IN THIS ISSUE

The Talk of The Old (And New) Town

A public arena for news, views, gossip and tittle-tattle about goings-on in Hastings, St Leonards-and beyond.

ELECTIONS:

Ted Newcomen looks at ‘Granny-farming’ and the possibilities it presents for electoral malpractice.

WHITHER HASTINGS?:

The town is on the ‘up’ says London’s trendy property magazines. But will it ever regain its ‘summer sweetheart’ status in holidaymakers’ hearts and minds. Peter Roe investigates

ENVIRONMENT:

Hastings Country Park is becoming one of the most important wildlife sites in the UK. Hastings ecologist Murray Davidson talks to Peter Roe about the effects of the current regeneration programme.

PROFILE:

World-famous author Catherine Cookson was born 100 years ago this June. Steve Peak looks at her life and the role of Tom Cookson, ‘the man behind the woman’.

PSEUDO-HISTORY:

We look at the background to the plagiarism case being brought against The Da Vinci Code and ask why people are so fascinated by the irrational.

HASTINGS PEOPLE:

Novelist Iain Sinclair talks to Joy Melville about his writing and why Hastings is his kind of town.

FICTION:

‘Sometime it comes round again’ by Pauline Melville.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Your opinions matter!