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Jack in the Green

This year’s Jack in the Green festival once again featured an eclectic collection of groups and individuals gathering to celebrate the pursuit and eventual slaying of Jack, marking the start of summer – and indeed the sun shone for at least some of this wonderful day. Hastings Online Times’ volunteer amateur photo-journalists give you a flavour of the festival, and issue a call to all those real photographers out there in Hastings and St Leonards – contribute to HOT and send us your photo-stories.

Stick fighters and a street seller

Giants on the march

A colourful trio

Posted 11:43 am Tuesday, May 8, 2012 In: Hastings People Tags: , , ,

 

You’ve been framed!

Beth Davies discovered that local artist, Cathy Simpson, was invited to capture well-known weather presenter, Sian Lloyd, in one of her delicious caricatures. Cathy recently joined The HOT team and has written art exhibition reviews, book reviews, …

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Posted 6:22 pm Tuesday, April 17, 2012 In: Hastings People

We are all in St Leonards but some of us are looking at the stars…

HOT’s Erica Smith tracked down the multi-talented Bradford Gross to ask him some questions about Space, brogues, and why on earth is he here in St Leonards …

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Posted 12:31 pm Friday, March 30, 2012 In: Hastings People Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Gull: “No comment”

A rescue by Hastings fire-fighters was watched by HOT reporter Joe Fearn.

At around 4.45pm on the evening of Friday 23 March, eagle-eyed staff at The Creative Media Centre on Robertson Street in Hastings town centre spotted a …

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Posted 9:20 am Monday, March 26, 2012 In: Hastings People Tags:

Digging out the truth about women spies

What image comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘women spies’? The stock reaction seems to be Mata Hari, or some of the James Bond girls. This was the response with which Ann …

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Posted 10:44 am Thursday, March 8, 2012 In: Hastings People

A sofa dumped on the pavement was put on Freecycle and taken within hours!

The unsung heroes and heroines of recycling

While many of us loudly celebrated Preservation Sunday on 19 February, over 5,000 residents of Hastings & St Leonards quietly marked …

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Posted 8:10 pm Sunday, February 19, 2012 In: Grassroots,Green Times,Hastings People,The HOT Planet

New Hastings Charity is going swimmingly

Charity for Kids, Hastings’ newly established registered charity, is ready for every challenge in its drive to provide for the disadvantaged and poorly children in the Hastings area. So much so that they have started training …

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Posted 6:08 pm Friday, February 17, 2012 In: Hastings People

Last July the ‘anti-terrorist focus desk’ of the City of Westminster police issued a call for members of the public to report any sightings of anarchists immediately. “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead …

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Posted 10:51 am Tuesday, January 17, 2012 In: Hastings People

Grasping an existential nettle

Hastings Humanists will hold their first meeting of the year on Thursday to debate the topic: A Disembodied Mind Is Impossible – or Is It?

The question obviously has implications for the existence of such phenomena as ghosts, …

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Posted 5:56 pm Tuesday, January 10, 2012 In: Hastings People Tags:

The Rainbow Alliance list tells you what’s worth coming out for!

If you are part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rainbow and want to find out more events in the area, I recommend signing up to the Hastings and …

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Posted 3:46 pm Tuesday, December 13, 2011 In: Hastings People

LGBT Hastings

Every now and again, the Hastings Queer Community get together to create a memorable Big Night Out – amongst others, we’ve had Queer on the Pier, Juicy, Another Planet and now a new night at the Tubman. Plus, in the …

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Posted 8:51 pm Wednesday, November 23, 2011 In: Hastings People Tags:

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