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Dear Metro,
I'd like to briefly pen this response to your article on the 23rd January All Hastings – Shoreditch on Sea is on the up and up says Alison Taylor. It…
Hastings teachers strike for a real ‘living wage’
UCU and Unison and Hastings Solidarity picket line at Sussex Coast College Hastings On Wednesday 24 February, UCU (University College Union) and Unison pickets were joined by Hasting Solidarity at Sussex Coast…
Europe: in, out or shaking all about?
On 23rd June, Britain (and others) will vote on whether to remain in the European Union or leave. Here's the BBC's round up of the main national arguments for and…
New Hastings Domesday Diaries
Hastings Speaks launches an exciting new project to create a modern Domesday record of ordinary people’s lives in Hastings in 2016 as part of the Root 1066 International Festival. Using…
United in the Community
The relationship between local professional football club and local council is not always easy. In February 2015 we ran a feature article highlighting differences between the Hastings United club and…
Buckswood v Claremont: a modern gold rush
It's less than four miles as the crow flies on the eastern fringe of town between the playing fields of Buckswood School and those of Claremont. Which is about the…
Local author hammers home message of peace
Local author hammers home message of peace Andrea Needham with the hammer she used to disarm a Hawk warplane - courtesy of Peace News Pete Donohue Andrea Needham is already…
Past meets future at Source skate park
To attend the opening of the skatepark I had to park on the promenade (well, “had to” might not be entirely true). A small Hastings goal of mine achieved, cheekily…
All aboard! The Alexandra Park railway is back
There was chuffing good news in Alexandra Park last weekend, as the miniature railway puffed back into life for its official grand opening. It was taken over by in November…
Hastings Mosque holds open day
Hastings Mosque joined more than 80 others across the UK in opening its doors for Visit My Mosque day on Sunday 7th February. The event was organised by the Muslim…
Sausage Life 47
SAUSAGE LIFE Bird Guano The column that throws the bath water out with the baby VI KOMMER! We extend a hearty HIP welcome our new readers in Norway, where The…
Swan Lake and slug men: the Lord Nelson’s Calendar
The first calendar, for 2015, was inspired by a regular coming into the Lord Nelson and letting his hair down out of its usual ponytail, writes Paddy Boyle. Immediately, the wisecracks started…
Vedat Xhymshiti: war zone witness
Last year when experienced conflict journalist Vedat Xhymshiti turned up at one of our meetings, we at HIP were inspired and to be honest very proud that our local independent press could attract…
Busy year ahead for Hastings and St Leonards
2016 is proving to be an important year for Hastings and St Leonards – we take a look ahead at a few of the exciting things coming up. Hastings Pier opens: Mid…
A bird in the hand for refugee children
Watching the tragic events of 2015 unfold upon the beaches of Greece and spread through Europe from the comfort of their seaside homes, local businesswomen Jane Grimshaw and Anna Winston…
Community Garden gets grow-ahead at Warrior Square Station
Transition Town Hastings have negotiated with Southeastern Railway to develop a community garden on the disused land around the perimeter of the northerly platform at Warrior Square Station, writes Sarah…
Smoked Salmon Salad
Sunny, bright and cold days are perfect for enjoying the delights of warm salads, you get to imagine it is summer whilst trying to navigate your utensil use under layers of…
WRT Open Evening & Desk Space Available
This year we plan to reinvent the Trust and breathe new life into community projects in the White Rock Area. Our main focus over the last year has been the…
Hastings BID Open Meeting
Open Meeting Wednesday 24th February, White Rock Theatre This is the second of a series of open meetings for Hastings town centre businesses to find out about the proposed Hastings…
Are you a Norman?
Are you a Daigle or a FitzRolf? Do you know a Devereaux, a Morton or a Duffey? If so, two local photographers want to hear from you. Photographers Nigel Green…
Chestnut Tree House Paris Cycle Ride
Join the Chestnut to Paris Cycle Ride and make every pedal count Chestnut Tree House, the children’s hospice for Sussex, are looking for enthusiastic people who enjoy a challenge, to…
Grassroots football in mudslide
Tilekiln: another empty Saturday 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…
“Welcome to the Jeremy Corbyn fanclub”
by Alan Bolwell On Monday 25th January around 50 Hastonians gathered in The Jenny Lind to express their interest in Momentum, a National group that has set up a Hastings…
A taste of Honeysett (Review)
Celebrating Hastings’s most loved cartoonist By Pete Donohue (resident HIP cartoonist) The Hastings area has attracted quality artists for decades, if not centuries. Amongst them number a string of legendary…
World-class skate park opens to the public
Having been an ice rink, swimming pool and cinema, the White Rock Baths are ready for their latest reincarnation – as the world’s largest underground skatepark. The derelict former baths…
Issue 46 is out on the town!
Our volunteers are out distributing our first issue of 2016, and it's a cracker. And that's not all - we've only gone and got ourselves a brand new website! It's…
Vice Chancellor reassures Brighton Uni students
Despite efforts from University management to assuage fears, many in Hastings are still reeling at news that the University of Brighton Campus in the town could face closure. The Observer…
Build your journalism skills – for free
Can’t afford a traditional journalism course? Don’t despair, there are some great resources out there. Journalism is changing – but that’s nothing new. Since the birth of the printing press,…
Scheme matches young people to local employers
A scheme to help unemployed young people in Hastings is aiming to bring employers and local organisations together to get young people back into work. Talent Match is a £108…
Burnt Supper
Rebel Rebel/Don’t Tell Me Truth Hurts On the way home today, I told M that something sad had happened, that a man called David Bowie has died. He was mildly…
Food that makes you really, really, happy, happy, joy, joy
Writing this article made me happy, researching it made me happier and eating the foods containing happy stuff sent me into a smug delirium. Which then led to all my…
Vegetables are sexy
The weather is a bit pants, so let’s heat things up in the bedroom, yeah baby, with some vegetables. I’ve been doing a little bit of research into naughty vegetables…
Hungry Minds
A couple of years ago, I watched an episode of “Child Genius”, on which a 9 year old was mercilessly boasting about his brilliance, after sailing through a particularly difficult…
What future for St Leonards bathing pool?
After years of neglect and several proposals of varying viability for the redevelopment of the former bathing pool site at West St Leonards, Hastings Borough Council are about to embark…
Hastings Business Improvement District
Hastings Business Improvement District
A different way of working
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