The ‘closed ranks’ of Hastings Labour Party are behaving more like Roman Emperors than left-wing collaborators trying to solve issues which directly affect people’s dignity according to veteran campaigner Adam Wide. Mr Wide was responding to the news that Hastings Mayor James Bacon has had his invitation to this weekend’s Hastings Pride event withdrawn and […]
It was New Year’s Eve, 2019. I’d been reading about choosing a ‘word of the year’ rather than a ‘new year’s resolution’ – it would apparently help me to focus on what I wanted to create for myself during the coming year. So, after some consideration, palpitations and a hot flush, I chose the word ‘balance’! That […]
Hana Solarova, 43, has been found safe in London after being reported missing. Hana had not been heard from for more than a week, since travelling from St Leonards to Charing Cross to catch a coach to the Czech Republic. Hana, who is from the Czech Republic, has been resident in the UK for 12 […]
Dean Ellis has been jailed for seven years after stabbing a man he met on a night out in Hastings. On November 3rd, 2018, the victim had been enjoying an evening at a pub in the town centre when he met a group of people. One of those people was Ellis, 33, a factory worker […]
A woman who spat in the face of a police officer has been sentenced to 18 weeks in prison. Sevana Francais, 46, had been asked by staff the leave the Aldi store in London Road, Bexhill, after drinking gin and wine while in the shop on Thursday (May 6th). Francais, who was clearly intoxicated and […]
An ‘urgent’ investigation has been launched by local Tories into the social media activities of one of their candidates in next week’s borough council elections. Online comments by John Sydes, who is standing in Castle Ward were branded ‘racist’ by the local Labour party who say: “The ‘investigation’ must act fast or be meaningless. Whatever […]
‘Brutish, bullying and intimidating’ is how borough councillor John Rankin has described attacks made on him at a council meeting on Wednesday night while his group leader says it felt like ‘institutional bullying’. Mr Rankin has written to the council’s senior management and senior elected councillors telling them he is reserving the right to seek […]
A man has been charged in connection with a murder in St Leonards. Police discovered the body of a man inside a property in Magdalen Road on Thursday (April 8th). He has since been identified as 51-year-old Darren Alderton, from St Leonards. Officers launched a murder investigation and arrested a man in North London on […]
Just what is going on at the old bathing pool site in West St Leonards? It’s two and a half years since Hastings Borough Council said it was on the verge of signing a deal with a developer who was all set to build houses there and it’s getting on for six months since a […]
