DEPUTY Mayor Bob Mainstone joined fellow councillors Christine Mainstone and Bernard Gillbard to admire the gardening efforts of many of the towns school children in the newly-created community garden at Lingfield Road recreation ground.

Five schools - Imberhorne Lower, Halsford Park, St Marys, Baldwins Hill and St Peters - worked with the local neighbourhood panels, Mid Sussex District Council and Sussex Police to design the garden which was built out of railway sleepers before being filled with flowering plants.

Bob said: "This wonderful project has not only given the children who took part in it a great sense of achievement, it has also equipped them with skills they will enjoy throughout their lives - and created a garden which the entire town can take pleasure in.

"Everyone who was involved in the scheme deserves huge congratulations."

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