Hastings Borough Council has started consulting on its 2016-17 budget and is asking for responses to its proposals by Friday 12 February. Since 2010, the government grant for the local council has been cut by 54%, according to an HBC press release. You’re invited to comment on how the money we do receive for this area is distributed.
Chestnut Tree children’s hospice, which provides care for local life-limited children, has launched a new campaign in a plea to recruit more volunteers in the East Sussex area: Volunteer for the New Year!
Ian Hernon – political journalist, deputy editor of Tribune and author of the new biography Robert Tressell: A Life in Hell will be at the University of Brighton in Hastings in February to speak about his new book.
Around the world, people are using their genius and brilliance in science, technology and design to produce some amazing sustainable and energy-wise developments. I know they’re not Hastings-based, but it’s good to know that steps are being taken globally to find alternative solutions to some of the world’s dilemmas. Hope-instilling! HOT’s Zelly Restorick shares the research she’s found lately with Energy Wise readers.
A series of questions to ponder. Is there a positive connection between environmental, economic and energy issues? Is it possible for all them to be equally prioritised? HOT’s Zelly Restorick explores and envisions a future where energy production supports the financial position of Hastings and St Leonards.
At the end of this week 2015 HIPCC Joint Second Prizewinner Garam Cho will be performing a varied programme of pianistic challenges that could have been assembled by Liszt himself as he toured Europe in the mid 19th century, writes David Pullen.
Enter the Lucy Bell Gallery and you walk into a dark, magical and mysterious world. The images arrayed around the walls are the new series of work from photographer, Bruce Rae. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to take a look.
Soprano Sophie Pullen, tenor Gary Marriott together with pianist Francis Rayner and oboist, Susan Hutton present an evening of the classical music that formed the soundtrack of Russia’s musical life from the mid 19th century – Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Grieg, Bellini and Verdi, writes Chris Cormack. Appropriately it is at Kino-Teatr.
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