Town Deal: Last Chance To Bid
Ideas for investment projects to be funded as part of the £25m Hastings Town Deal must be submitted by next Friday (25th September). That is the deadline for “Expressions of Interest” to be received by the Town Deal Board, with…
Apprenticeship Scheme Updated
Apprenticeship schemes are intended to give individuals the opportunity to combine classroom learning with a job that allows them to put that knowledge to practical use. The practice dates back to the Middle Ages, when craft guilds would take on…
Free Training Offered In £1m College Pledge
East Sussex College (ESC) has pledged £1million to help retrain and upskill people in Sussex following the coronavirus pandemic. Its management say they intend to apply this sum out of their Adult Education Budget to support economic recovery in the…
Class Divide
The majority of schools in East Sussex have stayed open throughout the coronavirus pandemic for the benefit of some vulnerable children and the families of key workers. Over 2,000 have attended physically on some days, according to Cllr Keith Glazier,…
That Which I Once Knew and Thought
Merlin Betts interviews Katherine Weston-Smith and Sophie Shrubb, two students at UCH, about how they curated an exhibition at Dirty Old Gallery, West Street. The show is entitled “That Which I Once Knew And Thought”. It is a contemporary mix…
AltPitch Arts and Technology Festival coming to Hastings
AltPitch festival is dedicated to exploring the relationship between the digital world and humanity, and the responsibilities that come with our technological expansion. A week of exciting performances and supporting events will provoke thought and debate, bring together creatives and…
Labour Party Leadership Part 2: Local Members Vote
While Labour party councillors are deciding which of their number is to take up leadership of Hastings Borough Council, ordinary members of Hastings & Rye constituency party (CLP) will have voted yesterday (Thursday 30th January) in a meeting at East…
Disability And The Minimum Wage
What Was Actually Said The following exchanges – extracted and distorted across the national media – took place at the HIP Hastings Hustings at East Sussex College last Thursday evening when the four electoral candidates in the constituency of Hastings…
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…