A man has been jailed after being caught by a member of the public trying to break into a property in Hastings. On March 17th, a flat in St Mary’s Road was broken into and cash stolen from inside. The matter wasn’t reported to police at the time, but measures were taken to secure the […]
Report by Tom McCann A week ago yesterday a ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire was the climax—if even only temporary—of the latest increase in tensions in the region between the two sides which culminated in a 15 day conflict that left hundreds dead, thousands wounded and tens of thousands more displaced […]
Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) Planning Committee met on Wednesday… it was a short meeting, a third of it was spent confirming who was present, who if any should declare a conflict of interest and agreeing to the minutes of the previous meeting! All councillors were present, they all agreed to the minutes of the previous […]
Gardening duo Toby and Ollie Hopwood (pictured above) have won a top award for their work to help a community project at the historic greenhouse in Hastings. Brothers Toby, nine, and Ollie, 11, received the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Level 5 School Gardening Award after submitting a 300-word article and photos about their fund-raising efforts […]
Three men – two of them from Hastings – have been convicted in connection with a deliberate house fire which killed a mother and her young son. Today (May 27th) Jacob Barnard, of Winchelsea Andrew Milne, a furniture remover, of Wilmington Road, and John Tabakis, unemployed, of Cornwallis Gardens, were each found guilty by a […]
A wall of silence has greeted any attempts to gain some clarity on an internal row over the rights of transgender people to ‘self-identify’ that is said to be tearing Hastings Labour Party apart. Last Wednesday, newly elected Labour Councillor Claire Carr, attending her first meeting, refused to back a member of the old guard–Councillor […]
Kim Batty, the Hastings-based single parent who co-founded the town’s mutual aid support group HEART, has been recognised for her work with a global award from the international media giant Nationbuilder. Hailed by the firm as an ‘#Everyday Leader’, Kim set up HEART at the start of the Covid pandemic, recruiting a team of over […]
Silverhill’s newly elected borough councillor Lucian Fernando has taken exception to a decision by East Sussex County Council (ESCC) not to install what he considers to be ‘vital’ safety improvements at Alma Terrance. Alma Terrace feeds on to the A21, with low visibility making turns onto the main road potentially dangerous. After expressing his concerns […]
An Environment and Safety Committee meeting held last week by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) finalised and approved a number of changes to the council’s taxi licensing policies. The report which was unanimously accepted by councillors followed the issuing of statutory guidance in June last year by the Secretary of State for Transport which aims to […]
