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Theo Travis guests at Jazz Hastings

Jazz Hastings’ guest at its June gig will be the versatile sax and flute player Theo Travis. Julian Norridge is savouring the occasion.

Posted 10:00 Wednesday, May 30, 2018 In: Music & Sound Tags: Double Talk, Jazz Hastings, Julian Norridge, Mike Outram, Nic France, Pete Whittaker, Theo Travis

£100,000 still needed to save the pier!

The final push to persuade the administrators that the Friends of Hastings Pier can muster the financial support to run the pier is under way – the fund-raising effort is being ratcheted up to maximum to secure backing of £500,000 by the end of the month – 9pm on Thursday 31 May to be precise. HOT’s Nick Terdre (also one of the Friends) reports.

Posted 14:11 Tuesday, May 29, 2018 In: Campaigns Tags: administrators, FoHP, Foreshore Trust, Friends, igloo Regeneration, Jim Breeds, Nick Terdre, pier

A visit to Ore Community Centre

HOT’s

Posted 13:11 In: Grassroots Tags: community, ESCC, Free food event, Hastings, health hub, Ore Community Centre, Ore Library, Ore Village school, toddler group, volunteers, What's on in Hastings

Campaign Against The Arms Trade talk

With the controversy about UK arms being sold to Saudi Arabia rumbling on there will be a timely meeting in Hastings by a speaker from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT). John Enefer writes.

Posted 11:48 In: Campaigns Tags: arms trade, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Hastings Against War, John Enefer, Saudi Arabia, UNICEF, UNICEF UK, Wendy Horler

Soundings: in search of one father’s war

In March 2017, on a visit to Venice, artist Kate Gritton found herself wandering the corridors of the Jewish Museum. Turning a corner, she came face-to-face with a photograph of a group of people, one the spitting image of her father. The exhibition featured British soldiers in World War II during liberation, but as far as Kate knew, while her father had been in Italy, he hadn’t been stationed in Venice. Thus began a journey of discovery, the expression of which are the 23 paintings that form Soundings, a month-long exhibition, which opens on 29 May at the Hastings Arts Forum. Here, A. Vasudevan catches up with the artist.

Posted 09:57 In: Arts News Tags: Artist, Hastings Arts Forum, Kate Gritton, Second World War, Soundings, World War II

Rubbish Bingo for all the family

On Tuesday 29 May, the St Leonards seafront gift and book shop, OPEN by I Love Mel, is getting down and dirty on the beach with a spot of Rubbish Bingo. Come on down and join Mel, Alice and the Rubbish Bingo Teams between 5 and 7pm on the St Leonards seafront.

Posted 16:34 Saturday, May 26, 2018 In: Green Times

Scramble for the Lovely Eggs

This Sunday, a lucky few will have a feast for the ears when The Lovely Eggs play at The Printworks. Tickets sold out super fast. For those of you who don’t have tickets or don’t know what they are missing, Erica Smith interviewed Holly Ross, half of The Lovely Eggs duo.

Posted 16:25 In: Music & Sound

Sinden mayor as HBC makes new appointments

It was a case of musical chairs at the annual meeting of Hastings Borough Council last week, as new holders of the mayoral posts and the various committees were elected, though portfolio holders were almost unchanged. Nick Terdre lists the names.

Posted 15:02 Thursday, May 24, 2018 In: Politics Tags: committee chairs, csabinet, Hastings Borough Council, James Bacon, Mayor, Nigel Sinden, portfolio holders