship ended. She felt worth-less as a mother and a human be-ing, she had effectively become a ‘Stepford Wife’ who lived to serve her partner.

Nicky, 55, from Horsham, said: “I thought I had to be perfect and had given everything I had to the relationship. So, when it ended, I blamed myself and held the belief I was worthless as a mother and a human being.

“I had lost my own identity and just become ‘someone’s girlfriend’ or ‘someone’s mother,’ so when it didn’t work out, I was broken. I would physically shake and I couldn’t eat or sleep.I lost two stone in a matter of weeks and took sleep-ing pills to get some rest. In the

end, it was actually thoughts of my children that kept me going.”

But it was at this low point in her life she discovered Neuro Lin-guistic Programming (NLP), which involves a set of techniques to de-velop the way people work on a per-sonal level. She credits the use of NLP with saving her life and devel-oping her sense of self-worth.

Nicky, who went to the Forest School for girls, which is now Mil-lais, grew up with the belief that ‘behind every successful man was a good woman’ and it was her role to be supportive ahead of her own needs.

Nicky, who went on to work in the computer department of Royal and Sun Alliance insurance company in Horsham, said: “I was run ragged. I worked three jobs, looked after the children, housework and my part-

ner around the clock. Of course, this was a recipe for disaster. When it ended I told myself my best simply wasn’t good enough.”

But a couple of months after the break-up, one of Nicky’s friends sent her on an NLP course, which proved to be a real turning point.

“I realised I had a choice about how I felt and I didn’t have to carry around all these negative emo-tions,” she said.

NLP is a technique developed in the 1970s, showing a connection between the neurological process-es, language and behavioural pat-terns learned through experience.

Nicky, who has been practising NLP for 15 years, has found it can be used to achieve specific goals in life and treat problems such as anxiety, allergies and phobias.

Today the grandmother of five

has her own identity and is set on helping other people overcome an-ything from depression to phobias.

She has since moved to Bristol and set up Purpleminds in Clifton. She uses NLP techniques, such as timeline therapy and hypnothera-py, to help people resolve their is-sues.

Nicky, who has trained with ce-lebrity practitioners such as Paul McKenna, said: “I once ran off a stage in panic after holding a pres-entation. My own thought process-es were stopping me from perform-ing well.

“Now I’m happy to talk in front of big groups. I’ve also used the tools I’ve learned to quit chocolate, which led to me losing over a stone in weight. But most importantly, NLP has enabled me to be accepting and proud of who I am.”

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West Sussex County Council (WSCC) leader Louise Goldsmith spoke at an Airports Commission meeting and said the authority must start planning now for the government’s decision on a sec-ond runway at Gatwick.

Louise was invited to the event, led by Commission chairman Sir Howard Davies. She joined resi-dents, politicians, business repre-sentatives and community groups who all gave their views for and against the option of a second run-way at the airport.

Louise told the meeting that West

Sussex County Council must start planning now for whatever decision is made to ensure the county is in the very best position to reap the benefits from a decision for Gatwick or Heathrow.

In her speech, Louise said: “If the government recommends expan-sion at Gatwick, the ramifications for West Sussex and the commu-nities close to the airport would be huge. I am firmly of the view that we have to start planning now for whatever decision is made.

“If there is to be a second runway at Gatwick Airport then we need to consider how best to mitigate the

effects on local communities and the environment whilst considering how best to provide the infrastruc-ture and services that are needed for more jobs, new business oppor-tunities, homes, as well as the in-crease in traffic and transport.

“I have had lots of letters from peo-ple questioning the decision to ask the council to support in principle the idea of an expanded Gatwick Airport including a second runway. I fully un-derstand and accept people’s anxiety.

“We’ve had some really chal-lenging conversations about resi-dents’ concerns over the noise,

particularly this summer, and the need for significant investment in business, transport and community infrastructure should the runway be given the green light. Those are the very issues we raised as conditions needing to be addressed when we gave support in principle.”

The council’s draft response to the Airports’ Commission consul-tation will be debated by the au-thority’s Environmental and Com-munity Services Select Committee on Wednesday, January 14 before being debated on Monday, January 19 at the full council meeting.

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Local residents and businesses are being invited to meet Horsham District Council’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Horsham town Cllr Helena Croft at her next drop- in session which is being

run at Horsham Library on Thurs-day, January 8, 2015.

Cllr Croft will be on hand to per-sonally answer questions about Horsham town centre and will wel-come people’s thoughts on what they would like to see in the town in the new year ahead.

If anyone has thoughts and ideas on how Horsham town can be im-proved or priorities for its manage-ment they are invited to come along and talk about them.

Commenting on her next drop-in session Cllr Croft said: “Meeting residents and representatives from businesses and hearing from them directly is always one of my top priorities. I welcome opportunities such as this and will be delighted to hear from those who come along.”

The drop- in session will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 11.30am to 1.00pm in the foyer area of Horsham Library, Lower Tanbridge Way, Horsham, RH12 1PJ.

These sessions fall on the fourth Thursday every other month. Anyone can drop in to the sessions on the day on a first come, first served basis.

Ten minute appointments can also be requested by contacting Stacey Dickson at Horsham Dis-trict Council by emailing [email protected] or calling 01403 215263.

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Horsham District Council has re-ceived an interim letter from the planning inspector appointed by the government to examine its 20 year strategy, the Horsham Dis-trict Planning Framework.

In this letter the inspector clear-ly states, in line with the strategy, that he favours concentration of growth around Horsham, South-water and Billingshurst along with some development in other villag-es, in accordance with Neighbour-hood Plans that are currently being produced by communities across the district.

He completely dismisses the pro-posal by Mayfield for a new ‘market town’ between Henfield and Sayers Common and dismisses ‘the alter-native strategy of greater dispersal around the district’ saying ‘it would lead to a less sustainable pattern of development’.

The inspector makes specific comment about the proposal on land north of Horsham saying it ‘offers the opportunity to provide housing, business development and social and community facilities at a sustainable location’ and ‘that there would be sufficient distance between the new development and the western edge of Crawley for the separate identities of both towns to be retained’.

He comments similarly on the al-location for around 500 homes on land west of Southwater stating that it is ‘a sustainable location relative-ly close to the centre of the settle-ment...and dwellings could be well integrated with existing housing.’

The inspector has also examined a long list of calculations that have been submitted for the number of homes that will need to be built ranging from over 1,000 per annum (pa) down to the council’s target of 650 pa and indicated that he feels he could pass the plan if the council can find in the region of an addi-tional 100 homes pa.

Cabinet member for living and working communities, Council-lor Claire Vickers, said: “I am very pleased after months of uncertainty we now have a very clear indication from the inspector that he feels he is close to a point where he can approve our plan and that he has strongly supported the strategy that we have prepared.

“While he dismisses some of the very high numbers for future house building that were being suggested, it is greatly disappointing that he is requiring us to revise this number. I have asked our strategic planning team to start work immediately on how we can accommodate these additional homes with the mini-mum impact. I am delighted he has acknowledged that with current rates of housing delivery we should be able to demonstrate a five year supply of land. This will put us in a much stronger position when de-velopers lodge appeals.”

Planning inspector favours Horsham growth

Countryside campaigners are urging Mayfield Market Towns to stop promoting controver-sial plans for a new town after a government inspector ex-pressed ‘significant concerns’ about the proposals.

The London property compa-ny wants to build 10,000 homes on countryside straddling the border between Mid Sussex and Horsham Districts near the vil-lage of Henfield.

The scheme is not in the lo-cal plans and is not supported by any of the district or parish councils or by the two local MPs, Sir Nicholas Soames and Nick Herbert.

On Friday, December 19 Geoff Salter, the inspector charged with examining Horsham’s Dis-trict Plan, published his prelimi-nary report saying;

“Concerns have been raised about the sustainability of the location of the MMT site, in par-ticular its distance from railway services and the strategic road network, and the potential us-age and viability of the ‘park and ride’ proposals.”

He also stated that he believed a scheme of Mayfields’ size is

‘not required’ in the districts.Despite this, Mayfields has

given no indication of giving up its plans.

Anthony Watts Williams, founder of the local protest group LAMBS, says Mayfields’ proposals are nonsensical, and they should take heed of what the Inspector says.

“We are delighted that the inspector has spoken so much common sense,” he said. “The site Mayfields has chosen is ri-diculous – on beautiful open countryside, rich in wildlife, a flood plain, and seven miles from the nearest railway station, in full view of the South Downs. It would be madness to put a town here.

“Although Mayfields has been promoting this scheme for near-ly two years, there is no plan-ning application, just a website and a series of self-published plans. Unfortunately, the uncer-tainty this has created is causing widespread blight throughout our local villages and we are not prepared for that situation to remain indefinitely. We are now taking legal advice to establish what our options are.”

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Dougie, an 11-year-old Springer Spaniel, owned by father of one David Ball, scooped first prize in Southern Water’s top dog com-petition which encouraged staff to submit a cute, funny or festive photo of their pooch.

David, a senior civil engineer at Southern Water was rewarded with shopping vouchers after competi-tion judges from UK charity, Canine Partners, favoured a festive picture of Dougie playing in the snow.

David said: “We homed Dougie four years ago after a former col-league of mine emigrated to Aus-tralia and could no longer look after him. Dougie has a lovely re-laxed temperament and is a joy to be around.”

The company’s metering team launched the competition to pro-mote the Canine Partners charity.

Canine Partners relies on dona-tions and is dedicated to trans-forming the lives of people with physical disabilities by training dogs to help with everyday tasks that would otherwise be difficult, painful or impossible to carry out.

The tasks the dogs perform, which include opening doors, pressing buttons and signaling for help in an emergency, provides their owners with confidence and the ability to lead an independent life.

Cat Harvey, trust and corporate manager at Canine Partners, said: “We would like to thank all those who put forward their festive pho-

tos into the Top Dog competition. We are grateful to Southern Wa-ter’s metering team for choosing us as their charity and continu-ing to raise money so we can fund more assistance dogs through their training.”

Julie Carly, communications manager at Southern Water, said: “Since 2011, we have raised nearly £6,000 for this fantastic char-ity though dress down days, cake sales and annual events such as quiz nights.

For more information about Southern Water’s metering pro-gramme visit www.yourwater-meter.co.uk and for details or to donate money to Canine Partners visit www.canineparters.org.uk.

(L–R) Yvie (Canine Partners dog aged 16 months), Ruth Breading (Canine Partners dog trainer), David Ball and his dog Dougie

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A traditional three bedroom, semi-detached home in an urban loca-tion with neighbours either side that are less than 11 metres away is most at risk from the threat of thieves new research from MORE TH>N Insurance reveals.

Electronics (87 per cent), cash (54 per cent) and jewellery (53 per cent) are the top items most likely to find their way into swag bags.

The research, conducted amongst 3,000 people who have been bur-gled in the past and using informa-tion from 32 police forces, found

those living in a semi-detached home are 38 per cent more likely to be broken into than any other type of property.

Matt Poll of MORE TH>N Insur-ance said: “The research shows that there’s a worrying pattern to the type of homes targeted by bur-glars in the UK, with families most at risk. Add to this the poor level of security measures put in place by most homeowners and it’s a poten-tial recipe for disaster.”

On average, items totalling £2,114 are taken from homes in a single bur-

glary. According to official govern-ment data which reveals there were 459,796 recorded residential burgla-ries in 2013 alone, equating to one in 50 households, the value of stolen items to Brits is £972m each year.

The research found three quar-ters of people who had their prop-erty broken in to did not have a bur-glar alarm fitted at the time of the burglary, 72 per cent did not have a single security light, 40 per cent did not have double glazing fitted and 12 per cent had no extra safety measures whatsoever.

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Children’s hospice charity, Shoot-ing Star Chase, received an infl ux of donations after thieves raided its storage unit just a few weeks before Christmas, pilfering £630 worth of donated goods designed to raise precious funds for sick children.

The charity has received a num-ber of online donations since the theft of two bikes. People have been off ering gifts as a result of the or-ganisation’s bad fortune and two local students donated 20 gift ham-pers for supported children after reading about the crime.

The largest donation off the back of the theft came from Tesco, who sent Shooting Star Chase goods including a Sony 3D TV, iPads and Beats headphones. The items are worth a massive £2,390 and will

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“We’d like to say a very spe-cial thank you to Tesco, who have bowled us over with their extremely kind donations.”

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Full carriageway night closures of the A24 in Horsham will take place from mid to the end of January, to enable the installation of a new footbridge providing a foot and cycle facility across the dual car-riageway.

The night closures of both the north and south bound carriage-ways of the A24 will start on Tues-day, January 13, finishing in the ear-ly hours of the morning on Sunday, February 1.

The night closures will take place between Farthings Hill and Hop Oast junctions of the A24, from 8pm and will reopen the following morning at 5,30am, with the exist-ing single lane traffic management restrictions. A full diversion route through Horsham town centre will be in place and signage will direct motorists through the town.

The new footbridge across the A24 is part of the Broadbridge Heath relief road and will create a

new access into Broadbridge Heath. Due to the scale and intricacy of the work involved the road bridge sec-tions can only be installed at night, to protect the A24 workforce and travelling public.

A spokesperson from J Breheny Contractors said: “The A24 Horsham works are progressing well and the team is on schedule. We appreciate the patience of the motoring pub-lic in Horsham during these works and apologise for any inconvenience during the forthcoming night clo-sures in January. These will be the last full carriageway night closures for this road improvement scheme and we would ask that motorists on the A24 take extra care during the footbridge installation work.”

For more information on the road closures please see the works web-site, www.a24horsham.co.uk or email [email protected]. For regular updates via Twitter please follow the team @a24horsham.

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The Dry January campaign aims to start different conversations about alcohol and challenges so-cial drinkers to try 31 days of alco-hol free living throughout January. This does not mean that people should not go out, see friends, go to parties, or avoid doing anything that they would ordinarily do, but just that they can do so without drinking alcohol.

Horsham District Wellbeing will be promoting Dry January in Swan Walk shopping centre on Friday, January 2 between 10am and 4pm, in conjunction with Mocktails Ap-prentice. People can find out more information about Dry January, al-cohol awareness, get recipes for

alcohol free cocktails and have a few tasters, and meet with the Hor-sham District’s alcohol wellbe-ing adviser to ask any alco-hol related q u e s t i o n s . M e m b e r s of the Hor-sham Dis-trict wellbe-ing team will also be there promoting vari-ous services that they provide, includ-ing one to one alcohol

support, healthy eating and weight management

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reducing the quantity and frequen-cy of their alcohol consumption af-ter January.

Research on Dry January by the University of Sussex found that six months after participating, 72 per cent of individuals had kept harmful drinking episodes down, and 4 per cent were still not drinking. Dr R De Visser, who conducted the research, found that significant changes in alcohol consumption were among participants who took part but did not complete the whole month al-cohol free. To read the positive ex-periences of people who completed Dry January last year visit www.dry-january.org.uk/testimonials.

Professor Kevin Fenton, national

director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, has high-lighted that ‘the research shows that a month of abstinence can help people to reset their relationship with alcohol’, and ‘over-consump-tion of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 60 medical conditions including cancer, depression and dementia and yet more than half of adults who drink do so at a level above the recommended guidance’.

For more information about Dry January, or if you have any concerns regarding alcohol, contact Dan Bar-ritt, Horsham District alcohol well-being adviser, on 01403 215191 or email [email protected].

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The Springboard Project was helped by seven employees from Horsham based inde-pendent workplace compliance consultancy Assurity Consult-ing who took a day out to help the local Horsham charity. The task this year was to renovate their garden and repaint their accessible toilet.

Adam Curtis, marketing co-ordinator at Assurity Consulting said: “We painted a mural based on the children’s fi lm ‘Frozen’, a modern classic Disney fairytale. We also tidied up their garden for the winter.”

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By December 1914 Horsham had like the rest of the nation become accustomed to war with the re-alisation that it won’t be over by Christmas.

The last four months had seen Horsham immersed in the war, a war that the Country had been ill prepared for, so there was a great deal of negotiation, public debate and establishment of new organi-sations which used the skills of the voluntary sector. It was in many re-spects a challenge that the middle classes ‘stepped up to’ and took on.

Christmas 1914 has become part of World War One legend with its game of football across the trenches. In Horsham the town held a Christmas entertainment for the Belgian refu-gees in the Albion Hall. The hall was decorated with fl ags and long fes-toons sent by the Horsham Cricket week decoration Committee.

There were about 150 people in attendance with the Belgian refu-gees being delivered to the hall by motor car from Albert Lodge and No 22 the Carfax. By February 1917 there were still nine at Albert Lodge and a family of fi ve children and a mother being looked after by the Roman catholic Father Cassidy.

Below is a letter sent on January 2, 1915:

Dear Miss ----, Very many thanks for Xmas parcel received quite safe-ly. We had a jolly Xmas considering where we are. I had your parcel on the 25th. We managed to get hold of three chickens between about 12 of us and we also mustered fi ve Xmas puddings; it is splendid the way peo-ple from the Old Country have been looking after ”Tommy”. For all said and done we are only doing our Duty, and by what I have seen out here I think the boys are doing it with a

right good spirit and they are gradu-ally but surely getting them under.

I have had some very narrow es-capes here. Once I had my Maxim blown up whilst fi ring it, but was not touched. Another time an of-fi cer was sitting behind my gun talking to me and a shell came and burst right in front of me and hurled the gun and nearly blew the offi cer to pieces, he died shortly after. But still we don’t want to think of that part of the business, as we generally manage to come out of these tight corners smiling.

“Tommy” always looks on the bright side of things and I think that is half the battle. I often think of the days when we used to be at class sitting together on a Sunday morn-ing; little did I think I was going to see such exciting times as these. I own it is a bit risky but all the same it is time apart.

Well once again I must thank you most sincerely for thinking of me. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you shortly and thanking you per-sonally. So hoping the New Year will bring forth better news and a peace which will last for years to come.

Hoping you are enjoying the best of health. I remain, Yours very sin-cerely, A. Russell. 21st Life Guards.

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Max and Sophie looked forward to Christmas. But not long ago, things were quite diff erent for these two young children. They did not get out much due to mum’s health problems, they did not spend much time interacting with their parents and things around them were really chaotic.

They would hear dad being ver-bally abusive to mum and the family had fi nancial problems. It was all having a bad eff ect on the children, how they were de-veloping and how they were behaving. The family were in real need of help.

They were put in touch with Home-Start CHAMS, a local char-ity that works with families with young c h i l d r e n where parents are struggling to cope in the face of diffi cult issues. At fi rst, the trained charity volun-teer mostly helped with simple, practical things during their weekly visits to the family’s home, such as budgeting and managing the household. When the family’s situ-ation worsened, with mum and the children being moved to temporary accommodation for their own safe-ty, Home-Start CHAMS were there to give the extra support they so needed.

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the family, Home-Start helped in creating the safe and secure envi-ronment the children needed. The relationship with both their parents improved, they now regularly went to school and nursery, mixing with other children, and their behaviour was improved.

Max and Sophie’s mum said: “Home-Start helped me realise that I can be a good mum and helped me to see that it was ok to need help.”

Last year Home-Start CHAMS s u p p o r t e d 327 children t h r o u g h o u t H o r s h a m , Crawley, and Mid Sussex and the num-ber of families needing their help con-tinues to in-crease.

To be able to off er the vital support these families need and make sure

they can reach even more vulner-able local children in 2015, Home-Start CHAMS is asking local people to support their Snowfl ake Appeal and help raise much needed funds.

If you would like to get involved in the Snowfl ake Appeal, which runs until Saturday, January 31, con-tact Home-Start CHAMS on 01293 416327, or visit www.homestart-chams.org.uk/snowfl ake.

This family’s story is based on family support work by Home-Start CHAMS; names and identities have been altered.

Home-Start CHAMS Snowfl ake Appeal for vulnerable local childrenA West Sussex programme which

is changing hundreds of people’s lives for the better is to be extend-ed for up to fi ve years. West Sussex County Council has given the go-ahead to extend the Think Family initiative for 2015/16 and has given support ‘in principle’ to continue the programme until 2020.

Think Family is the local ver-sion of the government’s Troubled Families initiative and involves the County Council working with part-ners in Children’s Services, Sus-sex Police, District and Borough Councils, health organisations, Job Centres and many commercial and charitable care agencies.

The fi rst phase of the Think Fam-ily programme has the aim of turn-ing around the lives of 1,165 fami-lies by the end of March 2015. So far 907 families have achieved success against government criteria and Think Family is well on its way to meeting this target.

The next phase of the programme could now see another 4,000 fami-lies benefi ting from the innovative help and support that Keyworkers and other specialist services off er to families.

Peter Evans, West Sussex County Council cabinet member for chil-dren – start of life, said: “This pro-ject really is turning people’s lives

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“This is a really successful ap-proach where we work collectively with people living in certain areas to empower them to make positive changes for themselves.”

The proposal to extend the scheme was recently endorsed by the County Council’s Children and Young People’s Services Select Committee.

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For many in the District, particularly in the North, their Christmas present was un-wrapped just a little too early than wished; and for many the prospect of new neighbourhoods and the inevitable increase in traffic seem just as desirable as that ill fitting jumper from the rarely seen Aunt.

However as no receipts were included and the Inspectors report is not something we can return to the customer service desk in the hope for an exchange, or at least a gift token of equal value, we have a much unwanted gift in our laps.

The initial concluding report from the Plan-ning Inspector regarding the much debated, possibly questionably consulted, Horsham District Planning Framework may well suggest that there was a greater need for public consul-tation but the Amazon Wishlists of Neighbour-hood planning are a distant dream for many a community. In place of the much wished for reduction in development we are seeing the suggestion that more, not less, is the answer to the question of strategic planning for the future. Like some perverted moment from the pages of Oliver Twist we may well see more of those developers approaching the planning ta-ble, bowls in hand, pleading “Please, sir. I want some more.”

Just how many more similar Dickensian tales there will be in our future is hard to tell. So here we are entering 2015 with a much un-wanted Christmas present in our hands and the dawning realisation that all the promises that things would be worse without a plan in place seem like ash compared to the results of the now placed the plan. This is usually the time to sit and write the various thank you notes to those who sent such thoughtful presents.

I imagine quite a few letters have been, and will be, drafted and delivered and few of them will be glowing in appreciation. So as the uncomfortable leftovers of 2014 administration are packed into the future lunchboxes of policy I am left to won-der with more development on the horizon just how far we can build without support, health, or education, being secured in the present.

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The stunning work comprised pieces created by talented second year BTEC Art and Design students.

Dawn Fincham, Ward Manager of the Sussex Community NHS Trust’s Horizon Unit at Horsham Hospital, explained how the project worked: “I met with the Collyer’s artists during the Easter term and follow-ing this, the students visited the hospital to get a feel for the spaces that would house their art. Today is very much the culmination of their creative work; we are so grate-ful that these young artists care so much about our patients and the important work we do here.”

Sharon Rolfe, Subject Leader for BTEC Art at Collyer’s, said: “It has been wonderful to collaborate with Dawn and this great hospital on the project. I am so proud of our second year National Diploma students as they have produced some stunning work for patients, staff and visitors to enjoy.”

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Actor, Paul Darrow, who accepted the artwork on behalf of the Ho-rizon Unit’s patients said: “The pieces that will go on show demon-strate amazing talent, these young artists are clearly gifted and it was a pleasure to meet them. This really is terrifi c for the ward and I would also like to say a huge thank-you to the professionals here. They are brilliant.”

Dawn Fincham added: “The art cheers up the ward – so massive thanks to Sharon Rolfe and these lovely students. It is great to have youngsters mixing with our older patients on the ward. Young people can often get a bad press, but our experience, including projects like this, is entirely positive. Not many people know this, but half of our volunteers are from Collyer’s alone! That says it all!”

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EVENT OF THE WEEKViENNEsE CONCErTJanuary 3Horsham Music Circle show at the Drill Hall, Horsham at 3pm. Starring members of Horsham Symphony Or-chestra led by Rachel El-lis with guest artists, Jill Elsworthy soprano, Hel-en Whittington soprano, James Kinsella tenor and dancers from Glynde Place. Tickets: adults £16, stu-dents £10, under 16s £3. Available at www.wegot-tickets.com/HorshamMu-sicCircle.

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January2014 kicked off with heavy flooding across the district closing roads and train stations leaving many fac-ing long journeys to work. Floods followed heavy storms at the tail end of 2013 with many experi-encing blackouts over the Christmas period.

MarchThe District Post broke news this month of a fire taking place at Mil-lais School, Horsham. A 16-year-old was arrested and later charged with ar-son. The blaze damaged the school’s art depart-ment. This story gained huge coverage, and eye-witnesses relayed infor-mation back to us ena-bling us to be first with this news.

MayThis month saw the coun-cil face one of the larg-est decisions it has had to make in 10 years. After a mammoth meeting run-ning until 1am the coun-cil approved the plan for 2,500 homes in North Horsham. The plan is still with the planning inspec-tor and the district eagerly awaits the result.

FebruaryThere was unrest across the district as many local residents protested against the prospect of new homes and a new flightpath at Gatwick Airport. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom as Horsham Rotary or-ganised the town’s annual pancake race in which local businesses competed.

AprilEaster is always a great time to be in Horsham. With the sun slowly brightening and warming the days, it’s also when the annual Piazza Italia festival is held in the town centre.The festival sees Horsham fill with ferraris and ital-ian bikes and scooters. The town also hosts a huge Italian market and is one of the busiest weekends of the year.

JuneUnrest continues in the district. Following the councils decision on de-veloping North Horsham, protesters were out in force. ‘Enough is enough’ was the message as many residents took to the pro-posed development site in order to preserve it.


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JulyWith summer in full swing, lucky pupils from Stey-ning Grammar Schools met with Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. This month also saw the annual ‘Sparks in the Park’ festival take place featuring family activities and live music from local bands.

SeptemberSummer begins to come to an end and Horsham residents enjoyed world-class cycling as the Tour of Britain passed through the town. Residents welcomed cy-clists including olympi-an Bradley Wiggins. This month also saw the annu-al Barns Green half mara-thon take place which at-tracts a huge number of runners from around the country.

NovemberThe town came together this month for Remem-brance Sunday this month in the annual march. As the days grew shorter, the district faced bad news as a vulnerable couple were attacked in the town cen-tre. A Horsham woman also suffered a shocking attack after husband hired a hitman to kill her.

AugustWith summer in full swing, festivals and events were taking place all over the district. One unique event which took place was the annual 24 hour lawn mow-er race in Five Oaks. The sport was developed in West Sussex and the en-durance race sees teams compete from all over the country.

OctoberIn news, after a number of accidents local residents began campaigning to in-crease safety on the A24. This month also saw the sad news of the passing of local glam rock icon Alvin Stardust, who lived in Bill-ingshurst. One of his final festival appearances was earlier in the year at the Rudgwick Music Festival. Horsham also began gear-ing up for 25 upcoming firework displays.

DecemberChristmas lights went up around town and the fes-tive season began. Shop-pers in Swan Walk snapped selfies with the Christmas snowman display and local charity Action Medical Re-search raised £200k. Sadly this month a collision took place at Bucks Green which resulted in the death of a 67-year-old woman, and an attempted robbery took place at HSBC, West Street, Horsham.

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StoolballDave Smith – Sports Editor

Broadbridge Heath Stoolball Club have had a fantastic third season in the Chanctonbury League finishing as Runner’s up and taking the trophies for the most Catches and Wickets.

Having started as a village team three years ago they have devel-oped into a well run team that contains some outstanding play-ers.

At their recent awards evening held at ASK the winners were:

Beckie Mabbutt - Batting Award - 640 runs

Paula Baker - Bowling Award - 20 wickets from just 6 games

Leah Head - All Rounder Award with 363 runs 17 wickets 2 catches & 2 run-outs

Most Improved Player Award - Leanne Lamb

Player’s Player Award - Bindy Carter

This Recognition Award went to Emma Haley and Amy Lidbet-ter for their outstanding bowling performances.

The club also send thanks to

Jackie Haigh-Kneeshaw for scor-ing and training, John Baker for umpiring, Nathan Booker for his hard work in setting up the ground. The club also wish to recognise the major contribu-tion made by Broadbridge Heath Cricket Club who supply the ground to play the matches on.

The club are always looking for new players and are looking to set up a junior and mixed team in 2015, if anyone is interested then please contact Sally Booker email [email protected].

Broadbridge Heath Stoolball celebrate a good year

BBH Stoolball awards evening 2014

EquestrianDave Smith – Sports Editor

Farlington School sent two teams to compete in the Grass Roots Championships at Sands Farm, Warnham recently enter-ing the Jumping with Style and 50cm class and one team for the 60cm class.

Lucy Harrison riding Cruiser, Georgia Stephens riding Jeepers and Lucy Bugler riding Buttons went first in the Jumping with Style class. All girls rode bril-liantly and never stopped smil-ing throughout. Georgia’s pony decided to run out of one off the jumps and threw her off, but she still managed to complete the course.

The second team of Lucia May-hew riding Sammy, Suzie Lunt riding Diva and Roseanna Savage riding Polo were up against some stiff competition as there were 15 teams entered.

Through some superb riding the team were placed first with Lucia Mayhew also taking an individual first place and Roseanna Savage

come a good fourth.In the 50cm team and indi-

vidual class the first team of Lucy Bugler, Lucy Harrison and Georgia rode with passion and had a great competition.

The second Farlington team of Lucia Mayhew, Roseanna Savage, Suzie Lunt and Millie Bubb were against 19 other teams entered in this class. Suzie was up first and did a super clear round on Diva with some great jump off turns. Roseanna’s jumped beautifully on her new pony Polo who she had only had for a week. Lucia and her

pony Sammy were amazing and the completed a great round. Last up was Millie on Squirrel, Millie did a clear round with some fabu-lous jump off turns. When it came to the results it was announced that the team of Lucia, Roseanna, Suzie and Millie were the winners. In the individual results, Suzie was placed 7th, Millie 5th and Lu-cia an very good 3rd.

In the 60cm class the team of Lucia, Roseanna, Suzie and Mil-lie all had fantastic clear rounds against 12 strong teams finishing a very good 3rd overall.

Farlington riders jump to success

Motor SportDave Smith – Sports Editor

Jolyon Palmer was announced as the winner of the prestigious Guild of Motoring Writers Driver of the Year Award at a prize gala recently in London.

The Guild of Motoring Writers, inaugurated 70 years ago, is the largest international organisation in the world for motoring journal-ists with over 400 members from print and broadcast media. Each year the Guild awards a trophy to the leading driver as chosen by a panel of leading motor sport jour-nalists. Previous winners have in-cluded Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Stirling Moss, Graham and Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and Jolyon’s father Jonathan. Since

2009 the award has been given to the leading young British racing driver of the year.

The award recognised a season in which Jolyon secured a command-ing title victory in the GP2 Cham-pionship, the first Briton to win the title since Lewis Hamilton in 2006, with four wins, 12 podium finishes, and the highest points score in the series’ history.

A delighted Jolyon said: “It was an honour to pick up the Guild of Motoring Writers Driver of the Year Award. It’s amazing looking at it and seeing so many incredible driv-ers who have won the award in the past, many F1 champions dating back to the 1950s. It was also amaz-ing to see my father’s name on it in 1981, I’m sure he had the same satisfaction as me picking it up 33 years ago!”

Jolyon Palmer wins Motoring Writers award

Jolyon Palmer receiving the award

Sub AquaDave Smith – Sports Editor

Cranleigh Sub Aqua Club are a small, active Club who meet at 7.30pm every Tuesday at Cran-leigh School Pool for training and then at the Cranleigh Sports and Social Club to plan dives for next year and chat over a drink.

New recruits have just completed their Ocean Diver train-ing and our Diving Officer, the “Boss”, is well on the way to achieving his Ad-vanced Diver qualifica-tion. During the winter months they concentrate on skills development courses.

The Training Officer, Bob Brad-ley, ran two sessions on wreck div-ing recently, a lecture followed by a

practical session, prior to taking a group to survey a wreck submerged in the Wraysbury Dive Centre in Middlesex.

Last season saw them diving off the Farne Islands and West Bay, as well as from their boat, a 6.8 me-

tre RIB, on sites and wrecks along the South Coast in

addition several mem-bers dived in the Red Sea.

The club received a Lottery grant a few of years ago and used it to refurbish

the RIB, renewing the floatation tubes

and engine and updat-ing the sonar, safety gear

and radio.To learn more and book a free try-

dive go to www.Cranleighsubaqua-club.co.uk or phone Keith Howland on 07966 449163.

Cranleigh Sub Aqua Club looking for new members

Cranleigh Sub Aqua Club

Roseanna Savage, Millie Bubb, Lucia Mayhew and Suzie Lunt


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Many people are keen on sport, but few can match the enthu-siasm of Horsham’s John Bur-roughs. John enjoyed a great sea-son with the bat for Horsham’s Premier League cricket team, including an excellent century against Eastbourne and scores goals aplenty for the town’s fi rst eleven hockey team, having cap-taining them for three years.

JB’s mother Diana is president of Billingshurst Tennis Club, fa-ther Clive was a good all round sportsman and Uncle Jim is Chair-man of newly promoted Billing-shurst Cricket Club, for whose fi rst team John’s cousin Mike plays. Mike is also a very useful footballer and John’s brother Pete is a leading surfer.

And, John’s fi ancée, PE teacher Lauren – who also comes from a sporting family – is a regu-lar member of Horsham Ladies’ hockey fi rsts. Just for good meas-ure the family are eager skiers and snowboarders, too.

Coming from such iconic sport-ing pedigree it was inevitable that JB would be an outstanding per-

former, in addition to which, as a cricket and hockey coach at sen-ior level he works in sports de-velopment at Collyer’s (where he is completing his fi nal year of PE teacher training), specialising in raising the quality and quantity of sport at the college.

John told the District Post: “I had a hockey stick thrust into my hand as a young boy and started at Broadbridge Heath with cur-rent Horsham stalwarts Mark An-sell and Neil Burlinson. I played cricket early, too - fi rstly at Mid-dleton and then Billingshurst be-fore graduating to Horsham.”

At university JB played hockey for Bourneville in Division 1 of the National League and in the off season in the Classic League in Perth, Australia, where he trained with national team members at the Institute of Hockey. And, hav-ing represented Sussex at cricket at up to U19, he also played for Water Orton CC in the Birming-ham league, opening the batting with England’s Moeen Ali. John says he couldn’t choose between hockey and cricket, but with so much already achieved as the only person having played the two sports at the current local level,

does he have any remaining am-bitions? “Yes! I’d love to help the hockey club become established in the South Premier League and to win the premier league cricket title would also be very special having come so close in recent years”

Given JB’s commitment and dedication it certainly will not be his fault if those aspirations re-main unfulfi lled.

John Burroughs – Horsham sporting guru

John Burroughs in Hockey action for Horsham

Sporting Profi leDave Smith – Sports Editor

If challenged to name some great British runners, Coe, Farah, Cram and Bannister would no doubt spring to mind, but what about Shrubb? Given the little that is written or spoken about him many will be thinking, probably with certain justifi cation, who is Shrubb?

Local man Alfi e Shrubb was one of the fi nest runners this country has ever produced and perhaps from the memorial races held each year in England and Canada, his name will one day be mentioned along with the likes of Coe and Bannister.

Alfred “Alfi e” Shrubb was a late starter, his running career did not begin until he was twenty, hav-ing worked in the building trade throughout his teens in preference to taking on his father’s farm.

In 1899 while working as a brick-layer near his home in Slinfold Alfi e met a man named F.J.Spence who was a well known runner and mem-ber of the local athletic club. Spence was on his way to a large house fi re in Southwater that could clearly be seen in the distance and suggested Alfi e ran with him to see the blaze. Afi e, who had not attempted to run at any great speed over any distance before, beat the fi re engine to the scene and the impressed Spence convinced Alfi e to join him at Hor-sham Blue Star Harriers Running Club.

Alfi e quickly became a respected runner fi rstly as an amateur be-tween 1899 and 1905 and then pro-fessionally, competing regularly until his retirement from competi-tive running in 1912. In his career Alfi e won over 1000 of the 1800 rac-es he took part in, excelling in dis-tances less than 15 miles in which he was virtually unbeatable and often took on 4 man relay teams to create a ‘bit of competition’.

One memorable day on November 4, 1904, at Ibrox stadium in Glasgow

he broke the world one hour record as well as all the amateur records from six to eleven miles, and all the professional records from eight to eleven miles, altogether on this one day he set 28 world records.

In 1908 he became coach of the Harvard University cross-country team, leading them to a national ti-tle, and then from 1919 to 1928 he coached the Oxford University Ath-letic Club.

In 1928 Alfi e moved to Canada and loved it so much he remained there until his death in 1964.

Each year the Alf Shrubb Memo-rial race is run over a 5 mile cross country course in his home town of Slinfold, starting and fi nishing at Slinfold Cricket Club. As well as the Slinfold race there is also an an-nual Alfi e Shrubb Museum Run held in Bowmanville, his adopted home town in Canada.

Who is Alfi e Shrubb?

AthleticsDave Smith – Sports Editor

Horsham coach Andy Neal has re-ceived the Coach of the Year award which was presented to him by Club Chairman and South East Regional Councillor Keith May and England Athletics Club & Coach Support Of-fi cer Elspeth Turner in the pres-ence of Horsham Blue Star Harriers club members, coaches, athletes and parents inside the Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre Tube.

Andy’s contribution to coach-ing extends from beginner to elite. Since becoming a Level 4 coach over 20 years ago he has dedicated both his working and volunteer life to coaching athletics. Although per-haps better known for his develop-ment and delivery of coach educa-tion, Andy’s track record as a throws coach has followed an impressive upwards pathway culminating with a bronze medal in the Discus by Jade Lally at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Andy’s coaching group

includes several past international athletes. Five of these athletes while coached by Andy were na-tionally ranked in the top 20. Jade has been the UK leading female dis-cus thrower for the last 4 years.

Andy received his award less than week after returning from Mozam-bique where he has been intro-ducing the national and regional coaches to the UK Athletics system of coaching and coach education.

Horsham’s Andy Neal named Coach of the Year

Andy Neal with Commonwealth bronze medallist Jade Lally

Alf Shrubb

John Burroughs celebrates 50 for the Horsham cricket team


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