On Monday 18 December, the ParkinSongsters sang a selection of traditional Christmas carols and seasonal songs at St John’s Church Hall, Brittany Road, Saint Leonards-on-Sea. It was a magnificent performance, with beautiful, uplifting singing and harmonies.
Jude Montague goes on the trail of spy writer and columnist William Le Queux and his connection with John Logie Baird and the development of radio.
Jen Painter, artist, life long vegetarian and quiet worker for peace, women’s rights and the environment died on Friday 8 December at St Michael’s Hospice after a long and gutsy struggle with cancer. Her daugher, Laura Dunton Clarke, and her friend, Lorna Vahey, share some of their memories of Jen.
Enthusiastic cyclist and active travel proponent Anna Sabin gives her New year list of podcasts, columnists and series for news and ideas on car-free/car-lite towns and cities.
A fast-growing new strain of Covid-19, coupled with the usual winter onslaught of flu and other respiratory diseases, looks set to put the NHS under pressure into the New Year. Prospects are not improved by a reduction in the vaccination offer and disappointing uptake. Text by Nick Terdre and Russell Hall, who also researched the topic and produced the graphics.
Encouraging people to use the bus and leave their car at home is Government policy, among other Active Travel measures. Yet the bus service in Hastings leaves much to be desired. Anna Sabin has been finding out what needs to change.
The Basque Country in northern Spain used to be a byword for chaos, violence, poverty and failure. Now it’s a byword for transformation instead. The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a totem of that change, a symbol but not a cause. The change over recent decades was the subject of a compelling talk by Gorka Espiau, as the friend and guest of Cllr Simon Willis. Bernard McGinley reports (but not on a verbatim basis).
The ramifications of 1066 continue. A new theatrical production in St Leonards has a Ukrainean and pan-European theme. ExploretheArch continues to show the uses of the imagination. Bernard McGinley reports. Photographs by Rod Morris.
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