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 Study Team The Vista study by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation…
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 the body of the instrument like a drum. Warm scents:…
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 crowning and associated festivities help us to celebrate the start…
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 the celebrations. You can wear your own headdress for the…
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 to assist access to the event as Kevin Boorman, the…
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 Trade category, on the back of soaring international e-commerce sales.…
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 Street and Abbey Green since 2016. Watch out for uproarious…
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 Lottery Fund and ITV/STV, the People’s Projects will award £3…
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 of live music at the Masonic Hall on East Ascent,…
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 one of the lift cars. Council spokesman Kevin Boorman explained…