Our serious times require serious people says Hastings MP Amber Rudd and that’s why she has decided to back Jeremy Hunt as the future leader of the Conservative Party – and Prime Minister It has been hard to miss Ms Rudd on TV, radio and in the press today as she has thrown her wholehearted […]
THE East Sussex Football League (ESFL) will start the new season in September with 11 new teams, most of them based in Hastings. ESFL Chairman Gary Wenham is thrilled and says there is still time if more clubs are interested. The news of the additional teams joining the ESFL follows a publicity campaign back in […]
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for public and political services. A statement from Sussex says: “Since being elected in 2012, Katy Bourne has used her role to bring police and communities together to better understand and address local policing issues. “She arrived with […]
There’s a new community creative café and exhibition space set to launch on Grand Parade, St Leonards on Sea next week. The official launch of OPEN, a new community endeavour will be marked with a photographic exhibition by local photographer Andrew Grainger. OPEN, at 19 Grand Parade, is opening as a community-run creative café and […]
A man who committed what one policeman described as the, “most violent rape that I have ever investigated” will be sentenced for his crimes on July 12th. Luke Smith, 27, a labourer of no fixed address, viciously attacked and raped a young woman he met in Hastings Old Town in the early hours of a […]
The Royal Mint is reissuing a set of British military history 50p pieces and included among them is one to commemorate the 1066 Battle of Hastings. In addition to the local conflict the set includes 50p coins commemorating D-Day, the Victoria Cross and the Battle of Britain – all the newly minted coins carry a […]
Analysis of recent opinion polls says that in a general election Amber Rudd would be one of a number of high profile Conservative MPs who would lose their seats in the House of Commons. But before Hastings and Rye Labour Party start to celebrate the news it’s not looking good for their man Peter Chowney […]
Ore Community Land Trust (OCLT) has been granted £20,200 by Big Local North East Hastings to progress its plans to buy three plots of land in Speckled Wood in Ore. Speckled Wood covers roughly 13 acres of woodland in the upper Ore Valley which is the last remaining large green lung in the area. For […]
Hastings Borough Council’s planners are performing to a high standard with a low number of appeals and a good success record according to the Planning Advisory Service. HBC’s planning service was recently reviewed by the Planning Advisory Service and they were very positive about the planning service HBC provides and considers it to be ‘running well’. The […]
