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Thank you to Libby Darling of the Deans Grab Beach Clean for sending us this crazy photo of a mega lump of the infamous 'Palm Oil' waxy substance that was washed up on Rottingdean Beach back on the 16th of February 2014! Teenager Ollie Darling added some food for thought by remarking to us: '' That's what your Kit-Kat's made of.'' 
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The Deans Beach & Environment Volunteers: Such sad news to hear that a small dolphin was washed up on Ovingdean beach today. Julie Blanden took these images and called the coastguard. Great work Julie. If you ever find a stranded marine creature then let the Marine Conservation Society and relevant authorities know. If you want to help protect your local marine conservation zone Beachy Head West the join us on Sunday 4th February On Rottingdean beach https://www.facebook.com/thedeansvolunteers/posts/1149083691894574 
Photo by Julie Blanden. QUICK LINKS Home All articles Local history articles What's on Calendar ----------------- Local businesses we love ----------------- Contact us List your event for free Advertise with us ----------------- Buylocal website & Local offers Rottingdean-Saltdean Some pictures taken today on our stroll up the Whiteway bridal path and near-by going between Rottingdean and Saltdean, just before the rain came.    
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A Sunny but chilly winters day on Saltdean's seafront saw a fantastic turn out for today's (Jan 7th) Deans Beach and Environment Volunteers clean!
Hoards of eager helpers popped on their headphones for the special silent disco, grabbed a bin bag and with litter pickers in hand went off to scour the beach looking for environmentally unfriendly rubbish to collect. A big thank you must go out to organisers Libby, Atlanta & Boyd, who with their army of over a 100 volunteers helped clear a massive 168 kg of unwanted debris from Saltdean Beach! We asked local young photographer and film maker Ryan Ivatt if he would kindly come to the event and use his skills to capture the proceedings. We think you'll agree that Ryan,14, has produced and edited a superb video of a high professional and creative standard! We are very much looking forward to working with him on future projects! Welcome to ZoneZine Ryan! 
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Local Matt Coyne has made this video about his trip to the seafront where we live and what his young son found on the beach when he got there...
Please beware though not to leave children unsupervised whilst picking up items and if you are at all unsure of any health risk DO NOT TOUCH it! Preferably please use a litter picker and dispose of in bins provided at the seafront. For hazardous waste contact: cityclean@brighton-hove.gov.uk Phone: (01273) 292929 
Ovingdean-Rottingdean-Saltdean-Brighton The Deans Beach Clean Volunteers have regularly met up since 2012 on the first Sunday of every month to collect the rubbish found on our local beaches. Their hope is to influence our local & wider community to recycle, reduce and reuse. They educate and encourage all of their members to take part in beach cleaning whether it be on an individual or a bigger scale and to teach their members through Facebook or at their events how much litter is in our oceans and how it destroys the marine environment.  Photo by The Light Whisperer The Deans Beach Clean Volunteers: With the amount of rubbish increasing by over 40% in the last 15 years, our local beaches were literally drowning in plastic food packaging, broken glass and fishing debris. Between 2014 -2015 there was a 34% increase in beach litter found. We were organising Surfers Against Sewage beach cleans and attending Marine Conservation Society beach cleans, but it just wasn't enough to make a real difference.  Brighton & Hove City Council (BHCC) have a lovely worker who picks up the worst of the take-away and late night drinking mess every morning, but they can't keep up with the plastics that are building up in the shingle and sea defence rocks.  It was time for more action, peaceful direct action, so we set dates for regular monthly beach cleans of Saltdean, Rottingdean & Ovingdean main beaches. We rotate between the 3 beaches, publicise the beach cleans wherever we can and educate participants and local groups and schools on marine wildlife and the damaging effects of marine & beach litter. Silent disco at the Saltdean beach clean in January 2018! Come and join us on the first fabulous beach clean of 2018 and for our very first silent disco event ever held by GRAB. We’ve been chatting to Amy at Pier2pier and with Vicky at BHCC and they have both been a real support. We will ask you to pay a refundable deposit before you borrow the headphones, since sadly on previous events a few sets were mislaid! So it will be a case of getting your equipment -pickers, bags and gloves, leaving a deposit and grabbing a set of head phones whilst you cruise around the beaches of Saltdean to some seriously good tunes. We will have our usual teach on the beach table and of course the GRAB team will be there to aid you in any way possible...we will definitely be joining in with all the dancing too! So come on down and join in this fabulous family fun event...everyone is welcome! To find out more - click-tap on the image below to go to their Facebook event page    Rottingdean-Ovingdean-Brighton The Beacon Hub Brighton project (not to be confused with ‘Friends of Beacon Hill’ - an entirely separate organisation!), is a registered charitable incorporated organisation led by an enthusiastic team of local volunteers, which has been granted a fifteen year rent free lease to redevelop the redundant golf pavilion adjacent to Rottingdean windmill as an ‘Eco-education & Visitor Centre’.  To achieve its goal, the project’s intent is to create a purpose built facility based on the footprint and roof-line of the original building, plus an outdoor teaching area. This will offer exciting opportunities for ad-hoc visitors and organised school groups of all ages and abilities to learn about and connect with nature, ecology, marine biology, local heritage, the arts, geology, astronomy, renewable energy... the list goes on!   Common blue butterfly photo by Peter Whitcomb For the last eighteen months a wonderful group of hard-working and dedicated volunteers has run a community café/ kiosk and preliminary education programme at the ‘Hub’. The project has attracted support from BBC wildlife broadcaster Chris Packham, secured the lease on the building from Brighton & Hove City Council and permission from the South Downs National Park Authority to redevelop the building. In the longer term, an extensive programme of age and curriculum relevant activities for visiting school parties will be lead by professional educators. The Hub as a Visitor Centre, will also act as a ‘gateway’ to the national park, within whose boundaries it stands - offering interpretation displays and a multi- purpose exhibition space. It will also be available to hire as a meeting room, lectures theatre, etc by local community groups. In the interim, funding will be sought for the redevelopment and equipment, with a crowd-funding initiative to be launched in the near future.  The fabulous location on the Beacon Hill Nature Reserve allows easy access by foot, public transport and bicycle. As a condition of the lease, Beacon Hub Brighton is required to offer public toilet facilities and the car park is now open to visitors during café/kiosk opening hours (Thurs - Sat 10am - 3pm, Sun 11am - 4pm) after the recent installation of a new gate & height restriction bar at the A259 (seafront) entrance.  Please drop by the Hub and support the charity by buying a cup of tea or coffee and cake - you’re assured of a warm welcome! You might also be interested in purchasing a specially designed 2018 fund-raising calendar featuring stunning photos of local views - priced at just £8, also available from the Rottingdean Arts Café and Ovingdean shop, with all funds raised going to the Beacon Hub charity. If you would like to volunteer and help run the café/kiosk or make a donation, please Email: info@beaconhubbrighton.org    
Saltdean-Rottingdean-Peacehaven-Telscombe-Brighton-Woodingdean Message received from Gemma on 18/11/2017 Injured Wildlife Hi there - I wondered if anyone would be able to give me some advice please... this morning I was driving to work around 6am and I saw a beautiful little fox laying in the opposite side of the road. This was by St Nicholas church between the two 27 bus stops just off Lustrells Vale. I pulled over and went to check on the baby. It was clear he/she had been hit by a car. I will spare the details but it was very bloody, I checked for a pulse either way and the baby was definitely gone. My wife grabbed our picnic blanket from our car and I picked him/her up. I thought moving would be good to give the baby some dignity and also spare anyone else from seeing what we saw. Poor thing had severe head injury’s so at least I don’t think she/he suffered too much. Wrapped in our blanket I placed her on the green near some bushes out of immediate sight of passers by. I will check if the baby is still there later. I wanted to know what I should have done? Is there anywhere I could have taken the fox? I would have taken her to my vets and paid for treatment if there was the slightest chance of helping. I have looked it up and online said to call your council, I tired and they aren’t opening at weekends and the out of hours number isn’t replying to me. Many thanks and sorry for the morbid post. Message received from Stephanie on 18/11/2017 Hi Saltdean! Just wanted to let u know that a little baby fox was hit by a car on the corner of Lustrells Vale near Westbrook flats. A lot of blood. We grabbed him in a blanket and moved him to the side of the road in the grass. He's under a black and white checked blankie. I didn't know what else to do but didn't want to leave him on the road. Anyone else i can report this to? Thanks. Saltdean Zone Thanks Here is the link to Facebook Post: Injured Wildlife   ZoneZine is your local online community magazine for our area (zones) covering Ovingdean, Woodingdean, Saltdean, Rottingdean, Telscombe Cliffs & Village, Peacehaven, Newhaven and nearby. We are always on the lookout for contributors. If you have any photographs, videos or articles you would like to see published on ZoneZine then please contact us here 0 Comments Saltdean-Brighton-Rottingdean-Peacehaven Driving rain and 50mph winds hit our coastline today as a Storm uninspirally named 'Brian' delivered us a tree shakingly blustery day. We have a some video footage and pictures of the storm doing its bit on the seafront at Saltdean this afternoon you can enjoy (especially if you are sitting warm and cosy at home!) STAY SAFE Please note, if you are out near the seafront please be careful, don't get too close to the sea or do anything you think may endanger you, anybody else or your pets. If you never see anyone in difficulty along our seafront then call the coastguard immediately on 999.    If you have any photos or video (20mb or less) of Storm Brian, we'd love to see it! You can send it here - thank you Thank you, Karen Clark for sending us this footage Thank you, Trev Packer for sharing this dramatic picture of Brighton marina  ZoneZine is your local online community magazine for our area (zones) covering Ovingdean, Woodingdean, Saltdean, Rottingdean, Telscombe Cliffs & Village, Peacehaven, Newhaven and nearby. We are always on the lookout for contributors. If you have any photographs, videos or articles you would like to see published on ZoneZine then please contact us here |
