Hastings Oktoberfest has been given the go-ahead for 2021 after last year’s disappointment that saw the popular event cancelled due to Covid-19. Featuring what organisers call their ‘biggest and best line-up ever,’ the event will run out of Horntye Park on Saturday October 2nd from 2-10pm. “You can expect authentic German beers and bratwurst (German […]
Gardening duo Toby and Ollie Hopwood (pictured above) have won a top award for their work to help a community project at the historic greenhouse in Hastings. Brothers Toby, nine, and Ollie, 11, received the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Level 5 School Gardening Award after submitting a 300-word article and photos about their fund-raising efforts […]
Three men – two of them from Hastings – have been convicted in connection with a deliberate house fire which killed a mother and her young son. Today (May 27th) Jacob Barnard, of Winchelsea Andrew Milne, a furniture remover, of Wilmington Road, and John Tabakis, unemployed, of Cornwallis Gardens, were each found guilty by a […]
A wall of silence has greeted any attempts to gain some clarity on an internal row over the rights of transgender people to ‘self-identify’ that is said to be tearing Hastings Labour Party apart. Last Wednesday, newly elected Labour Councillor Claire Carr, attending her first meeting, refused to back a member of the old guard–Councillor […]
Kim Batty, the Hastings-based single parent who co-founded the town’s mutual aid support group HEART, has been recognised for her work with a global award from the international media giant Nationbuilder. Hailed by the firm as an ‘#Everyday Leader’, Kim set up HEART at the start of the Covid pandemic, recruiting a team of over […]
Silverhill’s newly elected borough councillor Lucian Fernando has taken exception to a decision by East Sussex County Council (ESCC) not to install what he considers to be ‘vital’ safety improvements at Alma Terrance. Alma Terrace feeds on to the A21, with low visibility making turns onto the main road potentially dangerous. After expressing his concerns […]
St Michael’s Hospice is inviting supporters to challenge themselves in June by completing 30 activities in 30 days to help raise vital funds – and you’ll receive a special 30 in 30 medal for your efforts too. A hospice spokesman says: “You could read 30 books in a month, scoot around the park 30 times, bake 30 cakes for […]
Members of Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) are expecting the largest ever demonstration for the Palestinian cause to be held tomorrow in the town centre, near the former Debenhams store. After the recent unrest in the middle east which has seen 232 Palestinians killed, including 63 children, the local group say its planned […]
It will be exactly 78 years ago on Sunday that the historic Swan Inn, a Hastings landmark since the early 14th century, was destroyed by enemy action. It was around lunchtime on Sunday 23rd May 1943 that a Luftwaffe raid caused damage and casualties around the town with 16 people being killed inside the Swan […]
