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Down Memory Lane

South Bersted School's coronation celebrations

DOWN MEMORY LANE: Royal occasions of 100 years remembered

As one of its events to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the County Record Office is searching its photographic collections and film archives to present a special screening of royal occasions in West Sussex over the past 100 or so years.

DOWN MEMORY LANE: They landed by moonlight

This is the story of three of the pilots of No 161 Squadron who flew extraordinarily-dangerous Lysander aircraft pick-up sorties from RAF Tangmere.

DOWN MEMORY LANE: German propaganda from the skies

A rare surviving leaflet dropped over England by the German propaganda machine in 1943 has been brought along to Down Memory Lane by Ken Talmage of Chichester.

DOWN MEMORY LANE: The missing of the Somme

Who knows what glittering career in showbiz may have awaited 20-year-old Bognor Regis lad Arthur Percy Bale?

Readers' Letters

Anthem is outdated

SO BOGNOR MP Nick Gibb laments the fact that schoolkids don’t appear to know the words to the national anthem.

Welcome to new bishop

The clergy and laity of the diocese of Chichester will wish to join the Rt Rev Mark Sowerby in welcoming our new bishop, Dr Martin Warner.

Choice of bishop ‘cruel blow to women’

THE forthcoming ordination of Dr Martin Warner as Bishop of Chichester is unpalatable for the majority of worshipping Anglicans.

Dangerous ruts and potholes need to be fixed

My wife and I would like to thank the four very kind people, or was it five, who so kindly came to our assistance in Chichester on Thursday, May 3, when her wheelchair hit a rut in the centre of the street, as we crossed Newtown/East Pallant, throwing her on to the road.

Rough with smooth

YOUR headline regarding road resurfacing looks impressive, but the actuality is rather different.

Columnists

YOUTH MATTERS Hannah Bowering...Sunshine is not the only trans-Atlantic culture shock I found...

SUNSHINE and warm weather! This is what I experienced on a recent holiday to Orlando, Florida. Making a nice change to the gloomy weather I am used to.

RICHARD WILLIAMSON Chichester Cathedral Peregrines...The young peregrines are growing rapidly thanks to father

The four young peregrines in the cathedral tower are growing rapidly thanks to father. This week he brought in seven starlings in three and a half hours. His four children were so stuffed they fell asleep in a heap allowing mum and dad two hours to themselves.

KEITH NEWBERY Boris and his big personality potentially pose a major threat

The contest to become mayor of London was the political equivalent of a bare-knuckle brawl between two men who share a deep mutual loathing.

KELLY BROWN Mum’s The Word...My tiny angel is on her way to becoming quite the talking point

How long is it until complete strangers stop admiring your little ones?

DUNCAN BARKES No solution yet in my fruitless quest for that real close shave

Many men prefer it wet, others believe they can achieve satisfaction with the help of an electrical device. However you shave, nothing ruins your morning more than a less than perfect job; one that leaves you facing the day feeling unprepared and scruffy.

Tide times

Cathedral service times

CATHEDRAL SERVICES May 20-26

Services for the week beginning Sunday, May 20:

CATHEDRAL SERVICES May 13-19

Sunday, May 13:

CATHEDRAL SERVICES May 6-12

Sunday, May 6: