This week, Hastings Council agreed its budget for 2018/19 writes council leader Peter Chowney. The scale of cuts in government funding have made setting a budget increasingly difficult. Since 2010, the council has lost a cumulative total of £45m in grant funding, even after local retention of business rates is taken into account. We’re promised […]
Rye 43 St Leonards Cinque Ports 22 (HT 33-12) After a run of good league wins Ports pitted themselves against higher league opposition in a friendly game. Rye hold their own against good quality opposition in Sussex 2 and defeated Ports by 50 points in their last clash. The game started with both sides holding […]
A group including 13 local teachers have just spent ten days in Hastings, Sierra Leone using their half-term break to work in African partner schools sharing experiences to bring back to their classrooms in the UK. The group was led by Isabel Hodger, one of the Hastings Friendship Link’s Education Liaison Officers. The group headed out […]
St Leonards Cinque Ports 32 East Grinstead 10 (HT 15-5) Ports hosted an East Grinstead side that had won nine games in a row, and despite a weakened squad were still favourites to beat a Ports side that had struggled against the league front-runners. Whereas the visitors travelled with a weakened squad Ports had 25 […]
Hastings Borough Council has seen its revenue support grant from central government slashed from £9m in 2010 to just £1.5m for the coming year. That’s just one of the startling facts thrown up in council leader Peter Chowney’s most recent report on council business. Mr Chowney published his report last week and it makes fascinating […]
Hear what people were saying about Riley Davis’ efforts to raise money for a local charity. To donate to the cause that Riley chose, follow this link https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lucy-benton1