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It’s a cold, grey late winter midweek lunchtime but the bar at The British Queen pub on Willingdon Triangle is a welcome refuge for workers thirsty for a pint and friends dining and laughing. This very traditional pub has a relaxed atmosphere as people leave phones in their pockets

* Chair of the residents’ association explains how the controversial plan for a seven-storey block could be amended * Details of online meeting with developer * Residents seek compromises to retirement apartments scheme Sheltering on the east side of Martello Tower 66 from a howling southwesterly, Frances Lawrence and Caroline Lynam are philosophical

The leader of Eastbourne Borough Council is among hundreds of objectors to a plan to build 137 retirement apartments next to the beach at Sovereign Harbour. Coun Stephen Holt wrote in his objection to his own council's planning department that the development, which would be four metres higher

UPDATED 16 January 2024 with comment from FirstPort The lift in an Eastbourne block of flats which stopped working before Christmas, forcing elderly and disabled residents to walk up and down as many as 90 stairs, has finally been repaired. Three weeks after residents reported the problem at Penshurst House

* Indoor soft play area to be refurbished under five-year lease at seafront site * Defiant Sports no longer allowed by council to use site * An environmental scheme in partnership with the Eden Project is still the long-term aim The long-derelict Fort Fun site on Eastbourne seafront is scheduled to partially re-open

Part of the Eastbourne Levels could be covered in 50,000 solar panels if planning permission is approved for a renewable energy project in a multi-million pound deal, a public meeting heard. The land, owned by the Duke of Devonshire, covers an 80-acre site currently used for livestock grazing. The