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Chris New at The Stables – a trilogy of new plays and the ‘witchcraft’ of teaching
Chris New is in the middle of a busy year at The Stables Theatre in Hastings with three new plays and a busy teaching schedule. After graduating from RADA Chris enjoyed huge success in the West End, starring opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman’s Bent for which he won an Evening […]
Drag queens bring Hastings Pride to care home’s back garden
Hastings drag queen, Paris Grande, brought the town’s ‘Pride’ to a care home’s back garden in a celebration of diversity and inclusion. Paris, together with Kikiara George and Nicole Grande from the Hastings Queer Collective, brought a rainbow of colour, dancing and singing to residents at Hastings Court Care Home on The Ridge. Lifestyles Manager, Kimberley […]
Some of the nation’s best green spaces are on our doorstep
Today a record number of parks and green spaces collect a Green Flag Award and three of them are right here in our town. Alexandra Park, Hastings Country Park and St Leonards Gardens are among green spaces in the UK have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best […]
Green Party petition urges council to reject harbour plans
Hastings Green Party has delivered a petition of more than 1,100 signatures calling on Hastings Borough Council (HBC) to reject plans for a harbour development in the town. The petition was handed to Hastings Mayor Nigel Sinden earlier today at Rock-a-Nore, where the proposed harbour would be built. Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack was […]
CHARTing success for Hastings and Bexhill
If you have an idea for a projects that will bring a fresh approach to tackling deep-rooted problems in deprived communities within Hastings then from today you can apply for a grant to turn your idea into reality. Connecting Hastings and Rother Together (CHART) is a Community-led Local Development Programme with access to £2.8m of […]
Administrators say sale gives pier the best chance of survival
Hastings Pier was sold to the bidder most likely to make it a success and secure its long term future. That’s the message in a document published this week by administrators Smith and Williamson (S&W) that says the pier was sold to the bidder who could, “demonstrate the highest probability of supporting its ongoing trading […]
Pier protest gets underway
It was organised at short notice but the protest staged on Hastings Pier tonight looks so-far to have been a bit of a damp squib. Hastings is a town of almost 100,000 people yet by just before 7pm tonight only a few hundred had turned up to register their protest at the news today that […]
Is tonight’s gig the end of the pier show?
Is it the end of the line for Friends of Hastings Pier’s attempt to keep the town’s award winning pier under community control? There is to be a protest on the pier from 6pm tonight (Wednesday) organised by the pier’s staff. Staff who have been keeping the pier running while it has been in administration […]