Edith Swan-neck’s 2020 Vision
In Community (HIP Issue 154) we learned that there’s a new group on the block, called the ‘Friends of Edith’ and they are determined that this should be Edith’s year – a year in which she finally gets the recognition…
Born Black in Hastings
The Black Lives Matter protests have triggered a massive political movement in the USA, but have also found echoes right around the world. What has it got to do with Hastings? Some white people object? To them we say, why…
Together We Stand
Photographs by Fizzel Castro Over 1,000 people attended the Hastings Rally Against Racism in Alexandra Park on the 7th June. The organisers held the socially distant event for the people of Hastings to “stand together to show our solidarity, consider…
When Women Racers Came to Hastings
In March 1933 large crowds braved wet weather in Hastings to watch the finish of the RAC Rally – only the second such event. Cars, 351, or 327, accounts vary, starting from nine towns around the country (some as far…
Kitty May Brunell
Born in 1911, Kitty had car racing in the blood. Her father, Bill Brunell, was a well-known motorsports photographer and pictures taken by him in 1926 show Kitty, then 15, as a mechanic. Her first recorded race, when just 17,…
Politikal Pokes By Lobbytroll
CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES That Dominic Cummings’ in-competent self-serving ad-ministration is in ideological turmoil is now clear. Behind the thin veneer of sobriety, they and their financiers were too busy guzzling the utopian champagne of a no-deal Brexit to notice…
‘Home Schooling’? Don’t Worry About It!
Dr Paula Radice, Director of Enjoycation – which provides group-learning and tutoring in Hastings for home-educated children from Reception to GCSEs in a fully-resourced learning room in Hastings town centre – addresses some concerns parents may have about their children’s…
Sausage Life!
The column that isn’t afraid to go shopping in pyjamas READER: I want to be the new slogan : You? What makes you think you would qualify?READER: Come on, it can’t be that difficult. I mean Stay Alert?MYSELF: Go on…
Chris Fagg
The man who fell through the system There were loads of us piling into the hall for the after-ceremony drinks. We were eager to celebrate with the free wine after three years of hard work. It was November 2019, and…
150 Issues of HIP!
What sort of newspaper are you reading? The Hastings Independent is in its sixth year and 150 issues later Poppy Prescott looks back on how it started and what it hopes to achieve for the Hastings and St Leonards community.…