Community Ledge #10: Will Stevens
Men have been elbowed off the Ledge recently so we’re coming back with a colourful character, well known to many in the community as William the Cone-Queror: a kind of Pied Piper of the seafront, enigmatically plying his trade in…
Hastings’ Response To A Crisis
One of the good aspects of a crisis is the way people come together. What we are not so good at is seeing things coming. But on Thursday 12th March, when not a single case had been reported in East…
Colombia: Don’t Name It
By Michael Watts As a Brit living (for several years) in Colombia it’s been strange reading about coronavirus via the BBC and other British news outlets. I guess that, like many migrants, I find myself split between my country of…
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 public services. In normal times the charity receives a small…
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 “a miracle cure” which can “reduce your risk of major…
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 on – sometimes I impress myself, sometimes not so much.…
Lockdown In France
By Luther Sullivan I am a British citizen with French wife and two young daughters. Home is on the edge of a village outside Beziers near the south coast of France. My wife and I both work in Paris and…
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. It’s been a boon too to the depressed post-Brexit media.…