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Community Café – Celebrates Successful First Year
Simone Brookes A local community café, set up to provide affordable, home-cooked meals for those on low incomes and alleviate food poverty in Ore, will celebrate its first birthday on…
Southern Water tests revolutionary SmartBall
The device, which travels along water pipes and detects weakened pipes before they become bursts, is being tested by Southern Water in the 13,000 km of pipe line that make…
Community charity TCV has volunteering opportunities for local residents
The East Sussex Bio-diversity Action Team carries out practical conservation tasks, such as clearing & improving footpaths, coppicing woodland , building benches and looking after ponds. The group works in…
Schemes to Link Students with Employers: the Enterprise Advisor Network
East Sussex EAN is part of a national scheme linking secondary schools and colleges with local business to help them develop skills and strategies for enterprise and careers education. Steve…
‘It takes a village to raise a child…’
From the moment a child is born they begin to learn and absorb information at an incredible rate. From nursery rhymes and stories, which are the building blocks of mathematics…
Friends of Hastings Pier Crowdfund to Keep Hastings Pier Community Owned
A small community action group is locked in a bidding war with wealthy private investors, and have turned to the Internet for help in their struggle. Friends of Hastings Pier…
Transition Town Hastings is running a Sustainability Week
From 22nd – 30th September this year. Lots of exciting events are planned, including food & energy workshops, recycling & food waste projects, stalls and entertainment at a day-long event…
The Big Lunch 2018!
Transition Town Hastings invites you to join in this year’s Big Lunch event on 3rd June. This event, founded by the Eden Project, takes place every year all over the…
Volunteers Needed for Youth Mental Health Study
A pioneering new study will consider the social relationships of adolescents who receive care from mental health services, and young people who experience hearing voices. Clio and Kat from Vista…
Children in East Sussex deserve a music service
Ros Donald reports Wooden sounds and smells echoed and deadened. Chairs thumped on worn parquet. ‘Cellos vibrated woodily as their metal spike was quickly deployed. We learned rhythms by beating…
As Full of Spirit as the Month of May…
With Jack in the Green and myriad summer celebrations approaching, Hastings also prepares to crown its 85th May Queen. Barry Jones reports. One of the oldest traditions in the country, the…
Make a Foliage Crown
The 2016 May Queen, Bethan Jones, will be lending her crown for display at Hastings Museum on Saturday 5th May for a workshop on how to make a headdress for…
Dancing at Dawn
On Tuesday 1st May, morris dancers will assemble on Ladies Parlour, West Hill, to inaugurate a new season. Dancers and spectators will be able to use the reopened funicular railway…
Local Business achieves the Queen’s Award for Enterprise
The Source (Hastings) Ltd – a company specialising in the retailing of BMX bikes, parts and accessories – has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2018 in the International…
Streets of Battle back for 2018
The festival of Sussex street art will return to the heart of Battle this Saturday, 28th April. Loved by all ages, Streets of Battle has charmed visitors to Battle's High…
Win £100K for Hastings
TWO LOCAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS WANT YOUR VOTE TO EACH WIN £50K OF NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDING by Julia Mortimer THE PEOPLE'S PROJECT Funded by the National Lottery in conjunction with The Big…
Singers from Seaview Steal the Show!
Having been rehearsing since January with local music charity The Time to Shine Project, clients from the Seaview Centre in Hastings are putting the final touches to a spectacular night…
West Hill lift closed
The West Hill lift in Hastings has had to close because of emergency engineering works A building behind a trackside wall had started to collapse, and could have fallen onto…
Silver Swans Lead the Way
Buzz Academy may be Hastings’ youngest dance school, just six months old, but they are making a big impression on the south coast with more senior members of the community…
Town Centre Carousel Reopens
A boon to shopping parents, the 1955 vintage carousel in the town centre has been restored and reopened by new owner Emmett Ives, and will be operating throughout the summer.…
Calling anyone who knew, or owns work by Sussex artist – Anthony Pyke
HASTINGS ARTS FORUM Members of Anthony Pyke’s family are holding a memorial exhibition of his work at the Hastings Arts Forum from 3rd - 15th April. They would also be…
Relaunch of the Town Team
Rob Webb Local residents and traders gathered at the Royal Victoria Hotel on Thursday, 1st March drawn by the slogan ‘St Leonards needs you’. The meeting’s aim was to revitalise…
Pet Insurance – What you need to know
Nicky Diver-Clarke RVN Your Pet Nurse, Hastings Shopping for pet insurance can be a minefield. There are many considerations and potential pitfalls. It is, however, something that all pet owners should…
Charity for Homeless wins national award
The Seaview Project has emerged as one of the eight winners of the 2018 GSK IMPACT Awards. The charity will receive £30,000 in funding as part of its prize, as…
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…
Cafe Des Arts
BY ALUN SAMBROOK Well, today is my last ever day of working at the Cafe Des Arts before it closes for the last time due to various reasons. It has…
Pet Loss
What Support is there for a Bereaved Owner? Nicky Diver-Clarke RVN Your Pet Nurse Hastings ‘Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about…
It really is Time2Dance
Academy Time 2 Dance reached its 16th birthday at the White Rock, this February. It’s a huge, three-day dance extravaganza involving over 870 students, from 32 schools and numerous community…
St Leonards Woman Calls for ‘Justice for Palestinians’
HASTINGS AGAINST WAR REPORTS Leah Levane provided an eyewitness account of life in the occupied Palestinian territories in a meeting in Hastings recently. The meeting was organised by Hastings Against…
Feline Cystitis – How can we help stressed cats?
BY Nicky Diver-Clarke RVN Your Pet Nurse Hastings Our feline companions are sensitive and susceptible to anxiety. So when home is hectic, a new cat moves in to your area, a…
Retro Games Night
Tuesday 13th February saw old technology given a new lease of life in the first of a proposed regular retro games night. Taking place in the Grand rue de pera…
Teachers Get Some Sun in Hastings
The Hastings Friendship Link’s delegation left for our Twin Town in Sierra Leone on February 9th as part of an ongoing exchange project. Thirteen teacher members of the group will…
HAVE Launch
On Saturday 10th February, Hastings Access to Venues and Events launched their first quarterly newsletter. It grew out of their informal Facebook group and other longstanding efforts to publicise the…
National Pet Dental Health Month
Nicky Diver-Clarke RVN Your Pet Nurse Hastings February is National Pet Dental Health Month and a great opportunity to ask yourself, am I doing enough to look after my dog’s…
Sign Up for the Sara Lee Trust Therapy Month and Support a Local Charity
This March, the Sara Lee Trust is launching its annual Hastings and Rother Therapy Month to help fund essential care and raise awareness of how counselling and therapy can improve…
Art Exhibition to Raise Funds for Local Rescue Cats
Bluebell Ridge Cat Rehoming Centre in Hastings is holding its first art exhibition from which all proceeds go towards helping local rescue cats in need. The exhibition is free to…
Council Plan Hefty Rent Increase For Gardeners
BY GILLIAN METCALFE & MERLIN PENDRAGON Although the allotment holders of Hastings may not be planning a pitchfork rebellion, the usually law-abiding and civilised group of gardeners show signs of…
Abacuses Develop Mental Activity and Fight Illness
BY VERONICA ZACON & MERLIN PENDRAGON Brain Health Researchers in Japan, Canada and Spain have proven the efficiency of Abacus calculation in maintaining cognitive health for the elderly. Thousands of elderly people…
Holocaust Memorial Service Success
A packed St Mary in the Castle saw a moving, thought-provoking Holocaust Memorial Day service on Saturday (27th January) themed around the power of words. The mayor of Hastings, Cllr…