Stuart Baillie has been to meet local carpenter Kevin Hitchman to find out about his passion for bees and bee-keeping and about what got him started in the hobby in the first place. I’ve never been that fond of bees, being stung by one as a child is probably what did it! So when Kevin […]
A St Leonards man is starting a ten-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl he knew. Michael Surman 73, of Conqueror Road, St Leonards, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court on yesterday after a five-day trial, for gross indecency and indecent assault on the girl, then aged between four and six, […]
Stuart Baillie first met Kate Tym and Kate Dyer more than a year ago and has been fascinated by their ‘Coffin Club’ ever since. This week he went along to a meeting to find what it’s all about… When I first heard about a group called ‘Coffin Club’ I wondered what it was all […]
Schools in Hastings will benefit from a £450,000 cash boost as part of Opportunity Area funding coming to Hastings and Rye. Today MP Amber Rudd will visit schools across her constituency following the announcement that Hastings will receive £450,000 to boost attendance. Ms Rudd said: “People in Hastings and Rye should know I will always fight for […]
Yesterday saw Sussex Police launch its latest round of recruitment for new police officers. The force has a target to increase frontline officer numbers by a net 250 by next year. In a campaign that asks: “Have you got what it takes?” Sussex Police says that ‘careers don’t come more personally rewarding that this’. “Tackling […]
There was the sound of thunder in Hastings on Sunday morning – but for once it had nothing to do with the weather writes Rob Griffin. The rumbling was due to more than 100 supercars snaking their way into town to celebrate the life of a very special little boy. Car-mad Hughie Pringle was just […]
Kevin Moore was one of Sussex most senior police officers – he was head of CID. He retired from the force at the beginning of 2018 and since then he has been pretty blunt in expressing his views about how, in his view, the force is under performing today. Last year he took part in […]
Changes are on the way to how our household waste is disposed of and street cleaning in the town will now be dealt with by Hastings Borough Council itself. But why is the council so reticent to tell us how much extra these new arrangements will cost? How glass is treated for recycling will be […]
Andy McConnell, the entertaining glass specialist from Antiques Roadshow, is giving a talk in St Leonards next month to raise funds for Sussex Wildlife Trust’s new Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Andy is local, he lives in Winchelsea, and the talk is taking place in the Masonic Hall in St Leonards on July […]
