THE WEST Sussex Teachers’ Association (NUT), representing more than 4,000 teachers in the maintained and private sector in West Sussex, restated its opposition to academies in West Sussex at an executive meeting on February 4.

I RECENTLY wrote to Jeremy Hunt (Con, South West Surrey), Minister for Culture and Sport, regarding the possible closure of Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre.

FURTHER to your article in last week’s paper, as a Southwater parent, I was immensely relieved to learn that HCT/Oasis have admitted that their figures about projected pupil intake were incorrect and that there ARE sufficient places for our children at the existing secondary schools and there is no urgent need for an additional school in Southwater.

TEACHERS in West Sussex have joined the heads in Horsham in condemning the ill-conceived free school proposal for Southwater. This experimental free school will not even be required to employ qualified teachers.

ARE YOU green-fingered and a keen gardener and want to share your joy?

IT APPEARS that Horsham District Council is totally set on accepting the Berkeley’s development proposals in Southwater despite all the very good reasons against it.

FROM the West Sussex County Times of Friday, February 19, 1982.

ANALOGUE TV viewers in parts of Horsham have just two weeks to get ready for the digital TV switchover, starting on February 29.

FOLLOWING your article on February 2, where you disclose that Southern Water is raising its bills by an average of 8.2 per cent in 2012, I have to say that is a gross underestimate for those of us who have recently been fitted with a water meter.

I AM WRITING in response to the article in your newspaper (February 2) on support around water bills for people undergoing renal dialysis at home.

I ENQUIRED about booking the sports hall at Southwater Leisure Centre for my seven-year-old son and some of his school friends to play football for an hour. You would think that would be fairly straightforward, wouldn’t you?

GOOD news is hard to come by at this still dark and wintery time of year, and up and down the country right now household budgets are being stretched and squeezed.

HOLY Innocents’ parishioners are feeling the warmth of their new heating system. A big thank you to the public and parishioners for the £25,000 already raised.

NEW YEAR is traditionally the time to make resolutions but for many of us those resolutions may wilt during the dark evenings and cold weather.

IN ADDITION to all the other concerns about Waitrose’s plans for a superstore, in the heart of the Downland village of Storrington, is use of this site to act as a distribution centre for the John Lewis internet shopping business.

I, TOO, went to the recent parish council meeting in Sullington Parish Hall where the Waitrose expansion plan was discussed and various representations were made by local residents and a representative of Waitrose.

THIS is a follow up to a letter I sent your publication late last year. I wish to update your readers on our progress and to thank those who contacted and joined Equality for Veterans Association (EfVA).

I AM WRITING in response to a letter from Phillip Tapsfield in your edition of January 25, regarding many issues surrounding Storrington and Sullington Parish Council.

I SEE Southern Water is trying to rip its customers off again by putting up its charges for next year by 8.2 per cent.

THE FARMLAND of Horsham’s Denne Park/Hill and Barrackfield together with the adjoining woodland has been privately owned by my family since the 1950s and the pasture is grazed by cattle year round.