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"Top secret" G20 venue revealed

Anti-capitalist | 07.03.2009 08:35 | G20 London Summit | Globalisation | South Coast

G20 Finance ministers are to hold pre-summit talks in southern England next weekend, Saturday March 14, ahead of the main event on April 2-3.

Media reports are only so far saying that this will be held in West Sussex, at a "top secret" venue due to be revealed, perhaps, on Monday.
 http://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/Worlds-finance-chiefs-to-meet.5047702.jp
 http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-563610
But it is well known locally that this is in fact South Lodge Hotel, in Brighton Road, Lower Beeding, near Horsham - a very up-market venue often used by the local business elite and police chiefs.
 http://www.southlodgehotel.co.uk
It is 40 miles south of London, 18 miles from Brighton and 5 miles from Horsham, situated on the A281.
 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=0,0,9407089623021974355&fb=1&split=1&gl=uk&dq=South+Lodge+Lower+Beeding&daddr=Brighton+Rd,+Lower+Beeding,+Horsham,+RH13+6PS&geocode=14988263817023798149,51.014658,-0.262035&ei=BAaxSZW0A-TCjAewjvzeBQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=directions-to
Public transport: the 17 Stagecoach bus stops right next to it, at Crabtree, Lower Beeding. This is a 55-minute ride direct from Brighton city centre. Coming from London, travel from Victoria to Horshamy by train and then pick up the 17 bus towards Brighton from outside the train station.
 http://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables/WG17timetable040109.pdf

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some ppl may have been there before?

08.03.2009 01:41

Hmmm, I seem to remember an anti-G8 protest thing that took place at a remote location in West Sussex....near Beeding or something. It was surrounded by lots of countryside.

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Different venue

08.03.2009 08:30

That was a different one - the Foreign Office's Wilton Park, at Wiston, near Steyning (and Upper Beeding, not to be confused with Lower Beeding, some 10 miles away...)
That's not to say Wilton Park won't be involved at all in the weekend's activities. Looks like it all starts on the Friday, by the way - it's being billed as a weekend event.

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