HAILSHAM NEWS HOSTED A SPECIAL VIP PARTY RECENTLY TO CELEBRATE 12 MONTHS SINCE THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE NEWSPAPER

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It was held at the B12 Wine Bar and Kitchen and hosted around 60 advertisers, contributors, suppliers and local dignitaries. Music came courtesy of local musician ‘Moss’ and DJ Neil Povey took the party till closing time.

In a speech during the evening, Group Editor, Paul Gibson said: “It’s been an incredible year since launching the publication in October last year. We had no idea it would be so well received by the community.”

He added: “We now have a team of eight people producing our two publications every month — so massive thanks to Chris Dabbs, our Hailsham Editor, Kim Mayo, our Bexhill

Features Editor, Dean Cook our designer, Emma for helping on getting new advertisers on board in Bexhill, Nic for our admin roles and Derek for his photography in Bexhill.”

The function room upstairs at B12 was decorated throughout by the talented team at Sweethearts Boutique in George Street with a gigantic ‘1’ and also printed miniature front pages of all the previous newspapers hung around the room, whilst guests enjoyed canapés and a glass of bubbly.

Paul also explained that it was because of the support from advertisers the newspaper remains free for the community to pick up every month. He thanked them all for their support and announced that the company (Regional Media Group Ltd) is looking to publish in two new areas within Sussex in 2023.