Earlier this month Hastings Borough Council (HBC) held its ‘Annual Full Council’ meeting at which Nigel Sinden was re-elected as Mayor and Peter Chowney was re-elected as Leader of the Council. Mr Chowney also leads the ruling Labour group on HBC which occupies 23 of the 32 seats. Of the remainder eight are held by […]
He concedes it has been a ‘long, slow process’ but Hastings Borough Council (HBC) leader Peter Chowney says he is pleased the council stuck with its plans to build the new Hastings Country Park visitor centre out of straw. The project that will have cost in excess of £700,000 when it is complete will be, “…a […]
People who have experience of working on the shop floor ultimately make better bosses according to Gary Stevens, Managing Director of Hastings’ success story Focus SB. Mr Stevens was the latest local business leader to met with Peter Chowney who is not only leader of Hastings Borough Council but is also Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate […]
In December we carried a story detailing the level of allowances paid to members of Hastings Borough Council (HBC), the 32 men and women elected almost a year ago to represent your views on local issues. So, as we approach the first anniversary of those council elections, when all 32 seats on HBC were being […]
Britain’s welfare system is failing the most vulnerable in society according to Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings Peter Chowney who says a report just published by East Sussex Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) proves the point. Speaking in the wake of the publication of the report called It’s Just Not Fair, Mr Chowney says many of […]
Voters in Amber Rudd’s Hastings and Rye constituency are changing their mind when it comes to Brexit. At the EU referendum in June 2016 Hastings and Rye voted 56.2 per cent to leave with 43.8 per cent voting to remain. However, polling carried out by the ‘Best for Britain’ pro-EU campaign group indicates that opinion […]
Figures suggest that 83 Hastings and St Leonards children will be homeless on Christmas day a situation Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate Pater Chowney says is ‘shameful’. Research by the homeless charity Shelter has come up with the figure and the charity says that number is set to continue rising. It is a 63 per cent […]
NHS bosses are being asked to think again about their controversial decision to run down local treatment of ear, nose and throat conditions at the Conquest Hospital. Hastings and Rye Labour Party is pressing for health bosses to think again about their decision which, if implemented, would see patients from the Hastings area having to […]
Labour is calling for more fishing quota to be given to smaller fishing boats after Brexit saying it will provide a fairer deal for Britain’s hard-pressed fishermen. The party says that help for small fisheries such as Hastings is missing from the Government’s current Fisheries Bill due to be debated by MPs today. But Labour […]
