Lewes

It's something we can question and something we can redesign.

So in this conversation, we talk about playing this game at Bull House in Lewes, the former home of Thomas Paine, the surprisingly recent invention of the Sussex Charter, and why the Sussex motto, we want to be druv, might be less about nostalgia and more about permission to do things differently.

And we ask whether serious play can help more people feel ownership over Sussex's future, including those who would never attend a formal consultation or read a strategic framework.

So this is a chat about design, democracy, identity, devolution, Thomas Paine, and the radical possibility that Sussex's greatest future export might be the idea of playing itself.

So we took the original ones and we built on them.

We added new things.

So we've added in things like the Rivers of Sussex with spinning off the rights of the River Ouse stuff that happened in Lewes.

We've also got the beavers in there.

Let's just listen to this because it's really crucial.

There are councillors around the country who work in collaboration with the Labour Party in various places, in Sheffield and Lewes and Sussex, for example.

Now, Labour have said if the Greens are going to carry on working with them, they have to disavow the motion.

As the party's leader, what's your advice to Green councillors who might even be watching this morning and thinking, well, what are we meant to do? What would you say to them?

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... we're all busy, um, or maybe you're on the bus or the Lewes or something on the way to work, you can listen to them rather than having to read something.

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Um, and we cover everything in those that you can imagine.

When I joined the Environment Agency in the early 2000s, it was still the case that it was quite engineering-heavy with flood risk management.

Flood risk management was still called flood defense, and the answer to most problems was build a concrete wall rather than what we do now, which is how can we manage flood risk at a catchment scale and use natural flood management measures to reduce flooding and slow water down in the upper catchment so it doesn't all funnel down into places like Lewes and cause floods and things like that.

But when we joined, it was still very much like the answer is concrete walls, whatever the question is.

So it was quite difficult to get traction on anything that wasn't in that grain of engineering thinking.

So this was between 1910 and 1912.

Amateur archeologist Charles Dawson claimed to find the fragments in a gravel pit at Piltdown near Lewes in Sussex, England.

Now, Dawson and British museum paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward announced it was a new species they called Eoanthropus dawsoni, or Dawson's Dawn Man-

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When Henry later attempted to recover his former authority, Simon emerged as one of the leading figures of the opposition.

England descended into civil war, and in the year 1264, Simon achieved a remarkable victory at the Battle of Lewes.

King Henry and his son, Prince Edward, fell into his hands, leaving Simon in control of the government.

For a brief and astonishing period, a French-born nobleman had effectively become the most powerful man in England.

The kingdom was dividing into royalist and baronial camps, and violence spread with it.

By the spring of the year 1264, the conflict could no longer be contained.

Henry's forces had gained ground, and by May, the royal army had reached Lewes in Sussex, where the king intended to pause and wait for reinforcements.

The king remained with much of the infantry while Prince Edward commanded the royal cavalry from Lewes Castle, a short distance away.

Uh, in the last few weeks, I was contacted by a lovely chap called Anthony, um, who doesn't live that far away where I am in, in, uh, Sussex.

I'm in Hastings, and he's in Lewes, and he runs a independent record label.

He found my early work, uh, as a poet and a, a songwriter.

They're on disability history sites and, and all kinds.

Steven Smith and Rachel Komoto were called to St Leonards-on-Sea after Donald Burgess, who had dementia, had threatened staff with his cutlery knife.

Our correspondent, Charlie Rose, was at the hearing at Sussex Police headquarters in Lewes.

PC Steven Smith drew his PAVA spray, a type of pepper spray, almost immediately after entering Donald Burgess's room at the home, the misconduct panel was told.

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You also tell us about the, the bonfires in, in Lewes every year.

So, um-

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... 10, 20 years.

But in East Sussex-

But in, in Lewes, this one town-

In Lewes