Twelve Hundred Postcards
New Micropub for Queens Road, Hastings By David Brumley Exciting news for Hastings real ale fans – a new micropub is set to open at 80 Queens Road with a mission to sell great British ale. Hastings Planning Committee has granted…
Young People Look To A Greener Future
By Rod Webb Green energy, and how it might power our future, was the focus of a recent Sussex Coast College symposium where 12 high-profile energy ‘champions’ met students and other guests as part of ‘Green GB Week’. The symposium,…
Engendering debate?
Consultation has now closed on reform of the Gender Recognition Act. Did the government inspired debate simply incense both sides or actuallyt throw some light on an issue of our age? Illustration by Julia Andrews-Clifford
The Manhattan
By Michael Smith The Manhattan was invented in that city in the 1870s at a banquet hosted by Winston Churchill’s mother. It’s one of the earlier and more enduring cocktails, a drink of mystery, depth and strength. The combination of…
Billy Chainsaw Rips It Up At See Spray
By Tina Morris Big things are afoot artistically on the Queens Road, in fact, the Queens Road is so up-and -coming, it is hitting you square in the face, especially with this new show by Billy Chainsaw. See Spray Gallery…
Hastings Fat Tuesday Winners!
Our hearty congratulations to Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival for winning Event of the Year 2018 in the Celebration of Sussex Life Awards. Hailed as Hastings’ answer to SXSW in Texas. Hastings Fat Tuesday is one of the jewels in…
Enjoy a Purrfect Movie and Help Local Cats in Need
Cat lovers are invited to support the Bluebell Ridge Cat Rehoming Centre by joining them for their first ever movie night at the Electric Palace Cinema on Wednesday 28th November for 7:30pm. The charity will be showing the uplifting true…
Sharing Teaching Skills Across The World
Hastings and Sierra Leone Friendship Link Earlier this month local teachers in Hastings, St Leonards and Battle welcomed partners from Sierra Leone to teach in their schools. A party of seven teachers flew in from Freetown on October 6th to…
Is Eating Insects the Future of Sustainability?
By Mark Killick Functional Nutritional Therapist A recent report by the world’s leading scientists on climate change has warned that we have only about twelve years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of °C. Rising that much…
HIP READ: Poems For Tommy Two-Guns By Pete Donohue
By Brian Docherty Pleasures of the Damned Pete Donohue has been a stalwart of the Hastings Creative Crew, and a regular presence at local poetry and spoken word events for longer than he cares to admit. This thirteen poem limited…