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HTH’s Great Bake-Off

Holy Trinity Hastings (HTH) held its own Bake-Off on Sunday 7 October with local master bakers as part of the 11.15am informal service, with its café, live

Energising energy event!

The Future of Energy in Hastings and Rother. You are invited to take part in an open table discussion on the Future of Energy in Hastings with

Flooding early this year on the Bulverhythe rec lower tier. The Environment Agency currently rates the flood risk as too high for housing development.

HBC proposes Bulverhythe housing project while United mull Hollington move

While the proposed Combe Valley Sports Village on the Bulverhythe recreation ground has died a death, Hastings Borough Council is

A Mental Health Journey By ‘Divergent’

Hastings, a typical coastal town, picturesque, calming and yet for all its advantages, the resources and availability of assistance for those encountering mental health

Destruction and robbery at Queensbury House

Hard to comprehend, but Queensbury House, home to many charities and not-for-profit organisations was broken into, vandalised and a lot of valuable, valued and

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The amusement park owner plans to build a new footpath alongside the boating lake.

The amusement park owner plans to build a new footpath along the east side of the boating lake.

Right to pathway being walked all over

The public footpath through the Stade amusement park is under threat. What will the Foreshore Trust do? What does the Council think? Bernard McGinley takes a stroll down it, while he still can. Continue reading…

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Can Hastings show global community its value?

Hastings is at the centre of a richly historic area, with a heritage of enormous potential, worthy of conservation. Does it have what

Bev Lee Harling – singer, violinist and composer. Photograph by Ian Wallman

Reflecting on war in the comfort of home

Domestic objects animated to conjure a very different, charming, personal contemplation of #Armistice100 with new composition by Bev Lee Harling. Gail Borrow

Cutler's conception of Nimue and Merlin in his painting xx. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

Merlin magic comes to St Mary in the Castle

Marcio da Silva is well known in town for his magnificent Hastings Philharmonic concerts with winners of the Hastings International Piano

Was Crowley the “Wickedest Man in the World”?

Why has no Blue Plaque been awarded to Aleister Crowley – self-styled “The Beast 666”? Perhaps we may understand why when we

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Catalysing economic change

Join the movement to create a fairer, more thoughtful economic system. Word is spreading that an alternative, local financial system is entirely possible: it’s already happening in

Regeneration from the bottom up

Hastings Green Party will be hosting a free talk on Thursday 25 October about how regeneration must be done in collaboration with local people, rather

Humanising homelessness

Harry Tryphonos felt catalysed to write an article about homelessness after seeing the number of homeless people in the Hastings area and the south coast generally – and

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Walk-in Centre campaign gets Swish!

Saturday’s ‘get-together’ outside the Walk-in Centre at Station Plaza was the third and biggest of the campaign’s well-mannered protests so far. Over 70 people gathered

Death comes to Hastings

Crime-fiction writers love seaside settings – the myriad ways to kill people perhaps – so, it’s surely not that surprising that Hastings should have its moment