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OPINION: We Need This Bill To Pass
By Richard Price Nearly 14,000 scientists recently warned that Earth’s vital signs are rapidly worsening. On 9th August, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a press release to…
County Council Claims Credit For Carbon Drop
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) issued a press release last week headed “Emissions drop as climate efforts continue”. It declared that its own carbon emissions have fallen by over 60…
White Weddings and Black Bags
By Nick Pelling “There is so much talent in this town it’s unbelievable.” The words of a woman who is a living embodiment of her own view. Annalize Senol is…
Youth Social Media Channel launched
Young people from across Sussex have been collaborating on a new social media channel, using creative ideas to raise awareness of issues such as mental health, racism, and body positivity.…
Funding Boost Helps Ease Covid Debt
Residents facing financial pressure and debt as a result of Covid-19 restrictions can get the support they need thanks to funding of more than £500,000. East Sussex County Council is…
Is Hastings Cracking Up?
By Nick Pelling A recent public Zoom meeting, promoted by several local community groups including Next Door Bohemia and Tidy Up St Leonards, and chaired by Hastings Borough councillor Andrew…
£5m Government Funding To Combat Drugs Abuse
Hastings is set to receive £5 million funding from central government to address harms caused by the use and abuse of illicit ; The Home Office has selected the town…
Free food for kids
On 21st October a parliamentary motion to provide around disadvantaged children in England with £15-a-week food vouchers during school holidays until Easter 2021 was voted down by the Conservative government…
What’s on your mind?
We would love to hear from write to: Please be aware we may need to edit letters for reasons of space and we will only withhold names if this is…
Greening Hastings
Local Green Party leader Julia Hilton will meet Hastings Council cabinet member for Environment, c, on 28th September as part of a continuing campaign against the use of glyphosate weed…
Seafront Pavement Scheme Panned by Locals
A news report in our last edition (Active Travel: Council Scolded For Lack Of Ambition) revealed that most of the 16 projects proposed by East Sussex County Council (ESCC) under…
Active Travel: County Council Scolded For “Lack Of Ambition”
The stated aim of the Department for Transport (DfT) in its Emergency Active Travel Fund, amounting nationally to £250m, is “to enable more people to walk and to cycle”. The…
Turning the Lights Back on at the IB Centre
The closure of the much-loved Isabel Blackman day centre in Winding Street reduced many of its older users to tears 17 months ago. Now it could soon reopen its doors…
Best Beach in East Sussex?
As a newsletter from East Sussex County Council proclaims: “When the sun is out there is nowhere quite like the beach, and in East Sussex we have some of the…
Rural Rides
Tips to stay safe and avoid traffic when cycling in Sussex Perhaps, like many during lockdown, you’ve got a new bike, or have refurbished an old one that’s been lurking…
Deal Us In!
West St Leonards community groups seek share in Town Deal to fund development alternatives Since October last year, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has been insisting that it is on the…
Why Pick On Us?
Removal of parking bays a further setback for small businesses Traders in the Old Town struggling to recoup losses of more than three months of closure have reacted angrily to…
“No Dates, No Details, No Consultation”
Protest causes a rethink over location of ‘pop-up’ Covid-19 test centre Alternative sites for the ‘occasional’ mobile testing unit, which appeared in the heart of Hastings Old Town, are now…
Weeds, Wildflowers, Glyphosate – And A Petition
Glyphosate is a systemic herbicide: it kills plants, especially annual broad-leaf weeds and grasses, by inhibiting enzymes. It was developed by global corporate Monsanto and traded from the mid-1970s under…
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…
Post Pandemic Planning for Hastings
How to benefit the whole community In Issue 150 of HIP, HEART Looks Beyond Lockdown, we talked to Alastair Fairley, co-founder of HEART, about the organisation’s post lockdown plans and…
My Part In Developing Climate Strategy
By Cllr Maya Evans Being part of the team developing the HBC climate strategy has sometimes been frustrating. Many ambitious ideas could not be included through lack of funding and…
Bus Funds On Diversion
New subsidies, reduced timetables: are key workers being served? In February Boris Johnson announced in Parliament that his government was launching a new package of actions for public transport including…
England Coast Path Plans Welcomed by SEG
In our article “Waste, Potholes and Footpaths” featured last month (HIP 147), we suggested that the pressure group SEG (Save Ecclesbourne Glen) might be less than impressed by the upbeat…
In2play Outdoor Rated Outstanding
In2play Outdoor is proud to announce that they have achieved an Ofsted rating of Outstanding on their first inspection in December 2019 – to go with the Outstanding rating already…
Waste, Potholes And Footpaths
For Councillor Dowling, It’s All Good News Without a trace of irony East Sussex County Council has heralded a huge spike in its collection of post-Christmas household waste as a…
Transport Futures For The South-East: More Road-Building?
Last October, Transport for the South East (TfSE), a forum combining leading local government councillors across southern counties from Hampshire to Kent, with senior representatives of Network Rail and Highways…
Kim Forward Becomes Leader Elect of Hastings Council
At a meeting of Labour party councillors on 17th February Cllr Kim Forward was elected by them to take over as their leader in the wake of Peter Chowney’s resignation.…
Back Pedallers
Cycle Groups Protest At Diversion Of Council Funding Cycle East Sussex, a coalition of cyclist groups in Hastings, Rother and Eastbourne, is demanding that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) reinstate…
St Mary Loses Its Friends
St Mary-in-the-Castle, the Grade-II*-listed structure built as a church in the 1820s in neo-classical style as the grand architectural centrepiece of Pelham Crescent beneath West Hill, remains one of Hastings’…
Ore Library Re-opening, Community Centre Retained
The community group Big Local North East Hastings (BLNEH), a partnership of residents which dispenses national lottery funds, last week announced a grant of £6,000 to Ore Community Library Group…
Chowney Appears In Perry’s Scope As The First Pre-Election Torpedoes Are Fired
In an article printed in Hastings in Focus, Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, Nick Perry, cited indices where areas of Hastings are highlighted as suffering from deprivation. He…
Walk-In Centre
The medical walk-in centre at Station Plaza in Hastings will be kept open, re-styled as a Primary Care Hub and offering from December an “advanced nurse-practitioner-led service”. That is how…
New Special School Set For Former Helenswood Site
A new ‘free’ special school, known as The Flagship School, is being planned for the former Helenswood Upper site on the Ridge. On 20th September East Sussex County Council (ESCC)…
Regime Change at Rother: The First Hundred Days
Doug Oliver has enjoyed his first hundred days as leader of Rother District Council. The previous Conservative administration, ousted in elections across the board in May, had been, in his…
Amber’s October Summit
On 8th July Amber Rudd MP headlined her Hastings & Rye constituency website with news that she had met with then Roads Minister, Michael Ellis, and “secured” a commitment from…
Crime Stories
Human TraffickingOn 25th July a gang of ten traffickers and money launderers led by two Kurdish men resident in Hastings and St Leonards were each sentenced to long periods of…
XR Rebels – More News
Extinction Rebellion (XR)’s local group in Hastings and St Leonard’s built a large traditional fishing boat and carried it down to the beach on Pirate ; PICTURE: David Bruce XR…
Wi-Fi Refugee On St Leonards Seafront
A homeless Hastings woman with a complex medical condition is facing huge fines for non-payment of parking tickets. Roxanne Roma has been living in a camper van on St Leonards…
A Turn Up For The Books!
County council extends time for new Ore library initiative Following two meetings of a group of community leaders and activists co-ordinated by Hastings Borough councillor Heather Bishop, East Sussex County…