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Hastings, England · HastingsIn which our intrepid hero DAVID E P DENNIS meets Dave Brockhurst, dino hunter! Dave Brockhurst is now a retired quarryman. Over the last thirty-four years of his working life, he has discovered twenty-six dinosaur species, including the world’s smallest dinosaur, in the Wealden Clay beds of a quarry in Turkey Road, Bexhill-on-Sea. Baryonyx seaside scene Dave explained to me that millions of years ago, the coast from Beachy Head to Dungeness was…Read Article
David Brockhurst – Dinosaur Hero Of The 1066 Coast

Hastings, England · HastingsVICTORIA KINGHAM Odd how music that was cult-radical in the 1960s and 70s has become today’s café muzak; the institutionalisation of the ex-radical. So, sitting in Hastings Contemporary’s new café, Coquina, I hear subdued rounded sounds that were once the drug-fuelled, outlandish dreams of Jefferson Airplane, Kevin Ayers, and Lou Reed. Photos: Courtesy of Hastings ContemporaryPaul Delvaux, Siren in the Moonlight, 1940. Oil on panel, 111.9×180. O…Read Article
Marine Lifein Hastings Contemporary

Hastings, England · HastingsHUGH SULLIVAN Football coach Dan Pascoe comes to every Friday evening training session at St Leonards Academy with a heavy bag. It doesn’t contain footballs, boots or other playing gear; from it he pulls out a state-of-the-art weighing machine. As each player arrives in the dressing room to change for a six-a-side game on the astroturf pitch outside, Dan measures his weight, tracked against previous weekly records. Points are scored if there’s b…Read Article