Plane good for Sussex, Lines a washout, Objects of desire

Shoreham is the ideal setting-off point for short air journeys from Sussex to continental Europe. So it's excellent news that a scheduled service to Le Touquet in northern France starts this summer.

There have been attempts to start regular flights from Shoreham before but all have ended in failure. This time the signs are good. Not only is the current operator confident planes can be filled, but there are also other firms interested in flying from Sussex.

It is possible that within a few years there could be services from Shoreham to several Continental cities, plus more in mainland Britain. Shoreham serves a large area of the Sussex coast and is far easier to reach from there than Gatwick.

People in Lancing and Shoreham will be concerned about these flights and careful checks will have to be made on whether they are a nuisance. But the signs are that these planes will be quieter than those of weekend flyers.

Lines a washout

Whoever decided to take down washing lines in Woodingdean and replace them with rotary driers must have been a man.

For any woman faced with a family-sized load of washing which needs hanging out to dry knows that rotary lines simply won't do the trick. Brighton and Hove Council should listen hard to what tenants in Langley Crescent and the surrounding roads are saying.

Then they'll get wind of the fact that long single lines get washing drier much quicker - and they should be put back.

Objects of desire

Barry Harris spends hours each week working hard in his garage workshop at Findon, near Worthing.

And he's still finding it hard to meet the demand for his scale models of Victorian kitchen gadgets. Barry is 6ft 6in tall and the models are an inch and a half high. He's a big man in a little world of his own.

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