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21st January 2025 / 21st January 2025 by Becca H
The Green Party of Hastings and Rye is pleased to see the trustees of the University of Brighton Academy Trust announce in a letter to staff and parents that they do not have faith in the leadership of the Trust. The leadership are unable to ensure “that every academy is able to deliver the best […]
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9th January 2025 Cllr Julia Hilton, Leader of Hastings Borough Council, condemns Tory plans to cancel East Sussex County Council’s elections East Sussex Conservatives today voted to use the government’s recently announced shake-up of local councils as a means to suspend the May 2025 County elections. If agreed by Government, this would keep them in […]
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21st November 2024 / 21st November 2024 by Becca H
GREENS GET CLIMATE & NATURE MOTION PASSED At last night’s full council, Green Cllr Amanda Jobson saw her motion for Hastings Borough Council to back the Parliamentary Climate & Nature (CAN) Bill finally voted through, having been delayed since July. In an impassioned speech introducing the motion, Cllr Jobson said, “This bill is already backed […]
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GREENS URGE SUPPORT FOR LETTER TO PM ON GAZA At LAST NIGHT’S Full Council, Green Council Leader Julia Hilton read out a letter to Prime Minister Kier Starmer addressing the crisis in Gaza, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon. The letter – which has so far been agreed by the Labour group leader and the Mayor – […]
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8th August 2024 / 9th August 2024 by davidbowden
Hastings Green Party wholeheartedly condemns the organised racist and Islamophobic acts of violence that we have seen in towns and cities across the country over the past week. Our town was named on a far-right target list: a threat designed to intimidate and cause terror within our local communities of colour, Muslims, refugees and migrants, […]