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…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have endeavoured, on a shoestring, to assist refugees to negotiate the…
Photography Graduates Exhibit Work
Graduates in BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography held an exhibition of their work at East Sussex College, Hastings last Friday (June 14th). Chris Coombes ; L to R: Lucy Shaw, Mary Wilkinson and Katie Redfern - in front of her…
East Sussex College Sees Digital Boost In New Skills Partnership
The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP), whose role is to boost economic growth across the counties of East Sussex, Kent and Essex, has obtained funds from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to set up a new…
The Anatomy Of The Zine
An East Sussex College graduate tells the story of how an interest in medicine, art and a quirky sense of humour created an unusual start to her career. By Charlotte Rose Love at First Sight End Pages How it all…
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 in the previous week East Sussex College announced the completion…
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 for more coverage. However it started with an on-the-record interview…
Social Prescribing Comes to Hastings
By Dave Young Representatives from over 80 voluntary sector groups recently attended a Social Prescribing event at East Sussex College in Station ; Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other medical professionals to refer people to a range of non-clinical…
Think Big, Act Local
North-east Hastings is not an obviously distinct neighbourhood. With a population of around 8,000 residents, it ranges from Down Farm and Red Lake at the north end to the streets around Priory Road on West Hill to the south. Educationally…