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…
Councillors Clash over Harrow Lane Housing plans: “Ghetto”, “Nimbyism” & “Panama accounts”
Labour and Conservative councillors traded insults at a full (and live) meeting of Hastings Borough Council last week as they debated the council’s plans to build 200 new homes on the site of Harrow Lane playing fields. Leader of the…
That Penalty Shoot-Out
Roy Keane, never too concerned in his playing career if he took his opponent out along with the ball, opened hostilities amongst ITV’s post-match pundits. Discussing the decision to give England’s 19-year-old rookie Bukayo Saka the crucial fifth penalty shot…
Guardians of the Night
Council, Police debate conditions for reopening town nightlife As national government prepares to relax Covid regulations to allow the resumption of indoor hospitality without social distancing from 19th July, two licensing committees of Hastings Borough Council have been debating the…
Landlord Licence Scheme Discarded
In what lead housing councillor Andy Batsford describes as “a massive dark and backwards step in the protection of our local families”, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, has refused to renew the landlord…
“Fuller Must Fall”
Anti-racist campaigners seek biography ‘rewrite’ 1066 Country’s official website for tourism and travel information describes Fuller’s Follies, bizarre brick and stone structures erected in and around the village of Brightling outside Battle, as “testaments to the eccentricity of John ‘Mad…
Targeting The Unvaccinated
Council Urges “More Personalised Approach” According to figures supplied by the Sussex Health and Care Partnership, the percentage of over 50s in the county who had been jabbed at least once with a Covid-19 vaccine by the beginning of June…
72 flats proposed for Ocean House
The freehold owners of Ocean House, the 13-floor office block which towers over Warrior Square railway station, have submitted plans to Hastings Borough Council to convert all but the bottom two floors into residential flats. The proposed design lays out…
CRICKET
The Finch Factor 12th June:Hastings & St Leonards Priory 250-8; Haywards Heath 224-9 19th June:Brighton & Hove 181; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 104 The Hastings side remains with only one Premier League victory this summer after contrasting games over the…
Indoors versus Outdoors: the Cultural Impact
Last Monday 21st June was supposed to be the day that all coronavirus restrictions were lifted in England – dubbed “Freedom Day” by mainstream media ; The extension for another four weeks of rules on social distancing, and on numbers…