Ocean Symposium and Marine Exhibition
Organised by the UN Hastings and Bexhill branch and supported by RVA, HVA and Sussex Wildlife Trust. Our oceans are under unprecedented threat from plastics, acidification, polar ice melting and endangered coral reefs and marine life. Listen to experts discuss…
Holly’s Summer Sunshine Drinks
Holly Johnson Summer has well and truly found its groove and these three recipes will keep you nourished and glowing, as well as totally hydrated, on these rather lovely, sunny days! They are crammed with essential vitamins and minerals and…
Printed Matter Book Group
Review by ERICA SMITH (HASTINGS CREATIVES) Doughnut Economics & Out of the Wreckage The non-party political book group hosted by Lee at Printed Matter bookshop recently discussed Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth. It has inspired the group and we want…
EU Fishing Funds
Aided by Hastings Council, the Fisheries Local Action Group has gained grants of £800,000 from the EU’s Maritime Fisheries Fund– and there’s still time to bid for more before Brexit. The main spending priority is to promote local, sustainably caught…
Green Petition
Hastings Green Party has handed in a petition calling on Hastings Council to reject the proposed home and marina development in Old Town. “We believe this project would do irrevocable harm to some of the most precious assets of Hastings,”…
Pothole and Pavement letters
In Carisbrooke Rd, St Leonards not only are weeds growing in the pavements but the communal bins are pretty bad and rubbish is regularly all over the road. I don’t think many people seem to understand that rubbish is supposed…
Bookbuster Book Review
Doughnut Economics By Kate Raworth An Exciting Book about Economics REVIEW BY KAY GREEN In 1543, Copernicus drew a new diagram of the sun and the planets. As we all probably learned at school, his world immediately fell apart and he…
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MacColl & Seeger, Simon & Garfunkel… Baddiel & Skinner? Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss Even the most hermitic ear-fingering folky could not have failed to notice something going on in Russia this month,…
Supply and Demand in the NHS: A GP’s View
Local GP Dr Craig Namvar tells HIP what it’s like on the healthcare front line I have practised as a doctor in Hastings and St Leonards for ten years, first as a trainee in the Conquest hospital and then as…
Combe Valley
A new Discovery Centre opens in the heart of the Combe Valley Countryside Park on August 5th. Visitor are invited to join a sponsored walk (eight miles, starting at ) while younger children can play Countryside Bingo and see how…