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Hastings Observer Articles
24th February 2023 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Observer Article February 2023. This winter has been extremely tough for many people and there has been an explosion in demand for help accessing services and funding. It is heartening to see Green councillors coming up with innovative neighbourhood solutions to providing help and support. Last week saw the first Keep Well and Warm event […]
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30th January 2023 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Observer article Jan 31 2023 January has been quite a month for Hastings, with strikes, fire and flooding reminding us of the reason for investment in the public sector, both workers and infrastructure. Our sewage and drainage systems are not up to the task of dealing with extreme rainfall events, which are likely to be […]
24th December 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
For many years Hastings Borough Council was run by a majority Labour administration. At the elections last May that authority was lost, and the council is now in ‘no overall control’. Until a few weeks ago Labour and the Greens ran the council as an alliance, but interference from Labour’s National Executive put paid to […]
24th October 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Observer article for October 2022 – Julia Hilton By the time you read this article, Hastings Borough Council will have voted on whether to bring back in house the maintenance of our town’s astonishing 690 hectares of green space. For the last decade the care of our parks, gardens and wild land has been contracted […]
Local Elections
17th October 2022 / 24th July 2023 by juliahilton
An open letter from Hastings Green Party to the people of Hastings and St Leonards. Hastings Green Party is ending the cooperative alliance it formed with Labour to run Hastings Council. After Greens won three additional council seats in May 2022’s local elections and took the council into No Overall Control[1], Green and Labour Group leaders agreed […]
24th September 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Observer Article – September 2022 One thing I have learnt, in all the wall to wall coverage of the Queen’s life this week, is that as well as having a great sense of humour she was a true matriarch, quietly wielding a lot of soft power behind the scenes. Matriarchal power is the kind exercised […]
24th August 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
We are one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet this summer we are facing both an energy and a water crisis. A decent home that provides refuge from both extreme heat and cold and access to food and clean water are basic human rights and yet we are facing a winter where […]
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26th July 2022 / 26th July 2022 by juliahilton
Make 20mph the default speed on our residential streets across Hastings and St Leonards where we live, work, shop, play and learn. by Zelly Restorick In St Leonards, Amanda Jobson – a newly elected Green Councillor for Gensing Ward – was listening to residents’ concerns last spring about speeding. Amanda says: “I’ve lived here for 15 […]
19th July 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Just too hot It’s been a tough week in Hastings if you struggle with the heat. Hastings missed the worst of the UK’s first “red heatwave” warning. Even so, Friends of the Earth research shows over 16,000 households in Hastings could be vulnerable to extreme heat. Often these will be the same households who suffer […]
24th June 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
First of all, thank you to the Observer for offering me this weekly column on all things Green. I will use this space to celebrate all the community initiatives that are already under way to green our town and reduce our carbon footprint, but also to issue an urgent call to action. We need the […]
