27 March 2017 17:27
Next week the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50 and Britain will start its journey to leave the European Union.
27 March 2017 17:24
It was with a sinking heart I heard Nicola Sturgeon speak about her desire to call a second Scottish Independence referendum earlier this week.
10 March 2017 12:37
International Women’s Day on Wednesday got me into a reflective mood as I thought about the struggles women from just a few generations ago had to endure to win just basic rights.
03 March 2017 12:11
The one to four-year-olds at Camelot Nursery in Lewes Road hadn’t a clue who I was but, like all children, they were mesmerised as I read to them wonderful books such as The Gruffalo and The Smartest Giant in Town.
24 February 2017 16:03
The House of Lords is having a few weeks in the limelight over its role scrutinising the bill to leave the European Union and the start of a new TV programme about what it does.
24 February 2017 16:02
“I’m ashamed to be British!” That was how one lady began the conversation at a surgery last weekend
10 February 2017 11:32
Last Friday, I spent the evening at Eastbourne’s Winter Night Shelter where I was initiated into the delights of Scrabble.
10 February 2017 11:27
Everyone has seen TV ads for money lending companies, like Quick Quid, who give the impression financial troubles will be put right by borrowing pounds at vast rates of interest...
27 January 2017 15:09
Today, Friday, marks 72 years since Soviet troops liberated what has now become a byword for horror: the concentration and death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
23 January 2017 15:53
There is a hidden industry in Eastbourne that visitors flocking to the pier and seafront, rarely hear or see and that’s our fantastic fishing fleet.