Despite sheeting rain, three of the Save St Leonards Crown Post Office campaigners made their way to London today, Wednesday, to deliver 380 letters from local residents to prime minister Theresa May. Erica Smith tracks their progress.
At 11.30pm this Saturday at Seaford Post Office, a delegation from St Leonards and Newhaven Crown Post Offices will deliver over 500 pledges to the owner of the Seaford sub-post office. Erica Smith shares the latest campaign’s latest news and plans.
It wasn’t the best day to visit Post Office Ltd headquarters in London, but despite the incessant and at times torrential rain, four intrepid emissaries from Save St Leonards Crown Post Office did just that on Wednesday, to hand over copies of letters from local residents protesting about their plans for our post office. Nick Terdre, one of the four, reports.
HOT’s Erica Smith gets all hot under the collar and personal over the Post Office Ltd’s ‘consultation’ about St Leonards Crown Post Office. If you care, please read this article and send your comments to: comments@postoffice.co.uk by the end of THIS Wednesday – 9 August.
Moving down to the coast is quite the thing — this century. James Burton got here in the 1820s, when the local scene was mostly rough landscape. As an experienced Georgian builder, he knew how to build a house — or a street. Or how about a complete new town? Bernard McGinley reports on the beginnings of St Leonards-on-Sea, and its pending bicentenary, and how James Burton was the first DFL (‘Down From London’, for DFLs that don’t know).
The following article by Merlin Betts appeared in Hastings Independent Press (February 27, 2023) and is reposted here with kind permission of the author.
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