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Annual report highlights successes and challenges

escc logoEAST Sussex County Council has overcome huge challenges to deliver vital services to thousands of residents, an annual report shows.

State of the County reveals how the authority supported more than 30,000 people through adult social care services in 2024/25 and had contact with more than 48,000 children and young people through its children’s services team. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Featured, General on June 17, 2025 by karenb.

Views sought on bus stop relocation plans

VIEWS are being sought on changes to Eastbourne town centre bus stops designed to make Terminus Road pedestrian friendly.

Proposals agreed by the Eastbourne Town Centre Improvement Scheme Project Board include relocating bus stops in Terminus Road to Gildredge Road and Cornfield Road. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Transport and Environment on June 9, 2017 by karenb.

Join fight for cleaner air, residents urged

RESIDENTS are being encouraged to sign up for alerts about air pollution levels as part of a national awareness week.

Sussex-Air – the county’s air quality partnership – is throwing its support behind the British Lung Foundation’s Breathe Easy Week, which runs from June 12 to June 16, and is urging people to sign up to its airAlert service. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Transport and Environment on June 6, 2017 by karenb.

Hailsham town centre scheme enters final stage

George Street in Hailsham reopened on May 15THE FINAL stage of a major town centre improvement scheme designed to help Hailsham flourish has begun.

With the transformation of the High Street and George Street complete, work has moved to Vicarage Lane and Vicarage Road and is expected to take 12 weeks to complete. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Economy, Roads, Transport and Environment on May 30, 2017 by karenb.

‘Passionate’ fund-raiser Paul is county’s top caretaker

Caretaker of the Year Paul Herdman with head teacher Rachel West, head teacher at Laughton Primary School, and pupils Luc Neale, Tom Silvester and Reef PackhamA CARETAKER who has raised more than £280,000 for the three schools he works at has been hailed for going ‘beyond the call of duty’.

Paul Herdman, who works at Laughton Community Primary, East Hoathly CE Primary and Chiddingly Primary schools, has been named East Sussex Caretaker of the Year 2017. Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Children's Services, Schools and colleges on May 15, 2017 by karenb.

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