Women’s Football
‘U’s Look To Lewes Phenomenon Back in January, Hastings United announced that they were going to set up a new women’s team for the 2020/21 season. CEO Billy Wood said then: “I want to make it clear, this isn’t Hastings…
Active Travel In Hastings
Are Councils Failing Cyclists? From mid-March, when PM Boris Johnson closed schools and urged people to work from home and avoid non-essential travel, the volume of road traffic fell sharply across the country. It plummeted further when full lockdown was ; One…
No Dissent
Labour Council Leader Removes Tories From Cabinet On Monday 8th June Hastings Borough Council leader Kim Forward announced a reshuffle of cabinet portfolio holders. The new list is set out in full here. The most significant change was the removal…
Cross-Channel Migration –The Fallacy
As those who campaign on behalf of asylum-seeking refugees point out, there is a fundamental fallacy at the heart of the Home Office policy spelt out by Immigration Minister Chris Philp (see the parliamentary exchanges here). Mr Philp refers to…
CRICKET: Back To The Middle
Amateur sport of any kind is still only allowed nationally under the conditions of the coronavirus pandemic if it involves a gathering of no more than six players and there is no close contact between any of them. But those…
Class Divide
The majority of schools in East Sussex have stayed open throughout the coronavirus pandemic for the benefit of some vulnerable children and the families of key workers. Over 2,000 have attended physically on some days, according to Cllr Keith Glazier,…
TENNIS: On the Rebound
Before 8am on the morning of 13th May, residents in homes around Amherst Gardens, Hastings may have woken to sounds they hadn’t heard for nearly two months – the crisp snap of rackets on balls, the duller thud of the…
Life’s A Beach!
But Hastings Councillors Are Not Amused Lockdown regulations were further relaxed from yesterday (Monday 1st June) throughout England, with up to six people from different households permitted to meet together outdoors. Picnics, barbecues and sporting activities may take place both…
GOLF: Out Of The Rough
In Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander complains that “the course of true love never did run smooth.” Roger Hyder, director of Beauport Park Golf Club since September 2018, could be forgiven for transposing the saying: his love of a true…
Retail Reopening
Council Given Fund To Maintain Social Distancing Shops selling clothes, shoes, toys, furniture, books and electronics; plus tailors, auction houses, photography studios and indoor markets will all be permitted to reopen on 15th June, subject to completing a prior ‘risk…