CAMPAIGNERS in Worthing, West Sussex, are battling to stop the local council from selling off two chunks of treasured countryside.

The land in question is on the slopes running up to Cissbury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort and much loved beauty spot.

A protest meeting is to be held at 11am on Saturday November 14, gathering at the Coombe Rise car park in Findon Valley, Worthing.

One of the speakers there will be Kate Ashbrook, general secretary of the Open Spaces Society, which is backing the Stop the Cissbury Sell-Off campaign.

Also addressing the rally will be Marion Shoard, a famous countryside campaigner and author of 'The Theft of the Countryside', 'This Land is Our Land', and 'A Right to Roam'.

The event will be followed by an optional country walk which will cross a council-owned field that has a statutory right of public access but has been closed to the public, contrary to the law, for the last four years.

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