Tag archives for St Leonards
One Hundred Demons
Those of you who saw Kim L Pace’s whimsical, but very unsettling pottery at Hastings Museum last year will be pleased to know that there is now a chance to…
‘Up-and-come’ St Leonards Makes Sunday Times Best List
St Leonards was named among the top ten places to live in the southeast of England in a Sunday Times feature Best Places to Live 2026 published last weekend. The…
Singers & Songs Unlimited
Tenors Unlimited, the ‘Rat Pack of Opera’ will perform a Christmas Concert at St John the Evangelist church, St Leonards, with ‘Let’s Sing’ Junior Choir winners and special guest Pete Prescott, on…
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…
Azur Continues to Remain Empty
Attempts to negotiate a commercial tenant for the Marina ‘Azur’ Pavilion in St Leonards have been further delayed pending the need for additional repairs. The economic development quango, Sea Change…
Experience Eco Homes
Local residents from across East Sussex who have installed energy-saving and green technologies will be opening their homes for the weekend to members of the public throughout September. Technologies on…
We Need to Talk about Dying
GILL GOLDENBERG talks with Oliver Towner of Towners Funeral Directors about the company’s 150 years in business and how things have changed over time Towners present day premises in St…
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…
TENNIS: Old Guard Hold Sway at The Green
The Green club of St Leonards held their annual closed tournament on Saturday 19 July after earlier rounds were played on fine evenings through the previous week. There was a…
Ark School in Pupil Exodus
WARWICK MANSELL, founder and chief journalist for the investigative website Education Uncovered, writes exclusively for HIP on what he’s uncovered about Hastings’ controversial Ark Alexandra Academy Teachers at the Ark…
Street Market Greets Visitors
ROD WEBB Kings Road market was in full swing at the beginning of the month, having dodged the tropical downpour that hit the country the following day. Visitors to St…
MP Calls on Billionaire to Fund Local Charity
Labour MP Helena Dollimore has written to Lubov Chernukhin, co-director of the company behind the Owens entertainment centre which went bankrupt last year owing over £5 million, urging her to…
Northern Lights
Hastings Philharmonic Choir sing music from Northern Europe GARETH SIMPSON In July, Hastings Philharmonic Choir will perform the works of two living composers, Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe and Ola Gjeilo’s…
False Claims Spark Outrage and Fear
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN A number of inflammatory posters appeared last weekend outside 67 Sedlescombe Road South in St Leonards, sparking a wave of controversy on social media. The notices, which included…
Hastings Philharmonic Perform Stabat Mater
STEWART RAYMENT Easter might have arrived early this year, with Dvořak’s Stabat Mater performed at Christ Church, St Leonards on 5 April. But Bach’s Easter Oratorio saw its first outing…
Healthy Conservation at Church Wood
ROD WEBB We’re all aware of the New Year rush to get fit after festive overindulgence - and how it is often doomed to failure. So why not start thinking…
A Sense of Place
GARETH STEVENS talks to painter James MacKinnon Courtesy of the artist At times, the best visual artists I get to know are not always especially articulate about what they are…
Volunteer Weeding Scheme Takes Root
FIONA MCGARRY speaks to Liz Farr about how the residents of Clinton Crescent, St Leonards came together to stop the use of toxic glyphosate in their street In December 2023…
St Leonards Church Up For Sale
The abandoned Grade II listed church on St Leonards seafront is being marketed for outright sale by Hastings agents Dyer & Hobbis. Offers “in the region of £500,000” are ;…
Love, Mania, Transfiguration
VICTORIA KINGHAM on the St Leonards Concerts Weekender Once more, it has to be said that down here in a small area of St Leonards and Hastings we are privileged…
Living the Rental Nightmare
My partner D and I are both 65. He is in poor health. We have lived in our current ground floor flat on St Leonards seafront for five years. We…
It’s a Kind of Madness?
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate an amazing project. Something extraordinary is happening at the junction of Pevensey and London Roads. Something almost heroic, perhaps. Four years ago, one man…
Disappearing Banksys: Save Them or Let Them Fade Away?
RAYMOND MCCHRYSTAL Raymond McChristal St Leonards and Venice have something in common. Both towns are struggling with the conservation of murals that street artist Banksy has created on their walls.…
Pink Star Pilates
HELEN MURPHY & NICK PELLING investigate the P word Pink Star Pilates We should admit something: we thought Pilates was just another variant of yoga, probably a branch of transcendental…
A Chink of Light in the Darkness
JULIA VAN COEVORDEN The London Road Post Office building in the heart of St Leonards is in a sorry state. Take a look at the front facade of the building…
Happy and We Know It
A gran spends Tuesday mornings at a playgroup in St Leonards CATHERINE VALE It’s on a Tuesday morning and I’m in a gang in a church hall doing the Hokey…
A Garden Full of Cultural Delights
JOHN ENFER Tim MillerPicture features Acromax from a previous ‘Garden of Delights’ It will be all-change with this year’s Garden Full of Cultural Delights with the popular event moving to…
Moroccan Delights
FIONA MCGARRY Moroccan gastronomy developed from a combination of Berber, Andalusi, Mediterranean and Arab cuisines. It’s all about big flavours and is more heavily spiced than Middle Eastern food; for example,…
Co-Housing to Form Firm Foundations
MERLIN BETTS I have to start with a bit of an apology. Earlier this year my article (Between a Bomb, Some Rock and a Hard Place, HIP 220) pondered the…
Summer in St Leonards
Your guide by KENNY DICKERING Are you wondering what to wear, what to do and where to go this summer in sunny St Leonards? Let me be your guide… BEACH…
The Post Apocalyptic Romance Comes to Electro Studios Project Space
KEITH RODWAY Daniel Hartlaub is a filmmaker and visual artist specialising in fine-art comic-book design. His show The Post Apocalyptic Romance runs over the second May bank holiday, between Friday…
Pathos, Bathos, Love, and Subversion
VICTORIA KINGHAM reflects on Cabaret Vibe of 20th Century at Kino-Theatre St Leonards A handful of people were privileged, on a recent wet Sunday afternoon, to watch a cabaret performance…
Calling Blues Brothers and Soul Sisters
Sound Waves Community Choir is celebrating all things Blues, Soul and Motown at The Masonic Hall in East Ascent, St. Leonards, on Thursday 27 April, We will be bringing…
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…
Ready, steady… Karma
MAGGIE ALDERSON The volunteer cooks at this St Leonards-based community kitchen have a fresh challenge each week, making 70 lunches from entirely random batches of donated ; We’ve all had…
Secret Saint Leonards
KATE SHAW I have little idea of what to expect as I battle my way along the blustery seafront to this mysterious Friday night gig. I’d been added to an…
Women of Mass Distraction
KATE SHAW I heard the buzz around the latest show at Stella Dore before rounding the corner into Norman Road. Owner Steph Warren is keen to point out that the…
‘Doom and Gloom’ for sale
Popular St Leonards pub, The Horse and Groom, known locally by the affectionate sobriquet of ‘the Doom and Gloom’, has been put up for sale following the death of former…
An entanglement of roots
Gareth Stevens attends the launch of an exciting new publication produced exclusively by a group of young migrants in St Leonards. What do we actually mean by the word local?…
Harry’s Game
By Mark Walter I must be honest, I didn’t know Harry McMorrow’s work until I saw a group of people overspilling from the Big Yin gallery in London Road, St…