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• good near Pells/Tesco/Waitrose, so I expect it covers Malling and Landport too. Pretty poor in Wallands, Neville and Southover for O2.


• Southover girl,
  I think you may have an over developed sense of guilt! It (DJS) has obviously really upset some peoples' view of themselves as if their own identity is indivisible from their surroundings. Nobody can make you feel guilty if you won't let them. But I quite like absurd postings myself.....makes me feel at home. :)


• It's not enough to say that he's an "insignificant pipsqueak". With the internet every bit of news and gossip is around forever, and Lewes will henceforth be googled as a whites-only den of catholic-burning racists. We are all tainted by association, and that is not insignificant.
  So his lies need to be called out equally loudly. Most importantly, Lewes IS culturally diverse. The comments in the Guardian show that people genuinely think that Lewes is almost totally white, indeed many of my friends who live here casually trot this nonsense out. But is it? One of the many irritating results of the article is that now I can't help but mentally count (and cheer) every black or mixed race face I see. (I dare say I'm not the only one). And I honestly reckon that at least 10% of Lewes's population are black and mixed race. That's higher than the national average of 7.9%. I know there are figures for the constituency saying 2%, but Newhaven and Seaford are less culturally diverse than Lewes so those results are misleading. I suppose we'll have to wait for the results of the 2011 census to come out, but I wonder if anyone has any reliable up-to-date figures for Lewes only? Obviously it was too much effort for the Guardian or Sunday Times to actually do some research!
  What is more, significant people in the town are non-white, including the manager of Tesco, the town's biggest employer (I think), and the vicar of Southover Church, one of the town's most charismatic leaders. To name but two.
  So where are the official voices speaking out about this?


• There is no white water in sussex. The river up to barcombe mills is all tidal so is public highway. It can get fast(ish) at southover bridge when the tide is going out but i wouldn't get too excited by it


• Well, I was only trying to start a discussion about the future of the currently dying high street, but maybe I was a bit OTT in my criticism. Apologies to all concerned. If you think it's all "lovely" however, TDA, that's marvelous, but in 15 years at the current rate of attrition, Lewes High Street will look like Southover High Street.