Tag archives for Ben Bruges
Celebrating Past Features
Here we are at 300 issues! HIP asks DAVID DENNIS to celebrate the many feature articles written over the last 299 issues The paper’s name declares its independence, and it…
Arrests over Social Housing Sell-off
BEN BRUGES Two members of Hastings Housing Rebellion have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass following the group’s occupation of a house in Battle. Occupied House in Battle After…
Sally Burr,1977-2024, RIP
BEN BRUGES, co-Features Editor, pays tribute to a former HIP volunteer At HIP we learned that one of our long-term volunteers, Sally Burr, had passed away at the very young…
Valentino’s Vivarium
HIP Features Editor BEN BRUGES visits a Hastings vivarium that also houses people. Ben BrugesValentino with Amity - they often watch TV together Valentino Cerioli, five, can’t remember when he…
Water Woes
BEN BRUGES castigates the woeful record of Southern Water and wonders whether the company should be abolished. Recently Southern Water, for the second time, smeared excrement all over Bulverhythe and…
Annie Ant Makes Friends for Demelza
Features Editor Ben Bruges recommends a children’s story for Christmas. Demelza Phillips worked in a hospice in Birmingham. Tragically she died of a brain tumour at 24. Her parents visited…
The HIP/Magnum Multimedia Storytelling Programme
Features Editor Ben Bruges asks HIP readers to help us run a free multimedia journalism training programme for 18- to 30-year-olds, from backgrounds that are under-represented in journalism. Hastings’ young…
The fiver-a-meal challenge
By Sally O’Connor & Ben Bruges Local activist Claudine Eccleston set HIP a challenge to collect meals for under a fiver to help people in Hastings struggling with the increasing…
Saving Lives at Sea The Hastings Lifeboat – and its Women
By David EP Dennis The Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) crew is one of the most respected groups of professionals in Hastings. Along with the police, fire service and NHS…
HIP READ
Turbulent Spinsters: Women’s Fight for the Vote in Hastings and St LeonardsBy Ann Kramer Review by Ben Bruges Most of social historian Ann Kramer’s meticulous research comes from the Hastings…
Greg’s Pandemic Plathcast
Iconic poetry for all in times of lockdown People in Hastings and St Leonards are doing all sorts of things to keep occupied… one of the strangest, perhaps, is Greg’s…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In…
Help people like Helen: Volunteer for Hastings Community Transport
By Ben Bruges Helen Rudd was hit in the head by a white van and her world disappeared. Emerging from a three-week coma, Helen initially spoke in numbers, then fluent…
Why Do We ‘Treat’ Our Children With A Dangerous Drug?
Ben Bruges examines our addiction to sugar In Hastings we have a problem with obesity. Just over one in four Reception year children are overweight or obese, rising to one…
The Insider
Miko Peled was part of Israel’s elite: his grandfather signed the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and his father was a general in the Israel Defence Force, yet Miko (and his father)…
Are You Good At Listening?
Hastings and Rother branch of the Samaritans does amazing work, and needs more volunteers. Ben Bruges met Yvette Harris, the branch director to find out what’s ; One of Chad…
Hunger In Hastings
Every day food goes to waste in superstores and fast food restaurants, yet people go hungry. In Hastings Dom’s Food Mission matches surplus food to hungry mouths. Ben Bruges finds…