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WORTHING, UK: Worthing-based care home Melrose has formed a partnership with a local nursery to share the benefits of inter-generational care between older residents and young children. Over the last four months, Melrose has developed the project with Woodstock Day Nursery, which sees two groups of six children visiting the care home on a weekly …
From The Argus CONTROVERSIAL plans to build an Ikea store and 600 homes were locked in stalemate last night. Hundreds of residents packed into a public meeting in Lancing in July – a year and a half after the plans were announced. But councillors voted to defer the decision until a later date on the …
A dementia service believed to be the first of its kind in the UK has opened to the public in Tangmere, Chichester. Sage House – which was known as the Dementia Hub – is a specialist day-care centre providing all kinds of services for dementia sufferers and their friends and relatives. The centre, which was …
Explore this village with an artistic history that survives today Tucked away in the Sussex Downs, just seven miles inland from Brighton, nestling below Ditchling Beacon, lies the historical village of Ditchling; a pretty village with a long history and many places to visit. Ditchling is a picturesque drive north from the coast via the …
A 37-bed homeless hostel is due to open in Worthing by the end of April in a five-year project by the homeless charity Worthing Churches Homeless Projects (WCHP). The hostel, on Lyndhurst Road, is a former NHS building owned by Roffey Homes, and once housed nurses from nearby Worthing Hospital. Roffey Homes, the developer of …
East and West Sussex in crisis as providers are forced to turn away callers needing care. The shortage of care workers in the county has reached chronic proportions, with both East and West Sussex County Councils launching recruitment drives for thousands more desperately needed care staff. West Sussex has revealed exclusively to C4S that its …
Wendy Greene investigates the history of Worthing Library The Public Libraries Act 1919 allowed all County Councils to support public libraries through the rates. Books of the day included The Great Gatsby and (sadly) Mein Kampf while boys loved Just William and girls dreamed of attending The School at the Chalet. Prior to that date, …
Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville talks exclusively to C4S about his love for the Sussex countryside, history and his ‘occasional wobble’ on the magnificent South Downs. Debbie Mason also discovers a fine poet residing in him. This is my land. Looping birds, and the calls of seas and winds Of names and faces where …
Sussex leads nation in number of women town criers Bognor Regis follows Arundel and Hastings with an all-‘Oyeing’, all-bell-ringing lady crier. Now hear this! Let the good people of Bognor Regis know that the lady in the tricorn hat and ringing the bell is not for whispering. That’s the message from Bognor’s latest town crier …
