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Event showcases approaches to ageing well

Interreg 2 Seas and Rother Voluntary Action logosALMOST 100 delegates signed up for the Innovations in Healthy Ageing conference at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill last month.

The event, which took place on Wednesday, October 19, brought together learning and new developments from the Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE) Project to promote local approaches to ageing well.

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Discover your past at The Keep

two women sitting a computer EAST Sussex residents are being encouraged to find out more about their family history with free access to over six million digitised Sussex parish records.

Baptism, confirmation, marriage, death and burial records spanning 457 years of Sussex history are now available to search online on Ancestry, the world’s largest genealogy website, with free access available at The Keep.

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Thank you payments to Ukrainian hosts increased

escc logoEAST SUSSEX residents who are hosting Ukrainian guests through the Homes for Ukraine scheme are set to receive winter top up payments from the council.

East Sussex County Council has taken the decision to increase the monthly payments payable to hosts to thank them for their continued kindness and generosity and to reflect the increased costs people are facing during the current economic crisis.

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