Midhurst, England News

Volunteers and staff of MIND with their customers at the open day event. which included a game of ten pin bowling.

VILLAGERS are calling for guidelines on what the new South Downs National Park Authority planning department regards as acceptable looking road signs after recent disagreements.

THIS coming leap year, the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign is asking people in Midhurst and Petworth to make the extra day count and help raise vital funds.

FIRE crews from across Chichester, Bognor Regis and Hampshire battled for more than two hours to extinguish a house fire at South Harting near Midhurst this afternoon .

"A lot of people still don't have a clue about it," reveals Mark Somerville of Midhurst TV firm CJ Hampshire on the hugely-significant digital switchover.

MEMBERS of the Rotary Club of Midhurst and Petworth have been treated to a guided tour of the new Midhurst Rother College building which is taking shape on the site of the former school.

Midhurst Women's Institute has put its plot of land in Lamberts Lane up for sale as part of a package which could bring another new housing development to the town centre.

MIDHURST Town Council has been given a 1,000 contribution towards the cost of replacing a slide in the Carron Lane playground.

T he 'Big Society' group which has set up a pioneering day activity centre in Midhurst for elderly and vulnerable people is hoping to expand the service.

A wish list of highways and transport improvements for the Midhurst and Petworth area are set to be approved by the area's West Sussex county councillors on Tuesday.

USED inkjet printer cartridges are being collected to raise funds for MIDHURST 's St Mary Magdelene and St Denys parish church.

THE new owners of Midhurst Granaries have withdrawn a planning application to make changes to the former grain warehouse in Bepton Road after objections from Chichester District Council.