Direct action against road
Campaigners against plans to build a link road between Hastings and Bexhill say they will take "direct action" if the scheme continue.
Man guilty of dog attacks
The owner of two dogs has pleaded guilty after they attacked 10 people in Hastings.
Dog attack charges
A 21-year-old man, charged following a dog attack which left ten people needing hospital treatment, will appear in court today.
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Lorry crashes into back garden
A lorry carrying bags of cement has crashed into a back garden in Sussex.
The incident happened in Castle Down Avenue in Hastings this morning.
The lorry was delivering bags of cement to a nearby building site when it toppled over with its load into the garden.
Strong showing by Labour in Hastings
#Hastings St Helens & Silverhill has been won by John Hodges (Lab) and Braybrooke & Castle has been won by Godfrey Daniel (Lab). #ESvote13
From @EastSussexCC on Twitter:#Hastings Maze Hill & West St Leonards has been won by Kim Forward (Lab) and Hollington & Wishing Tree has been won by Phil Scott (Lab).
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Polling station moved because of fire
A serious fire in Queens, Road, Hastings has meant that the power supply to parts of Hastings town centre has had to be cut off. Because of this, the polling station at the Friends Meeting House in 5 South Terrace has had to be relocated, to Hastings Town Hall, around 250 metres away.
Fishing crews demand change to quotas
Fishing crews from Kent and Sussex demonstrated outside the High Court today for the start of a legal battle which they say will either save their livelihoods .. or end them. Andrea Thomas reports.
Body in pond believed to be missing patient
Police believe that the body found in a pond on the grounds of Hastings' Conquest Hospital is that of missing patient Gary Baker.
Police were called to the grounds of the hospital on Tuesday evening where the body of a man had been spotted in a pond by a local man walking his dog.
Officers had to call in the fire service to recover the body after discovering the area around the pond was extremely boggy and hazardous.
Body found in hospital pond
A body found in a pond inside a hospital's grounds is believed to be of a man reported missing after discharging himself following an operation.
A dog walker called emergency services after spotting the corpse in the groundsof the Conquest Hospital in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, yesterday evening.
Sussex Police, who are treating the death as unexplained, believe the body is of 47-year-old Gary Baker who left the hospital following an operation on April 25.
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Fish are 'not a private commodity' court told
The case is being brought by the New Under Ten Fishermen's Association (NUTFA) with support of Greenpeace.
NUTFA represents many of the over three hundred small fishing boats registered in the South East.
They have been given permission by the court to argue that fish are not a private commodity but a public good held in trust by the government on behalf of all citizens.
Courts to decide fishermen's future
A group of small-scale fishermen from the South East are in London for the first day of hearings in a historic High Court battle which could decide the 30-year-old question of who ultimately controls the UK's fishing quota.
The court decision will have an impact of hundreds of fishermen in our region, including in Hastings and Ramsgate.
The judicial review has been brought by against a decision by Defra to reallocate a small amount of consistently unused fishing quota held by producer organisations to small-scale fishermen.
Endangered ray eggs waiting to hatch in Hastings
A total of eleven egg-cases are waiting to hatch at the Hastings Blue Reef Aquarium.
The eggs, which were laid at their sister-aquarium in Bristol as part of a captive breeding programme, belong to the undulate ray which is now considered to be endangered in the wild.
The eggs should start to hatch out over the summer.
Blue Reef’s Curator Chris Ireland said: “Many species of European sharks and rays are increasingly coming under threat of extinction in the wild. It would be great if we were able to successfully breed this particular species in captivity."
Birds die in oil spill
RSPCA inspectors have collected several birds caught in an oil spillage on the north Kent coast. The birds were found covered in thick, black sticky fuel oil. They include eight red throated divers, two of which had to be put to sleep to end their suffering, two guillemots and a dunlin which died.
All came from the Ramsgate harbour area except for one of the divers which was picked up in Rye harbour. They are being cared for by the RSPCA Mallydams Wildlife centre in Hastings.
RSPCA wildlife supervisor Richard Thompson said: “Birds like these, that are used to spending all their lives on the water, are difficult for us to manage but we have the expertise and will do our best for them.
– Richard Thompson, RSPCAThe oil we are dealing with is very caustic and the two we have had to put to sleep had ingested a lot of it.
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