Hastings weather volunteers have confirmed what we already knew – it was cold last week! The maximum temperature on Monday February 8th was -0.6°C, the coldest since February 2018, while last week was the first time – since 1991 – we’ve had six consecutive days in Hastings where the air temperature at 0900 has been at freezing or […]
Hastings’ town centre projector has been coupled with one of the town’s high-definition CCTV cameras to help Covid-isolated families share birthday wishes all the way from Australia. The projector was bought in 2019 by Love Hastings – the company funded by the town’s Business Improvement District – to put messages of Christmas cheer onto the […]
We asked Hastings and Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart for an update on progress with the Covid-19 vaccination programme not just in Hastings and St Leonards but more widely in East Sussex as a whole, here’s what she had to say. At present vaccinations are taking place in hospital hubs; GP led vaccination services; roving services […]
Strange Exits from Hastings Vol 2 by Helena Wojtczak, published by Hastings Press, 2021 The first volume of Helena Wojtczak’s Strange Exits from Hastings was a best seller with some local experts telling her they think it might be the biggest selling local history book ever! The book was on sale at various outlets around […]
An additional vaccination centre is open in Hastings from today, at Laycock Pharmacy in Ore and the staff have been described as an ‘inspiration’ by the local MP. For Shammi and Sapna Radia who have operated the pharmacy for 35 years the opening has special significance as their daughter, Kajal has been working on the […]
A woman has been sent to prison for robbing a local man who tried to help by allowing her to ride to locations in Hastings town centre on his mobility scooter. Tara Perry, 33, of Priory Road, Hastings, was given a six year, three month prison sentence when she appeared at Lewes Crown Court last […]
In December two borough councillors asked for their questions to be answered over issues surrounding planning infringements at ‘The Bunker’ at Rocklands. Today, almost a month later and only hours before a crucial vote on the matter by the council’s planning committee, they finally got their answers – and they make fascinating and uncompromising reading! […]
Former Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd has been pretty quiet since leaving parliament in 2019 but she’s making a splash in the ‘papers today as she takes aim at the man she once said was “not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening”. Ms Rudd has called into […]
A Christmas crackdown on drink and drug-drivers has led to 212 arrests across Sussex in just four weeks. The campaign, run twice a year, in addition to routine roads policing is aimed at protecting the public from drink and drug drivers by educating motorists and targeting offenders. A total of 212 arrests were made by […]
