By this time next week the public inquiry into Rother Valley Railway’s (RVR) controversial planning application to construct a new heritage railway link between Bodiam and Robertsbridge as well as new level crossings – including one on the fast flowing A21 – will be underway. The inquiry will be led by Ian Jenkins, an inspector […]
Former Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd has been pretty quiet since leaving parliament in 2019 but she’s making a splash in the ‘papers today as she takes aim at the man she once said was “not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening”. Ms Rudd has called into […]
On social media this morning we’ve highlighted a piece from our archive asking ‘whatever happened to Amber Rudd’? Keep reading and we’ll tell you at the bottom of the story, safe to say Ms Rudd has not become an unemployment statistic. A year ago the Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye was seen as […]
Almost a quarter-million rail journeys started or ended at Ore station in 2018/19, according to the latest official estimates of station usage from the Office of Rail and Road. The 240,652 station entries and exits in the year to March 31st 2019 represent an annual increase of nearly 40 per cent. The Marshlink station is […]
Later this week Hastings In Focus will be recording an interview with the town’s new MP Sally-Ann Hart. In the meantime Mrs Hart has outlined here what she sees as her immediate priorities in her new job. I am writing this as your Member of Parliament, sitting at my kitchen table. The early morning house […]
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) met Amber Rudd MP last week and presented her with a birdbox to encourage conservation in her constituency. It’s that latest in a series of cross-party political meetings by the BASC. The organisation’s Political Affairs Manager Jak Abrahams discussed a range of ongoing conservation projects, including an […]
Hastings’ outgoing MP Amber Rudd yesterday voted against the government and backed the rebel amendment that scuppered the Prime Minister’s chances of passing a new Brexit deal. And while the drama unfolded inside parliament, outside a claimed one million people gathered to march on Parliament, demanding that any deal agreed by our MPs is put to […]
Her tenure as MP for Hastings might be coming to an end very soon but Amber Rudd has just staged her sixth and what she says has been her most successful transport summit. The event took place earlier this month at East Sussex College in Hastings, speaking afterward Ms Rudd said: “I was encouraged by the […]
Showcasing job opportunities while helping people show off their talents and fulfil their ambitions is why Amber Rudd says she stages her Job Fairs. Sussex Coast College was again the destination for jobseekers today. Thy were able to meet around 40 innovative exhibitors that were showing what their businesses have to offer to those looking […]
