It’s still all to play for as voting for the Ramblers Association Best Walking Neighbourhood Award enters its final week. If the number of views the promotional videos for each town has received is anything to go by then Hastings is locked in a battle in the midfield but is still less than 300 votes behind the […]
A report in today’s Evening Standard says the museums leading the race to host the Bayeux tapestry when it comes to the UK in five years time are the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum – both in London. The report does mention Battle Abbey as what it describes as a third ‘plausible’ […]
A team of four cleared ten bags of rubbish from the streets of Ore in just a couple of hours on Saturday morning. Their work was part of a national campaign, The Great British Spring Clean which has the simple aim of bringing people together to clear up the litter that blights our towns, villages, countryside […]
Hastings In Focus has been meeting some of the runners taking part in Hastings Half Marathon who will be raising money for great local charities, watch the film and hear all that they have to say. Matt Badham is putting his best foot forward to raise much needed cash for St Michaels Hospice. It’s a […]
Following press reports at the weekend that the government was planning to force what were described as NIMBY councils to build more houses there is a fascinating piece by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) leader Peter Chowney this week about neighbouring Wealden Council and its reluctance to build – and its attempts to stop other nearby […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has welcomed the unveiling of Southern Rail’s new May timetable. From 20 May, Southern will be running four trains an hour between Hastings and Eastbourne, up from the current three, and doubling the length of most trains between Hastings and Brighton, from two carriages to four. There will also be a […]
Last week Hastings Borough Council (HBC) set its budget for the coming financial year in the face of what council leader Peter Chowney described as the ‘biggest funding crisis’ the council had faced. But Councillor Rob Lee, leader of the eight-man Conservative group on HBC believes the Labour administration should be doing more. He fears […]
Hastings old town is one of ten locations nominated by the Ramblers Association for its Best Walking Neighbourhood Award. People have just 14 days (until March 14) to submit their votes and secure the win for Hastings. The Ramblers say the award is in recognition of the many neighbourhoods around the UK that are already […]
The arctic blast that’s had a grip on Hastings since the start of this week isn’t done with us yet. The so-called ‘beast from the east’ might be blowing itself out but it will soon be replaced by equally cold winds this time coming from the south and forecasters are predicting even more snow in […]