Hastings and St Leonards was buzzing today. There was a huge focus around Warrior Square where the St Leonards festival had it’s base and the promenade opposite the square and stretching along towards the pier was full of colourful characters, dancers and performers. Proving that special events aren’t needed to make our town a fun […]
Stuart Baillie has been to meet local carpenter Kevin Hitchman to find out about his passion for bees and bee-keeping and about what got him started in the hobby in the first place. I’ve never been that fond of bees, being stung by one as a child is probably what did it! So when Kevin […]
Stuart Baillie first met Kate Tym and Kate Dyer more than a year ago and has been fascinated by their ‘Coffin Club’ ever since. This week he went along to a meeting to find what it’s all about… When I first heard about a group called ‘Coffin Club’ I wondered what it was all […]
Hastings Greenway Group staged one of its very popular guided walks last weekend, this time heading across Hastings Country Park from the East Hill to the Coastguard tearooms. Greenway Group chair Tony Plain says: “We had about 40 people on the walk…. and it was a lovely day as you can see from the photographs. […]
Andy McConnell, the entertaining glass specialist from Antiques Roadshow, is giving a talk in St Leonards next month to raise funds for Sussex Wildlife Trust’s new Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. Andy is local, he lives in Winchelsea, and the talk is taking place in the Masonic Hall in St Leonards on July […]
In February – thanks in part to pressure from Hastings Green Party and our open letter calling on the council to declare a climate emergency – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) committed to making our town carbon neutral by 2030. Since then HBC has appointed Maya Evans as ‘climate champion’ with responsibility for climate change, biodiversity […]
The Hastings Greenway Group is staging one of its very popular walks on Saturday, this time through Hastings Country Park. The Hastings Greenway Project is an innovative network of linked, almost traffic-free, routes that everyone can enjoy for leisure, amenity and utility walking, as well as cycling and the Greenway Group’s regular organised walks are all about […]
Hastings Old Town was presented with the first ever Britain’s best walking Neighbourhood Award yesterday after winning a public vote to find the very best urban area for going about everyday life on foot earlier this year. At a special ceremony at Butlers’ Gap attended by Judy Rogers in one of her last roles as […]
