Bird Bonanza in Combe Valley Countryside Park
By David Dennis Combe Valley Countryside Park is a beautiful area of open country, with a winter-flooded Combe Haven river valley as a central feature. Around the valley edges are lakes, ponds, and very extensive marshy reed beds, including the…
Bold as Brass
Big Band plus 4 @ The Kino Preview by ANDREW MYERS In a town already replete with vibrant music events, one of the more memorable moments of the last couple of years has to be the sight of a seventeen-piece…
RUGBY: Cup Challenge for H&B
By Peter Knight Hastings & Bexhill RFC face their toughest challenge of the season, as they prepare to take on Horsham in the final of the Bob Rogers Sussex Cup. East Grinstead RFC are hosting the event on Saturday 27th…
Experience The Wonder: A Magical Walk For Charity
Chestnut Tree House, the children’s hospice for Sussex and South East Hampshire, is bringing a brand new walk to Eastbourne this summer – and it promises to be an evening of magic and wonder. Setting off at 7pm, participants will…
Bookbuster Book Review
Deschooling SocietyCelebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional RevolutionTools for ConvivialityAll by Ivan Illich Review By Tim Barton(Part 2 of 2) Continued from HIP Issue 124 (click here to read) The self-taught individual will be discriminated against, and in order…
Music Competition – Spring Live! 2019
East Sussex College sets out to prepare the best acts. After the success of last year’s show, the College is looking for four acts (solo artists or groups) to perform on the Sunday and Monday (5th and 6th) of the…
Sign up for Sustainability on Sea
Following on from last year’s success, Hastings and St Leonards’ Sustainability on Sea (SOS) Festival is back – and planned to be bigger and better. This year’s event will act as a showcase for local projects and inspire residents of…
Credit Union Moves In With Other Community Action Groups
Local financial services provider Hastings and Rother Credit Union reports that it has moved to new fully accessible and secure offices in Hastings town ; The new base at Jackson Hall in Portland Place is the home of Hastings Voluntary…
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
Austerity cuts to vital support services and resources, a shortage of available social housing and sites for building council houses are just some of the challenges being faced by HBC as it tries to tackle a growing homelessness and housing…
The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
By David Cromwell In 2013, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq…