Town Deal: Last Chance To Bid
Ideas for investment projects to be funded as part of the £25m Hastings Town Deal must be submitted by next Friday (25th September). That is the deadline for “Expressions of Interest” to be received by the Town Deal Board, with…
Breaking Our Word?
Last Monday (14th September) Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, voted with the Conservative majority in the House of Commons to approve the government’s Internal Market Bill, despite admission by Northern Ireland Secretary, Brandon Lewis, that its provisions would…
End of the Pier Show
Hastings Pier was set on course for a long and empty winter last week when the borough council withdrew licensing approval for several scheduled live and DJ music events. The franchise offered by pier owner Sheikh Gulzar to local company…
TENNIS: Sussex Doubles Leagues Start – Then Stop
This winter’s Tennis Sussex (TS) men’s and women’s doubles leagues resumed at the beginning of this month as the first form of competitive tennis in the county since March. But not for long. After a decision of the TS Leagues…
BAME Survey in Hastings:
“When can I be just ‘British’?” A survey undertaken in recent weeks to report the impact of Covid-19 on “the BAME community” of Hastings and St Leonards includes among its principal findings that people labelled with this description do not…
The Two-Grand Piano No Need To Consult On Sale, Says Museum Manager
Local pianists have been surprised and disappointed to hear that Hastings Museum and Art Gallery sold off a 9-foot Estonia concert grand piano last winter for a price of around £2,000 without any consultation save within the committee that runs…
Banned from the Stand
Council Alerts Police To Outlaw Planned Hastings Protest A protest meeting organised by a local Hastings group to demonstrate opposition to government restrictions imposed under coronavirus regulations was planned to be held in Alexandra Park on Sunday 30th August –…
Sea Change: More of the Same
North Queensway site set for another £ splash On 8th July SELEP (the South East Local Enterprise Partnership, which channels both public and private funds into economic development in Essex, Kent and East Sussex) announced that it had secured £85m…
Active Travel: County Council Scolded For “Lack Of Ambition”
The stated aim of the Department for Transport (DfT) in its Emergency Active Travel Fund, amounting nationally to £250m, is “to enable more people to walk and to cycle”. The share of this sum allocated to East Sussex County Council…
GYMS: Two Gyms Emerge from Lockdown
Under guidance issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport earlier in the month, indoor gyms were permitted to reopen from Saturday 25th July. Members of the SSN gym in Battle Road were back in there early that…