FOOTBALL: Agutter – A Forthright Interviewee
Hugh Sullivan asked questions of United manager Chris Agutter shortly before the match with Sittingbourne last Saturday. He is never afraid to give straight answers HS: You’ve explained in the past that your style of playing out from the back…
FOOTBALL: United In Cruise Mode
On a cold afternoon last Saturday Hastings United consolidated their second place in the Bostik League with a 5-0 home victory over Sittingbourne. All five goals came in the first half, including a hat-trick of headers by midfielder Jack Dixon. …
An “Appalling Process”: Political Opposition Gathers
On 3 January Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye, launched a petition with to challenge HBC’s proposal to install two solar farms at the Milking Parlour within Hastings Country Park. At the time of our going to press it…
Sports Review 2018
The most celebrated sporting moment for Hastings in 2018 came arguably on New Year’s Day when former local electrician, Rob Cross, who had turned professional less than 12 months before, won the William Hill World Darts Championship at London’s Alexandra…
Getting Hastings To Work
The community interest company The Work People, a re-branding of the Hastings Works recruitment and training enterprise centred in Robertson Street, has secured new funding totalling £107,000 from a joint venture initiative put together by four housing organisations. These four…
Friends of the Pier: “We’ll be here when the time comes”
Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP), the community group whose bid to buy the pier in June was unsuccessful, remain buoyant despite the withdrawal from frontline action of two leading activists, Jess Steele and Adam Wide. PICTURE: Susan McFie At a…
HORNTYE: Cricket, Hockey Clubs Stay Put
A year ago it all looked so promising. The directors of Hastings United FC and trustees of the Horntye estate were proceeding with a joint venture to sell off their respective existing sports grounds for housing development in exchange for…
Protest over Hastings Firm’s Links to US Child Detention
Around 12 activists from Global Justice Bexhill and Hastings demonstrated in protest last Friday 23rd November outside the Castleham offices of General Dynamics UK over the role of its parent company in the detention of refugee children in the United…
Think Big, Act Local
North-east Hastings is not an obviously distinct neighbourhood. With a population of around 8,000 residents, it ranges from Down Farm and Red Lake at the north end to the streets around Priory Road on West Hill to the south. Educationally…
College Proposes To Cut 40 Jobs But No Frontline Teachers At Risk
In March, Sussex Coast College in Hastings announced that it was merging with Sussex Downs in Eastbourne, Lewes and Newhaven to form a new sixth form and adult learning centre, East Sussex College Group. It retains existing campuses – in…