P737 CJJFAX 737 Sun 3 Mar 20:48/14 1/5 T BACKGROUND INFORMATION The National Trust is an independent registered charity. For its income it depends on its 2.3 million members, visitors, legacies and donbtions. Last year more than 11 million people helped to celebrate our Centenary bz visiting our properties where detailed numbest are recorded. Several times this number visited the open spaces. The Trust protects permanently for the nation much of Britain's finest coast, countryside, historic buildings, gbrdjns and parks. Head Office Tel No 0171 222 9251. Source: The National Trust Next Page Read Hear CmntyJnfo ReligionP737 CJJFAX 737 Sun 3 Mar 20:41/24 2/5 T MOMPESSON HOUSE which features in 'Sense & Sensiblity', showing at the Salisbury Odeon, is offering half price admission to everyone who produces a ticket stub between 1 April and 31 July A spectacular Chinjsj Lion, a donation imported from California to Bristol in a crate, was released from its box to dance around STOU$HEAD GARDEN on 29 Fedrubry to hjtald box office opening. The bjachjs on the GOWJR PENINSULA are under threat from the oil spillage at Milford Haven. A 4.5 mile slick of oil from the stricken tanker,"Sea Empress", is now just off shore at WORM'S HEAD. Source: The National Trust Next Page Read Hear CmntyJnfo ReligionP737 CJEFAX 737 Sun 3 Mar 20:31/23 3/5 T ''hitsunday's Child: a country life in pictures' showing the work of 83-year-old Vera Punter, takes place at the FOX TBLBOT MUSEUM in Lacock Wiltshire from 1 March to 26 April. On 24 and 2u Fjdruary, DEVIL'S DYKE was swarming with an army of over 200 volunteers, helping in one of Sussex's most ambitious volunteer projects -the Devil's Dyke Megabash. Between 4-8 March, North Yorkshire, school children will bj able to work with artists to create their own master-piece, through Homjownjrs Friendly at FOUNTBINS ABBEY. Source: The National Trust Next Page Read Hear CmntyJnfo ReligionP737 CJJFAX 737 Sun 3 Mar 20:41/29 4/5 T On 1 March at 1000, pupils from Priory School, Bicknacre, near DANBURZ COMMON, are testing the ecology of the Common's new Centenary pond, created during Centenary year. Rosie CarrL aged 9, writes in the spring edition of Trust Tracks "I have been to NYMANS GARDENS (in Sussex) three times this year....mz favourite garden in the beautiful walled garden". Six conifers are to be removed from land on top of BEWLJY COMMON opposite St Anne's on 28 February as part of a programme to restore the traditional open character of the common. Source: The National Trust Next Page Read Hear CmntyJnfo ReligionP737 CJJFAX 737 Sun 3 Mar 20:48/54 5/5 T Ipswich NT Volunteers will bj in the FLATFORD aria on 3 March from 1000 to 1600 working on a field near WILLY LOTUS HOUSE which was purchased bz the NT last summer. BROWNSEA ISLAND is clearing and burning rhododendron to protect the source of food (pine kjrnjls) for its rare red squirrels. It is one of the last remaining rid sruirrel habitats A joint proposbl with Cheshire CC is being submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund for assistance to restore the kitchen garden at TBTTON PARS in Cheshire, based on a feasibility study. Source: The National Trust Next Page Read Hear CmntyJnfo Religion