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Hey there.

Hastings Examiner (Hex for short) is a community news source for Hastings, East Sussex.

We aim to take a deeper look at issues affecting the town, and are more than happy to support community-led initiatives trying to make Hastings a better place.

Have a look around. If you like what you read, check out our mission statement or get in touch via info@hastings-examiner.uk. We’re a voluntary organisation and welcome anyone who wants to get involved.

Everything still under development.

Recent Posts

  • Transphobia, Women’s Rights and the New Section 28
  • Ever Heard of a Housing Strategy?
  • A Day Out at the Protestival
  • Jewish Not Zionist
  • Protest for ‘intentionally homeless’ family facing eviction

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Recent Comments

  1. Dr Andrew Barton on Transphobia, Women’s Rights and the New Section 28
  2. Julie Eason on Transphobia, Women’s Rights and the New Section 28
  3. David Thomson on Protest for ‘intentionally homeless’ family facing eviction
  4. Tony Neal on Protest for ‘intentionally homeless’ family facing eviction
  5. David on The Closure of Hastings’ own Factory of Funds

Daily Poem

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

This section is meant for local poets. Submit your poems to info@hastings-examiner.uk. They’ll be added to our archive and eventually featured here.

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