Mature Ports win case for defence

St Leonards CP – 18 Rye – 7 (HT 10-7) Rugby is often a free-flowing game, but sometimes like today an arm wrestle between two evenly matched sides can provide real spectacle. With both sides evenly matched in the league in the opening seconds Rye strung together a slick set of offloads and support runs […]

Hastings Youth Council awards local youth and voluntary organisations

Hastings Youth Council celebrated the diversity and creativity of the Hastings youth scene on Sunday with an awards ceremony at East Sussex College Hastings where the 2019 Hastings Youth Awards were presented. Among the 16 award winners were youth organisations, as well as outstanding individuals: Josh Aldridge, 16, from the Eggtooth project has become part […]

More than 70 years later – remembering ‘Nakba’ at Hastings mosque

Khader Abu Hayyeh was just a child when his family were forced out of their village of Lydda in Palestine and this Sunday he’ll be recalling what he still remembers as a  traumatic event when he comes to speak at an event being staged in Hastings’ Mosque. All members of the local community have been invited […]

Making the theatre relevant – the new Stables Chairman gets to work

As it celebrates its 60th anniversary The Stables is adding new talents from home and abroad to its repertoire writes Lynda Foy. The Stables Theatre and Art Gallery, which marks its Diamond Jubilee in June, will   host the Chicago Heights Drama Group from June 17th to 30th. Members of the American group will stage The […]