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Rebecca Maer

Housing crisis on the Sussex coast

Housing crisis on the Sussex coast

* More than 100 local authorities are to join an online emergency summit this coming week, partly hosted by Eastbourne Borough Council, to discuss the spiralling costs of homelessness * The council predicts it will have to spend £3.6 million on temporary accommodation. Its original budget for 2022/23 lists total

The keen swimmer, 80, who feels digitally excluded when booking council-run classes

The keen swimmer, 80, who feels digitally excluded when booking council-run classes

Pauline Cooper, 80, is determined to keep fit and active so she goes swimming every day at 6.30am at the Sovereign Centre in Eastbourne. She also likes to take the Sunday morning aquafit class after her swim but cannot book in advance online because she does not own a

The Black Robin Farm project

The Black Robin Farm project

What is happening at Black Robin Farm, the high-profile plan for a cultural and education centre on the South Downs above Eastbourne? It is nearly two years since Eastbourne Borough Council secured £19.8 million in Levelling Up funding towards this scheme and others – and the deadline for spending the

What can be done about the housing crisis in Eastbourne?

What can be done about the housing crisis in Eastbourne?

The annual cost of housing benefit in Eastbourne is more than £30 million, while rents continue to rise and limited numbers of new homes are built. The lack of housing is the driving force behind the Eastbourne Community Land Trust, which plans initially to build five houses for key workers

The volunteers who honour the dead

The volunteers who honour the dead

The tombstones, crucifixes, angels and inscriptions slowly emerge from the creeping ivy and smothering foliage as if in a fairy story. What looks like a bank of overgrown shrubs becomes a row of stone memorials, marking lives, families, connections, history. “I just find it really satisfying to clean them up,

How TechResort changes lives

How TechResort changes lives

Sam Best was researching jobs and considering his future when he came across the Japanese philosophy of ‘ikigai’, said to be the secret to a joyful life. The 19-year-old found that the idea was to fulfil four categories: do what you love, do what the world needs, do what you

What exactly is the problem with local news?

What exactly is the problem with local news?

(UPDATED JANUARY 2025 WITH LATEST READERSHIP FIGURES) I’ve just read a copy of an Eastbourne newspaper. It is a model of good local news reporting with eight stories on the front page. Inside, on packed news pages, the reports include eight court cases and three inquests. The defendants in