Health bosses in East Sussex highlighted challenges and showcased successes when they welcomed a leading government adviser to Hastings. Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care and National Institute for Health Research lead, visited the borough as part of a countrywide tour of local authorities to hear […]
Free beers are on offer for local men this weekend and all they have to do to claim one is take part in a Beatz Fitness dance class. “Men are always welcome to any of our classes at any time, but there seems to be such a stigma when it comes to men and dance […]
A St Leonards man is starting a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl he knew. Michael Surman 73, of Conqueror Road, St Leonards, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on yesterday after a five-day trial, for gross indecency and indecent assault on the girl, then aged between four and six, […]
Stuart Baillie first met Kate Tym and Kate Dyer more than a year ago and has been fascinated by their ‘Coffin Club’ ever since. This week he went along to a meeting to find what it’s all about… When I first heard about a group called ‘Coffin Club’ I wondered what it was all […]
Planned ‘industrial-scale’ development of solar arrays on Hastings Country Park shows Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to be ‘breathtakingly inconsistent’ and ‘reckless’ according to Friends of Hastings Country Park. The ‘Friends’ has written to Natural England, the Government’s national regulator, pointing out the inconsistencies between national environmental rules and the HBC’s planning policies on the one […]
Schools in Hastings will benefit from a £450,000 cash boost as part of Opportunity Area funding coming to Hastings and Rye. Today MP Amber Rudd will visit schools across her constituency following the announcement that Hastings will receive £450,000 to boost attendance. Ms Rudd said: “People in Hastings and Rye should know I will always fight for […]
Convicted drug dealer Allan Finn from Westfield has started a six-year sentence for his crimes following a two-day trial at Lewes Crown Court. Finn, 32, a window cleaner, had denied being concerned in the supply of crack cocaine and cannabis but on Wednesday June 12th he was found guilty. He was sentenced to six years […]
Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd was given a whistle stop tour of some of the community work being undertaken at some Marshlink stations last Saturday. The tour was organised by John Spencer of Winchelsea, one of the volunteers working for the Sussex Community Rail Partnership, the community interest company which encourages community use of […]
Buckswood School celebrated it’s annual sports and speech day on Saturday, which culminated in the graduation of 80 members of its sixth form, many of them off to study at some of the UK’s top universities. The day kicked off with the traditional leavers’ assembly in the Great Hall. Parents, students and guests were invited […]
