tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81528836664995998642011-04-22T00:18:07.991+01:00worthing life, leisure, culture and politicsJack Worthinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02450176418602099465noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152883666499599864.post-7811143297460256872008-11-19T22:24:00.003Z2008-11-19T22:33:31.167Z

Recession looms, key developments in the town centre start to look less certain, and there's a bit of a hole in the forthcoming budget.And what are the senior management team (or Partnership Management Board, as they like to be known) of Worthing Borough Council spending their time on?:it was agreed that the recently issued joint letterhead could be used for straightforward letters. All relevant

Jack Worthinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02450176418602099465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152883666499599864.post-90473169578143952862008-11-16T21:48:00.001Z2008-11-16T21:48:29.518Z

A good week for the arts in Worthing, with news that the Desert Quartet will keep its listing, and hence will be (hopefully, almost) impossible for Humphrey Avon to move. The campaign to get the Elizabeth Frink sculptures listed (at their current site) was an impressive, and non-political, effort, which drew in a lot of heavyweight support, and they deserve a lot of credit. Now, to find some

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So. I ran into a friend yesterday, who has a lot of friends among Worthing Conservatives, who gives me interesting info occasionally.Now, I'm not sure how much I credit this, but my friend claims that one of the leading Worthing Tories - both a borough AND a county councillor, mark you - has fallen out very badly with his party; so badly, in fact, that he might not make it to re-selection for

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Speaking to Councillor Bunbury (Independent, Seafront Shelter) earlier this week, I hear that Worthing Conservatives' policy of gradually doing away with meetings and debate has caught up with them in an unexpected, and slightly funny way.They've suddenly realised that, as Cabinet members no longer have individual meetings, they don't have a platform to tell us how wonderfully they've done

Jack Worthinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02450176418602099465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8152883666499599864.post-45305570793660610602008-06-30T21:34:00.002+01:002008-06-30T21:39:10.417+01:00

I had a post for today all planned out in my head, and figured I'd sit down to write it after Murray-Gasquet. Something of a misjudgment, I expect you'll agree.Didn't see all of the first two sets as I had to go out, and when I got back it looked all up for Andy, but the guy has spirit, and seems to have developed the fitness to support it now. Some of the shots were frankly unbelievable -

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I went on a demonstration yesterday.Last week the council voted to extend the cycle route west of Worthing pier – sort of. Never a group to make a decision when a delay will do, the cabinet had decided: not to make a final decision, but to have a trial; not to do it now, but sometime in the future (when they can get the bye laws changed); and not to have a dedicated cycle route, but to have

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Worthing has been waiting for its 'regeneration' for quite a while now - but the picture that looked rosy even just a few months ago is starting to get a bit fuzzy.At Sea Place and Worthing College, developers are saying the value of the development has dropped, and are asking for a 'discount' on what they owe the Council - and in the former case, that discount is a substantial amount. As the

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Hi.I'm Jack Worthing: it's not my real name, obviously, but like the character in the play, it suits me to have an identity which will allow me to 'get into scrapes' – in other words, say things about my home town which might otherwise be a little awkward or controversial for me to say, or others to hear.Like many Worthing residents I'm not a native, but I have lived here most of my adult life.

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