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  • On the Starting Line: Friends of Pevensey Playgrounds takes a hop, skip and jump forwards with sketch of plan for 2020

  • Response: Timberlaine Road Residents Association: Park Home Holidays: No application sent to Wealden on extending the period of use since the one in 2018

  • KEEPING US POSTED: Are you in favour of Pevensey Parish Council proceeding with the urgent street light replacement in Waverley Gardens?

  • First Eastbourne pop-up hotel: Young people and careers in hospitalitry

  • LETTERS: Planning application: Park Home Holidays: Website suggests extension of time, has this been given by Wealden Council?

  • East Sussex County Council: Help us reduce the great Xmas food throwaway

  • Please feel free to join us: Carols by candle light service and a performance by VOICES CHOIR

  • Govia Thameslink Railway Great Sock Appeal collects over 4,000 socks

  • Rail network in Sussex open for business this Christmas and New Year

  • Now in local newsagents: Christmas edition, Pevensey Bay Journal

  • Come rain or wind, MP for Bexhill and Battle, Huw Merriman, was up at 5:00am on 12 December 2019, the day which may go down in the history books as "the earthquake election"

  • Taylor Dain Estate Agents, Westham, office closure

  • Future of Pevensey Bay as visitor destination at stake: Concerns grow over fate of Sea Road Car Park

  • Southern Rail and Building Heroes join forces to help ex-servicemen back into work

  • Royal Oak and Castle Inn in Pevensey goes tropical in February 2020: Paint away your blues with event that is "definitely not your usual art course"

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THIS WEEK East Sussex County Council: Help us reduce the great Xmas food throwaway

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LETTERS: Pevensey de la mer: Maurice Gilbert, ex Chairman, Pevensey Parish Council

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LETTERS re: Pevensey de la mer: Search for our twinned town in France: The continuing story

The discussions at PPC about twinning with a town in France began in the very early 1980s, while I was Chairman of PPC. It was decided that formal twinning would be too expensive and an informal, “Friendly” arrangement was subsequently made with a town in France that had connections with William the Conqueror.

Unfortunately I cannot remember the name of this town but, as far as I can recall, it was inland and not a coastal town, possibly not in Normandy.

Initially Dives Sur Mer (where the invasion fleet initially embarked) was discussed, as this is an obvious connection with the landings at Pevensey, but Dives did not wish to be involved.

As already stated by others Grace Richard, in her time as Chairman, followed up and established the informal arrangements during the mid 1980s.

Maurice Gilbert

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