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  • Ed Boxall at the Alexandra Park greenhouse’s Halloween event last year (photo: Colin Foy).

    Ed Boxall launches new book at Alexandra Park greenhouse Halloween event

    CHILDREN’S author Ed Boxall will launch his latest book at the Alexandra Park Greenhouse community hub in October. Lynda Foy tells the story so far.

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    Celebrating Marianne North

    LOCAL artists will help celebrate the life of Marianne North in a special exhibition at the Alexandra Park greenhouse community hub on 24 October, Lynda Foy reports.

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    Hastings Pier proposals not as hunkydory as repeatedly alleged

    The Pier is the subject of another application to Hastings Borough Council (HBC). Are they actual improvements or trying to lock in mediocrity that’s outstayed its welcome? Bernard McGinley reports on a situation compounded by feeble assertions and Council indulgence.

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    Council to draw up local child poverty plan

    Moves to tackle child poverty, including the preparation of a local plan to combat it, have been decided by Hastings Borough Council after the matter dominated September’s Full Council meeting. Nick Terdre reports.

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    Laugh Out Loud comedy club at Hastings White Rock

    Hastings latest new comedy show brings three TV comedians including Scottish comedian of the year, to the start of a regular venue comedy night in the newly refurbished Studio at Hastings White Rock.

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    Three exhibitions at PhotoHastings Festival

    It’s October which means the PhotoHastings photography festival is upon us. It started with a great energy, three very different exhibitions showing the range of photography and photographers there are in this town. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, a member of PhotoHastings, went along to look.

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    Sign up to explore a new skill

    Hastings Commons is currently running a programme of courses tailored to suit people who have never felt comfortable in formal learning situations. Erica Smith encourages you to sign up to a short course and discover how much fun it can be to learn a new skill.

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    What’s to be done about the buses? MP gets involved

    Hastings & Rye MP Helena Dollimore has picked up the case of our deteriorating bus service and will hopefully meet with Stagecoach to discuss how it can be improved. While the bus company has a role to play, action – and money – are required from other parties, as Anna Sabin explains.

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    © Gary Willis 'No Home. No Hope.'

    PhotoHastings Festival: There, not Here

    There, not Here is a compelling exhibition staged by six photographers: Anne Lydiat, Derek Cottrell, Gary Willis, Giles Stokoe, Imogen Bloor and Neale Willis. Last year many of the same photographers staged Here, not There which was a really stand-out show, and the quality has not diminished this year. A variety of challenging themes reflect the title from global warming and studies of the homeless to personal memories. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, who is also a member of PhotoHastings, was impressed.

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    Five people stand in a line against a coloured background. They are all participants in Safe Operating Space. Tullis Rennie is the person in the centre of the photograph.

    Safe Operating Space – audio stanzas constructed with music – composer Tullis Rennie

    Safe Operating Space – audio stanzas constructed with music – composer Tullis Rennie

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    Fresh call for public to help ensure that vulnerable pensioners receive Winter Fuel Payment

    Official figures suggest that 10,000 vulnerable East Sussex pensioners risk missing-out on Winter Fuel Payment this year. Energise Sussex Coast’s Gabriel Carlyle reports.

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    Council persist with press censorship and being down on free speech

    Recently HOT reported how Hastings Borough Council (HBC) have a persistent habit of censoring comment that they disagree with. It continues — but when the planners are asked by colleagues not to publish something, they do. Bernard McGinley reports.

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    Auction of 1930s and 40s collectibles at Kino Teatr

    You are invited by Lori Stone-Wisdom to an all-day auction of collectibles – cars, trucks, planes plus other items from the 1930s and 1940s –  at the Kino Teatr in St Leonards on Norman Road on 23 October from 10am til 7pm. The items belonged to Lori’s beloved husband, the wonderful Hugh Stone-Wisdom, who sadly passed away in September 2021. 60% of proceeds to RNLI. HOT’s Zelly Restorick spoke to Lori Stone-Wisdom about her husband’s collection and the auction.

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    Thunder, lightning and dirt, with the She Choir

    Hastings SHE Choir presents Thunder, Lightning and Dirt – a concert which it promises will be an unmissable evening celebrating grassroots music, performance, and creativity in all its many forms, says choir member Hannah Collisson

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    Poster for Disaster! mini season shows people in water in peril

    Film season marks golden age of ’70s disaster movies

    Look out! Plan ahead for a couple of nostalgic Autumnal Sundays riding back in time to the early 1970s to indulge in a collection of handpicked Hollywood blockbuster disaster films at the Electric Palace cinema, says Annie Waite.

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    Peace activists stage mass die-in at arms factory to protest a year of genocide

    Peace activists staged a mass die-in event at weapons manufacturer General Dynamics’ site in Hastings on Friday 4 October to protest a year of Israeli genocide. 

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