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This week we highlight how establishments across 1066 Country have joined forces to offer school children free food after MPs voted against extending free school meals to next Easter.

The full details are in today’s Observer.

We also feature the appeal by police, who are offering a financial reward in the search for a Bexhill man who was sentenced, in his absence, for a series of threats and offences against women.

A disabled woman’s mobility scooter was vandalised, rendering it unusable.

Her husband gives his reaction to the crime in today’s paper.

And a Bexhill man has been urged to take down his Halloween display outside his house after being told by a concerned prson it was ‘scaring children’.

Pick up a copy of today’s Observer to read the full story.

Our special report this week highlights how a decade of cuts to social and public services has left the county’s children vulnerable to exploitation, according to one of the county’s most senior police officers.

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