FOOTBALL: Up For The Cup
All football clubs, great and small, are bound to regard league matches as their bread-and-butter. Whether you’re English Premier League or Bostik League South East, it is the league schedule which determines your status in the national pyramid; and where…
Climate Change – Or Just A Good Summer?
We check the data with Hastings Met Office The official figures are in. If summer is defined as the three months of June, July and August, the 2018 season has proved to be only the second warmest overall in the…
Mixed Message From Ark
Single Sex Education Set To End In Hastings Ark is an education charity that, according to its mission statement, “exists to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in…
FOOTBALL: United Go Top
Hastings United continued their winning ways last Saturday with a comfortable 3-0 victory at Pilot Field over Phoenix Sports that puts them top of the Bostik League South East table. It’s early days, but the fifth successive victory -…
Marianne North Celebration at the Bohemia Walled Garden
On Sunday 16th September the Bohemia Walled Garden, situated in Summerfields Woods, will host a celebration of one of Hastings’ greatest historical figures, the Victorian artist, botanist and explorer Marianne North. The Garden itself was enclosed in Victorian times for…
Hot Air about Regulation
In all civilised countries there is legislation which protects tenants from summary eviction. In England it is less protective than many people think it should be. Under the Housing Act of 1988, tenants must in general be given a minimum…
GOLF “A Club Close To My Heart”
Former Pro Returns to Manage Beauport It didn’t take too long after all. We reported in these columns two weeks ago that the disastrous tenure of Chris and Kellie Hawes at the Beauport Park golf club (briefly re-branded as Hastings…
Notes From A Previous Court Appearance
One reason why Sheikh Gulzar may have felt reluctant to attend his recent tax appeal hearing in Brighton, might be the short shrift given to his evidence when he last attended the court. On that occasion, in September 2015, he…
GOLF CLOSURE: Par for the Course
A public footpath between Whatlington and Netherfield runs between fairways of what used, until three or four years ago, to be Battle Golf Club. These days occasional walkers make their way past rough clumps of shoulder-high grass on either side.…
GOLF: Not Enough Memberes? Criticise those you’ve got
Hastings & St Leonards Golf Club, formerly Beauport Park GC, was wound up and its course closed earlier this month after its owners Kellie and Chris Hawes announced ‘an extreme decrease in trade’. Their bar and restaurant which served the…