Day Centres Closure Confirmed
Leaders of East Sussex County Council have agreed to cease day services at the Charter Centre in Bexhill and the Isabel Blackman Centre in Hastings. The two day centres for elderly and disabled residents are to close following a decision…
From Potholes to Pavements
Dave Young If ever there was a surface likely to cause people to trip or slip in the wet it’s these overgrown paving slabs on Carisbrooke Road St Leonards. Grass and even small shrubs are taking over this sloping pavement,…
Bringing television back home
National TV broadcaster Channel 4 is intending to set up three regional creative ‘hubs’ when it moves outside London next year. Hastings is bidding to be one of them. The bid is being led by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) but…
Welcome back!
Hastings Library re-opens in the Brassey Institute, Claremont After works which have taken over two years to complete and cost over £ million - more than £720,000 over budget - Hastings Central Library will re-open its doors to the public…
Sea Change Waives Rules
By Sam Kinch The future of a valuable publicly owned asset in the heart of the Ore Valley has been cast into doubt after the company in charge of its future regeneration, Sea Change Sussex, breached their own constitution by…
Helping Self Help
By Tanya Vice October was a very busy month for the Helping Self Help project! Tuesday 4th October saw self- help groups coming together for our Networking Café at Sussex Coast College, Hastings, to share a morning of networking, stall…
Open letter to Amber Rudd, MP Hastings and Rye
11th October 2016 Dear Amber Rudd, As your constituents we write to express our deep concern for at least 387 unaccompanied children in the Calais ‘Jungle’ who have been granted legal right to be in the UK. Your announcement that…