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“Are you a Hot Dog?” I asked. “Who’s Askin’?” “It’s for the Hot Dogs page of The Hottie” I explained.
“Oh, all right then. I was goin’ to ask if you can read, as it’s clearly stated up there that this …
(Read more...)£117 raised at Boxing Day’s Spronkers competition — £18,883 to go!
Hastings Bonfire Society chairman Nick Lynas writes:
This year on 16th October we’ll be celebrating not only the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot but also our own 150th Anniversary. The great beach …
(Read more...)“The most exciting political meeting ever”
Congratulations to the Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust, which has organised a really effective independent campaign to put the future of the Pier at the top of this week’s St Helens by-election. This is their own report …
(Read more...)A monument to the fishing community
Hastings artist Laetitia Yhap has a national reputation for her paintings of the Hastings fishing beach and its community, combining humble details and workaday objects with an almost religious and heroic sense of awe that reminds …
(Read more...)Observations With Dark Light
Elisabeth Lewis reviews Alexander de Cadenet’s Demi-Monde at F-ISH Gallery, Robertson Street
This is a show about the dark side of life, monde noir. The pictures are drawing us to the significant in the detritus of the ordinary, …
(Read more...)The Making of Eb and Flo
St Leonards based painter and film maker GLENYS X JACQUES made a feature film that became a prize-winning short, to be shown by the BFI soon. She writes about the experience.…
(Read more...)Scratching a living from Big Issue
It’s tough being homeless in Hastings, and all the more so in times of recession. Joe, 52, sells Big Issue in an attempt to make a living but it’s an uphill struggle, as he explained to …
(Read more...)AVAAZ: A brilliant one-stop multi-purpose global campaign
If you’re worried about Climate change and the world food crisis, disgusted by the new rise of torture, in despair over the Middle East or the Amazon or want to support persecuted oppositionists such Burma’s …
(Read more...)Question: what do these things have in common? A walking aid, a roll-top bath, a bag of cement, a Dr Who Tardis playset, a Compaq PC, a fridge freezer, a steering wheel lock and a glass chess set?
(Read more...)EL Writes: “This is the kind of thing boys usually grow out of when they are 7 years old” declared a woman standing near me, behind the firing cannon.” An ejaculation machine, that’s what it is, especially something for men.” The 20 minutes …
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