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By Rebecca Maer If you were clearing the attic of a collector with wide-ranging and eclectic tastes, it might look something like the new heritage store in an anonymous grey unit in Hampden Park.   Earthenware wine flasks, a legal wig in a box, Saxon brooches, a box of fossils,

By Rebecca Maer Work on the £11.5 million Black Robin Farm cultural and education centre on the South Downs has been delayed by at least a year.  Development was due to start on the former dairy farm near Beachy Head last year but there is no sign of activity

By Rebecca Maer A worker was underpaid by nearly £24,000 over five years by an Eastbourne company, Government figures show.  It is the largest amount any firm owed a single minimum wage worker on the list released this month.  Whiteline Manufacturing Ltd, which is based in Hawthorn Road and

By Rebecca Maer Bright pink and green plastic-topped tables are not the obvious choice of furniture style for a wood-panelled former council committee room with a stone Victorian fireplace and decoratively glazed windows.  The tables are pushed together in a block in a room near the grand foyer

The Eastbourne Reporter talks tough decisions, carpet gardens and heritage assets with Eastbourne Borough Council leader Stephen Holt in a wide-ranging interview  By Rebecca Maer  Stephen Holt is in no doubt about Eastbourne’s greatest asset: its people.  By which he means the residents involved in helping out in

By Paul Bromley, volunteer arts reviewer  The first literature festival in Eastbourne is taking place next month, with the aim of celebrating stories by the sea.  More than 40 talks, discussions and events have been arranged at venues around the town for the weekend of 25-27 September.  Whose idea