FREE life-saving suicide intervention and prevention training is being offered to taxi drivers in Eastbourne and Seaford.
The Taxi Watch programme, operated by the suicide prevention and awareness charity Talk To Tom, teaches professional drivers how to spot the signs of a person suffering through a suicide crisis, how to react, and how to get the person to safety.
SPOT checks on shops in the Eastbourne area led Trading Standards officers to uncover their biggest haul of illegal tobacco this year.
Cigarettes and rolling tobacco worth around £28,000 were found hidden in drawers in a flat in central Eastbourne. Continue reading
A NEW temporary Covid testing site will be in operation in Bexhill from next week (week beginning March 7).
It replaces the fixed site which has been providing PCR tests in Wainwright Road for the past two years but which will end its operation at 5pm on Friday, March 4.
PEOPLE across East Sussex are being encouraged to get tested for HIV, as part of a national campaign week.
The council is backing National HIV Testing Week, running from February 7 to 13, which aims to encourage more people to get tested for the virus.
