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Sanctuary Festival 2024

Helping to make Our Home a Place of Sanctuary for All. To close Refugee Week in Hastings, Sanctuary Festival brings people together for a day of music, creativity and community – celebrating all the cultures that help make Hastings such a vibrant place to live. This event takes place on Sunday 23 June 2024 from 12-6pm at the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Bohemia Road, Hastings TN34 1ET. Festival organiser and co-chair of Hastings Community of Sanctuary, Polly Gifford, writes.

Posted 14:24 Wednesday, Jun 12, 2024 In: Campaigns Tags: ,

Jack in the Green through the eyes of Ella Guru

Painter Ella Guru has had her Jack in the Green works on show at SEED in Hastings Old Town for the last month. To mark the end of the show, she talks to Jude Montague about her painting and her love of Hastings festival life. 

Posted 21:41 Sunday, Jun 9, 2024 In: Visual Arts

Dollimore heads field of eight in Hastings & Rye

Nominations in Hastings & Rye having closed, voters now know they have a choice of eight candidates when they go to the polls on 4 July. HOT’s Chris Connelley surveys the field, graphics by Russell Hall. Information on candidates standing in Bexhill & Battle is given below.

Posted 21:25 In: Politics Tags: , , ,

Pier bastardisation OK’d by HBC Planning Committee

On 5 June Hastings Borough Council (HBC)’s Planning Committee decided on the retrospective application for Listed Building Consent (LBC) for plastic fake olde lampposts  on Hastings Pier. The approval was unanimous. That was case HS/LB/24/00047. Will companion case HS/FA/24/00046 for the full application now go to Committee? Time will tell. Bernard McGinley reports on an evening of inconsistency.

Posted 16:38 Friday, Jun 7, 2024 In: Home Ground Tags: , , , ,

New Jewish group calls for pledges from Parliamentary candidates

Hastings Jews for Justice, a new Jewish group launched to give voice to those in the community who do not currently feel heard or respected by mainstream political parties or the media, are calling on local parliamentary candidates to adopt five pledges. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 15:01 In: Politics Tags: , , ,

Hastings assembles, for a people-led approach to the general election

There’s a general election coming, but does it matter who gets elected? The question is posed by a growing body of people who find themselves alienated by current party politics. On the back of their disillusionment a community assembly has been organised for Sunday 16 June, where fellow citizens are invited to decide for themselves what the priority issues should be. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 11:16 Wednesday, Jun 5, 2024 In: Politics Tags: , , , ,

Hastings chessman among England’s winning seniors

Hastings chessman Stuart Conquest was one of England’s five-strong seniors team which won European gold last month in Slovenia. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 11:07 In: Hastings People Tags: , , ,

Council planners recommend retrospective approval of fake olde lampposts for the Pier

Civic pride apparently knows no beginning when it comes to Hastings Borough Council (HBC) and the Pier, supposedly the town’s central attraction. Retrospective planning application HS/LB/24/00047 is to be considered by the Planning Committee on Wednesday 5 June, but the companion case (HS/FA/24/00046) not also being considered — and what of the many existing breaches of Listed Building Consent there? The planners’ complacency or complicity is concerning, as is a false statement regarding enforcement action. Bernard McGinley reports.

Posted 20:00 Saturday, Jun 1, 2024 In: Home Ground Tags: , ,
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