A campaign call has gone out to keep Hastings Country Park free from ‘industrial scale’ solar development. Tonight the cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) will consider whether to commit to spending more than £80,000 to develop a detailed business case for going ahead with a project that would see up to ten acres of […]
South Coast Athletico 7 Orington 0 The first match weekend of 2019 saw South Coast Athletico welcome Orington in this season’s return league fixture. While the Christmas break provided a chance for the Chopbacks to recharge their batteries the players also missed playing football and Saturday afternoon couldn’t come quickly enough. From the first whistle, Coast took the game by the scruff of […]
Heathfield & Waldron 5 St Leonards CP 43 (HT 17-0) Ports travelled to Heathfield having beaten them 73-14 earlier in the season, but aware of the fact that a larger and better equipped Heathfield team would face them. Ports, like the hosts, had a sizeable team and both teams knew a win was important to […]
We’ve enjoyed meeting people, talking to them and finding out their story and as part of our review of 2018 we are revisiting some great profiles of local sporting heroes. There’s Stu and Tarnya Allen who are helping put British wrestling back on the map, Ross Garnett who was taking swimming lessons in 2017 and […]
Julia Hilton, secretary of the Hastings Green Party has been writing a regular column for Hastings In Focus since September. Earlier in the year Julia was one of the candidates who stood for election to Hastings Borough Council under the Green Party banner, although the party failed to win any seats they made an impact on […]
No review of the year would be complete without showcasing where it all began. Riley Davis is an inspiring little boy who just wanted to help others and he set himself the goal of doing 1,000 burpees – no one’s favourite exercise – to raise cash to help Dom’s Food Mission. When we heard about […]
There’s a rather anonymous white marble statue in West Marina Gardens and back in April we heard that local man Ian Jarman was raising money to preserve it. But what was the statue all about, even people who had lived all their lives in Hastings and St Leonards were far from sure what it represented […]
‘Substantial’ recruitment of Police Community Support Officers and Police Officers is on the cards for Sussex in the wake of a government pledge to give police forces across the UK almost £1billion of additional finding. But a spokesman for the Labour party in Hastings told Hastings In Focus it’s was all ‘too little too late.’ […]
Local MP Amber Rudd has welcomed the news that councils will receive a real terms increase in funding for vital local services. The provisional local government finance settlement, published yesterday, gives councils a real-terms increase in core spending power for 2019 to 2020 – up from £45.1 billion to £46.4 billion. MsRudd says: “The £1.3 […]
