Companies across East Sussex will have support to boost business, thanks to new funding secured by the county council. East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has secured £500,000 which it is hoped will support up to 250 businesses to grow creating more than 100 new jobs in the process. The project, part of South East Business […]
Is your favourite restaurant taking part in the Eat Out to Help Out scheme backed by the government? You can use the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme at these local establishments listed below and you’ll receive: up to 50 per cent off your food and non-alcoholic drinks up to a total value of £10 […]
Already under fire for a perceived lack of openness Hastings Borough Council (HBC) looks to have scored a massive own-goal this weekend by not telling anyone it had given permission for a Covid-19 testing station to set up on The Stade. “…people who think they have Covid are strolling through the busy narrow streets of […]
Could you provide leadership for St Michael’s Hospice, be its ambassador and its public face? If the answer is yes then you might want to apply to be the Hospice’s next Chair. It’s a non-executive, volunteer role that has a key role across the organisation and its services. The Chair and the board hold the […]
The fragile nature of the commercial property market was laid bare yesterday when a number of high-profile, high street names called in administrators. Among those was the Harveys furniture group. While there is no Harveys store in Hastings its subsidiary Bensons for Beds is a tenant of Hastings Borough Council in Bexhill Road. The chain, […]
Why the collapse of one of the UK’s biggest property companies should ring warning bells in Muriel Matters House… Two years ago Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) rush to invest in commercial property was described as a ‘ticking time bomb of over extended borrowing’. In the two years since, many voices both local and national have […]
While the council says the town is ‘cautiously ready for visitors’ MP Sally-Ann Hart has repeated her call for us to play a part in ‘turbo-charging’ the local economy and get it ‘firing on all cylinders’. Mrs Hart has repeated her message from last week saying: “…now is the time for us all to play […]
John Bownas is the Manager of Love Hastings the name that’s been given to Hastings Business Improvement District (BID). John though tends to introduce himself as simply the ‘town centre manager’, he finds people understand that more easily as many just don’t know what BIDs are. In a nutshell, as he frequently has to explain: […]
Reports suggest that across the UK more than 30,000 pubs, bars and restaurants could remain permanently closed because the coronavirus shutdown has sent a wrecking ball through the nation’s hospitality trade. Meanwhile restaurant chains with branches in Hastings and St Leonards, including Bella Italia, have either already called in administrators or are expected to do […]
