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.…
Titus Oates
A shame to mankind! By all accounts, the seventeenth century Titus Oates was a baddy. The son of the Rector of All Saints church in Hastings Old Town, he went from bad to worse. No blue plaque for him! So,…
The Fight Against Modern Slavery In East Sussex
I’ve always found the term ‘modern slavery’ to be a contradictory one. The word ‘slavery’ conjures up visceral images of oppression and innate human suffering that seem somehow associated with the past; a time when we were less civilised, less…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
Trying to keep down appearances A PLAGUE OF LOCUMSArmies of retired GPs are to be marshalled in order to cope with Covid-19. Dubbed Dad’s Doctors their efficacy has been thrown into doubt by GP leaders who have warned that retired doctors…
Transcribing Hastings’ History
Kent Barker calls for a community effort to make the works of one of the town’s great historians and eccentrics more widely available to all. Students of some of the more obscure byways of Hastings’ history will likely know the…
Sausage Life
The column in which terms apply, but not : What’s up? You look as though you’ve swallowed a : I’ve been listening to commercial radio. I’m going to track down and throttle the next actor I hear talking like they’ve…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BIG BROTHER ISN’T WATCHING YOU According to Hugh Sullivan’s report (HIP, issue 145), the council’s building control officers decreed that certain infringing installations, equipment and signage were to be removed from Hastings pier by 3rd February 2020. These installations included…
Josie Barnes
Her award-winning photography, Hastings fishermen and social realism Local 23-year-old photographer and film graduate, Josie Barnes, won the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) competition in 2019 with her insightful photograph of Hastings fisherman, Darren. Josie tells HIP the story…