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A New Lease of Life
RUBY COX talked to manager Dean Stewart at the Isabel Blackman Centre to find out how it was doing in its mission to change perceptions of both the IBC and…
Inconvenient Facts
JONATHAN ANDREWS presents a personal take on the climate change debate and questions the assertion of NASA - the US science and technology agency - that 97% of scientists believe…
Abandoning Climate Hope
Kent barker Has the UK Government given up on Climate Change? The 2008 Climate Change Act commits the UK government to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 100% of…
The HIP List #234
Your Pull Out Guide To What’s Happening In Hastings Want your event listed? Contact us now Ian Greensmith (music), Nadine Hayward (art, cinema, theatre & performance), Hugh Sullivan (sport) and…
Fresh in on the Tide
DAVID EP DENNIS Imagine a cold grey mist, a lamp in the darkness and the crunching sound of wood grinding on the gravel of an English beach. Here comes Mora,…
The Studio Couch
ROBIN HOLTOM on Freud’s couch and the Art of Life drawing Some time ago I acquired a couch for my studio. My elegant couch is quite narrow and scarcely has…
News from the Front of Beyond
NICK PELLING & HELEN MURPHY review the exhibition, Succession, at the Kino Teatr in Norman Road All photos: Helen PellingRadford in Mid-Flow Have you ever felt like you were sort…
SALTY DOGS
JOHN COLE on his new book Sea Dogs: Hastings Fishermen and Their Companions When I first began laying out the photos for the book Generations: Hastings Fishing Families, my wife…
Keep Your Tenant in Mind
MERLIN BETTS on a new production at The Stables Imagine for a moment. Your art, your creativity, flushed down the drain. All your hopes of appreciation and success lost in…
Beethoven and Brahms! The Crocodile and the Mouse!
VICTORIA KINGHAM at another extraordinary concert from St. Leonards Music Charles Davies PhotographyMax Baillie and Guests If you think you don’t like classical music, if you think it’s boring, difficult,…
Music for Justice
GARETH STEVENS meets Suman Joshi, the mastermind behind Eparapo’s stunning new album. Suman Joshi, whose bass playing is very much in demand by a number of African and Latin bands…
A Hundred Years Ago in Hastings – the Invention of Television
JUDE MONTAGUE delves into the Logie Baird archives at Hastings Museum Jude MontagueJude Montague’s Interpretation It’s a hundred years since John Logie Baird first transmitted images, transferring the outline of…
Bookbuster Review: Leftfield Horror Film Fanzines
The Last Closet on The Left, vol 1Published by the Nottingham Horror Collective, 2023 rrp £ Came from The Closet Edited by Joe VallesePublished by Saraband, 2023 rrp £ BY…
Poetry Corner
There Is The Sea VERNON KEITH FOWLER There is the sea, the ever-changing sea, And there is the castle, standing on the hill. There is the sea, the sea which…
Eat Write Love
NICKY AND SONJA of Creative Concoctions Creative Concoctions is a social enterprise, boosting creative health. Welcome to our first Eat Write Love column – sharing beneficial ways to enhance your…
FOOTBALL:Unbeaten Run Continues
Hastings United were held to a 0-0 draw in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup last Sunday by Erith and Belvedere, a side newly promoted to the South…
Skinny Sunday: Hastings Local Youth Talent is on Fire
ROD WEBB is entranced by young bands of Hastings Rod WebbChimer at the Stade I first became aware of the Skinny Sunday music festival while watching the Fat Tuesday Second…
Council Finances Suffer Further Pain
Likely staff salary inflation will add to deficit HUGH SULLIVAN The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council held session on Monday evening to review the latest forecasts of the council’s future…
Hotel Costs Soar But Council “Committed”
HUGH SULLIVAN The construction of a Premier Inn hotel on the former Cornwallis Street car park site owned by Hastings Borough Council (HBC), politically controversial since it was first mooted…
Clean Water Watch
A regular column to update readers on the damaging effects of our current management of water in Hastings and the surrounding area and what people are doing to improve the…
Free at the Point of Delivery
Where should we stand on the creeping privatisation of the NHS? The question is topical because the Hastings Independent recently received a request to run an advertisement for a private…
Henry Normal: Creative Crusader
SERENA FERRARI, a new contributor to HIP, talks to Henry Normal - poet, comedian, father - about poetry and the creative process. Richard Davis It’s a misty morning in Fairlight…
CRICKET:Stuttering Priory Seal Division 2 Title
26 August:Worthing 132 for 9; Hastings Priory 135 for 32 September:Brighton & Hove 98; Hastings Priory 99 for 8HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory were celebrating…
Laundry Day Reflections
KATE SHAW writes: July saw the first Laundry Day at The Piper, a positively Queer night (I am becoming comfortable with the Q word!) and if you missed it, here’s…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
We would love to hear from write to: Please be aware we may need to edit letters for reasons of space and we will only withhold names if this is…
HOME TOWN HERO HEADS UNITED BUY-UP
HUGH SULLIVAN A year of increasingly bitter conflict between the owners of Hastings United football club and Hastings Borough Council (HBC) came to a seemingly inevitable conclusion last week with…
Crowdfunder Special
The House Girl As previously reported - Local Housing Co-op to Purchase Gensing Manor? in HIP 230 - Hastings Rental Health (HRH), a longstanding campaign group involving renters, compassionate homeowners…
Hastings Pride 2023 – Start to Finish
ROD WEBB Like Brighton, Pride month in Hastings is the whole of August. And Cumbia Kitchen in St Leonards kicked it off in style – a few days early on…
Clean Water Watch
A regular column to update readers on the damaging effects of our current management of water in Hastings and the surrounding area and what people are doing to improve the…
Many Free Adult Courses
ROD WEBB The 2023-24 Adult Course Guide from East Sussex College contains a huge range of courses. But for those who are feeling the pinch, you might wish to check…
Fabulous Frock Up Friday is Back!
Between 1 and 3 September Frock Up Friday is returning to Hastings & St Leonards for a third year. THE FROCK UP FRIDAY TEAM promise beautiful fashion and a fantastic, weekend-long programme of events and activities.…
Good News Section: Bus Routes Improving!
ROD WEBB There has been widespread publicity for the new night service between Bexhill and Hastings (and beyond) on the number 98 bus route. This will certainly be a huge…
High Rise Classical Concert
An exciting free guided tour and concert welcomes viewers to explore the overlooked history of the Four Courts high rise community in Hollington, St Leonards on Saturday 2 September 2023.…
Running for Life
RunningSpace are hosting a 24-hour, midnight to midnight relay run to raise awareness and to take a stand against suicide for World Suicide Prevention Day, Sunday 10 September. RunningSpace, a…
Parents for Climate Action
JEN ROUSE AND GEMMA REESE Name: Parents For Future Hastings & St Leonards Age: Newborn! We started this year (but umbrella group, Parents For Future, has been going since 2019).…
Spine Health – How to Look After Your Back
CATHERINE PINHORN Our spine is key to our ability to move. A flexible spine will take us to any place we desire, yet most of us do little to protect…
Conspiracy Debate – Readers Respond
In issue 231 we ran an Opinion piece questioning to what extent conspiracy theories were real or whether they might be simply someone’s honestly held belief. A belief that was…
The HIP List #233
Your Guide To What’s Happening In Hastings Want your event listed? Contact US NOWIAN GREENSMITH (Music), NADINE HAYWARD (Art, Cinema, Theatre & Performance), HUGH SULLIVAN (Sport) and Rod Webb (Events,…
The pop-up Front Room
VICTORIA KINGHAM attends a Hastings Book Festival ‘pop-up’ event at Sugarpie Honeybun’s on London Road, St. Leonards, on Friday 11 August Thomas TruscottMichael McMillan with Tola Dabiri at Hastings Book…
The Festival that Keeps on Giving
NICK PELLING and HELEN MURPHY Wayne HerbertWayne Herbert, Festival organiser Some people don’t like book festivals: maybe they see them as chintzy affairs full of folding-chair types. Sort of a…