Out of Step
St Leonards Steps, a pedestrian footpath down the cliff edge between West Hill Road and the seafront immediately to the west of St Leonards Parish Church, has been closed off. This follows recent closure of the Burton family memorial garden,…
New Covid Testing Machines ‘Game Changers’
ESHT (East Sussex Healthcare Trust) announced last Thursday that they are now operating new Covid testing machines, which should significantly increase Covid testing capacity and speed up the turnaround time for test results at the Conquest and Eastbourne District General…
Culture Recovery: Round Two
Local arts, music and theatre organisations are bidding this month for a second round of awards to be offered under the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The formal deadline for submission of applications to the Arts Council, who are administering the…
Vaccination Roll-Out:
“Courageous” and “Talent” The Conquest Hospital started its Covid vaccination programme at the end of December. Eastbourne DGH followed suit from 4th January. In each case, first doses were of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, code-named “Courageous”. Initial recipients were frontline health…
Green Party to contest all wards in 2021 election
Hastings Green party is to field candidates in all 16 wards at next year’s Hastings Borough Council elections. Postponed from last spring because of the pandemic, votes can be cast for one seat in each ward on 6th May. A…
Tiers and Fears
Positive tests for coronavirus infections in Hastings were reported last week to have increased almost fourfold within a seven day period. In the week ending 28th November there were 63 cases recorded across the borough; in the following week ending…
Brexit Countdown:
World Tunes In To Hastings Fishermen Paul Joy, articulate chairman of the Hastings Fishermen Protection Society, found himself in the eye of a media hurricane last weekend, as the Brexit negotiations slid towards a no-deal outcome. It wasn’t just the…
More Reasons to Save the Bathing Pool Site
Rod Webb shares his opinions on the area’s future In June this year I visited the former bathing pool site, realised what an important asset this area of West St Leonards is, and wrote about it in HIP. (Kicking up…
No Peeping At The Town Deal
The Hastings Town Deal Board were due to meet yesterday (Monday) in private to take what were described as “key decisions” in the preparation of their Town Investment Plan. First, according to the published agenda for the meeting, there was…
£5m Government Funding To Combat Drugs Abuse
Hastings is set to receive £5 million funding from central government to address harms caused by the use and abuse of illicit ; The Home Office has selected the town as a pilot area for Project ADDER (Addiction, Disruption, Diversion,…