Little Gate Farm has announced the launch of its Supported Apprentice Scheme, following a grant from the National Lottery. Little Gate Supported Employment will be creating apprenticeships for 50 young people by working with local employers, the Beckley based charity hopes to improve job prospects for young adults that may feel limited in career choices. https://youtu.be/4Qyexfox7Go […]
It’ll be ‘all-quiet’ on the eastern end of the seafront this weekend as Hastings and St Leonards takes part in Car Free Day for the first time. Sunday marks the start of ‘Sustainability on Sea’ and to kick things off a stretch of Hastings seafront from Warrior Square gardens to the pier will be closed to […]
Borrowing around £50 million over the last five years has underpinned Hastings Borough Council’s commercial property acquisition programme. Many local people still don’t realise that their council owns the site in Sedlescombe Road North where Pets at Home and Dunelm are based and also owns the T.K. Max site on Bexhill Road. The council has […]
Without the proper services to deal effectively with street drinking many local people are being condemned ‘to an early death’ according to Hastings Borough Council (HBC) leader Peter Chowney Street drinking he says has long been a problem in Hastings: “Earlier this year, large groups of street drinkers were congregating on the seafront and in […]
The weekend’s Seafood and Wine Festival, held on the Stade open space, has been hailed as one of the biggest and best ever. “It was a brilliant weekend in every respect.” Peter Chowney, leader of Hastings Borough Council said yesterday. The weather was kind and the sun shone throughout the weekend as thousands of local […]
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is sad to announce that Ex-Councillor Andrew Cartwright died peacefully at his home in St Leonards last week. He is survived by his partner Georgiana de Lussy. Andrew served two terms as the Labour Councillor for Gensing Ward from 2002 – 2006 and again from 2007 until 2018 when he stepped […]
Leading Labour councillor Andy Batsford says the town’s borough council is a “bold interventionist council determined to improve the lives of our residents.” He was talking after Hastings Borough Council (HBC) carried out a review os a 16 year programme of renewal work in central St Leonards. The £32 million public/private investment has been focussed on […]
It was in 1926 that the Hastings Corporation advertised for an engineer to ‘rebuild Hastings’ and the man they appointed was Sidney Little who would go on to leave a lasting mark on the town. The regeneration of Hastings was the subject of a ‘short history’ last month written by Council leader and Labour’s prospective parliamentary […]
Another Hastings icon is in line for a top award and needs your support to get it over the line. Just days after Alexandra Park won the title of Best Park in the South East Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is in the running to be crowned the Best Educational Day Out in London and the South […]
