Who’s In Charge?
Arrival Of Electric Car Vehicles Lags In Hastings In the third quarter of 2015 there were just over 50,000 vehicles registered in the UK with ‘ultra-low emissions’ (ULEVs), ranging from pure electric vehicles to plug-in hybrids. Three years on, that…
2019: The Year In Team Sport
Plans for re-siting the town’s foremost sports teams remain clouded in doubt at the end of this year. Pilot Field and Horntye Park are both still scheduled for housing development, and it’s still quite unclear where, or when, its teams…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In particular she referred to the treatment of Jewish MP Luciana…
GE2019: Question Time
Many weeks of national as well as local focus on voters in the marginal constituency of Hastings & Rye (Conservative majority 346 in 2017) should come to a head next Thursday 5th December when all four candidates will enter an…
Ore Valley: HoH Bid Rejected
Regeneration company Sea Space announced on 13th November the winner of its competitive tender process for development of a housing scheme on the disused power station site in Ore Valley: not the bid made by the Heart of Hastings community…
FOOTBALL: Cup Defeats For Hastings But Credit Where It’s Due
Hastings United 2, Brighton Under-23s 3 (Sussex Senior Cup) Weymouth 1, Hastings United 0 (FA Trophy) Hastings United have suffered two cup exits in the past week. But on each occasion they gave a good account of themselves against supposedly…
Model Take-over?
At the end of last month, following a public meeting, Rye Town Council resolved to close the town’s Heritage Centre on Strand Quay including the Town Model housed there. The visitor information service would be relocated to the Town Hall…
TENNIS: Amherst Ladies On The Rise
Amherst 2, Crowborough 2 (Wilson Sandford Winter Doubles - Ladies League 2) There is a friendly but deep-seated rivalry in Hastings tennis between its two private clubs: The Green, whose courts are located in the street of that name in…
THEATRE REVIEW: The Wedding Singer
Bexhill Rocks A wedding scene is the traditional finale to comedy theatre from Shakespeare to Gavin and ; All the cast can be gathered – two main protagonists as happy couple, along with dysfunctional family members, drunk best man, disappointed…
Ore Library Re-opening, Community Centre Retained
The community group Big Local North East Hastings (BLNEH), a partnership of residents which dispenses national lottery funds, last week announced a grant of £6,000 to Ore Community Library Group to finance the re-opening of the library in Old London…