Rother reports another drop in Covid cases but numbers remain extremely high
People living in East Sussex have been urged to continue protecting themselves and others after the latest Covid-19 statistics were published.
Monday, 1st February 2021, 1:23 pm
East Sussex County Council said case numbers across the county are still extremely high in all borough and districts but the rate of infection is continuing to drop in each area.
East Sussex s rate of infection for the seven days up to Sunday (January 31) was 309 per 100,000 people – exactly the same rate as reported across England as a whole.
In Rother, there were 221 reported cases in those seven days, which is down on the 291 cases reported the week before. The district s rate of infection is now 230 per 100,000 people.
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Keith Bridger represented Bexhill North at East Sussex County Council from 1997 to 2005, during which he was Labour party leader.
He also served as a councillor for Rother District Council from 2003 to 2007, representing Sidley, alongside his wife Helen, who was elected in with him.
He was also deputy mayor for Bexhill from 2006 to 2007.
His daughter, Ruth Eldridge, paid tribute to him.
She said: “Dad always had time for everyone and anyone who met him instantly liked him, as he was just an all round good guy, a real gentleman who will be sorely missed by all his family and all who knew him.
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Thursday, 28th January 2021, 5:34 pm
Patrick Charles Lemmon, 59, appeared at Folkestone Magistrates Court on January 18, having paid just £2,200 towards the £26,950 confiscation order imposed in April 2019.
Trading as Regency Paving Company from a premises in Cooden Sea Road, Little Common, Bexhill, Lemmon had told his 83-year-old victim, in 2018, that he needed a new conservatory roof and replacement glass panel, the county council said.
He took five cheques from his victim but never started the work, according to the county council. The victim, from the Hastings area, received no paperwork, a quote, cancellation rights or receipts of payment.
Patrick Lemmon. Picture supplied by East Sussex County Council
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman ruled on the case HEALTH authorities in East Sussex have come in for criticism over how they treated a woman with dementia and her daughter. In a recently published report, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found against both East Sussex County Council and the East Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for how the organisations handled the care arrangements of a woman with Lewy body dementia. The woman, referred to only as Mrs A in the report, was found to be eligible in 2013 to receive Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funded by the CCG.