More than a year and a half after it ended Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has still not completed the audit for the financial year 2019/20 it was revealed during this week’s quarterly audit committee meeting. Audits for 2020/21 also remain uncompleted. Peter Grace, HBC’s Assistant Director of Financial Services and Revenues, said difficulties caused by […]
Police are investigating an arson attack in St Leonards believed to be a part of a series of targeted incidents. Officers were called to Quebec Road on Sunday July 25th around 10pm following reports of a black Mercedes car having been set on fire. The owner of the vehicle also had windows smashed at their […]
It has been a long and hard fought campaign by the sizeable number of local people opposed to council plans that would see the building of more than 150 new homes on the old bathing pool site in West St Leonards. Hastings Borough Council’s failure to listen to local people, on this and other issues, […]
Raw sewage has flooded beach huts on Bulverhythe beach. The beach has been closed and Hastings Borough Council expects the town’s other local beaches to be off limits to swimmers this weekend after a main sewage pipe burst on Wednesday. Kevin Boorman from HBC says: “We’ve got about 300 beach huts there, in fact the […]
Last Friday, local MPs Sally-Ann Hart (Hastings and Rye) and Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle), visited the Youth Hub at East Sussex Coast College campus in Hastings, to see first-hand the work and support to help young people into employment. The Hastings Youth Hub, which is one of two in the area with a second […]
Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of Che Isaacs-Neville following his conviction for six offences at court. Isaacs-Neville, 22, is sought by police in relation to offences which took place in Hastings and Bexhill between December 2019 and March 2020. In his absence, he was charged with two counts of assault occasioning actual […]
A prolific criminal from St Leonards has been jailed for a series of offences carried out over a 12-month period. Carl Stocker, 30, of no fixed address, was imprisoned for ten years on Tuesday, July 13th, after pleading guilty to two robberies, assault, fraud and drug offences. Lewes Crown Court heard that on May 5th, […]
We may have seen some of the hottest days of the year recently but a subscription gift box company, near Hastings is already gearing up for Christmas and wrapping 24,000 individual gifts for their limited edition 2021 advent calendar. TreatBox curates beautifully wrapped letterbox gifts that promote self-care and wellbeing. Each day in the run […]
Since he started writing for Hastings In Focus back in 2019 Tom McCann has never been afraid to court controversy. As a young man trying to make his way in the world and facing an ever more ‘hostile’ local housing market he wonders if Hastings Borough Councillors have their priorities the right way round? With […]
