When Miriam Margolyes came to Hastings to make a film with Coffin Club’s Kate Tym and Kate Dyer she only planned to visit once but she enjoyed the experience so much she’s been back not just once, but twice and has even become the charity’s Patron “Miriam and her film crew came along to our […]
The weather over Easter weekend just highlighted what a stunning location we live in and here, courtesy of Peter Norman we bring you some fantastic shots of the town in celebration of our environment. If you have any photographs you’d like to share with Hastings In Focus readers email them to tellmeyourstory@hastingsinfocus.co.uk or send them via […]
Last week we published a piece by 19-year-old Tom McCann, it was his very personal perspective of life in the town where he was born and has grown up. He explained his love/hate relationship with Hastings but concluded: “I do love it here, as much as I like to claim I hate it too”. In […]
Homelessness and rough sleeping are big news as politicians use the issues to make political capital. But behind the headlines are real people living on the margins of society. Stuart Baillie recently joined the outreach workers from the Seaview Project on one of their regular rounds of the town, to find out about the real […]
Calling all crafts makers, local produce suppliers and outdoor accessory business owners! Would you like to sell your wares in the Country Living tent, at the popular Rye and District Country Show this summer? The event is hosted in aid of St Michael’s Hospice at Elm Tree Farm, Icklesham, on Saturday August 17th and boasts […]
While a lot of attention has been focussed on a feature in Sunday’s Observer about Hastings Pier, over in Brighton, writing for The Argus, Adam Trimingham has his own thoughts which are sure to be controversial no matter which side of the debate you sit on. Has the owner of Hastings Pier taken on too much? […]
It’s ‘unhelpful’ when local Labour politicians start ‘scaremongering’ according to Hastings MP Amber Rudd. Ms Rudd has hit out at claims by local Labour politicians that there would be no investment on local rail infrastructure by Network Rail for the next five years. She says: “This is of course untrue. As Network Rail themselves say, […]
The ‘spiritual home of mini golf’ on Hastings seafront will be hosting World Crazy Golf Championships this summer for the 17th year in a row. Entry is now open for the event which, for the first time in its history, is including a new junior competition just for children. Taking place at Hastings Adventure Golf […]
Crawley XV 31 Ports 21 (HT 10-14) Ports made their annual journey north to face a Crawley XV under lights. As is traditional Ports opened up their squad to guests from other teams, this year Mike Parker and Max Thomason from Streatham and Croydon and Dan O’Rourke from Bromley pulled on the Ports’ shirt as […]
