Today is #demanddemocracyday with campaigners up and down the country making their case for why the UK should switch to a new system of voting – proportional representation. Hastings’ former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Nick Perry (pictured above) is fully behind the campaign saying: “More and more people say to me that they would like […]
Criticism is mounting over what is being described as a lack of transparency and willingness to communicate at Hastings Borough Council (HBC). The criticism is not just coming from politicians but from campaigners, former councillors and members of the public too. Liberal Democrat Nick Perry says: “I am increasingly aware from various different local sources […]
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, […]
#BLMHastings Over 1,000 people attended yesterday’s Black Lives Matter rally in Alexandra Park. Speakers challenged those attending to ‘be an ally’ – to be actively anti-racist and to spread the word among their families. One man who attended said later: “It had the feel less of a protest, more of a movement that’s here to […]
Everyone in Hastings should have the chance to vote for Green candidate at May’s borough council elections. That’s the message from Hastings Green party after it rebuffed advances from local Liberal Democrats to form an electoral pact that would have seen each party only fight eight of the 16 wards where elections will be held […]
New polling by Coastal Action shows the Conservatives ahead in Hastings and Rye and the pollsters predict it’s likely the Conservatives will hold the seat. But the poll confirms what the candidates have been saying when they spoke to Hastings In Focus over the weekend and that is that large numbers of voters are still […]
This morning we publish three new audio tracks, conversations we’ve had over the weekend with the three main-party candidates standing in the General Election. None will stake a claim saying the parliamentary seat is theirs for the taking but listening to them carefully they confirm what national polls have been saying; that people are not […]
Brexit is making the staffing crisis at East Sussex Healthcare Trust even worse according to the Liberal Democrats. Figures published by the Lib Dems reveal that 84 EU staff working at East Sussex Healthcare Trust have already left the health service this year, including 27 nurses and midwives. In the three years since the Brexit […]
Only 81 per cent of patients arriving at accident and emergency in Hastings were treated or admitted within four hours in October 2019, according to figures published by NHS England last week.That’s well below the official target of 95 per cent of patients attending A&E being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.Nationally, the 95 per […]
