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Creative and Tourism Mentor Network Project Celebrated
Creative and tourism businesses came together at the Beacon on Friday 18th November to celebrate the success of the Mentoring Network project. The Mentoring Network launched earlier this year by…
Friendship Link Teachers Ask Some Big Questions About Education
As twelve local schools, here in Hastings prepare to visit their twinned schools in Hastings Sierra Leone in the tenth anniversary year, they have been attending courses both here and…
RE: Cycle
Residents in Hastings will receive a sticker to remind them of the main items they can recycle at home. A sticker is being sent out to residents across the borough…
New Funding To Improve Mental Health Care For Pregnant Women And New Mums
Sussex is one of 20 areas across the country which will benefit from funding to improve care for pregnant women and new mums experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental…
Mayor Delivers Christmas Cheer
The mayor of Hastings Councillor Judy Rogers together with the deputy mayor Councillor Nigel Sinden and Hastings Borough Council leader, Councillor Peter Chowney visited Royal Mail’s Hastings delivery office to…
2016 and all that…
While globally and nationally, 2016 was a year of much malign and mourning, there has been a great deal of positive news to report locally. Arguably the first and most…
Hastings town centre set for £1m business investment
Businesses in the centre of Hastings have voted to create a Business Improvement District (BID) and raise £1m to invest in the town. Of 206 firms that voted in a…
United: Here we go?
Investing in Hastings – Sport and Business It’s the culmination of 18 months of work, according to the board of directors of Hastings United FC. But for most of the…
Open Letter From Hastings Community Network
The University of Brighton recently concluded their consultation which proposes to change their Hastings Campus into a University Centre. The reason given for the proposed down grade was not being…
Who cares?
ARE you a carer, supporter or family member of someone with mental health problems or learning disabilities? are holding this event, to reach out to people and say ‘you’re not…
Ore Valley
Community members have been put at the heart of plans to regenerate the old Broomgrove power station site in Ore Valley in Hastings. Recently a group of local activists and…
Artistic tension in St Leonards
By Neil Partrick A tense art show is taking place at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove are jointly exhibiting in ‘Surface Tension’,…
Southern Crossfire
The rail dispute at Southern Region over guard duties which led to a 48-hour strike by workers in the RMT union last week and ongoing disruption of services on the…
Doctors in the Ice House?
DOCTORS IN THE ICE HOUSE? by Hugh Sullivan Hastings Council's planning committee will determine later this month whether an innovative development in the provision of GP medical services in the…
University of Brighton launches 3 month consultation on Hastings
After much confusion and protest following the announcement in March that the University of Brighton would be pulling out of Hastings, U of B have launched a 3 month public consultation…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
THE KIDS’ TAPESTRY UNVEILED
THE KIDS' TAPESTRY UNVEILED TO MARK 950TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS Photo credits: David Parry/PA Wire Children help to create sequel to the Bayeux Tapestry featuring Shakespeare, Queen…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
University in climb-down confusion
By Robert Joyce University of Brighton in Hastings The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way…
Traditional Blessing of the Sea
Ben Hamilton For over a hundred years the blessing of the sea has taken place in Hastings and this year has been no exception. On Wednesday the Revd. Robert Featherstone…
Rocklands “Bunker” Appeal Won and Lost
Kent Barker Hastings Borough Council may have partially won a planning appeal but it appears to have lost the main battle over the controversial ‘bunker’ development at Rocklands caravan centre…
A Conservative Underestimate
by Alan Bolwell (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Following investigations into several Conservative MPs spending during the 2015 General Election, Energy and Environment Secretary and Hastings MP Amber Rudd has…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Pole Position? – University “No Comment” On Suggestions Of Conflict Of Interest
Robert Joyce The University of Brighton are facing calls for transparency after it emerged that their new Deputy vice Chancellor faces a potential conflict of interest in relation to his…
University U-turn?
University of Brighton in Hastings Robert Joyce The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way their…
Drinking Fountain Restoration
Janet Langdon (centre red coat) together Mayor of Hastings Cllr Judy Rogers and the leader Hastings Borough Council Cllr Peter Chowney (right of fountain). Press Release by Tracy Hobden The…
Midsummer Fish Fest Returns
Tracy Hobden Hastings Midsummer Fish Fest is back for a third year. This free event takes place on the 25th and 26th June on the Stade open space. Introduced by…
The Wall Goes Up – Bohemia Nets Major Heritage Lottery Grant
The Bohemia Walled Garden Association The Bohemia Walled Garden Association has been awarded a grant of £97,000 to complete its restoration and development of the unique Victorian garden situated in…
Hastings Thrives Sky Parade
Ed Boxall Friday 10th June was The Hastings Thrives Sky Parade. 2,000 children from 14 schools paraded along the seafront to the pier. Parents, school staff, councillors and artists joined…
Hospice benefits from Mooney Madness
By Pete Donohue Good News Hastings comes together again this week in yet another high-profile community spirited collaboration. The People’s Pier was officially opened by our new mayor, Judy Rogers,…
The Opportunity
The Opportunity Friday 29 April saw graphic novel author Will Volley appearing at The Beacon on Hastings’ West Hill. In an interview led by local writer Erica Smith, he talked…
3 Weeks to go
3 Weeks to go to Diary Day In 'Diary, the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not…
ROOT 1066 Visual Documentation Brief
ROOT 1066 International Festival - Visual Documentation Brief Content: To mark the 950th Anniversary of the most famous date in English history, Hastings Borough Council has commissioned the ROOT 1066…
Support The Junior Doctors & Support The NHS in Hastings!
Join the march on Saturday 16 April to say “We Support The Junior Doctors – We Support The NHS”. Meet at Hastings Pier at 2pm. You don’t have to stand…
Panama Papers – It’s laws and treaties that are the problem, not the tax avoiders
British Virgin Islands, Tax Haven Tax avoidance is legal. Google “offshore investment” and the results are a ‘how to’ of investing: ‘you don’t have to be a millionaire to be…
Community-run newspaper launches crowdfunder to celebrate 50th issue
The Hastings Independent Press (HIP) is a free, not-for-profit, fortnightly newspaper run mainly by volunteers – and they’ve just published their 50th issue. Having run for two years on a…
Hastings Pride: News, Updates, Wanting to Help and Everything Else
By Natasha Scott Anyone who wants to help in any way we would all very much love to hear from you to make what I hope becomes the Pride of…
Hastings Independent Press launches crowdfunder!
We know you love HIP as much as we do which is why we've just launched a crowdfunder to keep this fantastic newspaper truly independent and thriving. Your local community news source,…
Suggs lays the last plank
Suggs lays the last plank. Photo Credit: George Palmer Suggs (also known as Graham McPherson from Madness) visited Hastings Pier today to lay the last plank, marking the end of…
Hastings students fight back against university closure
Photo Credit: Hastings Solidarity Hundreds of people gathered in Hastings today to protest against the closure of the University of Brighton campus in Hastings, in the biggest student demonstration the…