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Water Meadow
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Local businesses and residents in Queens Road have been left frustrated by Southern Water’s failure to take responsibility for fixing a burst water pipe which has been left…
Battle lines drawn on clean water campaign
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Government policy and programmes to stem the number of Channel crossings made by small boats of migrants/refugees are likely to be at the forefront of rival claims and…
What’s Spoiling Our Seas?
ROBERT RALPH Three speakers explain the challenges our coastline faces and explore some of the solutions. The Common Room (Opposite ESK) in Cambridge Road – TN34 1DJ. 15 April, 1600…
Protesters Flush Wasteful Management
ROBERT RALPH On Tuesday 14 March, a group of residents from Hastings and St Leonards Extinction Rebellion and The Clean Water Action Group displayed their disgust at Southern Water’s continued…
Bathers Going Through the Motions
BY PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hundreds of environmental campaigners recently gathered in St Leonards for the unveiling of a mock Blue Plaque to highlight the continued dumping of raw sewage into the…
Bulverhythe Sewage Clean-up
BY SUSAN MCFIE AND KENT BARKER Days after a mains pipe burst in Bulverhythe, flooding local homes with sewage, Southern Water were still involved in a massive clear-up operation. Dozens…
ENGULFED!
But what caused Town Centre flooding? There was a clear natural cause of the flood which engulfed Priory Meadow, South Terrace and other parts of the town centre, as well…
Low, Wet and Handsome No Longer
Handsome Bicycles, which has sold and repaired bikes from its premises in Harold Place since 2012, has announced its permanent closure in the aftermath of the flood. Manager Harry Wiseman…
Cost of Living Support
East Sussex County Council is providing information on how to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. The information in this article comes from one of their newsletters. The recent costs of…
Fireworks cancellation disappoints thousands
Bonfire societies from all over Sussex came together last Saturday evening to march along the streets of Hastings in a procession of drums, flares and flaming torchlights as the prelude…
Public Shit Storm
Sewage spills on beaches: who’s to blame? Beaches at Bexhill and Normans Bay were closed for around 48 hours on 18 and 19 August after over million litres of water, which…
A System Designed to Overflow
Most of Britain’s sewerage system – operated by Southern Water amongst other water companies since privatisation in 1989 but previously under public sector direction – has always, from its origins…
Let them eat… porridge
Following the release of the Environment Agency’s latest annual Environmental Performance Assessmenton our local water company, Kent Barker writes an open letter to the bosses and board at Southern Water…
XR demos target Council budget
Cllr Evans answers back The Hastings and St Leonards branch of Extinction Rebellion (XRHSL) has been out in force on the streets of Hastings to press anew its demand for…
Impressive Turnout for Clean Water Protest
By Suzanne Kelly Over fifty people turned out on Wednesday 27 October to highlight the continuing problems with water pollution. Facebook groups including Hastings Environment Network and Plastic Free Hastings…
Southern Water Get Red Flag Treatment
A red flag on a beach generally signals hazardous bathing conditions. That’s exactly what a new activist movement, the Hastings & St Leonards Clean Water Action Group, meant in raising…
Southern Watergate
By Ben Cornwell and Suzanne Kelly A few weeks ago, at Bulverhythe beach, all you would have heard were the calming sounds of the sea breeze, the pebbles clattering under…
Southern Water at Bay
A large sewage pipe at Bulverhythe belonging to Southern Water burst last week. According to initial reports, the leak occurred initially on the Wednesday and was partially repaired but, following…
Environmental Update
News of the Natural World Seawater quality Water collected from Pelham Beach and tested by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has been rated ‘sufficient’ – the…
Southern Water tests revolutionary SmartBall
The device, which travels along water pipes and detects weakened pipes before they become bursts, is being tested by Southern Water in the 13,000 km of pipe line that make…