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Rubbish Collections

Mid Sussex District Council is reminding residents that rubbish and recycling collections remain the same throughout the Easter holiday period. Over Easter – Good Friday 2 April to the Bank Holiday on Easter Monday 5 April – refuse and recycling collection days remain unchanged. If the usual collection day is a Friday or Monday, it …

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Downland Churches Easter collection

The Mid Downland Churches are collecting the following goods for Family Support Work.   Please leave items inside our church for collection on Wednesday.       Household items:  Washing up liquid, Multi Surface Cleaner, Bleach, Toilet Rolls, Pan Scourers      Toiletries: Shower gel, Shampoo/Conditioner, Shaving cream, deodorant      Food:   UHT milk, tea, coffee, Weetabix, Microwave Rice, …

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Census Day

Census Day was on Sunday (21st March)  though many people had already completed their forms, online and on paper, across the country, and many more did so over the weekend.  I don’t know precisely how many, nor the split between online and paper, and won’t get that level of detail but overall I’m confident it’s …

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Easter at Poynings Holy Trinity Church

How about letting your children help decorate Poynings Church to celebrate Easter? Well, they can, CLICK HERE to find out how! (you will need to go to the site for the link to work.

March South Downs Newsletter

Click HERE to see the March South Downs National Park newsletter

Lent Lunch 2021

You are warmly invited to a Lent Lunch This is a simple meal of soup and a bread roll delivered to your home     Date: 1 April Time: lunchtime Venue : your own home Normally during Lent we try and give up something but this year we have all given up so much already …

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Council to introduce more meadow areas

MSDC to introduce more meadow areas Mid Sussex District Council plans to create more meadows areas in local parks and open spaces this summer to encourage native insects, wildlife and grassland species to thrive. Areas of open space in nearly 30 locations across Mid Sussex will be set aside and left to grow throughout the …

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Don’t forget to fill in your Census

Census reminders will start to arrive next week and the field officers will begin their work on Tuesday, following up with households that have not returned their questionnaire. We would like to clarify our guidance on what a member of the public should do if they are concerned that the person on their doorstep is …

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Download delight!

More than 80,000 downloads from the West Sussex eLibrary in February   West Sussex residents are making the most of their West Sussex eLibrary service with an incredible 80,000 downloads in February 2021 – double the number of downloads in the same month last year! The figures show that residents have welcomed the increased eLibrary …

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Possible stray cat

Is this anyone’s cat? It has spent a lot of time in Mill Close in the last few months looking for food.If it’s yours can you let me know, so I can pass it on that it is fine, just likes lots of food . I have to say, it doesn’t look very happy with …

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