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County Council Set to Slash Social Care Spending
The cabinet of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) wase due to meet on Thursday this week to discuss savings proposals on next year’s budget, which at present is predicted to…
Plan Ducks Priority Issues
CHARMIAN KENNER The ESCC Local Transport Plan contains a pretty comprehensive list of nice outcomes it would be hard to disagree with. But how is it going to be implemented?…
Queensway Gateway: Is Council Awaiting LEP Abolition?
HUGH SULLIVAN The Accountability Board of SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership), which channels government funds into local infrastructure projects, is due to meet again today (Friday) for its quarterly…
RoboPets Help People with Dementia
SALLY BURR and SAFFRON PHILLIPS A mechanical pet project to help people with early-stage dementia has been launched in East Sussex. The County Council (ESCC) RoboPets scheme aims to support…
Queensway Junction still logjammed
Is County Council awaiting LEP abolition? HUGH SULLIVAN In a low-key pronouncement tucked away within his budget speech to the House of Commons on 15 March, Chancellor of the Exchequer…
We’ve got the space, so let’s use it
KEN DAVIS from Transition Town Hastings sets out the group’s innovative approach to solving the housing crisis in ; We need more homes, but homes of the right quality in…
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Refugee aid group highlights safeguarding failures BY HUGH SULLIVAN On 24 January the UK Parliament debated allegations published in the national Observer newspaper the previous weekend that dozens of unaccompanied…
Wi-Fi Refugee On St Leonards Seafront
A homeless Hastings woman with a complex medical condition is facing huge fines for non-payment of parking tickets. Roxanne Roma has been living in a camper van on St Leonards…
A Turn Up For The Books!
County council extends time for new Ore library initiative Following two meetings of a group of community leaders and activists co-ordinated by Hastings Borough councillor Heather Bishop, East Sussex County…
A Load Of Rubbish?
By Emma Harwood A business owner who privately hires Biffa, a company which describes itself as ‘the number one for business waste’, says she has concerns about it taking over…
Ore Library Closure
By Colin Gibson After efforts by the local community to keep it open after its initial closure order in May 2018, Ore public library will now close and will be…
Closure In The Community
Another Isabel Blackman Centre Shuts Its Emma Harwood A decision to close the Isabel Blackman Centre in St Leonards, which has provided a range of vital services for many elderly…
INSTRUMENTALISTS GET VOCAL BACKING
The prospect of East Sussex Music (ESM) ending its instrumental teaching provision in the county’s schools by reason of a proposed withdrawal of funding by the Council (ESCC) has stimulated…
Children in East Sussex deserve a music service
Ros Donald reports Wooden sounds and smells echoed and deadened. Chairs thumped on worn parquet. ‘Cellos vibrated woodily as their metal spike was quickly deployed. We learned rhythms by beating…
Face the Music
County proposals for school music cuts go forward despite petition backlash East Sussex Music Service (ESMS), which provides the major proportion of music tuition across the county, is in crisis…