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Brexit Boris: From Mayor to Nightmare
By Heathcote Williams - (Public Reading Rooms £) Review by Colin Gibson In a post-truth world where idle conjecture has replaced fact and where public opinion is shaped by the keyboard…
Where’s Eddie ?
Turn away your gaze for a second and another corner of St. Leonards has been transformed. The corner of Gardener Way with Grand Parade has had a dying fall for…
We Can Be Heroes
HIP CLASSICS by SIMONE WITNEY Homer’s Iliad translated by Stephen Mitchell, Audiobook read by Alfred Molina 'Rage’ is the first word of the Iliad and its theme. ‘Anger’, says Achilles ‘far…
Bookbuster Book Review: NOIR by Ken Champion
Review by Chris Connelley I read a fair amount of fiction, and most of the British stuff is clever, elegant and slight. Its miniaturist map takes in comfortably-off urban worlds…
Roadkill venison
By Geoff Dann Something a bit different for Christmas In this case I was entertaining a small subsection of the family, only three of whom were carnivores. The meat had…
Opening of Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Shed
On Saturday 3rd December, Deputy Mayor Nigel Sinden presided over the official opening of a new community resource, ‘Hastings and St. Leonards Men’s Shed’. ‘Men’s Sheds’ is an international non-profit…
Tax Questions and Answers
By Steve Brown Could you tell me more about these tax-free childcare accounts that are replacing the current childcare voucher scheme please? New tax-free childcare accounts were announced in 2014…
January Jitters
Injuries and defensive frailties continue to jinx the fortunes of Hastings United by Hugh Sullivan I’ve been learning an American swing dance popularised in the early 1930s called The Balboa.…
Hastings Orchestra Creation
By Brian Hicks A new fully professional orchestra in Hastings? The idea might seem insane in this time of austerity ,but that would be to ignore the enthusiasm and expertise…
Local Youth Celebrated At Awards Event In Hastings
Hastings Youth Awards 2016 took place last Sunday (20 November) at Sussex Coast College, Hastings. Over 450 people came together to celebrate the achievements of young people and youth organisations…
Ginger Baker
Fans of the Great British Bake Off are challenged to bake their most creative gingerbreads for a competition on Hastings Pier on Saturday 10th December, where finalist Jane Beedle will…
Telling Stories
After another excellent Storytelling Festival, I do a bit of Q n A with 18 hours………. How did the Storytelling Festival start? The festival was started in 2011 by…
Wild Enoki
It is the end of a second consecutive disappointing autumn for fungi; we are now due a good one next year. But there are still a few wild edibles to be found, including the wild ancestor…
I Love Mel
“ When I was 5, I used to say, I’m going to go to the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore” said Mel Simone Elliot. And so she did.…
Fill Her Up Mate
Why not spend a Christmassy Sunday down at Borough Wines, making your own modern felt Christmas stocking with Michelle, from Merchant and Mills, whilst supping on warm mulled wine and…
Chocolate Coated Almond Spice Biscuits
These biscuits are very basic, with only a subtle almond flavouring and spiciness. They are perfect to make in December, as the smell of cinnamon and ginger drifting through the…
Team Hastings 2016 Review
Hugh Sullivan It's been a frustrating year on the pitch for the town's leading football club Hastings United. They seemed well capable under the management of Garry Wilson of reaching…
Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
An Empty Sleeve production at Kino Teatr Reviewed by Elizabeth Allen The Cherry Orchard is a famously slippery play. While Chekhov declared this, his last drama, to be a comedy…
Tense art and Performance Poetry in St Leonards
Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove brought “Surface Tension" to St. Leonard's in an exhibition expressing the power of the tangible and intangible forces around us. This Hastings Arts…
Roundabout By Mel Wright
Chris Connelley feels the love with a heart- warming tale of everyday folk fighting against all odds Avid readers of this column may recall a review of Mel Wright’s previous…
Lost Magic at the Stables – Ed Boxall and Brian Moses.
By Laurie Taylor. (more…)
What’s the Buzz?
Charley Bolding-Smith The Hive: A Circle of Sisters is a very active new women’s community group happening in St. Leonard’s. It’s a funded voluntary organization which was started this autumn…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 7: Weathering the winter winds in poetic style As autumn morphs into winter there are stop-start icy winds troubling our crazy coastline. I don’t welcome them. They tear through…
Invest in your community and give from the heart
The Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust (CLT) has been designed to become a “people’s organisation” - owned and shaped by its shareholding members. It is properly democratic because every…
Jam Today
There’s been a lot of talk of JAM these past few weeks, mostly related to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement and predictably WASPIs have been all over it! The JAM in…
Festive cheer at Hastings Black Market VIP in aid of Pancreatic Cancer Action
Hastings vocalist Karis Thompson will be hosting a Christmas concert on the 22nd December at the BLK Market for a cause very close to her heart, Pancreatic Cancer Action. Come…
To Have Not I, Daniel Blake
Director: Ken Loach Reviewed by Charley Bolding-Smith Ken Loach has been raging against the machine since he burst into cinema with Poor Cow in 1967. Nearly fifty years later, he…
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser
Production: The Stables, Director: Peter Mould Reviewed by Colin Gibson Anyone familiar with the 1983 film of the same name starring Albert Finney as “Sir” and Tom Courtenay as Norman,…
Poetry Corner
Pebbles of Life Dave Hempshall Written while co-facilitating Poetry for Recovery course for Hastings Recovery College Pebbles of life move. Shifting brown and grey. Gulls transcend, lifting, preying Struck dumb…
The Christmas Tree
By Roy Browning with illustrations by Mike Raxworthy reviewed by Pete Donohue When Phil and Ann Gill turned up with a typewritten poem at local illustrator Mike Raxworthy's studio he…
Sausage Life
The column which always leaves the bathroom where it would wish to have found it MYSELF: Judging by recent photographs, our MP is looking a bit worse for wear lately.…
Political Predictions
This issue Sara Young took to the streets of Hastings to find out what people are predicting for the world of politics next year. “From what I have seen on…
Throw Away Lines
Transition Town Hastirngs (TTH) is about to launch a project to encourage and support local food takeaway businesses to make the transition to sustainable, e n v i r o…
Politikal Pokes
by Lobbytroll Hypocritic Oaf We in the Lobbytroll office listened, slack-jawed, to the upright moral arbiter and disgraced ex-cabinet minister David Mellor bleating at length on Radio 5 recently. He…
Graze in the Grand Manner
Cassoulet of pancetta, sausage, Guinea fowl & baked apple.” “Beetroot risotto, horseradish cream & red mullet”. “Sardines Venetian style with white onions, pine nuts & golden sultana.” With: “Picpoul de…
A Penny Pincher’s Christmas Carol – Hastings’ alternative Christmas panto at The Palace
Local writing and performing team Kate Tym and John Knowles (aka It’s Not Us) have already established themselves with a series of successful small theatre productions at various venues across…
DIARY OF A SOMEBODY
An occasional series in which we randomly browse the recollections of an anonymous diarist DECEMBER FRIDAY 2nd Tarquin, my eldest, telephones to say he is arriving from London tomorrow. Slight…
Pitch Perfect: ‘A Sort of PechaKusha’ at Ro – Tuesday, 29th November
TED (Technology, Entertainment,Design) is type of networking conference, originating in the United States and now held across the world. Speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their…
Creative and Tourism Mentor Network Project Celebrated
Creative and tourism businesses came together at the Beacon on Friday 18th November to celebrate the success of the Mentoring Network project. The Mentoring Network launched earlier this year by…
The Reluctant Vegetarian
I was talking to a friend in none other than the dearly loved or hated Wetherspoons in town, the conversation turned to our favourite foods… My favourite food, hands down is chips. Make mine a…