Two new Freedom of Information Act requests have revealed that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) spent £19.5k on four dates in 2022–23 ‘protecting’ County Hall from petition hand-ins, street theatre, giant newspaper headlines and mince pies. Gabriel Carlyle reports.
Markus Thonett talks to Jude Montague about his work and new exhibition at the upstairs gallery at St Andrews Mews.
Friends of Pat Fisher, the visionary founder and director of Gizmo Kids are invited to wear a red hat and parade along Kings Road at 12.30 tomorrow, Thursday 1 February, to pay respects as her funeral cortege passes by. Her funeral will take place at Hastings Cemetery and Crematorium on the Ridge, at the top of Elphinstone Road.
At the 24 January Borough Council meeting, an attempt was made to prevent members of the public from filming the proceedings, which they have a right to do. Andrea Needham reports.
For their February session Jazz Hastings will be hosting one of the leading pianist/composers working in the field today: Robert Mitchell and his group True Think. Julian Norridge explains where they are coming from.
Jude Montague checks out the latest happening weekly music event in the Trinity Triangle.
Vice-chairs for the new Cabinet committees were announced at last night’s Full Council meeting as the new arrangements at Hastings Borough Council continue to be unrolled. Meanwhile it became known that a solution has been found for the council’s contract to build a Premier Inn on the Cornwallis car park. Nick Terdre reports.
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