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The £14 million ‘plank’ where croissants and quiche conquer cockles and candyfloss

Mail Online, the world’s most popular newspaper website, with around 200 million visitors every month, sent a reporter to look at the new Hastings Pier. He didn’t like what he found.

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Film focus on equine therapy for autism

The Horse Boy is an extraordinary film about autism, screening this Thursday 19 May, with a live Q&A at 8pm, at the Electric Palace. Mongolia is the setting for this documentary, which chronicles the journey of the Isaacson family as they travel in search of a mysterious shaman who they believe can heal their autistic son, says Annie Waite.

Life-drawings by dementia sufferers at Hastings Arts Forum

Ear-catching music from Blowzabella

Here’s a group of musicians that create some new-to-the-ears unusual music together. Blowzabella is a genuinely unique band that makes an inimitable, driving, drone-based sound played with a fabulous sense of melody, rhythmic expertise and sheer feeling. All the band members compose and many of their tunes are ‘standards’ in the modern British/European folk repertoire and played by people all over the world. Bands across Europe who experiment with folk music often cite Blowzabella as a major influence. Much loved and respected, there is no one else quite like them.

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WearUrArt Fashion challenge 2016

HOT reporter Bevali Francis finds out about an exciting new fashion competition.

Sparkling wine and belting soul provide climax for wine and food festival next Sunday

The 1066 Wine & Food Festival has brought wine, food and music to 1066 Country through a series of events in restaurants, bars, shops and vineyards and three key events – the opening at Battle Abbey with Jilly Goolden and last week’s Food & Drink Fair at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. Erica Smith samples the fare…

Reasons to be cheerful

The Blockheads are coming to town! Yes the same Blockheads that used to back Ian Dury and who, since the great man’s death in 2000, have been touring regularly with most of the original line-up, performing both an awesome back catalogue and their own new material.

Hidden histories of a million wartime women

The Royal Voluntary Service want their wartime records from Hastings and around the country to go online – and they’ve organised a Kickstarter campaign to make the information accessible to everyone for the first time. The project will reveal almost 30,000 pages of never-before-seen diaries from female volunteers – nicknamed ‘the army that Hitler forgot’. By 1943, there were 2,075 Women’s Voluntary Services volunteers in Hastings and in the RVS archive, there are 70 narrative reports for Hastings covering 1938-1945. Sinead Paton writes on behalf of the RVS.

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