The coveted Christmas No 1 slot went to Hastings Borough Council (HBC) this Christmas, for their website. The arbitrator was something called the Sitemorse UK Local Government Index. According to Sitemorse, HBC had a ‘near-perfect overall score of 9.6/10 for digital compliance and user experience’. Long frustrated by the Council website’s user-hostile ways, Chris Hurrell takes a closer look at what’s being assessed.
If you read this article in our Sunday mail-out, you will have missed your opportunity to enjoy this excellent exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Erica Smith encourages you to view the show before the doors close on the exhibition at 4.30pm this Sunday.
To start the new year, HOT’s Paul Way-Rider takes a look at some of the shows coming up in January at the White Rock Theatre.
The story of Covid-19 is currently one of the continual emergence of new sub variants within the Omicron family, of which the latest is the highly transmissible XBB.1.5, which looks set to drive an increase in infections. Flu has also made a come-back this winter. As hospitals in East Sussex and elsewhere resorted to emergency measures to cope with winter demand, the government has released emergency funds to tackle the chronic problem of bed-blocking. Text by Nick Terdre, research and graphics by Russell Hall.
Lithuanian grandmaster Sarunas Sulskis triumphed at Hasting International Chess Congress’s first over-the-board meet for three years. For the organiser, putting the event on was dogged with difficulties. Nick Terdre reports.
The proposed cycle route through Alexandra Park, intended to expand non motorised options for getting around town, eventually ran into fierce opposition. Even though the government approved new bylaws to accommodate the route, the proposal was
Jazz Hastings kicks off 2023 by bringing a unique musical collaboration between a major star of the Irish folk music and two of the most sought-after UK jazz musicians to its stage – and in a departure from its own tradition, on a Sunday, 8 January. Julian Norridge supplies the background.
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