Holiday Bus Services
Stagecoach South East, the monopoly bus provider in Hastings, has issued service information for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Normal schoolday services will operate up to Friday 20th December (except on routes serving schools or colleges that break…
Hastings Youth Still Striking For Their Future
By Mima Bone Over 100 people gathered on Friday 29th November in Hastings town centre for the latest Global Climate Strike. Organised by UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN), this rally marked the eighth time young people had gathered together in the name…
Three Evenings Of Free Parking
As in previous years, Hastings Borough Council are offering free parking at their central car parks on three Thursday evenings in the run-up to Christmas: 5th, 12th and 19th December from 4pm onwards (until the following mornings). PICTURE: Dave Young…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In particular she referred to the treatment of Jewish MP Luciana…
For Hastings, whatever the outcome
By Jeremy Corbyn Hastings is a special place that I’ve visited many, many times. I’ve been camping in Battle, I’ve taken my family up to the funicular and I’ve enjoyed one of my favourite past times, cycling, along the front…
GE2019: Question Time
Many weeks of national as well as local focus on voters in the marginal constituency of Hastings & Rye (Conservative majority 346 in 2017) should come to a head next Thursday 5th December when all four candidates will enter an…
Ore Valley: HoH Bid Rejected
Regeneration company Sea Space announced on 13th November the winner of its competitive tender process for development of a housing scheme on the disused power station site in Ore Valley: not the bid made by the Heart of Hastings community…
Changing Hastings
Town Meeting Addresses Housing Issues By Poppy Prescott Last Thursday evening (21st November), 130 local townspeople met at the Hastings & St Leonards Angling Club to hear presentations, research, talks, music and debate on the theme of Changing Hastings. It…
ORE VALLEY: Our Response To Sea Space
By James Leathers, Executive Director, HoH The Sea Space board stated they would assess proposals not only on price but against community benefit, site specific matters, financial strength and deliverability. The Power Station site lies between two of the poorest…
St Mary Loses Its Friends
St Mary-in-the-Castle, the Grade-II*-listed structure built as a church in the 1820s in neo-classical style as the grand architectural centrepiece of Pelham Crescent beneath West Hill, remains one of Hastings’ primary concert and entertainment venues. It will host a full…