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Sore Valley
Hastings Council loses out on £700,000 funding for community housing project Community Land Trust company Heart of Hastings (HoH) has occupied the site of the former Broomgrove Power Station and…
Pride versus The Egg: A Meaningful Vote
Hastings Pride, the LGBT+ celebration parade that will march through town on Sunday 25th August (the Bank Holiday weekend), has been short-listed for an award of up to £50,000 from…
Exit the University…
SeaChange, the trading name of the not-for-profit ‘regeneration’ company East Sussex Energy Infrastructure and Development Limited, has an enviable track record of obtaining large amounts of public funding from national…
Sunny Side Up
Ore Campus Solar Panels Installed In Six Days The feed-in tariff which pays back money for every solar energy kilowatt* produced by businesses and homes ended on 31st March. But…
All Change at Empty Quarter
The Priory Quarter, the clutch of new and redeveloped buildings between Havelock Road and Priory Street that was intended to form centre stage of the University of Brighton campus in…
Pier Reopens: Not Many Hands On Deck
By Emma Harwood Visitors to Hastings pier were able to stroll on the deck for the first time in nearly four months when the gates reopened to the public on…
BUDDY UP – Hastings Local Wins International Women’s Day Award
By Gareth Stevens Rossana Leal, founder of the Hastings & Rother Refugee Buddy Project has had her innovative community leadership work recognised at the Women of the World Festival in…
News in Brief
• On 6th March the planning committee of Hastings Borough Council approved the application made by Sheikh Abid Gulzar, owner of Hastings pier, to erect five sheds on it. Three…
Local Media Students Interview Amber
The week of 11th March was a fraught one in Parliament for Department of Work and Pensions Minister and Hastings & Rye MP Amber Rudd - see our political pages…
RISING TIDE – Youth Climate Protest in Hastings
By Mima Bone “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!” So went one of the vocal and impassioned chants at Hastings’ second Youth Strike for Climate…
Bohemian Rhapsody
Council votes funds for feasibility study The Labour-controlled cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) voted on Monday evening to pursue a feasibility study for the development of a combined sporting…
“Jew-Baiting” In Hastings Labour Party?
Amber Rudd’s Remarks Draw Prompt Denials In a remarkable press release, issued last Sunday and given extensive exposure by the national newspapers, Amber Rudd, MP for Hastings and Rye as…
The Lights Go Out
By Alan Wright ‘Illuminations’, the lighting shop in Queens Road, conducted its final trades last month after a prolonged series of closing down sales. In the fashion of the times…
The Tenth Anniversary – Tuesday gets fatter
At the time of going to press, the main musical event of Fat Tuesday, 5th March, had yet to get under way. But already a schedule of gigs, parades, workshops…
Tax Fraud Office Pursues Sheikh Gulzar
By Emma Harwood Hastings Pier owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar was fined thousands of pounds last week for breaching tax regulations along with two of his companies which had been ‘trading…
Women’s Voice Host International Women’s Day
By Gareth Stevens Hastings will celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on Sunday 10 March by way of a special free event organised by Hastings Women’s ; Following a short march…
If The Climate Can Change, So Should Our Attitudes!
By Safiya Young Last Friday 15th February, children in over 60 UK towns and cities took to the streets to call for climate action. And this national demonstration is only…
Pestalozzi Village Sells Up To PGL
After more than 60 years of hosting international students at its estate in Sedlescombe, the Pestalozzi International Village Trust has confirmed that it has sold the site and will cease…
His Place Funding Appeal
His Place, the large grey-stone Victorian church that straddles Cambridge Road and Robertson Street opposite the ESK emporium, combines a place of Christian worship, a well-used community hub, and arguably…
Carbon Neutral By 2030?
Only if the Government allows, say Labour In response to the threat of climate change, Hastings Borough Council passed unanimously a motion brought by leader Peter Chowney last Wednesday that…
Resigned
Local Hastings Borough councillor Dany Louise has resigned from the Labour ; In her resignation letter dated 13th February addressed to Council leader Peter Chowney, Cllr Louise accused the party…
Piano Concerto Performances To Be Beamed Live To Priory Meadow
By Julian Norridge Performances in two rounds of this year’s Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition will be live-streamed to a large television screen at the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre. They…
College Staff Strike for Higher Pay
Strike action was taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU) at East Sussex College in Hastings last week. Teachers and other admin staff went on strike for…
Social Media Storm Diverts Palestine Solidarity Talk
A public talk by Baroness Tonge entitled Everyday Life in Apartheid Israel and organised by the Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HPSC) for 24th January was twice re-located after hostile attacks…
West Marina Development Inches Forward
The former bathing pool site at West Marina, on the West St Leonards seafront beyond Grosvenor Gardens, has been vacant for over 30 years. From the point of view of…
The Observer Building: A New Future Unveiled
White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures (WRNV) have announced they have exchanged contracts to purchase the Observer Building at 53 Cambridge Road for a total price of £ ; WRNV is a…
Local Greens Seek Climate Emergency Action
Over 750 businesses and individuals in Hastings and Rye have signed up to the contents of a letter circulated by the constituency Green Party calling for Hastings Borough Council (HBC)…
A Barrage On Facebook
The Facebook page of the White Rock Hotel has a section for reviews – 328 of them ‘recommending’ the hotel at last count. The vast majority of postings are indeed…
Jerwood Bust-Up
As reported in the national press and websites last weekend, the Jerwood Gallery at the Stade looks likely to lose virtually its entire permanent collection of around 300 artworks and…
Marine Court Seafront Retail in Troubled Times
Marine Court, the vast art deco building in the shape of a Cunard ocean liner, dominates the St Leonards seafront. Erected in 1936-38 and housing over 150 flats in its…
Spillage People
How Recycling Points Made Fly-tipping the Easy Option Several years ago, in Cornwallis Gardens where I live, Hastings Borough Council installed three recycling points. Whilst they were somewhat incongruous, the…
Pier Sale: The Reckoning
A formal account of the sale of the pier to Sheikh Abid Gulzar last June has finally been released into the public domain by the administrators of the Hastings Pier…
Preaching to the Converted
Kent Barker, HIP co-Political Editor, listened to Jeremy Corbyn speechifying in Hastings last thursday St Mary in the Castle may not have been a proper church for years, but there…
Fly-tipping – Can You Help To Stop It?
By David Dennis Fly-tipping is the disposal of specific types of unwanted rubbish, called ‘controlled waste’, by illegal means. This includes garden and household waste, domestic items such as fridges…
Back To School – Retired Language School Director Back In Business
Reg Veale, former principal of Embassy English Language School in St Leonards, has revealed that he is renewing the business under his own brand, titled Majors Study Tours. Embassy, which…
Corbyn Conquers Hastings
By Kent Barker, Political Editor HIPSome of those lined up outside St Mary in The Castle waiting for Jeremy Corbyn were wondering why he was in Hastings and not Downing…
Hastings People Interview Abid Gulzar and Amber Rudd
Between 250 - 300 members of the community gathered today to show their support for the pier. The owner of the pier, Mr Gulzar, arrived with Amber Rudd MP to…
Ark Merger Confirmed, Name Awaited
Ark Schools have announced that the Department for Education has approved the proposal to bring together William Parker and Helenswood as one co-educational school from September 2019. Parents and staff…
Council Pulls Funding For Coastal Currents
After providing core funding of the town’s major arts festival, Coastal Currents, for the past 20 years, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has decided that it can no longer afford to…