‘A bonkers idea’ is how one Hastings In Focus reader has described council plans to spend three quarters of a million pounds on a visitor centre at Hastings Country Park. Cabinet members of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) will be asked at their meeting on Monday to approve new contractors for the scheme. The tender from […]
The Marshlink Community Rail Partnership (CRP) – part of the Sussex Community Rail Partnership – held its annual general meeting in Rye on Friday. A packed town hall heard presentations from Kevin ‘Taff’ Barry, the Marshlink community rail development officer, Amber Rudd MP, Angie Doll, passenger services director for Southern and Gatwick Express, Andrew Wood, […]
It’s amazing what can happen over four hours in Hastings Town Centre writes Polly Gifford, of Hastings Supports Refugees Hastings Supports Refugees set up their stall outside Debenhams on Saturday, in front of a huge advert for its ‘Black Friday Spectacular’. But a different set of values was guiding us that day. This was a genuine […]
Directed by Mike Leigh and starring Maxine Peake, Peterloo is a gripping film which is shocking and disturbing but throws up several present-day issues writes Jay Kramer. It is possible that many people do not know about The Massacre of Peterloo which took place in the summer of 1819 in what is now known as […]
The work of potters and ceramicists from in and around Hastings will get a pre-Christmas showcase at a unique Clay Culture Trail that’s being staged at the beginning of next month. The trail is a new Christmas Open House featuring 13 ceramicists from across East Sussex and will be showing at four venues in Hastings […]
Last Friday Hastings’ MP Amber Rudd hosted her third Seniors Fair in the town, the event followed on from a successful Rye Seniors Fair held earlier this year. Ms Rudd was joined by more than 30 local and national organisations at Sussex Coast College. The organisations were able to meet local people and were able […]
Today is National Anti-Slavery Day and Sussex Police is taking the chance to remind local people that modern slavery is a problem often hidden in plain sight. Reports of what is termed modern slavery have risen by almost 200 per cent in one year in Sussex as a whole. Sussex Police has already mounted 11 operations this […]
Described by many as ‘dynamic’ and ‘a powerhouse’ C.J. Jackson, Chief Executive of the Billingsgate Seafood School talked passionately last weekend about Hastings, its fleet and the fish landed here. She was speaking at the launch of the Hastings Fish brand at Hastings Borough Council’s Seafood and Wine festival. The new ‘Hastings Fish’ brand gives an opportunity […]
Hastings Green have thrown down a challenge to local people to help stop plastic pollution at source by calling on the residents of Hastings and St Leonards to support ‘National Refill Day’ this Thursday (Sept 27th). Local people are being encouraged to carry a reusable bottle and share their experiences on social media about how easy […]
