An attempt to set-up a working group to look at the future of the English as an Additional Language Service (EALs) in East Sussex failed yesterday. Two days after the consultation process over the future of the service concluded and at a meeting of the full East Sussex County Council (ESCC) Councillor Alan Shuttleworth asked […]
The world changed when East Sussex County Council (ESCC) published it’s ‘core offer’ document towards the end of last year according to council leader Keith Glazier. While the full council debated a proposed budget that would see £5m slashed from spending in the coming financial year Mr Glazier told fellow councillors the authority could have […]
Just to be nominated in the English Wedding Awards was a big enough thrill for Helen Pomery she never thought she’d win on the night! In fact Helen was so convinced that she wouldn’t win on the night that she didn’t actually attend the awards ceremony at all, she explains: “It all got a bit […]
Mental health is a ‘crisis issue’ says a 14-year-old Hastings Academy pupil. Tom Bruges is one of 21 young people from across East Sussex who recently took up their seats on East Sussex Youth Cabinet, a body that represents young people on the issues that affect them. They have all been elected or co-opted to serve […]
Amber Rudd is committed to Hastings and in a weekend interview with the Financial Times she categorically denied being on the look-out for a safer seat. In the interview the FT’s political editor George Parker suggested to Ms Rudd that the vulnerability of her constituency (her majority is just 346) to Labour had prompted some people to […]
