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Refugee Week Celebrates Courage Across Hastings & Bexhill
Refugee Week 2026 takes place from 15 to 21 June, bringing communities together across Hastings, Rother, and Wealden under this year’s national theme: Courage Refugee Week 2026 will spotlight the…
“Being a rock musician in 2026 is hard, but places like Hastings make it worthwhile”
Ahead of her show at The Carlisle on Friday 5 June, award-winning guitarist, singer and songwriter Chantel McGregor spoke to JOSHUA GEER about music, touring, grief, guitar playing, and why…
Three Key Takeaways from the Recent Local Elections
James Prentice analyses the results for Hastings Independent Press The local election held within the Hastings borough produced significant shifts. Reform emerged as a competitive party for the first time,…
East Sussex Decides, 2026. Reform UK Leading Party after Local Elections in East Sussex
Reform UK Leading Party after Local Elections in East Sussex The 2026 East Sussex county council election has delivered a seismic shift, with Reform UK winning 22 seats to become…
Multi-Venue Dance Music Festival Returns to Hastings and St. Leonards
For the May Bank holiday, revellers will see a multi-genre range of dance music showcased across the town with the Let's Get It Together Festival. First put on as a…
Pier to Pier Challenge for Unpaid Carers
A unique Pier to Pier fundraising challenge took place along the Sussex coast last weekend to shine a light on the lived realities of unpaid carers – led by someone…
A Town Reshaped
HASTINGS PIER The period of striking and complex change that Hastings has undergone over the past twelve years is seen very clearly in the story of Hastings Pier. Jason Ellis…
Are Local NHS Services Improving?
A Freedom of Information request by the Hastings Independent reveals some statistical signs of improvement in local NHS health care. Waiting times and the backlog are coming down. Patient to…
William the Composter
William the Composter has been chosen as the name for the new food waste collection vehicles in Hastings, Rother and Wealden after a competition across local schools to name the…
Safe Havens: Strengthening Our Community
JESSICA BRAYE, FRANCES CROWLEY, KRISSIE NICOLSON, and REBECCA SINKER talk about the birth of The Refugee Buddy Project’s Safe Havens initiative, how it works and why it’s important Kate ButtsSafe…
Swimmers Warned off Beaches Following Heavy Rain
The Environment Agency (EA) advised members of the public not to swim off any of the beaches at Hastings, St Leonards or Bexhill last week following the heavy rainfall over…
Water Compensation Victory
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Southern Water has agreed to pay £ million in compensation to its customers in Hastings who were left without water for several days last May. The incident, which…
Families and New Parents in East Sussex to Receive Early Years Support
Families and children in Hastings, Rye and the villages will be able to access early years support, such as pregnancy support, parenting classes, and various other schemes and resources, to provide their…
Over 60s Dance Event Takes Hastings by Storm
I had heard there was an afternoon dance club being organised for older people at the Observer Building and made the typical assumption of something rather staid – even though…
Standing Up For Nature
Organised by DAVID EP DENNIS and introduced by CHARMIAN KENNER, Features and Environment join forces to highlight wildlife and environmentalist groups in the area David EP DennisThe beautiful Peacock butterfly…
In the Community
Local 106 -year-old fundraiser receives Points of Light award. Joan Willett raised more than £60,000 for British Heart Foundation research in the lead up to her 104 birthday, and as…
We’ve got the space, so let’s use it
KEN DAVIS from Transition Town Hastings sets out the group’s innovative approach to solving the housing crisis in ; We need more homes, but homes of the right quality in…
Staying Focussed on the Image Trail
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling The prospects for young working-class people growing up in Hastings are often thought to be rather limited. But there are those who seem to…
Hastings Says “Enough is Enough!”
Simon Hester, Chair of Hastings & District Trades Union Council sums up what’s happening in Hastings and nationally. Hastings marches, 19 November 2022. Photo: Paulo Figurelli When multi-millionaire Nadhim Zahawi,…
Down Low and Living the High Life
Merlin Betts reviews High Rise Connecting Conversations, a European Cultural Foundation/EUNIC-funded installation by partners: ExploreTheArch Theatre Company in Hastings, and Seria project in Kyiv, with the co-operation of Hastings Borough…
Heart Surgery Stitch-Up?
Conquest Hospital Loses Out to Eastbourne on Future Despite an outcry by Hastings Borough councillors and more muted objections from within the local medical community, the Conquest Hospital is to…
Every Woman Every Man, Join the Caravan
Of love. Oh those old-fashioned rhyme schemes bumbling along there. So disarming. Local company Theatre Nation's excellent play Caravan of Love is soon to return from this year's socially distanced…
Ohm Boy at Stella Dore
So Hugo Farmer might not be a name you're familiar with, but you probably will be familiar with his work via a certain well-known street artist who, for legal reasons,…
Foodbank Crowdfunder Appeal Nears Doubled Target
Hastings Foodbank’s crowdfunder appeal, launched on 27th March with an initial target of £10,000, has already netted over £15,000 for the foodbank itself and its partner social action projects. Community…
QUICK FISH: Smoked Haddock with Potted Shrimps
Paul Saxby at Arcade Fisheries (Queens Arcade, Hastings, and markets) sells excellent potted shrimps. This is a traditional way of preserving tasty little brown shrimps in clarified butter, lightly flavoured…
#Acoubomb – Round TWO!
By Andrew Myers HASTINGS Based Sax Legend Jason Yarde needs your help! Acoutastic Bombastic is a thirteen piece band of some of the top improvisers in the UK – all…
Hastings’ Two Week Celebration of World-class Artists
Press release provided by Hastings International Piano FestivalThe Hastings International Piano Festival will run from 26th February – 8th March 2020 at White Rock Theatre and St Mary in the…
Project Art Works Asks How We Make Neurodiverse Artists More Visible
EXPLORERS conference: Art, Rights and Representation – November 20 / 21 at Milton Keynes Gallery Coming at a moment of political chaos and general uncertainty about the future in the UK, this…
Opera for the Community Continues!
It’s an exciting and busy season – and year – ahead, for Barefoot Opera. Hot on the heels of a sold out performance of just one act of a new…
Fabulous Footprints
As a result of fossil finds around Hastings cliffs last year, it is thought a new creature may have come to light… Renowned local puppet theatre company IDOLRICH TheatreRotto present…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally…
Photohastings Season of Photography 2019
Press Release provided by Photohastings. The Photohastings Season of Photography for this year is well underway. Two of the critically acclaimed ‘Photology’ photography talks at Printworks in Claremont, Hastings have…
Beloved Clara – A Tale of Love And Loss
Press Release from Hastings International Piano Concerto CompetitionSunday 10 November 3pmSt Mary in the Castle, HastingsAward-winning British actors Lesley Sharp and Sir Simon Russell Beale with pianist Lucy Parham. The…
Passing of the Light
A quintet of Zoom Artists will meet in an eclectic exhibition that goes well off the beaten tracks. Including photography, fused glass, embroidery, calligraphy and digital imagery, a good selection…
Relaunch of The Hastings Contemporary
By Mia LThe newly revised gallery space, formerly known as The Jerwood, reopened its doors on Saturday 6th July 2019. I was eager to see how The Hastings Contemporary would…
Chaos is a Friend of Mine
By Mia LThe latest show at Hastings Arts Forum explores the notion of chaos in all its creative variables. Contributing artists were invited to explore the theme from both interpersonal…
Reclaim, Rewild, Rebel
Merlin Betts considers an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Hastings town centre On Saturday 29th June, Extinction Rebellion Hastings & St Leonards gathered in Hastings' town centre by Caffè Nero. They…
Help the Community Help Themselves
This is a press release from Hastings Borough Council A community integration and networking event called “Help the community Help Themselves” was held at the Cinnamon Spice restaurant in St…
Heavy Horses Return to Bruising Bracken
HBC reports on a countryside management open day and horses removing troublesome bracken sustainablyHastings Borough Council has invited Frankie Woodgate and her heavy horses back to Hastings Country Park in…
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou with Special Guest Hayley Savage + Film Screening
Press Release Friday June 14th – (film screening at ) Kino-Teatr St LeonardsTickets are £10 available from Kino-Teatr box office and online through Ticketsource Following the release of their fifth…