Hastings residents welcome refugees
By Jo Turner On Channel 4 News this week Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, was interviewed about her party’s policy on refugees and also her own personal poor record of behaviour online which brought about an investigation by…
Festival by the Lake Online
By Gareth Stevens It was inevitable that the Festival by the Lake would be cancelled this year given the current situation. However a similar inevitability meant that Polly Gifford, the event’s chief organiser, would not be deterred. In an epiphanic…
Top Musicians Support Festival Welcoming Refugees to Hastings
Award winning jazz musicians Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw, and poet John Hegley are among the artists appearing at Festival by the Lake on Sunday 24 June, 12-8pm, in the beautiful surroundings of Ashburnham Place, near Battle, East Sussex. Now…
Calais Children – A Case To Answer
The refugee crisis in Calais has not gone away. Indeed destroying the ‘Jungle’ has arguably made the situation worse. Felicity Laurence of Hastings Supports Refugees reports on an extraordinary film to be shown at the Printworks which documents the abject…