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What's in this edition

The state of our roads

Over runnin A21 roadworks

The Stables Theatre

Sandrock Bends

The old bathing pool site

New openings in the town centre

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Stuart and Richard discuss George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream, they talk about whether real books are better than KIndle's and iPads and discuss their own efforts.

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Martin Barry is a proud volunteer for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and he will be running FREE tours of Hastings Cemetery as part of the Commission’s ‘War Graves Week’ in May.

He'll be focussing on some of the stories of the 260 servicemen and women who fell during the two World Wars who lie in Hastings cemetery. The tours will last approx 90 mins.

Martin says he is constantly adding new stories to these tours, so if you have been on a tour previously he can promise that there will be something new to learn this time round.

Tour dates are:

Friday May 9th at 10.30am & 1.30pm

Sunday May 11th at 10.30am & 1.30pm

You can book via the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website at

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/events-tours-and-talks/

Or via Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cwgc-war-graves-week-2025-hastings-cemetery-tickets-1279019063449?aff=ebdsshios

And Martin's own website

https://www.thewargravesguy.com/

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*Opened in 1890.

*A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

*A landmark event in the application of science to architecture that went on to profoundly influence mankind in ways not limited to bridge-building.

*A globally important triumph of engineering.

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Is an interest in writing a genetic thing? Does the ability to write get passed down in your DNA? That's what uncle and nephew Stuart and Richard Baillie set out to explore. Stuart's dad Peter (that's Richard's grandfather) was an author with ten novels and countless short stories published in the 1950s and Peter's sons and now one of his grandchildren have had aspirations to write the great British novel and follow in Peter's footsteps. But none of them ever have - can we get to the root of the problem? What's stopping them?

In this episode Stuart and Richard discuss J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, talk about the creation if characters and reveal that one of the younger members of the family seems, at the age of six, to be getting bitten by the writing bug.

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Patrick Kealey has been described as "...a masterful performer, his renditions of the different characters... are superb."

I've said before that I love meeting interesting people and Patrick Kealey is certainly that. An actor, director, producer and soon to be published author the 71 year old says he can look back on a life that he's lived on his own terms, with few regrets.

He's been directing a play at my local theatre here in Hastings and shortly after that he'll be back on stage with his one-man play The Life and Rhymes of Archy and Mehitabel which we talk about at the start of this interview.

Patrick has theatre running through his veins, he is passionate about what he does and he's sad to see the state of his industry with theatres and production companies closing, life for young actors today genuinely isn't like it used to be.

So sit back, relax and enjoy a fascinating portrait of an actors life and how they eek out a living when work is in short supply and phone isn't ringing

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