Introduction by Kim Batty Photos by Steve Painter If you have a pub in Hastings, you need to make it work in the winter Wise words from Bob of The Albion Inn. I have to say, so I will, I love a pub in winter; while the weather is howling outside, in front of the fire, ordering Bacardi Breezers and missing your pilates class. My auto-correct changed that to pirates – oh if only it knew... maybe it does? But he’s got a point. I have found myself needlessly polishing a pump, not

This summer, I spent a wonderful afternoon at Fairlight Hall, enjoying a picnic in the beautiful gardens and a stunning piano recital performed by previous finalists of the Hastings International Piano Competition. This was my introduction to the Competitionand its year-round programme of concerts, which arepart of a long tradition ofworld-class classical musicin Hastings. (I didn’t know this, but Rachmaninov played at The White Rock Theatre twice in the 1930s!)

Shiosai's Sanjay Sherchan offers up his CRISPY SALMON recipe for you to make at home

This September, artist Sophie Barber opens her show, Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry at Hastings Contemporary. Like many great stories, this is a journey that starts here, travels the world, sort of, and returns home triumphant. Born in 1996, it has taken less than thirty years to have a museum show of international importance in the town of her birth.