The Latest Breaking News from Hastings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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