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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
A 16-year-old Qatari student visiting Britain died as a result of head injuries sustained when he was attacked by local youth. Mohamed Al-Majed was in Hastings, East Sussex, attending an English language course. The circumstances of the death are still under investigation but the police “are treating his death as a murder inquiry, and are investigating it as racially motivated at this time.” Reactions...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Sc.laney@googlemail.com Tomorrow, enjoy a day trip to Battle and Hastings in East Sussex with Pulhams Coaches. Battle features the Abbey gateway on the main street and a wonderful shopping complex designed to fit in with the surrounding thatched housing.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Rebecca Davies visits St Leonards, the Victorian seaside resort on England's south coast near Hastings in East Sussex, where she checks into the Zanzibar International Hotel.
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Hello again we've been out playing the tourist again. Must say lucky with the weather the sun has been out the last couple of days. So much to see and do so little time and only four days left before the epic longhaul flight home. Can't say I'm looking forward to it. Anyway enough waffling on with the show here's some more pics to check out.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
On Monday July 7, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching 'Fastest', a new one hour HIV testing service aimed at men who have sex with men in East Sussex. 'Fastest' will run on the first Monday of every month between 17.30 and 19.30 at Hastings Voluntary Action in Priory Street, Hastings.
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
A man who rode his bike down the stairs of a railway station and crashed into a 750 volt rail track is now fighting for his life.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
He may have started out in the time-honoured fashion of promoting gigs on the pier in his hometown, Hastings. Yet yesterday, Simon Fuller, the man who quit East Sussex to bring the world the commercial glories of the Spice Girls, S Club 7 and Pop Idol – revolutionising the global music industry – was named the most successful British pop music manager of all time.
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Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
The husband of award-winning TV make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens appeared in court yesterday charged with her murder. David Chenery-Wickens, 51, from Duddleswell, East Sussex, was remanded in custody at Hastings Magistrates' Court a day after his wife's remains were found
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
The husband of award-winning TV make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens appeared in court yesterday charged with her murder. David Chenery-Wickens, 51, from Duddleswell, East Sussex, was remanded in custody at Hastings Magistrates' Court a day after his wife's remains were found
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Hastings They were all on the scent of Jack in Hastings yesterday. In the traditional Jack in the Green procession, which dates back to the 17th century, hundreds of costume-clad dancers and musicians march through the streets of the coastal East Sussex town in search of the pantomine character. The pursuers, many dressed in green foliage, always get their man and slay a giant Jack in a symbolic festival...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
When late-night drinking laws were introduced, Hastings in East Sussex had hoped to create a continental-style ambience that would suit all its residents. Instead it has had to deal with drunken yobbery, complaints about no-go areas, fighting in the street and people urinating in doorways.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/01/2008
A new £6.2m library planned for Hastings is described as a "stunning" new addition to the East Sussex town.
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QI: Quite Interesting (Free subscription) | 25/09/2007
In our penultimate focus on QI panellists, we bring you the fabulous “ladygirl” that is Jo Brand. Josephine Grace Brand was born on 3rd May 1957 in Hastings, East Sussex. At school, she took piano lessons and had a bad experience with playing the violin. By the age of 16, she was going out with a heroin addict and, after being told by her family to get her act together, she soon left home. She had...
