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It’s child’s play, really

Play is a serious business and a lack of play opportunities for children is becoming a form of deprivation, according to play national organisations.

All too often the subject of play has been trivialised, consigned to local newspaper …

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Posted 4:52 pm Thursday, January 28, 2010 In: HOT Tots Tags:

JUDY DEWSBERY never imagined

she’d become a victim …

I never imagined for one second that I’d become a victim of the contemporary plague. After three days of feeling so weary that I could hardly stand up — but three days when

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Posted 10:53 pm Wednesday, January 27, 2010 In: Health Matters Tags:

The PoWEr 2010 Campaign:
Democracy Facebook style?

The respected left-leaning Rowntree Trust has launched the PoWEr 2010 internet campaign to “fix our broken politics”. They started by calling for ideas and had 4,500 submissions, including ideas for some much needed reforms.

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Posted 9:52 pm In: Campaigns Tags:

HOT’s Erica Smith ran the New York Marathon for the Sara Lee Trust

NICCI TALBOT writes:

Sara Lee was just 32 when she died of cancer in Hastings. During her two-year illness she tried various complementary therapies to alleviate the symptoms …

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Posted 10:45 pm Friday, January 22, 2010 In: Health Matters Tags:

Coming through Hastings at Easter:

The Flame of Hope March

This year Hastings will be involved in a peace march with a difference. A specially designed ‘Flame of Hope’ will cross the south east, carried from town to town by a changing …

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Posted 9:45 pm Thursday, January 21, 2010 In: Campaigns Tags:

Bottle In A Message

GLENN VENESS thinks Hastings should be re-branded as the Birthplace of Vision

Congratulations to everybody whose hard work has brought together Hastings Online Times. Ironically, I’ve got no computer, but what better excuse to visit friends. We’re always …

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Posted 5:05 pm In: 1067 & All That Tags:

Art Club at the Black Winkle

LAUREN CRAMPTON reckons her parents get the best cards and presents in town. Her secret is to be found at the Sign of the Black Winkle

Nestled into the cliff of the east hill down by …

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Posted 3:29 pm Tuesday, January 19, 2010 In: Visual Arts Tags: ,

The building of a temple

In among the volcanic eruption of visual ideas splattered on the walls at Hastings Museum by JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN, there’s a couple of pages hand-written in red ink and framed. They are written by their one-time

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Posted 12:52 pm Monday, January 18, 2010 In: Visual Arts Tags:

Avaaz Petition over Uganda’s Gay death penalty

16 Feb 2010

Avaaz, the international campaign group (see below) this week has a petition to Uganda’s parliament, which is set to make gay people face life imprisonment, and the death penalty for “serial offenders”. …

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Posted 9:47 pm Sunday, January 17, 2010 In: Campaigns Tags:

Pier CPO Progress?

After the promise by Simon Corello during the St Helen’s by-election to support a Compulsory Purchase Order to get ownership of the Pier by HBC on behalf of the Pier Trust, all eyes were on the next available date. When

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Posted 8:37 pm In: Home Ground Tags: ,

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