Tag archives for Northeye
NEWS IN BRIEF
Businesses Fined Following investigation by immigration enforcement officers, two businesses in Hastings have been fined for employing illegal workers. Edi’s Car Wash Ltd in Battle Road have had a £40,000…
Home Office Set to Release Northeye Site
HUGH SULLIVAN A senior civil servant at the Home Office confirmed last week that the former prison premises of Northeye on the outskirts of Bexhill are no longer being considered…
Home Office Slated Over Northeye Purchase
HUGH SULLIVAN A year ago we reported (in HIP 239: £9m Private Profit Revealed) that when the Home Office bought the former prison site of Northeye on the edge of…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
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Northeye: Back to Lock and Key
HUGH SULLIVAN As anticipated in HIP 232 (Changing of the Guard?), the Home Office are now proposing to use the former prison site at Northeye, Bexhill for detention of people…
Corrections
Water outflows In HIP 229 we published an article We Just Want to Swim in the Sea! written by David Dennis which included the following paragraph: “Gradually, as legislation demanded…
Changing of the Guard?
When Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick told Parliament on 29 March this year that the Home Office was intending to use an unidentified location in East Sussex for the housing of…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Northeye: Contrasting Views of Bexhill Demos Dear HIP I am writing regarding the article about Northeye in your last edition. Thank you for correcting the information about the petition. We…
Twin Demos Over Northeye: Same Goal, Contrary Rhetoric
A group of around 40 local residents gathered on the small park outside Bexhill Town Hall last Saturday afternoon to stage their latest demonstration under the slogan No to Northeye.…
Northeye Protestors Blame Merriman and Tory Government
HUGH SULLIVAN A meeting of Bexhill-on-Sea Town Council resolved last Wednesday to oppose the use of the former prison site at Northeye to house asylum seekers. The full Town Council…
David Dennis to Head Bexhill Wildlife and Landscape Project
The Bexhill Wild Domesday Project, a scientific evaluation of the natural environment of Bexhill-on-sea, will be launched on 1 June. The purpose is to plan for its future conservation and…
Northeye locals air grievances, MP appeals for calm
HUGH SULLIVAN Huw Merriman, MP for Battle and Bexhill, has found himself caught between the demands of the national government, of which he is Rail Minister, and grievances felt and…
Deterred or Detained?
Former Bexhill Prison Site to House Cross-Channel Arrivals HUGH SULLIVAN The former Category C prison of Northeye, on the western fringe of Bexhill, was one of three sites publicly identified…