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Letter Food Waste Rollout Dear HIP I welcomed Hastings Borough Council’s food waste rollout with open arms and the earnest hope of a true eco-warrior. I was ready to save…
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Letter Whose Free Speech? Dear HIP Helena Dollimore MP and Grumpy Cook owner Barry Ashley are right to criticise the Reform-run East Sussex County Council (ESCC) for ending holiday meal…
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Letter About Horsing Dear Editor I was interested to read the article by Peter Grey about Norman horses and how they were shipped across the sea. The image on the…
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From our website We Need Defence In response to We Won’t Be Silenced (HIP 303), I’m not for any war. However, we need defence, right? Or should we have no…
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Letter Streets of HASTINGS Dear HIP As a visitor from western Canada, I am surprised at the poor condition of the streets and roads in St Leonards and Hastings (and other parts…
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Letter More Palestine Protest Arrests Dear HIP, I fully support the views and actions expressed by C and by H in HIP 300. What Keir Starmer and two Home Secretaries…
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Letter What are we paying for? Dear HIP, It seems that crime in our area is up and seemingly little or nothing done by police or the courts. Shoplifting in…
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Letter MASSIVE WASTE OF MONEY The Panorama programme The Pothole Problem featuring ‘Juliet in Hastings’ lays it out very clearly: If you’re fixing potholes, your strategy has failed, because in…
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Letter Community Resilience in Practice Dear HIP What a pleasure to read about the formation of HASTE - Hydraulic Activity Stabilisation Training Enterprise CIC - and the co-operation between experts,…
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Letter Palestine Action Ban Dear HIP, We the undersigned, residents of Hastings, Rye and St Leonards, have all been arrested under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act, for publicly displaying signs bearing…
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Letter Graphically Inaccurate Dear HIP Splashing a huge graph supplied by Electoral Calculus for the Ashdown & Conquest and Hastings by-election (By-Election Battle Looms in HIP 288) is pretty reckless.…
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Letter Poor Souls Dear HIP It seems that we are going backwards… there are empty properties, unused office buildings and yet people are in their sleeping bags lying on the…
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Letter Don’t Exaggerate Dear HIP, In response to James Prentice’s article New Party, Familiar Faces (HIP 283) which appears to be based on an interview with me, when in fact…
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Letter Don’t Exaggerate Dear HIP Helena Dollimore MP told HIP (Dollimore on Israel and Palestine Action in HIP 284): “Some of those holding placards in support of Palestine Action may…
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ALL ABOUT EVE This is a representative sample of the letters we have received in response to the ‘All About Eve’ Opinion piece in the last issue. Some have had…
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Letter Hastings is an antiracist town Dear HIP, Last year the worst race riots in living memory swept the country, targeting refugees, Muslims and black and brown ; On 7…
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Letter Ark Clampdown Improves Behaviour Re your article Academy Chain Shortlist, I would be interested to know what ‘experiences and concerns’ Helena Dollimore is so worried about in relation to…
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Letter Eighth Century Genocide Dear HIP Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors. Although that is true, later historians are able to remove that bias and present…
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Letter Hastings Pier: When will it be finished? Dear HIP I moved to Hastings from Cromer in 2016; I liked the Old Town; fishing boats and it had a pier.…
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Letter Homes and Green Spaces Dear HIP, We need nature and development to be in harmony for the benefit of both. Our MP in Hastings and Rye, Helena Dollimore, is…
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Letter CATASTROPHIC BENEFIT CUTS Dear HIP Well done for your front-page coverage in issue 274 of the government’s planned cuts to disability benefits and the likely impact of these on…
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Letter Community Hub at Ashdown House Dear HIP With reference to your report Developers Seek to Shed Community Centre in HIP 273, Chartway's claim that it cannot find anyone to…
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Letter Ark – A Parent’s View Dear HIP I want to express my thanks to you for actually writing a truthful article on Ark Alexandra Academy (Why Won’t They Behave?…
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Letter In Defence of Gaza Thank you for publishing Mr Bennett’s letter, In Defence of Israel (HIP 268) albeit with a disclaimer. If nothing else, it does present an opportunity…
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Letter Gaza: Decades of Atrocities Dear HIP Palestine Solidarity Campaign In the article Waiting for Answers by Rod Webb (HIP 267) you published a reply by our MP Helena Dollimore…
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From our website Recycling Scheme Booking ‘Bonkers’ Bonkers. This will encourage fly tipping. Also – I parked outside (perfectly legal – no lines there) and walked in with two sheets…
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Letter Not Council’s Responsibility Dear HIP Your article in HIP 263 A Landslide for Local Democracy? about the Old Roar Gill makes no sense. If, as you say, the land…
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From our website Too Many Roundabouts Although I have been aware of this project for years (Finally, a Road to Somewhere in HIP 259), I have only recently taken an…
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Letter Hastings Housing Company Dear HIP, I write in response to the letter ‘Housing Company Needed’ from 13 August. Hastings Housing Company Ltd was incorporated on 1 September 2017 and…
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Letter Housing Company Needed Dear HIP I am dismayed to learn that the Green-led Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is proposing to liquidate Hastings Housing Company (HHC) and sell its housing…
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Letter PLAY FAIR Dear HIP My name is Juniper. I am 9 years old, and I live in Hastings. I am writing to you about the playgrounds in our town.…
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Letter Future of St Mary Dear HIP Christopher Cormack is right (Letter in HIP 255): St Mary-in-the-Castle is a gem, which is being allowed to fall into disrepair whilst available…
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Letter Hostile to the Jewish Community Dear HIP I drew the short straw and attended what I knew would be a hostile Hastings hustings, in order to offer snarky live…
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Dear HIP, We have written to all the General Election candidates in Kent, East Sussex, and some in Essex asking them to sign up to the Bring Back Euro Trains…
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Goodbye and Thank You Dear HIP My husband and I ended up staying in East Sussex with our daughter due to the war in our home country, Ukraine. We want…
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Letter Trinity Triangle: Jess Steele Responds Dear HIP In response to Alex Moojen’s letter in HIP 249 about the Trinity Triangle High Street Heritage Action Zone (TTHAZ) programme, we would…
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Letter Future of Jack-in-the-Green Dear HIP HIP 249 ran an article headlined Jack-in-the-Green Future ‘At Risk’. Those of you who, like me, love this festival will be relieved to hear…
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Letter Waiting for Improvement Dear HIP, On a recent evening my wife had a fall and I drove her to A&E at the Conquest Hospital. The time taken for triage,…
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from our website Extreme Vandalism So a violent attack on elderly people by masked thugs and extreme vandalism of their property is effectively ignored by Sussex Police even though they…
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Letter Commons Transparency It is a shame Oli Smith sent his letter to HIP (Jess Steele: Questions to be Asked) before the public meeting held by Hastings Commons Community Land…