On October 8th the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) warned that ‘rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ will be required in order to limit global temperature to 1.5oC above preindustrial levels; and that we have only 12 years in which we can realistically accomplish this. Even half a degree above that […]
Kate Tym and John Knowles of It’s Not Us Theatre Company are back for a third year with their sell-out Christmas show, A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol. “Every year we get requests from our audiences to put it on again,” says Kate, “they tell us it wouldn’t be Christmas without it and we are more […]
When he was the town’s Mayor Richard Stevens launched his now famous sock appeal for the Surviving Christmas Charity – that was in 1994 and this year Richard has decided it’s time to hand over the reins of the appeal and the current Deputy Mayor, Councillor James Bacon is the man who will now be […]
Hastings MP Amber Rudd was let down by her department’s civil servants in the run-up to her resignation as Home Secretary in April/ Ms Rudd had been under pressure over the ‘Windrush Scandal’ before quitting her cabinet position after ‘inadvertently’ telling MPs that her department did not use targets for deporting illegal immigrants. But an […]
Who would ever have believed that a Chancellor of the Exchequer would put more monetary value on potholes than education? While recognising the potential hazard created by untreated potholes – to cars, their passengers and to cyclists of course, it should not be more important than funding our schools. In this week’s budget, Philip Hammond […]
Photos courtesy of Darren McCann, Mark Dockerill and Sid Saunders Have you taken some great pictures of the Hastings and St Leonards or events that are going on…? Just email them to tellmeyourstory@hastingsinfocus.co.uk and we’ll share them with the town. Have you taken some great pictures of the Hastings and St Leonards or events that are going […]
It’s perhaps unsurprising that Hastings’ Conservative MP and the man who will be her direct rival when the next General Election is held hold divergent views when it comes to their assessments of yesterday’s Budget speech by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond. While Ms Rudd says the Budget means, “…more money in the pockets […]
Bringing the Bayeux Tapestry ‘home’ to Hastings and winning UNESCO World Heritage Site status for the town were on the agenda when Hastings & St. Leonards (Civic) Society held an open meeting earlier this month. Silverhill Councillor Margi O’Callaghan is fronting a campaign to win support for her plan to bring the tapestry to Hastings. It was […]
Pressure is continuing to build from all sides over the effectiveness of Sussex Police with Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings, Peter Chowney, the latest to voice concerns. Speaking this weekend Mr Chowney said he wants greater priority given to funding officers for front line policing duties: “Front line police officers do not seem to […]
