FOOTBALL
“Don’t Get Too Emotional” Gary Elphick, appointed as Hastings United manager in mid-November, has taken them to the top of the Isthmian League South-East Division, though a run of eight wins in nine games ended last Saturday. Hugh Sullivan questions…
Channel crossings: Government and Royal Navy at odds?
According to Border Force statistics, nearly a thousand people crossed the Channel into England on small boats during the first three weeks of January – that’s around three times the rate of arrival for the whole of January 2021. Almost…
Green Lights for Brownfield Housing
Total of 361 homes get planning approval at Ashdown and Darwell Close A meeting of Hastings Borough Council’s planning committee last week resolved to grant planning permission for the plans of developer Danescroft Land to build 151 housing units plus…
Art to replace bowls in the park
Arts on Prescription (AoP), a local community interest company which offers art and creative activities as a therapeutic means of mental health support, is to be awarded a tenancy by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) of a venue in Alexandra Park…
Union Council Pushes For Pay Rises
Hastings & District Trades Union Council, which represents around 2,000 members spread over 11 union branches within the local economy, is calling on all workers to put in substantial pay claims in the coming weeks and months. The justification: to…
Covid Winter Plan
For East Sussex: Vax and vax again Figures announced last week by the county’s Director of Public Health Darrell Gale confirmed that East Sussex is recording its highest levels of Covid-19 infection since the peak of the pandemic last December/January. The…
Newts Way: “A beautiful building but it belongs elsewhere”
Two alternative designs for new housing in Hollington, one for a single three-storey house, the other for a terrace of four houses, have been rejected by majority decisions of the planning committee of Hastings Borough Council. Allegations of racial prejudice…
Plan B or not Plan B?
Local council and Public Health chief call for cautionary action In September the national government revealed its ‘Plan A’ to combat the further spread of Covid-19 infections. It involved no further lockdowns and few social restrictions within the UK’s borders,…
Tongue Tide
The flow and ebb of English Language teaching in Hastings The national accreditation system operated by the British Council to maintain quality assured teaching standards for English language teaching currently lists 46 institutions based along the Channel coast between Plymouth…
FOOTBALL
Agutter Quits – a retrospective The comings and goings of football managers are everyday news on national sports pages. But the sudden, apparently unilateral, departure of Hastings United manager and academy head Chris Agutter from Pilot Field after more than…