The Baird Primary Academy school has made history by winning a prestigious education award for the first time. Part of the University of Brighton Academies Trust, the Hastings school was presented with the prestigious Marjorie Boxall Quality Mark Award for its outstanding nurturing environment and inclusive provision – the award was handed over last week […]
Nineteen-year-old Tom McCann is Hastings born and bred, as were his father and grandfather before him, but as a young man trying to make his way in life he has a love/hate relationship with the town he calls home – here he explains why. A few weeks ago I was asked to write about a […]
There’s a very special concert being staged at The Stables Theatre later this month called Far from the Home I Love featuring internationally renowned pianist Margaret Fingerhut. Described by Gramophone magazine as a pianist of ‘consummate skill and thrilling conviction’, she has a distinguished career which has taken her all over the world. She is particularly […]
Readers have enjoyed the selection of photographs we posted on Sunday of last weekend’s Greenway Walk. No one questions that in Hastings and St Leonards we enjoy some stunning scenery. It’s also so easy to be in the bustling heart of the town and then walk for just a few minutes and find yourself in […]
Breaking down the taboos that surround the discussion of death, dying, grief and sadness is the focus of a series of film shows being staged by St Michaels Hospice next month The Dying matters Film Festival will form part on an awareness week organised by Dying Matters and its coalition members to get across the message […]
Hastings and Rother Credit Union needs more volunteers to help it achieve its objectives for the coming years. Speaking at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting last Monday President Richard Street told memebers: “Anyone who is competent in finance and office procedures would be especially valuable and be very welcome.” He asked that anyone interested get […]
There’s little doubt we live in a beautiful town and it’s got everything; stunning seaviews, amazing architecture and fantastic green spaces. Last weekend Hastings Greenway Group staged another of its vey popular walks that guided those taking part along part the route that will ultimately form a greenway route across the town where walkers and cyclists […]
A Hastings man has been sentenced for a series of sexual offences against eight young girls, and of possessing indecent images of children. Harry Leigh, 19 and unemployed, of Mountbatten Close, Hastings, was sentenced to a total of 14 years at Hove Crown Court yesterday. Eight years will be sent in custody, for the remaining […]
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 […]
