Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has led a successful bid to the government for money to help reduce homelessness across East Sussex. It applied for a grant from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Accessing the Private Rented Sector initiative on behalf of Eastbourne, Lewes, Rother and Wealden Councils. The project will work with […]
Nick Perry stood as a parliamentary candidate in Hastings and Rye for the Liberal Democrats, when he saw a photograph of local youngsters taking part in the recent pro-Brexit demonstration he says he was ‘sad and disappointed’ and worries that, ‘we have failed these young people…’ Writing today in the Lib Dem Voice he shares […]
Delegates from all over Europe descended on Hastings recently to discuss ideas for sustainable, low-carbon public transport systems that can help boost the tourist trade, Delegates from Greece, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Hungary, Cyprus and the UK countries met in the council chamber in Hastings with the subject of low-carbon transport systems for visitors […]
One of the most notable Britpop/Rock bands from the 1990s is playing in Hastings on Friday – Republica is hedlining at The Crypt. The band notched up sales of over 3m albums, had top five success in the UK, US and Europe and achieved platinum sales worldwide – their biggest selling single in the UK […]
Pictures courtesy of Peter Norman HASTINGS Pier reopened to the public this morning. Owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar arrived shortly before 11am to find a film crew among those waiting to greet him. Opening the gates he said: “I am delighted that Hastings Pier is once again open to the public and look forward to seeing […]
White Liars is a one-act play first performed in 1967 originally titled White Lies, it was written by Peter Shaffer to precede the 1967 Broadway production of his farce Black Comedy. White Liars revolves around Sophie Lemberg, an eccentric and disillusioned fortune teller – who imagines herself to be a baroness of the Holy Roman […]
Amber Rudd stands accused this morning of being one of four senior cabinet ministers who are… ‘now driving Britain towards its first-ever Marxist Prime Minister’. In today’s Mail on Sunday, political pundit Dan Hodges says: “…members of her own Cabinet, who May thinks have been professing public loyalty but engaging in malicious private subterfuge. “And […]
Sittingbourne XV 5 St Leonards CP 112 With the league ended Ports headed off to Kent to face a Sittingbourne Social XV. The long journey did have an impact though and Ports could only muster 13 people to travel and Ports were unsure of the quality of opposition and despite taking an early lead through […]
The Stables Theatre celebrates the 60th anniversary of its opening this year and there is a packed programme of events to celebrate the occasion. The history of the theatre and how it came in to existence in the first place is a fascinating one. Here, in the first of a series of features about The […]
