Children and the Wivelsfield community are saying a big thank you to 87-year-old Joan Penfold.

Mrs Penfold has offered to donate three acres of land in the hope Wivelsfield Primary School can at last rebuild.

The school, under the guidance of its excellent head teacher Rita Tipple, has been crying out for modernisation for the past 30 years as more than half the pupils are taught in temporary classrooms.

It was touching of the children and staff to organise a giant thank you card for Mrs Penfold.

But it is now even more important for East Sussex County Council to take up the generous offer and not put any barriers in the way of building a much-needed new school.

With the offer of the free land, East Sussex would look stupid if it spent another 30 years deciding what to do.

This offer must be taken up so the whole community can benefit from Mrs Penfold's incredible generosity.