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Weave your own story

Saturday 29 March sees a not to be missed award-winning,

A hundred parts, a hundred faces

is a moving image exhibition by filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall which can be seen before screenings from 13 February to 16 March, Annie Waite reports. 

Verdicts awaited in final road protest trials

The trials – six in all – arising from protest actions against the controversial Bexhill-Hastings Link Road have now come to an end, though verdicts are still outstanding in a couple. Nick Terdre reports.

Sarah Owen invites Hastings to share her aims

Following on from a recent article when the Conservative candidate outlined three priorities for Hastings, Sarah Owen, Labour’s candidate for MP in Hastings and Rye, has responded to HOT’s invitation to set out her three top priorities for our town in her own words, writes Chris Cormack.

Meet St Leonards twin: San Juan in Puerto Rico

Photographer and St Leonards’ fan, JJ Waller finds a psychogeographical twin town…

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Marlow Moss

Marlow Moss rediscovered

It is not surprising if Marlow Moss is not an immediately recognisable name. Acclaimed in the 1920s to 1950s, she was a woman who has been largely marginalised and forgotten. Yet she was painting quite avant-garde, abstract pictures in the 1920s, she was part of the Constructivist European movement and exhibited in Paris, London and the Netherlands. HOT reporter Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to the Jerwood for a look at this neglected artist.

Bexhill’s road to prosperity

While the work on the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road remains on track for scheduled completion by spring next year, public transport improvements made possible by the link road are also expected to contribute to vastly improved transport communications between Hastings and Bexhill. The county is suffering its wettest winter for 20 years, and the link road would have been really useful last week when storm damage necessitated the closure of the A259 at Bulverhythe and the simultaneous rupture of Hastings-Bexhill rail services, writes Chris Cormack.

Harsh realities of life for Palestinian students

Did you suffer much in your student days? Most of us, if we use that word at all, would bring to mind hangovers, affairs of the heart or problems with flat-sharers. But for Tareq Ahram and his fellow students at Al Quds university on the east side of Jerusalem, the suffering is of a quite different order, as he related to the first public meeting of Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign on 5 February. PSC member Rachel Lever reports.

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