Detectives investigating the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Hastings have released a CCTV image of a man who they believe can help with their enquiries. The incident happened in an alleyway in Hastings town centre around 1.30am on Sunday, 11 May, the man is not believed to be known to the girl. He is […]
Do we need to earn ourselves the world we think we deserve? Maybe we are all suffering from a bit of entitlement syndrome? I was out for an early dog walk this morning, down through our local park – it was beautiful. It’s called Alexandra Park and it has won awards. There are fine well […]
Meeting Roger Wilcock was fascinating as he recounted a lifetime in music and as he looked ahead to the return of the Hastings Prom on July 3rd as part of the Hastings Beer and Music Festival, organised by the local Round Table. Click the link below to hear the full interview. Roger came from a […]
How would you feel living next door to a derelict house that the owners abandoned 16 years ago? The house in question is at 39 Alma Terrace in Silverhill. It is overgrown, it’s covered in scaffolding that neighbours have been told is being paid for by Hastings Borough Council, but the council has no record […]
Hastings In Focus offers a platform to those who have held, and those who still hold, elected political office in and around Hastings and St Leonards, to come and have their say. To kick things off our former Conservative MP Sally-Ann Hart looks back at this month’s local election results and explains what she believes […]
I’ve been a reporter for more than 40 years. I’m not a writer, I’m not a columnist, I’m not an opinion former I’m a good old fashioned, well seasoned, hack writes Stuart Baillie. It’s strange because in my career I’ve had short spells away from news but even when I was working in other industries […]
Have a listen to The Frustrated Authors as they discuss their favourite books and the things that get in the way of ther own writing…
Once again courtesy of Derelict In The UK we bring you photographs of iconic and deserted buildings, this time St Leonards Parish Church. Standing grand on the St Leonards seafront, this beautiful building was completed in 1961 to replace its predecessor destroyed by a direct hit from V-1 ‘doodlebug’. It originally had structural building problems […]
Was Hastings cursed by the occultist Aleister Crowley? Much has been written about Aleister Crowley, the famous dabbler in ‘sex magick’. He reached the end of his days in a boarding house on The Ridge in 1947 – he’d run out of money and he’d run out of friends. The Victorian house known as Netherwood […]
