A surprise win for Hastings-caught fish at the Billingsgate Sustainable Seafood Awards could not have come at a better time for the town that is making every effort to demonstrate the value of it's once favourite fish, the herring. And it was a herring, a bloater smoked by Sonny Elliot, that beat fish from all over the world including the Norwegian Cod and the Alaskan Salmon to win the 2012 championship at ...

An ancient tradition of ‘catterning and clemmening’ is to be celebrated as the people of Hastings, Sussex, gather for a weekend of celebrations based on old customs to do with St Catherine's Day and St Clement's Day. And it all coincides with the town's first annual Herring Festival whose opening ceremony is on the Saturday 24th November. Back in the Middle Ages ‘catterning’ meant that children and young me ...