Better Things Are Electric
A power-assisted bike proves miles easier Situated on National Cycle Route 2 Hastings is a good place for cycling with a dedicated but shared use seafront path and a flat run west all the way to Bexhill and Eastbourne. For…
New Cycle Routes St Leonards
East Sussex County Council and Hastings Borough Council are currently working on a walking and cycling strategy for Hastings and St Leonards. An ESCC spokesman said: “Cycling and walking have huge benefits for people’s health and wellbeing, as well as…
HIP READ
Night Boat to Tangier By Kevin BarryCanongate Books (HB, 214pp) Review by Dave Young Charlie Redmond & Morris Hearne, drug dealers and users, late of Cork, wait into the night at the Algeciras ferry terminal, ostensibly searching for Dilly, Charlie’s…
HIP READ: The Age of Light
By Whitney ScharerPicador (hardcover, pp 320) Lee Miller occupies a place in the pantheon of great photographers alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White and Robert Capa. She’s now the focus of a work of fiction marketed (and written) as an imagined…
Does Hastings Need A Tourist Tax?
Might Hastings benefit from taxing holidaymakers? Bath, where visitors are equally essential to the local economy, has recently lobbied unsuccessfully to be able to make such charges. In contrast the Scottish government is to grant local councils powers to enact…
Might A Green New Deal Save The World?
Before Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion dragged the British public and politicians kicking and screaming towards the realities of climate change a bold new rescue plan, the Green New Deal (GND) was already gaining substantial support on both sides of…
Back Into The Light –Restoring A 1930s Greenhouse
Fancy seeing the May Queen crowned and picking up some garden plants while you’re there? Then make your way to Alexandra Park on May 12th, and after the coronation visit the Alexandra Park greenhouse restoration project. All profits from sales…