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Joseph Kay’s St Mary-in-the-Castle: inspired by Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza
Residents and visitors often have an opinion that Hastings and St Leonards is special. What makes it so? Could the borough be improved or looked after better? Hastings Commons is trying to find out, as Bernard McGinley reports. Continue reading…
The current exhibition in the upstairs gallery of Hastings Museum is an extraordinary exploration of a local inventor by two contemporary polymath artists – Jude Montague and Geraldine Swayne. Erica Smith is delighted that this gem of an exhibition has had a stay of execution and will remain on show until 20 April.
The ‘chemical shutdown’ in sleepy St Leonards was competing in the national news cycle with the closure of Heathrow Airport this week. The story was covered by the BBC, Guardian, Independent, Metro and Sky News. But what’s the word on the street? Local reporter Dee Williams brings you the latest news and speculation.
Hastings Philharmonic Choir’s next concert, on Saturday 5 April, will be a performance of Antonin Dvořák’s famous Stabat Mater. They will be accompanied by the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marcio da Silva, with soloists Helen May (soprano), Julia Piñon (contralto), Leonel Pinheiro (tenor) and Robert Winslade Anderson (bass). Press officer Gareth Simpson sets the scene.
At last Thursday’s (20 March) Full Council meeting of East Sussex County Council, members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) handed in a petition of 813 residents calling on the council to divest its pension fund (the East Sussex Pension Fund) from companies enabling Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Hastings & Rye PSC chair Katy Colley reports.
Raymond Kilgarriff, exceptional bookseller and much else, died peacefully at his home in St Leonards last month, aged 96. Bernard McGinley remembers an old-fashioned and charming professional.
Opposition parties were dismayed when the East Sussex County Council elections scheduled for May were cancelled, having held high hopes of removing the Conservatives from power. A poll now suggests that the Tories were indeed heading for a disastrous result, but with Reform UK also set to benefit. Text by Nick Terdre, research and graphics by Russell Hall.
Hastings Jews for Justice will be marking Passover this year with a community ‘seder’ meal and everyone is invited. Gabriel Carlyle reports.
The community hub at Alexandra Park greenhouse will imminently be hosting two events, a chance to make a Mother’s Day gift and a talk on combating garden pests. Lynda Foy gives details.
The first ever Hastings Neurodiversity Film Festival taking place at the Electric Palace cinema and other local venues from 28 to 30 March, is a celebration of autism and neurodiversity on screen, making visible the characters and stories that are often invisible in contemporary mainstream cinema, says Annie Waite.
I spent the morning of Friday 14 March at the Police and Crime Panel meeting in Lewes. I had asked Katy Bourne, OBE, the Police and Crime Commissioner, a question and was keen to see if there would be a follow-up response. Dee Williams reports.
Former Hastings resident Barry Harden has published a memoir of his childhood days growing up in London as the country slowly recovered from the deprivations of the Second World War before being transformed by the cultural revolutiom of the 1960s, as Isabel Lopez describes.
Artists Eden and Andrew Kötting have a new film, The Tell-Tale Rooms, showing for free in the basement of the OB (Observer building) until Tuesday 18 March. The experience is immersive, like being Alice, unexpectedly in Wonderland. Bernard McGinley reports.
The government’s devolution policy has changed the electoral landscape, replacing this year’s county council elections in six areas, including East Sussex, with a poll for mayors. Elections for shadow unitary authorities are also scheduled as local government undergoes a radical upheaval. How are these new elections shaping up in Sussex? Text by Nick Terdre, research and graphics by Russell Hall.
Local campaign groups have called a public meeting to explore how we can make Hastings a safer, easier town for walking, wheeling and cycling with a greener transport network. Nick Terdre reports.
For the fourth time in as many years, jazz giant Jerry Bergonzi will be taking to the stage for Jazz Hastings March session. He will be playing on Tuesday 18 March at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association on the Stade. Julian Norridge reports.
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