Just days after Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced plans to tighten up on anti-social behaviour around the town MP Amber Rudd says she is “on a mission” to protect businesses. Ms Rudd has been approached by several businesses in Robertson Terrace and Carlisle Parade who have complained that anti-social behaviour has been affecting their day […]
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 […]
Alexandra Park, St Leonards Gardens and Hastings Country Park have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in the world. The three sites in Hastings and St Leonards are among a record-breaking 1,970 UK parks and green spaces and 131 in 13 other countries around the world that […]
Tighter regulations to clamp down on anti-social behaviour in and around the town come in to force this week. Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is changing its current anti-social behaviour public space protection order (PSPO) as a result of feedback organisations, businesses and councillors across the town. The changes to the antisocial behaviour PSPO were agreed […]
Sussex Wildlife Trust raised £1,200 for the Rye Harbour Discovery Centre Appeal from a hilarious and anecdote-packed ‘Evening with Andy McConnell’ held at the Masonic Hall in St Leonards on Friday. More than 100 people came to listen to Andy regale them with fascinating stories of his life, including many years with Antiques Roadshow. The […]
Asked this morning whether her seeming change of heart on a no-deal Brexit was an “elegant pivot to reality or a screaming careerist u-turn” Hastings MP Amber Rudd said she hoped it was the first. Appearing on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC 1 this morning Ms Rudd said she defied the government whip in […]
Blue Green Algae has been confirmed present in some waters in Alexandra Park, Hastings Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced this afternoon The Environment Agency confirmed earlier this week that the water at Shornden Reservoir near Clarence Road has high levels of Blue Green Algae. The algae can produce a scum that is toxic to animals and […]
A man who viciously attacked and raped a young woman he met in Hastings Old Town in the early hours of the morning has now been jailed for 13 years. Luke Smith, 27, a labourer of no fixed address was tracked down by police within hours of the offence with the help of swift forensic analysis. […]
In the late 1990s Richard Street chaired Hastings Borough Council’s John Logie Baird working party. It was tasked with looking at the creation of a John Logie Baird/TV museum in the town. Sadly those plans came to nothing but there was a small festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Baird’s first patent and the ‘Birthplace […]
