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Revamped Youth Hub in Hollington
Finishing touches are being made to the refurbished Hollington Youth Hub in Hastings ahead of its grand opening this week. RX Architects The £ million refurbishment will allow the hub…
A Medieval Thrill on the Hill
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING are conquered by castle drama As you no doubt know, the Tapestry has come ‘home’. But you might think there is nothing new to be…
Bronson: Man Behind the Myth
Francis Saunders in a powerful new drama Bronson is a new one-man stage production coming to the Kino-Teatr in St Leonards. We caught up with the team who will bring…
Strands of Sustainability
East Sussex artists Antonia Chitty and Julie Gurr present STRANDS at DEPO Hastings as part of the Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2026. The exhibition brings together contemporary fibre art and…
Titans of Text
CHRIS CONNELLEY listens and learns from two literary legends The Hastings Book Festival returned in rude good health this year (its 9th, can you believe it?) with a beefed-up committee,…
Behind the Scenes at the Jazz Festival
VICTORIA KINGHAM talks to the organisers behind this year’s event Last year, the first year of Hastings’ newest jazz venture, the Festival was very much a home-grown enterprise. Not at…
Wot Italian? Forcione and Graffoe
After 20 years, award-winning comedian Boothby Graffoe and Italian guitar legend Antonio Forcione are reuniting for Wot Italian?, a new tour that brings high art and high comedy together on…
Before It Was Water
GEORGE MINGOZZI-MARSH Before It Was Water is a new body of work by Miroslava Večeřová exploring the ocean as a shared, more-than-human home, and the porous relationships between human bodies…
Exploring Vietnamese Music in Hastings
JUDE MONTAGUE Van Nguyen, Jude Montague and MaryAnn Royse have been exploring Vietnamese music from the mid-twentieth century and will be presenting some of this emotional and moving music at…
Bookbuster Review: An Accursed Witch Read?
Netherwood By Jake ArnottPublished by Titan, 2026, RRP £ BY TIM BARTON Unlocking the bookshop one morning in June, the door lodged against something. It was dark and hard to…
Poetry Corner: THE SUNKEN FOREST
HENRY NORMAL In a time before humans could write here, they looked down from their caves onto the tops of trees Then the mere movement of liquid slowly wore away…
MINIGOLF: Open Championship Returns to Hastings
The annual British Open Minigolf Tournament will once again be held on the Pirate Course at Hastings Adventure Golf this weekend. Hastings Adventure GolfLast year’s champion Adam Kelly England’s Adam…
Demonstration To Challenge Palantir Tie-Up With NHS
HUGH SULLIVAN A group demonstration outside the Conquest Hospital next Thursday (1 October) will demand that the NHS terminate their data processing contract with US tech company Palantir. The demo…
High Demand for Pride in Place Funding
More than 270 applications have been submitted by individual residents, community groups and organisations across Hastings in the first round of Pride in Place (PiP) funding. The PiP Board has…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter Food Bins of the Past Dear HIP In reference to Dr Keogh’s great letter in HIP 310 (Food Waste Roll-out), the compostable bags for lining individual caddies are £…
‘High-spec’ Office Space Renewed at Havelock Place
HUGH SULLIVAN Havelock Place, the six-storey office building in Havelock Street which suffered a major fire in July 2023, has been refurbished and is available for let to fresh commercial…
Cabinet votes to Extend Dog Control Order
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hastings Borough Council’s Cabinet has agreed to renew its controversial Dog Control Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) for another three years. The order bans dogs from some beaches…
Shabbat Meal Fundraiser for Palestinian Poet
Hastings Jews for Justice is hosting a traditional Shabbat meal to raise funds for Hala Mdukh, a young poet and trainee nurse in Gaza. Hastings Jews for JusticeShelley Feldman and…
BASEBALL: Pirates Run Aground
JAMES YOUNG The Hastings Pirates’ baseball season came to a disappointing end on Saturday 12 September when the team was knocked out of the league play-offs by Guildford Millers. The…
CRICKET: Priory in the Premier: a Retrospective
HUGH SULLIVAN The club cricket season finished nearly three weeks ago, but in such breathless fashion for the Hastings & St Leonards Priory team – winning their final game by…
FOOTBALL: Walsh at the Double
12 September: Hastings Utd 1, Bognor Regis Town 1 (won 6-5 on penalties)19 September: Hastings Utd 3, Merstham 0 Hastings United were back on top of the South East Division of…
Come together for Unity Parade
A broad coalition of Hastings community organisations, faith groups, trade unions, equality campaigns and political groups is calling on people across the town to join a Unity Parade on Saturday…
RIP to a Local Legend
JUDE MONTAGUE Andy Neate died suddenly, sending a shock through the Hastings music community. A regular at the Jenny Lind pub with his Balearic chill band, Los Twangueros, and more…
Hastings RNLI – A Highly Qualified Crew
Hastings RNLI lifeboat station celebrated a wonderful weekend recently, with seven crew receiving new qualifications. Kevin Boorman Paul, already the coxswain of the station’s all weather Shannon lifeboat, qualified as…
Who Pays the Costs of War?
Ahead of a public meeting organised by Hastings Stop the War, RICHARD WISTREICH considers the dangers of armed conflict and invites us to participate in the debate Our leaders would…
Source Park Future Under Wraps as BMX Company Crashes
HUGH SULLIVAN In July, Hastings Borough Council announced that the Source Park skatepark on the seafront was closed “until further notice” due to health and safety concerns following water ingress…
Express Rail Service Gets Peak Time Pricing
HUGH SULLIVAN South Eastern Railway (SER) announced with considerable fanfare earlier this month a new weekday express service between Hastings and London Charing Cross. From 14 December one train per…
New DAB licence for Seahaven FM
Residents of Hastings, St Leonards and Bexhill can now tune in to a new local radio station from 1 September. Seahaven FM, already broadcasting to East Sussex for more than…
Marjorie’s Grand Day Out
Four generations of one family enjoyed a special day beside the seaside when aptly-named, 104 year-old Marjorie Seaman took a trip to Hastings. Marjorie, the oldest resident at Heathfield Court…
Full of Life: Celebrating Older People
More than 100 events across the county will help celebrate ageing in East Sussex and mark a national Older People’s Day. Nordic walking, New Age Kurling, coffee mornings, gardening drop-ins,…
Hollington Community Spirit
CHRIS WATKINS Back at the start of this long, hot Summer, at The Bowl Play Park on Wishing Tree North, Hollington celebrated itself. The Hollington Community Spirit group worked with…
Ukrainian Independence Day
KHRYSTYNA MASHCHENSKA The 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence was marked with separate events in Hastings, Rye and Bexhill, bringing Ukrainians together with local residents, civic representatives and friends of Ukraine.…
Aladdin’s Cave on the Ridge
CHRISTINE SANDERSON What’s the link between the tragic fields of Flanders in WWI and an unusual shop on The Ridge? Well, built around 1920, that iconic building was a workshop…
Women, Work, and the Weight of Expectation
ANTHEA CARLING The Trouble With Women opens as part of Coastal Currents Festival on 5-6 and 12-13 September in the artist’s own home in Hastings Old Town. Lauren Joy KennettWriting…
Afrit Nebula: What Next?
An Afrit is a powerful demon in Arabian myths. A Nebula is an interstellar cloud of ; Local band Afrit Nebula have been gigging mainly around Hastings, St Leonards and…
PhotoHastings ’26
GARY WILLIS PhotoHastings’ collective of photographers aims to inspire an appreciation of contemporary photographic art through its annual festival programme. It is directed by Tracy Jones and Neale Willis, with…
Colouring to Heal
East Sussex-based author, artist and trauma-informed practitioner, Corina Stupu Thomas, has recently published We Tell Many Stories: A Therapeutic Colouring Book and Reflection Journal for Women’s Healing and Self-Discovery. The…
Fetish & Fantasy – Grace Lau
VICTORIA KINGHAM Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau’s photographic journey through sexuality, gender identity and sado-masochistic subculture has explored a world largely hidden from mainstream view. Fetish Stories brings together…
Fell: The Horror
ELIZABETH ALLEN Fell, ‘freely adapted’ from Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is a dramatic work which challenges both the audience and the actors. Writer and director Frances Viner…
Cabaret Franglais Comes to The Stables
BallyBest theatre production company is delighted to bring Café Franglais to The Stables. It’s a café-chantant celebration of French and English popular songs, with vocalists Tamara Leggett and Neil Sellman,…