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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

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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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

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

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

Campaigners from Ore turned the Nº 20 bus into a temporary Battle Bus!

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 outside the Walk-in Centre and shared their experiences of using the facility and why it was important that it remain in the town centre. Continue reading…

Dr David Warden accepting the 4000 strong petition from Peter Chowney, Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate

Campaigners to protest against closure of Hastings’ Walk-in Health Centre this Saturday

Campaigners aiming to keep open the Station Plaza Walk-in Health Centre in Hastings town centre will meet outside

The fresh fish stall @ Love Café

One of the best things about living on the Sussex coast is the abundance of good quality, seasonal produce sold by independent businesses,

HOT Style: Meet Emma

Spotted at See Spray Gallery, 153 Queens Road. HOT Style-Seeker, Claudine Eccleston, reports on Emma’s ‘devil may care style.’

What brings you to Hastings?

Not the Final Major Project at HAF

When you hear the words ‘graduate show’, the heart tends to sink. So it was with some trepidation that HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went

Gwyneth Herbert’s letter songs at the Opus

Award-winning musician, Gwyneth Herbert ends her Letters I Haven’t Written tour at the Opus Theatre in Hastings on 18 October 2018. Here A.

Handover of Green Party petition on the harbour proposal to mayor Nigel Sinden, right, by Julia Hilton, centre, and Amelia Womack, the Greens' deputy leader.

Lessons from withdrawal of harbour proposal

The harbour proposal in Rock-a-Nore has been withdrawn – but different parties have different versions of how that happened, how Hastings Borough Council handled

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Stockpiled © Xaverine MA Bates, mixed media, 2018

The Mother Lode Project

Mother lode: a principal vein or zone of gold or silver ore, or colloquially the real/imaginary origin of something valuable or in great abundance. The aim

Maya Evans: Epic trek for peace

Hollington Councillor Maya Evans gave a first-hand account of taking part in an epic trek for peace at a meeting on 2 October organised

Lek and the Dogs: ‘They said he had a disrupted mind’

Andrew Kotting’s film Lek and the Dogs, based on a true story, is showing at the Kino

Sparkly Bird: Flying high

Sparkly Bird, created by Kat Lee Ryan, is an evocative, heartfelt and emotional performance catalysed by the loss of her sister, who, to the immense shock

What’s HOT at the White Rock

HOT’s Paul Way-Rider takes a look at some of the offerings coming up at the White Rock Theatre (WRT) in October and November including

Identity: a twin town collaboration

You are invited to the launch of ‘Identity’, a collaboration between artists from Hastings and Dordrecht, twin towns since 1982. The collaboration is in response

Art of movement

For all who want to move, dance and feel good. Dancer and choreographer Viv Hamblin and Feldenkrais practitioner Catherine Pinhorn are offering a series of workshops for

Dawn Butler MP and Peter Chowney, parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party (centre) with Walk-in Centre campaigners last Saturday

Location, location, location: good news for the Walk-in Centre

Local residents’ concerns about the Walk-in Centre appear to have been heard by the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) officers who have

Coltrane recalled at Jazz Hastings gig

The music of jazz great John Coltrane will be centre-stage when Israeli-born saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and his quartet headline at Jazz Hastings monthly gig

Merlin magic comes to St Mary in the Castle

Humanising homelessness

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Regeneration from the bottom up

Catalysing economic change

Can Hastings show global community its value?

Walk-in Centre campaign gets Swish!

Campaigners to protest against closure of Hastings’ Walk-in Health Centre this Saturday

The fresh fish stall @ Love Café

HOT Style: Meet Emma

Not the Final Major Project at HAF

Gwyneth Herbert’s letter songs at the Opus

Lessons from withdrawal of harbour proposal

12 comments

The Mother Lode Project

Maya Evans: Epic trek for peace

Lek and the Dogs: ‘They said he had a disrupted mind’

Sparkly Bird: Flying high

What’s HOT at the White Rock

Identity: a twin town collaboration

Art of movement

Location, location, location: good news for the Walk-in Centre

Coltrane recalled at Jazz Hastings gig

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