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We are fortunate at Chestnut Tree House to have a low staff turnover. However, as we are expanding our services to meet demand for children’s hospice care, we have a need to recruit new staff.After...
View ArticleStay productive on the move with apps
This week I am going to talk about productivity software for mobile devices. In fact to prove that you can create useful content, but can also be productive on a mobile device, I have written this...
View ArticleMagazine: Celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli reveals hearing loss battle
Watch our video where the celeb chef talks about his battle with age related hearing loss, touching upon how it affected his career, how he finally got the help he needed and how it has changed his...
View ArticleKEVIN GORDON - Owlers who ended up naked in gaol
Customs officers were first posted in our ports during the time of King John, in order to extract tax from foreign merchants importing goods (usually wine).Officially, goods could only arrive at...
View ArticleTREVOR WEEKS MBE - Surge in road casualties as the clocks are put forward
Our stress and tiredness levels have rocketed this week as the clocks have now change and there is a sudden change in the number of road casualties. Our ambulances have been inundated with calls to...
View ArticleCrowborough hub to create jobs
Around150 jobs couldbe secured in Crowborough after plans to transform the former Wealden District Council offices at Pine Grove into an Enterprise Hub were announced by Crowborough Community...
View ArticleLewes company in line for hat trick in roofing industry’s ‘Oscars’
Lewes-based Richard Soan Roofing Services has been short-listed in three different categories at the forthcoming 2014 National Roofing Awards, the industry’s equivalent of the Oscars.The projects and...
View ArticleElla’s amazing Easter art!
Fiver-year-old Chipper Club member Ella Hill sent me this fantastic work of art to celebrate Easter.Ella, from Horsham, has designed a lovely flower made of screwed up paper, and as you can see she has...
View ArticleMagazine: Newly blind left to cope alone – finds RNIB report
Almost half of all eye hospitals in the UK do not offer any support to people who are going blind.Tens of thousands of people are going without the vital emotional and practical support they need when...
View ArticleVIDEO: CCTV clip shows the importance of being prepared for towing
Last year, there were 764 incidents involving a caravan, trailer or other towed vehicle on the strategic road network in the South East with over two-thirds of these incidents taking place between...
View ArticleMagazine: What’s it like to lose your sight?
Every 15 minutes someone in the UK starts to lose their sight, so what’s it like to be told that your vision is failing and what kind of support can you expect? Watch the following video from RNIB to...
View ArticleThe park is the best, what have you been up to?
THE Easter Holidays are great! Two weeks off school to spend with my friends and family!I’ve already been to the park with mum, it’s my favourite place. I spun round really fast on the roundabout and...
View ArticleTime for chocolate - lots of it
Easter is approaching and that means chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.We have been having some very exciting Easter egg hunts and some very messy games with chocolate. The aroma can be overwhelming,...
View ArticleRevolutionaries in line for green prize
The Lewes-based Ouse Valley Energy Services Company (OVESCO) has been named as a finalist for this year’s Ashden Awards, the UK’s leading green energy prize.The community energy revolutionaries are...
View ArticleReport spammers to stamp out nuisance
Chances are, if you own a website you will have seen countless e-mails that start something like the one below, which I received.‘Hi, Hope you are well,I was surfing through your Site and realized that...
View ArticleHelp wanted to identify old buildings at risk in Lewes
The Friends of Lewes, the town’s Civic Society, is leading a call to local residents for information about historic and important buildings at risk of loss or dilapidation.English Heritage has been...
View ArticleKEVIN GORDON - Easter is a time of ritual and fun
Writing in the 8th century, the Venerable Bede tells us that Eostre was the pagan goddess of dawn (hence the word ’east’). Her annual festival of spring was held in April and known as Easter but by the...
View ArticleTREVOR WEEKS MBE - Our orphan rearing team is kept on the hop this spring
This week has been duckling week. We had a phone call from outside our area from one of our supporters after some ducklings were seen without their mum in the walled moat of the National Trust property...
View ArticleJoint committee to oversee Uckfield improvement
The three major public partners involved in the potential redevelopment of Uckfield town centre are strengthening ties in order to deliver a range of improvements, Uckfield Town Council has said....
View ArticleTREVOR WEEKS MBE - Team of five in exhaustive rescue of Canadian goose
This week has been a bit of shock to some of our newer volunteers as the season has become so busy, especially at night! Our ambulances has been out to a fox with an injured leg which a lady managed to...
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