Hastings environmental campaign group Combe Haven Defenders (CHD) has closed its account with Barclays bank, in protest at the company’s role in weapons sales to Israel. Gabriel Carlyle reports.
Young carers in East Sussex will call for a fair future and call on the government for more support from local and national government on Young Carers’ Action Day (13 March). Cally Emerson writes.
Earlier this year, two of three Bloodaxe poets, Matthew Caley and Amali Gunaskera, talked to Hastings Online Press ahead of their joint reading at the Hastings Bookshop. Here Jude Montague catches up with the third poet, Abigail Parry.
In a sign of the growing revolt against water companies, bill boycotters are due to stage their first Town Hall event in East Sussex next week.
For its spring concert the Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform the St Matthew Passion by JS Bach, accompanied by the baroque Ensemble OrQuesta. Press officer Gareth Simpson explains the background to the work.
Victoria Kingham is keen to put on record her appreciation of Jerry Bergonzi’s performance this week at Jazz Hastings.
Pam Brown was a Hastings presence like no other. For decades she put her energies and intelligence into improving people’s lives, and she succeeded. She was on Hastings Borough Council for nearly 40 years, and for a time its Leader. She became Mayor. She was a County Councillor. When she ‘retired,’ she was as busy as ever, and took a keen interest in what was going on in areas such as veterans’ affairs, social care, and planning. She contributed a huge amount to Hastings. Bernard McGinley remembers a diverse and persistent campaigner.
With the political parties under starter’s orders for May’s local elections, HOTs election commentator Chris Connelley previews the field. Following recent developments at Hastings Borough Council, the outcome is unusually hard to call.
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