Words: David Williams. Images: Hastings Urban Bikes. It’s unavoidable sometimes, but making comparisons to our capital city (L**don) are often unhelpful, even damaging. Take housing, for example. In the city, it is now not uncommon to be paying close to a grand a month for a room in a shared house! And the median house…
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…
Merlin Betts This week it feels like reminders of the obvious. Roadworks go on well past their timeframe. The pier might get slightly less noisy – maybe. Ill-conceived housing schemes push onward under Labour’s national encouragement. Southern Water embarrasses itself, and Helena Dollimore quotes facts and figures according to her latest sealed instructions from Labour…
David Williams For this article, I had a chat with Mat, the current project leader at the Hastings Bike Project (HBP). We talk about the origins, past, present and future plans of the project, as well as the challenges and joys of cycling, mastering the mechanics and running a community bike workshop. A Little Goes…