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1908

IN another week's time we shall be in the midst of a Poor Law Guardians' election. There are four candidates in the field for three seats on the Battle Board of Guardians and it seems a pity that the ratepayers should be put to the expense of an election. As an election is certain, we advise the electorate to choose representatives who will mete out the Poor Law in such a manner that the meaning of the word "poor" is not sunk under that of "self."

THE Bexhill point to point races, held at Cooden on Wednesday, were a great success, although the weather was anything but pleasant. Mr. Neven du Mont, Master of the East Sussex Foxhounds, captured two first prizes and the Hon. T. A. Brassey a second prize.

1958

REFERENCES to the proposed holiday home for spastic children at Colwall Court, Pages-avenue have been made in Parliament, on the radio and in the national press. Speaking on Monday in a Commons debate on the Disabled Persons (Employment) Bill, Mr Simmonds (Socialist Member for Brierley Hill, Staffordshire) said people in Bexhill were objecting to a holiday home for spastics because it would reduce the value of their properties. "They must be a lot of toffee-nosed people in Bexhill," he said.

THE headmaster (Mr. R. B. Nicholson), speaking at the presentation of two plays by boys of the Down County Secondary School this week, referred to the proposed school sports pavilion on the Gunters Lane playing fields, towards which the school is making a voluntary contribution, and said that 300 was now needed. He hoped there would be some profit from the plays towards raising this amount.

1968

THE Greater London Council, which is seeking sites in coastal areas to re-house elderly tenants, will receive a rebuff at Bexhill if the Borough Development Committee has its way. The committee is concerned that such an influx of elderly people into the town would add to the problems already created by the present imbalance in the town's age structure.

AN important step forward in a project, which the League of Friends of Bexhill has long had in mind, was announced at the annual meeting. The chairman informed the meeting that the Management Committee was now actively examining a proposal that some 30 geriatric beds should be allocated to the Convalescent Home for Men at Cooden.

1978

A "GIPSY curse" has been put on Rother planning officer Mr David Powell. Mr Powell stands in the eye of the steadily growing storm over four private planning applications for gipsy sites at Pebsham and Glyne Gap. Amid the torrent of letters from angry residents that arrived at the Town Hall on Monday morning one item stood out. It read: "Heed the gipsy warning, Heed the people's curse, We will get the better of you For better or for worse."

STAFF at the Hastings and Thanet Building Society want local investors to stop the proposed merger with the Anglia.

1988

THE town centre will die as a shopping area if Rother council does not act to provide parking and allow traders to compete with the new stores planned for Glyne Gap, This was the warning to the Chamber of Commerce last week from senior vice-president Mr Chris Wallace.

A SHINY bright red helicopter, emblazoned with the Royal coat of arms, made a discreet and brief visit this week. The helicopter, a Wessex of the Queen's Flight, landed in the grounds of St Richard's School, shortly after 1pm on Tuesday. It was met by two uniformed police. Neither Buckingham Palace nor Clarence House press officers were able to say what the helicopter was doing here.

1998

TEACHERS at Bexhill College were due to vote today on a motion of no confidence in principal Paul Ashdown and the college corporation. They decided last week to hold a secret ballot, a source said. However, Mr Ashdown said on Wednesday he was sure the vote would not go ahead. Teacher governors have produced a hard-hitting report challenging cost-cutting plans drawn up by Mr Ashdown and the governors.

FORMAL approval has ben given by Housing and Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong to Rother council's housing transfer plan. This week's news overcomes the last hurdle standing between Rother and its goal of undertaking the transfer of its remaining 3,180 properties to non-profit Rother Homes.