Langney Shopping Centre hits bum note over toilet issue
Looks like I’m not the only one excited at the fact there will soon be a bus service to Brighton taking in the A27 as opposed to the A259. Yes, it will still take as long as the A259 service but for the first time in a very long time, it will make Drusillas, Middle Farm, Charleston Farmhouse and all the lovely little pubs (Barley Mow, Cricketers, etc) between here and Beddingham much more accessible. Sylvia Porritt shares my joy. “Yippee thank goodness, can’t wait for bus from Eastbourne to Brighton on A27,” she wrote in an email to me. Hear, hear to that.
In 1989 when I was a cub reporter, the remains of a young woman were found in undergrowth at Beachy Head. It was 22-year-old Jessie Earl, an art student who had gone missing from her flat in Upperton Gardens nine years previously. Her killer was never found despite a major police investigation. Next week at The Lamb in Old Town, Jessie’s story will be told in a play entitled Someone Somewhere, the true story of those nine years of searching by her parents, Valerie and John and the nine years of waiting for Jessie to be found so her spirit could rest. The new play mixes Jessie’s evocative diaries, interviews and poetic monologues based on Jessie’s other writings to create a moving portrait of the experience of loss and survival. The play is already sold out but once again raises the question that somebody, somewhere must know what happened all those years ago.