My constituent Dinkie Flowers, now 103 and a quarter, was in typically irrepressible form when she turned up at the Fishersgate Gateway Hub to present a cheque to organiser Jill Lennon following her successful sponsored dance classes in the run up to her 103rd birthday in May.
Sadly we’ve had instances of shoplifting and antisocial behaviour in our town centres, and recently there was that very unfortunate assault inside the Co-op in Lancing.
Now we are working together on the ground to stamp this out (Co-op managers, other local traders, the police, and councillors).
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It’s always a bit embarrassing presenting a trophy to yourself and it rarely happens but at the 103rd Southwick Horticultural Society Annual Summer Show it happened three times.
I held a very lively roundtable about the spate of shoplifting centred on the Lancing and Shoreham COOP branches involving store managers, police, councillors, Crimewatch and others, as mentioned last week.
As I said recently in Parliament, I think the plans from the rail operating companies to close most of the ticket offices at stations in England are nuts.
The ticket office staff don't just sell tickets.
The incompetence of West Sussex Education Department and their failure to get their sums right on the demand for secondary school places in Adur has been compounded by their latest refusal to fund a bus service.
Last week I launched my constituency crime survey - you can find it here and hard copies will be delivered across East Worthing & Shoreham over coming weeks.
The Windsor House Hotel is the wrong place to house some 44 mostly single men, many of whom will need additional support.
We had a completely shambolic meeting on the plans at the end of June on the future of Windsor House.
