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Holocaust survivor granted town's highest honour

Eastbourne Borough Council has honoured Holocaust survivor and educator Dorit Oliver-Wolff BEM with the Freedom of the Borough for her extraordinary life and work in Holocaust education.

26th, May 2025, 05:01pm

Residents need candour from the council on fire risks

I am working with residents across Brighton Pavilion to help them hold their landlords to account and get vital fire safety works completed. And a key landlord - the council - is currently failing in its basic duty to give tenants the information they need.

26th, May 2025, 05:00pm

'Nicknames should be clever, sometimes funny but never unkind'

I happened to be listening to a radio programme the other day and the subject of nicknames arose. The discussion was whether these were necessary or even in some cases, kind. It got me thinking back to my policing days where, certainly early on, if a colleague didn't have a nickname it was almost taken that they hadn't quite fitted in as just about everybody bore a soubriquet of some description. The rules were that nicknames should be clever, sometimes funny but never unkind, although to gently dig at a trait or habit was fair game.

26th, May 2025, 05:00pm

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