For its February session Jazz Hastings welcomes back two leading jazz musicians who have graced its stage on separate occasions in the past year – sax player Jerry Bergonzi and pianist Jason Rebello. Julian Norridge sets the scene.
Rother is the only East Sussex local authority to gain from the second round of bids to the government’s Levelling Up Fund. Hastings, which has yet to submit a bid, will be relieved that a third round has now been confirmed. Text by Nick Terdre, research and graphics by Russell Hall.
Christine Harmar-Brown shares her insight into the struggle facing local families in the current rental housing market.
Sea Change Sussex’s Queensway Gateway Road project is not due to come up at the South East Local Enterprise Partnership’s accountability board until March, but important questions have arisen for ESCC as to who is responsible for completing it and for paying for it. The council refuses to comment. Meanwhile another director has resigned from the Sea Change board. Nick Terdre reports.
Does the UK need its own Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act which enacts the measures of the European Convention of Human Rights? As the bill awaits its second reading in the Commons, Pal Luthra of the Amnesty International Hastings & Rye team examines the roots of existing human rights legislation in Europe and the UK and the likely effects of the proposed new bill.
Hastings Contemporary is celebrating its 10th anniversary which is indeed something to celebrate in the ups and downs they have experienced – as well as the economic climate. They have hosted many exhibitions over that time, some more popular than others, but that is understandable for contemporary art – there’s a clue in the word ‘contemporary’. If you stretch yourself into areas of challenging art, some work will resonate, and other, not so much. For their 10th year they have mounted three exhibitions, HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to view them.
Walking into the subdued lighting at the BlackShed Gallery you enter another world – Stephanie’s Fawbert’s In the Wild Wood. This is a place of fairy stories, stories and memories. Although it is a little way out of Hastings and it was a wet morning, HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths went along to the gallery on the edge of the woods near Robertsbridge.
Nurses and supporters gathered on the roadside opposite the Conquest Hospital from 8am on this very cold and frosty Wednesday morning. Erica Smith made her way up to The Ridge to find out what was driving Royal College of Nurses’ members to strike for the first time in history.
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