Preparing for a BIG night under the stars… and all for a great cause!

Seaview’s sponsored mass sleep-out returns to the Stade Open Space on Friday September 27th, raising awareness and funds for some of the town’s most vulnerable people. The Big Sleep 2019 will put greater emphasis on what the Big Sleep is all about, its role in enabling Seaview to carry out its vital work in the […]

Parker pupils one step closer to DofE Bronze Award success

Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) students from Ark William Parker Academy, finally got to test themselves and their training on a practice weekend expedition. After months of training, planning and preparation, the Year 10 students arrived on Saturday morning at the assessment centre in Cranbrook. Tents were quickly distributed and once equipment was stowed […]

The world’s gone crazy… Crazy Golf Championships crazy!

Hastings Adventure Golf played host to five separate television news crews, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 4 at the weekend as the eyes of the world were focussed on the town for the World Crazy Golf Championships. Marc Chapman was crowned World Crazy Golf Champion for the second year running. The championships saw the […]

Counted out! Dominator calls time on quarter century of action

The first time Stu Allen saw Professional Wrestling on TV he was hooked – it was to be a life defining moment. For more than quarter of a century Stu has practised his craft in venues the length and breadth of not just the UK but the world. It’s no real surprise then that when […]

Buckswood bags a brace of firsts at Pipes in the Park

Buckswood School’s Pipe band joined a multitude of pipers and bands in Colchester at the weekend for the 27th annual Pipes in the Park! Pipes and drums from across the South of England played incredible medleys of Scottish tunes as they performed in the arena at Colchester’s Lower Castle Park. The competition ranged from beginners […]

From Hastings with love… OPEN to all!

There’s a new community creative café and exhibition space set to launch on Grand Parade, St Leonards on Sea next week. The official launch of OPEN, a new community endeavour will be marked with a photographic exhibition by local photographer Andrew Grainger. OPEN, at 19 Grand Parade, is opening as a community-run creative café and […]

Quality fun and games for youngsters during half-term

Schools might have gone back this morning after the half-term holiday but local youngsters were never short of something to do while they were off. More than 200 of them enjoyed a wide range of activities last week as part of Active Hastings’ half term programme. Things to do included crazy golf, trampolining, crafts, roller […]

Local people demand that ban on asylum seekers finding work be lifted

Campaigners in Hastings and St Leonards are calling on the Government to allow people seeking asylum in the UK the right to work. Politicians, campaigners, celebrities and members of the public will gather on Saturday, June 15th to call on the Government to give asylum seekers the right to work in the UK. This gathering […]