It’s not surprising Alexandra Park won the title of Best Park in the South East last week because local people love it. Writing in the comments section of the Hastings In Focus website Christine Fagan said: It’s beautiful, it’s free and it’s safe for our young grandchildren to enjoy with us; picnics, ball games special family […]
Alexandra Park is in the running to be the UK’s Best Park 2019! The park has been nominated in the Fields in Trust awards. The UK’s Best Park celebrates the parks and green spaces which are the ‘green lungs’ of our communities says the organisation. Voting closes at noon on Monday so cast your vote […]
Residents of Alma Terrace in St Leonards are becoming frantic at the wall of silence that surrounds their attempts to have something done about the dilapidated house that is blighting their street. The house at 39 Alma Terrace has been empty for a decade, neighbour Nick Kirkham told Hastings In Focus: “It’s in a very […]
A packed Kino-Teatr in St Leonards was the venue last month for a fitting finale to an incredible five days of walking as this year’s Refugee Tales concluded with an evening of story-telling, laughter and occasionally tears. Almost 70 miles was covered from Brighton to Hastings and more than 150 people joined each day in […]
Wayne Dixon, the country’s first Keep Britain Tidy Ambassador, visited Hastings last week. Wayne along with his dog Koda is walking the coast of Great Britain, picking up litter as he goes. He has been walking since February 2016 and has covered 3,700 miles. He is walking to raise awareness of litter and particularly litter […]
Would you like to have a say in the way the Foreshore Trusts spends its surplus income by determining which local groups and causes deserve support? The Foreshore Trust owns all the land along the foreshore from Bulverhythe to Rock a Nore and Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is the trustee. Now the council wants to find […]
Closure of Brighton University’s Hastings Campus was marked at a recent meeting of the town’s borough council with members hearing the campus was a ‘vibrant and welcoming place to study,’ and would be greatly missed. Lecturers from the Hastings Campus were thanked for their service to the town by councillors and were presented with a plaque […]
The new Prime Minister must put an end to ‘sticking plaster’ solutions and properly fund local councils – that’s the message that Peter Chowney, Hastings Council leader and Labour parliamentary candidate for Hastings & Rye has sent to Boris Johnston. He has joined with more than 100 other Labour council leaders from across England and […]
The race is on to find a way to reopen Ore Library which shut it doors more than a year ago. A bid by Ore Community Association to reopen the library as a community run enterprise failed last month but now a new community group with Hastings Borough Councillor Heather Bishop at its head is […]
