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Nuclear fall-out and remembrance
Earlier this month, MPs voted for Trident renewal by 472 votes to 117 – a majority of 355, including nearly all Conservative Party members and half of Labour, even though Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong unilateralist, and many Scottish National Party MPs opposed this decision, writes Zelly Restorick. In remembrance of the use of nuclear weaponry and its consequences, Hastings Against War will hold a service for those who lost their lives in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, with a ceremony at the boating lake in Alexandra Park on Tuesday August 9th.
Hometown entertainment from writers’ group
If you like stories set in, and drawing on the history of, your hometown, Seawords is the book for you. The theme for this year’s anthology from Hastings Writers’Group, on the 950th anniversary of that famous battle and the year when the pier was restored to us, is – Hastings. Nick Terdre has read (most of ) it.
A remarkable Hastings family that need a hand
A little under three years ago, a fundraising charity, 52 Lives, was set up with a simple – and unremarkable – aim: to get good people to work together to help particular individuals in need. One a week – and from anywhere in the world. This week, they’ve chosen a little girl called Izzie. She’s from here in Hastings. Toby Sargent tells her story.
Blackshed receives 1066 Business Award
Established in 2010 and having featured some of the most prominent artists to come out of the South East, the blackShed Gallery in Robertsbridge has won a fantastic award in recognition of their achievements.
Red Ladies Clod Ensemble
Last autumn, the Clod Ensemble came to Hastings to release their performance art piece, The Red Ladies, on the unsuspecting folk of Hastings. Dressed in their black coats, red scarves, black sunglasses and red heels, The Red Ladies caused quite a stir in the town and the Zoom Arts’ photographers were there to capture the day. Steve Kilmartin reports.
Gazan novelist to talk at HPSC meeting
Two years after the last assault by Israel’s armed forces on Gaza, life for the Palestinian residents is far from returning to ‘normal’, as award-winning novelist Ahmed Masoud from Gaza will attest at a talk on Wednesday 27 July organised by Hastings Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Here HPSC’s Gill Knight describes the current situation in what even David Cameron described as the ‘world’s largest open prison’.
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