Greenway walkers enjoy a stroll through our beautiful ‘town’

There’s little doubt we live in a beautiful town and it’s got everything; stunning seaviews, amazing architecture and fantastic green spaces. Last weekend Hastings Greenway Group staged another of its vey popular walks that guided those taking part along part the route that will ultimately form a greenway route across the town where walkers and cyclists […]

Coming up at The Stables – White Liars and Black Comedy

White Liars is a one-act play first performed in 1967 originally titled White Lies, it was written by Peter Shaffer to precede the 1967 Broadway production of his farce Black Comedy. White Liars revolves around Sophie Lemberg, an eccentric and disillusioned fortune teller – who imagines herself to be a baroness of the Holy Roman […]

The Stables at 60 – the history of a local gem!

The Stables Theatre celebrates the 60th anniversary of its opening this year and there is a packed programme of events to celebrate the occasion. The history of the theatre and how it came in to existence in the first place is a fascinating one. Here, in the first of a series of features about The […]

Hastings Contemporary – new era dawns on local arts scene

News that The Jerwood Gallery will be relaunched this summer as Hastings Contemporary has been given a warm reception by the new gallery’s Artist Patron Sir Quentin Blake. Artist and Hastings resident Sir Quentin said: “I could never have imagined, many years ago when I bought my ancient house in Hastings, that one day there […]

Promoting active travel – join the Greenway Group walk on Saturday

There’s another chance to join Hastings Greenway Group this weekend and join a walk that will take-in a route from the Conquest Hospital to Alexandra Park following the route of the greenway. To be part of the walk those wishing to join it should meet at the Coffee Box cafe at Kings Church, opposite the […]

Standing side by side – one Hastings many voices, mosque vigil is huge success

The vigil outside the mosque in St Leonards today attracted, at its peak, an estimated 350 local people. Having been moved by what she saw on television Jane Grimshaw was the driving force in getting the event off the ground under the auspices of Hastings Supports Refugees and Hastings and Rother Refugee Buddy Project The […]

The pinnacle of the sport at the home of crazy golf!

The ‘spiritual home of mini golf’ on Hastings seafront will be hosting World Crazy Golf Championships this summer for the 17th year in a row. Entry is now open for the event which, for the first time in its history, is including a new junior competition just for children. Taking place at Hastings Adventure Golf […]

Bathing pool site should be ‘humorous place of colour and delight’

When a site has lain undeveloped for more than 30 years there’s probably a reason – property developers are not known to sit back and do nothing when there’s a chance to make a few quid! So perhaps there is a reason why the old bathing pool site at the western end of St Leonards […]