The restoration of Hastings Pier has moved into a new phase. Following the removal of the ruined ballroom at the pier head, it now has a stripped-down look – along almost its whole length there is hardly anything to be seen on the deck apart from the surviving building at the land end. Nick Terdre reports.
Do you like Björk and her views on music? Well, maybe a good introduction to the music of Arvo Pärt, before seeing it performed live by the Hastings Philharmonic Choir, is to watch an interview she had with Pärt on his music, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.
On a holiday with a difference, HOT reporter Nick Terdre travelled deep into the Amazon rain forest to meet with the Munduruku Indians, who are threatened by government plans to build hydroelectric plants on their land. Read about the first part of his journey here, where he travels from the UK to
This Friday, there will be an exciting opportunity to hear the work of three Hastings composers never before heard in their home town! Treblos Wind Quintet play works by Keith Beal, Jonathan Burton and Michael Short, along with pieces by Mozart and Bizet, writes Chris Cormack.
Bevali Francis attended the Annual glamorous event of Hastings and St Leonards Sailing Club Laying-up Supper, held on the 1 November at The Sussex Exchange.
Stables Theatre are working with Bateman’s to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One with a production of the David Haig play My Boy Jack, based on the moving, true story of Rudyard Kipling and his son John (Jack), writes Chris Cormack. It is about the impact of the Great War on one family.
Terry Randall, better known locally as Terry Collier – who had a leading role as Lancashire Annie in the classic wartime film Millions Like Us – celebrated her 100th birthday last Thursday, 30 October. Friends joined her for a cream tea party at the Coastguard Tearooms at Fairlight, where stills from her acting career decorated the tables so that everyone could see just what she got up to in her heyday. Terry’s daughter Jane Nunn recalls her acting career.
Earlier this week I popped into Christ Church Primary School in St Leonards-on-Sea, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick, to witness the cutting of the official ribbon to celebrate the installation of a roof-full of solar panels and the generation of their own free energy.
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