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University in climb-down confusion
By Robert Joyce University of Brighton in Hastings The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way…
Brexiteers, Bremainians and Blairites
by Alan Bolwell (Image by Catrin Austin) As tensions run unusual high in the political climate all sides are scrambling to prepare for a general election that could come as…
Winter In Calais – Part 2: Survival and Escape
HIP Issue 55 carried a first hand account of the experience of a 22-year-old Iranian refugee entering the Calais Jungle camp last November. She, along with her mother and brother…
Children will go hungry due to Tax and Benefit reforms
Richard Price In 2014, child poverty in Hastings was the highest in the South-East, 30 per cent (after housing costs). The figure is likely to rise. The latest Institute for…
Newly Privatised Ambulance Service In Chaos
News from UNISON Ambulances repossessed, more ambulances blockaded by a horse box, mobile phones out of credit and staff unpaid – that’s the shocking state of a patient transport service…
Traditional Blessing of the Sea
Ben Hamilton For over a hundred years the blessing of the sea has taken place in Hastings and this year has been no exception. On Wednesday the Revd. Robert Featherstone…
Rocklands “Bunker” Appeal Won and Lost
Kent Barker Hastings Borough Council may have partially won a planning appeal but it appears to have lost the main battle over the controversial ‘bunker’ development at Rocklands caravan centre…
A Conservative Underestimate
by Alan Bolwell (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Following investigations into several Conservative MPs spending during the 2015 General Election, Energy and Environment Secretary and Hastings MP Amber Rudd has…
BattleBUSTED!
(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) by Alan Bolwell Following investigations into several Conservative MPs spending during the 2015 General Election, Energy and Environment Secretary and Hastings MP Amber Rudd has…
The Sea at Hastings: A Sails Pitch
The sea created Hastings as a fishing port and base for defending against invasion - the famous Ann Bonaventure ship, manned by a Hastings crew, fought against the Spanish Armada.…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066…
Winter in Calais Part 1: Entering the jungle
A refugee who fled Iran last autumn following a crackdown on her Christian group gives a first hand account of her arrival in the Calais Jungle camp in November last…
Pole Position? – University “No Comment” On Suggestions Of Conflict Of Interest
Robert Joyce The University of Brighton are facing calls for transparency after it emerged that their new Deputy vice Chancellor faces a potential conflict of interest in relation to his…
Wine not?
Kim Batty discovers Borough Wines Beers and Books It was only a whisper of time ago that going to the America Ground and White Rock area, was surviving the ever-giving…
Sublimation of the Tattoo
Kate Renwick Twenty-two years ago whilst completing my Foundation course, I was embarking on an introductory project set by the University I was to attend that September on the subject…
Clothesline at the Beacon – Real Clothes for Real Women
Judy Dewsbery and Belinda Cockburn The debut collection of the Clothesline emerged last Thursday, 28th April at the Beacon, Hastings, worn by women aged between 23 and 70, of sizes…
University U-turn?
University of Brighton in Hastings Robert Joyce The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way their…
Pause ll Play
Bargainstudio, St Leonards Sarah Lloyd PauseIIplay makes exceptionally rewarding viewing, by deftly questioning what we lose touch with when we become more coupled to images, social networks and machines than…
Drinking Fountain Restoration
Janet Langdon (centre red coat) together Mayor of Hastings Cllr Judy Rogers and the leader Hastings Borough Council Cllr Peter Chowney (right of fountain). Press Release by Tracy Hobden The…
Midsummer Fish Fest Returns
Tracy Hobden Hastings Midsummer Fish Fest is back for a third year. This free event takes place on the 25th and 26th June on the Stade open space. Introduced by…
Free Pop-up Bookshop a success!
A group of local volunteers turned a vacant shop in Bexhill into a thriving pop-up bookshop and have become victims of their own success this week as the empty shop…
Buddha Triangle at Smallworld
Welcome home, welcome back, welcome to Smallworld. An inter-dimensional portal to a world in which everything and nothing is real. A place to go to lose your mind and find…
The Wall Goes Up – Bohemia Nets Major Heritage Lottery Grant
The Bohemia Walled Garden Association The Bohemia Walled Garden Association has been awarded a grant of £97,000 to complete its restoration and development of the unique Victorian garden situated in…
It’s cinema paradiso for me in Rye
By Andrew Everest For me, a trip to the cinema should be more than a film fix with fast food thrown in in my book, and if you’re like me…
Grassroots football in mudslide
You look from a distance. The green sward stretches invitingly between sets of goalposts across the level playing field. Could be a perfect surface for skilful flowing football. Look closer…
Small Business Desk Space
NEST DESK Nest desk is a brand-new project from the White Rock Trust. Due to some amazing funding from
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HIP remembers John Merriman
HIP remembers John Merriman Pete Donohue Age 54 is far too young to shed this mortal coil for other realms that may lie beyond, especially for such a…
Winning at tennis: 10,000 hours to spare?
In his best-selling book Outliers American author Malcolm Gladwell promoted an arresting thesis. Prodigious performances, he declared, whether in the arts or in sciences in any other spheres of human…
Rams
Director: Grímur Hákonarson Winner Cannes: Un Certain Regard 2015, Golden Eye at Zurich 2015 Reviewed by Simone Witney Will watching an elderly Icelandic sheep farmer make coffee in his lonely…
Football: No summer holiday for new United boss
Although the football in France may be dominating our TV screens this month it's holiday time for those footballers not participating. Opportunity for rest and recuperation, rehab for torn hamstrings…
Hastings Thrives Sky Parade
Ed Boxall Friday 10th June was The Hastings Thrives Sky Parade. 2,000 children from 14 schools paraded along the seafront to the pier. Parents, school staff, councillors and artists joined…
In Response to the Orlando Massacre
Oliver Speer In 1999 I was in Comptons, a gay bar in Soho when the news spread that a bar across the road The Admiral Duncan has been the target…
Methodical Empathy – ‘The soul that can see itself can see the world’
Yehuda Tagar Empathy is a new word for a new phenomena. Everyone thinks that it is an ancient Greek word like sympathy and antipathy. It is not. Coined in 1909 by…
Young artist impresses HIP
By Pete Donohue The HIP editorial team were so impressed with Izzy Henson’s artwork that we gave her the prestigious full back page local artist’s showcase in Issue 54. Describing…