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What flushes down washes up on the beach…

Anthony Kimber PhD, the Chair of Rye Emergency Action Community Team (REACT), reminds us that what we flush down the toilet has a nasty habit of reappearing on our beaches.

Posted 18:13 Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 In: Green Times Tags: Anthony Kimber, Rye Emergency Action Community Team

Music from around the world

Jazz legend Liane Carroll is one of a group of local musicians who are performing as part of an international concert this Sunday. Hastings-based composer and musician Frank Moon and talented sisters Alice and Juliet Beadle from St Leonards are also among 30 artists from seven countries performing in the Christmas Joy online concert for the Calcutta Rescue charity.

Posted 15:52 Monday, Dec 7, 2020 In: Music & Sound

Coronavirus statistical update: Tier 3 looms for Hastings and Rother as infection rates boom

A sharp rise in cases of Covid infection in Hastings and Rother could lead to these areas being subject to Tier 3 restrictions – the toughest in England – when the first review takes place on 16 December. Report and graphics by Russell Hall.

Posted 11:17 In: Covid-19 Tags: coronavirus, Russell Hall

Rise in cases puts Hastings and East Sussex in Tier 2

A new Covid regime comes into force when the national lockdown ends this week, with Hastings and the rest of East Sussex classified in Tier 2. Despite lockdown limits on activities the past month has seen an increase in the incidence of coronavirus in the town and the county. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 18:48 Sunday, Nov 29, 2020 In: Covid-19 Tags: Darrell Gale, deaths, Hastings, infection, Nick Terdre, Rother, tiers

Protest and petition against HBC’s bathing pool site scheme

Local community groups are planning a public protest against the large housing estate planned by the council on the old bathing pool site in West St Leonards next weekend, and will deliver a petition in support of their case to the Full Council meeting in mid December. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 16:02 In: Campaigns Tags: Bryan Fisher, Christine Boulton-Lane, County Gate Sunley, HBC, Lucie Mason, petition, Save Our Bathing Site, West Marina Group

Saved at last

The Old Town’s much-loved Isabel Blackman Centre is being bought by a consortium of community groups. Emma Harwood brings us up to date on this good news.

Posted 12:27 Thursday, Nov 26, 2020 In: Campaigns Tags: Emma Harwood, Isabel Blackman

#Lockdown Looking At Things

The objects we love to live with is the subject of an exciting new online collaborative project that has commenced in Lockdown2. Erica Smith casts her eye over this project created by ExploreTheArch theatre company.

Posted 21:29 Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020 In: Community Arts

Locally based charity having a global impact

The name ‘Pestalozzi’ may be known to many local residents and people nationwide. However, does anyone actually know who they are and what they are doing now? This locally based charity – the Pestalozzi International Foundation – has evolved over the years and their alumni continue to have an impact around the world, as their Company Secretary, Stella Keen, reports.

Posted 22:03 Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 In: Charities Tags: Hastings local charity, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Pestalozzi, Pestalozzi International Foundation, Pestalozzi International Village Trust, Pestalozzi Village, The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020, United World Colleges