
Tributes paid to Cllr John Hodges
Tributes have been paid to Hastings Borough Council and East Sussex County Council member John Hodges who died last week at the age of 70.
Tributes have been paid to Hastings Borough Council and East Sussex County Council member John Hodges who died last week at the age of 70.
Having re-opened the old St Leonards Curzon as a cinema, theatre, restaurant and music venue, Kino-Teatr is now turning its hand to comedy. And quizzes! Simon Charterton shares the joke…
Hannah Arendt famously described ‘the banality of evil’ in her book ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ and many of us are familiar with the expression ‘I was only acting under orders’. Here we can judge for ourselves. The White Crow – Eichmann in
Hastings and Rye Labour Party has added its weight to the campaign to save the University of Brighton’s Hastings’ campus. A review launched by the university into the future of the campus has raised fears that the campus may be closed. Nick Terdre reports.
It is a tradition in St Leonards that a chair outside a shop signifies that it is open. At Lucy Bell Gallery, two chairs and a table are outside the gallery, but the windows are shrouded and it looks like there is nobody home. Gingerly, entering the darkened, candle lit room, HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to see what was happening.
Hastings entrepreneurs Rich and Marc Moore are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the beachside skatepark complex, known as Source Park, is open for a spectacle this Saturday 13 February 2016, writes Chris Cormack. All this for a few thrills and spills you may say, but no, this is the training base for the new 21st century heroes. Yes, there will be bumps and scrapes, a ‘health and safety nightmare’, but well done Hastings Borough Council for identifying that this is what is needed nevertheless as an outlet for adventure.
Local campaigners will gather on Valentine’s Day (Sunday 14 February) to say no to the proposed North Bexhill Access Road (NBAR). They will walk some of the route of the road, which runs for 2.4 kilometres, parallel to Ninfield Road, and stop for a photocall amongst trees threatened by the proposed road.