In searches carried out at Hastings Station last week designed to counter County Lines drug operations police seized drugs and an offensive weapon. Working with British Transport Police (BTP), Border Force and UK Immigration Enforcement, Sussex Police carried out a two-day enforcement and safeguarding operation aimed at the train network connecting Hastings and Eastbourne to […]
A drug-driver who killed a man in a crash – then ran away from the scene – has had his sentence increased by the Court of Appeal. Christopher Fenton was more than three times the legal limit for cannabis when his Audi S4 crossed into the path of an oncoming Citroen Picasso on Fairlight Road, […]
Last month members of Hastings Borough Council’s Licensing Committee met to review the license of Crowley’s Bar in Havelock Road – the committee has now made its recommendations and they are far-reaching with the bar having had its weekend opening hours slashed from 2am to midnight. Representatives of Crowley’s had asked to remain open past […]
Could the Dragon Boat Race at Bewl Water, Kent be a way for St Michael’s Hospice to earn some of the £14,000 it needs to raise every day to be able keep doing what it does so well. The hospice is hoping that local businesses from across Hastings and Rother might use the race as […]
A charity which aims to turn a historic greenhouse into a community hub will make its debut at a prestigious fair this weekend (July 10th-11th). Volunteers from the Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group in Hastings have been invited to sell their wares at Great Dixter Summer Plant Fair in Northiam by Fergus Garrett, head gardener and […]
Winning a prestigious grant will help Hastings Museum and Art Gallery make better use or its archives according to the man in charge. The museum has been given a National Archives scoping grant, one of four grants announced this month and Damian Etheraads, Museum and Cultural Development Manager, says: “It will enable us to better […]
Earlier this week East Sussex County Council outlined the success of Project Adder, the government funded drug-busting initiative that sees Hastings share a £148m funding pot that aims to tackle and reduce drug-related harm and deaths in five key areas across the UK. Not to be overshadowed by their council partners Sussex Police has issued […]
Throughout July, 31 ‘stunning’ gardens will open their gates to visitors as part of St Michael’s Hospice Open Garden season, sponsored by Crest House Care Home. One recent Open Garden visitor said: “For a few hours I got lost in a beautiful garden and watched dragonflies dance, frogs swim and birds sing their hearts out. […]
Police are searching for 15-year-old Druie Price who has been missing since June 16th from the address where he had been living in St Leonards. Druie is described as white, 6′, of medium build, brown eyed, with black hair shaved at the sides, and a scar on the back of his neck. He was last […]
