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M&S Marmite pizza

Great news for Sussex Marmite lovers as M&S introduces the Marmite pizza

Liane Carroll is headlining

Liane Carroll top of the bill at Hastings music event in support of Hospital Rad...

London Black - voted best beer in Britain

These are the Hastings pubs where you can sample beer voted best in Britain

New attraction at Hastings Aquarium

Hastings Aquarium has new summer attraction

Hastings cemetery. Picture by Maureen Sargent

Greens hit back at MP's comments on state of Hastings cemetery

Aerial photos 2005: St Leonards

Aerial pictures show town 20 years ago in 2005 - how has it changed?

Police received reports from residents on Filsham Road who had concerns about vehicles travelling at excessive speeds. Pic: Hastings Police

Police target speeding drivers near school

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26 homes development approved after Great Crested Newt investigation

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Councillors approve food kiosk

Police saw a car parked on the zig-zag lines at a pedestrian crossing on Sea Road, Bexhill. Pic: Rother Police

Police issue Traffic Offence Report to driver parked on zig-zag lines

Pothole repair teams are working in St Leonards, Mayfield, Seaford, Forest Row and Eastbourne

This is where pothole repair teams are working today

Hastings Country Park

Vehicle causes 'significant damage' to toilets at country park

East Sussex Highways warns heatwave could soften newly laid asphalt. Pic: East Sussex Highways

Highways department warns heatwave could soften newly laid asphalt

Bexhill & Battle News

Ben Roddy (contributed pic)

Classic celebration of Morecambe & Wise in Eastbourne this summer

Antony Gormley WITHIN (FOR THE OCEANS), 2024 Seaweed ink on paper

Hastings: "We are in the planet’s hands, not the other way around"

St Leonards Festival

Free family entertainment at festival

Free meditation sessions at Bexhill seafront bandstand

Free meditation sessions on Bexhill seafront

Pirate Day 2024 in Hastings. Photo by Roberts Photographic.

In 70 pictures: Hastings Pirate Day is set to create an amazing spectacle

Hastings & Rye News

Drugs and cash seized at a property in Hastings. Picture: Sussex Police

Cash and drugs seized by police in county lines crackdown

The land where Broomgrove Power Station in Hastings once stood, Firtree Road.

Homes plan for former power station site

Helena Dollimore MP and Becca Horn, Mayor of Hastings, join Jeremy Godden, Director of Godden Gaming Organisation, to cut the ribbon and officially open the refurbished Deluxe Bingo Hastings.

Deluxe Bingo Hastings celebrates successful first weeks after grand reopening

Two fire engines from Battle and Uckfield were called on Wednesday, July 9, to reports of a field fire on private land near High Street, Burwash at 12.17pm.

Fire crews called to field fire in East Sussex village

Rye Creative Centre

Rye Creative Centre under threat of closure

Battle Hill

Busy main road in Battle to close for six weeks

Police stopped a car while on patrol in Sidley, Bexhill. Pic: Rother Police

Delivery driver's car had two bald tyres and a faulty brake light

Speckled Wood summer fete

Community woodland at Hastings has a summer fete

Graffiti in Hastings Old Town

Area of Hastings Old Town hit by graffiti

Hastings cafe offers Strawberry and Cream sandwich

Café launches its own version of strawberry and cream sandwich

A group from Arts on Prescription enjoying the Cuckmere Valley

Sussex charities get boost from South Downs Park

Seafront amusements

MP slams poor state of boating lake and amusements

Halton Place, Hastings. Pic: Google Maps

Emergency road closure due to oil spill

Kieran meeting Little Common School Councillors

Kieran Mullan MP: Why talking to young people about politics matters

Volunteers planted a micro wood in Mason Field, Rye

Rother District Council leader: Work to tackle climate change continues after su...

'Moonlight' sculpture by Jonathan Hateley Sculpture.

East Sussex artist selected for prestigious London Art Biennale 2025

Beano heading into the FILO

Missing Hastings Old Town cat found in the pub

Beth Morgan Head of Engagement and Development at Ashdown Forest

Meet the woman whose job is to promote the most famous forest in Sussex

Scales of Justice

Magistrates' court results from the Hastings and Rother area

The robotic assisted surgery team at the Conquest Hospital

Celebration marks one year of robotic assisted surgery at Conquest

Rainbow at Hastings

Amazing picture of rainbow after Hastings rain-storm

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Staplecross Village Voice

Cllr Christine Bayliss, Rother District Council

Shoplifting in town centre ‘out of control’, says councillor

Dr Kieran Mullan MP for Bexhill and Battle with Bexhill Colonnade traders on April 11 2025.

Councillors to debate traders' Colonnade petition

A wonderful event for choir music lovers, wine and nibbles.

Burwash Village Voice

Gelato Famoso, 30 Marine Parade, Eastbourne. Pic: Google Maps

Ice cream parlours scoop spots in list of best 41 in the UK

The final stage of the delayed Queensway Gateway Road building project in St Leonards. Pictured on May 20 2025.

Finishing date for ‘road to nowhere’

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Brede Village Voice

Hastings Shipwreck Heritage Museum

Shipwreck Museum will be joining in Hastings Pirate Day fun

Hospice Open Gardens

BBC gardening expert to attend Hospice Open garden event in Hastings

Dave Valentine

DJ Dave opens a new record shop

Celebration at St Peter's Church

Historic Bexhill church celebrates saint

A vehicle was stopped on Carlisle Parade, Hastings. Pic: Hastings Police

Delivery driver with no insurance ‘was using phone and not wearing a seatbelt’

Ark staff with the award

Primary schools scoop national excellence award

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Diving in Sussex

£1.2 million pledged for Sussex coastal restoration projects

Hundreds of people gathered on Worthing seafront for the VE Day 80 beacon lighting

In pictures: Hundreds gather on Worthing seafront for VE Day 80 beacon lighting

VE Day in Bexhill, May 8 2025. Stella Brennan-Wright and the Old Bathing Station Kiosk team.

Town marks VE Day with two-minute silence and ceremony