Is your best friend set to be a ‘poster-pup’?

There’s still time make a bid for your best friend to be the poster-pup for a great new fund raising idea being planned by St Michael’s Hospice. You’ve got until Wednesday at 5pm to enter your dog in a competition that’s looking for a great photograph of a dog that will feature on all the […]

Ironman Ross faces up to his biggest challenge (so far)

Less than two years ago Ross Garnett was just learning to swim yet within the next week he will be taking on one of the toughest swimming challenges there is as he bids to swim the English Channel as part of a three-man relay team. Those two years have been pretty transformative for the director […]

Scene around… Celebrating great photographers

There are some great photographers in Hastings and it’s great to be able to share some of their work. Here’s a selection of shots from the last week courtesy of Sid Saunders, Kevin Burchett, Alan Roberts and Dan Hicks. Aviation has played a big part in the story of the last seven days, this is […]

To see ourselves as others see us…

We have an award winning pier, award winning beaches and last week we heard that we have award winning parks too. But I didn’t know until today that once-upon-a-time Hastings was cursed. It was said that if you ever stayed here, you would never leave. That’s just one thing I found out reading a piece […]

Scene around… The Red Arrows

To commemorate 100 years of the Royal Air Force, Hastings witnessed the magnificent spectacle of the Red Arrows and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aircraft yesterday afternoon. Conditions were almost perfect and the crowds that gathered on the beach, on the pier and on the east and west hills were not disapponted. Later today, at […]

Lester’s world is a funny place to be – most of the time!

Lester Magoogan can produce up to 200 pieces of art in a week, not all of it is exhibition quality but each piece represents 36-year-old Lester’s unique perspective and it comes from what mum Marion and dad Wesley describe as ‘Lester’s world’. Lester was in his mid-teens before he discovered his artistic side and it […]

Scene around – Hastings and St Leonards

Hastings Beer and Music Festival Organised and run by volunteers from the local Round Table we noticed the banner saying the event has raised more than £1million for good causes over the years. Another successful event; great weather, great venue, great music and GREAT beer! Friends of Conquest Summer Garden Fete Hastings Mayor Nigel Sinden […]