Tag archives for Coronavirus
Covid Winter Plan
For East Sussex: Vax and vax again Figures announced last week by the county’s Director of Public Health Darrell Gale confirmed that East Sussex is recording its highest levels of Covid-19…
The Positive Test that Nobody Wants
One of our contributors, 27 year old photographer, SAMARA MARTIN, tells us of her plight with Covid-19, despite being double vaccinated, and how she is still suffering a month later. …
Indys Are OPEN!
Food businesses are adapting quickly to drastically different circumstances and needs. Many now sell a wider range of goods and are doing deliveries – for the first time or on…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Little Light:20 ways the coronavirus response could make the world better Edited by Tom Whipple et al. Published by Sphere, September 2020,hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton This…
Updates on the Job Retention and Self-Employed Scheme
Whilst some lockdown restrictions are now being lifted, the government business support schemes are still continuing. Two of these schemes have seen some major changes in recent government announcements. The…
COMMENT: Banging The Drum…
In common with most people I applaud the bravery and professionalism of all our NHS workers, and not just during the current crisis. As a child of the early 1950s…
HEART Looks Beyond Lockdown
Huge numbers of selfless residents have stepped up to help isolated people cope with the Coronavirus pandemic according to Hastings Emergency Action Response Team (HEART). Established by volunteers Kim Batty…
Care Home’s Newspaper Keeps Residents And Families Connected
A Hastings care home is keeping families up to date with its latest news by issuing its own newspaper. Like homes across the county, Hastings Court on The Ridge has…
Escape from Goa
Bob and Linda Skinner live in Sedlescombe but spend the winter months regularly in Goa. Linda returned at the end of February as scheduled. Bob was due to fly back…
Seeing Through The Fog
A passionate local GP talks about the impact of the Coronavirus on her and her surgery. I was asked to say a little bit about what it’s been like in…
Climate Emergency: Ambitious Target, ‘Paused’ Programme
The last cabinet meeting of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) took place just a few hours before PM Boris Johnson pronounced the full lockdown on 23rd March. No precise explanation of…
COMMENT: Lockdown Liberation
A chance to change the way we live and work? Lockdown, with its sudden imposition of more free time for many of us, has spawned much frenzied advice on how…
Covid Elopement
By Nadine Hayward We took off from Heathrow on 7th March, more relieved than concerned that we’d been allowed to fly to Los Angeles. There were mild concerns about Covid-19,…
Hastings Young Writers
Group Young writers offered isolation challenge Budding young writers in Hastings and surrounding areas are being encouraged to use their creative skills during the Coronavirus lockdown. Hastings Young Writers Group…
How Not To Lose It In Lockdown
By Terryalice Lewis, Tots Play These truly are strange times but they don’t have to drive you crazy. Here are a few ways to help from a parent or carer’s…
Hastings Contemporary Robot-Assisted Gallery Tours and AltPitch 2021
Merlin Betts considers the news that a robot is propping up our contemporary arts centre. Doors Closed, Exhibitions Open As part of its efforts to reduce the spread of Coronavirus,…
Hastings Literary Festival –2020 Statement
By Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival 2020, due to take place at the end of August, has been cancelled following suspension of the Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent…
Nextdoor – Help in Hastings and St Leonards
Among the online apps that have become important during the pandemic, Nexdoor is at the forefront. Unofficial spokesperson for the Nextdoor in Hastings and St Leonards is Dave Smith, who…
Thoughts From The Inside
Julia Van Coevorden writes from inside her house in St Leonards where she is in lockdown with her husband Cliff. There are so many words that really matter. All around…
Bobby’s Corona Story
Imagined by Fiona McGarry Something strange is going on and I can’t put my paw on it. I live with a little old lady. She’s very nice; she feeds me…
A Moving Meditation In A Messed-up World
As we all start to realise the coronavirus crisis is not going to be over any time soon, we are all looking for ways to maintain physical fitness but also,…
Government Coronavirus Support Schemes
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, the UK, like many countries, has put a lockdown in place. Whilst the retail, hospitality and leisure sections have been hardest hit by…
Covid-19 – The Known Unknowns
Kent Barker asks if UK’s East Sussex ‘patient-zero’ shifts the expected Coronavirus epidemic peak. And considers other confusing ; When should we expect the epidemic to peak? The government suggests…
Hastings Community Transport
Hastings Community Transport has for many years been providing subsidised door-to-door transport for adults in social care and for others too old or disabled, physically or mentally, to cope with…
Sport And The Virus
The National Health Service website currently shows, as you would expect, a constantly updated section on the coronavirus pandemic. On other pages it continues to talk up what it calls…
Letter from Berkshire County, Massachusetts
By Dave Inglis Individual states of the Union have reacted differently to the coronavirus pandemic. In Massachusetts, which I left last week - I am writing this in Hastings –…
GOLF: Maximising Your Distance
When, leafing through your golfing manual, you reach the chapter on driving off the tee, you may well find tips on “maximising your distance”. The phrase recognises the desire of…
Food For Thought
Needed More Than Ever In times of crisis, we find out what we are made of. I am often surprised at what comes out of me when the pressure is…
What Next?
It was less than three months ago, on 31st December, that China alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to several cases of an unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city…
Coronavirus: Getting It Into Perspective
By Kathryn Vale Humans love a plague – it triggers some atavistic terror. But so far the most contagious thing about coronavirus is the worldwide panic attack it has provoked.…