News releases
BASIL Salty, Ctrl, Salt, Delete and David Plowie are among a fleet of gritters ready to roll when temperatures plummet as East Sussex Highways launches its winter service. With 10,000 tonnes of rock salt stockpiled, 21 gritters – including some named by schoolchildren across the county, are ready to hit the highway and treat more than 750 miles of the county’s roads. Between now and the end of...
Karen Bowles Friday, 2 October 2026
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Six new programmes will support businesses across East Sussex to grow and help to create new jobs. The East Sussex County Council will offer ambitious small to medium-sized businesses support through workshops, mentoring and tailored one-to-one support. The county council secured more than £400,000 of funding from the new Sussex and Brighton Strategic Authority to deliver the programmes, which...
Thursday, 24 September 2026
WORK is starting on a scheme designed to support more reliable and efficient bus services in Newhaven. Improvements to a section of the bus route running along The Drove and Seaford Road will be carried out in three phases in a bid to minimise disruption. The work is funded by the Bus Service Improvement Plan funding from Department for Transport and will help to improve the consistency of bus...
Karen Bowles Tuesday, 1 September 2026
A FUNDING programme has helped boost businesses across Newhaven and create 25 new jobs. The Newhaven Business Grants Programme offered small and medium-sized businesses grants of up to £15,000 towards projects that would help them grow, innovate and improve productivity. Funded by UK Government with Local Regeneration Funding secured by Lewes District Council and delivered in partnership by Eas...
Karen Bowles Thursday, 25 June 2026
MORE than 60 people in East Sussex facing barriers to work were able to find employment in the first year of a multi-million pound work support programme overseen and managed by East Sussex County Council. Connect to Work is a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) funded programme which was launched in June 2025 as part of a Government drive to support people with disabilities, long term healt...
Karen Bowles Tuesday, 16 June 2026
A DECADE-long partnership has seen a £10million investment in the south east creative sector as well as the generation of more than 4,000 jobs. The South East Creative Economy Network (SECEN) has published its ‘10 Years Catalysing Growth 2015-2025’ report which outlines how the industry has benefited from the partnership between creative businesses, educational bodies and local authorities -...
Rebecca Durrant Wednesday, 11 March 2026
WITH 25,000 paving slabs laid, 1,700 metres of road resurfaced and almost a mile of granite kerbs and channels installed, the latest phase of a town centre improvement scheme is nearing completion. Over the past ten months, Victoria Place has been transformed into a pedestrianised space designed to improve the public space, increase visitor numbers and help local businesses. As part of the East...
Karen Bowles Tuesday, 17 February 2026
A MAJOR new roofing apprenticeship programme will launch for the first time in East Sussex in September 2026, creating new routes into skilled employment while helping address a growing industry-wide skills shortage. The new Level 2 Roofer Apprenticeship, delivered by East Sussex College, comes after months of collaboration between a working group of the Skills and Employment East Sussex (SES)...
Karen Bowles Friday, 13 February 2026
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