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 […]
Retired senior Sussex police officer Kevin Moore has this week accused the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) of double standards. Earlier this week we reported that PCC Katy Bourne had said the future of policing was ‘being transformed’ with the new Prime Minister’s promise to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers nationwide. However Kevin […]
The story of Hastings’ own university campus is a short one spanning just 14 years from its opening in a former telephone exchange in Havelock Road to its closure this summer. There were great hopes for a homegrown university in the town and overwhelming sadness when it was announced in 2016 that the University of […]
It’s all looking positive for community plans to reopen Ore library. Campaigners were able to get inside the building yesterday and local councillor Heather Bishop says the well stocked library is in great condition and could reopen tomorrow. At the same time they were able to chat to officials from East Sussex County Council (ESCC) […]
The local ambulance service ‘Secamb’ is out of special measures. It was announced this morning that the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, to give it its full name, had been taken out of special measures after almost three years. The Care Quality Commission has given Secamb a ‘good’ overall rating. The ambulance […]
Every day St Michael’s Hospice needs to raise £12,000 to be able to keep on delivering its unique and vital service to local people. That’s why the hospice is always looking for new ways to raise cash and last month, for the first time, it held a Danceathon at Ore Community Centre. The event was […]
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 […]
It looks like the Station Plaza NHS walk-in centre has been saved and the local Labour party is claiming credit for the victory after a vigorous campaign by Labour and union activists. Last year health bosses had threatened to close the centre and relocate its services to the Conquest Hospital but a series of protests – […]
