Tag archives for Margi O’Callaghan
O’Callaghan Unveils her Shadow Cabinet Team
Margi O’Callaghan, the Labour Group Leader on Hastings BC, has announced her Shadow Cabinet team following May’s local elections. The Braybrooke Councillor took over the leadership of the Labour group…
Mayor Margi Takes Labour Lead
Following the local election at the beginning of this month, as reported in HIP 251, the political parties now represented on Hastings Borough Council hold numbers of seats as follows:…
Hastings is No Place for Hate
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Hastings Town Hall Community Hub hosted a free event earlier this month (9 March) to help raise awareness of efforts to tackle hate crime within the town. Hastings…
Carers Week: Celebrating Diversity
PAUL McLAUGHLIN The Isabel Blackman Centre hosted the launch of Carers Week last Saturday (10 June), with local MP Sally-Ann Hart and the new Mayor of Hastings, Cllr Margi O’Callaghan, in attendance.…
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…
Nuclear Ban Comes into Force
History was made on the 22nd of January 2021 when, for the first time, a ban on nuclear weapons came into force. Hastings gave its support for the treaty last October…