Mary Pooley ELECTED 1338 votes Liberal Democrat.
Mary has lived in Hampden Park for 46years, and was married for 27 years. Widowed in 1982 she has 7 children and 11 grandchildren. Mary worked as a nursing auxiliary in the local hospitals. In 1990 she was elected to the Borough Council for the Hampden Park Ward and has served as one of their Councillors ever since.
Mary serves on the Planning and Licencing committees and is a Director of Eastbourne Homes Ltd. She is a member of: the Hampden Park Community Centre Assoc Committee, the Willingdon Trees/Hampden Park Local Action Team, Eastbourne Forum, and Care and Repair. Mary is also an active member of St Joachims R.C. community.
Until 2005, Mary served as a school governor of St Thomas A'Beckett Infants and Junior schools. Mary wants to both protect and enhance Hampden Park. She addresses many issues for the residents of Hampden Park and if elected pledges to continue to work hard for all residents.

Olive Woodall ELECTED 1277 votes Liberal Democrat.
Olive moved to Hampden Park in 1972 and been there ever since. Retiring from full time teaching in 1986, Olive has been a Supply teacher in most Eastbourne schools, primary and senior and also worked at the D.G.H. part time as a ward housekeeper.
Elected to Eastbourne Borough Council 1991 and East Sussex County Council 1997 Olive helped to found Hampden Park in Bloom 1995 and has been an active member ever since. As a Hampden Park Councillor, Olive has campaigned against: plans to demolish Ham Shaw to make way for new road (now Cross \Levels Way); turning Elm Grove Field into a lorry park and to keep Downs Countryside Centre open (she helped to start Friends of Beachy Head).
Olive was Mayor of Eastbourne between 2002-4. Olive would like to see better paid jobs for all ages, more affordable housing for young people and more help for homeless young people. Olive's favourite pass time is walking with her dog.

Mike Thompson ELECTED 1138 votes Liberal Democrat.
Married with three children and two grandchildren, Mike has lived in Eastbourne for 37 years and has always been involved in politics, becoming a Liberal Democrat councillor for Hampden Park 14 years ago. Mike is an insurance broker by profession. He is a member of the shadow cabinet and Chairman of Hampden Park Infants school governors. Mike wants to see that young children have the opportunity to progress to the highest level despite governments' insistence in more paperwork for teachers with less time for teaching! He is interested in the future of Eastbourne theatres and the arts and has history of involvement in Hampden Park with various organisations such as Hampden Park in Bloom. Mike is a member of Local Action Team, a liaison group including police, his fellow ward councillors and other people interested in preventing crime and disorder in the Hampden Park and Willingdon Trees area. Is a keen and active recycler and wants to see current recycling targets doubled.

Ann Ring 274 votes Labour Party.
Ann has lived in Eastbourne for over 60 years, and attended Hampden Park schools. Before her recent retirement, she was a cook at ETC, and a member of the GMB union.
Ann is vice-chair of the Hampden Park Community Association, and regularly helps with their weekly lunches. She is also a sidesman at St Peter's Church. A widow after 40 years, she has two grown up daughters, and two grandchildren (with a third on the way !)
Ann is a seasoned campaigner on local transport issues, like many local residents she relies on local bus services, although she is also well know in Hampden Park for whizzing about on her trusty pushbike ! Ann is also a veteran of Post Office campaigns- having been active in the "original" campaign against the closure of the Queens Parade office.

Bill Bailey 499 votes Conservative Party.
Bill Bailey moved from the picturesque Cotswold town of Painswick to Eastbourne some five years ago. Bill has also lived in Essex, Suffolk, Kent, Avon and Gloucestershire. A Chartered Engineer by profession, Bill is Company Director of a local Building Construction and Domestic Services business.
Bill has two daughters, one of whom lives in Melbourne, Australia, his other daughter lives in Surrey. Bill is a granddad with two small granddaughters aged 14 months and 3 months.

Chris Brenchley 555 votes Conservative Party.
Chris Brenchley moved to Eastbourne from Kingston, Surrey over 17 years ago. He now lives in Hampden Park. A Quantity Surveyor by profession, Chris is a director of a local building company. Chris worked for a time with David Hicks the designer and has also worked in the Middle East.
Chris is married with three children and celebrates his Ruby Wedding in September. He is a member of Rotary AM; and a member of the Rattonians Amateur Society for over 15 years.

Dave Salmon 197 votes Labour Party.
David Salmon is 58 years old, and has worked in education in Eastbourne for the past 35 years. He is now semi-retired after serving as Deputy Head of Ratton School. He is married with three grown up children and five grandchildren.
David was a Labour councillor in Eastbourne for three years, during which time he took a keen interest in public transport, while serving on the highways and transport committee.
David says: "I am concerned about the future that the young face in the town, with few professional jobs and a lack of housing that young people can afford. The growth of the town has outgrown its infrastructure, which can be seen by its traffic chaos and long-term hosepipe bans. "
"The Tories and the Liberals have been in power for over thirty years and presided over this decline in Eastbourne. It is time for imagination and positive thinking."

Dave Brinson 230 votes Labour Party.
Dave is head of PSHE and Citizenship at Ratton School. He was educated at local schools and Park College (where he was president of the Students Union).
Chair of the local Labour Party, he has been involved in campaigns on issues as diverse as transport, crime prevention and working people's rights for more than ten years.
Dave is President of the local NUT, and is also a member of the actors' union Equity. Away from politics, he is a member of Round Table, St. Peter's Church and a governor of a local special school.
Dave is actively involved in the co-operative movement, and would like to explore how community-owned business models could improve local people's say over public services- identifying the council's majority share in Eastbourne Buses as an area where passengers and other local residents should have a more direct and decisive voice.

Milly Skriczka 417 votes Conservative Party.
Milly Skriczka has lived in Eastbourne for nine years. She is a volunteer advisor at the Citizens Advice Bureau and until leaving the hotel industry played an active part in Eastbourne Hotels' Association. Milly previously worked in the Civil Service and until her move to Eastbourne was a school accountant.
Milly was born in Lancashire, she is 59yrs, married, with three children and six grandchildren. Although a 'new girl' to politics Milly is committed to working hard for Hampden Park residents and looks forward to being elected and representing them on Eastbourne Borough Council.

Finn O'Shea 181 votes Green Party.
I am a retired former NHS frontline worker.
As a long-term (30 + years) resident of Hampden Park I looked forward to the development of the Eastbourne Park as a way of improving the local environment and at the same time ensuring that development did not take place on water-logged land unsuitable for building, the improvements in Shinewater are welcome, but partial. I see with despair how the Borough Council has allowed our heritage to be eaten away in piecemeal fashion with housing and commercial development on land, which is at or below sea level with little public advantage.
If elected I would campaign for the remainder of the levels to be preserved for environmental and leisure activates to the long-term benefit of residents, rather than the short term profit of developers.

Leslie Dalton 208 votes Green Party.
I have lived in Eastbourne for nearly 20 years, originally from London I have lived for a number of years in Australia, both as a teacher and working with Aborigine children in a remote area.
A parent of five children, I have a deep concern for the future both locally and in the broader context. It makes no sense to develop - in the sense that more roads and building are a development - with no thought for the future. Here in the South East we have fast diminishing water resources, our energy supplies are uncertain yet those in authority expend their energies as if there were no tomorrow. If they proceed as at present they may well be right.
The choice is short-term gain for some or long term prosperity for all with the Green Party. The Environment must be at the centre of all policy decisions. The Green Party offers a framework in which the wider community makes informed decisions for all, not for developers, not for political convenience, not for profit, but for the long-term benefit of us all.
Along with this goes the belief that the individual is important, has value and has both rights and duties. The state is there to serve us and not vice versa, so no compulsory ID cards, no enforced medication in our food and drink. We believe in implementing our principles honestly.

Ivor Heuting 164 votes Green Party.
I am 65 and have been living in Hampden Park for the last 15 years. I am a former senior manager with a major retail company with experience in marketing, personnel management and project management. Self employed since 1989, I owns Impax Training, together with my wife, providing management and personal development training, coaching and counselling.
I am a lifelong opponent of nuclear weapons and of threats to individual human rights, such as that posed by artificial public water fluoridation schemes. I currently manage the English office of the Safe Water Information Service. I am a writer and teacher of the international language, Esperanto.
' As Chair of the Coastway division of Railfuture (the Railway Development Society), I fully supports the Greens' transport policy of a fully integrated, affordable public transport network; including real 'quality bus partnerships' and support for major upgrading of the Coastway rail route.