Category: <span>Hastings Life</span>

What flushes down washes up on the beach…

Anthony Kimber PhD, the Chair of Rye Emergency Action Community Team (REACT), reminds us that what we flush down the toilet has a nasty habit of reappearing on our beaches.

Posted 18:13 Tuesday, Dec 8, 2020 In: Green Times Tags: Anthony Kimber Rye Emergency Action Community Team

Wood People Connective: ‘Favourite Trees’

This National Tree Week, the Wood People Connective offers you the opportunity to participate in their Online Tree Art Exhibition: “Favourite Trees”. Inspired by the wood wide web, they want us to maintain our connection with the trees and each other. Wood People Connective representative, Beccy McCray writes.

Posted 21:52 Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020 In: Nature

“Get outside this winter!”

Have we all lost our connection with the wild? The important lessons to be learned there? The play to be enjoyed? The vital top-up of Vitamin D? Luke Funnell and his team at Project Rewild feels passionately about our connection with the ‘outside world’ – and offers opportunities for both children and adults to experience and explore how it feels to run, dance, play and learn in our beautiful natural environments. HOT’s Zelly Restorick asks Luke why he feels so strongly about this issue.

Posted 20:26 In: Nature Tags:

Government grant opens way to Christ Church restoration

Christ Church in St Leonards has received a “life-saving” grant from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund which will enable it to start a repair programme on its tower and spire. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 14:42 Friday, Nov 20, 2020 In: Heritage Tags: Bishop Peter Wheatley Christ church Culture Recovery Fund Heritage Stone Access Nick Terdre

Lizzie Siddall and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Old Town

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood liked Victorian Hastings and the area. Maureen Connett discusses their star couple, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his muse Lizzie Siddall, who got married in the Old Town.

Posted 20:24 Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020 In: History Tags: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lizzie Siddall Maureen Connett PRB Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood St Clements

Queuing for goodies at St Clements © Stewart Walton

Lockdown takeaways

This second Lockdown, rather than met with despair, seems to have been greeted with a shrug of the shoulders and resignation. However, creativity has flourished and restaurants, cafes and bars that have been forced to close are doing what they do and offering sustenance to the locals by way of takeaways. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths sampled some of the goodies on offer.

Posted 20:08 In: Food & Drink Tags: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths Liban Coast lockdown Maker+Baker St Clements St Leonards Sugarpie Honeybuns The Royal Three Faces of Parc

Kim Stallwood Archive at British Library

Starting this autumn, The Kim Stallwood Archive of research material documenting the history of the animal rights movement will become part of the British Library’s permanent holdings. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and provides information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities.

Posted 15:04 Monday, Oct 19, 2020 In: Hastings People Tags: animal activism animal advocacy animal rights Growl Kim Stallwood

£1m awarded for Hastings initial Town Deal projects

The four projects submitted by Hastings Town Deal board for accelerated funding have all received government approval, winning the town a much needed shot of investment. Report by Nick Terdre, photos by Russell Jacobs.

Posted 18:57 Wednesday, Sep 30, 2020 In: Local News Tags: Carole Dixon Graham Peters Kim Forward Nick Terdre Rose Cottage Russell Jacobs Town Deal