Explore The Natural World Close To Home
The Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (FHCPNR) have released their programme of events for 2020, which provides a clear insight into changes in our surrounding natural world. Ben Bruges met David Jeffery, who, along with Denise his wife,…
Sausage Life
The column which throws stones even though it lives in a glass house READER: Happy New Year!MYSELF: For whom?READER: What’s up now, Dr. Doom?MYSELF: Er…the election result?READER: Oh the election! I’d quite forgotten about that! Anyway, have you seen Cats…
A Fateful Emerald: The Story of Sir Cloudesley Shovell
By David Dennis In All Saints’ Street in the Old Town is said to be the oldest home left standing in ; This was also the home of the mother of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. When living in Cockthorpe, on…
To All The Men I’ve Loved…
We’re at the end of November, which marks Men’s Health Awareness month. Sanne van Baalen reflects on the men in her life who are struggling with their mental health and she writers a letter to each of them here. To…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
FORGERY Boris Johnson is determined to “forge a new Britain”, once we Get Brexit Done, a phrase so stupid it defies satire. Brexit will not ‘get done’, because Brexit is an abstract noun, invented to disguise something hideously complicated as…
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The column which believes that marzipan is from Mars and vermicelli is from Venus MYSELF: Blimey, have you seen the pier lately? It’s turning into a : Are you referring to the newly installed log cabins?MYSELF: No, the ones I…
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The column that puts its brolly up even though it isn’t raining READER: I see Boris is finally getting his point across at : In what way exactly is the PM finally getting his point across? And please stop calling…
Hastings Helps Halt French Invasion
By Kent Barker In all the commemorations this year of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, another military campaign exactly two hundred years earlier was rather overlooked. It’s one that’s particularly relevant to Hastings, as a former Mayor provided important intelligence…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
MORONITYThe Trump brand is so toxic in the UK that even stupid people have stopped liking him, but in the US, certain sectors of the TV-reared population lap it all up. Former head of Isis, Abu Bakhur, evaded capture by…
Changing Hastings – Or Is It?
By Sam Kinch Community Organiser at Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust “This seaside town has stepped out of the shadow of its twin. One could say it was gentrifying, were it not built for the gentry” Tom Dyckhoff (The Guardian,…