Pupils from a Bognor Regis school joined the chairman of Arun District Council for the unveiling of a new bin made out of 450 recycled bottles this week.

The Bin For Green Seas, which was created by the GreenSeas Trust, is covered with graphics and text which illustrate how plastics damage our seas and infiltrate our food chain.

Pupils from the Edward Bryant School in London Road joined council chairman Jeanette Warr on The Esplanade in Bognor on Wednesday morning to have a first look at the new bin, which aims to demonstrate how irresponsible littering affects everyone, including our marine life.

Mrs Warr said: “I’m absolutely delighted to see eco bin here today and the youngsters that are so interested in being here to see the ribbon cut.

“This will so help our nation, and let’s hope that these bins become a nationwide situation because we need it.

“Every promenade that’s available on the south coast, east and west, let’s have one of these lovely eco bins installed.

“I hope that everybody uses it and understands the good they are doing by filling it.”

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Even before a ball was kicked in the Czech Republic, many fans were questioning why Brighton and Hove Albion defender Lewis Dunk wasn't included in Gareth Soutgate's squad.

England looked far from assured at the back during their European Championships qualifying 2-1 loss in Prague where Manchester United's Harry Maguire and Everton's Michael Keane played at centre back.

Dunk, 27, has been excellent for Brighton so far this season and has made a strong case to add to his one cap earned in a friendly victory against the USA at Wembley in 2018.

Here we take a look at some of the more polite comments on social media on why Gareth Southgate should take another look at the Albion captain.

@YosefSalameh

Lewis Dunk sat at home whilst Michael Keane defends like Frank Spencer on roller skates

@Kevsam9

Lewis Dunk should be in the team and not maguire. Just look at how he played against spurs. And he plays like that every week and never gets any credit

@danielstorey85A good lesson to Gareth Southgate: Pick in-form defenders or defenders at in-form clubs.

@AdamCrafton_

Lewis Dunk equally superb and Potter’s philosophy must give him an England chance: - Average No of passes a game up from 41 to 66 - More interceptions, assists and passes into final third than any England centre-back this season

@henrywinter

Southgate has plenty of work to do on this defence. Organising, concentrating, marking and communicating all need improving. #eng defence cut open again. Czechs lead 2-1, Ondrasek pounces. Gomez has to be brought in, and given time to build a partnership with Maguire.

@johncrossmirror

How on earth is Lewis Dunk not in the England squad? Outstanding for Brighton. Super defender, good on the ball, a leader. He must wonder what he has to do when others get called up after a handful of Prem games. He was the rock upon which their win over Spurs was built.

@CatenaccioIG

Lewis Dunk is a top, top CB. Would start for 19 of the teams in the Premier League. Great off the ball, superb on the ball. Shouldn’t move for anything less than £50m.

Chichester Runners host the opening fixture of the Sussex Cross Country League today (Saturday) at Goodwood, the same venue where the cross-country relays were held a fortnight ago.

This will be a chance for athletes from all age groups to get off to a good start both in terms of individual and also team placings.

It will be an opportunity to impress the Sussex selectors, who will be looking to pencil in names showing early season form for the Southern Inter-Counties in December.

Chichester will hope home advantage will play a part, especially after their strong showing in the relays. Both the senior men’s and women’s A teams are in division one of the league and look to have greater strength in depth than last season, despite losing some of their talented under-20s to university.

For the men, in-form James Baker and Ned Potter will spearhead the club’s campaign while the women will have input from four age groups with the under-17s, under-20s seniors and veterans all able to score in the senior women’s race.

The programme starts with invitation under-11 races at midday with the main league programme for under-13s and under-15s kicking off at 12.30pm.

Harry Leleu has won a European triathlon title at the ETU U23 Elite European Championships in Valencia.

After a huge storm the Chichester star’s race was shortened from Olympic distance to sprint distance (750m swim, 20k bike, 5k run) which does not suit him as well as the longer version.

The race took place in windy and overcast conditions. Leleu had a good swim and was the first UK competitor out of the water in about 20th position.

The Chichester Runners member and team-mate Ben Dijkstra worked well in a second pack on the bike.

One large bike pack consisting of about 30 came into transition two and Leleu entered the run in a pack of about 15 which split up as it returned into the headwind. Leleu picked off a few rivals and finished in a good 12th spot.

The following day brought the U23 elite mixed relay. Leleu had been selected to form part of the team with Dijkstra, Sophie Alden and Bronwen Owen.

Leleu was on the last leg and it was very tight until Dijkstra went on the second leg and gained a ten-second lead. Owen stayed ahead and handed to Leleu.

A German rival managed to close a very small gap to him and it resulted in an excellent sprint finish down the last 200m of the straight to the finish.

Leleu pulled away to take the win and the team were crowned U23 European mixed relay elite champions.

Another season of top-class racing at Goodwood comes to a conclusion on Sunday.

The 19th and final flat racing fixture of the season takes place and for one trainer and jockey, it will bring the honour of being crowned the racecourse’s top operators of 2019.

The title for top trainer –and the Dick Hern Trophy that goes with it – is set to go to Mark Johnston, who has won the accolade many times before and is the present holder.

He has sent 11 winners to post at Goodwood this season, including six during Glorious week. His only genuine rival for this year’s crown was John Gosden, who has had nine Goodwood winners but has no entries on Sunday at the time of writing. Andrew Balding and Ralph Beckett have each had six.

It’s a similar tale in the race to be Goodwood’s top jockey of 2019.

Oisin Murphy leads the way with 11 wins, while Harry Bentley has nine and James Doyle and PJ McDonald six each.

Murphy’s headline win this season was on Japanese horse Deirdre, who won the Group 1 Qatar Nassau Stakes at the Qatar Goodwood Festival on August 1.

Many of the frontrunners in the trainer and jockey stakes will be hoping for success on Goodwood’s final day, when racegoers will enjoy a ‘harvest and hops’ theme to celebrate the arrival of autumn.

On the track the action begins with Goodwood’s annual meeting for jump jockeys, the Alderbrook Handicap at 2pm.

A seven-race card ends with the Flying At Goodwood Handicap at 5.20pm.

Ahead of final declarations, there were a very healthy number of 177 entries across the seven races.

In between races, there will be live music, fire pits, hay bales, toasted marshmallows, and hog roasts

Under-18s go free, while adult tickets can be purchased from www.goodwood.com

Our Goodwood tips: 200 Cristal Spirit, 230 Stroxx, 305 Ivor, 340 Chatham House, 415 Damage Control, 450 Severance, 525 Ocean Paradise.

We look at Premier League players, outside the "top six" (Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United) after week eight, who excel at this style.

Potters Bar ended the Rocks' all-too-brief winning run with a 4-0 Isthmian premier victory at Nyewood Lane - with their second and third goals down to basic errors by debut-making keeper Myles Roberts.

Roberts, on loan from Reading, is the fourth keeper Bognor have used this season but his bow was one to forget as he gifted visiting striker Ben Ward-Cochrane the second and third goals of a hat-trick which swept his side to victory after a goalless first half.

It got worse for the Rocks in the closing stages when Thomas Gogo got a fourth for the visitors, this one after poor defending on the Rocks left. It's a big disappointment for the Rocks after they won - and won well - their previous two home games.

And it gives them a problem position that seems to need more work, with Roberts the third keeper of the four they have used this season to have made crucial mistakes leading to goals.

Bognor went into the game on the back of an improved run of form – having won their past two games, 2-0 at home to Haringey and 5-1 at the Lane versus Leatherhead.

They gave a debut to the fourth goalkeeper they have used this season, Myles Roberts, on loan from Reading. He had initially joined on loan a fortnight ago but his Rocks bow was delayed by a training ground injury.

Otherwise the Rocks had a virtually full squad to pick from and added ex-Pompey youngster Eddie Wakley, a defender, to the subs' bench on a day when there was rain at the Lane, keeping crowd numbers a little lower than they might have been on Non-League Day.

Pompey academy duo Brad Lethbridge and Joe Hancott both started for Bognor four days after they played for the Blues' first team in the Football League Trophy at Oxford – with Lethbridge scoring one of their goals in a 2-2 draw.

There was little to excite in the opening 10 minutes but Potters Bar were close to going ahead with the Rocks indebted to Hancott for clearing a glancing header from a corner off the line. Roberts saved the follow-up shot at the second attempt.

The Rocks were playing neat football in places with most of their best work coming down the left through Hancott and Lethbridge. But the Hertfordshire visitors stood strong at the back and keeper R'avan Constable was not called into serious action.

A Tommy Leigh free-kick into the box was nodded down into the goalmouth by Keaton Wood but Constable collected it.

The game's first booking went to Rocks centre-half Joe Cook on 26 minutes after stopping Thomas Gogo in an attack down the Potters Bar left.

Bognor carved out a decent opening on 28 minutes when Jimmy Muitt beat his man down the right and crossed for James Crane, whose volley was straight at Constable. It was an improvement for the Rocks as they tested the stopper for the first time.

Bognor were having to play patiently, with Bar getting back in numbers each time the Rocks progressed into their halves. The sideways and backwards passes were certainly outnumbering the forward balls.

There was brief excitement when Lethbridge chased a through ball and Constable came out of his area to collect it before having to follow it back in to dive on the ball and pouch it.

Dan Smith nodded a long ball back to Doug Tuck 25 yards from goal but his effort flew well over the bar. Muitt woke up a lethargic crowd with a quick run and shot that whistled the wrong side of Constable's post.

The best Bognor chance of the first half came in injury time. Muitt beat his man down the right and crossed to an unmarked Leigh at the far post but he took too long to control it and the chance was gone – and when it fell to Lethbridge his shot was off-target. HT 0-0

Bognor played themselves into a spot of bother five minutes into the second half as Wood and Roberts were hurried into a clearance by the keeper that went straight to Ryan Young, but Potters Bar couldn't take advantage.

From nowhere, Potters Bar took the lead on 54 minutes and it was all too easy. A quick pass put Ward-Cochrane in on goal and after drawing and rounding Roberts, he took his time before slotting the ball past a defender who'd got back on the line. It was a blow for the Rocks after they had defended so well in the first half.

The referee ignored some shirt-pulling by Potters Bar at a corner but didn't ignore a foul by Muitt as the visitors broke, and the Rocks man was booked. As Bognor looked for an equaliser Harvey Whyte's high pass sent Muitt scuttling away down the right but his cross was an easy catch for Constable.

Bognor responded well to going behind and Crane got to the byline for a cross that fell to Tuck, but his shot was deflected behind for a corner.

Lethbridge still looked Bognor's best outlet – one run down the left ended with the ball going out for a goal-kick, the second led to a Muitt corner from which Lethbridge himself glanced a header goalwards but saw it nodded off the line by Young.

It was 2-0 in the 72nd minute and you had to feel sorry for debutant keeper Roberts as he came out to the edge of his area to collect a through ball only to let it go of it, allowing Ward-Cochrane to flick in his second from the edge of the area.

Bognor went straight on the attack and Whyte's fierce shot from 20 yards took a deflection for a corner, which came to nothing.

Ashton Leigh replaced Lethbridge with 14 minutes to go and within seconds Ward-Cochrane had his hat-trick and it was another error by Roberts, who rolled the ball out too far to allow the striker to nip in and take advantage.

Potters Bar made a change with 10 minutes to go, George Nicholas replacing Imedd Kartita.

Sub Leigh almost helped Bognor get one back with a cross into the six-yard box but neither Smith nor Cook could force it home.

Ben Eden-Clark came on for Crane with eight minutes left.

Rocks MoM was named to skipper Whyte – shortly before more soft defending led to a fourth for Potters Bar, put away after a run into the box by Gogo.

Roberts did make an excellent save in five added-on minutes to deny Young, who ran through on goal as the home defence went to pieces.

A booking for Tuck was the last frustrating act of the afternoon for the unhappy home team.

Rocks: Roberts, Crane, Hancott, Tuck, Cook, Wood, Whyte, Leigh, Smith, Muitt, Lethbridge. Subs: Clark-Eden, Leigh, Scutt, Hensel, Wakley.

Potters Bar: Constable, Doyle, Lomas, Cole, Humphrey, Quarrington-Carter, Young, Craddock, Ward-Cochrane, Kartita, Gogo. Subs: Ehui, Constantinous, Nicholas, O'Leary.

Att 530

Ref: Shelby Elson

Holders Bognor face a trip to SCFL side Storrington in the Sussex Senior Cup second round.

The draw was made on Saturday evening by Sussex FA duo Ken Benham and Tony Kybett and broadcast live on BBC Sussex.

Potential highlights of the second round will include Brighton under-23s taking on Hastings, and little Roffey travelling to face National South side Eastbourne Borough.

SCFL champions Chichester City will visit Shoreham

The following ties were drawn:

Worthing United vs. AFC Varndeanians

Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Hastings United

Eastbourne Borough vs. Roffey

Storrington Community vs. Bognor Regis Town

Broadbridge Heath vs. Peacehaven & Telscombe

Lewes vs. Three Bridges

Eastbourne United Association vs. AFC Uckfield Town

East Preston vs. Crawley Town

Horsham YMCA vs. Crawley Down Gatwick

Littlehampton Town vs. Steyning Town Community

Haywards Heath Town vs. Worthing

Newhaven vs. Horsham

Shoreham vs. Chichester City

Burgess Hill Town vs. East Grinstead Town

Whitehawk vs. Pagham

Hassocks vs. Lancing

Fixtures are to be played on or before Wednesday, November 6.

It was a momentous day for Bognor RFC’s colts academy – for two reasons. They had league matches for both the Greens and Purples squads – they are the only club in Sussex to run two Colts teams – and they had THREE sets of twins playing for one team.

Here are the reports from both teams' efforts...

Havant 17 Bognor Academy Purples 17

Bognor Purples kicked off their season with a nail-biter at Havant.

Club history was made as three sets of twins, Harvey and Oscar Henson, Sam and Jacob Towler and Stanley and Arthur Wright, all played in the same team.

Stanley and Arthur both scored tries too as a final try for Edward Gilbert-Jones converted by Owen Henton looked to have given Bognor the win before a last-gasp try for Havant tied things up.

Purples: Jack Trenham, Sam Towler, Ben Brandon, Oscar Henson, Harvey Henson, Stanley Wright, Jacob Towler, Owen Thomas, Nathan Chitty, Jack Robinson, James Billingham, Edward Gilbert-Jones, Harry Smith, Arthur Wright, Owen Henton.

Bognor Greens 31 Wimborne Colts 21

The Greens continued their unbeaten start with a bonus-point victory over Wimborne.

Bognor started brightly with big carries from Matthew Norrell and Nathan Thompson getting over the gain line. Scrum-half Alfie Spurle fed Elvis Millen, who audaciously chipped the full-back before using his express pace to touch down.

Charlie Weller, Ethan Teasdale and Fin Glass were bossing the scrum and laying a platform for the backs to attack. Centre Jack Hickman fed Cellan Robinson, who passed his opposite number and cut inside the full-back to score.

Bognor allowed Wimborne three quick converted tries either side of half-time and had a mountain to climb.

Bustling No8 Bradley Smith carried hard all game. Flankers Harrison Southern and Benjamin Barker acted as the links before Gus Haplik put fellow centre Tyrone Masaki into space. The flyer stood up the full-back before skating over. Lewis Decarteret converted.

Bognor began to play with more intensity. Spurle sniped and offloaded to Robinson who took six players over the line to score. Decarteret converted majestically from the touchline to regain the lead.

Glass and Jamie Foote carried superbly using footwork and power to suck in defenders and Ben Woolnough counter-attacked A thrust from Dylan Giles allowed Masaki room to canter over for his second try in the corner. Decarteret again converted to end the contest.

Coach Tom Spurle was happy with the result but knows there is still much room for improvement. “We are still only playing with intensity for 40 minutes, this will increase as the season moves on. Well done to all the lads.”

Greens: Finn Glass, Ethan Teasdale, Charlie Weller, Matthew Norrell, Nathan Thompson, Ben Barker, Harrison Southern (capt), Bradley Smith, Alfie Spurle, Benjamin Woolnough, Tyrone Masaki, Jack Hickman, Gus Haplik, Cellan Robinson, Elvis Millen, Jamie Foote, Dylan Giles.

A Chichester school will be closed tomorrow due to ‘building safety issues’.

In a statement, Esther Flower from Parklands Community Primary School said: “Due to building safety issues, Parklands Community Primary School will be closed on Monday 14th October to all pupils and staff.”

An update will be issued on Monday, she added.

Esther said: “Many apologies for this inconvenience but the safety of everyone is our priority.

“Thank you for your co-operation and understanding.”

Parent consultations will be rescheduled, she added.

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Paris Saint-Germain are determined to secure the services of Tottenham's play maker this January.

Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to offer Adrien Rabiot to Tottenham but they do want Christian Eriksen in return. Rabiot, 24, joined PSG in the summer but the club are willing to let him move to north London in January if it guarantees getting Eriksen to Paris.

Manchester United want to lure England midfielder Declan Rice away from West Ham and will stump-up £70m to do so. The 20-year-old has impressed at the London Stadium and United see him as the powerful player they can build their midfield around.

Ole Solskjaer has also given the green light to the club in their bid to sign Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson in January. United have also been strongly linked with Moussa Dembele, Mario Mandzukic and Krzysztof Piatek but the manager is said to favour Wilson, who has consistently delivered in the Premier League. The 27-year-old will cost them around £70m.

Bristol City are lining up a January move for on-loan Arsenal striker Eddie Nketiah. The 20-year-old is on loan at Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds United and despite limited game time, he has scored four goals in eight appearances. City tried to sign Nketiah last summer and are keen to try again in January.

Steve Bruce wants to bring QPR's Ryan Manning to Newcastle in the January transfer window. The 23-year-old can operate in midfield or at left back. Newcastle are also keen on £17m rated Trabzonspor goalkeeper Ugurcan Cakir but face competition from Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is set to rewarded with a new contract at Arsenal. Aubameyang, 30, has scored 49 goals in 75 appearances since joining in January 2018. He has two years remaining but the Gunners want to tie him down until 2023.

Veteran striker Jermain Defoe could be offered a player/coach role at Rangers next season. Ibrox manager Steven Gerrard is open to the idea for Defoe, who continues to be a regular goalscorer for them at the age 37. “Jermain will know certain situations in the game, certain things to look out for in that specific position – better than any coach in the world," said Gerrard.

Persistent rain over the past couple of days has forced Goodwood racecourse to abandon its final fixture of 2019.

Officials made the decision on Sunday morning amid fears conditions would be unsafe for horses and jockeys.

A statement issued by Goodwood said: "We regret to inform you that the Season Finale at Goodwood Racecourse on Sunday 13 October has been abandoned. This is due to the extensive wet weather which we have experienced over the last few days and the unsafe racing conditions which it has caused.

"The safety of the jockeys, horses and our racegoers continue to be our utmost priority and we hope you can understand why this decision has been made. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused and very much hope to welcome you back to the racecourse in 2020."

It means Mark Johnston is confirmed as the track's leading trainer for 2019 and will retain the Dick Hern Trophy after sending 11 winners to post this year.

Oisin Murphy, who rode Japanese horse Deirdre to victory in the Group 1 Nassau Stakes at the Qatar Goodwood Festival, was the top jockey on the Downs for the season, also with 11 wins.

Football is, to quote many people, a funny old game, but no one from Pagham will be laughing after this game at soggy Eastbourne United which ended in a 4-0 defeat..

The Lions played possibly their best football of the season and dominated for long spells - but suffered their heaviest defeat of the campaign.

The first chance of the game fell to United, on the break, in the sixth minute. A goalbound header by danger-man Paul Rogers deflected off of Conor Geoghegan and into the safe arms of keeper Tom Crook.

The next 20 minutes saw Pagham in possession, pushing forward, but just unable to force the ball home. Geoghegan had a low shot from a corner cleared off the line, Cian Tilley had a long shot from out wide smothered by the keeper before Tilley again had another shot pushed wide for a corner.

Then disaster struck. In the 25th minute Paul Rogers burst down the left on a breakaway, turned inside two players and placed his shot into the bottom corner for 1-0.

Pagham were straight back on the attack and Joe Clarke smashed a volley just wide before, once again on the break, a United throw-in was flicked on by Rogers and Nathan Crabb slid the ball in at the far post for 2-0. And it was almost three just before half-time when a fabulous save from Crook kept the score to 2-0 at the break.

After the interval it turned into almost total domination by the Lions, but as before, no matter how much pressure they put on the Eastbourne defence they just couldn’t score.

Jack Barnes, twice, and Geoghegan came close, but it wouldn’t go in. Dylan Jelley finally got the ball into the net, but it was disallowed for offside. Barnes again had a chance, and a Dave Beaney blast brought out the best from United keeper Hawkins before Jake Heryet hit an excellent free-kick about six inches wide.

As in the first half, Eastbourne broke down the field out of the blue and Nathan Crabb collected a free-kick and simply slotted in the third in the 77th minute, before, a minute later, Rogers burst clean through a static Pagham defence and finished with some aplomb.

Pagham: Crook, da Costa, Beaney (Searle), Jenkins, Geoghegan, Jelley, Clarke (Hallett), Barnes, Chalaye (Prisk), Tilley, Heryet. Subs not used: Mott, Bull.

Rocks coach Robbie Blake admitted to being shellshocked after they lost 4-0 at home to Potters Bar after a goalless first half at Nyewood Lane.

But he insisted the Bognor squad was in better shape than on their run of defeats earlier in the season and results would come.

Two of Potters Bar's goals were from goalkeeping mistakes, one stemmed from a defender trying to play offside and not succeeding and the other was from a loose pass, also at the back.

Blake said some of the goals came from mistakes you wouldn't normally see on a football field, but he insisted the squad was in better shape than it was and with a couple more additions was good enough to turn the season into a successful one.

Hear his full post-match interview above

Rocks 0 Potters Bar - how it happened
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If any team could afford to lose one competition from the plethora they're involved in, it's Chichester City. Nevertheless they'll be disappointed to bow out of the FA Trophy with a 4-2 defeat at Barton Rovers.

A quickfire second-half double from Josh Clack proved too little too late as the Southern League side went through to the next round.

It leaves Chi to focus fully on the FA Cup and next weekend's fourth qualifying round trip to Bowers & Pitsea, where the huge prize of a place in the first round proper awaits the winners.

They're also in the Velocity Trophy and Sussex Senior Cup - having been drawn at home to Shoreham in the county competition - and have made a good start to life in the Isthmian south east division in their first season at step four.

But a good start is not something they made in Bedfordshire, where Nathan Tishikuna planted one in the top corner to give Rovers a 1-0 lead two minutes in.

Seven minutes before the break Lewis Thomas headed home to double Rovers' lead and it was 3-0 on 56 minutes when a fumble from the keeper allowed Connor Vincent to pounce and tap home.

Dean Dummett put Rovers 4-0 up with a shot from 20 yards on 65 minutes before Clack's double restored some respectability to the scoreline 10 minutes later.

Now it's all eyes on the trip to Essex in the FA Cup...

A mix of goalkeeping howlers and defensive weaknesses in the second half condemned them to defeat after a goalless first half. It was a big step back after progress in the previous two games, which brought wins over Haringey and Leatherhead. Tommy McMillan was there to take photos and you can see a selection of them in the pages that follow. Also pictured are the club's stewards with their new accreditation certificates and local young Bognor and Whyke footballers who were mascots. Get the Observer, out on Thursday, for all the reaction to the defeat and a look ahead to the visit to leaders Folkestone on Saturday.

Vicky meets... Esther Darrah,Refilled, Drapers Yard, Chichester

What is Refilled?

We are a shop based at Drapers Yard in Chichester that offers dried food and bathroom and cleaning products by weight so people bring their own pots, old bread bags or old takeaway containers to fill themselves. That means that there is no extra packaging or bags and no waste; you just buy what you need. If you wanted to stock your kitchen and cleaning and bathroom cupboards with basics then you could shop here. We also try to ‘support local’ by selling several locally made products, including our granola which is made in Hastings.

How did you come to open the shop?

My husband Harry and I travelled to New Zealand last year for seven months as a sort of long honeymoon. We discovered that they have shops like ours in almost every town and we loved this way of shopping as it meant that we didn’t have to carry loads of supplies on our travels. Clicking that there was no plastic waste and realising that there was nothing like it in Chichester we decided to give it a go.

What makes Drapers Yard a good place to be situated?

I’d been to Drapers Yard before and loved it. All the people here put so much time and effort into what they make and sell and there is a real heart here. And spending your money locally is investing in your community, which is great. And once a month the Yard hosts a ‘Yum Saturday’ event with lots of extra food stalls which is always buzzing and full of all kinds of people – it’s brilliant! Customers say that they really like shopping in a more community-based environment.

What’s next?

My background is catering and management and our dream is to have a community café. When we came across this way of shopping we decided that it could be a good way to start and we have moved from our original unit to a bigger one. We are looking to keep growing and the community café is still very much a goal. Community cafés are spaces that can be used outside of café opening hours as a hub for cooking classes, a swap shop – all sorts.

How does the division of labour work out between you and Harry?

He does Monday and Friday, I do the rest of the week and we do alternate Saturdays.

What would you say to anyone who hasn’t shopped like this before?

Just try one thing. Start with something like washing up liquid and build it up from there. There are quite a lot of shops like this dotting up all over the place and I do think that people will continue to shop this way.

What has been your biggest achievement so far?

We have saved well over 25,000 pieces of plastic going into landfill.

Where can we find you and learn more?

4 Drapers Yard, The Hornet, Chichester; www.refilledchichester.co.uk

Vicky meets... Giulia O’Lorey, Wedding Cake Designer

Tell me a bit about yourself and how you became a cake specialist

I live in Chichester but I am originally Italian. I moved to the UK when I was 16 and started off as a generic pastry chef, training at the West London College and then moving on to work for the Dorchester Collection and other high end establishments. It wasn’t until four years ago when all my friends started getting engaged that I discovered how much I love making wedding cakes. I went on courses in Italy and at the Dawn Welton School in London to really hone my skills in cake design.

What are the most enjoyable aspects of your job?

Definitely cake consultations! I invite couples over for a cup of tea and a slice of cake and we discuss what they want. It’s a very personal experience, with couples really allowing you access to their lives. It is the friendliest part of my job.

What are the hardest elements of the job?

Finding time is a challenge. Sugar flowers take a very long time to make so I only take a limited amount of orders each month. We always make it work but I get very little sleep on Fridays.

Which cakes stand out on your memory?

Every cake has its own story, which is what makes this job so fun. But this summer I made a cake for the Final Edit issue of Brides Magazine, which will be their last ever printed issue, so that was quite emotional. I’ve also had a cake where the couple asked me to hide little elephants in between the flowers, so that was pretty special.

Are there trends in wedding cakes?

Hand-painting is definitely hot right now. The naked-cake trend seems to be coming to an end now and people are really putting a lot of personality into their cakes. A few years ago I only made white cakes with maybe pearls and lace, but now people want all sorts of personal touches. It’s not unusual now to have colour and metallics in wedding cakes, and the hexagon is definitely ‘in’.

How long does an average cake take to make?

It varies, but for a cake due on a Saturday I usually start preparing on a Wednesday. I made a cake once for a bride who wanted 100 daisies, so I started making those the month before. Sugar flowers can be made in advance and keep forever.

What advice would you give to a bride or groom thinking about their cake design?

Your cake obviously has to taste amazing, but it is also a giant photo prop for your big day. I really recommend getting a professional to make your cake, to avoid any cake disasters. And whoever said you can’t have a rustic-chic cake at your Gatsby-themed wedding is lying. You should have what makes you happy. Find out more about my cakes at www.harbourweddingcake.wixsite.com/home or on Instagram @harbourweddingcakes

Plans to reduce opening hours at some West Sussex libraries and cut the mobile library service completely have been put out to public consultation.

As part of its efforts to save £75.5m over the next four year, the council plans to close Crawley, Chichester, Horsham and Worthing libraries from 6pm rather than the current 7pm from April 2020.

It also plans to drop its Horsham-based mobile library at the same time.

The Bognor-based service was taken off the road in June when its pre-MOT inspection showed it would cost more to make the vehicle roadworthy than it was actually worth.

The county council hopes to save £175,000 by making the changes and members of the public have until Wednesday November 13 to have their say.

The final decision will be taken later in November by Jacquie Russell, cabinet member for fire & rescue and communities.

A council spokesman said: “Regrettably, we need to consider significant savings but it is important to stress that no decisions have yet been made.”

To take part, visit the consultation website

Police are investigating an alleged rape near Butlins in Bognor Regis in the early hours of this morning.

A woman in her 20s was reported to have been raped in Upper Bognor Road, Bognor Regis at around 12.47am, police said.

A police spokesman said the woman reported walking back to her hotel at a nearby holiday resort when she was approached by an unknown man, who carried out the attack.

Officers are conducting enquiries at the scene and attempts are ongoing to identify the suspect. The victim is receiving support from specially trained officers.

Detective Inspector Jon Robeson said: “This was an isolated incident and thankfully, incidents of this nature are relatively rare.

“We will have an increased police presence in the area today and we would urge anyone with any information to contact us quoting Operation Tiverton.”

You can also report information online or call 101.