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Author: Anonymous

HOLD YOUR HEART 

Posted on 14 November 202527 November 2025 by Anonymous

Conquest Hospital Cardiology faces closure WE ARE WALKERS ‘We’re all walkers in our family.’ My brother makes this observation after spending the day with our dad for his birthday. It often doesn’t make sense to people how much we like to walk. Sometimes it even riles people up: ‘but it’s faster to go by x…

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Voices of Southern Housing: A Day in the Life – Royal Terrace

Posted on 17 March 202518 March 2025 by Anonymous

A tenant at Royal Terrace – preferring to remain anonymous – discusses living conditions there. On the back of the release of the bone-chilling statistics that one in 64 are homeless in Hastings, it can seem a little churlish to complain about problems with any landlord. And throw in the pitiful availability of housing stock…

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We’re a largely text-based outfit here, so you’re going to find a few poets lurking.

Beginnings

Out of the primordial gooo
A beginning
Birth red and writhe like maggot
On the untrod surface of its earth
Gasp the first untainted breath
Flush lung from liquid’s grasp
And writhe toward your unknown future
All was written from scratched beginnings
Fragments scraped from disparate corners
No truths true but paradox
All logic mere invention
All walls built with nothing but
Bricks and mortar / sand and water
And all sand slips away in time
Structures crumble
Empires fall
And life begins again
Of a new primordial rubble

Oli Spleen, 2000

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