Tag archives for lockdown
Hastings Says “Enough is Enough!”
Simon Hester, Chair of Hastings & District Trades Union Council sums up what’s happening in Hastings and nationally. Hastings marches, 19 November 2022. Photo: Paulo Figurelli When multi-millionaire Nadhim Zahawi,…
People of Hastings and St Leonards: Debbie Cutting
To start off the new year, HIP’s Kathryn Sutter met Debbie, a born-and-bred Hastings resident whose famous seafront boogie sessions kept many people going through the covid pandemic. We started…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…