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(Lewes) Sussex Express

Description: Influential local paper for local people, based in Lewes.

Newest Review: ... and district council are its meat and drink. The letters too have a certain parochial charm and can often be simple down ... more

... right bigoted. Most are completely ignorant that it isn't the 1950s anymore. The trailblazer for the Sussex Express is the King of Local Hacks John Eccles who can be found in the pubs of Lewes supping on his cider listening to the gossip of the town. However, it is not the incisive analysis of planning aplications, nor the important opinions on local politics but the headlines that the Sussex Express sometimes seems fit to print that make it a gem. It is its celebration of banality that is the source of my affect...more

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(Lewes) Sussex Express: Are you local? We'll have no trouble here! (419 words)
by - written on 30/01/01 (Very useful, 122 readings)
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There can be few more joyous feelings than that as you stroll along Lewes High Street on a Friday morning knowing that there is a another edition of the Sussex Express available for your perusal. This is the weekly rag in this part of the world. It is published in Lewes and I guess is the paper for the town and country folk of middle East Sussex. It's tabloid shape and unabashedly local. School plays, fundraisers, event, open gardens and coffe mornings plus the vital news about drainage, planning issues and the affairs of the town and district council are its meat and drink. The letters too have a certain parochial charm and can often be simple ... Read the complete review