Brighton & Hove Independent - 15 July 2016

Friday, July 15 2016

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£15m ‘waste’ on council agency staff

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‘Eye-watering’ figures revealed by union Isabella Cipirska

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The council has spent £15 million on agency staff in the last two years, according to Brighton and Hove UNISON. The union claims it has seen council documents which reveal more than £8 million was spent in the year 2014-15, while £7 million was spent from 2015-16.

This comes at a time when the local authority is set to slash its budget by £65m by 2020 as a result of government cuts.

Sue Beatty, the UNISON branch secretary in Brighton and Hove, said the union was ‘really concerned’.

She said: “While we acknowledge that there will always be occasions that possibly require short term agencystaffinordertoprovide council services effectively, such as in cases of unexpected events or vacancies that occur and need filling quickly in the short term, it is clear that such substantial amounts of money from the public purse are being wasted unnecessarily.

“When we look at how eyewatering amounts of money across the council are, in our view, being wasted and poorly spent, it is up to us as a trade union supporting our members, many of whom face redundancy or lower graded pay, to flag such poor vacancy control practices up.”

A Brighton and Hove City council spokesperson said: “The council, in common with most organisations, needs to have a supply of temporary staffing to be able to cover key positions for absences or pending recruitment.

“Our usage of agency staffing has been reducing annually with over £600,000 saved during last financial year.

“The council is facing a significant financial challenge over the next three years and a number of our services will be reviewed.Whilewewillstillbe recruiting, we will also need to continue to balance our workforce planning with the use of temporary and agency staffing, as appropriate.”

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Corbyn supporters take top jobs on city’s Labour party Bex Bastable

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The election of Jeremy Corbyn supporters to the executive committee of Brighton and Hove’s Labour party prompted a defiant response from the leader of the city council.

Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party’s annual meeting on Saturday saw top jobs go to candidates backed

by Momentum – the faction of Labour which supports the national party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

But Warren Morgan, leader of the Labour Group on Brighton and Hove City Council, made it clear he and his fellow councillors would not be pushed out. He released a defiant statement following Saturday’s meeting: “My colleagues and I will continue to lead the city council in the best interests

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of everyone, ensuring all have the opportunity to benefit from the city’s continued prosperity. We are elected by residents, we make our own decisions and we will continue to work as we have done for the past 14 months, as a credible, responsible and mainstream political administration.”

Alluding to fears of deselection, Cllr Morgan said: “Only the Labour and Co-operative councillors can change their leader, only the 54 members of council can change the administration, and only the voters decide who is elected in 2019.”

Cllr Morgan has made no secret of the fact that he supports a change in Labour leadership, and Peter Kyle, MP for Hove has also openly backed Angela Eagle in her challenge against Corbyn.

But Labour’s local party elected Corbyn-supporting members to its executive

committee. Mark Sandell took over as chair, Greg Hadfield became secretary, Anne Pissaridou became vice-chair, and Claire Wadey was elected as treasurer.

Greg Hadfield, the newly-elected secretary of the Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party, said: “Momentum has not ‘taken over’ the Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party. Sixty six per cent voted for me and other officers.”

He added: “I have attended a lot of meetings not just in the last weeks and months, but I’ve never once heard the word deselection, expect from journalists, commentators and people who do not have the best interests of Labour Party members at heart.”

See page 14 for articles by Mr Hadfield and Hove MP Peter Kyle, and page 18 for a piece by Cllr Morgan.

News IN BRIEF

Kirby’s ‘delight’ over new PM The Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown expressed his delight over Theresa May’s appointment to Prime Minister on Wednesday. Simon Kirby, said: “She is absolutely the best person to lead and unite us in these difficult times.

Following the referendum, our country needs strong, proven leadership – to steer us through this period of economic and political uncertainty, and to negotiate the best possible terms as we leave the European Union.”

The impact of Brexit on city

Corbyn with former chair of the local Labour party Lloyd Russell-Moyle

A Green councillor is to put forward a motion at next week’s Full Council meeting, to ensure the wellbeing of the city in the face of Brexit.

Cllr Lizzie Deane will ask the council to maintain EU protections for workers and for the environment. She will also ask that officers look into the full impact of Brexit on the city.

West Street regeneration plan will improve ‘scruffy area’

What West Street will look like under developer’s plans

residential flats.

Architect firm the Morgan Carn Partnership said the plans would transform the ‘tacky’ area into ‘Brighton’s equivalent of the Ramblas in

Barcelona’.

Cllr Carol Theobald, said: “It will be an improvement to such a scruffy area. This will enhance the street, create jobs and it will be great for our city.”

The 133-room hotel at 78 West Street, 91-room hotel at 8-12a South Street and 11 additional rooms to the existing backpacker hostel would help the tourist economy and provide a range of accommodation options for tourists, a planning officer said.

Cllr Julie Cattell, who chaired the meeting, said: “This design is raising the bar for Brighton and Hove.”

A helping hand for bus company A shortage of drivers led to the recent disruption to bus services in the city, Brighton and Hove Buses has said.

The company apologised to customers for delays, and said it is taking action to resolve the problem.

This includes employing 30 additional bus drivers to its 800-driver team.

It said it has also teamed up with other local bus operators to minimise disruption, and from July

20 Compass Travel will be operating route 7X, and from July 23 Seaford and District will be operating route 77. The bus timetable will remain the same under the new operators, and this arrangement will be in place until September.

Metrobus in Crawley is also set to provide Brighton and Hove Buses with additional drivers in the short term.

Martin Harris, managing director of Brighton and

Hove Buses, said: “I sincerely apologisetoallourcustomers for the current dip in service levels and absolutely recognise the need to put our customers first, as we always endeavour to do.

“I would also like to thank my colleagues who are making a tremendous effort to minimise disruption for our customers, and express my appreciation to our fellow transport operators who are helping us.”

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Brighton and Hove’s planning committee gave the go ahead for ambitious plans to regenerate a run-down area of the city.

Councillors voted unanimously in favour of London and Regional Properties’ plans to build a hotel and flats on West Street, Middle Street and South Street.

The committee met at Portslade Town Hall on Wednesday, to consider proposals that would demolish the existing buildings to make way for new hotels, a ‘high-quality’ restaurant, an extension to a backpackers hostel and

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‘We are competent to run railways’, insists train boss Oliver Poole

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Stripping Govia Thameslink Railway of its Sussex rail franchise would be a ‘retrograde step’, one of its top directors has claimed.

Passenger services director Alex Foulds has insisted he and fellow railway bosses are fit to run services, despite heavy criticism of poor performance.

In an interview with this newspaper, Mr Foulds admitted he did not ‘feel like I am part of a successful business at the moment’.

But he said directors of GTR, which runs Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services, were best-placed to improve performance.

He said: “I think any talk about change of the management would be a retrograde step. If a new team came in to run this contract they would still be faced with all the constraints that we need to resolve.

“We (the GTR team) have had a lot of successes in the past so the experience and competence is there in the team’s CVs, so we feel we are the right people.”

This newspaper has launched a campaign, calling for GTR to lose its franchise, joining the likes of Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas and thousands of people who signed a petition calling for change. GTR is locked in a bitter dispute with the RMT union over the future of conductors’ roles, with passengers experiencing months of delays and cancellations due to unofficial strikes and staff shortages.

Southernplansto introduce Driver Only Operation trains,

A commuter took this picture of a busy train on a Monday evening

meaning drivers will use CCTV to monitor platforms before closing the doors.

The RMT argue this would cause serious safety issues – but Mr Foulds disputed this, while assuring no-one would lose their job as a result of the changes.

He said GTR would progressively introduce the new measures if an agreement with the union could not be reached.

“We are keeping people on the trains to do different things,” he said.

“We have made as many assurances as we can in writing to anyone who will listen that we are not reducing any jobs through this.

“Frankly, I find it very hard for anyone to see how this is a way to make money because I don’t feel like I am part of a successful business at the moment.”

When asked where he

thought public sympathy fell, Mr Foulds believed it was ‘mixed’ but, on balance, more people he spoke to sympathised with GTR’s position.

He said it was unfair to suggest most staff were unhappy with the changes, adding GTR had guaranteed workers would not lose their jobs.

Mr Foulds said it was ‘important to say sorry’ for ongoing delays, which Hove’s Labour MP Peter Kyle claimed had led to commuters receiving written warnings from work.

He added: “It makes me feel incredibly frustrated and very determined to try and make things better.

“It makes me wonder whether the RMT share my level of frustration and feeling of accountability but it mainly makes me want to try harder to do the best job that we can.”

‘Union offers an olive branch’ The RMT has offered to suspend industrial action for three months if transport bosses delay controversial conductor proposals.

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has penned an open letter to Govia Thameslink director in an attempt to progress the impasse between the parties.

Theunion’sletter,bygeneral secretary Mick Cash, read: “The RMT will suspend calling

any further industrial (action) for the next three months if you will also suspend your proposals for a similar period.

“This will then allow us the time and space to sit down together and try and explore optionsthatwill seektodeliver the lasting improvements to service and reliability we all want.”

In response to the offer, GTR welcomed talks.

A spokesman said: “We welcome the offer of talks

and a new approach from the RMT. We have been trying to actively engage them for the past six months. We welcome the suggested suspension of industrial action, but we don’t need three months to resolve this.

“We are ready to sit down with the RMT and discuss a way forward that we believe they, our employees and customers will welcome, and can bring an end to this dispute.”

Passenger services director Alex Foulds

‘There is no way that we ever deliberately cancel a train’ GTR will introduce a temporary reduced timetable from Monday, with 341 services cancelled each day in the hope of providing a more reliable service. Mr Foulds said there were ‘no plans’ to cut the timetable further.

He acknowledged the congested network would be extremely busy and advised passengers would need to work in partnership with the operator to help prevent severe overcrowding.

He said: “We have got ways of dealing with severe overcrowding. But to some degree it is a partnership with our customers. It’s go-

ing to be a busy time.”

Mr Foulds denied staff were banned from taking overtime or that management deliberately cancelled trains.

He conceded there were a small number of cases where crews were available to staff part of a service but GTR ‘hadn’t managed to organise ourselves well enough’ to run them.

A spokesman for GTR explained passengers sometimes reported seeing crews at platforms but often staffing issues down the line prevented services running.

Mr Foulds said: “There is no

way that we ever deliberately cancel a train that we could have run. Our job is to run a service and we would never contemplate that for a second.”

The Department for Transport served a remedial plan notice to GTR last year, following continued performance issues.

DFT has responded to a 13,000-signature petition, stating the situation is ‘unacceptable’ but criticised union bosses for strike action it said was ‘in no way justified’.

It dismissed calls for GTR to lose the franchise.

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Three top city council jobs are up for grabs Bex Bastable

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Can you navigate Brighton and Hove through Brexit unscathed? Or connect with a community of 250,000 people? Are you an expert in managing adult social care budgets? If so, Brighton and Hove City Council may have a job for you.

The local authority is looking for the UK’s best talent to head up three of the six executive director roles.

Each comes with a salary of between £106,000 and £116,000.

Geoff Raw, chief executive of the council, said the restructure was down to directors retiring, but also funding reductions from central government.

He said: “The way we used to operate, we can’t operate like that anymore. But we want to remain relevant to people.”

One way he hopes to achieve this, is through an impressive new neighbourhoods, communities and housing director. They will be in charge of creating half a dozen neighbourhood hubs across the city in places like Whitehawk, Hangleton, Hanover and Moulsecoomb.

Mr Raw said the hubs would provide a ‘lean way of trying to provide communities with somewhere to go so they can get some of the basic information and signposting’.

The executive director of economy, environment and culture has a big job on their hands. They will head up transport, devolution (the Greater Brighton project), business rates, culture, and seeing the city through Brexit.

The last part is crucial.

Mr Raw said: “We are an international city anyway, and our service economy, tourism sector and the public sector does rely quite heavily on an international labour force. So I think it’s important we remain an open and welcoming city that celebrates diversity.”

The health and adult social care role is also a challenge.

With social care costs and demand increasing, alongside funding challenges for the NHS, this job will involve bringing the two departments together and improving the service on tighter budgets.

Budding council directors have until July 23 to apply, and Mr Raw anticipated appointments by September.

“We are really keen to attract the best candidates that we can get for this,” he said.

Campaign over school catchment areas A 1,300-strong petition opposing plans for new secondary school catchment areas will be presented to councillors next week.

Naomi Reilly, who heads up the ‘Kids not Commuters’ campaign, said: “We believe that every child in Brighton and Hove should have access to quality local education.

What we don’t believe is that the council’s new proposals for secondary school admissions that include

wide catchment areas and tiebreaks for popular schools based on a lottery, not distance, will do anything to improve the situation. These changes would split Brighton and Hove children from their friends and many would be faced with up to 10-mile return trips to school.

“We are campaigning for Brighton and Hove children to have access to their local community schools - and not be bussed across the city.”

Earlier this year, the city council unveiled three draft options for secondary school catchment areas in response to rising student numbers, and a new school set to open in the east of the city.

It also hoped to give children who receive free school meals priority in the admission process.

But the plans proved controversial, as two popular schools, Dorothy Stringer and Varndean, are in

different catchment areas on all three proposed options.

The council asked for parents’ views on the proposals throughout March and April, and is expected to launch a formal consultation later this year on the plans.

The final school catchment plan is expected to be in place for the academic year starting on September 2018.

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Award nomination for city’s fundraising selfie queen Isabella Cipirska

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A breast cancer survivor, whose inspirational hat challenge has raised thousands for charity over the last two years, has been nominated for a Women of the Year award.

Sara Cutting is among 400 women from around the world selected to attend the awards in October, presided over by writer and activist Sandi Toksvig.

Sara said: “When I received the invitation on Saturday I burst into tears. It really is fabulous.”

When Sara was diagnosed with breast cancer she decided to start a ‘headgear challenge’, which involved taking a selfie in a quirky hat each day. She has raised £18,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support to date.

The part of the awards she is most looking forward to is meeting the other nominees, and she is of course, already

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thinking about a hat to wear.

Sara also plans to run the London Marathon next year and will help to open the Macmillan Horizon Centre in Brighton, providing support to people affected by cancer.

“People think that when the treatment stops, you’re better, but its not necessarily the case,” Sara said. “The cancer might be on hold but the long-term effects on your body, for many people,

are huge. Macmillan offers non-clinical services that help people emotionally and psychologically.”

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What can we do to make a barbecue more compatible with healthy living?

Try these tips, from Naturopath and Nutritional Therapist, Gemma Hurditch for CNM (College of Naturopathic Medicine) and seafood. Stressing out about what you eat is not conducive to a relaxing time, so here are some simple steps for maximising enjoyment and decreasing risks:

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We all look forward to spending time outdoors with friends and family in summer. For many, that means a barbecue, but others will have been warned off barbecues by the bad news about harmful chemical reactions that occur when we barbecue meat

1. Choose organic grass fed meat to reduce exposure to more pollutants.

2. Choose lean cuts and trim the fat or skin off to reduce the amount of fat dripping into the coals, creating carcinogenic smoke.

3. Marinate meats overnight before cooking. Liberal use of spices, vinegar, lemon juice, olive oil, even wine or beer in your marinades, can all offer protection from cooking dangers.

4. Reduce shop-bought sugary marinades and BBQ sauces.

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5. Make your own burgers using organic mince, plenty of spices including turmeric, and garlic.

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6. Keep size and portions of meat small. Kebab size pieces reduce time needed for cooking. Longer cooking times create more unwanted chemicals.

7. Don’t eat any very browned/black bits. Try to cook over a lower heat, not an open flame, to reduce chances of charring.

8. In general, the closer food is to the heat source the more damage is done to it (and potentially to you). Continuously turning the meat appears to reduce damage compared to leaving it on one side for long periods.

9. Grill plenty of vegetables and even fruit! Courgettes, aubergine, pineapple, large mushrooms, peppers, asparagus, sweet potato and marinated cauliflower hunks all grill deliciously, and are not burdened by high levels of unwanted chemicals. The phytonutrients in fruit and veg also help to mop up any damage created.

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Brighton Pride’s annual parade through the city is always a spectacle and draws in the crowds

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The UK’s largest LGBT celebration returns to Brighton and Hove, and this year’s Pride event is set to be bigger than ever with the creation of the Pride Pleasure Gardens.

The new Pride ‘zone’ will host a three-day celebration in the heart of the city.

The event will join the famous Pride Parade, alongside the festival in Preston Park at this year’s LGBT celebration, which takes place from Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 7.

The Pleasure Gardens event will include entertainment, a street

diner, food market, and bars at Old Steine and Victoria Gardens.

It will host a special ticketed benefit concert, Pride Unplugged, for The Rainbow Fund – which gives grants to LGBT organisations – with performances from Heather Peace and Lucy Spraggan on Friday, August 5.

Victoria Gardens will feature the Pride Community Stage with special performances over the weekend. Shows include cabaret and disco

by Dynamite Boogaloo, Sink The Pink and English Disco Lovers.

On Sunday, the Pleasure Gardens will host the line dance tent from 1pm on Sunday.

This year’s theme for Pride’s famous community parade is ‘Uniting Nations’.

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Performers at this year’s festival include popstars such as Carly Rae Jepsen, Sister Sledge and Alesha Dixon.

The Pride Village Party in Kemptown also returns, which will see a two-day festival in the St James Street area.

For more information on Brighton Pride 2016, and for tickets, visit: www.brightonpride.org

Cash bid to house homeless Homeless charity Brighton Housing Trust’ (BHT) has been shortlisted to receive a Hall and Woodhouse Community Chest Award grant of £3,000 to support people moving into accommodation If successful, BHT will put the grant towards providing items and equipment to help tenants start their new life and maintain tenancies, including duvet sets, crockery and cutlery.

The grant will also be used to produce a practical self-help affordability guide which will help tenants

to fully understand their outgoings, with tips on saving money on bills.

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“Our rents are amongst the lowest in these high rent areas. We provide an affordability check but despite this 35 per cent abandon their properties due to financial difficulties.

“New previously homeless tenants living in Brighton, Hastings and Eastbourne

will benefit significantly from the project.

“If BHT was awarded this funding, it would mean 65 new tenants often arriving with no items they can call their own and already in debt, would receive a home starter pack and vital support to help sustain a tenancy, ultimately reducing their chance of becoming homeless.”

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New vision for ‘the ugliest building in Sussex’ could provide 229 homes Isabella Cipirska

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New plans could see the transformation of what developers have called Sussex’s ugliest building into a modern development with homes and workspaces.

Proposals by developers First Base would see Anston House, at the southern end of Preston Park, demolished to make way for 229 private and affordable homes and workspaces for around 283 small to medium enterprises.

New 12-storey towers would replace the existing nine-storey building, which was originally built as offices and has been abandoned for more than 25 years.

First Base said the proposals include contributions of £450,000 of funding towards additional school places, £180,000 for public transport improvements and £450,000 towards improving Brighton’s open spaces.

First Base have unveiled proposals for Anston House

They will create 344 construction jobs and give a £139m boost to the economy during construction, according to the company.

The developers said they had received good levels of

support for the proposals following a consultation with residents, businesses and community representatives.

Eeva Paasiaro, development manager at First Base, said: “We take the

views of local residents and businesses very seriously and we have responded with a scheme that will bring significant benefits to the Preston Park area and Brighton.

“We want to thank everyone who has commented on the proposals and provided their support.

We look forward to working closely with stakeholders and the council over the coming months as the application progresses and to delivering these much needed homes and workspace for Brighton.”

The proposals aim to create a landmark on the entrance into Brighton from the A23 and the railway line.

The Brighton Society and The Preston and Patcham Society said the new buildings should not be any taller than Anston House, nor overshadow Preston Park’s rotunda and rose garden.

Formal planning applications are expected to be submitted later this month.

Between 2000 and 2014 there were eight different applications for the 1.5-acre site. The twotower residential scheme envisioned by Urban Splash and Investec was rejected by the council in 2013.

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£188k grant for reading scheme at The Bridge The Bridge Community Education Centre in Moulsecoomb has won a major grant from the Big Lottery Fund.

The £188,000 award will enable the centre to develop its volunteer reading coach scheme, which provides oneto-one support to help adults develop their reading, writing, communication skills.

This comes as chief executive Jayne Ross announced she is stepping down from her role. She said: “I have greatly enjoyed my time at The Bridge. I regard this latest grant award as further evidence of the passion, skill and sheer hard work staff and volunteers have put into making The Bridge an essential contributor to adult education, support and advice services – not only in the Moulsecoomb area but across the wider city.”

She will be replaced by Sofie Franzen as director of community services and Sam Courtney as director of commercial services.

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Big Heart Auction raises thousands The Big Heart Auction, a charity event with more than 200 artworks donated by artists, raised £38,500 for children’s hospice Chestnut Tree House and Brighton Dome and Festival.

The online auction ran on eBay from July 1-10, and included a collection of

works from artists including children’s illustrator Sir Quentin Blake, and abstract colourist David Armitage, a number of Sussex celebrities including actors Julie Graham, Carol Cleveland, Chris Ellison and Hugh Bonneville, and even pieces from children at the hospice.

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University is top for nightlife and politics

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The University of Sussex has been ranked the top university in the south for student nightlife, and one of the most political universities in the UK. In a survey of 11,000 undergraduatesbyWhich?

Sussex is rated higher than London and Bristol for its nightlife. Students also score the university strongly for its political scene as one of the top four in the UK. Annie Pickering, the university’s Students’ Union president, said: “Sussex is known for its politicalactivismandbeing part of such a happening city as Brighton, it’s no surprise we’ve ranked highly.”

The council has won an award recognising the high quality of its reports on parking services.

It was awarded Best Report at the Parking Annual Report Awards

by Councils, hosted at the Houses of Parliament.

Jamie Macrae, chair of the awards committee, said: “Brighton and Hove Council have consistently produced an outstanding report for the past seven years. This year they have maintained their high standard – the report is attractive and easy to read with plenty of appropriate illustrationsanditprovides all the information that a resident or visitor needs to know about parking.”

Football for girls with the Albion Albion in the Community announced this week that two free football sessions for girls are being held this summer.

The official charity for Brighton and Hove Albion, with funding from American Express, has set up the Girls’ Football initiative, to encourage more girls to play football. Sessions are for up to 50 girls, aged six to 13.

The free fun days of warm ups, shooting, dribbling and team games kick-off from 9.45am to 3pm on Tuesday, August 2 at Hassocks Sports Centre, and on Tuesday, August, 16 at the Community Pitch at the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre, Lancing.

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Support for LGBT students recognised

Novelist to sign copies of Brighton based book

Schools in Brighton and Hove are among the best in the country at supporting LGBT students.

Stonewall has awarded the council second place in its Education Equality Index 2016 for its efforts to tackle homophobic bullying in schools.

Cllr Emma Daniel, lead member for equalities, said: “I’d like to thank our schools, the council’s education team and our partners for going the extra mile to support our children and young people in this vital area.”

Best-selling novelist Peter James will be making an appearance at Churchill Square on Saturday, signing copies of his latest book.

The Brighton-based author has teamed up with his friend, and long-serving Sussex police officer Graham Bartlett, for ‘Death Comes Knocking: Policing Roy Grace’s Brighton’, which gives real life accounts of the city’s most challenging cases.

The pair will be in WH Smith from 12.30pm Saturday.

The Girls’ Football initiative started in April, and will host two summer sessions in the school holidays

‘Fun, laughter and making memories’ Children enjoyed a day of foamy fun as they ran through 4ft walls of coloured bubbles in a fundraising challenge.

More than 1,500 people took part in the event at Preston Park in aid of Demelza Hospice care on Saturday, July 9.

The Mayor of Brighton and Hove, Councillor Pete West, joined in with the afternoon filled with live entertainment and photos. There were t-shirts, medals and goody bag prizes for everyone who got involved. The event has raised £30,000 so far for the charity, which provides hospice at home care for children across East Sussex.

The Delmelza Bubble Rush in Preston Park

Emma Middleton, the charity’s events manager, said: “The event sums up the ethos of Demelza – fun, laughter and making memories.”

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A Week in the City Mermaid march returns to city The seafront will be awash with mermaids, mermen and sea creatures for the fourth year running in a fin-filled, family-friendly day of fun.

The popular March of the Mermaids returns to Brighton on Saturday, July 23.

Run in collaboration with Brighton-based organisation WhaleFest, the event will raise funds for the World Cetacean Alliance, which protects whales, dolphins, porpoises and their habitats.

Participants are encouraged to dress up and bring a picnic to the Mermaid Mini Fayre by the Peace Statue on Hove Lawns from 11am.

Entertainment will include

an Ocean Storytelling Bus, performances and facepainting from the Shoreham Allstars, ghost net bracelet weaving, banner painting, stalls and installations.

The mermaid parade will begin at 3pm, followed by a family-friendly event at Patterns until 6.30pm where prizes will be awarded for the best children’s costumes.

The Mermaid Fayre will continue at Hove Lawns until 5pm.

Tickets for the parade are £3, or £4 for the parade and after-party at Patterns. Both events are free for under 12s.

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Table tennis club is handed award

The club has been recognised for its work in community integration

The Brighton Table Tennis Club has won the first national Community Integration Award for its work, which brings local children and young refugees together to play the sport.

The club has led to friendships between Brighton

children, trafficking victims from Vietnam and orphaned refugees from Mosul and Aleppo. Chair of the judging panel Sue Lukes said: “The club works with everyone but reaches out to the most deprived and vulnerable in all communities.”

‘Modernised’ post office opens doors Coronation Street actor Ian Kelsey, and his two daughters, officially reopened the Post Office’s Islingword Road branch on Friday.

The Hanover branch has been revamped into a ‘modernised’ branch with an extra 46-and-a-half opening hours a week.

PeterWilkinson,PostOffice area manager, said: “We are making it easier for customers to get their cash, send and

collect their mail and do their banking because we know how important these services are to local residents. We are confident that this vibrant new-style Post Office at the heart of the local community will meet customer needs.

This modernisation is part of a major investment programme, the largest in the history of the Post Office and will secure services for the future.”

PHOTOGRAPH: NEIL W SHAW

March of the Mermaids will take place on Brighton’s seafront

Ethical fashion show for refugees

Mental health service ‘good’

An ‘Afro Jazz’ and ethical fashion show will be held on Friday, July 22, to raise money for Brighton Voices in Exile, which supports refugees living in the city.

The event will showcase outfits from at almost a dozen countries, including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Guatemala, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Senegal, Ghana, Tibet. There will be West African music, Fairtrade wine, and world snacks.

The fashion show will be held from 8pm to 11pm at the Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton. Tickets are £7.50 for an early-bird ticket. Visit: bit.ly/29In05a

A 24-hour service that supports people with mental health needs has been rated ‘good’ after an unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Shore House, a Brighton Housing Trust service, provides personalised support and accommodation to help people progress towards more independent living within 18 months.

The CQC said: “We saw people were supported by staff that knew them well, gave them individual attention and provided additional assistance as and when required.”

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Opinion

Peter Kyle

Labour MP for Hove

From hero to zero - PM May’s first day

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o we have a new prime minister and government. My dad texted me last Wednesday as the strange constitutional process of anointing a new head of government unfolded with all the ruthless efficiency that we Brits do these things. He said, ‘what a momentous day to be in The Commons’.

But in truth it didn’t feel momentous.

It felt more like a sentence being handed down by a judge. Everyone in the Commons that day knew that David Cameron was being prized away from the despatch box because he got things so terribly wrong, not because he’d served his time. Its become customary to give a standing ovation to a prime minister departing PMQ’s for the last time, but I just couldn’t manage it. I know it sounds churlish, but getting to my feet for the man who, through sheer political arrogance and incompetence, has brought our country to the brink just seemed inappropriate. A few limp claps of the hand was all I could muster.

Cameron’s forte at the despatch box was barbed humour and his parting shot was a painful one for us on the Labour benches.

He said, “We have both been having leadership elections. We got on with it. We

Educational under attainment, health inequalities, and social mobility were the driving mission behind Labour in office. It is an irony that Theresa May’s government is now going to have to undo so much of the damage done by David Cameron’s government before even getting to work.

The relentless focus on academisation instead of investment in teaching quality is holding students back. Disastrous NHS reforms have transformed the way we do health not into a model 21st Century community-based and preventative system, but one with dysfunction hardwired into it. And the cuts to the country’s most vulnerable, to local government services, and to adult social care have merely turned poor people and communities into vulnerable people and communities.

But the optimism offered by May’s speed was soon shattered by the news of Boris Johnson’s appointment as foreign secretary. Is she actually trying to humiliate our country in the eyes of the world? In one afternoon our new prime minister went from hero-to-zero, a journey she will struggle to change direction from while surrounded by so many gaff-prone ministers at exactly the time we need the most serious, capable talent on offer.

Labour MP Peter Kyle was impressed by the new Prime Minister’s first speech.

had a resignation, nomination, competition and coronation. The opposition have not even decided what the rules are yet”.

Indeed they did get on with it. The country looked on, some impressed others startled, as the Tories went about their ruthless business and pronounced Theresa

Greg Hadfield

May the winner. I must admit, her first speech as prime minister, on the steps of Number 10, was an impressive one. I was struck by how much of the agenda she outlined was a direct continuation of Labour’s term in office, not David Cameron’s.

Secretary of the Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party

It’s the members taking back the party

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n turbulent times like these, it is difficult to avoid clichés. So I might as well get the first one out of the way: A week is indeed a long time in politics.

It was an historic day for democratic socialism last Saturday (July 9), when more than 6,000 members of Brighton, Hove and District Labour Party had the chance to elect a new leadership team.

And, in case anyone is in any doubt, it was a day characterised by the common decency that underpins our party’s democratic values.

The vast majority of our members know - and regularly show - how we can disagree without being disagreeable. Even when some attendees at our annual meeting had to queue for an hour or more because City College’s main hall simply wasn’t big enough to accommodate them in a single sitting.

Some prominent individuals want to close their eyes to this groundswell of support for a party capable of exciting and inspiring a generation that is fed up with politics as usual. In Brighton and Hove, some 4,000 people have joined the Labour

Greg Hadfield at a Keep Corbyn rally

Party in the last year - 490 of them since the European Union referendum.

Why have they joined? Well, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has been the catalyst.

More than 700 people attended a Keep Corbyn rally before our annual meeting on Saturday.

This is not because today’s Labour Party is a cult - with 600,000 members! Not because it is being infiltrated by an army of secret - or not-so-secret - revolutionaries.

Not because a few individuals are trying to ‘take over’ the Labour Party.

It is because grassroots members are fed up with a ‘political elite’ disconnected from their party, disconnected from the members who helped them get elected to office, and disconnected from the mass of ordinary people whom the Labour Party was created to represent. It is the members who are taking back the party from a minority of professional politicians

who seem more interested in managing austerity, bombing in the name of peace, and wasting billions on weapons of mass destruction like Trident.

I am honoured to have been elected as party secretary, with a 66 per cent share of the vote. I look forward to working with friends and colleagues - led by Mark Sandell, the new chair - as part of a team that reflects all shades of opinion within the party. Locally, I hope - optimistically perhaps - we can put behind us the vile smears triggered by the parliamentary plotters and their long-planned, incompetently-executed attempted coup.

The Labour Party must be a party of protest. Always. But it must also be a party of power. It must ensure that Lloyd Russell-Moyle, our candidate and former chair, wins the council by-election in East Brighton on August 4. He will be a breath of fresh air at meetings of our Labour Group of councillors. I urge all socialists to get on the doorsteps of East Brighton to show what our party can achieve.

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Julie Cattell

Lead member for planning on Brighton and Hove City Council

In defence of the city council’s planning service

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t’s a pity that Cllrs Nemeth and Wares didn’t speak to me before they penned their article about the city council planning service that appeared in last week’s Brighton & Hove Independent.

I could have told them that I have been working hard to turn the service around since the day I was sworn in as a councillor and appointed chair of the planning committee.

It was clear at the time that the service needed urgent attention; an unprecedented backlog of applications to be registered and cleared, key staff moving on to better paid jobs elsewhere and an IT system that had not been updated for over 12 years.

Knowing how crucial a role planning plays in delivering economic growth and new homes, I had the full backing from the Labour administration to instigate the changes required to create a fit-forpurpose planning service. Here are some of the key measures that have been put into place since last summer. n Use of temporary staff and overtime to clear backlog and all but one vacancy filled. Progress on clearing the backlog is going well and we are currently set to achieve new government performance indicators that will be introduced in September. In recent months we have been operating in top quartile performance as the service has introduced robust and sustainable application case management procedures. n Admin support for the enforcement service and a dedicated officer to investigate HMO (houses with multiple occupation) complaints. n Re-structure of the planning team. n Introduction of new ways of

prioritising applications to ensure that they are determined in a timely fashion and introduction of agreed extensions of time to allow time for negotiations. n Commissioning of a full peer review by the Local Government Association’s Planning Advisory Service (PAS). This was carried out in March and involved officers, councillors and stakeholders.

The report raised a number of key recommendations, some of which were already underway. An interim head of planning has been in place since April and his primary task is to oversee the PAS Report recommendations. I meet him weekly for progress updates. n A project to upgrade the IT service that was started by the Green Administration had been shelved.

We put that back as a top priority last year and the new system goes live in September. This will bring about a fundamental change to the way the officers work and will streamline all of the processes involved in delivery of the development management service. n Planning committee takes up a lot of officer time. Now that the committees are monthly rather than every three weeks, officers can balance their case loads and output more efficiently.

Alongside the implementation of these measures, the process for City Plan Part 2 has begun. Staff are also preparing to move back to Hove Town Hall and the introduction of flexible working. Despite all the pressures and changes, staff morale is excellent and I am very proud of the way they have pulled together in what has been a very difficult period.

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Warren Morgan Getting on with council business Labour councillor and council leader

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t has certainly been and eventful couple of weeks. For most of last week I was in Bournemouth at the Local Government Association, where representatives from councils across the country gathered to discuss the issues common to us all. I was able to hear from the newly elected Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees, and chat to the former leader of Plymouth, two cities with whom Brighton and Hove has a great deal in common.

I attended a meeting of the Key Cities group, of which we are a member, representing cities like ours with populations of around 250,000, which heard about the work of the Inclusive Growth Foundation. Chaired by Stephanie Flanders, it will look at how all communities and regions can share in the benefits of growth, and aim we are pursuing here in the city.

I talked to the Leader of the LGA Labour Group Cllr Nick Forbes, who leads Newcastle City Council, about the challenges we face, and I was elected to the LGA Labour Executive to represent colleagues from across the South East. Steve Reed MP spoke on the

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need to strengthen and empower local communities (as I set out in my column last week), and outgoing Secretary of State for Local Government Greg Clark gave a good speech on the need for solidarity against hate crime and discrimination following the EU Referendum.

While in Bournemouth the chief executive and I liaised with the other two group leaders to put out a message

reassuring the city that market turbulence following the Brexit vote would not harm major projects particularly our Waterfront scheme with Standard Life to create a new arena and extended shopping centre.

Back to Brighton and Hove this week and I have been busy meeting with the local Citizens Advice Bureau about how they and the city council can work more closely together, and the Federation of Small Businesses on supporting and growing our vital SMEs in the city. The general secretary of the Co-operative Party paid a visit to talk about how mutual solutions and cooperative principles can help in designing better local services.

Our neighbourhoods, communities and equalities committee approved our strategy to tackle rough sleeping, as well as receiving the report of the Fairness Commission, both of which we will crack on with over the summer. Our health and wellbeing board approved plans to allow our city’s care home sector to become a Brighton Living Wage employer, in line with Unison’s Ethical Care Charter.

Behind the scenes we are focusing on how we can help put pressure on the government to improve the rail service

to London. We are bringing a motion to Full Council next week, and I’m supporting Chuka Umunna’s Commons Bill to strip GTR (Govia Thameslink Rail) of the Southern/Thameslink franchise.

Some form of co-operative, or control by Transport for London are both appealing solutions, but there is no doubt urgent change is needed for the good of commuters and our economy.

In our newly renamed policy, resources and growth committee this week we voted on the plans to restore our iconic Madeira Terraces, including the bid for £4 million from the Coastal Communities Fund, plans to protect our seafront and parks from anti-social behaviour, and approved funds to replace our ageing parking meters with ones that take payment by card or contactless phone/card transactions to make it easier to pay.

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We need a new approach for a fairer society

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s the Prime Minister moves into 10 Downing Street without a mandate on the nature of the UK post-Brexit, the nation’s interest is focused on what happens next and it’s all too easy to notice little else. A lot has been happening when the cameras have stopped filming in Westminster: The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services revealed on Wednesday that councils need almost a billion pounds more (£940m) to keep social care operating at the same level as last year.

We are at a tipping point with social care, so when the new Prime Minister says ‘when it comes to opportunity we won’t entrench the advantages of the fortunate few’, we expect her to keep to her word.

Despite the valiant efforts of many, cumulative cuts to the council’s budget continue to harm some of our most vulnerable people in our city.

A fortnight ago the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights expressed ‘serious concerns’ about the Conservative government’s austerity measures and growing inequality in the UK. The UN states that the UK has to conduct a review of the impact of cuts on disabled people, women and younger people.

The devastating impacts of austerity continue. The Child Poverty Action Group last month reported that the number of children living in poverty grew by 200,000 in the last year. That means that in the sixth richest country in the world, four million children live below the breadline.

On the environment, the government’s record fares no better. Tuesday’s report from the Committee on Climate Change found that the government is

unprepared to deal with the effects of climate change. Despite the floods that hit our country over Christmas, this report predicts that global warming will hit the UK with heatwaves, flooding and water shortages.

And finally, at local government level, this week the Local Government Association published a report documenting an annual shortage in national house building of 90,000120,000 homes.

What has become obvious over the last few weeks is that those governing don’t actually have a plan when what we desperately need is a vision for an alternative society. A plan where we alleviate climate change, and battle inequality and corporate greed simultaneously. The vision is called a Green New Deal.

At a national level the Green New Deal works by re-regulating the financial industry to distribute funding more fairly, grow investment in renewable energies, build tens of thousands of energy efficient homes; strengthen sustainable industries and infrastructure.

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On This Day 1837 | Saturday, July 15 After much debate – six companies were in the running at one point – Parliament finally agreed to a direct railway line between Brighton and London. The necessary bill received the royal assent of Queen Victoria – just 25 days after she came to the throne. The 50-mile line was opened in two stages: on July 12 1841, Norwood

Junction, London to Haywards Heath; September 21 1841: the final section from Haywards Heath to Brighton.

1940 | Monday, July 15 The first air raid of World War II flew over the two towns. The last was on March 22 1944 and during the conflict there were 1,058 siren warnings and 685 local

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alarms. A total of 56 air raids took place, 381 high-explosive bombs were dropped and incendiary bombs too numerous to tally. Civilian casualties were as follows; 198 fatalities, 357 seriously injured, and 433 slightly injured. Over 5,000 houses were damaged with 200 completely destroyed.

Kemp Town, south Whitehawk and around the Old Steine incurred the worst of the Germans’ wrath.

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Like Cora, Will is deeply suspicious of the rumours, but he thinks they are founded on moral panic, a flight from real faith.

As he tries to calm his parishioners, he and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves inexorably drawn together and torn apart, eventually changing each others lives in ways entirely unexpected.

Abseiling to raise funds for hospice Seven brave staff members from the Brighton Marks and Spencer store have signed up to abseil 115 feet down Peacehaven Cliffs to raise money for Martlets Hospice.

The store has selected the hospice as its charity of the year and the team hopes to gain over £800 in sponsorship ahead of the event on Sunday.

Rick Holmes, the store’s commercial manager, said: “As well as the abseil itself, we’ve been doing some

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fundraising instore with a static bike ride and collection buckets to raise some extra money for the hospice.

“The hospice is the charity that our staff voted to support this year, so we’ll be doing lots of different activities to fundraise for them because it’s such an important local cause.

The height’s a bit daunting but we’ve got confidence in all the safety equipment and the instructors are really experienced; so we’ll be OK.”

As a Collaborative Lawyer and Family Mediator working with clients who are separating the fact many feel anxious and uncertain about their futures is inevitable. I work in as holistic a way as possible and from the standpoint that the better informed you are the more able you will be to minimize that stress and anxiety. Mediation is after all fundamentally about gathering information and working towards a fair and shared goal.

30 million of us voted on the UK’s on-going membership of the European Union and since then there has been unprecedented fear and confusion regardless of how you voted. All of which is understandable and further fueled by social media, the press and 24hour news coverage.

The vote was a monumental decision that most of us are still trying to make sense of. The consequences be they positive or negative, are unpredictable, varied and open to interpretation. Far from closing the conversation down, it is likely that the arguments and the uncertainty will

continue for the foreseeable future.

No matter which way you voted, or even if you didn’t vote, big decisions with multiple consequences are triggers of stress and anxiety for most of us.

As a Lawyer and Mediator working with separating couples I see that on a much smaller personal scale the fallout from the Brexit campaign and the subsequent vote are actually akin to some of the feelings experienced by separating couples.

Anxiety. This is heightened if you feel there has been misinformation or information you don’t understand.

Mediation and Collaborative Law is client led and is built on trust and getting to the facts to reach a fair outcome. In so doing much of the anxiety can be relieved.

Protest. If you take steps to change a situation you have to be prepared for the consequences – taking a stand for the wrong reasons will have unforeseen consequences.

The future. Adult actions have consequences for children and they

will hold you responsible for these, so their needs have to be paramount.

Mediation works out practical things that can help.

Divided. When a relationship ends you have to put aside the divisions and look for positives to build on.

Vulnerability. Lots of us are worried and uncertain at the moment and when our mental health deteriorates, it has knockon effects both for our individual and collective ability to flourish or thrive. Throughout the UK, many people feel labelled, stereotyped and judged. There has been an increase in reported incidences of hate crimes and that of course can make us question our collective values.

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I got up close and personal with a friendly client to discuss her thread lift experience.

I can’t quite call it a ‘tweakment’ without a deep furrow on my own brow! I met with Sara Mendes da Costa at the clinic on a Wednesday in June after her work the previous Saturday. Sara is the voice of the BT Speaking Clock, which is slightly surreal.

She barely had any swelling or visible bruising on her face, which looked great without being tight or shiny. In mellifluous tones Sara explained how she chose a natural look to promote her new book, ‘Peanuts and Eggcups’.

It is great that customers also benefit from natural actives on their journey to maintain great skin.

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Graham Chainey Brighton’s Masters of Ceremonies Brighton historian

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n lists of Brighton’s inhabitants, they ranked after royalty and nobility, and before magistrates and other officials.

They organised balls and other social events and arbitrated matters of etiquette. Between the 1760s, when the first was appointed, and 1855, when the last died, there were only three.

Brighton’s first Master of Ceremonies, Captain William Wade (he had abandoned a military career when he married an heiress) had previously held the position at Bath.

Described as tall, handsome and refined, he was known there as “the Bath Adonis” and was painted by Gainsborough, but resigned after involvement in a divorce scandal.

He transferred to Brighton, where he had already officiated part-time, and held sway for more than 30 years, enforcing the codes of behaviour his predecessor Beau Nash had established at Bath. “Mothers with marriageable daughters were anxious to stand in his good graces,” says historian J.G.Bishop; “the unprotected maiden of uncertain age, the lone dowager, reluctant to relinquish her waning opportunities of

William Wade, Brighton’s first Master of Ceremonies

shining in society, each sheltered herself under his aegis; portionless sons, or it may be needy adventurers, seeking prizes in the matrimonial market, assiduously sought his favour.”

Residing at 53 East Street, he oversaw the weekly balls in season at the Castle and the Old Ship, as well as card assemblies and promenades. At a ball in October 1782,

he had to intervene diplomatically when things became heated between Samuel Johnson and the vicar, Henry Michell.

Increasingly authoritarian, Wade would post orders and prohibitions, such as one in July 1787 forbidding foot races, fights or ball games on the Steine (the very next week, as if to spite him, a “grand foot race” was advertised there). In return for his duties, he did very nicely, since every visitor had on arrival to pay a guinea to register with him, while some of the balls were designated expressly for his benefit. According to a newspaper report of 1796: “Mr Wade’s benefit ball, on Friday last, they say, netted him a clear £500, a convincing proof that we must teem with fashion, taste and spirit.”

When Wade died in 1808, William Forth was elected to replace him – “but how different was his status from that of his predecessor,” observes Bishop. The Ship, refusing to recognise him, appointed their own M.C., then a third M.C. took over the new West Cliff assembly rooms. Forth, about whom little seems to be known, struggled on for 20 years, before resigning in 1828.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Eld, our last M.C., is described by Bishop as “an

English gentleman in the best sense of the word: his public and private character irreproachable; his demeanour never exacting, but at all times forbearing and considerate.” Someone else says he had “no relatives, no friends, no acquaintances”. His position became increasingly outmoded, especially when the railway arrived and transformed Brighton’s character forever.

Sydney Smith memorably followed Eld one day. “He pointed out his toes like a dancing- master, but carried his head like a potentate. As he passed the stand of flys, he nodded approval, as if he owned them all. As he approached the little goat carriages, he looked askance over the edge of his starched neckcloth and blandly smiled encouragement. Sure that in following him I was treading in the steps of greatness, I went onto the pier, and there I was confirmed in my conviction of his eminence; for I observed him first look over the right side, and then over the left, with an expression of serene satisfaction spreading over his countenance, which said, as plainly as if he had spoken to the sea aloud, ‘That is right. You are low-tide at present; but never mind, in a couple of hours I shall make you high-tide again.’”

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Design excellence across Sussex has been recognised at awards ceremony Elaine Hammond

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Sites across the county were recognised at the Sussex Heritage Trust Awards yesterday.

The ceremony took place at the Pangdean Old Barn in Pyecombe and was hosted by the charity’s president, the Rt Hon Lord Egremont.

The awards recognise and reward high-quality

conservation, restoration and good design of newlybuilt projects, as well as encouraging the use of traditional skills and crafts.

There were 20 awards and 14 highly commended announced this year at the sold-out awards luncheon.

Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue took home the Ecclesiastical award after its recent redevelopment, and Mel Howse’s Friese Greene House

in Portland Road was handed two awards - one for Building Craft,andanotherintheLarge Scale Residential category.

Other winners in the city included: The Level, Brighton; the Music School, Brighton College, Brighton; 39/40 Arundel Place, Brighton; and Grantham Road, Brighton.

One highly commended project in the small-scale residential category was a new four-bedroom family home in Old Fort Road,

Shoreham Beach. The judges noted that the “fun seaside architecture matched the clients’ requirements of beach lifestyle living on a restricted budget’.

Dr John Godfrey, Sussex Heritage Trust chairman, said: “These awards really are about excellence and high quality. Buildings and gardens have to be the very best to win a hand-crafted slate plaque, designed for display on or at the winning site.”

The judges noted that the ‘fun seaside architecture matched the clients’ requirement Shoreham Beach

Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue

The Music School at Brighton College won a Public and Community award at the Sussex Heritage Trust ceremony

The restoration of Mockford, a 16th-century listed building in Parkminster

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Sussex Heritage Trust Awards 2016 BUILDING CRAFT Winner: Mel Howse, glass installation Successions of Light, Friese Greene House, Hove COMMERCIAL Highly Commended: Old Stone House, East Grinstead ECCLESIASTICAL Winner: Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue, Hove Highly Commended: St Mary the Virgin Church of England Church, Eastbourne

Friese Greene House, Portland Road, Hove won two awards

ts of beach lifestyle living on a restricted budget’ at this property in Old Fort Road,

The Level won an award in the Public and Community category

Grantham Road was a winner in the Small Scale Residential category

LANDSCAPE AND GARDENS Winner: The Sheep House, Brede Highly Commended: Landscape Water Garden, St Mary’s House, Bramber PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY Winners: The Level, Brighton Music School, Brighton College, Brighton UTC @ Harbourside Newhaven Barns Green Primary School, Barns Green Language and Resource Centre Building, Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham Highly Commended: Big Parks Project, Peacehaven The Congress Theatre, Eastbourne The Edwardian Building, Chichester

Worth Park and Ridleys Court, Crawley LARGE SCALE RESIDENTIAL Winners: King Edward VII Estate, Midhurst Friese Greene House, Hove MID SCALE RESIDENTIAL Winners: 53 Cinque Ports Street, Rye Courtlea, Petworth Former Chichester District Museum Highly Commended: 39/40 Arundel Place, Brighton SMALL SCALE RESIDENTIAL Winners: Beach Houses, Camber Priory Farm House, Polegate South Street, Lewes Mockford, Parkminster Stones, Pulborough Grantham Road, Brighton Highly Commended: Little England Farm, Hadlow Down Stonebridge Barn, Blackboys Old Plumbers Workshop, Glynde Hen Barn, Forest Row Old Fort Road, Shoreham Beach Old Mill Barns, Sidlesham SUSSEX HERITAGE PERSON OF THE YEAR Anthony C. D. Kindell, Aldershal Handmade Tiles, Battle

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How to maintain a positive mind

Dr Matthew Bateman with Sarah Springford, Director of Brighton Chamber

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f there’s one thing that unites the residents of our city, it’s caring about the future of Brighton and Hove.

What that future – and our city – may look like is possibly a little less united, with hundreds if not thousands of different ideas, opinions, hopes, designs and ambitions.

Much of that future, in terms of the built environment, lies with Brighton and Hove City Council, who have to listen to those myriad opinions and try to shape a strategy that takes account of competing needs and desires.

They have to think about the need for housing but balance it with the shortage of workspaces, or the ambitions of our two universities to grow and expand balanced with the

general populations ambivalent (at best) views on living cheek by jowl with yet more students.

The latest Construction Voice event (organised jointly by The Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce and event partners Haydon Consulting, Graves Jenkins and Robinson Low Francis) played host to the unveiling by the City Council of City Plan Part 2 – the latest part of a major document that will map out the future city and the city’s future up to 2030 and possibly beyond.

Part 2 will involve some of the hardest decisions for the council and all local stakeholders as this part of the plan looks at site allocations and development management policies, i.e. determining what gets built – and where.

For example, we’ve got to find space for 13,200 new homes in the city and spaces for the additional residents to work and study.

A key discussion topic at the event was whether the plan would deliver the amount of workspace to meet the requirements of a growing economy and identify sufficient land for this purpose.

If not, both employers and workers would be obliged to leave the city as they grew.

We asked whether land owned by the council could be better used and utilised and whether there should be a bid to make coordinated and strategic use of all public assets in the city region.

For the full summary see www. businessinbrighton.org.uk/events/ construction-voice

Welcome to the Core Essentials to Health column. This monthly column can teach you how to live a healthier life.

The three main factors that contribute to your health are psychological stress, physical wellbeing and nutrition. This month we are focusing on how to maintain a positive mindset during your daily activities.

Psychological happiness is important because stress can make you more susceptible to depression, heart disease and weight gain. Nobody is completely stress-free and you may have it during your commute, office politics or even from certain family

members.

Many of us have finished a hard day, come home, had a glass of wine and continued to allow the days stress effect your mindset. After leaving a stressful environment you can change this negative attitude and re-set your mindset. Some people choose to meditate, listen to cheerful music or play with their children. Personally I choose to exercise, often I run home from work while listening to health and fitness podcasts. This positive task allows for endorphins to be released in my system, it improves my mood and helps my brain function away from work.

You may be different but you can find that task that can help you re-set your mindset. This may be a 10 minute fitness video, bathing your children or taking your partner on date night however find what activity works for you and make it a priority.

This will help you move forward in a positive psychological state.

Music entrepreneur to help new MP visits a great new project to acts to make a bigger impact support new start up businesses A local music entrepreneur who made it to the semi-finals of a national competition for music business professionals plans to discover and develop musicians through video content.

Harriet Jordan-Wrench, 31, from Brighton, beat thousands of entrants to make it through to the final 40 of the Virgin Media Business VOOM competition.

And thanks to this platform and support from Good Story charity, is now looking to take her business to the next stage of growth.

After previously working with top industry names including Ed Sheeran and Jessie J, Harriet launched Secret Sessions on YouTube five years ago, giving filming opportunities to upcoming artists.

After identifying the music industry is making it harder for artists to earn money, Harriet aims to business will disrupt the industry by

providing musicians with brand partnerships through video content and live shows.

Two years ago, Harriet approached Good Story, a Suffolk based charity that helps ambitious entrepreneurs with funding and mentoring.

After receiving investment to launch a new website, Harriet launched Artist Accelerator this month allowing artists to upload content and interact directly with fans. Artists also have the chance to win investment from brands including The Hospital Club.

The entrepreneur participated in Richard Branson’s VOOM competition earlier this month which saw her fight off thousands of people to make it to the final 40. The process included pitches, a public vote and a 29-hour Pitchathon to find Britain’s brightest business.

Harriet, who has already beenapproachedbyanumber

of investors during the process, saying: “Becoming a semi-finalist has really benefited my business as it has been a great experience to work through the structure of putting a five-year business forecast together.”

Malcolm McAllister, Chairman of Good Story, who helps mentor Harriet, is looking forward to where Harriet’s business will take her after this exposure, adding: “Everyone at Good Story is incredibly proud not only of Harriet, but also how we have helped her take Secret Sessions from an idea in her head to the current website.

We think big things lie ahead for Secret Sessions as Harriet is really passionate about supporting upcoming musical talent.

We are delighted that our charity could be a part of Harriet’s journey too.”

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Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, met some of the most unique businesses in Brighton when she visited FIELD at Preston Barracks.

The refurbished former Territorial Army building is home to eight start-ups that won residency there against stiff competition, representing some of the best creative ‘maker’ talent in the city, in a project funded by the Coast 2 Capital Local Enterprise Partnership, created and managed by U+I Plc. Ms Lucas called in on The Bug Boys, a sustainable food manufacturer, innovating the farming of edible insects; Play Talk Learn, an education tech company developing children’s toys that bring mathematical patterns to life; and Intrepid Camera, producers of handmade wooden film cameras that combine traditional craft and digital fabrication.

She also met the team

David Lock from Play Talk Learn and Caroline Lucas MP

behind Control Freq, a bespoke ‘Internet of Things’ door entry system that users can access through their mobile; Flux Cycle Works which uses techniques like 3D printingtoproduceaffordable cargo and commuter bikes; P Kirkwood which creates handcrafted, functional and stylish leather goods; Union

Motion, an engineering group revolutionising the production of electric motorbikes; and Makerclub, which creates robotic kits for inventors of all ages.

Ms Lucas said: “These are the businesses creating the new products and business models that will change the way we live in years to come.”

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After a decade promoting the Queen of Crime’s theatrical output, The Agatha Christie Theatre Company turns into The Classic Thriller Theatre Company, offering Rehearsal For Murder as its first production.

The tour takes in Brighton’s Theatre Royal until Saturday, July 16.

Having appeared in eight out of nine Agatha Christie productions, Ben Nealon (Soldier, Soldier) slips seamlessly into the new company.

In a sense, it’s a case of job done as regards Christie, Ben believes: “Producer Bill Kenwright had the rights and then the rights expired and so he has carried on in the same vein, with more murder mystery.

“I think the joy of Agatha Christie was that she was so incredibly underrated.

(Agatha Christie Theatre Company artistic director) Joe Harmston used to say that the Agatha Christies weren’t so much ‘whodunits’ as ‘whydunits’. She gives you really 3D characters, and you are trying to understand

what is it that pushes these people to kill, just trying to work out why. This one now is much more of a ‘whodunit’, and it’s a different pleasure, the joy of trying to work out who the hell the killer is. The way the killer is revealed is beautifully done.”

Playwright Alex Dennison is left heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide after the opening night of her stage debut. On the anniversary of that ill-fated night, Alex assembles the same cast and crew for a reading of his new play.

But as the reading progresses, the play’s similarity to actual events becomes increasingly uncomfortable for the participants. Alex believes Monica was murdered and his new play is a devious attempt to uncover her killer.

“I am playing the juvenile lead, even after all these years!” Ben says. “He is a young actor who was looking for his great break but the play flopped on its opening night. In the interim, he really has not had much work at all while his girlfriend has become very successful, and then they are thrust back together again, and there is a

lot of nastiness with that.

“It is safe to say that I am one of the chief suspects. It looks like I could be the killer, but everyone has got a very good motive…”

As for Christie, Ben feels she is perhaps now better regarded as a dramatist, as a result of the theatre company’s ten-year span: “She is the country’s most successful female playwright and maybe the most successful playwright ever with the exception of William Shakespeare.”

“I ended up doing eight out of the nine productions that the company did, and I think inevitably some are stronger than others, but year after year, the audiences built and built. When we did the first one, The Hollow, people were perhaps not quite sure what they were coming to, but as we developed, the audience just got bigger and bigger and the tours got longer and longer and before we knew it we were doing a whole year and selling out lots of venues.

“The Mousetrap has since gone on tour all over the country, and I think one of the reasons it has done so well was as a result of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company.”

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Regarded as one of the one of the most ground-breaking indie-acoustic musicians in South Africa today, Eland Gray is currently between countries.

Eland, who plays the Rialto Theatre in Brighton on Friday, July 15, says his most recent home was Spain, but South Africa might reclaim him yet.

“I am from Durban originally, but I moved to Cape Town about nine or ten years ago and started doing a lot of music there and then started touring around the country and then doing the bigger festivals. I developed a bit of a name for myself.

“My wife is Spanish. We married in 2010, and we did a small tour in Europe in 2012. We played eight shows in a few countries and then got back to South Africa for a couple of years, carrying on doing festivals and shows, but

a year and a half ago we had to leave the country because South Africa created these really bizarre visa laws, and a long story short, my wife had to leave South Africa to sort out her visa and they would not give a visa to our baby boy.

I thought ‘Why don’t we take this chance to go to Europe?’

“Spain is our most recent home, and we will go back there after this tour but then we will think about going back to South Africa either semi-permanently or at least for a very long visit. We are just weighing it up. We are balancing the choice between Cape Town and Barcelona.

“My wife was in Cape Town for almost ten years, and I was in South Africa all my life.

We have lots of friends there, people that know us. We can easily click back in there and work. My wife was making porcelain there and had quite a good career, and also South Africa is super-beautiful.

“The cons are that South Africa is obviously not the safest place to be. They say

that South Africans live in this sub-conscious state of permanent fear, looking over their shoulder, always worried about being secure, not walking down dark alleys. But it is not like every neighbourhood is a war zone.”

All the family have had cars stolen, though returned 90 percent of the time. Eland knows plenty of people that have been burgled too. But on the other hand, he says the closest he has come to being mugged was in Berlin.

“You have just got to weigh it all up. You have got to compromise. I have enjoyed the safe environment of being in Spain, of being able to walk back at 2am or 4am and be safe, that there are children and grannies out, that you can leave your bike and expect it to be there, that people don’t bother to lock their houses.

But there are so many great things about South Africa as well.”

As for the music, Eland studied classical guitar on and off at high school before

Ex-Chief Superintendent writes about city’s real crime Books

Debut author and exChief Superintendent for Brighton and Hove, Graham Bartlett has teamed up with internationally-bestselling crime novelist Peter James to reveal the true crime stories behind James’ Roy Grace crime series.

One of the youngest to head the Brighton Police Force, uniquely having served in every rank, Graham brings his experience to the book Death Comes Knocking: Policing Roy Grace’s Brighton, published by Macmillan this month (£7.99).

Once known as the crime capital of Britain, Brighton has provided some shocking cases. Graham has faced everything from drug rings to mass-murders in his rise through the ranks.

While writing Death Comes Knocking, Graham took the unusual step of visiting some of those he had locked away.

From dangerous career criminals to the almost comical slip-ups of amateurs to the initiation of lifechanging policy, Graham will reveal all.

Graham Bartlett and Peter James offer an account of the

city’s most challenging cases, taking the reader from crime scenes and incident rooms to the morgue, introducing real-life detectives who inspired Peter James’s characters.

As Peter says: “Most people say that when the Cold War ended, crime writing became more prominent than thrillers.

But I think we have always been fascinated by crime writing because it looks at a scary world. The thing with a crime novel is that you have a detective who will lead you through the horror. You are entering a world that is mirroring the world we live

in, but there is a steering hand there and the world is hopefully a slightly-better place at the end of it. It’s a bit like going on a ghost train!

“But there is a second level. Part of what makes good detection in a crime novel is that it is a puzzle.

Good detection is basically good puzzle-solving, and a lot of people enjoy the challenge of reading that. But by far the most important reason is that people like to be entertained and equally to learn about the world.

“I think that the police are the glue that holds civilised countries together.”

Peter aims for total accuracy in his depiction of the way in which the police work.

“To most readers of crime fiction, it does not matter provided you are telling a good story with good characters. But to me, it matters a lot.

“I have a lot of readers who are police officers themselves. When I am writing I want to think that when a police officer reads it, he won’t say ‘this idiot has got it wrong!’ Most police officers won’t watch crime on TV because their wives get fed up with them screaming at the set!”

going on to study jazz, doing a music degree at Durban: “And then after that in Cape Town, I had an acoustic guitar career.

I take a lot of elements of all that, and also improvising is part of what I do.”

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The oldest surviving member of the Dad’s Army TV series is coming to The Rialto.

Frank Williams offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes in More Tea Vicar? which is at the venue on Saturday, July 16 (3pm).

He will provide stories about the celebrated TV and film casts of Dad’s Army, as well as a host of other TV classics, including Emergency Ward 10, All Gas & Gaiters, Morecambe & Wise and The Two Ronnies.

Frank will be interviewed by author Chris Gidney for this afternoon of nostalgia.

Tickets cost £14.50 (£12.50 concessions).

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The Listings FRIDAY COMEDY KRATER COMEDY CLUB: Until July 17, 7pm/8pm/10.30pm, £5-£36.50, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. The lineup includes: Jason John Whitehead, Chris McCausland, Ian Stone and MC Stephen Grant.

TOM WARD & NORRIS AND PARKER: £8, 7.30pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Edinburgh Preview double bill.

GIGS ELAND GRAY: £12.50 (£10 concessions), 8pm, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, 01273 725230. Eland Gray is one of the most celebrated and ground-breaking indie-acoustic musicians in South Africa today.

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STAGE LOVE AND INFORMATION: By Caryl Churchill, directed by Kirsty Elmer, 7.45pm, until July 23 (2.30pm

matinee on July 17), £9, New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, 01273 476118. A show exploring the private as well as public consequences of living in the digital age, where access to information is both instant and changeable.

REHEARSAL FOR MURDER: £18.15-£39.40, 7.45pm until July 16 (Thurs/Sat mat 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650.

Playwright Alex Dennison is heartbroken when his fiancée and leading lady Monica Welles is found dead from an apparent suicide.

On the anniversary of her death, Alex assembles the same cast and crew in the same theatre, for a reading of his new play. But as the reading begins, it becomes clear that Alex believes that Monica was murdered.

SATURDAY COMEDY SARAH CALLAGHAN: £4, 7pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Edin-

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GIGS SPELLBOUND: £5-£6 on door, 9pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. ’80s Club Night for people who hate ’80s club nights.

OTHER LIFE DRAWING: 10.30am, 88 London Road, Brighton. Join Debbie Hinks for a fully tutored, three-hour life drawing session. The sessions are each themed with fully costumed models from different styles, eras and fantasies. £17.50 per person. Cost includes art materials and model fees. Call 01273 505201.

THEATRE TOUR: £7.50, 11.30am, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. See behind the scenes of this theatrical treasure.

STAGE ATCL DIPLOMA IN ACTING SHOWCASE 2016: 8pm (7.15pm), The Old Market, 01273 201801. A showcase featuring the best and brightest of

Brighton’s new acting talent.

C’EST MAGNIGIQUE: £14, 9pm 88 London Road (formerly The Emporium), Brighton, 01273 911313, www.emporiumbrighton.com.

July cabaret. A fun-filled evening of singing and daning.

MORE TEA, VICAR? £14.50 (£12.50 concessions), 3pm, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, 01273 725230. See page 37.

THE ILLUMINATING TIMES OF THE DARKLING SOCIETY: £7, 8.45pm, Brighton Dome (01273) 709709. Part of the Starboard Festival. Open Air Theatre.

SUNDAY COMEDY STEPHEN CARLIN AND TOM TOAL: £8, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Edinburgh Preview double bill.

GIGS JAM BRIGHTON LIVE: £3, 2.30pm Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171. A

great day for new Brighton bands.

STAGE CHAPLIN: £12.50-£15.40, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. The Charlie Chaplin Story.

Bryan Hodgson stars as Charlie Chaplin in a heart-warming and hilarious musical about the first true British icon of cinema. He is joined onstage by Steven Arnold (Ashley Peacock in Coronation Street), Rachael Wood (Emmerdale), Helena Gullan (Once, London’s West End) and a cast of West End actormusicians who play more than 20 instruments live onstage.

MONDAY COMEDY PHIL NICHOL AND ANDREA HUBERT: £8, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Edinburgh Preview double bill.

GIGS MAL WEBB: £7-£8, 7.30pm, Latest

MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171. Plus Kylie Morrigan and Sam Walker.

STAGE LET IT BE: £25.65, 7.45pm until July 23 (Thurs/Sat mat 2.30pm) Theatre Royal, Brighton 0844 871 7650. The International hit show celebrates the music of The Beatles.

TUESDAY COMEDY JASPER CROMWELL-JONES AND MATT GREEN: £8, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Edinburgh Preview double bill.

STAGE HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: £8, 7.45pm, 88 London Road, Brighton (formerly The Emporium) www. emporiumbrighton.com A dark and twisted musical tale by The Maydays, inspired by the warped imaginations of film director Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas,

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Chris McCausland performs at the Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club

GIGS EASY STAR ALL-STARS: £17.50, 7.30pm, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. Easy Star All-Stars return to Europe this summer to play a number of shows and festivals celebrating the 10th anniversary of their iconic album Radiodread – the reggae/dub reworking of

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Bicycle Film Festival Programme 2 (tbc) Sat 6.30. Kids’ Club: Arrietty (U) Sat 10.30. Autism Friendly: The Princess Bride (Re: 2013) (PG) Sun 10.00. Studio Ghiblil Forever: The Wind Rises (PG) Sun 12.00. Vintage Sundays: Stand By Me (15) Sun 6.00. Toddler Time: Hey Duggee July 2016 (U) Mon 11.00. David Bowie Is (Encore Screening) (PG) Mon 6.30. Silver Screen: Stand By Me (15) Tue 10.30. Youth – Sketch, Drugs And Rock And Roll (tbc) Wed 9.00. Culture Shock: Carrie (18) Thu 10.15. Almeida Live: Richard III (15) Thu 7.00.

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than 50 artists on display.

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DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CODEWORD Codeword is the crossword puzzle with no clues. The number in each square corresponds to a letter. Work out the words in the grid using the letters provided. Fill in these known letters first, then use skill and judgement to work out the others.

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Down: 2 Cigar; 3 Unloose; 4 Upshot; 5 Aloof; 6 Organic; 7 Rabbit punch; 8 Interesting; 14 Noisome; 16 Partial; 17 Smooth; 19 Owned; 21 Orion.

Quick: Across: 1 Belligerent; 9 Platoon; 10 Patio; 11 Needs; 12 Endorse; 13 Treaty; 15 Grille; 18 Replete; 20 Moral; 22 Fleet; 23 Tuition; 24 Established.

Down: 2 Evade; 3 Looks at; 4 Gender; 5 Rapid; 6 Natural; 7 Spendthrift; 8 Foretelling; 14 Express; 16 Remains; 17 Mental; 19 Extra; 21 Raise.

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Food and Drink

By Tom Flint

A culinary Mediterranean adventure in The Lanes The Olive Grove

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n the week of the Summer Solstice, signalling the official start of British Summer time, and Glastonbury Festival what better time to enjoy a taste of the Mediterranean in Brighton.

The Olive Grove is an oasis of summer goodness in the heart of The Lanes situated on the site that used to be Yum Yum Ninja.

I strolled in on a day which had steadily started to take a turn for the worst but took a seat in the courtyard to enjoy a beer whist waiting for my friend – a number of others had chosen to do the same.

The team behind The Olive Grove took over in September having previously run Vinopolis in London.

The style is Mediterranean and so a mix of Italian, Spanish and Greek food and focuses on the simple fresh dishes that those countries are known for.

They have done a really great job transforming the site into a pleasant place to be. I sit and sip my beer and I really feel as though I could be somewhere in Spain or similar – even more authentic as I am surrounded by English speaking people.

My friend arrives and we decide to dine al fresco – there might be a few clouds and a faint rumble of thunder but that’s not going to deter us – and are brought a selection of dishes to enjoy.

I start with a Kolokithokeftedes which is a courgette and feta fritter which is light, crisp and delightful.

This is followed by some potato balls with anchovy – sort of like savoury zeppole or pallotte – which are surprisingly light.

The thunder is getting slightly more regular at this point and it is spitting a little so we put up our umbrella.

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Fleshy charred squid salad

We then tuck into two types of bruschetta starting with a classic tomato, basil and garlic followed by Parma ham and artichoke.

The artichoke is the better of the two but I enjoy both and the combination of sweet basil and tomato is a classic. At this point all hell breaks loose and we are in the middle of a storm of Biblical proportions – perhaps time to go inside.

We are presented with some fried cheese called Mastelo from the Greek island of Chios.

It is similar to a mild and less rubbery halloumi and better in my opinion as a result.

Next up are stuffed mushrooms with feta and a balsamic glaze which are nicely balanced and the right side of juicy with a little bite.

Chef then prepares a dish of gambas and squid ink risotto followed by a griddled squid salad.

As my friend doesn’t eat shellfish it is up to me to eat both.

The risotto is wonderfully simple and the prawns are equally straight forward.

It is a dish of simple pleasures that has been prepared with skill.

The squid salad is equally humble and yet delivers meaty chunks of flesh with a hint of barbecue smoke that is reminiscent of a meal I had by the sea in Croatia.

I’m starting to fill up, the rain is ceasing a little and we have a chat with the owner Alex.

He tells us a little about the history of the restaurant and their aim of bringing Mediterranean food to the people of Brighton.

He pours us a shot of Mastiha which is a Greek spirit produced form the resin of Mastiha trees – hence the name. It has a really earthy and yet sweet flavour and puts Ouzo to shame for ever having become so popular.

We finish our Mediterranean adventure with a dessert platter of tiramisu, baklava and a Greek yoghurt mousse.

It is a fantastic end to the meal and I particularly enjoy the coffee-rich tiramisu and the light and refreshing mousse.

The rain has pretty much stopped now – so much for the start of summer.

The Olive Grove is a fantastic addition to Brighton’s food landscape. They are not out to produce over the top “wow” food as that would not fit with the concept.

Instead they offer the diner a little escapism. I walked away with a smile on my face after enjoying a meal of simple, fresh and light food.

It would be the perfect spot to stop off for a sunny tapas lunch in the courtyard or evening meal with a glass or two of wine.

If the weather does let you down the interior is very nice too.

Tapas dishes range from £2.90 up to £5.90 with mains around £10 and a tasting menu for £19.90 per head.

Tom Flint writes a food blog Food Booze and Reviews at: www. foodboozeandreviews.com

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f you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you know how the leopard got his spots, or how the camel got his hump, then the bare necessities of life will come to you, and the chances are you’re familiar with some of Rudyard Kipling’s work. Oo doo be doo.

In 1907, Kipling was the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He remains the youngest recipient to this day. He was 42. That gives me over a decade to spoil his legacy. Bring it on, Rudyard.

He declined the Poet Laureateship, and also a knighthood. Orwell called him “morally insensitive and aesthetically disturbing” (authors criticise people so very beautifully), but he did appear to like him, or at least acknowledge that he was a “gifted writer”. Henry James called Kipling “a man of genius”, Alison Brackenbury declared him to be “poetry’s Dickens”, and Wilde probably said something bleak.

Since his demise, Kipling has been unable to decline honours, so there is a crater on Mercury named after him, and there is now a Goniopholis Kiplingi.

Actually, there are no Goniopholis Kiplingis, because they’re extinct. It’s a type of crocodile. As pointless as naming a dead species after a dead author might seem, at least we now know how the crocodile got his name.

The Kipling residence is called Bateman’s and it’s in Burwash. Burwash is in the best county in England. No, not Surrey. In 1939 it was bequeathed to the National Trust. Bateman’s is a Jacobean Wealden sandstone mansion with a mill, a waterwheel, a gift shop and a tea room.

They’ve kept most of the rooms as they would have been when Rudyard lived there, and it’s full of his possessions. It sounds like a very boring school trip just waiting to happen.

As undoubtedly talented as Kipling was, he didn’t make exceedingly good cakes. That Mr Kipling is nothing more than an exceptionally clever marketing ploy. Still, at least his namesake is interesting. Could have been a waste of your time otherwise.

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IN BANKRUPTCY BRIGHTON COUNTY COURT NO 1298 of 2008 RE: JOSEPH RODERICK SUTHERLAND Who at the date of the bankruptcy order 10th July 2008 resided at Magnolia Cottage, 2 Fontwell Avenue, Eastergate, Chichester, West Sussex PO20 3RZ. D.O.B: 28 June 1956 NOTE: the above-named was discharged from the proceedings and may no longer have a connection with the address listed.

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PUBLIC NOTICES BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY COUNCIL PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) REGULATIONS 1990 The following applications involving or affecting the setting of Listed Buildings or affecting the character of a Conservation Area were registered during week ending 08/07/2016: BH2016/02166 33 Mighell Street and 70a Carlton Hill Brighton Removal or Variation of Condition – Application for variation of conditions 8, 9, 20 and 21 of application BH2012/04086 (Demolition of existing garage and flint wall. Rebuilding of flint wall and construction of new part five and part four storey building comprising of office space on the lower ground floor and part of ground floor and 9no flats on the ground, first, second and third floors and associated works) to require the development to meet the current standards for energy and water.

BH2016/02238 Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts Gardner Centre Road University of Sussex Falmer Brighton Listed Building Consent – Installation of cable tension system and low level kicker/cable box to internal balustrading at second floor level.

BH2016/02293 7A Leicester Villas Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension with associated works.

BH2016/02384 Ewanrigg House 22 Pembroke Crescent Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2016/02183 Flat 4 8 Grand Avenue Hove Full Planning – Creation of enlarged terraced area to rear with new fencing and insertion of flue to south elevation.

BH2016/02337 16 Chester Terrace Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Installation of 1no rooflight to front elevation and 2no rooflights to rear elevation.

BH2016/02184 Flat 4 8 Grand Avenue Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to flat. Creation of enlarged terraced area to rear with new fencing and insertion of 2no extractor fans to South elevation.

BH2016/02355 18 Chester Terrace Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Replacement of existing UPVC windows with timber sliding sash windows to front.

BH2016/02208 & BH2016/02209 3 Kings Mews Hove Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Installation of vent to the rear.

BH2016/02116 Flat 2 30 Brunswick Terrace Hove Listed Building Consent – Installation of gas central heating incorporating internal pipe work and flue.

BH2016/02312 & BH2016/02313 6A Brunswick Terrace Hove Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Erection of extension to basement level, alterations to existing railing, insertion of gate, opening in existing wall and creation of access stair.

BH2016/02194 15 Clifton Terrace Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal and external alterations including alterations to layout, installation of rear rooflight and lantern rooflight to flat roof and rebuilding of existing front dormer.

BH2016/02271 12 Montpelier Crescent Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to ground floor .

Replacement of existing single storey rear extension with new single storey extension with bifolding doors,installation of balustrade and associated works.

BH2016/02302 Basement Flat 38 Osborne Villas Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2016/02161 Flat 5 Fitzharding House 84-85 Marine Parade Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat including replacement of 3no existing steel windows with timber windows.

BH2016/02277 Car Park At 18-19 Manchester Street Brighton Full Planning – Erection of replacement fencing.

BH2016/02347 74 St Georges Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Replacement of existing UPVC window and french doors with timber window and french doors to rear at basement level.

BH2016/02466 Sussex House 1 Abbey Road Brighton Telecommunication Apparatus – Installation of telecommunications equipment on roof incorporating 3no antennas, replacement of existing equipment cabinet with new equipment cabinet and associated works.

BH2016/02177 50 Goldstone Villas Hove Full Planning and Demolition in a Conservation Area – Demolition of existing garages and erection of 1no two storey, two bedroom dwelling (C3) with off street parking accessed from Livingstone Road.

BH2016/02165 The Bungalow 11 Hangleton Lane Hove Householder Planning Consent – Alterations to boundary wall at north and west elevations.

BH2016/02033 Flat 3 The Chambers 16 Ship Street Gardens Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat and installation of 2no light tunnels to flat roof.

BH2016/02035 Flat 3 The Chambers 16 Ship Street Gardens Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Installation of 2no light tunnels to flat roof.

BH2016/02197 42 East Street Brighton Listed Building Consent – Installation of externally-illuminated and non-illuminated signs to front and side elevations. Internal alterations to layout and installation of HVAC system.

BH2016/02290 49 West Street Brighton Advertisement – Display of internally-illuminated fascia sign and hanging sign and non-illuminated vinyl logo signs.

BH2016/02367 193 Havelock Road Brighton Full Planning – Alterations to existing storage area including re-roofing from felt to sedum, replacement of existing door with timber sash window and cladding and other associated works.

BH2016/02365 1 Preston Village Mews Middle Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Conversion of existing garage into habitable living space, replacement of garage door with window and existing french doors with window to rear and installation of window to side.

BH2016/02251 Flat 4 146 Kings Road Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/02261 & BH2016/02262 35 Russell Square Brighton & 9 St Margarets Place Brighton Full Planning & Listed Building Consent – Demolition of existing building and erection of 1no part two, part three storey dwelling (C3).

BH2016/02379 Royal Pavilion Pavilion Buildings Brighton Full Planning – Temporary ice rink on Royal Pavilion Eastern Lawns annually during winter months. Structure to include ancillary buildings for a restaurant, cafe, toilet facilities, skate hire, learners ice rink and associated plant and lighting.

BH2016/02356 Flat 2 25 Guildford Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of conservatory to rear.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13 BH2016/02323 Proposed development at: 9 -16 Aldrington Basin/Land South of Kingsway Basin Road North Portslade I give notice that Harbour View Developments (Sussex) Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Application for variation of condition 37 of application BH2015/04481 to allow for contaminated land site investigations to be carried out and approved in a phased manner.

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BH2016/02379 Proposed development at: Royal Pavilion Pavilion Buildings Brighton I give notice that Laine Ltd are applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Temporary ice rink on Royal Pavilion Eastern Lawns annually during winter months. Structure to include ancillary buildings for a restaurant, cafe, toilet facilities, skate hire, learners ice rink and associated plant and lighting.

You can view the application on the Council website www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/planning applications. Any representations should be made in writing to the Planning and Building Control Applications Manager, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ, or via the website, within 21 days of this notice, quoting the application number. Please note that all representations received will be open for public inspection and late representations may not be considered.

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Keeping a cool head in a strange market With all the political shenanigans since Brexit, it would be remarkable if the property market was unaffected but of course, it has been.

But, how much is based on facts and how much is based on myths going the rounds both on the net and in newsprint?

Brexit seems to have been fuelled as much by surmise as by facts, and now, with nearly all the main players jumping ship, it may be impossible to discover who really believed the story they were telling us.

So now, in property, who should we listen to?

It would seem sensible to believe that Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, has a vested interest in clarity, given his job is to keep the ship steady. He seems to have been the only person with a plan ready. With a Monetary Committee meeting due this Thursday 14th July, he is under pressure to cut rates, making borrowing even more affordable. I thought we would have to raise rates but, in this immediate period, lowering them seems to be the plan. Borrowing is being loosened up too. Will this help in the mortgage market?

Estate agents typically ignore national or international factors affecting their local market but maybe this time, they will think seriously about what advice they should offer to prospective sellers and buyers.

In the end, the property market always comes down to confidence. To be sure, we have offers coming in from buyers and they are not trying to put downward pressure on local property prices.

But in London, the last week has seen many sales fall through and probably an equal number where buyers are renegotiating downwards if they can. Some of this is anecdotal and now the press, especially those papers which are always bullish about property, are saying there’s a 40% increase in sales in London post-Brexit. Of course, what the 40% increase is in actual numbers of property is the important thing!

What starts in London only takes 55 minutes to reach Brighton, Southern Rail permitting.

Before 23rd June, the London and local market had been lacklustre for more than a few weeks, so now there is a pent-up need to move and we should see increased activity.

The lettings market is extremely busy. At this time of year, doctors on contracts are often changing to new hospitals and GP practices, especially those finishing their training. So we are getting the ebb and flow of this activity, especially in Kemp Town and Queens Park.

Given the changes in tax relief for landlords where they will lose some of their ability to reclaim costs, the buy-to-let investor who

With Theresa May suddenly moving into No.10, confidence should reappear across the UK and abroad so the money markets should stabilise. Everyone needs that. However, if we decide we need a General Election for real democracy, what will happen is anyone’s guess. Watch this space.

Paul Bonett F.N.A.E.A. M.A.R.L.A. Director Bonett’s Estate Agents

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Balancing performance and economy Jonathan Crouch

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BMW’s1Serieshasbeenradicallychangedbeneaththebonnetin recenttimes,thechangesbringingmorepowerandgreater efficiency.

There’s still the brilliant hot hatch model to head up the range,theM140i,butattheotherendthere’sasuper-economical three-cylinder 116d that can managemorethan83mpg.

So what’s changed beneath the bonnet? Well quite a lot in terms of the petrol range.

There’safresh‘Baukasten’2.0-litrefourcylinderTwinScrollturbocharged engine for the 120i andthe125ivariants,respctively developingeither184or224bhp, a useful improvement on what wasofferedbythe1.6and2.0-litres units offered in these variants before. Meanwhile, at the top of the line-up, the sporting M140i hot hatch gets a new 3.0-litre straight six developing 340bhp and 500Nm of torque, enough to send this car to

62mphinjust4.6sifyouspecify thepaddleshiftautogearbox.

Themajorityof1Seriesmodels get a regulation six-speed manual gearbox, but the allwheeldrive120dxDrivevariant

features as standard the eightspeedSteptronictransmission.

Theeight-speedSportAutomatic ‘box is available as an option for the 125i, 120d, 120d xDrive andM140imodels.

Oneconsequenceofrunning a transmission tunnel through whathasbeenarathercompact hatch has been rather compromised accommodation. That hasn’treallychangedtoomuch.

The1Seriesisstillabitmore crampedinthebackthansomething like a Golf. Nevertheless, the cabin is a good deal better lookingthanmostrivalsandthe packageoffaceliftchangesback in 2015 brought us a revision to thedashboardminorcontrols.

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ROADTEST:TOYOTAVERSO

Versatility is a virtue

by Carmel Stewart Motoring writer

The Toyota Verso is certainly not the newest kid on the block but, if you are in the market for a solid, reliable people carrier in which to storein-laws,outlawsandoffspring this could be just what you are looking for.

Designed and engineered inEuropeandbuiltinTurkey, the Verso is roomy, comfortable and well-built. And, being a Toyota, it comes from a marque that has a one of the most loyal band of customers in the business.

The range has been kept very straightforward – either a five or seven-seater, three engines, two transmissions, four trims and 10 exterior colours including Plati-num Bronze, a new metallic shade introduced for the 2016 model year.

The entry-level Active has air con, electric front windows, four speakers, power mirrors and front fog lamps as standard.

A step up to Icon adds 16-inch alloys, Toyota Touch 2 multimedia and satnavsystem,DABtuner, two more speakers, Bluetooth, rear view camera, electricrearwindowsand cruise control.

The optional Skyview panoramic roof (stand dard on Design and Excel) is well worth considering as it brightens up the cabin considerably and adds another dimension to the inevitable I Spy so beloved by five-year-olds.

Of the three engines, the BMW-sourced 1.6-litre diesel with a six-speed manual

transmission and stop/start p/ technology wins the rosette for best economy – 62.8mpg, 119g/km CO2; the 1.6-litre petrolhasclockedup41.5mpg and 154g/km CO2 in tests; and 1.8-litre petrol with a CVT transmission has managed 42.8mpg with CO2 measured at 153g/km.

It is worth noting that the

CVT g gearing g requires q a degree of finesse to achieve a smooth gear change. Unlike the DSG offering from some rivals, this set up is not at all forgiving to hefty right feet – hammeringittothefloordoes no good at all. Gentle depression and fractional lift is the order of the day to extract the best progress.

The exterior of the Verso has been given a few tweaks over the years with bumpers, grille and headlight clusters all benefitting from a refresh but the interior is very much asitalwayswas–plainanduncluttered with no fancy highlights or ooh, aah moments.

That said the high driving position and excellent all-round visibility make this a very attractive choice for the family buyer.

A word of praise must be given to the sat nav which is totally brilliant. Not only is it easy to understand but it keeps up with the car and the flow of traffic thus doing away with the need to make

multiple circuits of roundabouts while it sorts out the exit. It also offers alternative routes way before the journey hasgroundtohaltintheinevitable traffic jam.

The Easy Flat seating means seats can be dropped down easily, giving multiple options for the accommodation various leg lengths and luggage requirements – 32 different configurations in all. The individual seats in the second and third rows can be folded flat without having to removeheadrests.Inaddition, those in the second row can slide back and forth –by acouple of millimeters – and those in third recline very slightly.

But the rearmost seats are really only suitable for those with short legs, little feet and velcro-fastening shoes.

Withallseatsinplacethere is 114 litres of luggage space; with the third row folded this increases to 399 litres; and with all rear seats down the total adds up to 968 litres.

On the road the Verso offers an undemanding drive – which is not as bad as it sounds. With a car full of mini chatterboxes, bags and babies who needs a sporty, straight lining performance vehicle?

A composed, unruffled, thoroughly reliable experience is just what is needed and that is what the Verso delivers.

“They’llgoinatAA-ratedhotelsandotheraccessiblepublic places such as supermarkets, and town centres, while we

will be embarking on a public awareness campaign to show thatchargingavehicleathome is neither difficult or costly.”

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TheAAjoinstheEVcharge Salesofelectricandplug-inhybrid vehicles are about to take off, and the AA predicts that more than 500,000 of these alternatively-poweredcarswill be on UK roads by 2020.

TheAAbelievesthatdispellingthemythssurroundingthe costs associated with running these sorts of vehicles could help increase these estimates significantly.

To aid this process, the AA has partnered withcharging

infrastructure provider Chargemaster to provide support and access to a growing network of UK charge points.

AA president, Edmund King, said: “We think that the EV revolution is about to take off and we want to help consumers understand the benefits of low-cost, low-emission driving and to show them it is accessible and affordable.

The partnership will provide EV owners with a range

of benefits including home charging units, and access to thousands of charging points at preferential rates.

The organisations will also begin expanding the number of dome stic and public charging points around the country.

AA research reveals there are a number of barriers and misconceptions surrounding EV ownership, such as their high purchase price, battery

life and the availability of public charge points.

David Martell, Chargemaster CEO, points out that availability of charging points at a destinationisasignificantbarriertoEVownership,aconcern that worried 81 per cent of AA respondents.

“Wewanttochangethatperception. This new relationship with the AA will see hundreds more AA branded charging points installed,” he said.

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European Tour is the target for golfer Tom Golf

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Former Brighton College student Tom Hayward is targeting a spot on the European Tour following his maiden professional tournament win.

Hayward produced an unflinching display to come out on top in the Jamega Pro Golf Tour at Leatherhead last week.

The 28-year-old, who became a father for the first time four months ago, only took up the sport in 2010 and is linked to Wildwood and Cottesmore golf clubs.

Following his triumph, Hayward is now looking for more success with a view at joining the sports elite.

He said: “It was great to score my first win and I’ve followed that up with a good performance in my next competition at Wychwood.

“To gain a spot on the top tour in golf you have to be consistent and that’s something I want to be in the future.

“Hopefully this victory will provide me with that springboard that I need to have even more success now.

It’s tough at times but I want to keep kicking on and perform better and better.”

The nine-under-par total of 133 left Hayward two shots clear of Steve Surry and was reward for a rock-solid performance that saw him drop just two shots over the

Phil Taylor will face off against Gary Anderson at the Amex in October

Amex set to host darts once again Tom Hayward scored his maiden Jamega Pro Golf Tour tournament win at Leatherhead last week

two days. Hayward, who is now in his third professional year on the tour, said: “It’s a bit of a monkey off my back, with a young family, it means a lot.

“I’ve won a lot of pro-ams but this is my first proper win in a two-day event.”

Hayward started the second round in a three-way tie for the lead with Henry Smart and Ryan Hinsley, and after birdies on 11, 13 and 15 led Hinsley by a shot on the 17th tee.

He added: “It felt a little bit like match-play. We were jostling for position.

“I have been in the lead in

the past but haven’t managed to get over the line, so it was nice to learn from those mistakes and build on that experience.”

Hinsley’s challenge faded with two bogeys over the closing holes, leaving Somerset’s Surry to pinch the runners-up spot after a phenomenal back nine of 28 that included six birdies.

Hayward progressed to the second stage of Q School for the European Tour last year, but admitted to struggling in 2016 before the birth of Rupert to partner Lily.

“When I’m not playing well,

it’s nice to have my family there to take my mind off things.

“Golfers have a tendency to be gloomy after bad results. I didn’t struggle with motivation before but this makes it even easier to graft.”

His late introduction to the game was virtue of a school sports scholarship in Brighton that saw him devoted to football, cricket and particularly rugby union. As a budding fly-half he continued with rugby at Exeter University before golf became a focus after graduation.

Darts

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club’s Amex Stadium will host two of the world’s top darts stars in October.

In what is set to be a thrilling encounter, 16time world champion Phil Taylor will take on current PDC world champion Gary Anderson in a World Darts Blockbuster.

Top darting stars James Wade, Simon Whitlock Raymond van Barneveld and Robert Thornton all took part in a competition held at Albion’s home ground back in April.

This time around, darts

‘Bears Big Bash’ ready to run for a second successive year Banger racing

Brighton’s National Banger team are all set to host their second ‘Bears Big Bash’ event on Saturday.

The competition, which will take place at Arlington Raceway, will see more than 100 of the sport’s top racers descend on Sussex. Once again a stellar field will be racing, with a number of Europe’s top drivers ready to fight it out with Britain’s best.

Last year’s meeting was a huge success with great numbersinattendance,andin excess of £20,000 was raised for The Royal Alexandra

Children’s Hospital. Brighton Bears, who are the largest and most respected team in the country, have been planning Saturday’s meet for seven months.

Bears captain Nigel Riley cannot wait for this year’s meet to get under way and said: “Simply, we are going for it this year.

“It was great last year to have so many people say so many good things about us and the sport but we have no intention of sitting on our laurels. We want an evening that race fans simply won’t forget.”

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Brighton Bears captain Nigel Riley is excited ahead of Saturday’s second ‘Bears Big Bash’ meeting at Arlington Raceway

fans will be treated to an epic clash on Thursday, October 20.

Taylor is relishing taking on Anderson at the Amex and told www.seagulls. co.uk: “I’m really looking forward to coming to the Amex.

“Gary and I rarely play each other outside of the PDC – so this will be a terrific event and I’m sure the home of the Seagulls will create a cracking atmosphere.”

Fans must be over the age of 18 to attend. A standard ticket is priced at £29 per person, while a VIP package is £65 per person, with tickets on sale now.

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Sport Albion ready for first pre-season friendly Brighton & Hove Albion

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Albion ramp up their preseason programme on Saturday when they travel to Crawley Town for their opening friendly.

It is just over two months since Albion suffered the heartbreak of missing out on promotion to the Premier League on goal difference, before they lost in the playoff semi-finals to Sheffield Wednesday.

The squad returned to training two weeks ago and then headed to Tenerife last week for a training camp.

Seagulls assistant manager Colin Calderwood said: “The players are all ready for a game now and it’s a different section of our preseason training. They’ve had a chance to build up to this gameforalongtime,although we’ve had 11-a-side matches between ourselves which has been good competition.

“This match takes things to the next stage and it will be 45 minutes each for the majority

of the players.” Brighton keeper David Stockdale will not be involved after missing the Tenerife training camp with a toe injury, but he has now started ball work in training.

Seagulls fans could witness Glenn Murray’s first game for the club since 2011 after he returned on loan from Bournemouth.

Calderwood says Murray has quickly fitted in with the squad: “He knows the club and although he might not know too many of the players, it certainly helps that he’s been here before. He’s settled in very quickly and looks very much part of the fabric of the club. The players who we’ve signed quickly become part of the group as everyone is here to help one another be a successful club.”

Steve Sidwell, who has joined permanently from Stoke after a loan spell last season, Ben Hall and Tyler Hornby-Forbes are the other pre-season additions so far.

After Saturday, Brighton take on Championship rivals Fulham at Aldershot on Tuesday.

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Seb Rodger has been named in the GB team for Rio

Brighton duo named in GB squad for Rio Athletics

Steve Sidwell signed for Albion on a one-year deal from Stoke this summer after a loan spell with the Seagulls last season

Calderon heads to Cyrpus as Albion bring in defender Football

Albion fans’ favourite Inigo Calderon has signed for Anorthosis Famagusta.

The 34-year-old full-back was released by the Seagulls at the end of last season and has penned a one-year deal with the Cypriot club, with the option of another year.

Calderon featured 231 times for Brighton after making his debut in 2010 and played a key role in Albion lifting the League One title in 2010-11.

Another former Seagull, Andrea Orlandi, played for Anorthosis last season before he moved to Cyrpriot

Inigo Calderon has joined Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus

champions APOEL this summer.

Brighton this week signed 20-year-old offensive-minded full-back Tyler Hornby-

Forbes from Fleetwood on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee.

He will initially link up with Albion’s under-21 squad and on the move said: “I had a look at the club, researched it a bit more and it was too big an opportunity to knock back.

This is a big step in my career.

“I first heard about the opportunity a couple of weeks ago. I had to sort things out with Fleetwood and the situation there, but in the end it was the right decision for me to come here.

“Hopefully I’ll get my opportunity if I do everything right.”

Brighton-based duo Charlie Grice and Seb Rodger have both been named in Team GB’s athletics squad for the Rio Olympics.

The pair will be competing in their first-ever Games after the 80-strong team was unveiled on Wednesday afternoon.

Grice, 22, races for Brighton Phoenix and will compete in the 1,500m race, while Brighton-born Rodger, 25, will be part of the 400m hurdles team.

Rodger could not contain his excitement following his call-up and wrote on Twitter: “I am so happy and excited to finally announce that I am officially going to the Olympics! This is a dream come true!

“Thank-you my team, family, coach, physio, friends and sponsors, for all your continued support, you all play such a big part in this journey.”

The pair were also part of the GB team at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow two years ago.

Midfield duo attracting interest from the top flight Brighton & Hove Albion

Having come so close to promotion last season, it was always inevitable that other clubs would start sniffing around the Brighton squad sometime in the summer.

While up until this week it had been quiet in that regard ahead of the start of preseason games, numerous reports in the national and local press recently have linked other clubs with moves for Albion players.

Unsurprisingly, the midfield pairing of Dale Stephens andBeram Kayal are among those being targeted.

The duo were the backbone of the team last year and losing either one would be a massive blow to the Seagulls.

After their performances in the Championship last season, it should be no surprise that two of the recently-promoted Premier League sides have shown interest. Burnley are believed to have had two bids – the latest in the region of £4m – for Stephens rejected, with Hull believed to be considering a move for Kayal.

Both players have a year to run on their contracts, and Albion will be keen to get them tied down to new deals

to fend off further interest Last season’s top scorer Tomer Hemed is believed to have rejected the chance to return to his home country of Israel, with Maccabi Tel Aviv having shown interest in the 29-year old striker.

Another staying put is Jake Forster-Caskey, who has turned down the chance to join fellow Championship side Rotherham. The 22-yearold spent a large part of last season on-loan at MK Dons, and could still move on this summer if he doesn’t fit into Chris Hughton’s plans.

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Johnny Cantor Straight from the commentary box

What effect will EU exit have on Albion?

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n or out. It’s been decided. We’re out of the European Union. The fallout politically has been incredible.

There is a new PM in place. I’m no economics expert but I assume we will only be able to assess the economical fallout in years to come, good or bad.

So, what about the impact on football?

I guess to a certain degree the sport is still digesting the implications and any major alterations may not come into play for another two years.

On BBC Sussex, I spoke to football finance expert and Albion fan Kieran Maguire, from Liverpool University, who gave his initial reaction to the news.

In general, he felt the fall in the value of the pound would mean the price of players from abroad will be higher, citing clubs like Juventus. According to research, 65 per

cent of players in the top flight are from abroad, however the blow of higher prices will be cushioned by the new TV deal so many may still be prepared to pay top dollar, (well pounds or euros!).

On the flip side, according to Maguire, English players will be more valuable but the reluctance of UK players to head abroad is unlikely to change in my view.

Wages are often a key factor here.

Another issue for attracting players here is work permits. There is still a period of calm before Article 50 is invoked but if the current rulings for players outside the EU are adopted for those inside it, clubs such as the Albion would not have been able to take individuals such as Leo Ulloa, Bruno or Inigo Calderon due to their lack of international appearances – a figure that is based on a country’s FIFA ranking.

It’s certainly food for thought. It

will certainly be challenging times for Championship clubs. The Seagulls’ Category One status should help them face those challenges but it is still to be seen whether many of those younger players can make the grade after moving up through the system.

Brighton & Hove Albion have already signed Ben Hall from Motherwell and Fleetwood Town defender Tyler HornbyForbes. These deals are maybe more about the changes to the loan system that come into play this season but if they can make the transition from the under-21s it will have been a smart move.

I expect them to feature in the EFL Cup, so we won’t have long to find out. You would hope the promotion of young English talent in the Football League may help strengthen the international set-up but there is of course no guarantee. We are already seeing

Sussex all set to go in ‘El Classicoast’ derby

n Follow all the action, home or away, on BBC Sussex Sport or Twitter: @BBCSussexSport or @johnnycburger To read more by Johnny Cantor, visit www.johnnycantor.com

Dolphins crowned Sussex walking football champions Walking football

Lewis Mason

Brighton Dolphins walking football team have been crowned Sussex League champions.

Dolphins, who ended unbeaten in the six-game season, saw off Lancing Wanderers in their final game of the season.

Brighton were dominant throughout and lifted the title without losing a game.

In a rampant campaign, they conceded just one goal in six matches and managed to find the net 12 times.

The only blemish was a draw early in the season but other than that it was a faultless effort.

Dolphins met Lancing Wanderers in the final game – with both teams unbeaten

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Sussex will do battle with rivals Hampshire in what is being billed as ‘El Classicoast’ at Hove this evening (7pm).

The fierce rivals lock horns in a Natwest T20 Blast encounter with Sussex looking to enhance their chances of securing a quarterfinal place.

Sussex welcome back Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills following their international exploits with England but they are still without Bangladesh seamer Mustafizur Rahman, who was due to play.

Former Hampshire spinner Danny Briggs is likely to face his old club and young Jofra Archer has made Sussex’s 14man squad after taking four wickets against Pakistan.

Demand is high with Hove already sold-out for tonight’s fixture.

The match at Hampshire earlier in the season was abandoned without a ball being bowled, after a heavy shower caught Hampshire’s groundstaff out.

Sussex’s South Group is tight at present, with four teams locked on ten points.

Mark Davis’ side sit in fifth with that tally, while sixthplaced Kent Spitfires, fourthplaced Surrey and Essex Eagles in third are all on the

the impact of the vote on parliament and Number 10 but it seems the implications for football may be somewhat further down the line.

The Seagulls have themselves had a fairly turbulent few years with changes at the helm but supporters may be happy that their leader looks set to stay and their cabinet are planning for the future.

I’m never sure if it was Benjamin Franklin who said ‘we live in interesting times’ but he is accredited with the thought that ‘by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail’. Mind you, he’s also thought to have muttered ‘In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.’ so maybe we are better off just biding our time!

and each knew a win would see them become Sussex champions.

Despite going a goal down, Dolphins fought back to win 2-1 and secure the league title.

Brighton’s manager and captain Jobe Berrington felt it was a highly-competitive campaign and said: “While we have lifted the trophy, I want to say well done to all the teams involved. It has been great fun to play every side in a highly competitive league.”

For more information about the sport or to find out when the next competition takes place visit www. southdownsleisure. co.uk or call Worthing Leisure Centre on 01903 905050.

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Luke Wells hit 93 in Sussex’s tour match against Pakistan

same total.

With four group games left, Sussex will be hoping to bolster their hopes of booking a spot in this season’s quarterfinals.

Sussex head into this evening’s game on the back of a three-day tour match against Pakistan.

That match provided the tourists with their final action

before the opening Test with England got under way at Lord’s yesterday.

A youthful Sussex side included two debutants, with Archer and Abindine Sakande both making their first appearances.

Archer starred as he took 4-49, before Pakistan declared on 363-5 from 99 overs.

Harry Finch smashed 103,

while Luke Wells fell seven short of a century as Sussex called time on their innings having reached 291-5.

Pakistan then reached 71-1 before rain intervened with no more play possible on the second day. Disappointingly, heavy rain on the third and final day meant no play was possible and the game finished in a draw.

Brighton Dolphins’ walking football team

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