It is more than a year since both Hastings Borough Council and East Sussex County Council voted to support asylum seekers being able to work with county councillors voting unanimously in favour of the move. This councils’ actions followed months of activity in Hastings and St Leonards to raise awareness of the Lift the Ban […]
Warming up the Homeless, which supports people across Eastbourne, Hastings and Bexhill, is in need of some extra cooks. The registered charity is looking for people that are willing to regularly supply hot food for its outreach project. It will supply all the ingredients and disposable containers – and these can be delivered to you […]
Child poverty is worse in Hastings than anywhere else in the south east of England and the problem is accelerating. According to a study conducted by the *End Child Poverty coalition and Loughborough University Hastings has the highest child poverty rate in the south east of England and it has increased more over the past […]
Like everyone else in town Hastings Borough Council’s new leader is missing contact with her family; her children and her grandchildren who she has only been able to see from a distance. Kim Forward became leader of the council in the middle of March and has had a huge amount to deal with in her […]
Local people are being encouraged to extend a hand of friendship and to welcome refugees fleeing Northern France. Between 6.30am and midday on Sunday four boats containing 72 refugees landed on local beaches. They were all brought to Hastings to be medically assessed before being transferred to immigration officials. Tony Eastaugh, Home Office Director for […]
A collection of ‘political, thought-provoking and humorous’ poems will hopefully raise a lot of cash for the local foodbank. Dee Howard, a St Leonards resident and regular contributor at monthly Sheer Poetry, has published a booklet containing 16 of her poems with all the profits going to Hastings Foodbank. The foreword was written in verse […]
Numbers of rough sleepers in Hastings has halved according to a report that will go before senior councillors next month. Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is now widely recognised as a leader in innovative practice for reducing homelessness through intervention and prevention, members of the authority’s cabinet will be told. The average number sleeping rough in […]
A national homeless crisis is pushing Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) finances to breaking point, councillors will be told next week. Increasing demand has seen its homelessness budget rocket by £386,000 more than expected. The cost of keeping homeless households in temporary accommodation is now costing the council £2 million a year. And families are spending […]
A man who assaulted a woman while walking down a street in St Leonards has been jailed. John Larkin, 33, unemployed, of no fixed address, was seen by members of the public to grab, punch and headbutt a woman he was walking with on Marline Avenue, around 6.30pm on August 31st last year. The couple […]
