Name: Nicholas Bagnall 
Profession: Journalist, retired but still contribute.
Are you local: if not how long have you been here? We’ve lived here and in the same house since 1958.
Best thing about Lewes? Heavens, so many things. If you go about the town you will always meet someone you know, particularly if you’ve lived here so long. Then there are the Downs, visible from the town, and its beautiful architecture.
Worst thing about Lewes? Ineptitude of most (thank goodness not all) of our local representatives, many of whom don’t even live in Lewes and care only about rate revenue. Don’t let them wreck the town. Example: about five years ago I did a piece in the Sunday Telegraph about the floods of 2000, complaining how little had been done. Next Sunday a letter from the leader of the ESCC came saying if only I’d waited another 24 hours… Years later I was still waiting.
Favourite pub? In summer, the Swan and its garden, in winter the King’s Head (which is closer). Both serve Harvey’s of course.
What’s your poison? See above.
Waitrose or Tesco (or neither) Waitrose.
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Muesli, toast, home-made marmalade, tea.
What do you think about traffic wardens? We should never have had this scheme. Apart from anything else, it attracts employees who, as a London warden once put it, “have a taste for uniforms and authority”. I’ve seen wardens book people for being six inches over the mark, ridiculous or what?
Which Bonfire Society do you go to? Well, our son and his family march with Cliffe. Enough said..