A town that is weird in so many ways
Barbaros Devecioglu, the proprietor of Cafe Grand Rue De Pera in Queens Road looks back on three years in Hastings and St Leonards and puts his finger on what keeps him here.
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Meet St Leonards twin: San Juan in Puerto Rico
Photographer and St Leonards’ fan, JJ Waller finds a psychogeographical twin town…
New neighbours for Stockleigh Road
If you are in the Seven Streets area of St Leonards this weekend, look out for moving vans in Stockleigh Road. Seven new homes have been created by the Amicus Horizon housing association and the new residents will be moving in over the next few days. HOT’s Erica Smith went round to check out the decor and lend a cup of sugar.
Lewes walker discovers St Leonard’s charms
Sea, street art (including a Banksy), fabulous regency architecture, grand art deco, aristocratic parkland, the rich, the poor and the trendy, and all within a kilometre of St Leonards Warrior Square station! Sustainable travel expert Chris Smith from Lewes has launched a new historic and scenic walk around St Leonards, writes Chris Cormack.
Tell HBC what you think of them, and win £100!
Hastings Borough Council wants to know if you are satisfied with what they have been doing on your behalf. And if you answer this short online survey by 31 August, you might win £100 of shopping vouchers for your services.
Vulcan to woo crowds over Hastings
The last Avro Vulcan V bomber in flightworthy condition, XH558, is due to strut its stuff in the air above the seafront this Saturday, 15 June, at about 3.30pm. It may be the last year that this display can be seen unless enough donors can be found to keep it in the air for another two years as planned, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
Jack in the Green – Hastings dresses up again!
More jollity took place in Hastings this Bank Holiday Monday, with Jack in the Green – a celebration of the arrival of summer. Fortunately, after weeks of dire weather, the sun kindly burnt off the morning sea mist and shone on the crowds, writes Antony Mair.
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It has always seemed an odd meeting of minds – the Jack in the Green Festival, the Drummers, the Morris dancers… and the Bikers. Different tribes, different interests, different dress codes but they all seem to jostle along happily together. A real oddity of a social and cultural mix. But it seems to work – in fact it more than works. The different tribes coexist happily.
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