EXPERIENCE SUSSEX, the official visitor economy development programme for East and West Sussex, has released research that reveals the significant value of tourism for businesses in the region.
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Urgent repairs delay Tidebrook Road closure
The closure of a rural Wadhurst road has been delayed while plans to repair a lane on the diversion route are put in place.
Tidebrook Road was due to close on Monday, February 10, for five weeks for carriageway patching, with traffic diverted along Mayfield Lane. Continue reading
Drainage and road repair work set to start
MAJOR repairs to a highway drainage pipe which caused potholes and damage to a Ditchling road will begin later this month.
In order to repair the 200mm diameter pipe that runs beneath the village High Street a trench will have to be excavated down the middle of the road and therefore, regrettably, the road will be closed between the B2116 and Orchard Lane from 8am on Wednesday, February 26 until 7pm on Friday, March 6. Continue reading
National award for community help project
A PROJECT designed to match organisations that need help and those that want to help their local communities has received national recognition.
The East Sussex Social Value Marketplace, a project between local authority partnership Orbis and East Sussex County Council’s Public Health team, was named Social Innovation of the year at January’s National Social Value Awards. Continue reading
LGBT history exhibition to go on display
AN exhibition highlighting the little-known history of East Sussex’s LGBT communities will go on public display at venues in the county.
Entitled LGBT+ equals me – a skip, a hop and a jump, the project is the product of months of work by young people who trawled the archives and visited cultural sites. Continue reading