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Hastings residents are invited along to two drop-in sessions in late October to meet council leader Jeremy Birch and discuss the coming round of cuts in council finances.
The streets of Central St Leonards look set for a number of improvements following developments, consultations and initiatives from diverse stakeholders ranging from the Central St Leonards Town Team to the Neighbourhood Police Team. HOT’s Richard Hull heard all about it when he caught up with HBC’s Terry Drinkwater at the ‘Making Central St Leonards Our Business’ event on Wednesday October 10.
The Electric Palace Cinema, the Stade Education Project and the Fishermen’s Protection Society have worked in partnership to commission three new films reworking archive film footage of Hastings and St Leonards.
Hastings is soon to host the Ingrid Pitt Memorial Horror Film Festival (26-28 October – see also Joe’s earlier interview with the festival organisers). HOT reporter Joe Fearn reviews Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers, to be screened during the festival at the Electric Palace Cinema in the Old Town, and he examines Lesbian Vampirism, a trope in 20th-century exploitation film that has its roots in Joseph Sheridan le Fanu’s 1872 novella Carmilla.
It was good news to hear that photographs taken by a group of young people were exhibiting as part of the Brighton Photo Fringe. So HOT reporter Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went to the Hastings Museum to see how they fared against the professionals.