Have you signed the petition yet? Follow this link now! https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/campaign-for-a-roof-for-edith We’ve filmed an interview with campaigner Ian Jarman and the new West St Leonards councillor on Hastings Borough Council Karl Beaney. They talk about what’s possible in the quest to bring greater public recognition to the statue of King Harold and his Queen, Edith […]
The Courthouse Street street party – Saturday All pictures courtesy of Roberts Photographic The Sussex Street Food Festival at The Stade Friday – Sunday The Hastings Trolley Bus Restoration Group – The Oval – Sunday
East Sussex Music Service is celebrating its 84th year; it delivers music lessons to around 7,000 children in schools across the county every year and around 1,000 children, aged between four and 18, attend area music centres each week. East Sussex County Council recently announced that plans are being made to close the music instrumental service by […]
Nottingham woman Sue Church is spearheading a campaign to have a blue plaque erected in Hastings in memory of the legendary Biddy The Tubman. This Pathe newsreel footage of Biddy in action probably better explains his ‘act’ than words ever could. Sue says: “As Hastings Borough Council no longer funds these Blue Plaques, it looks […]
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 […]
Every time we run a story on Hastings Pier we always attach a link to the creative vision that Friends of Hastings Pier has drawn up. Adam Wide, the man who has drafted the creative plan, has huge experience in his field. But perhaps because that link is always at the bottom of our story […]
Could Hastings be set to have a scorching hot summer of trade and tourism? If the momentum of this year’s May Day celebrations are anything to go by then that is certainly on the cards. Last Monday around 45,000 bikes came to Hastings, and during the morning there were 5,000 people per hour arriving at […]
Hastings was centre stage at a major maritime exhibition in Ostend, Belgium, last week. ‘Oostende voor Anker’ attracts around 250 000 visitors from across northern Europe, and Hastings’ marketing team was invited to attend by the show’s organisers. As well as members of the council’s tourism team promoting Hastings, John ‘Tush’ and Pat Hamilton, who […]
This month’s GQ Magazine feature Hastings and St Leonards in its travel section under the not so flattering headline, “How Hastings became ‘Dalston-On-Sea’”. Dalston is an area of London which the writers consider is similar in many ways to Hastings but without a coastline. The feature says nothing new, rehashes a great many old prejudices […]
