Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for public and political services. A statement from Sussex says: “Since being elected in 2012, Katy Bourne has used her role to bring police and communities together to better understand and address local policing issues. “She arrived with […]
Sussex is one of the safest places to live and to keep it that way Sussex Police launched Operation Magpie on Tuesday – it’s a week-long crime prevention and awareness campaign designed to keep your home safe from burglars this summer. Sussex has low rates of burglary compared to other counties across England and Wales. There […]
Viewers to BBC’s South East Today last night will have seen Police officers at work in Hastings making arrests as part of Sussex Police’s offensive against so-called ‘County Lines’ drug dealers – Operation Fortress. Police across Sussex have made scores of arrests in the last ten days as the force looks to keep up the […]
Our democracy has never been so fragile and we need more politicians who want to give the rest of us a greater voice. That is at the heart of how Greens do politics and it is why we saw a 273 per cent increase in Greens elected to local councils this month, taking votes from […]
It’s great to read what people think about our stories when they post their comments on social media but more and more of you are taking the chance to comment on our stories in more detail by using the comment facility at the bottom of every story. Here are just a few of the comments […]
At the end of last week Sussex Police announced it was joining police forces across the South East in supporting a leading child protection charity around the launch of a campaign to tackle the growing demand for sexual images of children online. The regional campaign represents a multi-agency approach to tackling the growing demand for […]
Yesterday’s Guardian carried a column written by an anonymous Metropolitan Police Officer, in it he says he no longer feels safe going to work, feels he and his colleagues are being stretched beyond their capabilities, he does not feel valued and he is seeing colleagues quit from exhaustion and frustration. While the piece in The […]
Stephanie Gaunt has adopted the alter-ego ‘Hastings Battleaxe’ and on her own blog expresses her forthright views and opinions on a range of topics. Stephaine says, ‘Hastings Battleaxe does set out to be honest, but that means the posts do include the expression of some strong opinions – well, she wouldn’t be a Battleaxe otherwise, […]
Hastings means so many things to so many people. This series of articles began with one young man explaining his hopes and fears for his hometown and here Irmina Corder explains why she has come ‘home’ to Hastings, after 50 years, having been one of the town’s ‘hysterical, backcombed, swirling-petticoated teenagers’ in the 1960s. This […]
