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Claridge’s Wine A Taste of Clarets
Tracey Claridge Bonjour! Every year around the beginning of April samples of the top wines of Bordeaux are shown to the Wine Trade for the first time. The wines are very youthful, having only…
Autumn Budget 2016
Philip Hammond, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced his first Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday 23rd November 2016. Small businesses, which make a huge contribution to the economy,…
Friendship Link Teachers Ask Some Big Questions About Education
As twelve local schools, here in Hastings prepare to visit their twinned schools in Hastings Sierra Leone in the tenth anniversary year, they have been attending courses both here and…
RE: Cycle
Residents in Hastings will receive a sticker to remind them of the main items they can recycle at home. A sticker is being sent out to residents across the borough…
New Funding To Improve Mental Health Care For Pregnant Women And New Mums
Sussex is one of 20 areas across the country which will benefit from funding to improve care for pregnant women and new mums experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental…
Mayor Delivers Christmas Cheer
The mayor of Hastings Councillor Judy Rogers together with the deputy mayor Councillor Nigel Sinden and Hastings Borough Council leader, Councillor Peter Chowney visited Royal Mail’s Hastings delivery office to…
2016 and all that…
While globally and nationally, 2016 was a year of much malign and mourning, there has been a great deal of positive news to report locally. Arguably the first and most…
Write on in Hastings: Gavin Martin – Talking Musical Revolutions
Pete Donohue introduces: Hastings & St Leonards based music critic and performance poet, Gavin Martin, has interviewed or reviewed just about any artiste worth knowing about in the music industry…
A HIP READ – Shine On, Marquee Moon by Zoe Howe
Review by Pete Donohue: It isn’t easy ro write a debut novel set within the music industry without slipping into rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Zoe Howe overcomes this problem by…
Invest in Property AND the Community
Heart of Hastings CLT launches its Investors’ Collective On Friday 9 December, the Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust (CLT) will launch its “Investors’ Collective’’ – an opportunity for people…
Junior Club Tackleway: A Hundred Years of Sport
A hundred years ago this month, in November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was reaching its murderous close, every town in the land suffering unprecedented losses of young men…
United: Here We Go?
Like a tsunami it has rolled in from the deep with hardly an anticipatory breath: the announcement earlier this month of serious proposals to build a brand new multi-sports complex…
Hughenden Road Pocket park
It's not the most promising location: an acre of Council-owned ground in the hinterland of Elphinstone Road surrounded by housing and largely concreted over around 13 years ago following the…
Goan Fish Curry
I cook a lot of curries, but this one stands out from the crowd as a bit special (thankyou Felicity Cloake). It takes quite a lot of ingredients and time,…
Rainbow Ratatouille (vegan)
I’ve been vegetarian for close to forty years. During that time I’ve flirted with veganism but then reverted back to vegetarianism for various reasons. As a family of four we…
Coconutty Butternut Squash with Rice
Megan Cronin The temperature has dropped and even with the heating on, I am cold. Cold, tired and moody – I am dreading the darker months of winter, really dreading…
Claridge’s Wine – Biodynamism – a load of old voodoo?
Tracey Claridge Organic wine in on the increase worldwide. Production is from grapes grown without synthetic fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers. The environment is respected, vines grow in living soil, full…
Murder in the Belfry
The evil Dr Black has been brutally murdered. With his reputation for going out of his way to upset people, there is no shortage of suspects for this vicious crime.…
Hastings Foodbank
By Natalie Williams The Hastings Foodbank continues to feed local people in crisis. Since April 2016, we have distributed 21,393 meals (9 meals per person in household for three days)…
New energy savings project launched in Hastings
Local residents and councillors attended the launch of the Climate Active Neighbourhoods (CAN) EU funded project at Christ Church, Ore on 1 November. Supported by the Citizens Advice Bureau, The…
Helping Self Help
By Tanya Vice October was a very busy month for the Helping Self Help project! Tuesday 4th October saw self- help groups coming together for our Networking Café at Sussex…
Hughenden Road Pocket Park
It’s not the most promising location: an acre of Council-owned ground in the hinterland of Elphinstone Road surrounded by housing and largely concreted over around 13 years ago following the…
Frack Barclays, Not Sussex!
By Laurie Temple Don’t Frack with Sussex, organised a successful and good humoured, Halloweenesque anti-fracking protest, outside Barclays bank, in Hastings, as part of a nationwide campaign. Barclays, have a…
Open letter to Amber Rudd, MP Hastings and Rye
11th October 2016 Dear Amber Rudd, As your constituents we write to express our deep concern for at least 387 unaccompanied children in the Calais ‘Jungle’ who have been granted…
Politikal Pokes
by lobbytroll Soul prices soar Jack Straw, the retired liar and swivel-eyed ingrate, has come out in favour of the recent hike in the price of souls. “Years ago, when…
Take A Stand Against Domestic Violence and Support the White Ribbon Campaign
Nationally 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men will be victims of domestic violence in their lifetime. 1 incident of domestic abuse is reported to the police every…
St Leonards locals rally behind their local Post Office
by Chris Connelley The autumn sun shone brightly and passing motorists tooted their support as St Leonards traders and residents took to the streets to protest the proposed closure of…
You could be at risk of pension penalties
Millions of employers in the UK have been introducing pension schemes to eligible employees since the previous Government introduced its automatic enrolment legislation in 2012. And with the Pensions Regulator…
Tax Questions and Answers
When I submitted my Tax Credits renewal forms, I had to estimate my self-employment income because I had not put my accounts together. I have now completed my accounts and…
The Facebook Page, the Six-Year-Old, and the Daily Cocktail
By Kim Hall “Have you done your meds?” is a phrase that is repeated several times in my house during the course of a morning, and accompanied by various threats…
Diary Of A Somebody
Compiled by Patrick Carabine An occasional series in which we randomly browse the recollections of an anonymous diarist. NOVEMBER MONDAY 14th I have decided to write a novel, and start…
Sausage Life
by Bird Guano The column that doesn't shrink when you put it in the tumble dryer. MYSELF: Why the long face? READER: I’m not happy with all this Brexit mullarkey.…
Junior club tackleway – a hundred years of sport
A hundred years ago this month, in November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was reaching its murderous close, every town in the land suffering unprecedented losses of young men…
Waiting for Gareth
Hitler Pizzeria reviewed by Kent Barker The problem with Samuel Becket’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ is that you know from the outset your wait will be fruitless because the programme cast-list…
Hastings town centre set for £1m business investment
Businesses in the centre of Hastings have voted to create a Business Improvement District (BID) and raise £1m to invest in the town. Of 206 firms that voted in a…
Doozer McDooze/Hobo Jones/Ukelele Dave
Lizz Francis reviews a Tubman gig David Francis AKA Ukulele Dave kicked off the Doozer McDooze gig at the Tubman, Cambridge Rd on Saturday night (Nov 12th). He performed solo,…
Trash Cannes 5-Day Film Challenge Screening
Reviewed by Will Snelling Another year, another blast of creativity and invention in the form of nineteen short films, each made within five days, each demonstrating the playfulness and artistry…
United: Here we go?
Investing in Hastings – Sport and Business It’s the culmination of 18 months of work, according to the board of directors of Hastings United FC. But for most of the…
Bookbuster Book Review
Dream Brother the lives & music of Jeff & Tim Buckley By David Browne Fourth Estate, RRP £, available at Bookbuster for £ Review by Tim Barton Both Jeff and…
Crafty Christmas Pop-Up
If you’re stuck for gift ideas for Christmas, or just want to get into the seasonal spirit, we’ve got something to jingle your The popular Pop-Up Emporium is back! Taking…