DRINKING CULTURE: Vive les Soiffeurs!
Michael Smith Natural wine has brought a sea-change with it. It forces you to re-evaluate many of your assumptions about what makes good wine good; some of these assumptions so basic and so engrained, you didn’t even realise they were…
A Wacky Races-style challenge is looking to put the brakes on meningitis
Ten car enthusiasts are taking on the 1,000-mile plus event around the UK in six cars, fit only for the scrap heap and worth no more than £1,000. They start and finish in Brighton, hoping to raise £5,000 for charity…
Summer Sunrise Juice
Oh, my days! What are these beauties I see before my eyes! It’s the cheekiest, juiciest amigos I ever did see! I’ve been making lots of juices recently and this is one of my absolute favourites! You will need: 10…
St Leonards Festival kicks off high summer
St Leonards is preparing for crowds of around 10,000 for the 13th annual St Leonards Festival on Saturday 30th June. The event is centred around Warrior Square Gardens, where there will be a main stage, community stalls, global food court (sponsored…
Woodland Walking in the Heart of Hastings
Dave Young Only a few metres from Ore station is an urban green space, an area of lakes and woods on the site of a former power station, once used to power the town’s tramways. Participants on a recent Heart…
Extension of mandatory HMOs licensing
The Government confirms the extension of mandatory Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licensing from 1st October 2018, subject to parliamentary approval Changes to the regulations will bring purpose-built flats (where there are up to two flats in the block) under…
HIP SHORT STORY – Able Was Ere I Saw Elva
ADAM RUSSELL Trillions of miles in to an endless journey, no-one now can imagine a world without cars. As my gym buddy Tim always comments, quoting Heidegger, “they solicit our being”. He is literally correct, ‘solicit’ coming from the Latin…
Top Musicians Support Festival Welcoming Refugees to Hastings
Award winning jazz musicians Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw, and poet John Hegley are among the artists appearing at Festival by the Lake on Sunday 24 June, 12-8pm, in the beautiful surroundings of Ashburnham Place, near Battle, East Sussex. Now…
No Longer ‘INADEQUATE’
Staff commended as trust makes good progress. Emma Harwood writes. Troubled East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust – which manages both the Conquest and Eastbourne District General hospitals – no longer needs to be in quality special measures, healthcare watchdog the Care…
SEA CHANGE: “We’re Saving Jobs”
But financial decisions of not-for-profit development company come under fire from watch critics. Emma Harwood reports An economic development company which has spent millions of pounds of government funding building work spaces, roads and industrial parks, some of which remain empty…