Voters in Amber Rudd’s Hastings and Rye constituency are changing their mind when it comes to Brexit. At the EU referendum in June 2016 Hastings and Rye voted 56.2 per cent to leave with 43.8 per cent voting to remain. However, polling carried out by the ‘Best for Britain’ pro-EU campaign group indicates that opinion […]
Figures suggest that 83 Hastings and St Leonards children will be homeless on Christmas day a situation Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate Pater Chowney says is ‘shameful’. Research by the homeless charity Shelter has come up with the figure and the charity says that number is set to continue rising. It is a 63 per cent […]
NHS bosses are being asked to think again about their controversial decision to run down local treatment of ear, nose and throat conditions at the Conquest Hospital. Hastings and Rye Labour Party is pressing for health bosses to think again about their decision which, if implemented, would see patients from the Hastings area having to […]
Allowances paid to councillors on the town’s borough council are among the most generous in the south east of England. Discussing a report from the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP) at it’s cabinet meeting on Monday night councillors were told the panel recommended the current level of allowances remained in place for next year, the panel […]
Hastings will see its first ever community energy investment offer go live this week with residents able to buy shares to fund 250 kilowatts of solar energy – roughly 1066 panels worth – on the roof of the Ore campus of East Sussex Coast College. The solar roof will supply the college with a significant […]
Local residents are ‘excited’ about the prospect of the new state-of-the-art environmentally friendly straw bale built visitor centre planned for Hastings Country Park. That was the message from Councillor Andy Batsford when Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) cabinet members met on Monday night and were asked to give the go-ahead for work on the visitor centre […]
Labour is calling for more fishing quota to be given to smaller fishing boats after Brexit saying it will provide a fairer deal for Britain’s hard-pressed fishermen. The party says that help for small fisheries such as Hastings is missing from the Government’s current Fisheries Bill due to be debated by MPs today. But Labour […]
Visitors and stallholders to the Herring Fair held on The Stade open space at the weekend say it was the best one yet. Thousands of people flocked to the event that was organised by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to help support the local fishing industry and also to encourage more people to visit the town […]
Ambitious plans to build a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly visitor centre at Hastings Country Park is turning in to a major headache for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) as they struggle to find a contractor who can actually build its planned house of straw. The idea to create a visitor centre built from straw bales was initially […]
