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Posted 14:48 Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 In: HOT Style Tags: , ,

Meet Jeremy and discuss the cuts

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.

Posted 09:40 Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 In: 1067 & All That Tags: , , , , ,

The Streets of St Leonards

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.

Posted 13:25 Friday, Oct 12, 2012 In: Home Ground Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Hidden Connections

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.

Posted 12:45 In: Film Tags: , , , ,

Lesbian Vampirism

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.

Posted 12:44 In: Film Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Young lives in black and white

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.

Posted 11:52 Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 In: Community Arts Tags: , , , , ,
Baby and bulldozer

A wise use of public money & resources?

Hastings Alliance, a sustainable transport group which has campaigned for 17 years against the Bexhill Hastings Link Road, lost their appeal for a Judicial Review at the High Court in London last Friday, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick.

Posted 18:45 Monday, Oct 8, 2012 In: Home Ground Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Gillian Ayres, courtesy www.theresasimon.com

“…energy, laid down in colour and transmitted in shockwaves to the viewer.” Broadcaster Andrew Marr on the work of Gillian Ayres.

Posted 14:36 In: Visual Arts Tags: , , , , , , ,
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