Seeing double: two mayors make pub presentation

Not one but two town mayors thanked big-hearted regulars at Shepherd Neame pub the Bull Inn, in Bexhill Road, St Leonards, East Sussex, for their extraordinary generosity in helping others.
By The Newsroom
Published 23rd Jan 2007, 10:52 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:08 BST

Licensees John and Dawn Buckingham handed over a total of 6,000 to a number of local charities at the pub on Saturday 20 January - just part of the 27,000 they have managed to raise for charity in just over three years.

The Mayor of Hastings, Councillor Maureen Charlesworth, and the Mayor of Bexhill-on-Sea, Councillor Eric Armstrong, each collected 1,000 for their respective Mayor's Charity Funds.

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St Michael's Hospice, St Leonards, was handed a cheque for 2,000 and the remaining money was shared between the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), the heart centre at Conquest Hospital, St Leonards; St Mary's School, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Glyne Gap School, Bexhill-on-Sea.

Mr Buckingham, a successful local builder, who only became a publican three years ago, said: "The money has been raised through Sunday raffles and charity nights. Our regulars are some of the most generous people on the South Coast."

John, Dawn and their staff are also celebrating the Bull Inn being voted "pub of the year" in a poll by readers of their local newspaper, the Hastings Observer, in the first year they have entered.

Dawn said: "We believe in good fun, good food, good beer and making everyone feel at home."

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