Photographer JJ Waller had an action-packed weekend – starting off taking photographs of the low-tide tour of the Amsterdam at Bulverhythe, documenting Pirate Weekend and he even copped a cheeky trip out to Camber Sands. This is what he says – and more importantly – what he saw!
Tree Correspondent Joan Taylor-Rowan discovers an ancient super-survivor on the busy streets of Hastings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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