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Old Boat Corner's bright new future > Continued from page 1 ■ Membership is free to anyone who lives within Hollingbury, Patcham and Coldean. Councillor Theobald said: “The Old Boat Corner Community Centre is a well-established popular and vital community resource for Hollingbury and now has a really excellent new committee of very keen local residents, - chaired admirably by Liz Clift - who are working extremely hard to take it on to a new level. “Carol Theobald, Lee Wares, and I will continue to work closely with them in the future and offer any support we can to make the centre as successful as possible. “At present there are 18 local groups using the centre - bringing approximately 385 people through the doors each week. “Last month, I was able to assist the association in their bid

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to Brighton and Hove City Council for £10,000 of grant funding to help them get back on their feet again after the recent closure of the centre’s social club.” Ms Lucas said: “I’m thrilled about this win for the centre. Many buildings, and especially older ones, aren’t designed to be energy efficient - which can mean very costly utility bills. And it’s so important that a

resource like the Old Boat is able use every spare penny to invest in its brilliant work, rather than having to stretch to meet everrising building costs. “I’ve been delighted to help the centre explore measures and funding to help reduce those costs, and it’s fantastic there’s been a breakthrough in securing funds. I hope we can work to find the additional funding too, for a building that meets their needs now and into the future.” Ms Clift said "I am amazed at the transformation of the community centre in just a couple of months. The new OBCCA committee has really worked hard to transform the café and to increase the usage from other services such as room hire. "There is a wonderful range of groups using the centre, from all walks of the community. It's wonderful what has been achieved by a few really dedicated volunteers and I am so grateful to them.”

Whitehawk Inn wins £346,820 lottery A Brighton community group has been awarded more than £346,800 in lottery funding. The Whitehawk Inn made the successful bid on behalf of three organisations. The grant will fund a three-year project, focusing on providing one-to-one information and guidance sessions to promote participation in a variety of lifechanging opportunities. Frances Duncan, director of The Whitehawk Inn, said: “This award recognises the fantastic success of the first East Brighton Gateway Project, which enabled over 1,200 residents to embrace success in their lives by participating in social networks, volunteering, and in learning.

”The Whitehawk Inn and partners are very pleased to be able to continue this work for a further three years”. The East Brighton Gateway Project 2 (EBGP2) is the continuation of a longrunning partnership - with The Whitehawk Inn as lead partner, The Bridge Community Education Centre (based in Moulsecoomb), and Varndean College delivering a sizeable proportion of the project activity. Service-users will meet with an information and guidance adviser to have an initial assessment and over a period of time; they will work together to identify needs and goals. This will result in: increased self-

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It’s heartening to see the city stacking up more awards to put on our collective mantlepiece. Last week, it was the Local Government Chronicle’s “Driving Growth” award; this week, it has been the Sustainable Food Cities Award. Thanks to the combined efforts of a host of local public, private, and voluntary initiatives, we are re-defining what it means to "eat well" and are being recognised for taking more responsibility for what’s on our plate, in terms of the consequences both upstream and downstream. The judging panel was impressed by the enterprising sustainable food culture they have seen in our retail outlets and restaurants, as well as the dynamic community approaches to food waste. They also noted that childhood obesity is declining, school meals improving, and community foodgrowing and composting projects are blossoming. Wherever you turn in our city, there is plenty to inspire: retailers such as Infinity Foods and hiSbe; events such as the food festival and Seedy Sunday; community-growing at Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Brighton Permaculture orchards in Stanmer; restaurants such as Terre à Terre, food distribution

projects such as The Food Waste Collective and a host of composting projects and lunch clubs. The new Open Market gathers even more under one roof, providing a healthy beating heart for the livening-up London Road. The Brighton and Hove Food Partnership has been at the forefront of this drive in recent years and deserves huge credit. They describe the win as "an award for everyone who is working on food in the city - the butchers, the bakers and the policy-makers”. As someone who is working with colleagues at the drier end of this trio, whether it’s planning guidance for insisting on food-growing space on new developments or healthy procurement policies for school meals, it’s gratifying to be part of such a wholesome and awardwinning menu.

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Brighton’s Klondike right now C is the London Road. It’s a land of re-invention and possibility. M Where once the greats came Y and went (farewell Woolies and CM Marks and Sparks), new titans MY dominate what the hip and trendy call Meat Street. CY It’s BBQ heaven. If a burger CMY can ever be ethical, you’ll get K it there from a troll. Gorge on ribs, sup a craft beer, shop in a supermarket that’s how it should JD Wetherspoon plans to open in the former Co-op building in London Road be, and ignore the outlet in London Road would Iceland. London Road To have a large vertical set us back all the gains we is Hipster Central, if drinking outlet in have made in recent times.” we believe the hype. The free-range organic cat And there is so London Road would set us from Infinity Foods is out of much to celebrate. The the Fairtrade cotton jute bag, Emporium is a delight. back all the gains we have it seems. It’s fab that behind made in recent times” It’s different when you the old Co-op facade mention the W word. The Do you remember the outrage hundreds of students muesli-fuelled NOletariat has now have digs in a building that when it was opened? No. Of course, you don’t. It was spoken. Alcampo Lounge, yes; was empty for too long. The Open Market is thankfully once again all good news when that fancy Wetherspoon’s, no. But what’s the difference chain moved into an empty unit vibrant and thriving. Everything down on London on London Road. They serve really? Aside from the carpets. The difference is class and Road is on the up. Even the old tapas and mojitos. Bright kids Blockbuster video store has been come by and do coding on a wealth. Many people seem to Saturday morning, while their think it’s fine for well-to-do folk re-invented as a bar. A national chain opened there parents drink flat whites and big to drink their afternoon away, while the kids run around in not long ago. They took over a pinot grigios before noon. But the latent snobbery of the Alcampo Lounge and similar large, empty premises. Now they Brighton’s ruling class came to venues. But it seems that a sell booze and food. It’s a big open space for the fore this week when it was Wetherspoon’s is déclassé. This city is already sodden drinking and eating. They say on reported that another chain their website that they are “open serving food and drink wanted to with alcohol. We have 24-hour all day every day, where families, open a branch down on London boozers and shops that sell cutprice drink at all hours, too. The friends, and local residents can Road in another empty unit. Andy Winter, the head of the vitriolic objections to one more come for a coffee, or a drink or something to eat in a relaxed and Brighton Housing Trust, said pub chain opening one more at a meeting: “Can we all agree outlet is nothing more than comfortable environment.” The Alcampo Lounge is quirky that it will be the mother of snobbery. Not least because the and stylish. Caroline Lucas has all fights if they try to open a objectors didn't speak up against been spotted in there sipping a Wetherspoon’s in the Co-op? To the middle-class drinking barn a tomato juice, so it must be OK. have a large vertical drinking few doors down. Budget

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George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, praised a Hove air ambulance charity during his budget and promised to direct extra funds for it. He praised local charities across the country including the Lucy Air Ambulance that transports children requiring urgent care and is based in Hove. Lucy, which stands “Life’s Urgent Care for the Young”, transfers about 12,000 children each year and 10 per cent of these would benefit from the proposal.

Railway stations in the city are set to receive government funding of around £765,000 to improve bicycle facilities. Hove Railway Station Cycle Hub will see 150 extra cycle spaces and a maintenance, hire and repair business. London Road and Moulescoomb stations will also see improved shelter facilities, lighting and signage. A £1.5 million cycle hub at Brighton Station, with a café and space for 500 bikes, opens next week.

The seventh annual Seafront Torch Walk is set to take place to raise awareness of climate change. Brighton and Hove City Council’s Healthwalks team will be taking part in World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour by joining with WWF supporters, regular healthwalkers and local residents for the mile walk along the seafront. The Maracatu samba band will be playing Latin rhythms as walkers travel along from the Bandstand to Brighton Pier.

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Top chef to put Sussex on menu at Brighton i360 beachside brasserie Steven Edwards, the winner of MasterChef: The Professionals, will collaborate with Centerplate, the venue caterer, to serve the best Sussex produce at Brighton i360’s brasserie when it opens next year. Centerplate won the Brighton i360 catering contract against some of the biggest names in the business and has created a partnership with Mr Edwards, a former Sussex Young Chef of the Year, to offer signature dishes on menus at the brasserie, using ingredients from the South

Varndean School welcomed Shuna Hunt, the niece of Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist after whom one of its four 'schools" is named. Ms Hunt told stories of “Uncle Alan”, making it clear he was not only an extremely skilled mathematician, but also a very talented rower and marathon runner. What she remembered most is how warm and caring he was to the younger members of her family.

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Downs and coastal waters. The Brighton i360's 400-cover beachside brasserie will sit alongside the i360's gift shop, exhibition, and children's play zone. The Centerplate team will also cater for new event rooms - with their own private beach terrace and sea views - suitable for private events for 10 to 800 people. Eleanor Harris, chief executive officer of the Brighton i360, said: “Our goal is to create a destination brasserie, serving the best of

Sussex and we are particularly thrilled to welcome Steven and his etch. co-founder Josh Stanzl - on board, bringing with them AA and Michelin kitchen experience and adding a special local flavour to our offer. We will serve the superb ingredients that are reared, grown, caught,

and brewed within the 26-mile viewing radius that you can see from the i360.” Mr Edwards said: “Josh and I are really looking forward to working with this amazing new venue. We are Sussex chefs through and through and have a fantastic larder to choose from.”

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The Martian At 91, Patrick Delaforce - a war veteran and military author - is to publish the third part of a trilogy documenting Second World War operations that have often gone ignored. Mr Delaforce was part of Operation Plunder, the crossing of the Rhine at Rees, Wesel in Germany. Field Marshal Montgomery coordinated the attack, which involved an airborne drop known as Operation Varsity. The 240-page book - entitled Onslaught on Hitler's Rhine: Operations Plunder and Varsity, March 1945 – will be published to coincide with next week’s 70th anniversary of the two operations. It provides a first-hand insight as well as a selection of illustrations and rare photographs. The Brighton author’s personal history is a tapestry of remarkable military tales. Mr Delaforce was a veteran of five major battles by the time he was 21, having started

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his campaign in Normandy. In April 1945, he was with the first battle group into Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As a Forward Observation Officer, he stood on the turret of the leading tank during battles. He Patrick Delaforce (above right) stood on the turret of the leading tank during battles was wounded twice the British hangman, execute during the war and still carries two pieces of shrapnel in his 13 convicted war criminals in Hameln on December 13, 1945. body, one in his head. He was awarded the Bronze He served on a War Crimes Tribunal in Hamburg and tried Cross of Orange-Nassau in concentration camp guards. He Holland and is due to receive the witnessed Albert Pierrepoint, Legion d’Honneur this year.

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There are 21 wards in Brighton and Hove, electing 54 councillors

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Councillor Ann Norman (Conservative)

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Preston Park

Councillor Ken Norman (Conservative)

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Hanover and Elm Grove

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Central Hove

Brunswick and Adelaide

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Councillor Sue Shanks (Green)

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2011 election results

You need only to look in the window of any local estate agent to understand why Withdean is a Conservative stronghold. Million-pound homes abound in the leafy lanes of a ward where nearly one in five is employed in higher-managerial occupations. It was remarkable that Sue Shanks grabbed top spot for the Green Party in the last city council elections, squeezing out fourth-placed Robert Nemeth, who should have been a shoo-in along with fellow Conservatives, Ann and Ken Norman. (What is it about Brighton and Hove City Council that seems to attract married couples? Surely some voters must at least suspect there is the risk that Mr and Mrs Councillor will treat their double election as a job-share rather than a dual responsibility.) Back to Ms Shanks, whose hugelyimpressive campaign in 2011 - certainly in terms of energy, ground covered, and doors knocked on - got its just desserts. Can the current chair of the children and young people's committee do it again this time around? Possibly not. For Labour, all three are seasoned candidates, albeit not always in Withdean. In particular, Juliet McCaffery, a former councillor in Preston Park, has been a distinctive voice in the Labour ranks. It is, however, difficult to bet against a Conservative hat-trick. The newcomer for the Conservative Party is Brighton-born Nick Taylor, a young man with a keen personal interest in education and parental choice. He must have a chance of making up a trio of Tories, but he is definitely not a shoo-in.

Candidates

Votes

(%)

Sue Shanks (Green - elected)

2,184

(14%)

Ann Norman (Conservative - elected)

2,105

(13%)

Ken Norman (Conservative - elected)

1,992

(13%)

Robert Nemeth (Conservative)

1,891

(12%)

Paul Philo (Green)

1,810

(11%)

Jacqui Cuff (Green)

1,672

(11%)

Caraline Sarah Brown (Labour)

1,222

(8%)

Susan Elizabeth Darby (Labour)

1,164

(7%)

Fraser Gregory Kemp (Labour)

983

(6%)

John Lovatt (Liberal Democrats)

309

(2%)

Robert Stockman (Liberal Democrats)

218

(1%)

Hyder Kemal Khalil (Liberal Democrats)

213

(1%)

Factfile Households: 6,308 Density (people per hectare): 53 ■■ Women: 51% ■■ Men: 49% (7,097) ■■ Average age: 40 ■■ Higher managerial occupations: 18.7% (2,181) ■■ Unemployed: 4.5% (358) ■■ White: 90.7% (13,110) ■■ Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 1.1% (164) ■■ Asian/Asian British: 3.3% (478) ■■ Number who cannot speak English well: 68 ■■ Dependent children in household (% of all households): 29.4% ■■ Christians: 46% ■■ No religion: 39% ■■ Married: 44.7% ■■ ■■

Divorced: 9% ■■ Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 114 ■■ Living as co-habiting couple: 14.9% ■■ One family - all aged 65 and over: 7.4% ■■ Lone parent - with dependent children: 6% ■■ No adults in employment - with dependent children: 1.8% ■■ Long-term unemployed: 1% ■■ Activities limited a lot by poor health: 5.8% ■■ No cars or vans in household: 19% ■■ No qualifications: 11.9% ■■ Full-time students aged 18 and over: 4.3% ■■ One person in household with longterm health problem/disability - with dependent children: 3.4% ■■

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142 residential units, 450 student beds and 38,000 sq ft of office space. There will also be a new dance studio for South East Dance, a new library, and academic buildings for the University of Brighton. The project is being delivered as a public private partnership alongside the freeholders of the land, Brighton and Hove Council and the University of Brighton. Construction is expected to start on site later this year.

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Residents will be joining forces with council staff to give their streets a spring clean. Cityclean staff will join members of the Roundhill Residents Association for its annual Spring Clean Up, targeting areas in Kemp Town, Brunswick and Roundhill as well as Hodshrove Woods in Moulsecoomb. The events are being organised as part of National Spring Clean Week. Work will include replacing old bins, repainting bollards and street furniture and washing and cleaning the pavements.

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Grassroots projects for mental wellbeing Samba dance classes for new mothers with babies, gentle exercise to music for residents aged over 60, and an allotment and sensory garden for vulnerable school children. They are all examples of targeted projects across Brighton and Hove to improve mental wellbeing. Awards for grassroots community projects across a range of ages and backgrounds are part of the £261,000 programme jointly funded by Brighton and Hove City Council and Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group. Details of the Mental Health Innovation Fund award come on the United Nations Day of Happiness today (Friday). Twenty mothers with children under a year who are stressed or lonely will have the chance to enjoy Samba dance classes with skilled instructors at both taster sessions and workshops offered

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Brighton and Hove Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, which is the first time the city has combined plans for mental health promotion, commissioning adult mental health services and commissioning children’s mental health services. Tom Scanlon, director of public health, said: “In Brighton and Hove, we experience higher levels of mental illness than nationally - so it’s right to invest in grassroots projects that can make a difference to people’s lives in our neighbourhoods. “From gardening for dads in deprived areas, autism-friendly yoga, to creating a graphic novel about mental health for those aged 11-16 to help spread good practice, these are all practical initiatives.” For more information, visit: www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/ thefiveways

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BBC cameras recently filmed north Syrian Kurds pay tribute to Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, an ex-Marine from Barnsley, who

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and stronger I would have and anti-semitism - coupled wanted to fight as a volunteer with a powerful sense of both and post-war alongside them. For the first time entitlement in my life, I think I understand grievance. In a similar way, what motivated young British sections of Britain’s muslim volunteers who fought against population provide fertile soil for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. I the extremist Sunni ideas of ISIS believe terrible dangers face this and Jabhat al-Nusra. Supported country and as the mother of a by Saudi money and political influence, the deeply antidaughter, I fear for her future. The Second World War was a democratic and sexist Salafi and war against fascism and I know, Wahhabi ideology has become without a shadow of a doubt, deep-rooted in parts of Britain’s that I would have wanted to sunni Muslim community serve in it. In the years before including here in Brighton & the war, I hope I would not Hove - as well as in some British have been deterred by the siren universities and schools. In the 1930s, Hitler’s diplomats voices of non-intervention and and our own fascists tried to appeasement. The young fighters of the persuade British politicians International Brigades were and the British people that Nazi not mercenaries and they were militarism was a response to not “interfering” in another country’s Liberal intellectuals dispute. Long before their own have become eager government, they realised that apologists for Sunni Islamic fascism respected extremism in Britain” no borders and posed a grave threat to human civilisation. They lost in Spain, an unfair war-settlement and not least because the British that fascism posed no dangers blocked international aid to Britain. There were many reaching Spanish government who supported appeasement forces, but failed to stop Nazi and others who actively shared Germany and Fascist Italy Hitler’s views, but there was supporting Franco. Hitler always a significant minority deployed 19,000 German soldiers of intellectuals, trade unionists in Spain, then used what he’d and politicians in this country learned there to destroy much who understood the danger. of Europe. Fascism flourished in Regrettably, that is not now the case. Spain for more than 30 years. Now we are faced with the Liberal intellectuals who possibility of another global rightly rail against white British conflagration and an equal or fascism and would have no greater threat to civilisation. ISIS difficulty in acknowledging the (like al Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, Roman Catholic church’s role in Boko Haram and the Taleban) is a the growth of Spanish fascism, fascist organisation, committed have become eager apologists to destroy democracy and set up for Sunni Islamic extremism in a dictatorship by caliphate. While Britain, defending every assault Hitler butchered Jews, Slavs, on women’s rights - from sharia Gipsies, trade unionists and gays, courts to the burqa, polygamy treating women as either brood to discriminatory inheritance mares or sex slaves, ISIS tortures caricaturing legitimate criticism and kills without mercy, treating as “islamophobia” and permitting women, Jews, Christians, Yazidis, the development of a de facto Shia, Kurds and other groups as blasphemy law in this country “untermensch”, barely worthy of one that protects only one set of life. It sells women and girls into extreme religious opinions. sex slavery, handing control of If we want to prevent the sotheir lives and fertility into the called “radicalisation” of young hands of men, justifying rape, people, we need to confront the child “marriage”, FGM, domestic ideology at its root, challenging violence, and wife-murder. the attitudes that sustain it, These are unspeakable people, using our equality laws to force but the views they hold are the pace of change. For, if British not uncommon in Britain. The values are to mean anything, ideologues of Hitler’s Germany they must include a commitment found fertile ground when they not just to “tolerance”, but more went to the German people, importantly to real equality and parts of whose culture were justice for all citizens - including already steeped in militarism all women.

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From Athenaeum to Anthaeum: Tragedy of world’s largest dome Graham Chainey

Poor Henry Phillips is remembered for the wrong reasons. Born in Henfield in 1779, he worked in banking and teaching before becoming known as a botanist and horticulturist. He published several books, befriended John Constable and the Brighton architects Thomas Read Kemp and Amon Henry Wilds, and it was he who laid out The Level (1822) and the Kemptown enclosures (1828). But he had grander ideas, and these led to his grief. In 1825, working with Wilds, he drew up plans for an “oriental garden” behind the King’s Road seafront. This large steam-heated conservatory, which he called the Athenaeum (“temple of Athene”), was to mimic the Royal Pavilion’s oriental design, and to contain palms and tropical trees. A library, reading-room, and school were to be attached. But finance was unforthcoming; the site was sold

in 1827; and Sillwood House rose where the Athenaeum should have stood. Wilds completed Oriental Place, originally intended to lead to the garden; its name still commemorates this first failed enterprise. Undeterred, a few years later, Phillips proposed an even larger structure for a site further west, in Hove. This one had the confusingly-similar name of the Anthaeum (“flower-house”). It was to be built of cast-iron and glass, and at 164 feet in diameter (36 feet more than the dome of St Peter’s in Rome), and 64 feet in height (81 feet to the top of the external cupola), it was boasted to be the largest domed structure anywhere in the world. There were to be some 40,000 square feet of glass. Heated to a constant 32° C (90° F), it was to contain not only tropical and European trees, but flowers and shrubs, gravel walks and arbours, a lake containing fish, seating for 800 people, and an observation gallery in the cupola. There would be birds (parakeets?) flying about. The Anthaeum, unlike the Athenaeum, found backing: Sir

Isaac Goldsmid, owner of the land, advanced funds. Wilds was again architect. The foundations were dug in 1832. The great iron pillars and girders arrived at Shoreham to be hauled by teams of 20 horses. Glaziers began installing the 100,000 panes. Like Kubla Khan’s stately pleasure dome that “miracle of rare device” - this fantastic edifice rose into solid reality. “This magnificent building,” JG Bishop recalled, “impressed all beholders with its grandeur and beauty.” As it neared completion in The Anthaeum in 1833, with Adelaide Terrace on the right August 1833, crowds visited it, “all admiring the boldness of mind sphere”. Others record that the under the centre of the dome, on that had projected it, and the contractor, English, neglected the aquarium. By six, only the marvellous skill with which it had to install a vital central pillar head gardener remained. At seven, been reared. The effect on entering to support the structure. Wilds hearing ominous reports above, he the interior was especially resigned in despair. Phillips, ran for his life, just in time, as 500 grand and beautiful; the walks worried, requested Sir John tons of snapping girders fell and were partly formed, and many Rennie to advise, but Rennie buried themselves in the ground. thousands of plants, some of declined to visit. When English The ruins would lie there for 20 them extremely curious and rare, decided, two days before the years, before Palmeira Square covered the walls and mounds of official opening, to dismantle finally occupied the site. Phillips never saw that. The the temporary scaffold that held earth.” Bishop claims one design fault everything up, the project’s fate trauma struck him blind. He died in 1840 at his house in Russell was that it was not “the section was sealed. Phillips worked all next day, Square. of a perfect sphere, but an oblate

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American Express is gold partner of 25th anniversary Brighton Pride American Express, the city’s biggest private-sector employer, has been named gold partner of Brighton Pride on August 1 and 2. Marking its 25th anniversary, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community event has become the United Kingdom’s biggest Pride festival and is a spectacular showcase of Brighton’s diverse community. This year’s silver anniversary event is expected to attract huge numbers of participants and spectators from across Sussex. As in previous years, American Express will be entering a float in the LGBT Community Pride Parade. Employees - including members of the company’s award-winning Pride UK LGBT employee network - will be on-board, getting into the carnival spirit, and lining the route with family members and friends. Mike Whyte, vice president, merchant services American Express, said: “We are immensely proud to be continuing our partnership with Brighton Pride and we’re looking forward to

celebrating their 25 years of incredible work, raising awareness and funds for the LGBT community.” The financial services company is a proud supporter of the LGBT community. A Stonewall 2015 Workplace Equality Index Top 100 Employer, the American Express Pride employee network was recently named Stonewall Network Group of the Year (2015), in recognition of its work promoting diversity and inclusion both inside the organisation and within the local community. Paul Kemp, of Brighton Pride Community Interest Company, said: “An annual Pride event has been part of the summer landscape

in Brighton and Hove since 1991; 25 years on, there has never been a more exciting time to be involved with Pride. “We are delighted that American Express is again on board and as a gold partner this year. Support from partners is crucial to deliver what has become one of our city’s most lively and best attended events and as such, achieves significant fundraising targets that make a huge difference to local LGBT causes.” Last year’s Brighton Pride raised a record breaking £64,000 for LGBT groups across Sussex. Beneficiaries included Allsorts Youth Project, Lunch Positive, LGBT Community Safety Forum, MindOut, Peer Action and Clare Project. Last year also saw the introduction of debit and credit card payments at Preston Park for the purchase of tickets and refreshments. For tickets to Pride 2015, to register for an e-newsletter, or to make a donation, visit: www.brighton-pride.org

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Ten sixth-form students from Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) are hosting the Hove and Portslade "At Your Service" Awards. The students - who are all studying Business Studies - have been split into three departments: marketing, awards, and entertainment. They are responsible for organising which categories are going to be awarded and finding sponsors for each category, working out a budget for the event, and organising the entertainment for the evening of the event. PACA, which works hard at

developing entrepreneurial skills, was offered the opportunity to host the event by the Hove Business Association Dale Hunt, one of the organisers, said: "Organising an event of this scale gives all the students the opportunity to get involved with local businesses and give them some well-deserved recognition, as well as developing the skills of all the individuals involved in the running of this event." Individuals will be able to vote online on the Brighton & Hove Independent website for potential award-winners from April 1.

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On the buses: Leading figures who deserve to be celebrated Andrew Will @Andew_will91

They are among the things that make Brighton and Hove what it is: buses distinguished by the names of leading figures who deserve to be remembered and celebrated. Brighton & Hove Buses has embarked on a new round of bus-naming. It asked the public to submit nominations for the 24 new Coaster buses that will soon be introduced on Service 12. The company has already selected 15 “confirmed” names from more than 100 submissions. For the final nine names, four

Henry Tracey Coxwell (1819-1900)

short lists will in the next four days be put to the public vote. Some are featured below. The first poll will be available from 9am today (Friday); three others lists will be released before Tuesday. The main criterion for the competition and shortlisting was that the person had to have made a significant contribution to the area or had a strong connection during their lifetime and has been dead for at least a year. The number 12 services Brighton, Rottingdean, Saltdean, Peacehaven, Newhaven, Seaford, East Dean and Eastbourne, providing remarkable views as it mixes country and coast as it passes through the South Downs

National Park. The new buses come with many new features, including lowemission "Euro 6" engines, free WiFi, an upper-deck table with USB charge points, generous leg-room, softer seating, "talking buses" with next-stop information, and realtime tracking of bus locations. Martin Harris, managing director of Brighton & Hove Buses, said: "We really value our links with the communities we serve and - as the naming of our existing fleet has proved so popular since we first introduced it in the city in 1999 - we thought that the arrival of our new buses marked an ideal time to open up the opportunity to honour local people along the scenic Coaster route."

Gracie Fields (1898-1979)

Don Partridge (1941-2010)

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An actress, singer, comedienne, and star of both cinema and music hall. Dame Gracie Fields was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to entertainment" in 1938. She set up the Gracie Fields Children's Home and Orphanage at Peacehaven, for children of those in the theatre profession who could not look after their children. She was invested a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1979, seven months before her death.

Known as “King of the Buskers”, he was a singer and songwriter who performed from the early 1960s as a busker and one-man band, achieving commercial success with the songs "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes". He left home at age 15 and became a burglar, before working in 45 different jobs. By the early 1960s, he started travelling around Europe as a solo entertainer on street corners. He settled in Seaford in 1990.

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) - Confirmed

An English author and poet who published her books for children A renowned balloonist and under the name of E Nesbit. aeronaut who broke the world She wrote and collaborated on altitude record 150 years ago. He more than 60 books of fiction became a professional aeronaut for children. She was a political in 1848 and made a multitude activist and co-founded the of public ascents. By 1862, he Fabian Society. She attended had made more than 400 and boarding school in Brighton and eventually became the first spent much of her childhood person to make 1,000 ascents. travelling around the world. She He owned a balloon factory in was the author of The Railway Seaford; there is a memorial to Children, a popular that Page was 1 3682b_SouthernWater_BHI_563x64_v2.qxd:3682_SouthernWater_BHI_563x64.qxd 13/5/14 story 16:10 him at St Peter’s Church. adapted for television and film.

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A painter, illustrator, designer and wood engraver. Eric Ravilious grew up in Sussex and is known for his watercolour pieces of the South Downs. He was also a war artist. He studied at Eastbourne School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in 1922. Many of his works are seen as capturing a sense of Englishness that existed between the wars. He died in an aircraft that was lost off Iceland.

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To see the people who are already celebrated on Brighton and Hove buses, visit: history.buses.co.uk/history/ fleethist/busnamesintro.htm @brightonhovebus www.facebook.com/brightonbuses www.buses.co.uk Dr Pringle Morgan (1861-1934) A physician from Seaford who first identified dyslexia as a genetic disorder. He took over the Hurdis House practice in Broad Street in 1886 and provided a service to schools that paid him a fixed fee for treating their students. His findings were printed in the British Medical Journal in 1896, under the title Congenital Word Blindness.

Bill Axcell (died 1991) Brighton's Glass Animal Man, based first at the Aquarium, then from the early 1960s in Queen’s Road. Sitting in his shop window, creating magical figures from a lump of glass, he could make anything from a carousel to a single flower that children could afford with pocket money. He once said his window must contain the nose print of every child in Brighton. Prominent in the press, TV and film, even towards the end of his life, he was asked to provide the elephant trophies for Ian Botham's epic walk across the Alps.

Martin Harris is managing director of Brighton & Hove Buses

Zoe Brigden (died 1983) An aquatic entertainer who performed diving exhibitions between 1915 and 1924 and would swim from the West Pier to the Palace Pier. Famous for her "wooden soldier" dive, during which she would dive with arms at her sides as she plunged head first into the sea.

Mir Dast (1874-1945)

George Richard Holkham (died 2010)

The Pavilion’s most celebrated patient of the First World War. Mir Dast was wounded during a gas attack at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. Like many wounded Indian soldiers, he was sent to Brighton to recover and spent several months in the Pavilion hospital. While convalescing, he was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George V in August 1915.

A member of The Boys’ Brigade during his younger years and an officer with the 16th Brighton Company at Stanford Avenue Methodist Church. Also battalion secretary for the Brighton and Hove District Battalion of the Boys’ Brigade, which covered an area including Mid and East Sussex; Field Officer for the brigade that covered southeast England. He was awarded the MBE for services to the Boys’ Brigade.

General William Twiss (1745-1827) In 1783, General Twiss was given the role of overseeing a number of military defence projects. He assumed a leading role in the construction of the line of Martello Towers that defended the Sussex and Kent coast. He could not have known the Number 12 Coaster would run past his creations in the area between Seaford and Eastbourne; his sea defences secured that area of the country and enabled us to enjoy the freedom of its scenic beauty.

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The son Reginald Birkett, he was vice-captain of Brighton Rugby Football Club and went on to play for the Harlequins. He was selected to play for England and at one time was the recordholder for most number of caps in English Rugby. He scored the first ever try at Twickenham and has been enrolled in the "RFU International Hall of Fame.

John Johnson Brighton's Jubilee Clock Tower was designed by John Johnson and built in 1888 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The tower stands 75 feet high on a red granite base with four seated female statuettes. Above are portraits of Queen Victoria; her late husband Prince Albert; her son Edward, Prince of Wales; and his wife Princess Alexandra. Four projecting hulls give direction to Hove, the sea, Kemp Town and the station.

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When we first moved to Brighton nine years ago, my husband and I treated ourselves to a meal at The Gingerman at Drakes. I was impressed by the cooking, less so by our environment. The place was completely devoid of atmosphere, and for this chatty (we won’t say raucous) Irishwoman, ambience is a pretty big deal. We never went back, preferring to eat somewhere we didn’t have to whisper. I was recently invited down to what is now the Restaurant at Drakes, with chef Andrew Mackenzie at the helm, and was more than keen to revisit. Décor is still crowd-pleasingly safe: a palette of charcoal, red and beech wood, exposed brickwork, low lighting, comfy banquettes. Though on this occasion, the restaurant was quietly buzzing and instantly welcoming (pre-dinner pomegranate cosmopolitans in the hotel bar may have helped my relaxed state). Sussex rosé bubbly from Bluebell Vineyard and a prestarter of pan-fried mackerel with fennel kicked things off. Amusingly, the portion was the same size as an actual starter I ate recently at a new, much-hyped Brighton restaurant. It seemed we were going to be properly fed. Bonus! Unfortunately, my starter of pressed ox tongue with crispy bone marrow wasn’t great: the tongue was tough, the pankocoated marrow greasy. The dish did nothing for me, but could have been helped along hugely by a sharp relish or pickled veg. A Sussex crab and salmon raviolo far eclipsed my dish - light, silky pasta, generously filled, in a flavoursome crab and chilli broth. Breast of guinea fowl with lamb sweetbreads and truffle was rustic and deeply savoury. You can’t really go wrong with succulent game bird, earthy lentils, and smoked bacon.

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Spinach-and-apricot ravioli filled with beef escabeche, pumpkin sauce and crispy Serrano ham Ingredients for the pasta 200g flour 140g egg yolk

20g dry spinach 10g apricot

10g oil Salt and pepper

Method Mix the flour, the egg yolk and the oil slowly; make a paste with the spinach and the apricot; mix the paste with the flour and work it together for 10 minutes, rest it in the fridge; use a pasta machine or a rolling pin to make the pasta sheet about 5mm thick.

Ingredients for the pasta filling (beef escabeche) One potato One carrot

One rump steak 150ml white wine

150ml oil 150ml water

Method Cook everything together slowly for two hours on a low heat; take off the liquid and blitz.

Décor is crowd-pleasingly safe

But I couldn’t detect a hint of truffle, and had to push aside the chewy sweetbreads. Another disappointment for this offal fan. Across the table, a soft, beautifully-cooked aged beef fillet with roscoff onion purée was quickly polished off, the only complaint being a soggy, too-thin rosti. A seriously moreish predessert of pistachio ice cream and caramel sauce was, again, generous in size and possibly the best course of the evening. Then onto desserts proper: I’m a chocolate fiend, but I selflessly let my friend order the pavé of chocolate with amaretto crumb and salt toffee sauce. “Happiness on a plate,” she declared. My iced blood orange parfait with orange cannelloni also hit the spot, though an insipid fig and ginger sauce provided neither contrast nor flavour. Gorgeous petits fours, including Guinness jelly with pretzel and a fabulous sweet/salty nougat, rounded off the meal. A few food niggles aside, we had a fun evening and certainly left stuffed. Service was great - special mention goes to our waitress Sally for her wine recommendations and humour - and for portion size and food quality, Drakes is excellent value

at £32.50 for three courses. If you don’t like your food mucked about with, and solid, classic, gimmick-free fare is your thing, then you could do a lot worse. To read more by Suzanne Rose and the Places I Eat Brighton team, visit: www.placesieatbrighton.com

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Chickens and politicians. One is a pox on our society, low in the pecking order, and battery-farmed in grotesque institutions that ensure each specimen is identical to the next. The other is poultry. As far apart as they might at first appear, they have a certain something in common. Politicians are given a roasting by Paxman, the taxman, and, of late, Russell Brand. Chickens are also roasted - because if we ate them raw, we'd die. This word roast has been hijacked by the coffee community and these days, if you don't know your spectroscopy from your caffeol, then you really don't know anything at all. In this case, you may remove your posterior from the coffee-sack-cum-hipstercushion-cover on that ever-so-tiny stool and kindly find the nearest exit. Don't forget to say thank you and goodbye to the nice, bearded

Ingredients for the pumpkin sauce Half a pumpkin One spoon of butter

Thyme Cinnamon

Salt and pepper 100ml milk

Method Sauté the pumpkin with the butter, thyme and cinnamon; add the milk and cook for eight minutes; blitz and pass it through a sieve. Cut two slices of Serrano ham into strips (julienne) and cook in the oven at 60 degrees until its crispy.

Luis Rodriguez is demi chef de partie at Hilton Brighton Metropole chap behind the bar. If you'd rather stay a little longer and enjoy your medium light espresso with notes of pretension and poncy undertones in the discomfort of your third place, then read up, Chroniclers, read up. The following information, if learned and quoted in an appropriately nonchalant and monotonous manner, will make you sound like you actually know stuff. Green beans are roasted. The roasting process physically and chemically changes the beans. The process of roasting is said truly to begin once the inside of the bean reaches 200°C. Caramelisation begins and the heat creates sugars from the starches within the bean. Just like with onions, caramelisation turns the bean brown. Aromatic oils and acids develop, one of which is caffeol. Caffeol is responsible for the main flavour and aroma of the coffee. This all happens in a roaster at a roasting plant. Unless you are in a roasting plant or you can see a roaster in the coffee shop, chances are that you now already know more than the bearded chap.

Nevertheless, let us continue. The strength of the roast is generally graded by eye - light, medium light, blah blah blah, very dark. Dark beans are bolder and more sugary; light beans are more complex in flavour and, therefore, considered stronger. For the more discerning consumer, for the type who alphabetises their CD collection and not only writes a shopping list, but also actually crosses items off the list once they're in the trolley, there's spectroscopy. Contrary to spectroscopy's etymological appearance, it has nothing to do with intrusive rectal examinations. It is a means by which a coffee roast can be graded. It involves illuminating a coffee bean with infra-red-type apparatus and measuring the light reflected by said bean. From this super-fun process, a number is given to the bean to represent the degree of roast. Some people have very empty lives. And that leads us neatly back to chickens and politicians. Find The Little Coffee Company at 4 Bartholomews, BN1 1HG

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Public Notices BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 HIGHWAYS ACT 1980 BRIGHTON & HOVE (EDWARD STREET & EASTERN ROAD) (BUS LANE) ORDER 2015 (TRO-17A-2013) BRIGHTON & HOVE OUTER AREAS (WAITING, LOADING AND PARKING) AND CYCLE LANES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2013 AMENDMENT NO. 5 2015 (TRO-17B-2013) NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 18th March 2015 made the above named Orders under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when they come into operation on 23rd March 2015 will introduce the following:• Bus lanes (bus, cycle and taxis permitted) in Edward Street (westbound) between Upper Rock Gardens and Pavilion Parade and Eastern Road (west and eastbound) between Egremont Place/Upper Rock Gardens and Upper Bedford Street/ Freshfield Road. • A cycle lane in Edward Street (eastbound) between Pavilion Parade and Egremont Place. A copy of this Notice, the Orders as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Orders may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-finalised. These documents together with a copy of the existing Orders to be amended may also be examined at the Customer Service Centres at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton (Monday to Friday 8.45am-4.30pm) and Hove Town Hall, Ground Floor, Norton Road, Hove, (Monday to Friday 8.45am-5.00pm). Any person who wishes to question the validity of any or all of the Orders or of any of their provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the Act, or that any requirements of the Act or of any instrument made under it have not been complied with may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply to the High Court for that purpose. Dated: 20th March 2015 Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, 2nd Floor, Kings House, Grand Avenue Hove BN3 2LS

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Style Jane Busby @janeforstyle The spring flowers are coming out, the days are getting longer, and the shops are filling up with their new exciting spring and summer stock. There is a boutique called Rock Lobster, originating from London, well-established in Shoreham, and their George Street shop in Hove is celebrating its first year. This trendy boutique with a touch of Italian flair has a full range of day and evening wear, handbags, belts, jewellery, sunglasses, and shoes for all

ages at high-street prices. Their new stock is full of colour with summer dresses, gorgeous knitwear, 100% silk, jackets, trousers - skinny, harem and straight-legged. They have a huge selection of scarves in every colour. Rock Lobster is showing on the catwalk in the third Brighton Thistle Fashion Show on Saturday, April 18 at 2pm, 2.45pm, and 3.30pm; this is a free event and a perfect way to catch up on the spring/summer trends from our local shops. For more about Jane Busby, a personal stylist and shopper, visit: www.janebusby.co.uk

Parenting Time Waits For No Mum As I’ve written before on these pages, witnessing Tibbons add to his vocabulary and figure out how language works is a real treat. His speech develops daily and sometimes I’m not sure who’s enjoying the experience more - him or us. Latest treats include Tibbons telling us he’s a bit “snotty wotty” (we’re yet to work out where he’s picked that one up) or declaring “you’re most welcome, mummy” when I thank him for something; again, not one I can claim credit for, but he’s obviously keeping good company at nursery. Then there are the words and phrases that are more clearly gleaned from time with me or Daddy-O, but sound far more charming rendered in toddler: starting sentences with “How ‘bout…” when he doesn’t like the option on offer, as I am won't to do when we need to do something other than what Tibbons suggests; responding with “I seeeeee”, when I answer one of his carefully-crafted

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So you like a bit of personal grooming, with a nod to the naturals. I wonder what you tend to read besides this column. I guess some of you check in through HuffPo or WakeupWorld lifestyle posts on Facebook; others might subscribe to LoveLula emails or the Big Green Smile newsletters for great discounts. Twitter is heaving with blogposts and juicy links. Others might prefer to catch a paper read like Natural Health magazine to participate in the reader survey and recommend products and services like champion brands, hotel spa experience, best department store, and favourite online retailer, and so on. Industry insiders vote for hotlytipped personalities behind the scenes via the Natural Beauty Yearbook (www.thebeautyshortlist. com). The 2015 list will be announced today (Friday), so good luck everyone and thanks for all the hard work. There has never been an easier time to get smart about what goes on your skin; you can access free tips all around. Knowing what to avoid is only half of the battle and the competition at all price points can make choosing products exquisitely hard. Specialist retailers such as The Organic Pharmacy can’t even get me out of the door once I cross the threshold. One eagerly-anticipated delivery to the Pretty Good Thinking postbag has been a new paperback by Charlotte Watts, a long-term Brightonian. I will always owe Charlotte a debt of gratitude for spotting my thyroid disorder before the GP picked up the deficiency years ago. Her latest book is The De-Stress Effect - Rebalance Your Body's Systems for Vibrant Health and Happiness (Hay House, £12.99). The book aims at delivering a new revolution in eating, exercise, and relaxation that will return you to vibrant health by gently bringing balance back to your body and your life. There is a free six-week plan to support your journey, with welltimed daily tips plus weekly emails, podcasts, and other tools. Charlotte says: “My aim has been to offer a resource that can take you through a transformative process to find new relationships with your body, food and health attitudes.” I sometimes fall short of my health goals and can’t wait to try the recipe advice inside. I’ll let you know how I get on in a few weeks. For more information about Charlotte Watts, visit: www.charlottewattshealth.com

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Spring into Action! Wait and see or go on the market now, that is the question. To be honest, with what happened in the last budget, the reform of Stamp Duty, this Budget is probably not going to make a lot of difference to buyers or sellers. The thing which could, and was highlighted again on the ‘Today’ programme this morning, is a likely rise in interest rates later in the year. With the Election less than two months away, people thinking of selling or buying may want to see what it will bring. Any new government, whether the existing colour or not, will take time to make changes or reforms. Therefore, it is unlikely that we will have a clear idea of the direction of travel with regard to property till very late in the year or even 2016. So, if you want to move, what should you do? We have carried out many valuations over the last few months and often, when we talk again to the sellers, they are still unsure. They want to sell but, for one reason or another, seem to lack some confidence. My feeling is that some people are worried they have ‘missed the boat’ of really high prices

from last year, or hope that this is a lull before another price rush, a wave they want to be on. To be honest, it is a bit of a quiet period now and we all in our hearts know why: people have not been putting their properties on the market in the usual numbers for the time of year due to this ‘wait and see’ philosophy. So, the problem and the solution are rolled into one. If people are active and sell, there are buyers to buy, and other properties going on the market which they can then buy...it’s pretty obvious really, isn’t it? If everyone is waiting and seeing, the market will be a bit lacklustre. This is not doom and gloom. In fact, any properties going on the

market are tending to sell quite quickly as there are buyers out there wanting to get on. This is because buying at this time of year is critical for many people because of school moves and if there is not the choice of property, their plans can be stymied. I can certainly understand why you might be tempted to wait and see how the land lies. The world seems a very complicated place and we try to take it all into account in our decision-making, trying to leave nothing to chance. Of course, reality is never quite the same as our plans. Maybe we need to simplify. I still recall ‘back in the day’: if you wanted to sell and move, guess what you did? You called your preferred agent around, showed them around, sat them down over a cup of tea or coffee, agreed an asking price and a commission rate and...put the property on the market and sold it. Sounds too simple for 2015 but, believe me, it’s the way you will get moved. Paul Bonett F.N.A.E.A. M.A.R.L.A. Paulbonett@bonetts.co.uk Twitter: @bonettpa

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Brighton and Hove Albion v Norwich City in the Championship on Friday, April 3 kick-off 3pm. Tickets available online at www.seagullstickets.com or by calling 0844 327 1901

Match preview Blackburn v Brighton and Hove Albion

Albion need to find their scoring boots on the road Richard Morris @BHIndyAlbion Brighton and Hove Albion head to Blackburn tomorrow (Saturday) desperate to end their away-day scoring problems. The Albion secured what could prove to be a valuable point in their bid to pull clear of relegation worries with a 0-0 draw at Millwall earlier this week, but again struggled in front of goal. By drawing a blank at the New Den, the Albion continued their wretched recent goal-scoring record away from home and have not found the net from open play on their travels since Rohan Ince scored in the 61st minute against Charlton Athletic back on January 10. In fact, Chris O’Grady’s penalty in the 2-1 defeat by Reading is the only away goal the Albion have managed in their last six away matches. That makes it 569 minutes since they last scored in open play on their travels - almost nine-and-a-half hours. Tuesday night’s stalemate also meant the Albion have failed to find the net in four games against the Championship’s bottom two teams, despite Blackpool and Millwall having leaked 139 league goals between them this season. Blackburn will surely provide strong opposition. Rovers sit tenth in the division and boast a solid home record of played 19 – won nine, drawn five, lost five

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Albion players applaud the travelling support at the New Den (Photograph: Paul Hazlewood)

– scoring 29 and conceding 22 in the process. Chris Hughton appears to have prioritised making his Albion team difficult to beat on the road but did experiment with a 4-4-2 formation against Millwall, with Leon Best and Craig MackailSmith leading the line. That approach did not bear fruit in terms of increasing his side’s attacking potency and he may decide to give O’Grady a start at Ewood Park as he continues to try and find his best attacking combinations. Alternatively, Hughton could

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It is a manager’s job to find the way to solve these problems. I thought that two up-top would give us more of a platform to get the goals we needed, but part of the problem is that you don’t get an opportunity to work on the training ground because you are

reunite Mackail-Smith and Joao Teixeira from the outset, with the on-loan Liverpool playmaker employed behind the Scotland international. The pair have shown signs of bringing out the best in each other’s game, although it has yet to result in the goal for Mackail-Smith his effort in recent matches surely deserves. Rovers’ chief threat will no doubt come from Rudy Gestede. His fellow goal-grabber Jordan Rhodes could move to Middlesbrough on-loan before tomorrow’s game.

playing at the weekend and then midweek. So you probably don’t get the volume of time there that you’d like, but you just have to keep looking for the right formula, and we didn’t find it today - but that doesn’t mean we won’t find it on another day.”

Blackburn

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Watford

Middlesbrough

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Norwich

Derby

Brentford

Ipswich

Wolves

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Blackburn

Charlton

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Leeds

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Sheff Wed

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Cardiff

-4

Birmingham

-10

Bolton

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Huddersfield

-17

Reading

-18

Brighton

-4

Rotherham

-19

Fulham

-20

Wigan

-17

Millwall

-31

Blackpool

-48

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Alan Wares

Al was quite hoarse during last week’s Roar as he’d hosted the annual Robert Eaton Memorial Fund Quiz Night the previous evening. Congratulations to the winning team, who named themselves in honour of Stephen Hawking. Ady’s team finished second again, not that I’m sure he remembers. Albion fans Jim Frank, Mark

Raven and Werner Schroer were guests in the studio. Werner is a remarkable character. Not only did he donate a case of Belgian beers for the quiz raffle, he drives over from Arnhem, for most Brighton home games. As to why Werner is a Brighton fan, tune in to the Roar at www.albionroar.co.uk. Visit www.radioreverb.com and hit the donate button. Do this while the Roar is live and we may even play a tune for you. No One Direction – guaranteed

A fan's view

Lee Burrows' two sons, Gabriel and Thomas, with Gary Hart

West Stand season ticket holder Lee Burrows was at Millwall There was a time when a trip to Millwall would set the heart racing – a local derby with a large away contingent, and a hostile local crowd. Sadly, the home support was low and those present just wanted to berate the ref. “The match didn’t help either. Two poor sides

battling it out at the bottom encapsulated, in 90 minutes, why both are there! Millwall started brightly and attacked a languid Albion. The second period saw LuaLua on and the effect was immediate, we looked livelier, but still with no bite upfront. Frustrating.

As the jokes about Joe Hart being Head and Shoulders above other keepers rang out this week, it was another reminder of the precarious nature of being the man between the sticks. Last weekend, Thomas Kuszczak returned to the Amex to face his old club and both he and current number one David Stockdale will have been disappointed with the two goals conceded. Stockdale himself has been criticised in some quarters this season but he has also pulled off some remarkable saves in the current campaign. Ultimately, I’m not sure

goalkeepers can ever win. Messi and Ronaldo will always adorn the replica shorts rather than Neuer. The role of the keeper, however, has changed. One of Stockdale’s best assets is his distribution. It is also reported that his predecessor’s lack of kicking skills was a key factor in the decision not to award him a contract at the Albion. Stockdale’s penalty save against Birmingham City was undoubtedly one of the pivotal moments of the Albion’s season in my view. Some saves are good, some are great. But some come at key times and that is the most important thing. Some strikers score goals against

Follow all the action, home or away, on BBC Sussex Sport or Twitter @BBCSussexSport @johnnycburger @BHIndyAlbion poor teams but struggle against the top sides. I don’t see anything changing drastically in the future for keepers. Mistakes will be made, goals will be scored, but also strikers will be denied. German stopper Neuer has remoulded the role and increased the importance of the final man as a creator. He also can make brilliant saves. The full package? I’m just not sure that’s possible. Either way, the men and women with the gloves will always be under the spotlight.

What could have been Dan Tester @BHIndyAlbion It’s a common held belief that the first time anyone considered Village Way (North or South) as a potential home for Brighton and Hove Albion was when the University of Brighton’s finance director Maggie Deacon pointed to where the stadium now stands, exclaiming the validity of the site to club director Martin Perry – in 1997. As it transpires, it wasn’t. Albion’s official historian, curator of the museum and chairman of the Brighton and Hove Albion Collectors’ and Historians’ Society, Tim Carder, recently discovered documentation at a local records office. Back in the heady days of 1979 – after promotion to the top flight – chairman Mike Bamber was frustrated with the Goldstone’s obvious limitations and was inspired by American stadia he’d experienced on a preseason tour across the pond. Ten sites were assessed for a potential 25,000-seat multi-sports venue, with car parking for 5,000 vehicles, over 55 acres. Bamber

preferred Waterhall, a landfill site and home to scores of Sunday League sides. Toad’s Hole was logistically unsuitable, as we discovered many years later. Brighton station would have been fantastic. Just imagine thousands of fans departing the countless amazing pubs on a matchday – a Brighton Station from the air. For stadium, see car park modern-day cathedral in the centre of the country’s – that a beautifully designed coolest city. As it transpired, the temple to Sussex football was cost of the land deemed the idea envisioned next to a six-lane dual a non-starter. The Wild Park was carriageway, a railway line, and mooted, along with Withdean, a 1960s’ carbuncle of university the Greyhound stadium, Benfield buildings (apologies, an area of Way (now home to Sainsbury’s in outstanding beauty). Who knows where the club Hangleton), Horsdean Valley, and would be now, had the decision Holmbush in Shoreham. But the most fascinating been made, at that juncture, to option – announced at a meeting develop Falmer. Admittedly, the stadium-sized between the county and the two accompanying town’s councils, plus the Albion, hypermarket – eating into the in July 1983 – was the Brighton current East Stand – would have Polytechnic site, i.e. Falmer, i.e. been a bit unsightly. the American Express Community Hindsight is a wonderful Stadium! thing. The Albion today is the The uninitiated may ask what culmination of 104 years of ups, the big deal is? Well, it wasn’t downs, and-all-arounds, and it’s until 1997 – or so we thought all the better for it.

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Ten breaded jalapeno peppers stuffed with cheese

VARIETY COMBOS

The Papa’s favourite hot desserts – and Ben & Jerry’s

Small

1.10

Large

2.29

Pepsi Regular, Pepsi Diet, Pepsi Max, 7UP Regular, 7UP Free, Tango Orange Ballygowan water Mountain Dew 1L only (Large drink price applies)

Hove 01273 414123 44 Station Road Portslade BN41 1AG

TRY A

LARGE £

PIZZA

ONLY

COLLECTION OR £8.99 DELIVERED

ADD £2.50 FOR STUFFED CRUST

Love your pizza or we’ll deliver you another, absolutely free

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