Tag archives for health
Opt Out and Meet The Neighbours
By Susan McFie Many local residents are furious over the dumping of sewage into our coastal waters. Many more are rightly concerned about the spraying of their streets with a…
Poison Pen
Hastings once had another community newspaper, Poison Pen. DAVE YOUNG investigates its anarchic ; The alternative press has a venerable history in the UK. From the radical pamphlets of Victorian…
National HIV Testing Week
The annual awareness programme – HIV Testing Week – is part of the government’s action plan to reduce new HIV infections by 80 per cent by 2025 and eradicate new…
Santa’s Naughty List
Alex W is a Hastings resident. He is just six years old. Alex has several environmental concerns and decided to address them to the Prime Minister. He is still waiting…
Letters: HIP Issue 218
Extraordinary Dear HIP, Thank you for the article An extraordinary life in HIP 214. So lovely to read and keep as a record. I have known Peter D’Arcy Champney for…
Best of Us
By Rosie Brocklehurst I wanted to let local people know about the extremely positive experiences I have had with members of the RMT, ASLEF and RCN nurses. I am a…
Swimming Against the Tide
By Paul McLaughin The Government decision to slash the funding of its Energy Bill Relief Scheme (ERBS), designed to help businesses with spiralling energy costs, is going to cause severe…
Porky Parable
By Robin Holtom Reading that the People’s Republic of China is building a 26-storey factory farm for 650,000 pigs, I am reminded of Charles Lamb’s essay on Roast Pork. “Mankind,…
An Appeal for Organ Donations
Anthony Clarkson, Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, calls on Hastings residents. More than 6,800 people in the UK are spending the start…
Heart Surgery Stitch-Up?
Conquest Hospital Loses Out to Eastbourne on Future Despite an outcry by Hastings Borough councillors and more muted objections from within the local medical community, the Conquest Hospital is to…
Art For Wellbeing: Sign Up With Your GP
By Rod Webb Social prescribing is a process whereby GPs and other primary care professionals can refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services, such as gardening, cookery, or…
Day Centres Closure Confirmed
Leaders of East Sussex County Council have agreed to cease day services at the Charter Centre in Bexhill and the Isabel Blackman Centre in Hastings. The two day centres for…
Planting Fruit Trees to Fight Cancer
What follows is a press release from Hastings and Rother Cancer Awareness Project. The Project works with local people to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer. Local people…
Is exercise the most effective method for losing fat?
Richard Angel If I could give one tip to anyone that is desperate to lose some fat, then it would be this: forget about endless burpees and think about what…
It’s all about you, you, you and a little bit me
What a transition befalls us now, throw away your dried apricot of a January and soak up the lava of a fully enriched Fat Tuesday. It’s all about the restocking…