A big new fish brand will be launched at this year’s Seafood and Wine festival in September and it will be a unique brand for Hastings caught fish. Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is developing the brand ‘Hastings Fish’ for catches landed by Hastings mixed fishery. HBC secured grant funding for Hastings Fisheries Local Action Group […]
Hastings might have been just a bit too creative for Channel 4? That’s what borough council leader Peter Chowney thinks. Responding to the news that Hastings had failed in its bid to reach the shortlist to become on of the national broadcaster’s new regional creative hubs Mr Chowney said: “The shortlisted locations were all larger cities […]
Local groups should stake their claim to a share of the £1m of new money to be made available through Coastal Revival Fund (CRF) announced by government minister Jake Berry in Bournemouth yesterday. Hastings MP Amber Rudd speaking immediately after the new pot of money was announced said: “I encourage any interested organisations to apply […]
It’s three years since the then leader of Hastings Borough Council Jeremy Birch died suddenly after suffering a stroke and at the beginning of the month a memorial to him was unveiled in the Peace Garden in Alexandra Park. Mr Birch had been a member of the council since 1998 and led it for 13 […]
Could the Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Charitable Trust have been the saviour of the bid to keep Hastings Pier in community ownership? There was a group of local people who certainly thought so and even launched a petition that called for: “…the Foreshore Trust to meet with Hastings Pier administrators to consider purchasing Hastings Pier.” […]
David Caffrey, BAFTA award winning director of the hit TV show Peaky Blinders, and a Hastings resident spoke to Hastings In Focus at the weekend about the bid put together by Hastings Borough Council and Locate East Sussex to persuade Channel 4 to set up one of its new creative hubs in the town where television […]
Last night the 32 men and women who make up Hastings Borough Council met for the first time since they were elected just two weeks ago and we would like to wish them all the best for all they will be doing on the behalf of Hastings’ 96,000 residents in the coming years. It’s oh […]
Hastings has a new Mayor and a new set of faces at the top table making the decisions that will affect the every day lives of Hastings’ 96,000 residents. Last night the new borough council met in Muriel Matters House for the first time since the elections just two weeks ago and below we provide […]
Meet the new mayor of Hastings, he’s Nigel Sinden and represents the Silverhill ward on Hastings Borough Council, he takes over from Judy Rogers. His deputy will be Old Hastings councillor James Bacon. Both men were elected to their positions at tonight’s first meeting of the new Hastings Borough Council which was elected on May […]
