Gardening Guerrillas And Biophiles
Some lucky Hastings residents have been waking up to see flowers springing up in streets where once there were only weeds. Guerrilla Gardeners have arrived. These activists have been appearing all over Hastings and St. Leonard’s, often carrying seed bombs…
HBC Hears Local Concerns over 5G
By Dave Young and Susan McFie On June 24th over 70 members of the public packed into Hastings District Council chamber to hear the leader, Peter Chowney, answer questions on the future rollout of a 5G phone network. Written queries had…
Wi-Fi Refugee On St Leonards Seafront
A homeless Hastings woman with a complex medical condition is facing huge fines for non-payment of parking tickets. Roxanne Roma has been living in a camper van on St Leonards sea front since March this year. Numerous parking tickets litter…
Emergency Refugee Camp Dentistry
It’s hard to imagine anything worse than being forced to uproot your family, abandon your home and set off across the planet in search of sanctuary. For many refugees the struggle is made far worse by sickness and physical pain.…
Coming To A Lamppost Near You
5G goes live in 6 cities from 30th May. Susan McFie asks why we are not debating potential health and environment risks 5G SPY NETWORKS?5G is the latest development in wireless communication. We’re promised faster Internet with greater capacity. Thousands…
The Geminus
(Dir: Ross Dinwiddy) Rialto Theatre, Brighton 21st-25th May Reviewed by Susan McFie As part of the Brighton Fringe, Blue Devil Productions returns to a venue they know well with their exciting new play The Geminus. Written and directed by Ross Dinwiddy the…
Blame The Cows
Cows are getting a really bad press again. Dramatic rises in levels of methane gas have put ‘farting cow stories’ back in the news. Methane is a big problem in terms of climate change. It’s 84 times more potent than…
D For Deficiency
Susan McFie was told by GPs that it was too expensive to test blood for vitamin D levels. Yet current health policy aims to increase spending on preventing illness, and vitamin D deficiency has been associated with almost all our…
The Politics Of Influenza
Over the past two issues, HIP has reported that not only are flu vaccines likely to be ineffective, but may also have harmful side effects. So why does the government continue to tell us that we need to be vaccinated?…
One Flu Over The Top
The flu season is back along with annual vaccination campaigns. But controversy builds as the British Medical Journal (BMJ) questions if flu vaccines are effective and whether patients are given enough information to make an informed choice. In the light…