Thank God It’s Friday
Reviewed by Angelica Campion I love old pubs and history. My dad was born in The Angel in St Giles, (previously the Bowl) where condemned men went for their last drink before being hanged at Tyburn. There are more than…
Time’s Up
Julia Andrews-Clifford Austerity cuts have hit women’s refuges hard. In 2016 sixty per cent of women who approached a refuge for help were turned away. On average, two women in England and Wales are killed by their current or former…
Jumble Sale & Daytime Rave!!
A local group of creatives, including artists, designers, DJs, poets, activists and fashion designers, are hosting a jumble sale and daytime rave on Good Friday at Mercatoria Business Centre Studios. You may have seen their ‘Don’t Frack With Sussex’ actions - such as…
Danny Pockets: 5.11.64-12.3.18
Heartbreakingly, Hastings and St Leonards’ art community last week lost one of its favourite and most inspiring lights, Danny Pockets, to cancer. By Andy Fyfe A driving force of East London’s fringe art scene during the ’90s and early 2000s, Pockets…
Bookbuster Book Review – Turbulent Sisters
Turbulent Sisters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings & St Leonards By Ann Kramer Circaidy Gregory Press paperback, RRP £, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY KAT NIP Women today take it for granted that they have the same rights…
The Beast of Hastings – Aleister Crowley #1
Crowley in Ceremonial Dress Richard Thomas ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’, as the press called him, died in Hastings in 1947. There are people living locally who believe an aura of evil, his evil, lurks in the locations associated…
Worth the wait – Central Library opens
DAVE YOUNG REPORTS Long awaited, and a little more expensive than envisaged, Hastings Library has reopened. Located in the Brassey Institute in Claremont, the listed Victorian structure has been sensitively refurbished inside and out. Original features have been restored, stained…
Fava me with love
I come from a large, noisy family in which lovingly prepared food is considered the equivalent of a hug. A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed writes When we were growing up, my mother had an open-door policy at mealtimes – our…
Street Innit Tho
The word on the street is street, or if you’re in Wales, araf, but that’s irrelevant. Street food is sick, doesn’t work on two levels, one being that it’s sad to say sick and in the same way duff to…
Sandy Saved By Early Diagnosis of Cancer – Stay Aware
Sandy has had cancer for the last two years. In Christmas 2015 she went for a blood test and was told she had leukaemia. Further tests confirmed the diagnosis was lymphoma. Sandy had visited her GP quickly when she started…