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Art sale for Gaza this weekend

This weekend Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign has organised a sale of art to raise funds for medical aid in Gaza, as Rachel Lever explains on behalf of the group.

Posted 15:44 Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014 In: Campaigns

Heart to heart (3)

In part three of ‘Heart to heart’, Sean O’Shea concludes his account of his journey through the NHS, and describes some of the lessons he has learned.

Posted 15:23 In: SOS Tags: , , ,

Where have all the newts gone?

Concerns about the fate of newts displaced by the construction of the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road have been raised by Combe Haven Defenders. However, attempts to get a satisfactory answer – or any answer – from the responsible body, Natural England, have so far failed. CHD’s Andrea Needham reports.

Labyrinth Community Bike Workshops

The Big Bike Party

The Labyrinth Community Bike Workshop are excited to be holding the ‘Bottle Alley Bike Bomb’, following The Big Bike Party day event held outside The Lab on Saturday 6 September as part of Coastal Currents and they’re looking for biking enthusiasts to take part, spectators to watch and encourage – and volunteers to help them out with the organisation.

Lanterns on the lake at Alexandra Park

Peace in the park

To commemorate the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and in remembrance of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, Hastings Against War invites you to attend their annual memorial event at Alexandra Park. HOT’s Zelly Restorick contacted Rona from Hastings Against War to find out more about the event. 

Local call to oppose new colonialisation of Africa

On Sunday 3 August campaigners from the Bexhill and Hastings World Development Movement (WDM) group will once again be active participants in St Leonards Gardens Festival, this time highlighting the government’s support for what they see as a new colonialisation of Africa. The group’s Christina Lucey reports.

The girls are back in town

How would they look?  Single girls in their dozens arriving at the station with gutting knives hanging from their belts and smelling slightly of fish? Back in 1881, when our drama is set, they are a future anachronism – sassy women of independent means and with, yes, plenty of guts! HOT’s Chris Cormack writes about a musical drama hitting our shores at the Stade next Thursday and Friday.

The Pocket Park, Hughenden Road Hastings

Party in the Pocket Park

This Sunday, you are invited to attend The Party in the Pocket Park on Hughenden Road in Hastings to celebrate its recent transformation from grotty uncared for area to a beautiful park, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick. The Pocket Park is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved when a group of local individuals and organisations combine forces, energy and initiative with the goal of regeneration in their minds.

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