Not In My Neighbourhood Week

The Safer Rother Partnership working with Sussex Police, Rother council and the council's waste contractors, Verdant, had first removed fly-tipped rubbish which residents taking part in the Sidley Neighbourhood Panel had identified as a key objective.

But the next operation was to provide something which is very much wanted in the neighbourhood.

Tiny tots from the nursery and the Parents Together group at nearby Sidley Community Centre given a swift lesson last. Wednesday morning by Neil Stripp of Rother gardens contractors John O'Conner in bulb-planting. Having learned how, if planted the right way up, the unprepossessing bulbs will miraculously turn into a sea of daffodils next Spring, the children tried their hand at putting the first of hundreds of bulbs into the ground on the wide grass verge opposite Sidley House.

The scheme follows the success of previous planting projects undertaken under supervision by Sidley schoolchildren.

Assistingin last Wednesday's operation were PC Steve Croft, who has special responsibility for Sidley, and Police Community Support Officers Rachael Pollen and Darren Owen.

Watching the operation with delight was Sidley Ward Rother member Cllr Jimmy Carroll.