It’s wrong to militarise what is a humanitarian problem say local campaigners. That’s the view of Hastings Supports Refugees and Hastings Community of Sanctuary when responding to this weekend’s revelations that plans were being drawn up by government to send Royal Navy warships to block migrants from crossing the Channel. It has been widely reported that Home […]
Thursday saw the annual Hiroshima Day commemoration in Alexandra Park, the event was first held by Hastings Against War (HAW) in 2005 and has been staged annually since 2007. People gathered to remember those who lost their lives in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago. An estimated 185,000 people died as a […]
More than a year after the original attack took place police have charged a man in connection with the sexual assault of a woman in St Leonards last year. It was on July 11th 2019 that police received a report of a woman being approached by a man in Strood Road, near to Alexandra Park, […]
It looks like new life will soon be breathed in to the Isabel Blackman Centre which shut down due to county council cuts more than a year ago. It was announced this week that a partnership consisting of Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA), Age UK East Sussex, Hastings and St Leonards Seniors Forum and Hastings Old […]
When five friends set out on the trek from Eastbourne Pier to Hastings Pier last Saturday it was all in aid of a very good cause. Ewa Patmore, Adrian Ford-Crush, Andrea Baldry along with Jane and Emma Howard Smith completed their marathon walk in aid of the crowdfunding appeal to replace Esther Fox’s broken wheelchair. […]
A St Leonards man who a videoed himself sexually assaulting a woman – then shared it with friends – has been jailed. Mark Stevens abused his victim, who is known to him, while she was naked and either asleep or unconscious at her home in Rye on the evening of October 3rd, 2018. He used […]
Hastings Group Holdings, the Bexhill-based insurance giant – and major local employer – is set to be taken over in a deal valuing it at £1.66 billion. The company has accepted an approach from Dorset Bidco – a consortium made up of its main shareholder, RMI, and Sampo, the Finnish insurer. There was no mention […]
Just a year ago Hastings Mayor Councillor Nigel Sinden welcomed participants to the annual Hastings Against War ceremony in Alexandra Park to mark the dropping on the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This year on the 75th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped, and giving organisers just two days notice, Hastings Borough Council […]
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will be welcoming its first visitors from Thursday?August 27th. The museum has won the coveted Visit Britain’s ‘We’re Good to Go’ certification, recognising it as a ‘Covid secure’ attraction. The?museum will?be?open?each week?from?Thursday to Sunday 10am–12.30pm and 2–5pm.?? The museum’s ‘We’re Good to Go’ status has been achieved by implementing measures […]
