Dame Anita Roddick

Farewell, Anita Roddick. Local girl made good, changed the world...

The world's tallest beach hut

Littlehampton's old coastguard tower isn't mine. In fact, I didn't even go to the auction. The guide price of £20,000 (which isn't the kind of money I have sitting around at the moment - although I had a master plan involving various credit cards!) ended up being exceeded by over 100%. It evenually sold for £42,000 to a Brighton-based chap who did have that sort of money sitting around. (The full story is in Brighton's The Argus). Good luck to him - it'll be interesting to see what it becomes. I rather fancied using the building as a tall, impractical office...

Suit other uses

In Littlehampton, on the coast just 4 miles from here, they're selling the old Coastguard Tower. (A new one was built several years ago and the old one isn't much use any more). It's being offered at auction next month, with the handy advice "Suit other uses". Just in case you thought you'd need to wear your pyjamas and retrieve a brick from the swimming pool before you could buy it.