Celebrate national tree week by planting a tree
National tree week runs from this Saturday, 27 November, through to Sunday 5 December 2021. This year there is a wealth of events across town from Churchwood Community Orchard to Alexandra Park.
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Winter exhibition for old and new Zoom artists
The Zoom Arts Community have shaken off its lockdown lethargy and are re-surfacing in December with vigour, great new works and some exciting new members.
Bespoke millinery meets extraordinary local art in Caroline Morris’s Silver Anniversary Show
After running her business for 25 years, St Leonards-based hat designer Caroline Morris is celebrating her anniversary with a ‘silver themed’ show, displaying local artwork alongside hats and headpieces in an iridescent display of all things ‘argenteus’ – meaning silvery, ornamental, and bright. Catherine Hills heads down to find out more.
Ore mansion scores hat-trick of planning refusals
Retrospective planning application HS/FA/20/00884 was refused by the Planning Committee in April, against officers’ advice. Seven months on it came back, rebadged as HS/FA/21/00712. The differences were truly trivial. As before, the officers recommended approval. How did the Committee respond? Bernard McGinley reports.
Rising prices prompt more to seek energy advice
The recent rise in energy costs, part of a significant increase in the cost of living, puts many lower-income families, in Hastings as elsewhere, at serious risk of not being able to heat their homes this winter. The severe squeeze is worrying local energy consultants Energise Sussex Coast, but there are still some sources of help they can offer to hard-pressed residents. Nick Terdre reports.
Walking the line
Land art, as distinct from landscape art, has always been an interesting genre: Andrew Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, have all left transient marks on the landscape in the course of their practice. It is Paul Klee who is famous for his quote: “Taking a line for a walk…”. And that is precisely what photographer/artist Zoe Childerley did. Lauris Morgan-Griffiths talked to her about walking and documenting the unmarked border between England and Scotland, the results of which can be seen at Solaris gallery.
COP26: Hastings calls for action, not hot air
The population of Hastings has added its voice to the international marches appealing to our governments to act to stop climate change. Recent actions include a march through town, a protest at County Hall in Lewes and a call for Barclays Bank to stop funding fossil fuels. HOT’s Erica Smith catches up with the campaigners who are demanding an end to hot air.
Future of St Leonard’s church explored
James Burton’s original seafront church was destroyed by a doodlebug in July 1944. A replacement was designed by the well regarded Gilbert Scott brothers and finished in 1961. The later church is now in geological trouble and was closed by the Church of England a few years ago. It is an exceptional building (Grade II listed) that should not be lost. A recent meeting addressed ways of saving it. Bernard McGinley reports and took the photos.
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Latest HOT Stuff
- Public meeting arranged on proposed development on bathing pool site
- Appeal for ‘Joy 1066’
- ESCC requests postponement of May’s elections
- Spotlight on fuel poverty in Hastings
- Devolution: good for local democracy or a central government power grab in disguise?
- Record-breaking box office success for White Rock Pantomime
- Jazz Hastings maintains standards with Tea for Three next Tuesday
- Outrage over Tory plans to suspend May local election
- Strangeness of Seeing
- £4.83m grant for Hastings to tackle homelessness
- Grace Lau at Tate Britain and St Leonards
- Traffic controls at Queensway Gateway Road junction suspended
- Kathleen Soriano appointed interim director of Hastings Contemporary
- Cuckoo Hill decision overturned by Planning Inspector
- All the fun of the Christmas fair at the Alexandra Park greenhouse
- Plan to house asylum seekers at Northeye scrapped
- Hastings: UK’s ‘Grinch capital’
- Claude Cahun at the Electric Palace
- ‘Standing Up For Nature’ – Community meetings to discuss housing crisis
- White Rock Theatre – ‘Non User’ survey
- Liz Gilmore steps down from Hastings Contemporary
- HBC website brought down by cyber attack again
- It’s a wrap for Alley Way Learning
- Unthanks at White Rock Theatre
- Baton of Hope comes to Hastings
- One donation, double the impact during St Michael’s BigGive week
- Christmas carols with Hastings Philharmonic Choir
- Museum event to mark UN’s day of disabled people
- JJ Waller’s Frost Fair 2024
- Much to enjoy at the greenhouse group’s Christmas market
- Sound Waves and Acapella Bellas feature in Christmas concert at All Saints
- Sunday Service – singing the praises of writing courses at Hastings Contemporary
- Free Hastings Energy Champions training
- ‘Winter Fuel Payment drop-in’ in Bexhill
- Kate Meakin wins ‘Community Energy Champion’ award
- World Climate Day screening @ Electric Palace
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