Barack Obama vs. the Flip Flop Man
The 2012 US Presidential Election as seen by our American in Hastings, photographer John Cole
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Facelift for St Mary in the Castle shops
Hastings Borough Council is proposing to remove the modern shopfronts of the shops in Pelham Place in front of St Mary in the Castle and replace them with traditional timber shopfronts and rusticated arches to replicate 19th century detailing. The work would also include restoring the roof lantern and replacing modern roof coverings with zinc and glass, all with the help of a English Heritage grant and a Council subsidy, writes
Zombie Roads are back from the dead!
It’s been a week for zombies, and it isn’t even Hallowe’en yet! Now they aren’t just passively wandering along the seafront waiting to be snapped by the HOT Style reporter – they are getting political and congregating outside MP Amber Rudd’s office in Robertson Street! HOT’s Erica Smith tooled up and set out to find out more…
Jerwood receives Sussex Heritage Trust Award
The annual Sussex Heritage Trust Awards are designed to recognise high quality conservation, restoration and good design of newly built projects. The Jerwood Art Gallery, designed by HAT Projects, was the recipient this year of the Public and Community Award, and HOT reporter Joe Fearn went along to see the hand crafted slate plaque being officially attached to the building in the gallery courtyard.
Photographers follow myriad themes, subjects and techniques, stamping their own individuality and personality onto their projects. At Hastings Art Forum as part of Brighton Photo Fringe three respected photographers are exhibiting intriguing, disparate black and white documentary projects. HOT reporter Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
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- Traffic controls at Queensway Gateway Road junction suspended
- Kathleen Soriano appointed interim director of Hastings Contemporary
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- Hastings: UK’s ‘Grinch capital’
- Claude Cahun at the Electric Palace
- ‘Standing Up For Nature’ – Community meetings to discuss housing crisis
- White Rock Theatre – ‘Non User’ survey
- Liz Gilmore steps down from Hastings Contemporary
- HBC website brought down by cyber attack again
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- One donation, double the impact during St Michael’s BigGive week
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- Museum event to mark UN’s day of disabled people
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- Much to enjoy at the greenhouse group’s Christmas market
- Sound Waves and Acapella Bellas feature in Christmas concert at All Saints
- Sunday Service – singing the praises of writing courses at Hastings Contemporary
- Free Hastings Energy Champions training
- ‘Winter Fuel Payment drop-in’ in Bexhill
- Kate Meakin wins ‘Community Energy Champion’ award
- World Climate Day screening @ Electric Palace
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- HBC backs Climate and Nature Bill
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Bob Mazzer at The Kave Gallery
The work of Hastings-based photographer Bob Mazzer has been described as: ‘a myriad view of Britain. His work reads part social history archive, part homage to the power of nature.’ When asked about his own feelings, he replied: “Everywhere I live, I like to think of the people around me as my family. So this is a family album.” HOT reporter Cathy Simpson reviews Bob’s family album…