Kayleigh’s story: cramped and desperate victim of homes crisis This is the story of Kayleigh – featured in a Labour advertisement in the Hastings Observer in November 2019 – and told here in full for the first time. Home for Kayleigh, 33, and her three children – Rosie, 10; Alana, 2; and six-month-old Trent – […]
Staff speak out about shameful cuts at our local hospital Nurses at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings are regularly working 60-hour weeks. This is because of a pay cap that has limited rises to just 1.5% per year. This puts extra stress on staff who are already under pressure in what is supposed to be a […]
Autumn … and more Tory lies on the line The Tories would have to spend a vast amount of money – upwards of £20 billion – to create a faster rail service between Hastings and London. This is based on the £400 million-per-mile cost of the current HS2 project linking London to the North. Besides replacing track, […]
Local schools facing further Tory cuts in 2020 There will be £1.5 million less spent on schools in Hastings & Rye next year – with the squeeze on budgets now reaching crisis proportions. In East Sussex as a whole, it is a loss of £11 million. The cuts, which affect 23 out of 30 schools […]
Desperately low-paid drive sharp rise in Hastings food bank demand Hastings’ main food bank has just had its biggest October on record, with a sharp increase in those being referred for emergency food aid. The government’s cruel benefits system is driving thousands more to rely on food banks. And the situation this winter is getting […]
Hastings has moved closer to keeping its walk-in medical centre at Station Plaza – after a vigorous campaign by Labour and union activists. Health bosses had threatened to close the centre and relocate its services to the Conquest Hospital. But a series of protests – and more than 5,000 local people, who signed Labour’s paper […]
The Conservative government has shown a “shocking lack of compassion” in the face of rising poverty, says Hastings & Rye Labour parliamentary candidate Peter Chowney. And shoppers in Hastings got their chance to give their own verdict when campaigners gathered in the town centre on August 1 for a Day of Action on Child Poverty […]
