On 18 June, the Transition Town team are hosting The Great Get-Together with The Big Lunch from 13:00–16:00 in Warrior Square Gardens. An event catalysed by the death of MP, Jo Cox, who believed that we humans share more similarities than differences.
Transition Town Hastings have booked a visit to Hollingdean Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) on Friday 14 July from 10am. The presentation and tour take about two hours to complete. MRF sorts and bulks household waste from all over East Sussex. Then it’s transported onwards to recycling, recovery and disposal facilities.
With over 62,000 unpaid carers in East Sussex alone, this group makes up one of the most isolated in the UK – and tend to be our true unsung heroes. With 3 in 5 of us expected to become a carer at some point in our lives, let’s make this week the one that we sit up and applaud these often hidden champions.
No change in Hastings & Rye – but it was a close-run contest, with sitting MP Amber Rudd just retaining her seat as Labour’s Peter Chowney reversed his party’s 2015 decline with a vengeance. The smaller parties found themselves squeezed. Nick Terdre reports on the general election results.
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.
New measures to make Hastings a better place to live. Public Space Protection Orders (‘PSPOs’) come into effect in Hastings on Monday 12 June, to help combat anti-social behaviour and improve dog control in the town.
Puppet chef extraordinaire, Danny Fishbone, part of the Idolrich Theatre Company, is preparing himself, as all good chefs do, for another tantalising demonstration of his and his audience’s favourite dishes at Ore Community Centre this Saturday 10 June from 2pm.
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