What Next?
It was less than three months ago, on 31st December, that China alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to several cases of an unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people. The virus was unknown. Three weeks…
Conquest Care Rated ‘Outstanding’
The Conquest Hospital has been rated “outstanding” by the national health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following detailed inspections made last November and December the CQC has issued a report praising the hospital’s overall standard of…
Transport Futures For The South-East: More Road-Building?
Last October, Transport for the South East (TfSE), a forum combining leading local government councillors across southern counties from Hampshire to Kent, with senior representatives of Network Rail and Highways England, unveiled a draft document for consultation –‘Strategy for the…
FOOTBALL: TOP SPOT
Pope Penalty Double Puts ‘U’s Back In Front Hastings United 2, Whitstable Town 1 Ben Pope scored his 24th and 25th goals of the season, both from the penalty spot, as Hastings United came from behind to notch a vital…
A Cycle Of Misdirected Funding?
The government’s statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy published in April 2017 set out the following aims for increase in national cycling activity: • By 2020, increase activity while reducing the number of cyclists killed or seriously injured on England’s…
ARCHERY: The Oldest Sport?
Cave dwellers carved them in pictures, Stone Age tribes hunted with them, they were key weapons for ancient armies in battle. Whatever else they symbolise, bows and arrows embody a technology that’s been superseded. Not that they don’t still carry…
Back Pedallers
Cycle Groups Protest At Diversion Of Council Funding Cycle East Sussex, a coalition of cyclist groups in Hastings, Rother and Eastbourne, is demanding that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) reinstate £5 million of public funding previously allocated to local cycling…
Solar “Harm”?
Planners Challenge Roof Panels In Ore The planning department of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has raised objections to solar panels being installed on the south-facing roofs of a church in Ore and of a nearby school, on the grounds that…
ARCHERY: I Join The Bowmen
Storms Ciara and Dennis have been shrieking overhead on recent Saturday afternoons at Horntye, lashing the South Saxons hockey players on the astro turf outside with horizontal rain. Not quite the best conditions for field sports, you would think. But…
Park Life In The 21st Century
The 100 or so chalet owners of High Beech Chalet Park are individual freeholders, as per the history of the site set out above. The collective services which the site requires - maintenance of the driveways, steps and walkways; grass…