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Latest Edition Online
The January Edition Forest Row Local is now online to view it use this link: https://forestrowlocal.co.uk/magazines/January_2021/index.html We are now working on the February edition, which has a short deadline this month of Monday 11th January. If you have any news you would like to share with us that could be used for inclusion in this…
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Wealden Proposes a Zero Council Tax Rise
Wealden District Council is not proposing any increase in its part of the council tax for the coming year, 2021/22. “It has been a difficult year for everyone,” said Cllr Bob Standley, Leader of Wealden District Council. “Thanks to many years of careful financial management, we are able to meet next year’s extra costs from…
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Stars for January 2021 with Howard Parker, the Astro-guide – www.astroguidance.co.uk
Capricorn: 22 December – 19 January OK, so you have held things together pretty well for the whole of 2020 but that was then and this is now. It won’t happen quickly but 2021 is going to present you with some very new challenges of a kind that may be completely unfamiliar to you up…
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NEWS FROM NUS GHANI MP FOR WEALDEN
Happy new year! I hope that you have enjoyed the festive season, despite the Covid restrictions. I appreciate that 2020 was not what anyone envisaged the start of a new decade to be. Covid has not only affected our physical health and presented unprecedented challenges as we changed the way we live to protect ourselves…
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Technology Tips: Online Privacy
Privacy seemed to take a huge step forward with GDPR. While you now see cookie warnings on every site you visit like some weird graffiti welcome, your privacy is still hotly contested. Protecting your online privacy is… remarkably difficult. The privacy obstacle course is in three main parts: getting online; finding things; and visiting…
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Charity Highlight: Kangaroos
Kangaroos Fun Disability Club is based near Haywards Heath and provides a range of activities for children and young adults with learning disabilities. The activities they offer give these young people the opportunity to have fun and enjoy a social life with their peers. This is something they may otherwise have difficulty experiencing. Kangaroos offer…
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A Fit and Healthy New Year
Never has there been a more important time for us to take care of our health. We have all spent 2020 very aware of the fact that those who are not in the best of health are more vulnerable to Covid 19 as well as many other viruses and illnesses. Being unfit or overweight also…
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Forest Row Community Pre-School turns 50!
Forest Row Community Pre-School turns 50 Years old this year. Unfortunately, due to covid-19 our anniversary fair had to be cancelled and our much loved community pre-school has suffered. Being a charity we depend on our fundraising events. Events started with one of the pre-schools 3 year old students doing a 4 mile bike ride…
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Tea & Coffee
The Ashdown Forest Act 1974, S.18 (c), permits the sale of ice cream and refreshments from not more than six vehicles on Ashdown Forest. For the past 35 years, the contract has been awarded to ice cream vendors, but the ongoing pandemic has highlighted the need to review our practices and adapt and diversify to…
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Repair Cafe to Reopen!
We are VERY excited to announce that the Repair Cafe Forest Row is reopening on Saturday 19th September, from 10-1pm. Be prepared that when you visit things will be a little different to what you are used to, but we are back which is the most important thing. We have missed not being in the…
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