On Saturday (August 1st) a small group of friends will be walking the 15 miles from Eastbourne Pier to Hastings Pier to raise money to buy a new wheelchair for their disabled friend Esther Fox. Esther once said of her wheelchair: “When we are sitting we are all the same, when we move some use […]
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 […]
Getting away from it all has been a challenge in 2020 but fund raisers at St Michael’s Hospice think they have the answer. They are offering you the Challenge of a Lifetime Walking Weekend this autumn when in addition to getting away from it all you can raise cash to help the Hospice that still […]
Lifeguards are patrolling St Leonards beach again as the summer season – belatedly – gets underway. “Having the lifeguards in position on this popular section of beach is essential, to ensure the safety of residents and visitors while they enjoy the warmer weather,” said a spokesman for Hastings Borough Council. Last weekend on their first […]
Following a cash bailout from Hastings Borough Council (HBC) Freedom Leisure’s teams at Summerfields and Falaise are ready to throw open their doors from tomorrow (July 25th). At its cabinet meeting in July HBC agreed ‘financial support’ to Freedom Leisure but has so far refused to say how much they handed over saying: “The council […]
On Monday we asked Hastings Borough Council (HBC) if they would put up a councillor, preferably Council Leader Kim Forward, for a video interview surrounding the issues raised by local people over the setting up of a Covid-19 testing station on The Stade over the weekend. We were told that neither Ms Forward or her […]
The Hastings Opportunity Area (HOP) has made funding of £150k available to schools and community providers to deliver a range of summer enrichment and blended learning activities, particularly focused on those children and young people who have missed out on learning during the period of school closure due to Covid. Schools and community providers were […]
Reopening bowling greens and installing new outdoor exercise equipment is the recipe to improve people’s fitness and mental health Conservative member of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) Councillor Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood says it’s time to improve the town’s green spaces and sports facilities and is calling for up to £1m to be spent improving the towns green […]
The administrator of a local history group specialising in World War Two and how it affected our town has launched a campaign to raise funds in order to bring back the siren. This siren, which stood as a sentinel of times-gone-by at the top of Briers Avenue was removed about 18 months ago by an […]
