Nat’s Travels – Getting to know Shakespeare
Over the past few years I have become a little obsessed with Shakespeare. I was always interested in school, but then I had to pick plays apart in high...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 3rd Jan 2019
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year celebrations. A huge thank you to all our volunteers and staff who have been...
Dogs to have better lives in the UK
By Ann Evans Bulldog lovers in the Hamstead Community of London pull together to save abused dogs in China. Ann Evans tells us more. The recent...
The Fabulous Crufts Show
Introduction and photographs by Rob Tysall, additional words by Ann Evans. One of my favourite things to photograph has to be dogs. Having been a photographer for more...
Winchester and a Mother’s Determination
All this week we’ve been re-running our Writers’ Favourite Articles. Here is the first part of Wendy’s story about her amazing Mother. Part two is next week. By Wendy...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 27th December 2018
Our new veterinary theatre “The Dave Fox-Dossett Theatre” has been put to good use this week with its first surgical case. Rescuers attended a severely injured hedgehog in Ditchling...
Great Dixter; Picturesque Perfection!
Lyn chooses her Favourite Article of 2018 for Christmas Week. What can I say about a house that has been on its site in various forms for around 800...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 20th December 2018
A huge thank you to Peter at Perfectly Green Artificial Grass for donating a few rolls of artificial grass for our casualties. Our gulls are loving having the new...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 13th December
We are delighted that Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd has chosen East Sussex WRAS for his Christmas Appeal. He wants to raise enough money to buy 10 hedgehog houses and...
MEN IN SHEDS
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall and Nuneaton’s Men in Sheds. You’ll have heard of the man cave, well meet our Men in Sheds. Ann Evans...
STICKLER SYNDROME – WHAT IS THAT?
BY Wendy Hughes Do you hate visiting a new hospital consultant, GP or the dentist? I certainly do, but I expect for a very different reason to those reading this...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 29th November 2018
Well its certainly getting colder at now as we head into winter. Our wildlife will be making the most of any fruit on trees and bushes now to make...
The Little Princess Trust
By Ann Evans Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography Here’s a wonderful charity helping young cancer sufferers, Ann Evans reports. For anyone to...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 22nd November 2018
WRAS Rescuers Chris and Ellie were called down to Pevensey Bay last week after reports of an injured seal on the beach. Unfortunately they were unable to catch the...
Get set for a weekend of fan-tastic fun
By Ann Evans Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography Time to indulge in your fun side at the MCM Comic Con. Ann Evans gives us a glimpse of...
PUDSEY THE BEAR, THE TOWN, THE PUDDING
By Wendy Hughes The Bear A trip to Pudsey in West Yorkshire starting me thinking; I knew little about the town, although the national mascot of the BBC’s ‘Children...
November 1918-November 2018: places to visit on Remembrance Day – Meanderings through France n° 162
By Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny Near and distant in the same time, WW1still is a vivid memory for most European families who still remember...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 1st November
Whilst I have been off ill the past few weeks the staff and volunteers have been working hard covering and dealing with numerous rescues and calls for help and...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 11th October
Rescuers were called out to a trapped fox in North Street Brighton last week. It had fallen into a basement area of a block of flats. Rescuers cornered the...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 4th October.
We are getting a few calls from people worried about whether hedgehogs are to small to hibernate. It is a little early to be worrying but over the next...
Mercedes’ Marvellous Mondays; Walk for Bowel Cancer
Facebook- Twitter – @MercedesPrunty In 2013 it was a very sad time for us in the Prunty household as we lost someone very special to us, my...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 27th September 2018
Trainee Rescuer Nathan attended a brown long eared bat at the Sussex National Golf Course near Uckfield at the weekend. The bat was clinging to the walk close to...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 6th September 2018.
Poor Chris is in the wars again. He has been so run down this summer with it being so busy that he has been quite ill recently. He has...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 30th August 2018
Poorly Canada Goose on the bank of the River Cuckmere There are certain calls that you receive that when you hear the scenario your heart drops and last week...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 16th August 2018
Rescuing baby deer from Burwash and Hadlow Down A stunning melanistic young fallow deer was delivered to our Casualty Centre from Burwash at the weekend. The poor creature was...
Trevor’s Week for 9th August 2018.
What an eventful week at WRAS! Although the number of rescues has dropped as it always does around the beginning of August the types of calls have become more...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week: 2nd August 2018
We are still getting quite a few baby or young wild animals and bird coming into care meaning our wildlife rescue centre is bursting with casualties at the moment. ...
MALTA DIARY: Christian worship in Malta, St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral
Prince Charles in Malta last year made a substantial donation to Cathedral’s restoration fund. ALBERT FENECH Email – Facebook: My Blog: Two decades...
Trevor’s Week for 26th July 2018.
I’m pleased to say Chris is recovering from his 100km race and back into the wing of things again, giving me a much needed break from the out...
Trevor’s week for 19th July
What an exhausting week. The phone has been ringing non-stop from early morning till well past midnight and into the early hours again. I so hope it quietens down...
Hedgehog Rescue
RESCUE VIDEO: A hedgehog found himself in a hole lot of bother yesterday (Monday 2nd July) after falling into a pipe close to the junction of Mill Road...
Trevor’s Week for 28th June 2018
We have on old friend come to see us this week. Summer the hedgehog is now at least 4 years old. We first met her on 16th July 2014...
Trevor’s Week for 21st June 2018
My colleague Chris is going to be undertaking one of the toughest 100 kilometre non-stop runs in the country to raise money for WRAS. The race will take place...
KYNREN – The ultimate outdoor community event
IAIN ROBERTSON Spectacular, splendiferous and stupendous, a show for all the family to enjoy and thrill to, states Iain Robertson, an ‘Epic Tale of England’ has commenced its third...
Trevor’s Week for 14th June 2018
As mentioned in last week column, just over a week ago a little cub was admitted from Marine Avenue, Pevesney Bay. Rescuers were called just after 11pm after she...
Trevor’s Week for 7th June 2018
Our orphan team have been hand rearing a baby hippo this week. OK, its not a hippo but actually a baby rabbit, but they do look like baby hippos!...
Trevor’s Week for 31st May 2018
So many wild animals and birds are getting into trouble at the moment. Young birds are starting to fledge and young mammals are starting to explore on their own...
Trevor’s Week for 24th May 2018
We are certainly in our busy season now. The phone is ringing constantly, our staff are getting in between 6 and 9am and frequently not leaving till after midnight....
Trevor’s Week for 17th May 2018
Its been a good week for releases. The mum and ducklings which were roaming around Uckfield Town Centre in danger of getting run over, have now been released back...
Trevor’s Week for 10th May 2018
This week is Hedgehog Awareness Week! If you haven’t been down to our Charity Shop at 192 Terminus Road, Eastbourne by TJ Hughes then its well worth a visit...