Cavalier Ports halted under lights

Crawley XV 31 Ports 21 (HT 10-14) Ports made their annual journey north to face a Crawley XV under lights. As is traditional Ports opened up their squad to guests from other teams, this year Mike Parker and Max Thomason from Streatham and Croydon and Dan O’Rourke from Bromley pulled on the Ports’ shirt as […]

Staff morale reaches all time low at Hastings council says UNISON

Morale within Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is at its lowest level ever according to UNISON – the union that represents staff there. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) the council will officially set its budget for the coming year. It’s a budget that calls for cuts in the number of staff and increases in charges for many of […]

Chopbacks roll into the final

South Coast Athletico 4 Rock A Nore 1 Saturday February 16th could not come quicjkly enough for South Coast Athletico. It didn’t just mean another football match, it meant the chance to secure the team’s place into the ESFL Wisden’s Sports Challenge Cup final. But first they had to take on higher league opposition Rock-a-Nore at South Coast’s Bexhill College ground. Both […]

Off-colour Ports shaded out

Heathfield III 19 St Leonards CP 10 (HT 5-10) After two convincing wins against Heathfield, Ports travelled confidently yesterday with a large squad. Heathfield were strengthened and showed greater steel, but it was clear from the off that Ports were not reaching the form they reached in their two previous wins. While Ports were structured […]

This week, next week – wot’s ‘appenin’ in ‘astings?

So what’s been interesting the people of Hastings and St Leonards this week? It was a late entry to this week’s chart but the news that Hastings Borough Council  member Dany Louise had resigned from the Labour party citing the on-going row about how the party’s leadership is handling it apparent antisemitism problem is the […]

Making a difference to people’s lives! An impact award for making an IMPACT

When Seaview won its GSK/Kings Funds Impact Award last year – one of only eight organisations in the country to do so the judges said of it: “This charity does hugely valuable work in supporting its local community. We were impressed by how it has a big reach despite being relatively small. It shows an […]

Hastings’ Greens say council’s climate change motion ‘lacks ambition’

Local Greens say they’re ‘disappointed’ at the borough council’s ‘lack of ambition’ when it comes to fighting climate change. And Hastings and Rye Green Party is also unhappy that despite the impetus for the motion coming from them in the first place, neither the motion, nor the proposer, council leader Peter Chowney, or seconder, Councillor Maya […]

It’s unanimous – borough will be carbon neutral by 2030

Last night Hastings Borough Council (HBC) voted unanimously to make the town carbon neutral by 2030 – putting tackling climate change at the heart of council policy. Sustainable energy generation on council land could see the council supplying 30 per cent of the town’s electricity in 12 years time. HBC leader Peter Chowney told councillors […]

Experts fear lack of experience will cost councils dear

Councils that dabble in the property business often pay too much for the properties they are buying because they lack experience and are seen by estate agents as ‘buyers of last resort’ according to one property expert. His comments come as there were further warnings in the national press this weekend that owners of commercial […]