READERS of Bexhill News, the free community newspaper, wrote to the editor in droves for this month’s edition. You can send your comments via email to: letters@bexhill.news on any of these topics, or other issues you’d like to highlight.
A259 safety fears
Dear Editor, I read with interest the article in Bexhill News Issue 35, regard A259 safety concerns. I use this road to commute to West Sussex from Cooden Sea Road. In my experience, the dangers of the A259 are exacerbated by three main issues.
Firstly, there is the issue of not indicating correctly, or not indicating at all, which appears to me to be the default setting for an increasing number of drivers. The roundabouts at Little Common and at Pevensy have unnecessary holdups because the vast majority of drivers don’t indicate, or when they do, it is in error.
It is so prevalent at these two roundabouts, I began to wonder if the Highway Code had been changed, or if that owner were somehow receiving a discount on their cars by not having indicators at all. Not indicating correctly is incredibly frustrating for other drivers, not to mention dangerous.
Secondly, are the drivers who travel at 35 miles an hour regardless of the conditions on the road or the applied speed limit. This style of driving is again frustrating for other drivers and has the propensity to encourage drivers to take additional risks to overtake.
Thirdly, the use of mobile phones. Not a day goes by when a driver in front of me or to the rear, is holding a mobile phone to their ear. This is made the more unfathomable because these drivers are invariably in modern vehicles, which will be fitted with Bluetooth, so why do they do it? One can always tell if the driver in front of your vehicle is on the phone (not hands-free) because they invariably veer towards the oncoming traffic, then suddenly reposition to the nearside.
R.Carson
Post Office Closure
Dear Editor, We need this post office not only for posting letters/parcels and for banking. All the banks are closing, so we need somewhere safe to go to collect cash.
Also, the shops need somewhere to bank their takings, you can’t do everything on the apps. When you share a space in a shop, it doesn’t always work well. Please reconsider!
Lesley Routs
Recycle Centre bookings
Dear Editor, I have just read the article in the May issue, re the booking system for the local waste and recycling centres. I used to live in Dartford in Kent (we moved to Bexhill in 2023), and our local waste and recycling centre at Dartford Heath introduced a booking system during, Covid and carried on with it afterwards.
The amount of fly tipping in and around the centre is appalling and what was once a lovely area is ruined. So, how can council officers say that Kent had not seen an increase in fly tipping when the evidence is plain to see?
You wait a few months after this ridiculous scheme is introduced, and the lovely green spaces close to Hastings waste and recycling site will be ruined.
AC
80th VE Day commemorations
Dear Editor, Bexhill Town Council(BTC) bow your heads in shame. I’ve walked along Western Road this past week (5 May/8 May) and seen plenty of shops with 80th VE Day commemorations honouring the brave men/women who survived/sacrificed their lives during WW2 in their window displays.
Walk past the premises that BTC is using in Western Road, nothing, absolute nothing.
Mayor /Councillors of BTC, take a good look in the mirror. If it wasn’t for those brave men/woman during 39/45, you wouldn’t be sitting in your ungrateful ivory towers. Shame of you, you should all resign.
Steve H
Bus stop information board
Dear Editor, As a regular user of local buses, I was impressed to see the new Information Screen standing proudly in Devonshire Road.
Would it not be better positioned at the northern end of the Bus Stand – by the actual Bus Shelter – where passengers are sitting and waiting?
The information is often liable to change if buses are delayed or rerouted and can therefore need constant checking.
Having to now carry my binoculars in my handbag every day is a heavy burden!
L. McCann.
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Monthly film night at the De La Warr
Dear Editor, Just wanted to second Carole B’s suggestion in May’s edition of the Bexhill News for an occasional film night at the De La Warr.
A film is so much more enjoyable when viewed with a large audience! Hope you make it happen.
Linda D
Herbrand Walk parking
Dear Editor, I have a letter from the council following my recent letter to them and correspondence to yourselves, as yet unanswered, I further comment as follows…
A letter from Bexhill council, dated 17 April 2025, now states that they had to ban parking by anyone in any motive form of transport on the beach at Cooden on account of the appearance of a traveller encampment on the beach in 2023.
It does seem a rather extreme measure given the amenity that the beach has been for decades to allow this small group of antisocial people to spoil things for the many, surely there would have been another way to deal with the temporary problem rather than penalise the whole local community, given that the council should be acting in the interests of the community as a whole!
Chris Roche
We are not ‘all strangers’
Dear Editor, We would like to extend our grateful thanks to members of the public who quickly came to my husband’s aid when he accidentally tripped and fell over in Western Road, Bexhill (opposite the library) during the morning of Wednesday 14th May 2025.
Special thanks to the lady with her first-class skills who aided in lifting him up from the ground, the lady who produced a chair for him to sit on and the young man from the Barber Shop who provided him with a drink of water.
Our car was parked nearby, we arrived home quickly and safely, pleased to report that apart from a grazed knee and elbow and ‘wounded pride’, all is well. Best wishes and thank you all.
Maybe the Prime Minister will rethink his recent comment, ‘We are not all strangers’.
Phyllis and Bernard Holden
Low driving standards to blame
Dear Editor, I have driven the Marsh Road to Bexhill since the 1970s. It’s no more dangerous than other roads, but now there is more traffic, more people using their mobile phone while driving when they shouldn’t and add to the mix the entitled drivers who think they own the road, and that is the problem right there.
I’ve noticed that more younger drivers (under 50), just don’t look before pulling out and/or think they have right of way when they don’t nowadays than ever before. How many bikers have to die before we sort these people out? Don’t get me started on boy racers! A different species altogether.
Linda Rozentals
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