Dear List Any one with memories or knowledge of Sompting, Cokeham, or Lancing may be interested in a Competition being run by The Friends of Sompting Church. Have you any Memories of Sompting, Cokeham, or Lancing? write them, type them, print them from computer, dictate them to a friend for them to write or type. Competition opens 30 May 2008. Entries to be sent to the Friends of Sompting Church by 8 July 2008 Your memories may be of any length : Please try to give some idea of places, decades, persons within the memoir. It is planned that the most interesting and informative will be published in a book to sell for the benefit of repairs or restoration of Sompting St Mary's or St Peter's churches. No Entry Form just : Send them with your Name (state if you would like your name to appear in the publication ): Address (not for publication) : Year(s) of event(s) : Entry fee :2.00 pounds [no cash through the post, please] 1st prize 25.00 2nd prize 15.00 3rd prize 10.00 pounds By entering this competition you will be deemed to have given your permission for the organisers to publish your entry. In order to enter the competition the entry fee must be paid. However, memories may also be submitted to appear in the publication without entering the competition; the entrant or submitter will be deemed to have given permission for the organisers to publish it. Send to : Mrs J Excell, Sompting Memories, 63 Keymer Crescent, Goring by Sea, Worthing, Sussex BN12 4LD or hand them in at St Mary's or St Peter's, Sompting, Sussex. Judy Excell