Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the past few weeks. Politicians refer to them as migrants. Supportive…
Private Housing Boom, Public Dissent
Detailed plans for the building of 151 new homes plus a community centre and major supermarket on the former Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) office-block at Ashdown House were lodged by developers Danescroft on the Hastings Borough Council planning…
FOOTBALL
Hastings Notch First League Win 28th August:Ramsgate 3,Hastings United 2; 30th August:Hastings United 2,Whitehawk 0 Hastings United experienced mixed fortunes in Isthmian League encounters over the Bank Holiday weekend, going down to a surprise 2-3 defeat at Ramsgate last Saturday…
Pride and Prejudice
Why Town Mayor was barred from LGBT+ event Last Sunday’s Hastings Pride festival was billed as a major event in the town’s calendar – the more so because of cancellation not only of the 2020 event but also of the…
Let Us Build If You Won’t
Local Labour Party goes national over land banking ‘scandal’ The Hastings & Rye Constituency Labour Party (CLP) aims to table a motion at the national party conference in Brighton next month calling for local authorities to be given strengthened compulsory…
County Council Claims Credit For Carbon Drop
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) issued a press release last week headed “Emissions drop as climate efforts continue”. It declared that its own carbon emissions have fallen by over 60 per cent since 2008. It also reported them as falling…
GP Appointments in Hastings: A Survey
Major discrepancies in patients’ experience of access to GP appointments in Hastings and St Leonards are revealed by an independent survey undertaken by Ipsos Mori on behalf of NHS England. It was released earlier this month by Healthwatch East Sussex,…
No Jabs Please, We’re a Control Group
More than a hundred residents of Hastings who have not been vaccinated in the Covid-19 mass vaccination roll-out have signed up to a digital study programme which will treat them as a control group for comparative evaluation of medium and…
Energy Partner Slams Seachange
Sustainable energy co-op company Energise Sussex Coast, which partners Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in pursuing the latter’s net zero carbon target, has filed a formal letter of objection to the plans lodged by Seachange Sussex for development of a commercial…
Body Count
HUGH SULLIVAN reviews The Duke’s Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at Fairlight Hall. Down at the Capulet family crypt in Verona which doubles as Friar Laurence’s cell, the pile of bodies is mounting. Tybalt’s corpse has been…