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• ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 27th November 2020 via Zoom

  Article: Oct 30, 2020

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  ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

  7.30pm on Friday 27th November 2020 via Zoom Video Conferencing

  AGENDA

  Both Members and Supporters are very welcome to attend the AGM but only members will be able to participate in formal discussions or to vote.

  1. Apologies for Absence

  2. Minutes of Previous Annual General Meeting (see here) held on 3^rd November 2019.
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  Take Part in the Air Pollution Survey

  Article: Oct 19, 2020

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  AIR POLLUTION SURVEY

  As a local GP before his retirement, Emlyn Jones (pictured here) is well aware of the number of people with respiratory illnesses in the area. Local councils have a duty to monitor air pollution, but their ability to do so has been severely restricted by Tory spending cuts, which have particularly hit local authorities. Together with his colleagues Susan Stoodley and Stewart Rayment, Emlyn thought it would be good to try to get an idea of how people see airborne pollutants in your locality as potentially affecting their health and wellbeing.

  It is known that gases such as nitrogen and sulphur oxides and particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5 size) from traffic exhaust, dust, smoke can aggravate existing heart chest and brain disease. They can also be factors in producing these conditions, as well as impacting mental health from road noise for example. Statistics for these conditions are raised locally.

  We are focusing on Battle Road, Bohemia Road, London Road and Sedlescombe Road, north & south, around the major junctions, and their immediate area. We are concerned that there are the Christ Church & Silverdale Primary Schools in the area.

  Click on the Picture Link below to complete the Air Pollution Survey
  
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  Newsletter of Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats: 2020 No.2

  Article: Jul 6, 2020

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  Recovering from Covid-19

  'E-Petition: Join in improving Hastings recovery from the Lock-down'

  "Please sign the e-petition on the Hastings Borough Council website on the organisation of the recovery from Covid-19. The Council is asked to create an open Working Party comprising people across departments, organisations and interest groups. The idea is to provide focus and energy to ensure the best policy for the economic and social recovery of the Borough from the Covid-19 lock-down. It will be useful to consider all options, learn from what others are doing to develop policy to improve conditions in the town and enhance resilience in the future."
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  Need Help! Self-isolating?

  Article: May 15, 2020

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  Request for assistance

  We will use the information on this form to work with other organisations to help you, or the person you are completing this form on behalf of, with the support you need.

  Hastings Borough Council or another relevant organisation will make contact with you directly. Please provide both an email address, if you have one, and a contact number.

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  Newsletter of Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats: 2020 No.1

  Article: Feb 16, 2020

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  By Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats

  Click on the link to see your latest newsletter form Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats. The headlines are:

  THANK YOU FROM NICK PERRY

  BOB'S BANTER - message from Bob Lloyd, chair Hastings & Rye Liberal Democrats

  MAY ELECTIONS - Will You Stand?

  ROTHER BRANCH MEETINGS

  ELECTIONS PAST AND FUTURE

  ROTHER DISTRICT COUNCILLORS' REPORT

  LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS

  SOCIAL EVENTS
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  Figures reveal exodus of EU NHS staff in East Sussex

  Article: Dec 2, 2019

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  By Liberal Democrats

  Brexit is making the staffing crisis at East Sussex Healthcare Trust even worse, the Liberal Democrats have warned.
  
  Figures published by the Liberal Democrats reveal that 84 EU staff working at East Sussex Healthcare Trust have already left the health service this year, including 27 nurses and midwives.
  
  In the three years since the Brexit vote, 460 NHS staff from the EU have left the local trust.

  
  
  Staff departures from East Sussex Healthcare Trust are part of a worrying national trend: over 3,250 NHS staff from the EU have left the health service so far this year, including 1,116 nurses. The data, based on responses to Freedom of Information requests across 50 NHS hospital trusts, reveals that:
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  Liberal Democrats Election Manifesto 2019

  Article: Nov 25, 2019

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  "The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity. We champion the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals, we acknowledge and respect their right to freedom of conscience and their right to develop their talents to the full. We aim to disperse power, to foster diversity and to nurture creativity. We believe that the role of the state is to enable all citizens to attain these ideals, to contribute fully to their communities and to take part in the decisions which affect their lives."
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  STATEMENT ON DANY LOUISE AND ANTISEMITISM

  Article: Nov 25, 2019

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  By Nick Perry

  From Nick Perry, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate

  Dany's well-evidenced account of her experience of the Hastings and Rye Labour Party makes for shocking reading. I am deeply concerned, but not altogether surprised. In September, the Liberal Democrats wrote to the local Labour Party concerning an on-line antisemitic comment made by one of the people mentioned by Dany. We also submitted this comment as evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's on-going enquiry into Labour Party antisemitism.
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  Lib Dems: A&E waiting time figures in Hastings show Tories' "dismal record" on NHS

  Article: Nov 19, 2019

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  Only 81% of patients arriving at A&E in Hastings were treated or admitted within four hours in October 2019, according to damning figures published on 14 November by NHS England.
  
  This is well below the official target of 95% of patients attending A&E being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
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  The December 1910 General Election

  Article: Nov 5, 2019

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  December General Elections are not unusual; there were three in the last century. But the closest parallel to today was in 1910 - the second in that year, when we were also in somewhat uncertain and divided times (less so perhaps).

  Then as now, the Tories were the villains, using the House of Lords to block Liberal Lloyd George's People's Budget, the midwife of the Welfare State. The Tories held Hastings but lost the overall election.

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