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Connect2 A Slice of £50m Lottery Cake For South East England

 

 

The first opportunity to help bring a slice of a £50 million Big Lottery Fund grant to the South East started on Monday - so everyone is encouraged to get online to support Sustrans’ Connect2, and transform walking and cycling in our region. By going to www.thepeoples50million.org.uk and voting for Sustrans’ Connect2 everyone can help bring new local travel routes to the doorstep, making it easier for millions of people: both locally, and across the UK to walk and cycle for everyday journeys. Internet voting starts today, Monday 26 November, at 9.00 am and closes at 12 noon on Monday 10 December.

When the Great Storm of 1987 hit Toys Hill the damage was immense, but was it really such a bad thing?

 

 

Today, Toys Hill is owned by the National Trust, and covers an area of more than 200 acres, just south of Westerham. The area is designated an SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) due to the variety and abundance of wildlife in the area.

It is thought that a local land owning family provided the name for the Hill in the Middle Ages, and for hundreds of years it played a vital part in the area's economy.

Many of the tracks that criss-cross the site date from the time when horse drawn carts were used to carry leaf mould or gravel from the hill.

EDF Energy Networks invests £870,000 to remove power lines on the Sussex Downs

 

 

A regional steering group of environmental experts has given the go-ahead to remove about 8.5 kilometres of overhead power lines on the Sussex Downs.

High Weald Farmer is National Winner

 

 

After celebrating his success at winning the regional final in October, Keith Datchler, a farm manager from the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), has now been awarded the top honour in Natural England's prestigious "Future of Farming Awards".

Towpath ride for Surrey

 

 

Sustainable transport charity Sustrans, working in partnership with the Basingstoke Canal Authority, Surrey County Council and Woking Borough Council, is pleased to announce that work to upgrade the Basingstoke canal towpath will start in February 2008, subject to consultation. The first phase of the project will stretch from Kiln Bridge in St. John's to Chobham Road in Woking.

Bird flu outbreak in UK, tests underway

 

 

Thousands of birds are being culled at a Sufolk farm in Britain after avian influenza has been confirmed in the turkey flock.

EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PORK!

 

 

‘Pig to Pork’ Weekend at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum Sat/Sun 10 & 11 November

An entertaining and informative event for cooks, food-lovers and pig enthusiasts everywhere is planned for the weekend of 10 & 11 November at the award-winning Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex. The ‘Pig to Pork’ event will be centred in and around the Museum’s working Tudor kitchen and will cover everything you wanted to know about pork!

HUNDREDS OF LANTERNS BRIGHTEN A WINTER AFTERNOON

 

 

Tree Dressing Event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, Sunday 2 December

The annual Tree Dressing event at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, at Singleton, near Chichester, West Sussex, is a fascinating and unusual celebration for all the family of the life-giving properties of trees. The day’s finale as darkness falls is a wonderful procession and spiral dance around two magnificent aspen trees, which are dressed with hundreds of lanterns made during the afternoon.