It was a sad moment for local composer Polo Piatti last year when he had to announce the closure of the Opus Theatre he founded. But every cloud has a silver lining, and Piatti is now working overtime progressing his composing and music-making career. Nick Terdre reports.
Jack in the Green celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Local born Andrew Hemsley, journalist for Hastings and St Leonards Observer, writer and a Jack in the Green bogie, talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about this great Hastings traditional festival.
Norma Winstone, the doyenne of UK female jazz singers with a career that has spanned more than 50 years, will be appearing with her star-studded quartet at Jazz Hastings’ next monthly session on 2 May. Julian Norridge sings her praises.
Six years ago, locals mobilised to oppose plans to sell off the St Leonards Crown Post Office. What we were unaware of at the time was that a much greater scandal was unfolding – the persecution of subpostmasters who, due to the PO’s faulty IT system, were apparently fiddling their accounts. Nick Wallis, the journalist who has done most to expose the scandal, is coming to Hastings on 10 May to talk about the campaign. Rosie Brocklehurst, who has organised his visit, fills in the background.
Jeremy Corbyn will be joining a May Day march and rally in Hastings next Saturday (29 April), in the midst of renewed strike action by local teachers, nurses, ambulance workers and civil servants. Gabriel Carlyle reports on what’s happening, where and when.
Over the last two years, photographer pjwebb has been working on a series of portraits of women who ride motorbikes. Erica Smith rode her push-bike to St Andrews Mews to talk to the photographer about her work.
Moving down to the coast is quite the thing — this century. James Burton got here in the 1820s, when the local scene was mostly rough landscape. As an experienced Georgian builder, he knew how to build a house — or a street. Or how about a complete new town? Bernard McGinley reports on the beginnings of St Leonards-on-Sea, and its pending bicentenary, and how James Burton was the first DFL (‘Down From London’, for DFLs that don’t know).
Sussex-based community benefit society Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) is proud to announce it was awarded the Community Energy Initiative Award at Regen’s Green Energy Awards 2023 on Wednesday evening. Laura Coppin writes.
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