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Chris New at The Stables – a trilogy of new plays and the ‘witchcraft’ of teaching
Chris New is in the middle of a busy year at The Stables Theatre in Hastings with three new plays and a busy teaching schedule. After graduating from RADA Chris enjoyed huge success in the West End, starring opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman’s Bent for which he won an Evening […]
Emergency cabinet meeting will hear of council’s desperate financial plight with millions in savings needed now!
On Friday afternoon the result of years of what is being described as ‘financial mismanagement’ will be laid bare before members of Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) ruling Labour cabinet at an emergency meeting to discuss the authority’s looming financial crisis as it faces having to make multi-million pound savings. HBC is broke and unless it […]
Drag queens bring Hastings Pride to care home’s back garden
Hastings drag queen, Paris Grande, brought the town’s ‘Pride’ to a care home’s back garden in a celebration of diversity and inclusion. Paris, together with Kikiara George and Nicole Grande from the Hastings Queer Collective, brought a rainbow of colour, dancing and singing to residents at Hastings Court Care Home on The Ridge. Lifestyles Manager, Kimberley […]
Loan that might take half a century to repay will create a ‘valuable asset’ and ‘iconic building’
Scheme depends on council’s cut of business rates to break even Here are the first images of how the new publicly funded restaurant to be built in Harold Place might look. Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) cabinet recommended on Monday night that full council be given the chance to discuss the plan for HBC to borrow […]
Council plans another £1.7m for Harold Place black hole
Does Hastings need a new ‘mid-market restaurant’? And if it does should £1.7m of your money be used to fund it’s development? In 2019 Hasting Borough Council (HBC) approved spending of £1.2 to redevelop the former Harold Place toilets site to create a restaurant that would then be let out to an independent operator. The […]
Arches demolition bill will be more than half a million as completion delayed until next year
Work to demolish Battle Road arches is set to drag on well in to next year as the total bill to local tax payers escalates by more than 60 per cent to more than half a million pounds A statement issued by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) on Friday afternoon said the project had been delayed […]
Veteran campaigner fears ‘there’s still a long way to go’ as transphobic council row goes public
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 […]
Volunteers raising funds to keep greenhouse project on track
Volunteers from Alexandra Park Greenhouse in Hastings set up their colourful stall near the park’s cafe on Saturday (August 21st). The stall attracted plenty of customers and its takings will help to pay running costs for the historic 1930s greenhouse which is being developed as a community hub. The attraction coincided with the park’s crowning […]