St Michael’s Hospice is inviting supporters to challenge themselves in June by completing 30 activities in 30 days to help raise vital funds – and you’ll receive a special 30 in 30 medal for your efforts too. A hospice spokesman says: “You could read 30 books in a month, scoot around the park 30 times, bake 30 cakes for […]
Members of Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign (HRPSC) are expecting the largest ever demonstration for the Palestinian cause to be held tomorrow in the town centre, near the former Debenhams store. After the recent unrest in the middle east which has seen 232 Palestinians killed, including 63 children, the local group say its planned […]
It will be exactly 78 years ago on Sunday that the historic Swan Inn, a Hastings landmark since the early 14th century, was destroyed by enemy action. It was around lunchtime on Sunday 23rd May 1943 that a Luftwaffe raid caused damage and casualties around the town with 16 people being killed inside the Swan […]
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery has partnered with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre to curate an art exhibition of mechanical sculptures known as ‘automata’ in Hastings this summer. The exhibition, titled Ingenious Contraptions, is as much for families as it is for art enthusiasts, with the automata said to capture humour and offer ‘alluring illusions’. They will […]
At eight o’clock this morning Gavin Steedman’s dreams were another step closer to fulfilment when at last he was able to invite people inside to enjoy his unique style of cooking. Tom McCann recently met-up with the entrepreneur and discovered a man with vision and a relentless determination to make his business succeed. It’s been […]
Could you be a foster carer? As part of Foster Care Fortnight an appeal has gone out across the county urging people to consider becoming foster carers. During the annual campaign, which this year runs from May 10th, the East Sussex County Council is highlighting the need to find more people who can provide local children […]
By Tom McCann Ore Village Library reopened to the public on Saturday for the first time in three years – since it was closed by East Sussex County Council (ESCC) in 2018 as part of a programme of cuts. Almost as soon as the doors closed for the final time a campaign was started by […]
In just over two weeks Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will be throwing open its doors to the public once again. Following the museum’s recent closure due to Covid restrictions the museum plans to reopen its doors from Thursday to Sunday each week from 10am to 12.30pm and from 2pm until 5pm starting on May 20th. […]
An ‘urgent’ investigation has been launched by local Tories into the social media activities of one of their candidates in next week’s borough council elections. Online comments by John Sydes, who is standing in Castle Ward were branded ‘racist’ by the local Labour party who say: “The ‘investigation’ must act fast or be meaningless. Whatever […]
