After four years mostly unpaid writing real journalism read by nearly 100,000 people, I’m going to try begging for money This can’t carry on with only 40 people giving a few quid a month Here’s total transparency on how little we have - and what we need to have a hope of surviving

After four years mostly unpaid writing real journalism read by nearly 100,000 people, I’m going to try begging for money This can’t carry on with only 40 people giving a few quid a month Here’s total transparency on how little we have - and what we need to have a hope of surviving

Very good from Starmer.

Lovely spot of community journalism here in our collaboration with University of Sussex students Why is Eastbourne so averse to safe cycling routes? @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social

Grand plans unveiled for spending the first phase of Government regeneration money in Eastbourne A citizens’ forum will have a say in how the money is allocated in an innovative grassroots approach #eastbourne

The Mikado - but set in medieval Scotland Here’s what our reviewer made of it

NEW: How Reform ramped up the funding and sophistication of its political Facebook ads in the final weeks of local election campaign. Financial muscle filtering through to coordination and quality. Story using @whotargets.me data www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In case you’re not too keen on the new Google very, very AI-based search

First meeting of the country council since local elections

"It’s an evening of high energy and the usual anarchic Rocky experience. Die-hard fans come to commune, and this is a tour worthy of continuing its incredible legacy" Read our full review of last night's opening show in Eastbourne

We are open this Saturday for the Eastbourne Carnival. Join us from 2 to 5pm. Free entry. Explore the Wish Tower and discover over 200 years of Eastbourne’s history. Head up to the roof and watch parts of the carnival from above. Your donations help keep the tower open. #Eastbourne #WishTower

Conservatives were close to total wipeout and it looked as though they would end up with no county council representation in Eastbourne But Tory councillor Colin Belsey won in Ratton by just 40 votes, the narrowest win in the town We look at the tactics this time - and more elections to come

After six hours of interviewing, data checking and graphics, here's our full report on the winners and losers in Eastbourne for East Sussex County Council elections And there's an interactive map too! #eastbourne

Counting takes place on Friday with results expected from lunchtime onwards. We will be at the count in Eastbourne town centre We will have an interactive map updated as results come in and we will publish tables with the full results So stay tuned to our public interest journalism website

Wonder where all those town centre post offices are going to go if and when that happens?

This is where we are Tech bros rule supreme, outside any jurisdiction, any laws, any questioning

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

‘Hawthorn’ Trees, 1963. Artist: SR Badmin May Day Bank Holiday Monday

This is good “We will need … daylight on the money”

Volunteer ambassadors stroll around stunning Beachy Head to give information to visitors drawn by the spectacular scenery The scheme is funded by East Sussex Public Health to showcase the area. I talk to two ambassadors on their shift No AI required - just listening, a notebook and Pitmans

The musical version of this well-loved movie swept into town last night And there was much excitement at the Congress Theatre before the show What did our reviewer make of it?

Some evidence-based old school journalism for you here We might even be able to keep going if you throw money (not much) at us via the website Just 35 paying members out of more than 85,000 people who have read our stories The absolute state of independent journalism #eastbourne

"If news is the first draft of history, the loss of local news archives means a loss of memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality" Support our independent reporting for just £2 a week so we can survive. Handy link in bio Actual paid members: 35 (after four years) Target paid members: 500

Our impartial, comprehensive round-up (with handy links) about East Sussex County Council elections on 7 May #eastbourne #localelections

We asked Mr Tice for comment. It would be nice if politicians responded to reports like this with something like: that looks interesting; I'll look into it, and thanks for bringing it to my attention. But instead we got the usual deflection:

London Philharmonic violinist Joe Maher was on 9.01 from Hayward's Heath to Blackfriars today. His grey fibreglass case with LPO luggage label was left on the train & is now missing, with Paul Jocelyn violin (UK 20th C) Hill bow - gold-mounted fleur de lys Martin bow - silver-mounted.

“Since 2005, 40% of all U.S. newspapers have vanished, according to a report by Northwestern University” If you’re not worried by this, you should be. It’s not looking good in the UK either, with pasted-in PR guff presented as ‘news’

Serenity is on offer amid the chaos of the world - with free admission - at the Towner gallery in #Eastbourne What are you waiting for?

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Keep going. Save yourself.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

“Ed McVey's performance is a real tour de force. The complexities and contradictions of Tom Ripley are brought out wonderfully” Our impartial review of last night’s opening performance in #eastbourne

Shakespeare with a difference, staged by Printers Playhouse over the weekend in Eastbourne - our review #eastbourne

“It takes the open-mindedness of children, showing more humanity and wisdom and courage than many adults can manage, to reunite a family” Read the verdict of our man in the stalls from last night’s opening performance

Great if you have the resources to create content for hungry places like YouTube and TikTok If you don’t, like me, sounds like it’s the end of the road for classic old-school balanced journalism I’m starting to wonder if it’s an obsolete profession anyway since so few will support us

1/. NEW: The Guardian reports our research uncovered a £170m “media-political complex” behind Britain’s populist right. This isn’t just funding politics. It’s funding influence. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Departing Towner gallery director Joe Hill talks legacy and the prospects for the Sunshine Coast as he prepares to take on a new role in West Yorkshire #eastbourne

This is illuminating

www.minghella.com/the-british-... The British Are Not Coming

Departing Towner gallery director Joe Hill talks legacy and the prospects for the Sunshine Coast as he prepares to take on a new role in West Yorkshire #eastbourne

We're thrilled to be in partnership with the Devonshire Collective cultural hub in Eastbourne to run a community researcher programme as part of a National Lottery-funded project to help revive a deprived area #eastbourne

Maybe there’s hope that genuine journalism like we do might become viable among the arid wasteland of copy’n’paste merchants

We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.

Words fail me.

New The poisoning of the wells Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you

"The play has a key theme of hope amid the desperation and injustice. It is ultimately uplifting and heart-warming" Maybe just what we need in these deeply uncertain times. Our man in the stalls at last night's opening show in Eastbourne gives his verdict

IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays. The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.