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  • Local musician, Pevensey Bay based Peter Barron, sees title track from album optioned for soundtrack of new movie

  • Govia Thameslink Railway 'Delay Repay' scheme: Samaritans and Railway Children Charities to benefit

  • COMMUNITY STUFF: Taylor Dain, Estate Agents in Westham and Castle Inn, Pevensey Bay, sponsor autumn playtime for local youngsters

  • COMMUNITY PROJECT OF THE YEAR: The fabulous project and people of Beachlands and their trunk call to 1926

  • Revelation at Harvest in Quilts and Flowers: St Mary's Church Westham

  • Grand Opening and Fund raiser, Pevensey Community Library: Saturday 28 September: Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle, to cut the ribbbon

  • Launch of Pevensey Food and Drink Festival: First pilot 'taster event': Grill and Ghost Night at Priory Court Hotel, Pevensey, in October

  • Towner Cinema in October

  • Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and Battle: The Voice of my morning

  • LETTERS: WESTHAM: The road layout is now outdated and should be returned to normality

  • WISH YOU WERE HERE: A bike shop, arts shop and now a florist: Are we seeing the birth of a new niche shop network in Pevensey Bay?

  • 'Climate action’ Council switches to green electricity

  • Back this Saturday: 21 September, Castle Inn, Pevensey Bay, the original Fat Belly Jones Band

  • Mary Bundy: A walk from Pevensey Bay to Dungeness: For dad, husband and grandad

  • Officers from Rother and Wealden Council called to Beach Tavern site over environmental concerns

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THIS WEEK Local musician, Pevensey Bay based, Peter Barron, makes the big time


COMMUNITY WISH YOU WERE HERE: A bike shop, arts shop and now a florist


LETTERS WESTHAM: The road layout is now outdated and should be returned to normality

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It’s spring again and Wealden District Council is launching the Great British Spring Clean across the District over the weekend of 2-4 March to clear up the litter that blights our environment.—Wealden District Council, 31 January 2018 “This is the third year that the Council has supported the campaign, the response from our communities has […]

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How much does this Parish Council care about our library? Not enough to significantly fund it, apparently.—Margaret Martin, Friends of Pevensey Bay Library, 31 January 2017 Yesterday evening (30 January) the Parish Council voted down financial support for our library despite their previous decision in November to support funding in principle. Why? Well, four of […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: Sussex Downs College The College welcomed Beauty Therapy students from Lycée Elisa Lemonnier, Petit-Quevilly, France last week (16th-18th January).—Sussex Downs College, 26 January 2018 Sussex visit to experience British culture and life in the College classroom Following a visit to France by SDC Beauty Therapy students last October, 10 students from the Elisa […]

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Original article: The Conversation Author: Kathryn Hurlock: Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Manchester Metropolitan University Published under the terms of a Creative Commons — Attribution/No derivatives licence The Bayeux Tapestry is finally coming to England, or so the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has promised. There have long been calls to bring the work to England, […]

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Join us on the vintage bus to the pilot Pevensey Arts and Literature Festival 2018 Thank you to all the people that are contributing to plans for the first Pevensey Arts and Literature Festival. Second planning meeting, Tuesday 27 February. Time and venue is being posted to everyone that attended the first meeting and the […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: RACHERPIX: Vehicles of Yesteryear 2017, Sea Road Car Park. Pevensey Bay Expressions of interest in running Vehicles of Yesteryear 2018 Yesterday (25 January), Pevensey Parish Council posted a message about doubts over whether the Pevensey Bay Vehicles of Yesteryear event will run in 2018. Following a number of expressions of interest in running […]

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IMAGE SOURCE: Pariiament.tv/Youtube Original article: The Conversation Authors: Silvia Marino, Professor of Neuropathology, Queen Mary University of London Peter Hall, Academic Clinical Fellow in Oncology, Queen Mary University of London: Published under the terms of a Creative Commons — Attribution/No derivatives licence In her first speech to the House of Lords since last year, Baroness […]

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first published: Pevensey Bay Journal the independent broadsheet newspaper for Pevensey Bay edition 15,  22 January 2018: now in local newsagents, priced 40p Geoff Ryan 6th January 1943 – 27th September 2017 I don’t think my sister Debbie and I ever really knew how strong our dads’ faith was until he was diagnosed in April […]

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The marriage of Radka and Zaman—Gina Bowman first published: Pevensey Bay Journal the independent broadsheet newspaper for Pevensey Bay edition 15,  22 January 2018: now in local newsagents, priced 40p How do I begin to describe the wonderful experience? I attended the wedding reception of Radka Ihtiarova and Aktharuz Zaman on Monday 8 January 2018. […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: James, Wealden resident How the Holocaust affected the family of one man in the Wealden area Wealden District Council is commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27, with a display of photographs in the foyer of the Council’s Hailsham offices and a short video of how the Holocaust affected one Wealden man’s family. The […]

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I’m sorry to say that our labradoodle Bubbles was involved in a second incident with a fisherman’s hook. During her walk last night she became tangled up in a line, attached to it was two hooks. One became embedded in her mouth and the second in her back leg. She was taken to the emergency […]

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Local MP, Huw Merriman, and a team of Councillors from his constituency of Bexhill and Battle, made a recent visit to Chestnut Tree House, Sussex’s children’s hospice. Cross-party delegation pays tribute to the work which the organisation carries out for children and their families Paying tribute to the work which the organisation carries out for […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: RACHERPIX: Vehicles of Yesteryear 2017, Sea Road Car Park. Pevensey Bay Vehicles of Yesteryear Show 7th April 2018 I am sorry to announce that Rob Bousell, who has run this event for a number of years now, is unable to continue this year due to some health issues. Is there anyone out there […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: Towner Art Gallery Eric Ravilious, Beachy Head, 1939. Towner Collection. Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund, National Heritage Memorial Fund, the the Arts Council England/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, The Monument Trust, and Eastbourne Arts Circle.—Towner Art Gallery, 25 January 2018 Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery is delighted to have […]

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IMAGE CREDIT: Wealden District Council Visitors to Wealden are now spending over £300 million a year in the District.—Wealden District Council, 25 January 2018 Total expenditure by visitors (overnight and day) to Wealden is estimated to have been in the region of £305 million in 2016, the most recent year surveyed. Tourism related activity supports […]