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` Bersted gardens GARDENERS in Bersted have been encouraged to show off their handiwork in this year's In Bloom competition. Entries are open for the annual event to highlight the best blooms in the area. Philippa Seager, who runs the competition for Bersted Parish Council, said: "This year, we would like to see more entries that make the most of recycling and encourage wildlife, so this will be included in both categories." Entries are invited for containers/ hanging baskets and front gardens. They must be visible to the passing public. The final entry date is June 22. Judging will take place on July 4. Forms are available from the parish council in Bersted Jubilee Hall, Chalcroft Lane, North Bersted, or phone 01243 842221.
` Jazzing it up SHOWTIME for Rox Sessions Live is next Friday in Bognor Regis town centre. The free jazz event at the Hothampton Arms in London Road starts at 8pm with the house band's 'ramdon numbers' open mic. Anyone who wants to take part should talk to Barry or John on 07971 198437. This will be followed at 10pm by a performance from the James Wheeler Quartet. Before that, Rox Sessions Live is staging an open jazz rehearsal for Bognor's Big Band at the pub next Monday. Musicians of grade five plus are invited to attend.
Friday, May 11, 2018
Residents' cash helps pre-school GENEROUS Bognor Regis residents have helped to ensure a good start in life for young children in Sri Lanka. Bognor Hotham Rotary Club has donated enough money, thanks to the donations of individuals from the town among others, to ensure a pre-school on the island can continue. The club has given £1,500 to employ two teachers for a year at the Gulugahakanda Kekulu Pre-School on Sri Lanka. It has also provided most of the £700 needed to feed its 25 children. Help with school uniforms and other resources is also provided when parents are unable to afford them. The Rotarians were told about the preschool by Chichester charity Extra Cover. This is devoted to improving education on Sri Lanka. It came across the pre-school and contacted the Rotary club to find out if its
members could help. Club press officer Brian Clarke said: "Up to that point, the pre-school had been helped by an Australian sponsor but, for personal reasons, financial support had now stopped. "The teachers had tried to collect money from the parents but it was nowhere near enough as many of the children came from very poor families." The partnership in Sri Lanka between Extra Cover and the Rotary club dates back nearly three years. They sponsored a three-wheel tuk tuk to help to transport disabled children and young adults to school and to a vocational training school in Panangala. None of them had the chance to be educated because their homes were isolated. There are two tuk tuks, with 15 children at the school and 25 young adults on various days at the training centre.
All aboard for pension fight PENSION campaigners from Bognor Regis and Chichester staged a special bus ride to the government to accuse it of creating a one-way ticket to poverty. The 49 passengers on board the 1950s Routemaster double-decker handed in a giant bus ticket to the Department for Work and Pensions to protest at making women wait longer for the state pension. The stunt on Tuesday was the idea of Bognor, Chichester and South Coast Waspi member Angie Taylor. Angie, who lives in Bognor Regis, said: "We wanted to put our heads above the parapet to show the government that we are still here and are not going away. "It's all about continuing to be a
nuisance. We don't want the government to think we are tired of the situation." Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) was formed in protest at the rapid increases in the state pension age for women to 66. The bus tour also took in the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street before it ended with the protest at the DWP. The mock ticket was handed to a civil servant for Guy Opperman, undersecretary of state for work and pensions. The two-and-a-half hour tour also involved the Back to 60 and 63 Is The New 60 protest groups. Bognor Regisbased Radio Respect broadcast the tour live on the internet.
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