East Sussex Music Service is celebrating its 84th year; it delivers music lessons to around 7,000 children in schools across the county every year and around 1,000 children, aged between four and 18, attend area music centres each week. East Sussex County Council recently announced that plans are being made to close the music instrumental service by […]
Hastings has a new Mayor and a new set of faces at the top table making the decisions that will affect the every day lives of Hastings’ 96,000 residents. Last night the new borough council met in Muriel Matters House for the first time since the elections just two weeks ago and below we provide […]
Just thee days to go until polling day, until you can elect the councillors who will represent YOU on Hastings Borough Council. And don’t forget you have TWO votes to cast at this election. Each of the 16 wards that make up the borough has two councillors and because there have been some changes to […]
When the news broke around 10pm yesterday that Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd had decided to call time on her tenure at the Home Office it was inevitable that there would be a polarisation of views. Peter Chowney, the man who almost snatched the Hastings and Rye seat for Labour at last year’s general […]
Click the link above to hear Caroline Lucas’ exclusive interview with Hastings In Focus Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas paid a visit to Hastings on Friday afternoon to help local party members cover the ground in the Old Hastings ward a seat they believe they have a real chance of stealing from Labour at Thursday’s […]
This week’s newspapers have made uncomfortable reading for Hastings and Rye MP and Home Secretary Amber Rudd. As the week draws to a close calls for her resignation as Home Secretary continue to echo around the corridors of power. But while Ms Rudd may be the most high profile local politician making national headlines, Leah […]
This time next week the town’s polling stations will be open for business and local residents will be electing the 32 members who will make up the new Hastings Borough Council. There are 32 candidates standing for the Labour, Conservative and Green parties with 30 Lib Dem Candidates and one candidate from each of The […]
Hastings’ Carpetrite store on the Bexhill Road Retail Park is one of the firm’s top performing stores in the UK. The town’s borough councillors were told on Wednesday night that the Hastings’ store was on the firm’s ‘A’ list and was not, therefore, facing closure. The issue of Carpetrite came up when Councillor John Rankin […]
The Harold Place toilets built in the 1980s and closed last year have all but been erased from the townscape of Hastings. Bulldozers moved in last week to raze the the former toilet block to the ground bringing to an end an issue which has been politically controversial in the corridors of Hastings Borough Council. […]
