FINDING a reliable tradesman or help around the home couldn’t be easier, thanks to East Sussex County Council’s Buy and Support With Confidence directory.
The A5 booklet, the ninth edition published by the county’s Trading Standards team, contains information on scheme members as well as useful advice on consumer rights. Continue reading
THERE was much to celebrate in Hadlow Down yesterday as it became the first village in East Sussex to benefit from a multi-million pound county-wide superfast fibre broadband project.
Hadlow Down’s first fibre broadband cabinet, providing more than 220 homes and businesses with access to the high-speed technology, has now ‘gone live’. Speeds of more than 30Mbps are possible for the majority of customers. Continue reading
BRITAIN’S biggest professional cycling race will hit East Sussex for the first time as the county hosts part of the penultimate leg of the Tour of Britain.
The provisional route for stage seven, on Saturday, September 13 2014, will see the world’s top riders enter the county near North Chailey, heading through Uckfield, Horam, Hailsham, Eastbourne and East Dean.
The tour heads west through Seaford, Newhaven and Lewes, briefly re-entering West Sussex to take on the famous climb of Ditchling Beacon before passing through Brighton for the finish.
AMBITIOUS plans to boost economic growth in East Sussex could see more than £600 million invested in the county.
East Sussex is asking for almost £149 million from the Government’s Local Growth Fund (LGF) to deliver new transport and infrastructure schemes and boost skills and productivity. Continue reading
