FOOTBALL: Managing Disappointment
Who would be a football manager? Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino experienced the highest of highs last week as each guided their respective teams, Liverpool and Spurs, back from the dead in Champions League semi-finals to win famous victories. Literally…
SAILING: Boat People
On Saturday 25th May, as part of the Royal Yachting Association’s annual initiative Push The Boat Out, Hastings & St Leonards Sailing Club is holding an open day. Adults and children (from age five upwards), whether complete novices or with…
Green Light in Bexhill
One beneficiary of the local political revolt in Bexhill was Green Party candidate, Polly Gray, who topped the poll in the Old Town and Worsham ward. At the last council election in 2015, Conservatives Gillian Johnson and Jacqueline Potts were…
FOOTBALL: Not Going Up
Hastings United drew a crowd of 1,123 - the biggest at Pilot Field for over six years – for their Bostik League play-off semifinal on Monday night. But for the home supporters it was as miserable an experience as if…
£25M Bid For Town Centre Funding
But Council Leader Queries Competitive Process At a meeting of the Hastings and St Leonards Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) held at the chambers of Hastings Borough Council on Monday, Director of Regeneration, Simon Hubbard, gave a presentation of the council’s…
The Squeeze On Landlords
Hugh Sullivan examines whether the government’s increasing regulation of the private rental market will actually benefit tenants in the manner it claims In an era of low economic returns on mainstream investments, historically low interest rates and tax hikes on…
ROWING: Ruling The Waves
Formed in 1868, Hastings Rowing Club may not be quite the oldest sporting institution in town - some form of cricket was being played by the Priory Club at the Central Cricket Ground from 1864 - but it can legitimately…
GOLF: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Roger Hyder, director of Beauport Park Golf Club, is back where he started his professional career. In his early 20s he was senior assistant pro here before being headhunted to the East Sussex National in Uckfield. Now, having made a…
Dog Attacks: A Weakness In The Law?
It happened like a scene out of a horror movie and was duly splashed across the Daily Mail last week: the art-collecting hedge fund owner of a Gothic mansion deep in the Sussex countryside opening his front door on a…
Sore Valley
Hastings Council loses out on £700,000 funding for community housing project Community Land Trust company Heart of Hastings (HoH) has occupied the site of the former Broomgrove Power Station and surrounding green spaces in Ore Valley for the past three…