Inspiring an aspiring generation
My first meeting with fellow HOT journalist, Solomon Curtis, was at a gathering of the HOT clan a few weeks ago, where I discovered that he was also a Member of Youth Parliament, writes Zelly Restorick
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Badgers evicted as Link Road contractors destroy setts
Local people have reported seeing badgers out and about during the day as Bexhill-Hastings Link Road (BHLR) contractors start to destroy badger setts along the route of the Road. Badgers are nocturnal and would usually not come out in daylight.
Pier on fire photo www.theguardian.com The Ballad of Hastings Pier
HOT columnist Sean O’Shea meets Hastings musician, singer and song writer, Stevie Stone who is lead singer and guitarist in a local band called Jiggerypokery. Sean talks with Stevie about the background to his song The Ballad of Hastings Pier. He also meets other band members and enquires about their musical influences, how the group was founded and their hopes for the future.
The cast of a production of Calendar Girls that will be shown at The Stables Theatre in Hastings, have posed for a calendar to coincide with the play and to raise funds for St Michael’s Hospice. And HOT is looking for a qualified theatre critic to write on local drama productions (including Calendar Girls!), writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
Here today, scone tomorrow…
What can beat a fragrant, warm, fresh scone, thickly spread with butter and tangy jam? A scone to be eaten, of course, in a cosy, welcoming cafe with a good cuppa on the side. Stephanie Gaunt researches the not so humble Hastings Scone.
The best deal “by far” for St Mary in the Castle
Hastings Councillors vied with each other for superlatives to comment on the future vision for St Mary in the Castle (SMIC) as presented to the Cabinet meeting on Monday 3 December, which would “establish SMIC as a cultural destination for the South East”. Our report of these developments is followed by personal comments from HOT volunteer
The Fabulous Red Diesel – fuel for life!
The Fabulous Red Diesel have been adding colour to Hastings and St Leonards for about ten years now. Fuelled by the dynamo combination of Kat and Will Lee-Ryan, they have been instrumental in staging the Bohemia Village Fayre and have performed at St Leonards Festival – as well as headlining at HOT’s launch party three years ago. Recently, the band have been putting their focus into recording, whilst pondering universal questions. “We Know it’s 43” is the result – HOT’s Erica Smith donned her headphones for a listen.
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Latest HOT Stuff
- Traffic controls at Queensway Gateway Road junction suspended
- Kathleen Soriano appointed interim director of Hastings Contemporary
- Cuckoo Hill decision overturned by Planning Inspector
- All the fun of the Christmas fair at the Alexandra Park greenhouse
- Plan to house asylum seekers at Northeye scrapped
- 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
- It’s a wrap for Alley Way Learning
- Unthanks at White Rock Theatre
- Baton of Hope comes to Hastings
- One donation, double the impact during St Michael’s BigGive week
- Christmas carols with Hastings Philharmonic Choir
- Museum event to mark UN’s day of disabled people
- JJ Waller’s Frost Fair 2024
- 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
- Sophisticated jazz from Empirical at Jazz Hastings’ December gig
- HBC backs Climate and Nature Bill
- Award for Hastings Museum
- Whelan’s Weaving
- Snowy divestment protest at County Hall
- Southern Housing tenants community get-together in Ore
- Rogue landlords gallery created in town centre
- The Broad Oak oak trees
- It’s the end of the pier show!
- HBC finally takes action on Gaza
- Local Community Energy Co-op shortlisted for two awards
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