Wisden Junior Cup Quarter Final J.C. Tackleway II – 1 South Coast Athletico – 7 A potential Semi Final place in the ESFL Wisden Sports Challenge Cup beckoned for South Coast Athletico this weekend. Standing in their way was higher Division Two opposition; J.C. Tackleway 2nds who hosted the tie. The game was a stalemate for the first 20 minutes […]
Teenager Lucy Young is tired of seeing all teenagers being tarred with the same brush; that brush being one of negativity. When she looks around at her friends and peers The Claverham Community College student doesn’t recognise some of the stereotypes of teenagers that are portrayed online. Here, in her first piece for Hastings In […]
It’s budget time for local councils! In the coming weeks Hastings Borough Council (HBC) and East Sussex County Council (ESCC) will be debating the finer points of how to spend their budget in the coming year and of more significance to local residents they will be taking decisions on how to raise that money. At […]
Local MP Amber Rudd has written an open letter to her constituents assuring them that she is, “…working to find a Brexit that can command a majority in Parliament and protects jobs, businesses and opportunities in Hastings and Rye.” Ms Rudd issued the letter this afternoon following the government’s crushing and historic defeat in the […]
The last decade has left local authorities strapped for cash, by 2020 they will have lost 60 pence from every pound they were allocated by central government a decade earlier, according to the Local Government Association. Many councils, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) among them, have turned to the acquisition of commercial property in a bid […]
Wisden Junior Cup second Round Hawkhurst Utd II 0 South Coast Athletico 5 Cup days are always special and with a quarter final place in the ESFL Wisden Sports Cup up for grabs the lads of South Coast Athletico were buzzing to get on the pitch away to Hawkhurst 2nds. These teams had already met twice in the league yielding a […]
St Leonards CP 19 East Grinstead 49 (HT 7-12) While the score suggests otherwise Ports faced the league leaders and for 70 minutes went head to head with them. Ports had a large squad, as did their visitors, but knew they would be facing a well-drilled and organised team. Grinstead had the early possession and […]
Owners of empty houses in Hastings could face a doubling of their council tax if the borough council uses new government rules to their fullest extent. If approved, the charge which is being considered as part of the council’s 2019/20 budget, would apply to properties that have been empty and unfurnished for more than two […]
Most Sunday afternoons I have developed a habit of going along to the FILO in Hastings Old Town and spending a few hours poring over a new novel with a few pints of Churches – FILO’s best bitter. This Sunday was no different, except as I commit myself wholeheartedly to Dry January I exchanged the […]
