International ‘Car Free’ day was celebrated in the town on Sunday afternoon as part of the ‘Sustainability on Sea’ festival, with a chunk of the seafront closed to traffic between the pier to Warrior Square. The event aimed to get people of all ages involved and activities throughout the day included: Source Park BMX bikes, skateboard trials […]
Around 400 people gathered in Hastings town centre on Friday as part of the Strike4Climate protest before marching to the pier. Students from St Leonards Academy, Rye College, Robertsbridge Community College and Hastings Academy among those taking part carrying placards prepared for the day. Peter Chowney, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings said; “I was […]
Little Gate Farm has announced the launch of its Supported Apprentice Scheme, following a grant from the National Lottery. Little Gate Supported Employment will be creating apprenticeships for 50 young people by working with local employers, the Beckley based charity hopes to improve job prospects for young adults that may feel limited in career choices. https://youtu.be/4Qyexfox7Go […]
Borrowing around £50 million over the last five years has underpinned Hastings Borough Council’s commercial property acquisition programme. Many local people still don’t realise that their council owns the site in Sedlescombe Road North where Pets at Home and Dunelm are based and also owns the T.K. Max site on Bexhill Road. The council has […]
Without the proper services to deal effectively with street drinking many local people are being condemned ‘to an early death’ according to Hastings Borough Council (HBC) leader Peter Chowney Street drinking he says has long been a problem in Hastings: “Earlier this year, large groups of street drinkers were congregating on the seafront and in […]
The weekend’s Seafood and Wine Festival, held on the Stade open space, has been hailed as one of the biggest and best ever. “It was a brilliant weekend in every respect.” Peter Chowney, leader of Hastings Borough Council said yesterday. The weather was kind and the sun shone throughout the weekend as thousands of local […]
Amber Rudd has been ‘a great champion for Hastings and Rye’ and has been ‘working tirelessly’ for her constituents since she was elected in 2010 according to Martin Clarke, chairman of the Hastings and Rye Conservatives. “During the last nine years she has helped to achieve great improvements in many areas of life in the […]
Why can’t the former tip at Pebsham be used as the site for the ten acres of solar panels that Hastings Borough Council (HBC) wants to put on the town’s country park? That’s the question that’s been asked of council leader Peter Chowney this week by local MP Amber Rudd who says in her letter: […]
It’s set to be a weekend of protest in Hastings as opposition political parties campaign against the Prime Minister’s plan to suspend (prorogue) parliament. First out of the blocks tomorrow afternoon is Hastings and Rye Labour Party. It has organised a protest march tomorrow starting at 2pm outside Asda in Silverhill and ending outside Amber Rudd’s […]
