Sally-Ann has welcomed news that Hastings will receive a new community diagnostic centre (CDC) providing thousands of local patients in Hastings with quicker access to tests, checks and scans.
As chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Coastal Communities, I have been steering inquiry sessions and discussions about our coastal communities, including the challenges and opportunities we have here, in Hastings and Rye.
I know that many local residents are concerned about the ‘Wild West’ of the online world, especially as regards children, so I thought I might write this month about the Government’s Online Safety Bill which is currently progressing through Parliament.
I felt rather honoured to be recently appointed by the Prime Minister to the U.K. Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and spent last week in Strasbourg with cross party colleagues.
The Remembrance Day event, held at the White Rock Theatre, on Saturday 28th January, was very moving and well-attended with dancers from both the Acromax Performance Group and St Richard’s Catholic College in Bexhill, as well as some beautiful and haunting singing from St Richard’s choir and the
As I write this column, I am pondering the recent events across Hastings and Rye; households in Marsham Brook Lane, Pett Level, and businesses and households in the Priory Meadow area in Hastings were swamped by devastating floods.
The day started at 9.00 with a re-scheduled meeting for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Coastal Communities to discuss the Year of the Coast 2023.
Between Christmas and New Year, I booked to have my Covid booster and popped along to Laycocks Pharmacy in Ore to have it done. I had my flu vaccine a few weeks earlier.