Ark Merger: Opinion Split
Following a six-week consultation process reviewing the proposal to merge Ark William Parker and Ark Helenswood Academies, the Ark company has released results of an online and paper-based survey conducted locally. There were 107 responses: the results are set out…
FOOTBALL: Turn Off The Pilot Light
Hastings United want new stadium on the playing fields of Tilekiln The proposal to build a new sports complex for Hastings at Combe Haven, which was floated with such pride and optimism in many quarters two years ago, appears to…
Pier Plans: ‘Lord’ Brett Explains
Sheikh Abid Gulzar, owner of Hastings Pier, submitted long-anticipated planning and listed building consent applications to Hastings Borough Council (HBC) last week for enhancement of facilities on the pier. The statutory notices appear among others in the adjacent column of…
Showdown At Bromley On Remembrance Day
Hastings United had won six out of seven Bostik League games this season and lay fourth in the table with several games in hand on teams above them prior to last Tuesday’s home match against Greenwich Borough. However, league leaders…
The Continuity Of Sport
A century of sports reporting in Hastings Sport is generally a conservative cultural form. The aims of running faster, jumping higher, showing greater strength - citius, altius, fortius, as the Olympic motto has it - haven’t changed essentially from…
FOOTBALL: Another Saturday, Another Cup Round
Heroics at Leiston, now it’s another 220-mile round trip to Hitchin It’s not often that a team has three players sent off in a match, yet receives universal plaudits across the country for its performance. That was the case in…
House-Building In Hastings
Public Inquiry To Test Council Figures Few observers will have been surprised when earlier this year a planning application made by a Hove property company BBCN to build nine houses on an area of scrub land to the south of…
RUGBY: H&B Leave It Late (Again)
In their opening game of the season on 8 September Hastings & Bexhill achieved an astonishing 26-26 draw with Park House by scoring two tries, the second of them converted, in the last two minutes of the contest. A home…
GP HOURS EXTENDED: But Not For Walk-In Patients
By Hugh Sullivan and Lindsey Williams David Cameron’s Conservative Party manifesto of 2015 promised seven-day access to NHS services. And shortly after the election was won, then Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt launched a ‘New Deal for General Practice’ which promised additional funds…
A Day in the Life of a Weather Volunteer
The weather kiosk on St Leonards seafront, erected between the pier and Warrior Square, has been there since the 1930s – part of Sydney Little’s grand seafront scheme. Maintenance of the structure is supported by Hastings Borough Council, and all…