Class Divide
The majority of schools in East Sussex have stayed open throughout the coronavirus pandemic for the benefit of some vulnerable children and the families of key workers. Over 2,000 have attended physically on some days, according to Cllr Keith Glazier,…
Working Through The Lockdown
Six local residents tell their stories BuilderSimon Cooper As a long-standing building and landscape contractor in Hastings, my business has not suffered during the lockdown – indeed I have to admit that I’ve enjoyed some benefits as well as inconveniences.…
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…
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…
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 point of view: • Have a routineThe odd PJ day…
Work Dries Up
Three Hastings people talk about what lockdown means to their income. Small Business: wedding celebrant I’m currently applying for supermarket jobs as my work has disappeared completely (no gatherings of people, weddings banned) and my husband’s work has become very…
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 not for several weeks, but other evidence points to the…
Sweden In The Time of Corona
Sweden has so far declined to impose a social lockdown. Schools, bars, cafes and shops remain open. Social distancing is recommended, but not enforced. Alex Peck, a Brit living in Sweden, reports. I live with my family in a small rural…
Is This The World’s Dullest Dystopia?
By Safiya Young Never before have I had a stronger desire to take up outdoor sports. Even two weeks ago, I would have thought nothing of spending the afternoon, indeed the weekend, at home, leaving the house occasionally to walk…
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 of 11 million people. The virus was unknown. Three weeks…