Recently a Change.org campaign has been started by Laura Coryton to stop the government taxing sanitary products. Although the proposed amendment failed – Hastings and Rye MP Amber Rudd and Bexhill and Battle MP Huw Merriman both voted against it – the campaign continues and the Treasury are now taking the matter to the EU. Zelly Restorick reports.
The Transition Town Hastings and St Leonards Salon teams are very excited that leading climate change activist – and son of Hastings – Jeremy Leggett has agreed to speak at an event at the Observer Building to discuss his new book, The Winning of the Carbon War, followed by a showing of the film, This Changes Everything.
See the uplifting, multi-award winning film Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars at the Electric Palace this weekend to help further the tireless work of the 900-strong Hastings Supports Refugees group, says Annie Waite.
HOT reporter Bevali Francis interviews Freya von Bulow on her work and the paper couture creations she will be delighting the De la Warr Pavilion audience with at this year’s Front Row Fashion Show on 21 November.
It is certainly to be welcomed that there is a new gallery space in Hastings – at the former Observer building. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went there, with great anticipation, to see the PhotoHastings exhibition Pinups: A Sense of Place.
It’s closing time at the Hope and Anchor – and the Hope is the Anchor of a better day. A new play by established local writers and performers. See it here first, before they head off on tour.
Hastings Herring Fair takes to the Stade this weekend, when the local fishing fleet will be celebrating 10 years since they were awarded MSC – Marine Stewardship Council – status for their sustainable methods of herring fishing. Councillor Dawn Poole, Hastings Borough Council’s lead member for regeneration, explains what’s on offer.
The White Peace Poppy is in remembrance of all the victims of all the wars. Post WWI, the womenfolk – the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, girlfriends, etc – of the men who had died, or were injured or terminally scarred, mentally and physically, by what they had seen and experienced, created the idea of the White Peace Poppy. To remember what had happened – and with the intention that it would never happen again. HOT’s Zelly Restorick writes.
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