As we come to the end of 2020, Covid has made all our lives very uncertain; it has forced everyone to consider what life is about. For some of our local community they’ve been planting vegetables and fruit to feed their families, growing more plants for wildlife.
The New Year’s Day swim to raise money for Hastings RNLI – Royal National Lifeboat Institution – has been taking place for around 20 years. This year, despite not being able to hold an organised event, the Old Town swimmers raised nearly £2,000. Sarah Corrie remembers her first New Year’s Day dip and interviews organisers Ann Novotny (87) and Craig Sams (76) to find out what the sea means to them.
We all came to expect the unexpected last year. From discovering the reemergence of birdsong to the less savoury COVID impacts many of us have had to face. It can certainly be called a ‘strange time’. Rowland Jobson was an early victim of Covid-19 and wanted to share his experience – and his appreciation of his Hastings Emergency Action Resilience Team (HEART) volunteer.
Hastings International Chess Congress’s first online tournament proved a triumph for top English player David Howell in an all-play-all format involving many of the country’s top players. Nick Terdre reports.
By all accounts, the gains for the British fishing industry in the Brexit deal were marginal at best – many were left with a feeling of being totally sold out, and none more so than the Hastings fishing community, writes HOT reporter/photographer John Cole.
Young illustrator Erin Brookes-Doolan meets established illustrator Ed Boxall and talks to him about his work.
Recently, HOT published an article about the Wood People Connective’s online tree art exhibition, ‘Favourite Trees’.
Hastings International Chess Congress would normally be under way by now, but like chess events over the world, in the face of the coronavirus it has gone online and been replaced by an all-play-all event featuring most of England’s top players. Nick Terdre reports.
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