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How to spend 48 hours feasting in St Leonards-on-Sea: the ultimate foodie break near London

This underrated East Sussex town needs to be on your radar for a weekend of gluttony, says Jo Fernandez

Evening Standard

London leavers: 'We left renting in Dalston for a derelict house in Hastings we got for £200k at auction'

Holly Murdoch and Joseph Ryan left London to do up their new home and run The Seadog pub

Evening Standard

‘People tell me they’re not ready to work’: how long-term sickness blighted a town

Hastings has the highest number of young people in England in bad health. But, amid a national epidemic of forced economic inactivity, there is hope

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Tory MP demands Brexit damage to school group tourism is eased

Exclusive: ‘It is vital the government ensures that barriers to growth are removed’ – Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye

The Independent UK

About 2,000 homes in Hastings on fifth day with no water supply

Most of 32,500 properties back online after mains pipe burst but hundreds to go without for another night

The Guardian - UK

Water restored to 25,000 properties after East Sussex main burst

Around 7,500 properties are still without water, though supplies to about 6,000 are expected to be restored this evening

Evening Standard

Mains water begins returning to 32,500 East Sussex properties after pipe burst

Southern Water says supplies coming back to St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings now that rupture in woodland area has been fixed

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More than 30,000 properties without water three days after main burst in Sussex

Southern Water said in an update on Sunday it was ‘very sorry’ that people in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, and in Westfield were still without water.

Evening Standard

New Zealand's 'Coffin Clubs' Bury Taboos About Death

It's a task of grave importance, but there's nothing to stop New Zealanders having a laugh as they work on DIY caskets in the country's "coffin clubs".

International Business Times

Tanya Plibersek blocks Victorian government’s plan to build wind turbine plant at Port of Hastings

Environment minister says ‘large areas of [wetland] will be destroyed or substantially modified’ by the proposal for windfarm development

The Guardian - AU

The battle for Hastings: a seaside town on the up

Hastings is one of Sussex’s more maligned coastal towns, but it’s having something of a rebirth with a slick new hotel and a colourful café scene

The Guardian - UK

Rolling back Brexit: Government eases ID card ban for EU school groups

The Man Who Pays His Way: ‘Destinations like Hastings are absolutely decimated by a lack of school visits,’ says VisitBritain chief executive

The Independent UK

Councils in England facing bankruptcy as lack of housing pushes up costs

Budgets could be overwhelmed as evictions and rising mortgage rates cause homelessness to surge

The Guardian - UK

Shopping centre evacuated due to flooding as Met Office issues weekend weather warnings

The Environment Agency has 39 flood warnings in place, stretching from northeast to southwest England

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Fishing communities ‘suffering from impact of growing seal colonies’, says MP

Sally-Ann Hart, Tory MP for Hastings and Rye, was speaking during environment questions in the House of Commons.

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Seymour finds common ground in Hawkes Bay

If there’s one politician who can move seamlessly from an upmarket women’s clothing store to a dimly-lit bar with a dozen televisions blasting the horse racing, to a famers market, it’s David Seymour. Emma Hatton reports on his 24 hours in Hastings.

The Guardian - UK

Tory donor’s Hastings ‘fun factory’ closes abruptly after £150,000 grant

Lubov Chernukhin’s amusement centre, which received money from levelling up fund, shuts doors after less than a year

The Independent UK

Man jailed for ‘opportunistic’ rape of woman on Hastings beach

Matthew Taylor was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court after a trial, Sussex Police said.

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Seals, hot tubs, overpriced beer: how I holidayed in Iceland – without leaving Hastings

Can you get a taste of the land of fire and ice without leaving the English seaside? I put on my horned helmet to find out

Evening Standard

Leaving London: ‘Hastings has plenty to love, but I miss easy access to gefilte fish balls’

Swapping the capital for Hastings, I imagined a life of wholesome beach pursuits — who knew I’d miss gefilte fish balls so much?

Daily Mirror

DIY disaster dad forced to fork out £4,500 after trying to fix ceiling himself

Tom Saunders, who lives in Hastings, East Sussex, thought it would be much cheaper to do the roofing work himself but now says he has "definitely learnt my lesson"

The Guardian - UK

£150,000 levelling up grant awarded to Tory donor’s amusement centre in Hastings

Owens centre, co-founded by Lubov Chernukhin, raises questions about whether public money has gone to projects most in need of it

Daily Mirror

Famous town's cheeky sign highlights the dire state of the UK's pothole roads

Hastings is most famous for the historic battle that took place there almost a millennia ago, but a new sign is letting the town lay claim to a less sought after title

Daily Mirror

Library book returned 48 years late during amnesty to avoid £4,000 fine

The copy of Havelok the Warrior by Ian Serraillier was taken out in Hastings, East Sussex in 1975 - by now it would have racked up £4,000 in overdue fines

Daily Mirror

Naturist arrested by off-duty cop because he was naked but didn't commit a crime

Richard Collins, who is the founder of the Naturists UK group, was minding his own business on a bench in Hastings when the off-duty Metropolitan Police officer ordered him to get dressed and called 999

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