Can your library improve your health and wellbeing?
EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL NEWSROOM: We provide health and wellbeing information in all our libraries. We want to hear about your experiences of looking for and using information at your library so that we can provide the best service possible. Who can take part? Anyone can take part in this survey. You don’t have to [...]
How disadvantaged coastal communities are vulnerable to the effects of climate change
REPORT: JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION: Coastal areas of the UK may be severely affected by climate change in the future. Some are already experiencing extreme storms or floods and the effects of sea level rise and coastal erosion. Climate change will pose risks and challenges for people, coastal economies and local industry. It may also affect [...]
Greg Barker delighted that homes and businesses set for super-fast broadband in Bexhill and Pevensey
Local MP for Bexhill and Battle, Greg Barker, welcomed a recent announcement by BT that homes and businesses in the Bexhill and Pevensey areas are set to benefit from super-fast broadband. Greg, who pledged to fight for super-fast broadband when he spoke to the Bexhill Chamber of Commerce earlier this year, expressed his delight at [...]
Temperature of 29.9C in Gravesend, Kent, is hottest since records began, beating previous high set in 1985
Gospel Choir—Pevfest 2011
Gospel Choir at Pevfest 2011. Seven venues, 50 bands. The Big Day Out in the Bay. 23 July 2011. Pevfest 2011 was brilliant. Just wish it was for Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Well done to all involved . . and thanks. Mike Guy, Pevensey Bay Life Facebook page. Be Sociable, Share!
Pevensey Bay Coastal Defence—Annual Maintenance Recharge 2011
Sterling work from the Pevensey Coastal Defence team continues to keep the Bay on the international stage as a pioneering platform in the management of issues related to beach maintenance and coastal erosion. The scheme was the first sea defence project anywhere in the world to be funded as a Public Private Partnership (PPP/PFI). To [...]
Good Neighbour Greg Barker welcomes tougher curfews to keep streets safer in Bexhill and Battle
Greg Barker, Member of Parliament for neighbouring constituency, Bexhill and Battle, has welcomed Government proposals for tougher community sentences that will see offenders forced to spend longer in their homes, keeping the streets safer. Extending the maximum daily curfew time from 12 to 16 hours, and the period for which they can be imposed from [...]
Eastbourne MP, Stephen Lloyd, Visits Ambulance Service
Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd gained an insight into a modern ambulance service when he visited South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust (SECAmb). Mr Lloyd took time out to visit Eastbourne ambulance station and meet paramedics working in and around the Eastbourne area, on Friday 2 July, and was given an idea of the issues [...]
Baywatch Breakfast
Baywatch: daily round the clock coverage of the local world of the web. Start your day the the Bay Life way with a quick browse of select local social media stories as they are posted. Updates every morning, all part of developing a cutting edge, sustainable community and business profile for Pevensey Bay on the [...]
Innovative housing scheme beats high land prices
An exception to the planning rules means that Norman Close, a site outside the market town of Hailsham, has been used to provide 18 much-needed rented family homes for local people. “Despite the recession, house prices in Wealden are still the highest in East Sussex. This makes it much more difficult for a family on [...]
Community 21 —Toolbox for Sustainable Communities
Community 21 is a joint strategic, ‘action research’ initiative between University of Brighton and The Rural Community Council, Action in Rural Sussex. Co-directed by Nick Gant (UOB) and Teresa Gittins (AiRS). Community 21 is formed as an online ‘toolbox’, social networking and data management system that facilitates community networking and engagement, information management and community [...]
Natural Signs—The work of artist Graeme James
Natural Signs have workshops in Cornwall and Sussex and provide ‘good old-fashioned signwriting done in the old style with brushes and real paint’. Graeme has a lifetime of experience working on shopsigns, narrowboats, funfair rides, circus trucks, films and tv commercials worldwide, and local restoration projects…especially steam trains…’A good eye for layout and a flair [...]
Are You Dancing? Kayjay Zumba Comes to Pevensey Bay
Zumba has arrived in Eastbourne, with Kayjay Zumba offering classes for everyone in Eastbourne, Pevensey Bay and Bexhill!! Zumba is a worldwide dance fitness phenomenon, inspired by the rhythms of the Salsa and Calypso beat, incorporating Reggaeton, Merangue and even Cumbia into easy-to-follow dance routines, enjoyed the world over by all ages, shapes and origins! [...]
Castle Inn—Help for Heroes in the Bay
Murder Mystery Evening—Saturday 26 February : News of a special event reaches us across the community wires today. The Castle Inn Pevensey Bay is having a Murder Mystery Evening in support of the Help for Heroes charity on Saturday 26th February at 7:00pm. Book early to avoid disappointment, please note that places are limited. menu [...]
No council tax rise despite toughest budget says Leader
Residents in East Sussex have received good news on council tax – despite the County Council setting one of its toughest budgets on record. That’s the message from Peter Jones, Leader of East Sussex County Council, after the authority agreed its budget for 2011/12 and beyond. The County Council agreed no rise in council tax, [...]
Pevensey Bay Sailing Club : Dinghy & Cat Training
Dinghy and Cat Training Dinghy and Cat training for all members, taylored to suit a wide range of abilities. Brush off the cobwebs and brush up your skills. Peter White and Dave Boniface will be facilitating on the 23rd april at the club. Be there at 9.45 for a 10.00 o’clock start, Rig your boats [...]
Meet the Team—Local Neighbourhood Police
Upcoming events for Pevensey and Westham : Westham school : When : 9th March 2011, 12:00pm : Where: High Street Westham, High Street Westham Hankham : When : 11th March 2011, 12:00pm : Where : Hankham Hall road I will be at the school to meet the children and have a chat with them at [...]
Glenn Moore and the Philosophy of Stone
G.M. Moore and Associates provides a range of design, planning & technical services that include extensions and refurbishments to period properties, conversion of barns and oasts and construction of new buildings using traditional methods and materials in new and innovative ways. The statements come from the company’s website. They don’t give full voice to the [...]
Eastbourne sailor joins crew of new destroyer
AN EASTBOURNE sailor has joined the Royal Navy’s newest destroyer HMS Diamond. After a busy summer of preparations, training and inspections, HMS Diamond has just entered its homeport of Portsmouth for the first time to begin its operational life. Engineering technician (weapons engineering) Jack Goble, 20, from Pevensey Bay, attended Bishop Bell Church of England [...]
Stranded HSBC Customers—Rover 6 to the Rescue
Stranded Pevensey Bay HSBC customers have a lifeline from the Westham and Pevensey Rover 6 bus – easy access to the bank from their very own easy-access mini-bus service. Every Wednesday it goes to Hailsham and back three times! There are several banks in Hailsham including HSBC, not to mention Waitrose, the new Tesco store [...]
Pevensey Residents Step up Campaign to Save Bank
PEVENSEY residents have stepped up their campaign to save their local bank. The HSBC above the library in Wallsend Road, Pevensey Bay, will shut its doors on December 3 leaving villagers with a journey of more than three miles to the next nearest bank at Langney or a four-mile journey to their next nearest HSBC [...]
Pevensey residents will be left three miles from a bank
PEVENSEY’S only bank is closing in December. The HSBC above the library in Wallsend Road, Pevensey Bay, will shut its doors on December 3 leaving villagers with a journey of more than three miles to the next nearest bank at Langney or a four-mile journey to their next nearest HSBC in the Hampden Park area. [...]
It’s a Wonderful Life—The World’s Local Bank Closes its Bay Doors
The Bay is in something of a state of shock this week as it hears the news that rumours of the impending closure of the single bank that serves the community are true. It is indeed about to close its doors. HSBC which globally promotes itself as the ‘world’s local bank’ has announced its branch [...]
Eastbourne mum wins award after shedding five stone
FORMER chocoholic Carol Ryan has won an award for being the biggest loser in Eastbourne after shedding almost five stone to become a healthy mum. She plunged from a size 24 to a 12 in just a year by ditching the five chocolate bars she scoffed every day along with cakes, biscuits and packets of [...]
