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Repairing Vintage Audio Gear
JUDE MONTAGUE Recently, Hastings Independent Press featured a Supersound amplifier that was bought by Montague Armstrong and manufactured on Kings Road, St Leonards-on-Sea. It still worked – amazingly for a…
Community Uplift
VICTORIA KINGHAM muses on a growing choral phenomenon emanating from Bexhill. Lineker Photography In a recent issue we printed a list of local choirs who were to take part in…
Snow Cake
SERENA FERRARI A rare screening of the un-streamable but award-winning film, Snow Cake (2006), starring the late Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver will take place at the Hastings Centre on…
Arts Diary
Howerd’s End at The Stables Saturday 18 November, Stables Theatre Hastings, pm Award-winning actor Simon Cartwright plays Frankie Howerd and Mark Farrelly appears as Frankie’s lover, manager, and chauffeur. The…
Eat Write Love
NICKY AND SONJA of Creative Concoctions The good old apple! Beautiful to look at, versatile to cook with, the comforting companion to warming winter dinners. Not today! In today’s column,…
“Huge Holes” in Benefits Safety Net
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Josie Barnes PhotographyHARC Chief Executive Jacky Everard HARC, the Hastings Advice and Representation Centre, has published its 2023 Client Survey. In her forward to the findings, Chief Executive…
A Merciful Menagerie
Leah HammondLeah and guinea pigs NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY are inspired by a visit to the White Horse Stables rescue centre. It was pouring with rain on the day…
SWIMMING: Seagull Successes in the Water
Hastings Seagull Swimming Club are celebrating notable success at the recent Arena League competition in Dover. Round 1 saw six swimming clubs from South Division 1 East compete. The Seagull…
Exit The Source, Re-enter Source BMX
HUGH SULLIVAN On 29 August two companies which owned the Source Park skatepark on Hastings seafront - The Source (Hastings) Limited and The Source (Hastings) Holdings Limited - declared insolvency,…
Becca Horn: a seasoned Green campaigner
In the third of our series of interviews with the prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) of the main political parties ahead of the next general election, PAUL McLAUGHLIN talks to Becca…
WATER ,WATER, EVERYWHERE
PAUL McLAUGHLIN and HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings town centre, Alexandra Park and areas in between were again under water last weekend following another sustained period of heavy rainfall – around two…
FOOTBALL: Agutter’s Return to Pilot Field Delayed by Rain
21 October:Billericay Town 2, Hastings Utd 024 October:Margate 1, Hastings Utd 228 October:Hastings Utd v Carshalton Athletic postponedHUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United have sacked their manager Paul Barnes, appointed only in…
Can Jews Criticise Israel from within the Labour Party?
A placard carried by Hastings Jewish activist Katy Colley to a Palestinian rally in London last Saturday – see adjacent picture – went viral, and she was interviewed about it…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
We would love to hear from you. Please be aware we may need to edit letters for reasons of space and we will only withhold names if this is necessary…
Clean Water Watch
A regular column to update readers on the damaging effects of the current management of water in Hastings, surrounding areas (and nationally) and what people are doing about it. If…
Hastings Musical Festival
JENNY GRIFFITHS Festival President Petula Clark, with 2022 performers Calling all amateur dancers, musicians, singers and spoken word enthusiasts in Hastings for the 2024 Hastings Musical ; Every year since…
Clean the World
MARTA SINGH reports on how the Jan Brzechwa Polish Supplementary School in Hastings has been taking the Lead on World Cleanup Day Emphasising the school’s commitment to community and environmental…
Community Round-up
Hospice Xmas Market If you’re feeling festive already, take a trip to one of the St Michael’s Hospice Christmas markets in November. Many local stallholders will be there selling unique…
Amazing Colour
Roma Clark Working as a colour therapist and colour profiler I always find it so interesting learning about colour choices; how they affect our moods and reflect the people we…
Mrs Sunak’s Diary
HIP’s Downing Street mole has sent us excerpts apparently from the diary of Akshata Murty, the Prime Minister’s wife. Ba Kode Great God Brahman, can’t they find anything else to…
Weird Times
Nick Pelling In these weird times it is very easy to feel that the whole world is sliding towards something awful. The apocalypse narrative is everywhere. The planet is burning…
Intersections: PhotoHastingsat St Andrew’s Mews
VICTORIA KINGHAM This small but perfectly-formed exhibition, Here, Not There, in a positively unrestored house on the first floor of St Andrew’s Mews did much to promote the Mews (as…
Sarah Milne at Hypha Studios
VERA BELL is drawn into a world of threads and patches. You may have noticed Sarah Milne’s work on our back page not long ago. Even more recently she has…
Hungarian Rhapsody
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Classical! A sold-out event at Crown House Max Baillie Those of you who have kindly read the music reviews here over the past year or so, will…
Wreckless Eric Returns to the Pig
JUDE MONTAGUE interviews Eric Goulden, AKA Wreckless Eric, about his new acclaimed album Leisureland out now on Tapete Records. JM: hat’s your connection to the South Coast of the UK? EG: …
Oneiropraxis –A Vision of Dreams
SARAH MILNE Oneiropraxis is a fascinating exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by visionary artists Melissa Shemanna and Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule, currently on show at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.…
Hastings Independents: Four Weeks of Grassroots Arts
KEITH RODWAY previews happenings at Electro Studios. The extraordinary wealth of creative arts talent in Hastings and St Leonards is becoming hard to keep pace with, with one source suggesting…
The Dance of People and the Natural World, The Fourth Wall, Ink
VICTORIA KINGHAM takes in three new exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary Nengi Omuku: Repose Nengi Omuku is an engaging character and there is great warmth and vibrancy about her works now…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW – All In: How we Build a Country that Works
By Lisa NandyPublished by Harper North, 2023 rrp £ BY TIM BARTON Lisa Nandy is stuck in a party that is losing public confidence fast, no one appears to like…
Peruvian Night at Cumbia Kitchen
HELEN GROVES It’s good to back at Hastings Independent after a very busy few months for me. As the weather was still unseasonably glorious last Friday, we grabbed the last…
Poetry Corner: The Lips of the Sea
VERNON KEITH FOWLER The lips of the sea Slobber onto the beach And then suck back, Crashing and sucking, crashing and sucking. Each phase has its own sound Like breathing…
Get Active at Half Term
Active Hastings, supported by both Hastings Borough Council and East Sussex County Council, are offering a range of free drop-in sport sessions running throughout next week, which is half term…
Artist Spotlight: Patti Webb and Louise Whitham
Patricia Webb trained in classical ballet, worked in physical theatre, travelled. Directed festivals in Covent Garden, and photographed performers there. Went digital in 2002, learnt digital software techniques. Gathered images…
Spirit of Bonfire
SERENA FERRARI Near New England - where I grew up - the turn of the season was always characterised by the befalling of ghosts and witches and tricky treaters. As…
HIP Listings #237
MUSIC 20 October 2023 McNiff’s Folk Sundowner The Jenny Lind, 69 High St, 5:00pm ONE STEP BEYOND: 2Tone, Ska, Punk, Reggae & Soul - All vinyl DJ’s Twelve Hundred Postcards,…
FORSAKEN CAFE TO BE OFFERED FOR CASTLE PROJECT
HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced on 3 October that it has “taken back possession” of the West Hill Café. It is understood that this was the outcome of…
Hastings Rally Proclaims Solidarity with People of Gaza
HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign Reactions to the news of the carnage being suffered in Israel and Gaza over the past fortnight have been divided, both nationally…
Helena Dollimore: A force to be Reckoned With
The next General Election is likely to be called within the next 12 months. With the main political parties having now selected their candidates to contest the marginal parliamentary constituency…
Pocket Park Award
The Pocket Park, a community garden in Hughenden Road, has received an award in the Royal Horticultural Society’s ‘South and South-East in Bloom contest’. Photos: Rebecca Sinker Local community volunteers…
3 Million Pounds of Unclaimed Benefit for Hastings Residents
HIP social media co-editor, SALLY BURR, noticed that pensioners are missing out on money that’s due to them. Read on to help yourself or someone you know. Alexas Photos, Unsplash…