West & East Worthing Party including the constituencies of Aaron & Adur

Category Archives: Worthing East

Alan Rice

£130.00 tax cut for 329, 200 people in West Sussex – Cllr Alan Rice

Today (6 April 2012) the Personal Allowance will be raised for the second year in a row, meaning 329, 200  people in West Sussex will get a £130 Income Tax cut and the number of the lowest paid people who have been lifted out of paying any Income Tax will reach 15,800. Commenting, Worthing Lib [...]

Self-service terminals are being installed at Chichester Library

Put a spring in your step with Roundabout Poets

Kick off your spring celebrations by joining the Roundabout Poets at Worthing Library next week. The group, which took its name from members who step on and off the stage at any time, will be showcasing never-before-heard poems about renewal on Friday April 13. The afternoon event starts at 12pm and anyone attending can bring [...]

Stay & Play day 2010

Could you be a foster carer?

Find out more about fostering and how you can become a foster carer at a drop-in session in Worthing this month. West Sussex County Council is holding a year-long recruitment campaign of monthly drop-in sessions for prospective foster carers. The next session is on Tuesday April 17, from 10am to 4pm, at Worthing Library, Richmond [...]

Self-service terminals are being installed at Chichester Library

New self-service machines for Shoreham Library

Shoreham Library will shut for three weeks from 5:30pm on Friday April 13 as it prepares for new self-service terminals. Readers will still be able to borrow up to 20 books or DVDs before the temporary closure or use other nearby branches – including Lancing, Southwick and Worthing. It will reopen with the state-of-the-art machines [...]

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SWAG – Spring News April 12th

 E-ZINE Henry House                                                                                        01903 232875 189 Heene Road  Worthing                                                     enquiries@swagonline                                         West Sussex BN11 4NN Spring news! Music,cabaret,art,craft and more……………. Shoreham Oratorio Choir Good Friday concert      6th April, 7.30 pm St Mary de Haura Church, East Street, Shoreham-by-Sea Mozart Requiem Pergolesi Stabat Mater arranged for SOC by conductor, Tony Allen Soprano Fiona Baines Alto Hilary Andrews [...]

Don't Cut Us Out campaigners - speaking up for the vulnerable across West Sussex presenting a 10,000 strong petition calling on WSCC to reverse its decision to cut benefits and care support to those judged to have 'moderate' disabilities.
Front left to right: Councillor Peter Catchpole (cabinet member responsible for Adult Services), Jason Attenborough, Andrew Pickthall (both Aldingbourne Country Centre, Fontwell), Richard Padgham (Apuldram Centre, Chichester) and Dr James Walsh (Liberal Democrat County Councillor for West Sussex). In the background other protestors including Sheila Fink, Simon Coghill and Paul Johnson (Pericles Centre, East Grinstead), Melanie Wakeford, Rosie Ehrenzeller, Belinda Paddock, Jane Kilby, Grace Tunnel (Apuldram Centre), Colin Knaggs and Brett Humphrys (Ferring Country Centre, Worthing).

Susie Rowbottom featured on Tory Council Care Cuts report on BBC

Tory Council care cuts. BBC 1 6 O’clock News features Susie Rowbottom from West Sussex Susie Rowbottom, a 41 year-old Downs Syndrome sufferer from West Sussex, was featured in a Nationwide Special Report about cuts in care support on BBC 1′s  6 O’Clock News last night. Susie is one of thousands of disabled people to lose much [...]

Hazel with Liberal Youth and Nick Clegg MP

Liberal Democrat councillors working to protect services – Clegg

Speaking at the launch of the Liberal Democrat campaign for local elections in England, Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg said: “Liberal Democrat councillors across the country are working to protect the services that people value most, while Liberal Democrats in the Coalition clear up the economic mess Labour left behind. “Our [...]

Close up of green hosepipe spraying lawn and plants

County Council and Water Companies Work Together As Drought Continues

West Sussex County Council says it will be doing all it can to help persuade people to use water wisely after a meeting with senior representatives from water companies, and the Environment Agency. A hosepipe ban for a large part of the county, which comes into force on Thursday (April 5), led to the ‘drought [...]

Adur & Worthing Food & Drink festival

Still time to get involved in this summers Adur & Worthing Food & Drink Festival

Our aim is to get taste buds tingling at the thought of so much lovely food and drink being showcased at this new initiative. Food and drink businesses can get involved by having stalls, giving demonstrations or tastings, create a special festival menu, dish, cocktail or offer for the period of the festival. The festival [...]