As Big Oil rakes in massive windfall profits during the cost-of-living crisis, County Council Leader claims he ‘can’t effect the wider world’ . Gabriel Carlyle from Divest East Sussex reports.
Gabriel Carlyle reports on Saturday’s Enough is Enough! cost-of-living protest. Photographs by Paulo Figurelli.
Should climate change polluters pay compensation for the damaging effects of the pollution they cause? Members of Bexhill and Hastings Global Justice Now group think so, and recently held a Walk of Witness to urge action by the government on behalf of poorer countries facing huge bills due to climate change, as they report.
With a new wave of strikes approaching, it’s time for us all to show our support for the local people who provide the essential services on which we depend, says Gabriel Carlyle.
Care for the Carers, a local charity supporting unpaid carers, is spotlighting the vital role that carers play during this year’s Carers’ Week, which runs from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 June 2022. The charity is celebrating and recognising the vital contribution made by the UK’s 6.5 million unpaid carers, over 69,000 in East Sussex, who look after a relative, friend or neighbour who couldn’t manage without their help. Amy Hope writes.
An application has been submitted to Hastings Borough Council for an ’18 metre 5G phase 8 monopole combined with wraparound cabinet at the base, additional ancillary equipment cabinets and associated ancillary works on the grass verge fronting 29 Rye Road, Hastings’ by Winchelsea Road and Montgomery Road, just north of the car wash. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks you to consider objecting to the application and offers some advice from 5G Free Hastings.
Care for the Carers was delighted to be invited to run the Arlington Bluebell Walk for the first time on Monday 16 May. The charity supports anyone looking after a relative or friend in East Sussex.
The TUC has organised a mobilising meeting in Hastings ahead of the national cost-of-living demonstration in June. Bringing together union leaders, workers and community activists affected by the cost of living crisis, the rally is in Hastings on 26 May at 7pm, under the banner ‘Hastings Demands Better’. Elly Gibson writes.
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