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A Hurstpierpoint resident and logistics industry ambassador has received an MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours list.

Not Just Energy, But Everything , Fresh-lands Environmental Actions The criticality of the global energy situation is emphasised by the release, on schedule (18-5-21), of the eagerly awaited “Net Zero by 2050" roadmap (NZE) from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Not only does this document delineate the gargantuan quantities of energy currently used by humans on Earth, mainly from the fossil fuels, but the enormity of change necessary to bring their emissions to net zero by 2050. [It is thou...

Simon Upton Arabella Lennox-Boyd – softly spoken and supremely elegant – has created 800 gardens across the world for the most glittering of personalities, including Sting, the 6th Duke of Westminster, Queen Paola of Belgium, the Rothschilds and half the titled families of Europe. At 83, the Hon Lady Lennox-Boyd has a formidable, almost regal demeanour that makes you feel you should sit up straight in her presence. ‘There is that connection of the plants, which is like a thread that ties you all together,’ she explains, sitting in her light-filled drawing room in Lancashire, wearing a...

Trevor Dannatt obituary Elain Harwood The Royal Festival Hall, London, is an enduring legacy of the cultural optimism of the Festival of Britain, seven decades ago. In 1948, a hand-picked team of architects was brought in by London county council (LCC) to design the concert hall on the South Bank in which the festival would hold its main show. Among them were eight members selected by their former tutor, Peter Moro, at Regent Street Polytechnic, who, along with Leslie Martin, led the project. Trevor Dannatt, the last survivor of the group, has died aged 101. Dannatt detailed t...