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HIP CLASSICS – Art and Alchemy
If you had to invent a god of art, you could scarcely do better than the Greeks did in creating Hephaistos. It’s easy to identify with his story. He is…
Green Genie Juice
This amazing juice will most certainly grant you 3 wishes and a whole lot more! It reminds me of the sunnier, longer spring days that are almost upon us. It’s…
Pea & Fresh Mint Soup
What a sight for sore eyes you are! This recipe is fresh, simple, and it will hydrate, nourish and re-energise your mind and body. I love to batch-cook soups and…
Miniature Demon Defeats Mould and Damp
Tanya Eldridge is pint-sized, but makes up for it in her ambition. Her plan is to raise funds to eradicate mould from UK housing. Yes, that’s the whole of the…
Pet Insurance – What you need to know
Nicky Diver-Clarke RVN Your Pet Nurse, Hastings Shopping for pet insurance can be a minefield. There are many considerations and potential pitfalls. It is, however, something that all pet owners should…
Sausage Life
The column that ties its own shoelaces together, then tries to run away. MYSELF: Remember when UK advertising was envied and admired around the world for its innovation, dash, and…
Emmaus – Treasure Trove and Nirvana for the Homeless
Miranda Innes People come to Emmaus from far and wide, hunting for treasure among the miscellany of vintage, antique and up-cycled furniture and bric-a-brac. The warehouse in Whitworth Road, near…
Heritage Assets – Can’t pay, Won’t Pay
Hugh Sullivan argues that Council plans to look after Hastings’ heritage rely on others being persuaded to provide the funding In 2016 Hastings Borough council commissioned a report by ‘historic environment’…
Drive For Mental Health Nurses – The Ins And Outs
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health and learning disability services in Sussex, is in line for an award for its campaign recruiting 150 new mental health and…
A little bit of cheese, my dear?
A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed This is that weird time when the climate’s not quite caught up with the changing light. Still, longer days bring that hope of spring and…
Charity for Homeless wins national award
The Seaview Project has emerged as one of the eight winners of the 2018 GSK IMPACT Awards. The charity will receive £30,000 in funding as part of its prize, as…
Living in a Plastic World
Susan McFie argues that it’s not just plastic waste that’s threatening life on earth, but that the chemical composition of the material itself is posing an increasing threat to our health.…
IVOR’S GHOSTS – A novel by Anthony Mcdonald
Reviewed by Bill Walsh Anthony McDonald is an established author who has lived and travelled widely, was born in Wittersham, and has lived most of his life in the Rye…
Building for Next Season
TEAM SPORTS ROUND UP It’s been a good fortnight at Pilot Field despite last weekend’s returning sleet and icy winds. Hastings United’s ace groundsman Simon Rudkin did wonders again to…
Calais Children – A Case To Answer
The refugee crisis in Calais has not gone away. Indeed destroying the ‘Jungle’ has arguably made the situation worse. Felicity Laurence of Hastings Supports Refugees reports on an extraordinary film…
Lib Dems Give Way To Greens – But No Reciprocation
Hastings and Rye Green Party will be fielding a full slate of candidates in the upcoming council elections on 3 May notwithstanding a decision by Liberal Democrats to “stand aside”…
Vincent Lines
By Anna King On 22nd April 50 years ago, Vincent Lines, Hastings resident, artist and former Principal of the School of Art, died. The anniversary is being marked by an…
It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song?
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss The Lanterns seemed that much brighter this month, as did the sense of society, as a select crew…
A Doll’s House
Written by Henrik Ibsen Performed at The Stables, Hastings. 9-17 March. Director: Sandra Tomlinson Review by Hugh Bryant What with the price of houses on the south coast, A Doll’s…
GET THE TEENS IN!
Renewed sports management contract targets missing young The posed press photo launching the renewal of the management contract for the council’s sports facilities at Summerfields and Falaise earlier this month…
HARBOUR PROJECT JUST ‘NOTIONAL’
As Borough Council elections loom, Labour insist that there’s no “done deal” Three current Labour councillors, including Hastings Borough Council leader Peter Chowney, plus a fourth candidate standing for the…
Thank God It’s Friday
Reviewed by Angelica Campion I love old pubs and history. My dad was born in The Angel in St Giles, (previously the Bowl) where condemned men went for their last…
Write on in Hastings – Andy Clancy
Local author and retired police officer Andy Clancy has always been a fan of historical fiction. His first novel Sullivan’s War became an amazon best-seller with a raft of 5-star reviews. Now he…
Time’s Up
Julia Andrews-Clifford Austerity cuts have hit women’s refuges hard. In 2016 sixty per cent of women who approached a refuge for help were turned away. On average, two women in…
Jumble Sale & Daytime Rave!!
A local group of creatives, including artists, designers, DJs, poets, activists and fashion designers, are hosting a jumble sale and daytime rave on Good Friday at Mercatoria Business Centre Studios. You…
AUTOMATA ON THE PIER
A season of events on Hastings Pier kicks off with an extraordinary interactive exhibition of automata, including mechanical toys and other inventions. Hastings Pier, 14 Mar 2018-15 Apr 2018 REVIEW BY…
Danny Pockets: 5.11.64-12.3.18
Heartbreakingly, Hastings and St Leonards’ art community last week lost one of its favourite and most inspiring lights, Danny Pockets, to cancer. By Andy Fyfe A driving force of East London’s…
Bookbuster Book Review – Turbulent Sisters
Turbulent Sisters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings & St Leonards By Ann Kramer Circaidy Gregory Press paperback, RRP £, available at Bookbuster REVIEW BY KAT NIP Women today…
The Beast of Hastings – Aleister Crowley #1
Crowley in Ceremonial Dress Richard Thomas ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’, as the press called him, died in Hastings in 1947. There are people living locally who believe an…
Jerwood To Take Part in Nationwide PROCESSION
This June a major, nationwide, mass-participation artwork will celebrate 100 years since some women gained the right to vote, and Hastings and St Leonards will be represented. The Jerwood Gallery…
Worth the wait – Central Library opens
DAVE YOUNG REPORTS Long awaited, and a little more expensive than envisaged, Hastings Library has reopened. Located in the Brassey Institute in Claremont, the listed Victorian structure has been sensitively…
Write on in Hastings: Joan Taylor-Rowan
HIP literary editor Pete Donohue catches up with local author and creative writing course provider Joan to get her story When I was eight years old, I discovered that my…
Fava me with love
I come from a large, noisy family in which lovingly prepared food is considered the equivalent of a hug. A. Vasudevan, The Literary Shed writes When we were growing up,…
Street Innit Tho
The word on the street is street, or if you’re in Wales, araf, but that’s irrelevant. Street food is sick, doesn’t work on two levels, one being that it’s sad…
Sandy Saved By Early Diagnosis of Cancer – Stay Aware
Sandy has had cancer for the last two years. In Christmas 2015 she went for a blood test and was told she had leukaemia. Further tests confirmed the diagnosis was…
Danny Pockets and Shuby at the St Leonards
Celebrated artists Danny Pockets and Shuby have worked together at the Artist Led Collective Compendium Studios in St Leonards for six years. A new exhibition at The St Leonards on…
FIGURE-SKATING – I, Tonya
Smile when you’re winning What was a sports enthusiast to do when his fix of weekend action had been confiscated from on high by the weather gods? Well, there was…
HIP READ: Getting Headway
Enigmatic in title and content, Headway, the first novel by Kit Battenberg is many things An existential novel addressing – sometimes aggressively confronting - the human condition, whilst gesticulating dramatically…
On The Rocks or on a Roll?
Pier sale is challenged by revived community group EMMA HARWOOD REPORTS The agent responsible for finding a buyer for Hastings Pier –who claims to have been involved with the sale…
Rebecca E Marshall – Fever of the Light
S J Lloyd Rebecca Marshall’s new installation at blackShed gallery is a thoughtfully layered piece that situates us between three simultaneous screens. One frames a hermit living alone deep in…