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A Housing Crisis Debate
Reader's Letter: A Landlord's View Local resident/landlord Jamie writes to ’ve been reading through your recent commentary of the Hastings housing crisis with a mixture of sadness at some of…
On Missing ADHD Awareness Month
I recently listened on Audible to a book called The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman. It’s an astonishing book described in a synopsis as “…how your life…
Council Aims to Tackle Health Inequalities
By Merlin Betts Just last week, Kay Green and Lorraine Murphy started a petition titled – plain and simple – We need help using our NHS. It was addressed…
More Than A Free Meal
By Susan Desrosiers As the days grow shorter and many people across the country are forced to choose between heating their home or feeding their family, there is one place…
Life drawing in Hastings – what’s it all about?
Sally Burr interviews art tutor Sarah Flack. My only experience of life drawing to date is a one-off class twenty years ago – I hid the evidence behind a sofa.…
Art for Health, Art for All
As Arts on Prescription (AOP) establishes a home in Alexandra Park, Project Director Tara Reddy talks to HIP’s Lucy Brown about its origins, aims and achievements. While holistic health has…
Foreshore Trust Grants To Counter Crisis
Nine projects have been selected to receive £5,000 each from the latest round of the Foreshore Trust’s small organisations and events grant programme. Much of the money will likely be…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Naomi McMaster This week Kathryn Sutter talked to Naomi McMaster about her work as a personal trainer. Naomi grew up in a village just outside Hastings before moving into town…
County council steps in to save vital bus services
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has agreed to subsidise several services that would otherwise cease from 30 October, when changes made by Stagecoach come into effect. With bus use not…
Broadcasts from history
Walkers in the Country Park who stroll down Fairlight Glen may be traversing a former minefield. In May 1956 a bomb disposal unit from the Royal Engineers was dispatched to…
Parkinson’s UK issues appeal for volunteers
Parkinson’s UK in Bexhill, Hastings, and Rother has issued an urgent appeal for volunteers as the group faces closure. The support group has been running for over 20 years and…
Finding Balance on the Beaches
Hastings Council is consulting on renewing dog controls. Rowena Rowling puts the case for keeping some beaches dog-free. In recent summers, regular swimmers and beach users in Hastings may have…
Green-thumbed Care Home Residents Grow Their Own
Residents at Whitegates Care Home in Sandown are reaping the rewards of a ‘grow your own’ project, which has seen them grow various types of fruit and vegetables in the…
We Have Food Banks, Now A Need for Warm Banks?
As energy costs rise and many of us are already sat huddled in blankets and robes looking mournfully at our dead boiler, what’s winter going to feel like for the…
SATIRE: Paws For Thought
Calming reflections from The Reverend Canon Canis Well, fellow creatures, it appears once again we face a fight for survival as the cold war is upon us. But I put…
Campaigners Demand Climate Compensation for Poorer Countries
Local climate justice activists, Bexhill and Hastings Global Justice Now (BHGJN), led a Walk of Witness around Bexhill town centre on Thursday 22 September. They stopped outside town centre churches,…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Rick Sciuriaga This week Kathryn Sutter spoke to Rick Sciuriaga, owner of Number 46, a Bed & Breakfast in Cambridge Gardens, which he runs with the invaluable support and loyalty…
Harsh Winter For those Vulnerably Housed?
The Bexhill and Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) warns that local people could be forced to disconnect from the national grid due to the high cost of prepay energy meters…
Portrait of a Town: the People of Hastings
The People of Hastings exhibition is the culmination of the four month XR22 creative technology community summer project: a digital, 3D mass-portrait of ; The portrait encompasses the town, its…
Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Hastings Housing Crisis
By Louise Hester Hastings is a buzzing, creative hub, filled to the brim with incredible minds and potential. By very virtue of this, and the fact it is a coastal…
Why I took part in the Stop Rwanda protest
A personal perspective from Pal Luthra On Monday 5 September, I took part in a ‘Stop Rwanda’ protest in Hastings on the promenade below Warrior Square with 150 or so…
Dresses Break Down Barriers at Palestine on the Pier
By Gwen OatenGwen is a student at Claverham Community College who took part in the celebrations of Palestine on the Pier. On 4 September with the views of the sea…
Religions, Faiths and Cultures Unite
Do you ever wonder if anything goes on locally to encourage people of different faiths – or none – to meet each other, discuss issues of mutual interest, or find…
Follow that Duck set to Waddle Away
If you have enjoyed seeing the rubber duck and rubber duckling sculptures on the streets of Hastings, St Leonards on Sea and Bexhill on Sea this summer, you may be…
Better United Than Divided
Kay Green interviews RMT rep Bella Fashola It took me several weeks to get a chance to sit down and talk to Bella, a National Union of Rail, Maritime and…
Community ownership key to ‘levelling up’ Britain’s high streets
HIP summarises a new report commissioned by Power to Change, Community Businesses and High Streets: ‘Taking Back’ and Leading Forward which shines a light on the need for Britain to…
Community Round up
National Heritage Day Bohemia Walled Garden will be opening its doors for National Heritage Day on Sunday 18 September. The day will involve refreshments, family activities and musical entertainment. Visitors…
Town Traders
London Road By Des Wilson For this column, I’ve slipped over the boundary to St Leonards and been reminded of journeys to places such as Marrakesh, Istanbul and Cairo where…
Walking Home to Hastings
Toby Sims has been walking from Cape Wrath (the north-west tip of Scotland) home to Hastings, for the joy of it, and to bring the spirit of the wilderness home.…
Palestine on the Pier to Host UK’s First Heritage ‘Thobe’ Show
Hastings and Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign tell us about this year’s Palestine on the Pier. Palestine on the Pier, the free cultural festival, returns to Hastings Pier on 4 September…
Landlords – Is the term parasitic appropriate?
By Mary Thomas Hastings Rental Health Group (HRH) is a local group of renters, compassionate homeowners, and ethical landlords looking for solutions to the mad housing crisis we find ourselves…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Martin Symons This week Kathryn Sutter spoke to Martin Symons about his history in the town and his work as Community Volunteering Coordinator at St Michael’s Hospice. Martin began our…
Council Renews Role as Public Housing Landlord
Hastings Borough Council’s coalition cabinet of Labour and Green party councillors agreed unanimously last week to renew its role as a direct provider of affordable social housing. Since 1996, when…
Community Library Success Continues
By Lucy Gillespie An extremely hot, sunny wander from Hastings led to the cool and inviting haven that is Ore Community Library. It was welcoming in more ways than one.…
People of Hastings & St Leonards
Gemma Cooksley and Kate Thwaites This week Kathryn Sutter spoke to two employees at Bluebell Ridge RSPCA Cat Rehoming Centre, Gemma has worked at the Centre for 20 years and…
Open Day at the Sanctuary
Rachel Holtom enjoys the Vegan Fayre and previews the return of Barby Keel’s amazing Open Day A treat for animal lovers, vegans and anyone wondering how an animal rescue centre…
Old Town Traders
The Albion Bookshop Des Wilson visits George Street’s chaotically compelling book emporium Hastings must have more than its share of sadists because the best-selling book at the Albion Bookshop is…
Walking Home to Hastings
Toby Sims is walking from Cape Wrath (the north-west tip of Scotland) home to Hastings, for the joy of it, and to bring the spirit of the wilderness home. STAGE…
The Greenhouse Effect
HIP catches up with the work of the Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group Three years ago, HIP reported on the Alexandra Park greenhouse restoration project; since then the community-based endeavour has…
Old Town Carnival Week is Back Good and Proper
Last year festivities were still held back by Covid chaos. This year’s Carnival Week sees all of Hastings’ messy miscellany and excited delight return in full force. Favourites are the…