Political unity and division as May elections approach
This Thursday the fate of three Sussex towns is in the balance, with Labour looking to gain control of both...
Read moreDetailsRick started out as a reporter on an evening newspaper at the age of 18, later graduating from Warwick University. He was an assistant chief sub-editor on the Daily Mirror during the Maxwell era, later working for the Sunday Telegraph. From 1998, as a food industry journalist, he covered both the organics boom and the dairy sector. Rick is now retired and lives in Hastings.
This Thursday the fate of three Sussex towns is in the balance, with Labour looking to gain control of both...
Read moreDetailsHastings people have donated generously to welcome refugees – who now have fewer safe passages to escape death and persecution,...
Read moreDetailsGhislaine Maxwell will appear in court, accused of sex trafficking and procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew
Read moreDetailsLabour's land law reforms would take back control from developers and let local councils and communities decide where new homes...
Read moreDetailsIn Sussex, Bonfire night isn’t just for children – and it never loses its magic. Rick Dillon writes about why...
Read moreDetailsCalls for landlord licensing are falling on deaf Tory ears despite its many benefits, not only for tenants but for...
Read moreDetailsAs more of us head for the British beaches this summer, a new art exhibition at Hastings Contemporary charts the...
Read moreDetailsNew Mastermind host Clive Myrie recalls how stints of student journalism at the University of Sussex helped launch his glittering...
Read moreDetailsRacism, like sexism, is pretty much everywhere. If you’re white you may rarely come across it. But supposing you do?
Read moreDetailsKey workers deserve a pay rise, Tory MP Sally-Ann Hart is told. But will chancellor Rishi Sunak recognise this?
Read moreDetailsNext week MPs will decide whether or not to take the NHS off the negotiating table in future trade deals
Read moreDetailsEast Sussex MPs join ranks of Tories prepared to defy the party line
Read moreDetailsThe future of British food and farming is at stake with the prospect of a US meat trade deal
Read moreDetails‘Taking back control’ for UK fishermen remains a vanishing dream
Read moreDetailsNearly a quarter of a million private tenants risk losing their homes because of mounting debts
Read moreDetailsOne could be forgiven for thinking this was a massive invasion. What we had was actually a massive overreaction?
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