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Open Letter From Hastings Community Network
The University of Brighton recently concluded their consultation which proposes to change their Hastings Campus into a University Centre. The reason given for the proposed down grade was not being…
Who cares?
ARE you a carer, supporter or family member of someone with mental health problems or learning disabilities? are holding this event, to reach out to people and say ‘you’re not…
Ore Valley
Community members have been put at the heart of plans to regenerate the old Broomgrove power station site in Ore Valley in Hastings. Recently a group of local activists and…
Get Creative This Christmas
The festive season stalks us once again, presenting the usual difficulty of coming up with interesting and exclusive gifts for family and loved ones. Here in Hastings and St Leonard’s,…
The Jerwood Score a Glorious Century
Charley Bolding-Smith Century, the current exhibition at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, brings together the work of 100 modern British artists. It’s a vibrant mix of paintings, sculpture, and works on…
Hastings Fashion Show Goes National
Kent Barker Hastings’ own home-grown fashion show – Front Row - has just been accorded national recognition and an additional showing at a prestigious London location. This Saturday, 26th November,…
A Callout to all Experienced and Budding Filmakers
Keith Adams Whether an actor, a cinematographer or one of those people who holds a big fluffy microphone on a long stick we want you all. A new, dynamic and…
Hastings Story Telling Festival
Two Clowns Trapped in a Cardboard World was played out in a set made entirely of cardboard at St Mary in the Castle as part of the Hastings Story Telling…
ARTISTS PROFILE: Maika Crampton – Paper Couture
Maria Holme-Slater Originally from Hamburg in Germany, Maika studied then worked for a record company before moving to London in 1995, where she began making children’s clothes in linen for…
Freshwater Fishing: Is Biggest Best?
by Mark Cunnington Several weeks ago a carp weighing over 70 pounds was taken from The Avenue Fishery in Shropshire: a British record for rod-and-line fishing. Once details of the…
Artistic tension in St Leonards
By Neil Partrick A tense art show is taking place at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards. Local artists Kate Gritton and Valerie Grove are jointly exhibiting in ‘Surface Tension’,…
The Bayeux Tapestry: expert academic reveals 1066 saga’s subversive seam
The Bayeux tapestry is widely regarded as propaganda by the victorious Norman overlords, celebrating their victory over the Saxons. Professor Gale Owen -Crocker holds up a section of a copy…
Mini or crazy – it’s serious stuff
credit Marion Homer, KMGA credit Marion Homer KMGA When you and I play crazy golf on the sea-front we're there for a laugh. Competitive we may be, and secretly believing…
Hastings Priory cricket: playing for the team
Jed O'Brien (Priory) bowled by Sam Roberts (Bexhill)credit: Reg Wood Event Photography Among many intriguing aspects of the game of cricket is the relationship between individual players and the team…
Hastings honours boxing greats
Three hundred fight enthusiasts from all over Britain, including several legendary ex-boxers, will converge at the Azur on St Leonards sea-front this Sunday afternoon. There's no live boxing to view.…
Southern Crossfire
The rail dispute at Southern Region over guard duties which led to a 48-hour strike by workers in the RMT union last week and ongoing disruption of services on the…
Doctors in the Ice House?
DOCTORS IN THE ICE HOUSE? by Hugh Sullivan Hastings Council's planning committee will determine later this month whether an innovative development in the provision of GP medical services in the…
14 year-old from Hastings is third best unicyclist in the world
by Pete Donohue Dekki Sudiarta, born and raised in Hastings, first discovered his natural talent as a unicyclist at age eleven. The Rye Community College student was initially inspired…
Brookes & Leal bring an icon of contemporary literature to Hastings
Review: ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’ plus support from Andrew Grainger, Richard Heslop, Michael Smith and David Quantick. By Pete Donohue Recently relocated back to Hastings, arts event producers and…
University of Brighton launches 3 month consultation on Hastings
After much confusion and protest following the announcement in March that the University of Brighton would be pulling out of Hastings, U of B have launched a 3 month public consultation…
Quick march: Intrepid trio plan to ‘yomp’ like Saxons
Forget walking like an Egyptian, or moving like Jagger, to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings an intrepid trio of latter-day Saxons are aiming to recreate a…
To the ghosts of 1066
By Sophie Shaw Jane Packman and Ben Pacey, cofounders Dens and Signals The Feast of the Dead is nearly here, but what can we expect from this most unusual of…
Route 1066 presents Feast of the Dead
You are invited to share a meal in memory of the fallen in the Battle of 1066. Hastings based artists Dens and Signals are making a seductive performance event about…
DARREN DEALS, SHUFFLES…AND FINDS AN ACE
As previously reported the new football season brings a fresh management team to Hastings United: Darren Hare, long-time back-room coach at Gillingham has arrived as manager, and former Chelsea defender…
Priory celebrate fine finish
Some games, even tense ones, end essentially in frustration. In football the side that's leading (or settling for a draw) takes the ball down to the corner flag and depletes…
Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
The Frackers: the Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution – by Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio Press, 2013. Available at Bookbuster £ Review by Tim Barton For those of you that remember the 'Jett Rink' in the movie Giant, or the TV soaps Dallas and…
The argument for DIY poetry
By Pete Donohue If you want to get your message across you need to get up, stand up. No one else will do it for you. Speak up, speak…
Revised Observer Building planning consultation ending soon
OB planning consultation The consultation for the revised plans post University of Brighton plan to withdraw from Hastings, closes in the next week or so (one source says this Thursday…
Bowls: mixing the Open
The Hastings Annual Mixed Open Bowls Tournament runs five days next week, Monday to Saturday. There are men's singles, ladies' singles, men's pairs, ladies' pairs and open triples - open…
Canoe Club: the freedom of the sea
Hastings and District Canoe Club don't enjoy the most charismatic of club-houses, a concrete shell among the beach huts beyond Cinque Ports Way. Their canoes and kayaks are stored in…
Trainspotting in Hastings
By Pete Donohue Not an article on currently invisible Southern rail carriages, this is a good news heads up for Irvine Welsh fans. The celebrated Edinburgh author is coming to…
THE KIDS’ TAPESTRY UNVEILED
THE KIDS' TAPESTRY UNVEILED TO MARK 950TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS Photo credits: David Parry/PA Wire Children help to create sequel to the Bayeux Tapestry featuring Shakespeare, Queen…
The Beached Commodore
Don Bowles is sitting in the open veranda of the Hastings & St Leonards Sailing clubhouse, walkie-talkie in hand, looking out onto the beach where an array of dinghies is…
Cricket: Priory enjoys home supremacy
credit Regwood Event Photography If Hastings prides itself on welcoming incomers, that friendly reception does not extend to the cricket pitch at Horntye. Last summer the Priory club won eight…
Well blow me down!
By Pete Donohue As an introduction to playing music when a little one, recorder lessons were hard to beat. Sure, potential percussionists might have favoured the triangle, marimba or shaky…
The Great Survey
THE GREAT SURVEY As part of the ROOT1066 International Arts Festival, Hastings Council has commissioned WildWorks Theatre Company to come to Hastings to make a show about us… and they…
Marcus Harvey – HipCast
Marcus Harvey INSELAFFE Kate Renwick, the Arts Editor of Hastings Independent gets an exclusive interview with Marcus Harvey at Jerwood Gallery a day before the launch of INSELAFFE, his largest UK public…
Jeremy Corbyn: Philosopher King
In Plato's Republic, Socrates predicts the coming of a Philosopher King and sets out the conditions necessary for a Good State in conveniently referenced dialogue with an interlocutor. In this…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 3: Madness is creeping up the Hill By Pete Donohue When I moved to Hastings thirty years ago – yep, not a native but a BICCLIDFL – someone told…