Ex-diplomat resigns Arundel Town Council seat

Among his contributions to the council during six years as a member was playing a leading role in the campaign to prevent Arundel Town Hall from being claimed by Arun District Council.

Cllr Moss was deputy mayor in 2011 and served on all the town council’s committees while a councillor.

He left Fleet Street to join the Diplomatic Service in 1966 and spent several years in the Far East, where he was seconded to the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation and worked closely with the governments of Thailand, the Philippines and South Vietnam on counter-insurgency and counter-subversion programmes.

After retiring as a diplomat, he returned to journalism as editor-in-chief of a specialist magazine section at IPC Media.

Mr Moss said he was resigning from the council and leaving Arundel ‘with sadness and regret’ but would continue to take an interest in local affairs, returning for special events.

He urged the council to keep up efforts to protect the town’s heritage and assets, ‘not least the town hall parking area which rightly belongs to the people of Arundel’.