Winter In Calais – Part 2: Survival and Escape
HIP Issue 55 carried a first hand account of the experience of a 22-year-old Iranian refugee entering the Calais Jungle camp last November. She, along with her mother and brother aged 17 lived there for two and a half months…
Children will go hungry due to Tax and Benefit reforms
Richard Price In 2014, child poverty in Hastings was the highest in the South-East, 30 per cent (after housing costs). The figure is likely to rise. The latest Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report predicts a 40 per cent increase…
Newly Privatised Ambulance Service In Chaos
News from UNISON Ambulances repossessed, more ambulances blockaded by a horse box, mobile phones out of credit and staff unpaid – that’s the shocking state of a patient transport service run by a private company since April. UNISON has been…
Traditional Blessing of the Sea
Ben Hamilton For over a hundred years the blessing of the sea has taken place in Hastings and this year has been no exception. On Wednesday the Revd. Robert Featherstone of St. Clement’s Church in the old town delivered the…
Rocklands “Bunker” Appeal Won and Lost
Kent Barker Hastings Borough Council may have partially won a planning appeal but it appears to have lost the main battle over the controversial ‘bunker’ development at Rocklands caravan centre by the Country Park. The council had demanded that the…
The resurfacing of the enigmatic Mr.Fudge
So I went to meet Nicholas Fudge, the Goldsmith’s graduate who notoriously threw his work in the bin two days before his degree show. One might think another gimmick to satisfy the likes of the sensation era but no, an…
Light Fantastic
the iy_Project:The nature of sound and light Tracy Jones A spectacular immersive sound and light installation is set to become one of the iconic events that form the Root 1066 International Festival. Created by laser artist Chris Levine (best known…
Winter in Calais Part 1: Entering the jungle
A refugee who fled Iran last autumn following a crackdown on her Christian group gives a first hand account of her arrival in the Calais Jungle camp in November last year. France. Refugees. Calais. So-called Jungle camp . Mohammed aged…
Wine not?
Kim Batty discovers Borough Wines Beers and Books It was only a whisper of time ago that going to the America Ground and White Rock area, was surviving the ever-giving iron lung that is Trinity Wholefoods, the fake blood and…
Clothesline at the Beacon – Real Clothes for Real Women
Judy Dewsbery and Belinda Cockburn The debut collection of the Clothesline emerged last Thursday, 28th April at the Beacon, Hastings, worn by women aged between 23 and 70, of sizes from 10 to 18 and with a variety of personal…