Local nurse Chris Dindar is demanding answers after facing down a criminal prosecution for alleged crimes against houmous which he says was politically motivated. Hastings & District Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s chair Katy Colley reports.
It’s just been announced (by the owners) that, after 20 years, The White Rock Hotel will be back on the market. Erica Smith looks back on the building’s last two decades.
Hastings Music Festival has been captivating audiences for over 100 years! Every year, children and adults from four to 84 take to the stage to showcase their talent in Singing, Dancing, Speech, Mime & Drama, and Instrumental, all of which are marked by an adjudicator who is a specialist and an expert in the field. With hundreds of participants, it’s an exciting chance to build confidence and make memories. The festival’s Jenny Griffiths and Victoria Cole set the scene.
As the Renters (Reform) Bill passes its second reading, many housing campaigners in Hastings will be hoping that renting will become easier and more affordable. But it’s a complex picture, as Dee Williams has discovered.
Local author and historian Helena Wojtczak, most famous for Strange Exits from Hastings, volumes I and II, releases a new book detailing the remarkable life of Mary Raleigh Richardson, suffragette arsonist. Dee Williams reports.
Two sets of campaigners will be converging on County Hall in Lewes this Tuesday (11 February) to protest about the East Sussex Pension Fund’s role in the Gaza genocide and the climate crisis. Divest East Sussex’s Gabriel Carlyle reports.
Sussex has been chosen to join the fast track to a mayoral authority, the county council elections due to be held in May postponed along the way. The news was welcomed by the East Sussex County Council leader Keith Glazier, and deplored by the Hastings Borough Council leader Julia Hilton. Nick Terdre reports graphics by Russell Hall.
Who knew that it was 200 years since the naming of a dinosaur known as Iguanodon? It was the second dinosaur ever to be named; the first being a Megalosaurus, yet the term dinosaur was not coined until 1842. Who knew? Certainly not HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths.
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