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 a much greater scale – and others have created click-and-collect…
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 details of these scheme updates are as follows. Coronavirus Job…
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 it’s no exaggeration to say I wouldn’t be here without…
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 and Alastair Fairley, HEART has now seen over 1,000 people…
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 closed its doors to all but essential visits due to…
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 on 24th March. I heard from Air India that my…
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 general practice since the Coronavirus crisis. Well I saw a…
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 how it was conducted has been released. But the minutes…
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 to cope. Keep things the same at all costs, is…
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, but no travel restrictions in place, and we had big,…