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Archives for July | 2022 | Page 2 of 4
Council misleads and censors over pending planning decision
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has refused – for no applicable reason – to publish objection statements on a planning application being decided on 20 July. The Council’s unevenhandedness is striking. Read it here instead: there have been unauthorised works in the redline area of a current application. What should be material considerations are treated with dogged disregard by the planning authorities, who are rewriting the past. The site is Rocklands. Bernard McGinley reports on unfeasible lines taken.
Make a lantern to say: “No more Hiroshimas!”
In 1945, the United States Air Force dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with tragic and devastating consequences. Hundreds of thousands of people died, many instantaneously, others soon after from burns and shock, and yet more from the impact of radiation in the months and years that followed. By 1950, an estimated 340,000 people had died as a result of the two bombs. Rona Drennan of Hastings Against War explains how you can help mark this tragic day and make a stand for peace.
Why I’m fasting for fossil fuel divestment
On Wednesday East Sussex County Council is expected to vote on whether to stop investing local people’s pensions in fossil fuels. St Leonards resident Gabriel Carlyle explains why he’s taking part in a 60-hour fast in the run-up to the vote.
Twinning towns with Al Mawasi, Gaza
Following up on a proposal by Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi (HFAM) that our coastal town be twinned with the coastal town of Al Mawasi in Gaza, HOT’s Zelly Restorick met up with ex-mayor, Cllr Nigel Sinden, and Laurie Holden, one of the main members of HFAM to discover what needs to be done to make this vision a reality.
Remembering Sally Lee, MBE
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Sally Lee died peacefully on Friday 8 July. Sally worked tirelessly for the Sara Lee Trust which she co-founded with her late husband Dr Jeremy Lee to commemorate the life of their daughter Sara who died from a rare cancer in 1995. Erica Smith pays tribute to a remarkable woman.
Ptolemy Mann exploring colour
The dictionary definition of colour is: the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light. That sounds somewhat mundane when you see the extraordinary, exhilarating colours that make up Ptolemy Mann’s paintings. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was intrigued when her eye was first caught by the artists’s Instagram posts.
Banging the Oil Drum for Fossil Fuel Divestment
This Tuesday, 12 July, climate campaigners from across East Sussex, Brighton and Hove joined forces for a ‘big noise demo’ outside County Hall. Their purpose was to demand that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) stop investing in fossil fuels. The protest included a samba band and Extinction Rebellion Brighton’s 20-foot model boat ‘Lightship Greta’ which was pushed up the hill to County Hall from the centre of Lewes. Photographs provided by JJ Waller.
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Latest HOT Stuff
- 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
- Sophisticated jazz from Empirical at Jazz Hastings’ December gig
- HBC backs Climate and Nature Bill
- Award for Hastings Museum
- Whelan’s Weaving
- Snowy divestment protest at County Hall
- Southern Housing tenants community get-together in Ore
- Rogue landlords gallery created in town centre
- The Broad Oak oak trees
- It’s the end of the pier show!
- HBC finally takes action on Gaza
- Local Community Energy Co-op shortlisted for two awards
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