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2 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANThe 2025 Hastings Half Marathon, which was cancelled on the eve of its intended run on Sunday 23 March, has been rescheduled for Sunday 5 October. Nice Work, professional organisers of the event on behalf of the Hastings Lions Club, announced the new date last week. They confirmed that all runners enrolled for the original run will have their entries automatically transferred to the new date, while alternative options are being offered to those who cannot participate then.
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4 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Ashdown House |Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANThe housing estate being built on the site of Ashdown House, the former Department of Work & Pensions office-block off Harrow Lane, is due to accommodate 151 new homes and a fresh Aldi supermarket. The planning permission obtained in January 2022 from Hastings Borough Council also provided for the developers, Chartway Partnerships Group, to build a ground floor community centre below six residential flats within the estate.
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4 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Helena Dollimore |Hugh Sullivan |Jim McMahon
HUGH SULLIVANHelena Dollimore, MP for Hastings & Rye, secured a ‘debate’ in the House of Commons on 10 March concerning the financial collapse of Owens, the short-lived entertainment centre that traded in the former Debenhams building in the town centre between November 2022 and September 2023. The building has remained vacant and boarded up since.
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4 weeks ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
11 March Hastings Utd 0 Wingate & Finchley 215 March Dartford 2 Hastings Utd 022 March Hastings Utd 0 Chichester City 2HUGH SULLIVANThree further defeats have been suffered by Hastings United in the past fortnight, two of them at home and without a single goal scored.
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2 months ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan |West Marina
HUGH SULLIVANA coalition of design and community groups has unveiled proposals for the future of the ex-bathing pool and holiday camp at West Marina. At a recent exhibition and workshop, West St Leonards Forum, Hastings Urban Design and Save Our Bathing Site (SOBS) set out their preferred ideas, designs and models of the development for public viewing and discussion.
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2 months ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANTwo private housing companies contracted by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) have ceased to trade following a winding-up petition brought by HM Revenue & Customs. Phi Capital Investments Limited (PCIL) and associated company Simply Phi were engaged to identify, acquire and manage properties for letting to homeless households.
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2 months ago | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
19 January: Hastings Utd 1, Cray Wanderers 222 January: Hastings Utd 1, Binfield 226 January: Chatham Town v Hastings Utd – match abandoned28 January: Carshalton Athletic 2, Hastings Utd 1HUGH SULLIVANSome things are more important than football.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
ryenews.org.uk | Hugh Sullivan
Frank Langrish’s grandfather first came to farm in the Tillingham Valley to the north of Udimore over a century ago. Frank eventually inherited, and has worked on the land for his whole lifetime, expanding the family holding to around 700 hectares (1,800 acres). Now in his early 70s, he shares the farm business, keeping sheep and beef cattle, with his 44-year-old son as a partner, while his 17-year-old grandson currently studies agriculture at Plumpton.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANThe Horntye estate currently provides the town’s primary cricket ground and only current hockey pitch alongside a pavilion complex and large sports hall. Its trustees, the Hastings and Rother Sports Trust operating through Horntye Park Management Company, have argued for many years that the set-up is financially unviable – and always has been since its effective rejection as a first-class cricket ground by the Sussex County Cricket authorities.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Hugh Sullivan
HUGH SULLIVANFrank Langrish’s grandfather first came to farm in the Tilling Valley to the north of Udimore over a century ago. Frank eventually inherited, and has worked on the land for his whole lifetime, expanding the family holding to around 700 hectares (1,800 acres). Now in his early 70s, he shares the farm business, keeping sheep and beef cattle, with his 44-year-old son as a partner, while his 17-year-old grandson currently studies agriculture at Plumpton.
