Virgin Piña Colada Cooler
Did you know that July 10th is National Piña Colada Day?! I can’t think of a better way to start the day than with my delicious Virgin Piña Colada Cooler. It literally tastes like all the very best, most gorgeous…
Hastings Council Plans to Clean Up
Hastings Borough Council is considering developing an in-house street cleaning service and bulky waste removal when the current contract ends in 2019. Residents and the Council share their unhappiness at the current contract. Colin Fitzgerald, lead councillor for the environment…
Tax Questions and Answers
When we last moved we were unable to sell the family home, and so have rented it out for some years. With the improving housing market locally, we hope to sell in the near future. Will we face a tax…
Bookbuster Book Review
The True Cost of Food PDF, available from the Sustainable Food Trust REVIEW BY TIM BARTON In our last issue, HIP 105, Zelly Restorick covered a really great talk and discussion, held at The Beacon: Patrick Holden of the Sustainable…
CRICKET: Hooper Returns, Priory Revive
It has been the worst run of league results in memory for the cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory. A win over Ifield in the opening Sussex Premier game and an abandonment of the next one with Middleton were…
Robotic Pony Brings Mary, 85, to Life at Hastings Care Home
85-year old Mary Long, who has very limited speech because of dementia, has been ‘brought alive’ by a robotic pony at a Hastings care home. Mary isn’t able to walk and rarely manages a single word to staff at Hastings…
Welfare system ‘forcing people to the brink’, says local advice agency
Survey reveals evidence of ‘systemic dishonesty’ in Universal Credit benefits means testing by Emma Harwood “Draconian” reforms to the welfare system introduced by the Conservative government are failing those who need it and driving some to the brink of suicide,…
A Few Scoring Dishes
A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed That time is upon us – the World Cup and Wimbledon – great excuses for getting together with mates to watch a match or two. The ghosts of World Cups past, in particular, remind me…
Hastings marks Refugee Week
Over the last 20 years, the Links Project, which is supported by Hastings Borough Council, has been working with immigrants and asylum seekers. This year national refugee week (18 – 24 June 2018) celebrated acts of welcome shown to refugees…
Quantum Illusion
Trevor Watts (Saxes) + Veryan Weston (keypad) will be playing as their electro acoustic QUANTUM ILLUSION project at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea on Sunday July 15th at pm plus two other groups (see below). The concert is free,…