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 supporting organisations with one-off grants to help them offer advice…
Lights Out At The Curzon Cinema, Eastbourne
By Anna Arnone Late last year news broke locally that Eastbourne’s independent Curzon Cinema was to close. Poignantly, it’s now gone dark just short of what would’ve been its centenary. Roy Galloway, the Curzon’s current owner, acquired the freehold…
Cole Moreton, Author of the Light Keeper, Will Host a Reading and Workshop at Birling Gap
Press Release provided by Rhoda Hardie PR The first ever live performance of music and words at one of the world’s great beauty spots will take place on Saturday November 9, when award-winning writer and broadcaster Cole Moreton brings his…
CRICKET – MAKE HAY IN MAY!
Priory’s Early Fixtures Invite Strong Start For the cricketers of Hastings and St Leonards Priory the real summer starts here. After a Cup opener in mid-April, a warm-up game at Mayfield and a T20 bash last weekend, they play their…
On The Rocks or on a Roll?
Pier sale is challenged by revived community group EMMA HARWOOD REPORTS The agent responsible for finding a buyer for Hastings Pier –who claims to have been involved with the sale of 35 of the nation’s 51 piers – says that…
More Trains, More Seats, Better Connections
So say Southern as RMT Union prepare to strike again Hugh Sullivan reports In a Which survey published in January this year, Southern Rail was identified as providing the worst train service in Britain for the third year running, with…
Pier Sale: The Story Continues
Emma Harwood reports Last November, when the Pier Charity went into administration, its principal creditor the Heritage Lottery Fund agreed to fund fees and expenses for a further twelve month period in order to allow the future of the pier…
Andrew Kötting: Who You Walk With Alters What You See
Towner Art Gallery until 31 December If you have an interest in film that falls into the British psychogeographical genre you are likely to have come across Andrew Kötting, a local to St Leonards on Sea for over 15 years…
East Sussex welcomes Syrian refugee families
In September 2015 the UK pledged to welcome 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years East Sussex district and borough councils have agreed to support the resettlement of vulnerable Syrian families who have fled war zones. Many refugees…
Opening of Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Shed
On Saturday 3rd December, Deputy Mayor Nigel Sinden presided over the official opening of a new community resource, ‘Hastings and St. Leonards Men’s Shed’. ‘Men’s Sheds’ is an international non-profit association where men, predominately over the age of 50, can…