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They Think it’s All Over
Cabinet rejects football relocation, plans set to be refused HUGH SULLIVAN On 5 June the cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) rejected the relocation plan being pursued by Hastings United…
CRICKET: Run- Chases Fall Short
3 June:Buxted Park 288 for 8; Hastings Priory 27410 June:Hastings Priory 286 for 6; Chichester Priory Park 271HUGH SULLIVAN There was a marked symmetry in games contested by Hastings &…
STORM OVER COUNCIL VOTES
Labour “power grab”or “far-right” gift horse? Kevin BoormanNew mayor Margi O’Callaghan and deputy Heather Bishop HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council leader Paul Barnett started his regular column in the Hastings…
Councillor Fernando – beyond party control
HUGH SULLIVAN Lucian Fernando, the man at the centre of the voting storm reported alongside, was elected to Hastings Borough Council as ward councillor for Silverhill in May 2021 on…
WHERE IS FOOTBALL STADIUM REPORT?
HUGH SULLIVAN Photo: Scott White A full meeting of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) on 15 December last year resolved that Jane Hartnell, the council’s managing director, prepare a report to…
Northiam – Exercises in Democracy
HUGH SULLIVAN Ballots for membership of parish councils up and down the country were scheduled to be held on 4 May, the same day as other local elections. In most…
Room for More
HUGH SULLIVAN There’s a famous scene in the Marx Brothers’ film A Night at the Opera with an impromptu party in the cramped cabin of a transatlantic liner. More and…
FOOTBALL: Elphick and Meeney go, Wood Follows
HUGH SULLIVAN Supporters of Hastings United football club learnt on 3 May that manager Gary Elphick and his assistant Jon Meeney had resigned and left. No reason was given, either…
Cricket: Priory Win T20 Opener at Crowhurst
Sussex Cricket League Div 2:Crowhurst Park 192;St James’s Montefiore 120Sussex Cricket League T20 Cup:Crowhurst Park 140 for 6 (20 overs);Hastings & St Leonards Priory 144 for 6 ( overs)HUGH SULLIVAN…
Northeye locals air grievances, MP appeals for calm
HUGH SULLIVAN Huw Merriman, MP for Battle and Bexhill, has found himself caught between the demands of the national government, of which he is Rail Minister, and grievances felt and…
Queensway Junction still logjammed
Is County Council awaiting LEP abolition? HUGH SULLIVAN In a low-key pronouncement tucked away within his budget speech to the House of Commons on 15 March, Chancellor of the Exchequer…
FOOTBALL: Long odds against play-off qualification
Potters Bar Town 1,Hastings United 4Hastings United 0,Horsham 0Hastings United 3,Bognor Regis 2HUGH SULLIVAN The ‘U’s ended a run of four consecutive home draws last Saturday when they defeated Bognor…
CRICKET: Priory confident of strength in depth
HUGH SULLIVAN Iden McCleave The cold and wet spring in Sussex has left cricket pitches saturated. Local cricketers will be hoping, however, that the change to sunny weather over the…
Football: Play-off hopes slipping away
Canvey Island 3, Hastings United 1Hastings United 3, Herne Bay 3HUGH SULLIVAN Four Saturdays ago Hastings United’s late goals at Bishops Stortford sealed a 3-2 win which seemed to set…
Batsford Pledges Cultural Future For St Mary
HUGH SULLIVAN Three separate “expressions of interest” to take a leasehold interest in St Mary in the Castle were submitted last month to Dyer & Hobbis, agents for Hastings Borough…
Battle Road reopening but legal issues remain
HUGH SULLIVAN Nearly three years ago, in May 2020, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) sought and obtained a court order requiring repair or demolition of the Arches at 2-12 Battle Road.…
FOOTBALL: Late Goal Spoils Joe’s Return
Hastings United 1, Wingate & Finchley 1HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings stay seventh in the Isthmian Premier League, two positions below play-off qualification, after visitors Wingate & Finchley scored an equalising goal…
BAR BILLIARDS: Old King John hosts the Stag
BY HUGH SULLIVAN It’s a winter Wednesday evening, and at the Old King John (OKJ) pub in Middle Street, Ore (round the back of the Co-op), there’s a match taking…
Losing Hart?
BY HUGH SULLIVAN AND PAUL MCLAUGHLIN The political insider website Guido Fawkes reported last Sunday that the executive of the Hastings & Rye Conservative Association has voted not to re-adopt…
SAVE THE CHILDREN!
Refugee aid group highlights safeguarding failures BY HUGH SULLIVAN On 24 January the UK Parliament debated allegations published in the national Observer newspaper the previous weekend that dozens of unaccompanied…
Plumpton New Year: A Day at the Races
It’s been cold. It’s been windy and wet. Train services have been decimated by strikes. Covid and flu have afflicted swathes of the local population. At New Year, anyone with…
Heart Surgery Stitch-Up?
Conquest Hospital Loses Out to Eastbourne on Future Despite an outcry by Hastings Borough councillors and more muted objections from within the local medical community, the Conquest Hospital is to…
Sporting Twins: Orwell Got It Wrong
In November 1945, a few months after the end of World War II, the Dynamo Moscow football team were invited to make a supposedly goodwill tour of Britain. The Russians,…
January Jitters
Injuries and defensive frailties continue to jinx the fortunes of Hastings United by Hugh Sullivan I’ve been learning an American swing dance popularised in the early 1930s called The Balboa.…
Hughenden Road Pocket Park
It’s not the most promising location: an acre of Council-owned ground in the hinterland of Elphinstone Road surrounded by housing and largely concreted over around 13 years ago following the…
United: Here we go?
Investing in Hastings – Sport and Business It’s the culmination of 18 months of work, according to the board of directors of Hastings United FC. But for most of the…
Canoe Club: the freedom of the sea
Hastings and District Canoe Club don't enjoy the most charismatic of club-houses, a concrete shell among the beach huts beyond Cinque Ports Way. Their canoes and kayaks are stored in…
The Wall Goes Up – Bohemia Nets Major Heritage Lottery Grant
The Bohemia Walled Garden Association The Bohemia Walled Garden Association has been awarded a grant of £97,000 to complete its restoration and development of the unique Victorian garden situated in…