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Abuse Recovery Roadmap Brings Business Award
By Suzanne Kelly Ronia Fraser, who is a resident of St Leonards, has been chosen as ‘UK Business Woman of the Year 2021’ for her consultancy in Narcissistic Abuse Recovery.…
Bonfire to be re-lit, stories to be re-told
After cancellation of all customary civic events in Hastings under Covid-19 conditions last autumn, several are renewed this month for the first time in two years. Re-enactment of the 1066…
Local group campaigns in support of Climate Bill
The Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE) Bill, which is due to have its second reading in Parliament on 29th October, has been drafted by scientists, legal experts, ecological economists and…
OPINION: We Need This Bill To Pass
By Richard Price Nearly 14,000 scientists recently warned that Earth’s vital signs are rapidly worsening. On 9th August, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a press release to…
Fudging the Climate Issues
Well-established climate change campaigners Divest East Sussex (DES) designed a symbolic artefact this week to make a political point to East Sussex County Council (ESCC) – a giant fudge ;…
Palestine Twinning?
The Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) are proposing that Hastings should enter into a new twinning arrangement with Al-Mawasi, a town on the southern coast of the Gaza…
Southeastern Trains Nationalised
The main line train service between Hastings and Charing Cross, and all other services currently forming the South-eastern rail network, will be run from next week as a nationalised operation…
Council To Spend Another £0.5m on Harold Place Restaurant Build
At a cabinet meeting of Hastings Borough Council on 4th October, councillors accepted a recommendation from chief finance officer Peter Grace to increase the budget for erection of a major…
WANTED: Policy to Create Homes
A newly formed campaign group, the Hastings Rental Health Group (‘Rental Health’), is seeking to promote cross-party discussions between the Labour-controlled Hastings Borough Council and local Conservative MP Sally-Ann Hart…
Zooming in on the Asylum Debate
By Nick Pelling In the wake of the recent Sanctuary festival, two online meetings have been organised, in order to allow people in Hastings to get a fuller understanding of…
No Show at the Pavilion
A retrospective art exhibition celebrating the Rock Against Racism movement of the 1970s and 80s, which was first due to be shown at the De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) in…
Time running out for North Queensway project?
The development project being promoted by Seachange Sussex at North Queensway with £ of public funds allocated by SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership) may be running out of ;…
Who cares?
Foreign Recruits Sought As Unvaccinated Carers Leave “Exhausted” Workforce Multiple staffing problems in adult social care in East Sussex were laid bare in a recent meeting of the County Council’s…
Roadkill fails to trigger traffic measures
Residents on a road in St Leonards that has become a ‘rat-run’ for speeding traffic since the opening of the Bexhill Link Road have found that the Highways department of…
Walking the Old Town:
A Battle of Blue, Red and Green The tarmac yard of the Roebuck Industrial Estate adjoining Old Brewery Yard in Hastings Old Town is the venue for a current legal…
Care costs: sliding scales
Medical treatment under the NHS is supposedly free at the point of delivery for all UK citizens. Adult social care, however, is ; In essence, individuals assessed as needing care…
Boat People
Political Clashes over Peril at Sea Well over a thousand people – men, women, children and babies – have crossed the English Channel from France on small boats during the…
Private Housing Boom, Public Dissent
Detailed plans for the building of 151 new homes plus a community centre and major supermarket on the former Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) office-block at Ashdown House were…
OPINION
Asset-stripped: my father’s experience By Peter Jenner My father left school at 14. He has worked all his life, he was encouraged to buy his council house, he was encouraged…
OPINION
An Unfair Levy By Rosie Brocklehurst Ostensibly, the Government has striven to fulfil a manifesto commitment to sort Social Care by breaking a manifesto commitment on no rises in taxation.…
Hospital Discharges: Should Do Better
A survey undertaken this year in East Sussex amongst NHS hospital patients shows an almost 50% dissatisfaction rating in respect of their discharge experience. The survey was carried out between…
Conquest Expands Emergency Space
The Emergency Department of the Conquest Hospital is set to be extended and “upgraded” at the cost of £ Construction and property services company Willmott Dixon Interiors, based in Letchworth,…
MP Hart Takes to the Channel with Greenpeace
Hastings & Rye MP Sally Ann Hart enjoyed her own Channel voyage a couple of weeks ago as guest on board the Greenpeace vessel Sea Beaver along with Eastbourne MP…
Southern Water Get Red Flag Treatment
A red flag on a beach generally signals hazardous bathing conditions. That’s exactly what a new activist movement, the Hastings & St Leonards Clean Water Action Group, meant in raising…
Hastings welcomes Afghan refugees
By Ben Cornwell Following the withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan and the precipitate collapse of the regime they were supporting, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is among many across Britain…
What Next for Bowling Green?
The former bowling green and clubhouse in Alexandra Park, which was home to the Alexandra club for well over a century (and, in recent years, to Clive Vale bowls club…
Vaccine hesitancy or desire for escape?
By Ben Cornwell Everyone over the age of 18 in England has had a Covid-19 vaccine available to them for the past two months. As of 18th August government figures…
Pride and Prejudice
Why Town Mayor was barred from LGBT+ event Last Sunday’s Hastings Pride festival was billed as a major event in the town’s calendar – the more so because of cancellation…
Let Us Build If You Won’t
Local Labour Party goes national over land banking ‘scandal’ The Hastings & Rye Constituency Labour Party (CLP) aims to table a motion at the national party conference in Brighton next…
County Council Claims Credit For Carbon Drop
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) issued a press release last week headed “Emissions drop as climate efforts continue”. It declared that its own carbon emissions have fallen by over 60…
Oval Concert Turns Litter Fest
A music event held on the afternoon and evening of Saturday 7th August, the Southern Sunset Festival, left Bohemia Road and surrounding areas festooned with rubbish. Local residents have complained…
GP Appointments in Hastings: A Survey
Major discrepancies in patients’ experience of access to GP appointments in Hastings and St Leonards are revealed by an independent survey undertaken by Ipsos Mori on behalf of NHS England.…
No Jabs Please, We’re a Control Group
More than a hundred residents of Hastings who have not been vaccinated in the Covid-19 mass vaccination roll-out have signed up to a digital study programme which will treat them…
Library Reopens All Floors
The third floor of Hastings Central Library, including its reference section, was reopened to the public this week, having remained off limits for four weeks longer than other ; Asked…
Energy Partner Slams Seachange
Sustainable energy co-op company Energise Sussex Coast, which partners Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in pursuing the latter’s net zero carbon target, has filed a formal letter of objection to the…
Blooming Butchery at Warrior Square Station
In what looks an increasingly familiar mix of ‘just doing our job’ and risk management gone haywire, contractors for Southeastern Railway have destroyed a large section of the wildflower meadow…
Covid Test Rates Fall
According to government figures, coronavirus infection numbers are falling throughout Sussex as well as nationally. In the borough of Hastings, there were 241 positive tests in the seven days up…
Housing boom
According to data sourced from the house price index by property investment company Yes Homebuyers, residential property prices in the borough of Hastings have risen an average of per year…
Council Pledges On Refugees
At a full council meeting on 22nd July Hastings Borough Council passed a motion unanimously pledging support for refugees. The motion, introduced by Cllr Andy Batsford, cabinet leader on housing,…
Old Town Carnival Returns
After cancellation of the Old Town Carnival Week last year under pandemic conditions, the 2021 celebrations have gone ahead largely unbridled, though some events – in particular the Pram Race,…