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CHILDREN from across the county have voted for their favourite read as the winner of the annual East Sussex Children’s Book Award has been announced.
Hercules: The Diary of a (Sort Of) Hero by Tom Vaughan was revealed as this year’s winner at a special awards ceremony held earlier this week at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
FASTER rail links between East Sussex and London have taken a step closer after receiving the backing of a senior Government minister.
Speaking during a visit to the county, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced Network Rail would launch a formal feasibility study into electrifying the Hastings to Ashford line. Continue reading
STUDENTS who are bringing music into the lives of hospital patients in East Sussex enjoyed the chance to meet a world-renowned piano teacher.
The students, from Hastings and Rother, Lewes and Eastbourne, met Dame Fanny Waterman during a ceremony at the Conquest Hospital, in Hastings. Continue reading
MUSIC students from East Sussex performed in front of a veteran broadcaster at a charity fund-raising concert.
Kit Kat and the Crunchies, a group of students from East Sussex Academy of Music at Sussex Downs Lewes College, performed at the Towner gallery, in Eastbourne, at a concert held to raise money for the town’s St Wilfred’s Hospice. Continue reading
REGISTERING births and deaths will become more convenient for residents in the east of the county thanks to the launch of a new service.
East Sussex County Council’s registration service is offering appointments in Rye Library on Wednesday and Friday mornings to give residents an alternative to having to travel to Hastings to register births and deaths. Continue reading
