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1 week ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Harry Scowen |Hugh Sullivan
7 June: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 167; West Chiltington & Thakeham 58 for 4 (rained off)14 June: Worthing 195; Priory 197 for 2HUGH SULLIVANOnly three points separate the top three teams in Division 2 of the Sussex Cricket League after last Saturday’s round of matches – but Hastings & St Leonards Priory now head the table after a comprehensive home victory over Worthing.
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3 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
24 May: Buxted Park 61; Hastings & St Leonards Priory 64 for 231 May: Priory 245 for 5; Mayfield 190HUGH SULLIVANTwo comfortable wins over the past fortnight have elevated the Hastings & Priory team to second place in Division 2 of the Sussex Cricket League. There’s a long way to go, and Priory have yet to play against any of the better teams in the division, but the form of both batters and bowlers augurs well for the immediate future. On 24 May, they travelled to Buxted Park.
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3 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan |Lee Carey
HUGH SULLIVANLee Carey featured prominently as a 19-year-old in the Hastings United promotion side of 2006/7 and captained the team in the FA cup run of 2012/13. He returned to the club’s Pilot Field headquarters to assist chairman Dean White in managing the team for the run-in last season and has now been appointed permanent men’s first team manager for next season. He will start, however, with a dearth of aces in his pack.
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3 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan |Sean Cochrane
HUGH SULLIVANThe Vive Hotel at 44 Havelock Road in Hastings Town Centre closed last month after two companies involved in its management – Havelock Property Limited and Havelock 1 Limited – were declared insolvent and put into administration. Sole director and shareholder of both, Sean Cochrane, appears to have dissociated himself after firing up to 15 hotel staff with their last month’s wages unpaid.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANThe Bexhill Colonnade, which accommodates a parade of independent shops and cafes along the seafront promenade immediately below the De La Warr Pavilion, is to undergo extensive renovation and refurbishment from September. The whole parade, an Edwardian structure which pre-dates the Pavilion, is suffering from structural problems, including water ingress from above in various places, and it’s universally accepted that this work is overdue.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
10 May: Hastings & St Leonards Priory 251-7; Preston Nomads 2nds 252-517 May: Brighton & Hove 181; Priory 182-4HUGH SULLIVANThe cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory began their Division 2 season with a five-wicket defeat by Preston Nomads 2nd team – due warning that, after relegation from the Sussex Premier League in 2024, they are not going to get themselves back up without a struggle.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
21 April: Dover Athletic 1; Hastings Utd 126 April: Hastings Utd 2; Potters Bar Town 3HUGH SULLIVANOn 10 August Hastings United won the opening game of their Isthmian Premier League season, beating Horsham 2-0. They also won three days later, away at Whitehawk. Eight-and-a-half months later they’ve finished 20th out of 22 teams, relegated back to the South East Division, while Horsham ended as champions.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANAn unusually dry and sunny spring has brought cricket weather early this year, and the Horntye Park pitch off Bohemia Road is looking a pretty picture. The Hastings & St Leonards Priory team, relegated from the Sussex Premier League by the closest of margins last September, play their first Division 2 match away to Preston Nomads 2nd XI tomorrow (Saturday). They will open their home season the following Saturday, 17 May, when they entertain Brighton & Hove.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan |Paul McLaughlin |Paul Mclaughlin
HUGH SULLIVAN and PAUL MCLAUGHLINPlans for a major new housing development on the former bathing pool site at Seaside Road in West St Leonards have been revealed by prospective developers, over three-and-a-half years after signing a Development Agreement with Hastings Borough Council (HBC). The proposals, showcased at a public exhibition last Tuesday (29 April) at Electro Studios, featured detailed drawings and visual projections for more than 150 new homes on the site.
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1 month ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan |Stephen Timms
HUGH SULLIVANLittle Gate Farm is a social enterprise which supports adults with learning disabilities and autism into sustained employment. A fortnight ago, Sir Stephen Timms MP, the Minister for Social Security and Disability, took a team from his Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in London to spend a morning at the Farm’s rural headquarters, buried deep in the countryside between Beckley and Udimore.
