Friday, April 29 2016
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Police spied on MP Lucas for eight years
A feast for foodies Festival returns to Hove Lawns
‘Chilling’ monitoring of popular Green Bex Bastable
bex.bastable@jpress.co.uk @BexBastable
An anti-extremist police unit has been monitoring Caroline Lucas for eight years, it has emerged. The Green MP for Brighton Pavilion called the move ‘chilling’ and ‘a clear waste of the public’s money’. Newly-released documents show a special police unit has been tracking prominent Green politicians in the UK, including Ms Lucas. The eight-year file on Ms Lucas noted and commented on a number of political and environmental demonstrations she had attended over the last eight years. These included an
anti-austerity rally last June, a demonstration against disability cuts in Brighton two years ago, and a protest against a far right march in the city in April 2014. The police unit that spied on Ms Lucas was set up to monitor alleged extremists who could commit serious crimes in the UK. The revelations that Ms Lucas was a being spied on by the police were reported by the Guardian yesterday (Thursday). In response, Ms Lucas said: “Spending precious resources on monitoring elected politicians is a clear waste of the public’s money – and sends a chilling message to those who want to engage in peaceful political
demonstrations. Nobody should be subject to arbitrary surveillance. “It’s this kind of thinking that has led police in this country to waste vast amounts of taxpayers’ money in infiltrating environmental groups. The police should focus resources on fighting real crime, not attempting to stifle legitimate protest.” A spokeswoman for the unit, now known as the National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre, said it ‘gathers data for policing purposes in accordance with UK law’. Baroness Jenny Jones of Moulsecoomb, a former Green candidate for London Mayor, was also spied on by the same unit
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Churchill Square and Black Rock plans discussed
The Save Hove Library campaign has seen support from Conservatives and Greens
Stay of execution for Hove Library Bex Bastable
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A final decision on the merger between Hove’s library and museum, and the sell-off of the historic Carnegie building, has been postponed. The plans were set to go before last night’s policy and resources committee (Thursday), but the Greens and Conservatives put a spanner in the works with an 11th-hour amendment on Tuesday. There has been criticism over the lack of a clear business plan to support the move, and the two parties teamed up to draw up a joint amendment to Labour’s proposals, opposing the sale of the Carnegie building, and suggesting it should either stay in public hands, or the building and library could become part of the soon-to-
be-created Royal Pavilion and Museum Trust. Green and Conservative councillors on the committee outnumber Labour’s, so it is likely the Libraries Plan would have been voted down in favour of the amendment. Warren Morgan, Labour leader of the council, said: “I am keen that further time is given for exploration of the financial options involved if that is what is needed to secure a consensus.” The Labour Group has said moving the library into Hove museum would save several other community libraries from closure, and that keeping Hove Library open in its current form would cost £2.5 million in the next five years. It plans to use the cash from selling off the Carnegie building to fund a new ‘cultural hub’ for Hove at the museum site. Green councillors Phelim Mac Cafferty and Ollie Sykes
said: “Although we welcome this stay of execution for Hove Library in response to our amendment, the fate of the much-loved Carnegie building is still far from secure. Labour have backed off for now but remain determined to flog a vital piece of Hove’s cultural heritage at a later date. “Labour are on the back foot, but we need to keep up the pressure if we are to save the library.” Robert Nemeth, a Conservative councillor and vocal supporter of the Save Hove Library campaign, said: “The so-called business plan has been pulled so that Labour can save face rather than have it picked apart in full public view, which would have been a highly embarrassing experience for them. I hope that the issue will now be approached with a little more respect for the good people of Hove.”
Councillors were set to authorise the ‘signing off’ of the Waterfront project, which would deliver a new arena and conference centre at Black Rock, and an extended Churchill Square. Last night’s policy and resources committee (Thursday) was expected to discuss the deal with Standard Life Investments (SLI) – the owners of Churchill Square Shopping Centre. Itwouldenablethecouncil to build a new Brighton Centre at Black Rock, and Standard Life Investments to expand Churchill Square Shopping Centre over the old conference centre. Councillors were also expected to authorise officers to find an operator to run the 10,000-seat arena and conference centre on the Black Rock site. If all goes to plan, a planning application could be submitted by 2018.
The developments would be worth an estimated £540 million, the council said, with the creation of around 2,000 jobs, and a boost of £150 million to the city’s economy each year. Warren Morgan, leader of the council, said: “The new venue is vital for the city, to ensure we can continue to compete with the bigger venues for the large conferences and major act tours. “The retail scheme also gives us a way to hugely improve the seafront and public spaces around the current Brighton Centre and West Street. It better links the city with the seafront and would give us a shopping offer of regional importance.” The committee was also set to discuss the creation of a £4.5 million outdoor swimming centre at Peter Pan’s Playground, east of the Palace Pier.
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Leave campaign launched in city The Vote Leave campaign will launch in Brighton and Hove, outside the Royal Pavilion, at midday on Saturday. The leader of the House of Commons Chris Grayling will join local activists, including Sir Andrew Bowden, former Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown, and Labour councillor Tom Bewick, who is the local Vote Leave chairman.
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Call to action over council houses David Gibson, a Green city councillor and housing campaigner, has urged residents to write to their MP over the Housing and Planning Bill set to go before parliament next week. He said the bill could see councils ‘forced to sell off high-value council housing stock’ as it becomes empty, rather than using the homes for people waiting on housing lists. Cllr Gibson said: “This is outrageous. It will force locally-elected councils to
sell off their housing or pay rents to the government. This is terrible news for Brighton and Hove, where more than 22,000 people on the waiting list desperately need social rented housing. “I have been organising campaigns with housing groups, tenants associations and individuals for the ‘right to replace’ sold council houses. This would allow councils to keep some of the money from selling high-value houses to build new council housing.
On Wednesday, we were delighted that the House of Lords voted 275 to 197 to enshrine the right of councils to do this. “But the bill goes back to the commons next Tuesday where MPs could accept the amendment, overturn it or offer a compromise. If you don’t want the forced sale of council housing with no replacement, now is the time to act!” The bill returns to the Houses of Commons on Tuesday.
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The ‘cracks are starting to show’ in city’s NHS services Angelika Rusbridge
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Amid a week fraught with issues surrounding the NHS, a very important question has been raised: What is the future of the NHS in the city of Brighton and Hove? We started the week with a junior doctors’ strike, and a (closed) meeting on the proposed closure of four GP surgeries in the city. The Practice Group announced earlier this year that it was ending its contract to run surgeries in Whitehawk, Hangleton, North Street Brighton and Bevendean, as well as the Brighton Homeless Healthcare in Morley Street. Only the latter will be retendered - and it is looking increasingly likely the other four will close, with the ‘dispersal’ of patients to other GP surgeries. Last week, health watchdog the CQC announced its ‘inadequate’
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verdict for the Broadway GP surgery in Whitehawk, and concerns continue to mount over Coperforma’s takeover of patient transportation in Sussex. There is much to address. Cllr Daniel Yates, chair of thecity’shealthandwellbeing board, said: “It won’t have escaped the notice of any resident that the city’s health services are under increased pressure and that the cracks are starting to show.”
And during a special meeting of the board last week, councillors and residents voiced their concerns over lack of public input into the development of the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) - a funding plan for health services in Sussex and East Surrey. Cllr Yates, said: “From my perspective, the STP, if you don’t know about it, sounds like a very scary, behind-the-
scenes back room deal to do stuff to the NHS.” The STP might create greater collaboration between NHS organisations, said Cllr Yates, and could deliver some very significant changes and improvements, but there needs to be openness and engagement, which there hasn’t been to date. He said: “There’s a gap in terms of patient voice, there’s a massive gap in terms of citizen voice, citizen feedback, citizen knowledge, citizen information. Those are the very basics you would expect out of something that could potentially have profound change.” There was a call from councillors, NHS staff and residents for greater participation in decisions relating to healthcare. One slogan, shouted during the junior doctors’ strike on Tuesday, seems to sum up the mood: “Whose NHS? Our NHS.”
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More than a thousand people marched from the Brighton Centre to Royal Sussex County Hospital on Tuesday to mark the start of a two-day strike by junior doctors over new contracts. Alyson Knott, a research nurse, said: “We have to be united, stand up and be counted.”
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Rally over city’s school catchment shake up Bex Bastable
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Parents continue to campaign against the three draft options for the city’s new secondary school catchment areas, with a protest in Blakers Park on Wednesday. The council is redrawing its catchment areas for September 2018, in response to rising numbers of students, and a new secondary school set to open in the east of the city. Parents in Fiveways were unhappy that all three options splits Dorothy Stringer and Varndean schools into different catchments. The proposals were unveiled by the council in March, and the move prompted fears of a ‘middle class explosion’ because the two popular Fiveways schools has been split up. NaomiReillysetupthe‘Kids Not Commuters’ campaign, and 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 tie-breaks for popular schools based on a lottery, not distance, will do anything to improve the situation. “These would split Brighton and Hove children from their friends and the local kids they’ve grown up with. “Many would be faced with 10-mile return trips to school at peak hours in our already congested city. “We are campaigning for Brighton and Hove children to have access to their local community schools - and not be bussed across the city to areas they are unfamiliar with and potentially with none of their friends.” The view the group’s online petition, visit: www.change. org/p/brighton-kids-notcommuters Parents can comment on the council’s draft proposals until Sunday (May 1). The council will then draw up concrete proposals that will be subject to a formal consultation in the autumn. To find out more visit: www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/ schooladmissions
Parents and children to protest over SATS Parents will be keeping their children away from lessons for a day to protest against ‘stressful’ exams and the government’sdecisiontoturn all schools into academies. Dozens of mums, dads and their children will be meeting at Preston Park on Tuesday (May 3) from 9.30am to 3pm as part of the nationwide Let Our Kids Be Kids campaign. The national campaign which is running protests around the country - has
started a government petition, with 24,000 signatures so far. The Brighton protest will see parents and children meet at the clock tower at Preston Park, with plans for a yoga session and a book reading by children’s author Chris Riddell. Children are encouraged to wear bright and colourful clothing, bringing books, bubbles, instruments and drums.
The protest is over SATS tests given to students in Year 2 - aged between six and seven. Many parents say that their children are stressed and upset about the prospect of these tests, which they say hold no value for the child or the teachers. Cllr Tom Bewick, lead councillor for schools, urged parents not to take their children out of school on Tuesday, andsaid:“Asafather
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Michelin-star chefs, artisan produce, a chilli-eating challenge, and champagne, masterclasses, can all be found at this weekend’s Foodies Festival. The festival returns to Hove Lawns for its seventh year from Saturday to Monday, with more than 30,000 visitors expected to attend. Chefs will showcase their culinary skills at the Chefs Theatre, and there will be a ‘feel good foods’ theme, with healthy-living chefs and food writers joining the line-up to cook with superfoods. Street Food Avenue will showcase a range of cuisines including Japanese, Malaysian, Argentinian, Turkish and African. The Vietnamese Street Food stand will feature ‘tasty critters’ including grasshoppers, caterpillars, mealworms, beetles, scorpions, locus and ants.
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Afternoon tea can be enjoyed in the Vintage Tea Room, and the Children’s Cookery School, will give little foodies a chance to learn basic cookery skills. The famous Chilli-Eating
Challenge continues in 2016, inviting fans of spice to beat an eye-watering 16 million scoville record set by Shahina Waseem last year. After a day of feasting, visitors can relax and soak
in the atmosphere with live music from local bands at the Unsigned Music Awards Stage. For tickets, and to find out more, visit: www. foodiesfestival.com
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Newly-discovered images of glamour and fun from the 1940s, 50s and 60s will be showcased at this year’s Brighton Festival Fringe. The Brighton Photography Gallery in the West Pier Arches is showcasing a selection of recent finds from the secret archive of Brighton photographer George Douglas, alongside many of his classic pictures which madeinternationalheadlines when the collection was first discovered in 2014. From a fearless and beautifulwildlifecampaigner wearing a cocktail frock to ride a rhino, to a 40s pin-up girl casually accessorised with a giant lobster, George loved to photograph women looking a little bit different. This new exhibition
has been co-curated by award-winning Brighton photographer Roger Bamber, who was a friend and neighbour of George for many years. His vast collection of negativeswasonlydiscovered after his death, when some of the first images pulled from his files became one of the most popular Open House exhibitions in 2014. They featured Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Peter Sellers, John Huston, Tony Hancock and scores more big names of the mid 20th century. The 2014 exhibition attracted the attention of National Portrait Gallery curators who came to help search the dusty archive for treasures - and as a result George’s photographs
are now in international collections in Britain and America and are sought after by vintage image fans the world over. The exhibition ‘George Douglas: The Unseen Archive’ will show the latest treasures to emerge. Finn Hopson, owner of the Brighton Photography Gallery, said: “This May we’ve opened George’s Beauty box to reveal some of the charming and quirky pictures he framed half a century ago - still guaranteed to make audiences smile today. Other objects, such as George’s cameras, diaries and other ephemera, will also be on display.” The free exhibition runs from Saturday, April 30, until Sunday, May 29.
Radio station’s celebration Fans of vintage music in Brighton and Hove are in for a rare treat from May 1, as nostalgia radio station Angel Radio is broadcast across the city on the DAB digital radio airwaves for a fortnight to celebrate the life and work of Bing Crosby.
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Bing’s first solo radio performance and May 3 would have been his 113th birthday. Angel Radio will pay tribute to the performer who was widely perceived to be the first artist to embrace radio, television and film.
A special radio licence has been granted to Angel to broadcast its tribute to Bing Crosby which means its unique radio service will be heard on DAB digital radio across Brighton & Hove. Listeners in these areas will needto select the ‘Pop UpRadio’ channel in order to hear the special broadcast All programmes are also available online via angelradio.co.uk Angel Radio is a nostalgia and information radio station staffed by more than 70 volunteers. The station plays music from the 1920s to the
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Beach Boys legend Wilson set for Brighton festival Bex Bastable
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The organisers of a Brighton music festival have pulled off a coup by booking Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson. Following the success of last year’s inaugural Together ThePeopleFestivalatPreston Park, Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) has been confirmed as the first headliner of this year’s event in September. The troubled genius and creative driving force behind the Beach Boys will be joined by fellow founding member of Al Jardine, and their band will perform a UK festival exclusive of the classic album Pet Sounds in full, plus a Beach Boys greatest hits set. Widely regarded as one of the most influential pop albums of all-time, the show coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the album’s release. Together The People is an independent, greenfield,
The cover of the classic Beach Boys album Pet Sounds
non- camping, music and arts festival which will take place in Preston Park, Brighton on Saturday, September 3 and Sunday, September 4.
In 2015 the family-friendly festival was powered entirely by green energy, recycled more than 5.3 tonnes of waste and generated more than
£2,000 in public donations for local homeless charity ‘Brighton Housing Trust’. The festival has been created by a group of independent,Brighton-based businesses and individuals, including leading local concert promoters One Inch Badge and legendary local music venue Concorde2. The event is open to all ages and will feature three music stages. It will also see the return of the Incredible Moving Picturehouse and the Soapbox stag, which will host a selection of talks, debates, poetry, spoken word and acoustic performances from local contributors and beyond. As well as the programmed entertainment expect to find local street food, craft beer, roaming entertainers, children’s entertainment, arts and craft, local ales and workshops. To find out more visit: www. togetherthepeople.co.uk
Charity Balls to male cancer PHOTOGRAPH: STEF KERWELL
Brighton Big Balls takes place on May 8 at Hove Lagoon, in aid of male cancer treatment. The fundraising event, supported by Zoe Ball and Normal Cook (aka Fatboy Slim), sees entrants take on an obstacle course while carrying two large gym balls. Visit: www.brightonbigballs.com
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Opinion
Jean Calder
Brighton activist
Not gender fluid - just children
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righton and Hove Council has sent a letter to parents asking them to say whether they believe their four-yearolds entering school are girls or boys - or uncertain about their gender. Years before puberty, and well before the individuals concerned can possibly express a considered view, their parents are being invited to define their ‘gender-identity’. Those justifying the council’s decision claim it is challenging traditional sex roles. The opposite is the case. The council’s letter does not reassure parents that their children will be educated equally. Instead, it invites parents to give an opinion about whether or not their child fits traditional sex roles. At primary school, children should be able to play and learn freely, developing wide interests - without being taught that girls do one thing and boys another. Children who enjoy non-traditional activities should no more be labelled ‘gender-fluid’ than they should be called gay. Parents of budding female engineers or male ballet dancers should value all their children’s talents, not assume their skills
indicate gender dysphoria. In a culture which regularly exposes children to images of sexual violence and exploitation, we should resist anything encouraging further sexualisation. We should not stoke anxiety in parents nor over-zealousness in teachers - nor excitedly impose the latest ideological fashion on children already allowed very little real childhood. The Tavistock gender clinic has recently revealed that by far the majority of the
Children who enjoy non-traditional activities should no more be labelled ‘gender-fluid’ than they should be called gay.
young people referred to them are girls. This doesn’t surprise me, given the social constraints and sexual pressure placed on girls in our deeply sexist culture. What does appal me is that the clinic fails to challenge these constraints and pressures - or to explore potential links with an explosion of self-harm among girls. Instead it offers ‘diagnosis’ and so-called ‘treatment’, including hormone treatment for some children under 16. When I was a child, growing up in South Africa, I didn’t want to be female. I associated it with few choices, low status and victimisation. I didn’t wish to be male. I simply rejected the powerlessness of being female. As is often the case with small children, imagination was my refuge. I remember having an alter ego called Bobby, who was neither male nor female, so was safe from discrimination. I imagined a secret world under the sea to which I could escape. There was a glass city there in which all inhabitants were split into identical twins, one female and the other male, free, equal and independent. I dread to think what the Tavistock - and possibly some Brighton teachers - would have made of me.
In those days rebellious girls were called ‘tomboys’. This was tolerated before puberty, because it was assumed they’d grow out of it. If girls did not eventually comply, you could guarantee they would be called ‘lesbians’. Bad though the labelling was in the old days, at least nobody then suggested girls were anything other than female. Nowadays bullies would probably call them ‘transgender’ - and so might professionals. It is the latest way of labelling children who step out of line - and telling girls, in particular, that their female minds and bodies just are not good enough. The public transgender debate, which has focussed so much on the right of males to choose to be treated as females, has placed additional pressure on girls. Girls who may have experienced considerable disadvantages because of being female since birth are nowadays asked to accept that, in comparison to male-to-female transgender girls, they are ‘privileged’. As one young woman told me “I feel that because they were once boys, they’re considered better than me…… That because I was born female, I’m not good enough.” Little changes.
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Hove Library It is of course 2016 but, this week, for library readers, it also feels uncannily like 2003. All those years ago, in which time another generation has appeared, a council report which sought to close down Hove’s Carnegie Library was pulled from the meeting’s agenda at the last minute. I was told at the time that this was a very unusual thing to occur in local government. All the more extraordinary is that it has now happened again. This prompts many questions. The report’s ‘business plan’ has been widely described as shoddy. For a moment, I wondered whether I needed to take an iron to it, for there were so many details lacking that one could only infer that it was printed with invisible ink. At the start it envisages flogging off the Carnegie without giving an indication of to whom and for what. Sixteen woolly pages later, there are merely three lines about the alleged cost - twothirds of million - of repairs. In producing a report such as a real businessman, Andrew Carnegie would do -, one puts forward proposals of various kinds, based on a surveyor’s listing of roof options. In this case, however,
the plan’s authors have evidently plumped for the most expensive to jack up the price. One cannot avoid the fact that, as in 2003, there was such a determination to close the Carnegie that the report plays fast and loose with the details (such as asbestos).And again it has come off the rails. Questions need to be asked about the calibre and attitude of the business plan’s authors. It should never have seen daylight. The council leader, Warren Morgan, could have sent it back - and, indeed, noted that the very report itself calls the proposal high risk, one step down from ‘catastrophic’. There is a further twist. The plan was bundled in with the Libraries Plan (all the libraries, including Brighton’s pricey PFI one) for the next few years. With the Carnegie element on hold, that means the Libraries Plan cannot be submitted to the government, and will have to be reworked - and go through a cycle of several committees. All this might sound dry but it is in fact sensational - the talk of national library circles. As in 2003, Hove inspires campaigners across the country in their quest to keep something which was once the envy of the world. Hove is not a place
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for banners and sit-ins but this long winter’s campaign shows what can be done by thousands of individual conversations. It is by no means over yet. There needs to be discussion of the way in which the Carnegie’s book stock has been run down (I got a recent £30 biography of Mendelssohn for £1) and, let us not forget the Art Gallery and Museum, which, similarly, has become largely barren. Pictures have been snaffled by Brighton - and, surreally, those that remain are high up, out of proper sight, on the tea-room wall. And now I have to write a piece on Kenneth Baker’s forthcoming history of the burning of books. The publiclibrary crisis shows that it is not always a matter of Fahrenheit 451 - life’s great joys can be frozen, lost that way. Never let us forget the unknown builder who saved wonderful books from a skip outside the Jubilee Library.
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Academies
Your recent article on the government’s plans to force schools to become academies made for interesting reading
(April 8). That George Osborne chose to announce this in his budget speech spoke more about his desire to become Tory leader than any coherent plan for our schools. I was surprised, however, that there was no mention of the Labour administration’s plan to derail Osborne’s proposals. Labour leader, Warren Morgan, made the following statement straight after the government’s announcement: “If the government insists on this approach then we intend to look at establishing a cooperative trust to run our schools, maintaining as much local control as possible and preventing multi-academy trusts from cherry-picking the popular schools and leaving the rest to struggle. We want all schools in the city to be excellent schools and will work on defending them from what is an ideological assault on both education and local councils.” Some people may see this as a “Plan B” but unless the House of Lords completely derail the academy proposals or the government suddenly lose their parliamentary majority then the plans will go through and our option will be the only way of protecting our schools. We do
need to make one thing clear, however. Portslade Aldridge Community Academy and Brighton Aldridge Community Academy are both excellent schools and were introduced as part of a plan under the last Labour government to save and improve failing schools. They bear no resemblance to the current proposals and should not be caught in the crossfire of any anti-academy rhetoric. Both these schools are doing a great job serving very mixed communities and will continue to be very much an integrated part of our local education scene
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I have the tragic ambition of getting every child a hot meal a day during the summer holidays - greens and Tories unite to save a building @ROBERT_NEMETH
Battle isn’t won yet but I’m delighted that Labour plans to close #Hove Library have at least been delayed. Proud to be part of campaign. @TOMBEWICK
Residents won’t take kindly 2 11th hour political game playing. Seems the Cons are prepared to see 7 libraries close
Unions considering strike @EMMAJOLLY action regarding Coperforma fiasco is disgraceful. As a victim I am actively striving to I borrowed many books from help sort this fiasco out. Hove Library when I lived It would now appear nearby. Hope it is saved. GMB have a separate issue #savelibraries regarding the fact UNISON are the chosen union @PHELIMMAC Copereforma wish to deal with. So be it. GMB should now bow out they are being A welcome stay of execution unhelpful. for #Hove Library but fate ALBERT WRIGHT of the much-loved Carnegie Elwyn Jones Court, Brighton building far from secure
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Caroline Lucas
Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
Children risk losing out under academies ParentsacrossBrightonandHoveknowthat our education system is facing challenges fromchronicunder-fundingtooverworked teachers, from large classes to the current crisis over SATS tests.
And with more children than ever growing up in the city, the need for a new community secondary school – which is set to be built by 2018 – is now acute. Yet instead of acting to address these problems, ministers have written a policy paper entitled ‘Educational Excellence Everywhere’ - an alliteration heavy title that cannot mask the irony of presaging quite the opposite. This is not going to deliver the good education every child deserves. The white paper forces schools to become academies – a move which would leave them unaccountable to local communities. This is clearly the wrong approach. Local authorities are needed to ensure good planning and fairness across a local area. They can provide for the efficient pooling of resources, covering everything from music provision to sports. Every child risks losing out without this kind of coordination, and the risks for those with special needs are particularly high. Perhaps what is most alarming about the government’s plan is the absence of any evidence that academies can do a better job than local authorities at teaching our children. Indeed there are concerns raised by Oftsed, among others, that academy chains have serious weaknesses. Their views, it seems no longer count – nor do those of local teachers, parents or pupils. This crass forced academies policy seeks to gag them all by way of a government diktat. The vast majority of parents and residents in Brighton and Hove, who have recently roundly rejected academy status
Brighton and Hove parents have already resisted plans for two academies
for two local schools, would not even have the right to be consulted in future. Nor will schools be required to have parent governors. From a government that bangs the ‘localism’ drum, silencing these voices is particularly hypocritical. To better understand why, we should remember that forced academisation is only the latest in a long line of attacks that undermine local government and community involvement. Central government funding has been slashed, threatening services like libraries, children’s centres and adult social care, as well as causing the loss of hundreds of jobs here in Brighton and Hove and paving the
way for the wholesale dismantling of our public services. Removing local authorities’ vital coordinating role in education is another example of an evidence-free, ideological obsession with competition and a desire to shrink the state. If the Chancellor were serious about the interests of children and communities, he’d be investing in our schools, in our communities and in our future. Brighton and Hove is lucky to have a set of brilliant schools and teachers who do their very best for the city’s children. But without decent support from government – and with the threat of imposition of the unpopular and unproven
academy system – their work is at risk of being undermined. So it’s welcome news that pressure from across the political spectrum is forcing the government to think twice about imposing this latest harmful education policy. More than 3,000 people in Brighton and Hove have signed a petition against forced academisation, with more people signing in my constituency than anywhere else in the UK. I’d urge everyone in the city to add their names as a way of demanding that the government give our teachers and our schools the resources, respect and support they need – rather than attacking schools as a proxy in their war on local government.
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Opinion
Warren Morgan
Labour councillor and council leader
We’ll compete with all the major cities
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esterday the council took major steps towards bringing in more than a billion pounds of investment into our city and our seafront. This investment will deliver jobs, homes and much-needed funding for local services, as well as maintaining Brighton and Hove’s place as one of the UK’s top visitor and conference destinations. Our plans to extend Churchill Square to the sea and build a new 10,000 seat arena for concerts and conferences at Black Rock got underway in earnest this week, as part of a £540 million deal with Standard Life Investments. This will be the biggest investment in the city since the Brighton Centre was built in the 1970s, and marks our determination to compete with major cities like Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester for conference business and major music tours. We also gave the go ahead for the Sea Lanes open-air swimming pool complex on the former playground site on Madeira Drive, returning outdoor swimming for the first time since the much-missed pool at Black Rock closed. This £4.5 million privately-funded scheme will feature a 50m
The extension of Churchill Square is one of several major planned developments in Brighton and Hove
eight-lane pool, sauna, exercise studio and shops. Along with the arena, £1.7 million
investment in Volks Railway and the new £1.7 million zip wire attraction, this will form the basis for our major regeneration of Madeira Drive, with our £30 million plans for the Arches due to be revealed soon. Other seafront investment, both privately and publicly funded, includes the £11 million Shelter Hall construction and road strengthening at the seafront-end of West Street, 850 new homes as part of the £250 million development at the Marina, £47 million British Airways i360 attraction, and of course £200 million King Alfred leisure centre project. All this takes investment in our seafront over the next six years to well over a billion pounds. Add to this the hundreds of millions being invested in other projects across the city, the £150 million Preston Barracks with Brighton University that will deliver 350 new homes, the new John Lewis store, £36 million plans at City College, the redevelopment masterplan at Sussex University, and the ten-year £486 million redevelopment of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, and it is clear Brighton and Hove will emerge as one of Britain’s major coastal cities. There will be significant infrastructure investment in our transport
network and in a new centrally-located secondary school as well. At the same time we must ensure that our valued heritage is protected, and this week we took the first steps towards placing our Royal Pavilion and our museums in a trust that will have greater freedoms to draw in the funds needed to protect and invest in our cultural assets. These projects will deliver thousands of jobs, create new spaces for businesses, restaurants and retail, draw in millions of pounds in rent and business rates to fund council services, and boost our tourist and visitor economy. Many of these projects will between them provide thousands of new homes, adding to the money we earn in council tax to help pay for some of the local council services facing cuts of over £160 million from central government. We cannot stand by and see Brighton and Hove decline and decay. Our city has always changed to meet the challenges of the times, while retaining its culture and heritage. Even as we face a 30 per cent cut in our funding, we must ensure we innovate, compete and prosper as a city, and that the benefits of that prosperity are shared by all.
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Geoffrey Theobald
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he main topic of conversation on everyone’s lips at the moment around the city is the very real prospect of Brighton and Hove Albion securing promotion to the Premier League next season. There is a palpable sense of excitement which is quite justified given the excellent recent form of Chris Hughton’s team. It will certainly be a nervous week or so for all involved at the club, not to mention the many thousands of supporters across Sussex. However, it is great to see once again the power of sport to bring people together and I was more than happy to support the flying of the Seagulls’ flag on council buildings across the city. But promotion would not just be great news for Albion fans. Premier League status would give a huge boost to the city’s economy, with the raised profile of Brighton and Hove set to bring additional visitors and investment. The club could earn between £60 and £100 million from TV rights alone if promoted. What a shame therefore that the council’s planning committee felt unable to back the Albion’s plans for a new hotel complex at the AMEX Stadium a couple of months ago. Such a facility, including a restaurant and bar available to fans and hotel guests, a gym, meeting rooms and an NHS radiotherapy unit would have been invaluable to the club, seeking to cement Premier League status and was predicted to generate a further £6 million for the local economy.
While this project has not progressed, I have been delighted to see movement on so many other major schemes across the city over the last few weeks. A new conference centre and 10,000 seater arena at Black Rock; a new Bioinnovation Centre at the University of Sussex; the i360 nearing completion; a preferred developer for the King Alfred leisure centre chosen; and a new seaswimming and leisure centre on the former Peter Pan’s amusement site. I was also delighted to see that work is underway on the fantastic development of the £14 million state-of-the-art Advanced Engineering Building at the University of Brighton. Last week, plans were also unveiled by the University of Brighton for their £150 million development of the Preston Barracks site, including a new centre for high-tech manufacturing start-up companies. There is no doubt that the current plans by the university are very exciting but I just hope that this will move quicker than the redevelopment of Circus Street, which is being brought forward by the same developers. This has been painfully slow and even now not a single brick has been laid. There is a real window of opportunity for a lot of these developments with the national economic climate favourable to investment. Just like the Albion, we have a great chance of making it into the top tier, of putting this city on a par with municipal powerhouses such as Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. It must be grasped with both hands.
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On This Day 1982 | Thursday, April 29 Charlie Connell, well-known locally for his involvement with the Brighton Tigers ice hockey team, died aged 75, just a year after retiring. Together with fellow supporter Bert Head, he formed the Brighton Tigers Supporters Club on the steps of the Sports Stadium (SS) in West Street. The
first game attended by Charlie and an organised supporters club was on October 10, 1946, when the Tigers entertained Wembley Monarchs. The club reached its numerical peak in the immediate post-war years when its membership was almost 2,000. Charlie also spent a season at the Goldstone Ground giving the Albion vocal encouragement.
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TheYear o f Living Danishly By Helen Russell
Russell’s husband takes a contract with Lego and they are catapulted into rural Jutland, in Denmark.
Russell, who is a fast living journalist in London, is at first overwhelmed with the silence, the people, the sheer differences of living in a very foreign country. She then discovers that Danish people have the highest-rated happiness scores in the world. Why? The weather is ferocious, the taxes sky high (50 per cent) the food (apart from the pastries, more of which later) is pig-based and not that delicious (other than the world famous Noma in the capitol,Copenhagen),thenativesaredecidedlycool and it’s very, very expensive. So, what’s their secret? Why are they so damn happy? I’ll let you know, it’s a lot to do with something called ‘Hygge’. Now, it’s a difficult word to translate but essentially it means getting cosy, lighting candles (more candles are bought per head than anywhere in the world)stayingathome,reading,talkingwithfriends and family and generally snuggling up. It also helps that in Denmark the education system is amazingly good, with little pressure on children, everyone is equal, everyone gets paid a decent wage and there is little judgemental criticism. The Danes also love clubs. They join them at the drop of a hat, chess, judo, swimming, sailing, foraging, walking, cycling, gymnastics but few competitive sports. Oh yes, and their bakers have thirty different melt in the mouth pastries, that takes three years to learn how to do and they all eat them. A lot. Sounds pretty good to me.
Charity for survivors of abuse handed £67k Survivors’ Network - a Brighton charity for women who have experienced sexual abuse - has been handed a £66,949 grant from Lloyds Bank Foundation. The cash will go towards a ‘buddy scheme’ with support for clients from trained volunteers. Fabia Bates, director of
Survivors’ Network, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be receiving this grant from Lloyds Bank Foundation. “This is a wonderful opportunity to reach women, who may not have been able to access our support, and empower them to be in control of their lives and at the centre of their own recovery.”
written by Dan Tester @DJDanteBrighton Excerpts from the book He organised the reception for Jimmy Kelly and Reg Merrifield on their return from the World Ice Hockey Championships in Prague in 1938. Some 10,000 people packed Queen’s Road and West Street as the two men were driven in a Daimler from Brighton Station to the SS. If you would like to stock this book, please contact: dan@copymatters.co.uk
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Pretty Good Thinking with Sarah Morgan @sarah_morgan
Winning brands that shine a natural light
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n addition to meeting passionate brand owners, I caught some great talks from beauty buyers at Holland and Barratt, Waitrose and others at Natural and Organic Products. It was an inspiring event and loads of excellent Natural Health Magazine finalists were announced (www. naturalhealthmagazine.co.uk/ awards/winners). In Sun Protection, the Neal’s Yard Lemongrass Moisturising Sun Lotion was highly commended (hurry now to buy one get one free). Neal’s Yard Lengthening Mascara was highly commended, as was Frankincense Intense Cream in the ‘moisturiser’ category. My favourite lippy by Inika was shortlisted, PHB Ethical Beauty was highly commended, and I fell hard for a naturally-inspired newcomer, Urban Veda. The Nourish Radiance Firming Facial Oil won its category, and I will showcase this brand soon. The ‘value range’ winner was Faith In
Aveda’s limited edition Earth Month Light the Way candle, £16
Nature, and I have one giveaway of the highly commended Tisserand Sweet Dreams Collection for the first retweet with the hashtag #prize - go on just do it. Every April, the brand Aveda runs campaigns to raise funds for
water charities across the globe. WaterAid is the UK partner and the 2016 Earth Month campaign raises funds to empower local communities to access clean water for all. The annual fundraising relies
on Aveda beauty professionals, guests and corporate employees in more than 30 countries. This is the 10th year of supporting clean water projects. Since 2007, Aveda has raised over $38 million to help support organisations
that directly affect environmental change. Our local Aveda retail and salon networks in Brighton did a 11.7 mile Walk for Water - well done all from the Brighton Experience Centre, Dukes Lane and Shine Salon, Gloucester Road. Please invite me along next year, I’d love to support this - with my doggie too, perhaps. To date, Aveda has raised over $11 million via the sales of a limited edition Aveda Earth Month Light the Way candle, at £16. Aveda donate 100 per cent of the recommended retail price (RRP) to Global Greengrants, a non-profit organisation that channels highimpact grants to grassroots groups working to solve environmental problems all around the world. I’ve got one on beside me and it is quite gorgeous. Each candle translates to six months of water for a family of six. Proceeds from a single year’s Light the Way candles has fixed the water system for 800 residents in Umbari, India, to last for 20 years.
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utside the estate agent’s glowing window, the man turns towards me, desirous to chat. “Ridiculous, isn’t it,” he says, pointing. “Gone through the roof. Half a mill for that place. What planet are they on?” We study the picture of a fairly ordinary terraced house. “London’s even worse,” I reply, “and Baghdad, believe it or not, worse than London.” “Look at that one. Basement flat. Quite spacious, by the look of it, two beds, but still. Would you pay all that to live below ground?” I opine that when I first came to Brighton, everything seemed wonderfully cheap. “A house like that would have been a tenth of what it is now.” “Too right. You could buy a decent flat with a balcony for twenty grand. Less, if you had contacts. Four-bedroom house for fifty. Now it’s all telephone numbers. Barking.” With his anorak and backbag, younger than me, I took him at first for one of the multitude feeling excluded by the property boom. But he goes on: “Actually, I can’t complain. Just sold my place round the corner for a useful sum. I’m Brighton born
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and bred, lived here all my life, but I’m getting out. Had enough.” “It isn’t what it used to be.” “Too right it isn’t. Look at it.” He glances around balefully. “I’m just back from Cornwall. Got my eye on a little cottage down there. I don’t want anything grand, just the simple life. You get a shock the moment you get back here. Everyone rushing about, the traffic, the garbage, people yakking in foreign languages. I considered France, but I don’t speak French.” “France used to be cheap – a chateau for the price of a Brighton flat.” He glances past me, assessing the street. Some women go by, talking in Spanish. “Notice how fat they were? These modern people spend all their time eating or sitting staring at screens.” “Brighton’s all restaurants and coffee shops now.” “Yeah, and all the old shops I remember have gone.” “All those antique shops. Remember the knocker-boys? It was edgy, then, had character. Now it’s all fancy-price jewellers, boutiques, New Age stuff.” “All bagels and bangles.” “What happened to all the junk shops, the tarts, the spivs? It’s all been gentrified.” “It’s all bling now,” he declares, “all greed,
all money, money. And behind it all, no one’s really happy any more. We were poor in those days, but somehow happier. Now they’re all stressed out, neurotic, on drugs. Man up the road I used to know, big noise in advertising, worth millions, dead at 37 from cocaine. As for the guy who runs this” – he nods towards the window – “I’ve known him all my life, and I would never have guessed the beggar would end up selling million-pound houses. No way.” “Why, what did he do back then?” “Don’t ask.” “Everyone seems to be in on some scam or scheme these days,” I opine. “Everything being developed or exploited to make someone a nice profit.” “Yeah, like that old pub up the road there. Remember that? I drank there regularly. Used to be a community asset.” “It was a historic building, wasn’t it – seventeenth century or something? Haunted.” Guy bought it up, got planning permission to demolish – how did that get through, I’d like to know? Now look at it.” We study the bland new block. The east wind scatters litter along the street. He huddles in his coat. Some Poles go by, chattering in Polish. “Anyway, nice talking. Got to go.” “I’ll see you around.” “You may do. Or maybe not.”
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ide the Wave offers affordable, practical support for businesses at every stage of their journey: from those with an idea to make real, and those with an established business to grow. It includes workshops, peer support and individual mentoring, and will run in Brighton from May to September. Ride the Wave is funded and led by Brighton and Hove City Council, and designed and delivered by Brighton Chamber. The Ride the Wave programme has been developed to meet the needs of our city’s new and growing businesses. It emphasises practical learning: attendees will leave a Ride the Wave workshop with ideas and the knowledge they need to turn
those ideas into actions. Each workshop is designed to meet a particular business need or stage. There are workshops for those yet to start their business, those in their first year of trading, and those who want to grow an established business. Business owners learn with, and are inspired by, others who hold the same ambitions as they do. There is also a workshop on tendering, for businesses who want to gain access to larger contracts in the city. All workshops include one-to-one follow up mentoring. Over 150 businesses will benefit, and as they grow, they will create new jobs that benefit the city.
This is the fifth year of Ride the Wave, so we now have a generation of businesses in the city that have already benefited from it. Running a business can be difficult. Ride the Wave helps business owners gain the skills and support they need to be successful. The programme kicks off on Thursday, May 19, with a workshop for people with a great idea, but who are not sure how to turn it into a profitable business. For more information about the workshops email ridethewave@ businessinbrighton.org.uk or visit the website, at: www. businessinbrighton.org.uk/ ridethewave
Public speaking is good for business Philippa Hammond @TalkingSpeaking
Nerves are the number one public speaking worry. Speaking well in public is a leadership essential and a key skill for promoting your brand, business and career. Pitching to clients, team briefings and speeches are a daily reality for many professionals, yet so many find nerves a challenge. Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford have confessed their fear of public speaking, so if you’re a nervous speaker, you’re not alone. No-one’s born with the ability to speak well, and you can learn practical skills to control those nerves and deliver a memorable message. Realising that the feelings we label ‘nerves’ and ‘excitement’ are the same thing, and that you can change your perception, are the first steps in dealing with your fears. Your audience wants to hear what you have to say, so if you can answer their ‘what’s in it for me?’ question in plain English, you’ll capture and
keep their attention. Using notecards with keywords will help you look and sound better than if you try to memorise, improvise or read aloud word for word. Rehearse out loud and on your feet, so it all feels familiar, then get in early and practice to get the feel and the sound of the room. At social events, stick to water until your speech is over. You may think you’ll speak better after a drink, but that’s an illusion. When the moment arrives, stand up comfortably straight, relax your shoulders and connect with friendly eye contact and a smile. Breathing slowly and deeply from your diaphragm helps you feel calmer and sound better as you say your first few well-practiced words. Yes, your heart will still be racing. It’s pumping the energy you need to power your speech, and you’ll feel better once you get going. Enjoy speaking well in public. Philippa Hammond is a public speaking coach in Brighton. Visit: www. speakingwellinpublic.co.uk
Popular Brighton pub recognised Brighton art gallery celebrates for its efforts in the community 15 happy years on the seafront A not-for-profit Brighton pub has scooped a national award for its efforts in the local community. The Bevy in Bevendean has been recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in the organisation’s annual pub design awards. Ithas won the Joe Goodwin
Award for the contribution and involvement in the design and construction by the local community, along with Hove architect Giles Ings of ABIR architects.
A spokesperson for CAMRA said: “The Bevy is an inspiring and heartening tale. “A 1930s pub in the middle of a Brighton council estate faced closure and conversion – or demolition – after it was forcibly closed by the police in 2010 following a series of violent disturbances. 18,000 residents were left without a pub: the nearest alternative was four miles away. “In response, the locals got together and reinvented
The Bevendean Hotel as ‘The Bevy’, a not-for-profit cooperativeresourcetowhich everyone could contribute and all could enjoy. “They raised £55,000 by selling shares in the new pub company to over 500 shareholders, attracted £20,000 in donations, and secured a large grant from the government’s Social Business Investment Group. Much of the refurbishment work on the building was undertaken for free, by local volunteer labour. Now the pub is a friendly, welcoming hub for community life. There is no pool table, and no TV. The interior is smart, robust and honestly contemporary. At the rear a room has been brought into use for small meetings, while the main bar area frequently hosts all manner of community events for groups ranging from pensioners and Alzheimer’s sufferers to Brownies and a local credit union. There are
frequent quiz and karaoke nights, two darts teams, and a series of events especially for kids. Inside there’s a community kitchen; outside there are safe play areas and a communal vegetable garden, and in the summer a marquee which can be hired for weddings and receptions. There is even an old London taxi available to pick up the elderly and infirm. A twoand-a-half year dream has come true, and provided a template for neighbourhoods across the country.” Warren Carter, one of the pub company’s founders, said: “It feels fantastic that we are not only playing our part in reversing pub closures but also coming up with a model of how pubs need to change if they are to survive.” And as Father John Wall – the outgoing vicar of Moulsecoomb - sagely observed: ‘Every community deserves a decent church and a decent pub.’
Brighton’s longest standing gallery is gearing up to celebrate 15 years on the seafront. In a city that doesn’t stay still for long Two Kats and a Cow,akaandKattyMcMurray, Kathryn Matthews and John Marshall, have had a great vantage point - both to view the changes so far and the ongoing redevelopment. Kathryn said: “It is all happening on the seafront now, which is great because it was neglected for a few years. “It is the most beautiful seafront but it is Victorian so it needs looking after. “We are really excited about more things opening and there being more reason to come along here.” Changes to Kings Road Arches include putting in lighting and creating ‘more of a walkway’, which the trio are particularly happy about. “It will mean we can do evening events which will be fantastic - we haven’t been
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able to do that so far.” The gallery is no stranger to change. Kathryn said: “It has been an organic thing, it has got bigger and smaller depending on where we were in life. “This was our studio so we were here morning, noon and night painting and had a little gallery - now it is much larger.
“15 years ago we were 30 and single and staying here all night, with a bottle of wine, painting - we now have six children between us and life is very different but the gallery is great.” Guestartistsareshowcased alongside the founders’ work and it is hoped that will continue to evolve.
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City Innovation Challenge: The winners are revealed Five awards of £1,000 were handed to innovative projects in Brighton and Hove
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It was five months ago when Warren Morgan set up a prize fund asking residents to come up with innovative ideas on how to keep council services going in the face of funding cuts. Cllr Morgan, the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “I’m looking for bold and creative suggestions as to how the city council can bring in new revenue to fund services and invest in our city and its communities.” After 150 entries, the winning ideas were unveiled at an awards ceremony hosted at the Hilton Metropole by local celebrity Annabel Giles. The five categories were dependant on who was submitting the idea: young people; individuals; the community and voluntary sector; council staff; and businesses. The winner of each category received £1,000 to develop their idea. The first category, ‘individual’ was sponsored by Entrepreneurial Spark, and was won by Vic Stevens, who wanted to come up with an awards scheme for responsible landlords with HMOs (houses with multiple occupancy - such as student accommodation). Mr Stevens said: “It is a fabulous to be able to contribute to the city, so thank you to the council.” The young person award, sponsored by Microsoft, went to Josh White, 16, who wants to create an online platform for young people in the city. He said it would be a good way to share ideas, or promote
I want to create a sense of community for young people in the city JOSH WHITE Winner of the young person award events for young people on a more localised platform. He said: “I want to create a sense of community for young people in the city.” The community and voluntary sector award, sponsored by Brighton and Hove Buses, went to Rhian White, the founder of the Facebook group Dogwatch. Ms White and the group were campaigning against cuts to the council’s animal welfare team, when she decided to apply for the competition. She said Dogwatch was on its way to becoming a constituted group, which could help the council in its animal welfare work. The Facebook site is a platform to spread the word about lost dogs in the area, but it also keeps its members updated on news and advice for dog owners in the city and the surrounding area. Ms White said: “There have been cuts to the council’s animal welfare team, but we can help them save money. “I will be ploughing the
prize money straight into Brighton Dogwatch.” She said some of the money would also be donated to the local RSPCA. The award for council staff was sponsored by the Brighton Hilton Metropole, and the prize money went to Peter Huntbach, the older people’s housing manager. His idea was to include a ‘give’ button on the council’s website, to allow residents to donate time, money or resources where it is needed. And the business award, sponsored by Advice Cloud, was picked up by Emily O’Brien, of the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, to use libraries and community spaces as new market places. Other shortlisted ideas included: making sure all local businesses that work with the council employ digital apprentices to grow the digital sector (Jack Hiett - Creative Digital Process); to create a campsite in the city (Chantelle Hoppe - rights of way officer at the council); and to install ‘beach clean’ stations on the seafront to allow visitors to clean up after themselves (Russell Arnott - Whalefest). The ideas were judged in March 2016 by: Sue McHugh from the University of Brighton; Niraj Saraf of Innovate UK; Jo Wadsworth of Brighton and Hove News; Geoff Raw, chief executive of Brighton and Hove City Council; and Cllr Warren Morgan , the Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council. Mr Raw said although the city and the council faced challenges, the competition winners were ‘really inspiring’, and he urged residents to ‘keep innovating’.
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Annabel Giles with Peter Huntbach, winner of the council staff award, and sponsor, Sascha Koehler of the Hilton PHOTOGRAPH: HANNAH BRACKENBURY
Annabel with the young person winner Josh White, and Cllr Tom Bewick, standing in for sponsors Microsoft
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The winners with chief executive of the council Geoff Raw, council leader Warren Morgan, Cllr Tom Bewick, and communications officer Rachael Harding PHOTOGRAPH: HANNAH BRACKENBURY
Advice Cloud’s Chris Farthing with winner Emily O’Brien
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Steve Kingham of Entrepreneurial Spark with winner Vic Stevens
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How the royals celebrate in style From lunch with President Obama and a huge street party along The Mall, to carnival parades, a traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony and a theatrical display featuring no less than 900 horses – there has been much planned to honour the Queen’s 90thin April, May and June. And it’s little surprise, considering the milestone’s historical significance: already the longest-reigning sovereign in British history, Elizabeth II is also the first to become a nonagenarian. Renowned for her unwavering dedication to her royal duties, these official events will be wholeheartedly embraced, but away from the public and media spotlight, the Queen’s private celebrations to mark her birthday on April 21 no doubt embodied other defining elements of her personality… a desire to keep things simple and low-key and her love for her family, animals and the outdoors. While details of private celebrations will, for now
at least, remain just so, a look back at how previous milestone birthdays were marked demonstrates how our monarch’s tastes and great loves have barely changed over the years, and hint at what’s in store. For her 10th birthday, the young Elizabeth was treated to breakfast with her parents and grandmother Queen Mary, instead of in the nursery in Windsor as was usual, before opening her presents. These included a riding crop, and the rest of the morning was spent riding in Windsor Great Park on her whiteponySnowball–amuchadored pastime the Queen has kept up throughout her life, including onbirthdays. Her 30th was said to be a quiet affair, but a morning ride with her eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, was an ideal start to the day. Five years later, horses helpedmarkher35thbirthday too – but this time the Queen enjoyed a day out watching riders at the Badminton Horse Trials. She was back in the saddle
to celebrate her 77th in 2003, once again photographed enjoying a traditional birthday morning ride. Turning 18 is a key time for anybody, and for the now more grown-up Elizabeth, it meant being entitled to move from her nursery bedroom to a suite, along with her own Household, a lady in waiting and her own coat of arms. Exciting rites of passage – but perhaps the best gift the Princess got for this milestone birthday was Susan, her first very own Corgi, a gift from her father. The pair became inseparable, and the Queen has gone on to own more than 30 of the beloved dogs – so far! From a very early age, Elizabeth was aware that being a member of the Royal Family meant a certain degree of obligation and expectation – and birthdays were no exception. The day after turning four, the little Princess took a carriage ride around Windsor with her cousins. During a parade for her 16th at Windsor Castle she shook
hands with officers of the Grenadier Guards; sitting for official portraits, countless meet-and-greets and waving to crowds and watching flypasts from the balcony at Buckingham Palace have all been regulars on the birthday agendas over the years. In her own words, on her 21st birthday during a radio broadcast from Cape Town, in the middle of a tour of South Africa with her parents and sister, Princess Elizabeth pledged her loyalty to the service of the Commonwealth: “I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong…” A few short years later, Elizabeth was Queen, but while duty has called – and she has endeavoured to prove the devotion she pledged at 21 endures – balancing official engagements with simple and private joys and family life has been paramount. A special meal with close family members usually featureinthebirthdayline-up;
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dinner at the Ritz was enjoyed as a belated celebration for the Queen’s 80th, while the Duke of Edinburgh’s 90th was marked with dinner at Michel Roux’s prestigious Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire – a treat from his grandchildren. When the Queen Mother turned 90, in August 1990, Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret lovingly recorded a mix-tape for her, of favourite children’s songs. Little, personal touches mean a lot to the Queen – as
the Duchess of Cambridge recently revealed, the first time she spent Christmas with the family, she was unsure what gift to give the monarch. She decided to make her something, plumping for her own grandmother’s chutney recipe. Kate admitted the plan could have gone “horribly wrong”, but was delighted to see the next day, her chutney even made it onto the table in an affectionate mark of approval.
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We are looking for smaller businesses which compete with the ‘big boys’ in every way – except size. The winner will need to demonstrate a good team spirit and a strong customer service ethos. LargeBusiness(50+employees) Business-SponsoredbyWorthing Coaches
The winner will have an excellent reputation in the community, a record of innovative measures to enhance employee relations and demonstrate a commitment to never fail to deliver on its promises and to meet – and exceed – customer expectations. OverallBusinessoftheYear SponsoredbyBaronEstates This prestigious award will be given to one of the winners from the business categories above. The company that carries off this award will be chosen on the basis of being the best business that has most impressed the judges. Hospitality,Tourism&LeisureSponsoredbyPORTFOLIOmagazine
An award to a locally-based business that has best demonstrated exceptional financial returns, innovation, strong growth and market leadership in the field of tourism, leisure or hospitality activities. EmployeroftheYear An award for a business that has great staff relations, good staff retention, with excellent training and who cares for their employees. The best company to work for! Employee/TeamoftheYear An award for an exceptional individual/ team whose efforts and determination has made an exceptional contribution to a business.
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By a young age, some people in business have made an indelible mark in their company or in their trade on a national scale. The winner will be someone who can demonstrate exceptional achievement or performance within their industry. TrainingandDevelopment The winner of this category will have demonstrated real commitment to developing and motivating their workforce. This category is open to businesses which have an exemplary training programme for their employees, or training providers – whichever you are, the judges will be looking for evidence that your training programmes work! PlacetoEatorDrink-Sponsoredby GustoWines
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An award for a business or organisation, irrespective of its size or sector, who can demonstrate environmental awareness and responsibility in all aspects of its work and output. Innovation The winner – either a company or an individual – will demonstrate an exceptional ability to think outside the box, whether it is discovering better ways to work, discovering a ground-breaking product, or showing outstanding marketing abilities. BusinessPersonality Outstanding businesses often require outstanding individuals with largerthan-life personalities who show drive, commitment and enthusiasm and never settle for second best, either with their products or in their relations with staff and customers. We are looking for an individual who shows tremendous commitment and innovation,withoutstandingleadership and vision and the drive to deliver. CustomerService Award for a company who exceeds customer expectations in its service. Customer service is an essential part of any successful business. This award aims to reward and recognise a company, individual, or team, for their outstanding achievement in providing exceptional customer service. LifetimeAchievement Thisisanawardtoanindividual who,intheopinionofthejudges,has demonstratedanunrivalledrecordof achievementintheareaformanyyears, showingoutstandingperformance withintheirindustry,acommitment towardstheirstaffandwhodemands –anddelivers–exceptionalcustomer service. Reader’sChoice-Sponsoredby BrightonandHoveIndependent
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Craftspeople who help to ensure the past has a future A well-respected company which has worked on the repairs and restoration of both St. Peter’s Church and BrightonDomeisbackingthe BrightonandHoveIndependent Business Awards.
DBR Limited are an expert heritage team of managers and craftspeople providing high quality conservation and repair services to historic buildings throughout London and the Southern counties with three divisions specialising in façade conservation, decorative historic interiors and roofing. Having recently expanded their highly successful London conservation business, DBR have immersed themselves in the wealth of heritage of Brighton & Hove - working to repair the roofing and ornate pierced balustrades within the soaring heights of St Peters Church as well as the magnificent, 200 year old Brighton Dome pinnacles. The company is also pleased to sponsor the Manufacturing & Construction category in the Brighton and Hove Independent Business Awards . Adrian Attwood, Executive Director of DBR Limited said: “As a keen patron of our heritage and a Brighton resident myself, I wish to encourage this sense of community not just within the historic building trade but within Brighton & Hove generally. “It is important to me that we and other businesses continue to re-invest in the city to sustain our economy,
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maintain its social liberalism and protect the strong historic charm on offer. “DBR believe that these awards are aligned with the value’s we place on enhancing local environments and relationships and are thrilled to be involved in their debut event.
“The Construction and Manufacturing award allows us to recognise neighbouring companies for their excellence in the industry and I look forward to congratulating and rewarding their mmitment and success.” The Brighton and Hove Business Awards ceremony will take place at the Bupa Lounge, Amex Stadium on June 17. Ticket price includes a drink upon arrival, a threecourse meal with wine and a DJ. Individuals, businesses, partnerships and organisations based in Brighton and Hove can nominate a business by Friday, May 6. To nominate, book or for help contact Helen Watt: helen.watt@jpress.co.uk or call: 07808730986. If you would like to sponsor this event email: shirley. coller@jpress.co.uk or call: 07912671001.
Winners short-listed for Business Awards Businessesplayasignififificantroleinthe community. Manyfirmsconsiderit importanttocontributetotheir supportersthroughcharitywork,and helpingschools,collegesand communitygroups.Thisawardaimsto recognisebusinesseswhogive
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Jazz guitarist Ant Law brings his AL5 to The Verdict, Brighton for a performance alongside Michael Chillingworth, Ivo Neame, James Maddren and Tom Farmer tonight (Friday, April 29). Ant was born in Saudi Arabia, where he lived until the age of 16. From a young age he was exposed to early blues and rock ‘n’ roll, as well as Arabic music – all grist to his musical mill. “I grew up in Saudi, which is unusual. Well, not unusual for me obviously! My mum and dad were teacher, and they travelled around the Middle East. There were in Iran for a little bit, and they eventually settled in Saudi Arabia. They didn’t intend to stay there for as long as they did. But I look back on it very fondly. Saudi was a really multi-cultural environment. There were people there from all over the world, and then when I came back to England to do my A levels, everyone was the same. Everyone looked the same, and everyone spoke the same and had the same attitudes. I am not saying it was like that everywhere… but it certainly was where I was.” Ant moved to London and immersed himself in the scene there, taking lessons from Dave Cliff, Phil Robson, John Paricelli and others. He also lived in NYC for a season to study with his heroes Ari Hoenig, Ben Monder, Adam Rogers, Lage Lund, Gilad Hekselman and Johannes
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Weidenmueller. He said:“I suppose it’s now just over a decade that I have been doing this and decided on music, but it is getting easier. Relocating to London was hard. It was challenging to have to deal with a whole new set of people and build up the work rate, but it is working really well. I am finding more and more time to devote to my artistic
endeavour. “For the tour, we are exploring the music from my last two albums, and we are doing some new music, but music that is heavily improvised and with a lot of spontaneous decisionmaking. It is really great to do that when you are gigging, and then when you want to have a snapshot of where you are, you can record it.”
Brighton’s Singing Barber belts it out Music Peter Joannou, Brighton’s Singing Barber, will be entertaining people from his first-floor window on The Lanes (40 Middle Street)) for the third year as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.
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Peter said: “During the day I am a barber downstairs in my shop,” “On many weekends when the weather warms up and during the Brighton Fringe
Festival I take out my sash window upstairs and sing. “I specialise in songs from The Great American Songbook, and my inspirations are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Elvis Presley and many more. “When people see where the music is coming from they smile. “Quite often they have a dance and sing along. I do it because I really enjoy singing
and watching people have fun. “A chap told me recently that he enjoyed my shows because for the duration of my show it takes him away from his very unfortunate life of living on the street. It is very, very touching.” All the money I raise goes to Cancer Research UK. So far we have raised just over £5,000.” Visit www.peterjoannou. com.
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Underground northernEngland punk rock duo The Lovely Eggs play Brighton Patterns on Saturday, April 30. Spokesman Tobi Blackman said: “They have a fierce punk rock ethos that music should have no rules. For Holly and David being in a band is a way of life. True to this, they live the way they play. Fiercely, constantly in search of the good times. “With observational and often surreal lyrics about life The Lovely Eggs have a powerful stripped down sound: one vintage guitar amp, one Big Muff distortion pedal, a guitar and a drum kit. “Holly (guitar/vocs) and David (drums/vocs) have
also worked with comedian Graham Fellows (aka John Shuttleworth) as well as Jad Fair from the Texas band Half Japanese. They have produced three albums. “The Lovely Eggs have become well known for their live performances and have played everywhere from Amsterdam squats and Los Angeles scrap yards to steam trains in Ripley and charity shops in Leeds. “In April 2013, the pair had a baby but true to their no-rules philosophy they bundled their newest member in the van and took him on tour with them, racing round the UK with family and friends like a tripped-out version of On The Buses with two fingers up to conventional family life firmly out of the window. “2015 saw The Lovely Eggs return with their fourth selfproduced and self-recorded
album This is Our Nowhere, a title which sums up their celebration and love of a scene which doesn’t exist in the eyes of the manufactured mainstream. “Lead single Magic Onion was accompanied by a handmade book of psychedelic/nightmarish proportions and included a B side version of the song with Sweet Baboo, who joined them in an acoustic and decidedly-pickled duet. The single gained much support from BBC 6 Music, and a sellout tour of the UK followed.”
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The multi-award-winning Bridget Christie brings her tenth solo stand-up comedy show A Book For Her, to Brighton Festival on May 12.
Her tour coincides with the paperback release of her acclaimed book A Book For Her (Arrow Books)and follows yet another hugely successful, and a sell-out run at
this year’s Edinburgh Festival. Bridget willbe at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on Thursday 12 May. Bridget’slastthreeshows havesoldoutinadvanceand been in the top five best-reviewed shows at the Fringe. When A Bic For Her ran atSohoTheatre,itbrokethe theatre’srecordforthebestselling comedy show ever.
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An acclaimd show which tells the heart-warming story of a woman’s experiences in the RAF will be playing at the Dukebox Theatre from May 9 to May 15 as part of the Brighton Fringe. Based on Rebecca Crookshank’s time in the Royal Air Force serving Queen and country, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot charts her journey from basic training to the Falkland Islands. From feeling low to flying high (literally, in a Tornado F3), this is a deeply moving, hilarious and heart-warmingadventure. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot highlights the challenges women face in being defined by their gender and celebrates the wonderful women who forged a path for others. Crookshank’s anecdotes about her time in the Air Force mix the serious and the comic to great effect interspersed with her own video footage . Tickets cost £10.Visit www.brightonfringe.org.
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The Listings TODAY COMEDY KRATER COMEDY CLUB: Until May 1, 7pm/8pm/10.30pm, £5-£36.50, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton 0845 293 8480. Awardwinning comedy with top international and UK comedians. LOYISO GOLA & LUCA CUPANI: 8pm, The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, 01273 201 801. GIGS LOST IN PARADISE: £6, 7.30pm, Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171. Plus City of Ashes and Best of Enemies. SOUL CITY’S FESTIVAL FOR PEACE: 11pm, £8, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. STAGE GIRLS WITH BALLS: 7.30pm, £12.50, until April 30, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, 01273 725230. Three young women must face up to the destruction of their beloved
football ground. As the demolition company moves in, the girls stage a protest to save their club. THE FATHER: £17.50-£20.40, 7.45pm, until April 30 (Thurs/ Sat mat 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. Starring Kenneth Cranham. The Father is the winner of France’s highest theatrical honour, the 2014 Moliere Award for Best Play, and Christopher Hampton’s crisp and witty translation, has dazzled audiences and critics alike.
SATURDAY COMEDY OFF THE CUFF & FRIENDS: Fringe Previews Special, 8pm, £5, Otherplace at The Marwood, Ship Street, 01273 987516, www.otherplacebrighton.co.uk. Join improvcomedy favourites Off the Cuff at their new home for the debut performance of their Brighton Fringe 2016 show, Crime and Funishment – a spontaneous primetime detective drama. FUNNY WOMEN: Brighton Nights,
£10-£12, 8pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Laura Lexx, Bryony Twydle, Bryony No, Charley Harrison, Catherine Bohart, Sarah Kenworth and MC Samantha Baines. THE EARTH MOVED COMEDY FUNDRAISER: £12.50-£15, 8pm, Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton, 01273 687171. Laura Lexx, Julie Jepson, Emmanuelle Marten, Will Allen, Darren & Co and Will Rankin.
EXHIBITIONS ARTISTS OPEN HOUSES EXHIBITION 2016: Marion Brandis and Rob peel, free, Monday-Friday, 11am-5pm; Saturday, 1pm-5pm, The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, 01273 201 801. FASHION CITIES AFRICA: Until January 8, 2017, Royal Pavilion, Brighton. This first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion will explore fashion and style in four cities at the compass points of the African continent.
GIGS ENTICE PARTIES – DJ LUCK & MC NEAT: 11pm, £12, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. The MOBO award-winning duo will perform all their chart topping hits including ‘Little Bit of Luck’, ‘Aint No Stopping Us’ and ‘Masterblaster’. THE FICTION AISLE: 7.30pm, April 30, Wagner Hall, £7 advance / Tickets from Resident & online OTHER FOODIES FESTIVAL BRIGHTON: At Hove Lawns, until May 2. Tickets on sale at www.foodiesfestival.com or 0844 995 1111. Adults £14/£11 concession, three day adult ticket £20/£16 concession, VIP day ticket £38/£35 Friday. Children aged 12 and under go free to all Foodies Festivals when accompanied by an adult. Michelin Star Chef at The Pass and Great British Menu Winner 2015 Matt Gillan headlines. STAGE HUNDRED WATT CLUB: An Evening of Burlesque and Cabaret, 8pm,
£15, The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, 01273 201 801. A real vintage inspired dress-up and sitdown show, inspired by the glorious heydays of variety entertainment, and fused with a zingy contemporary twist.
SUNDAY COMEDY BENT DOUBLE: £9-£12, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Headliner Paul Sinha, MC Zoe Lyons. Laura Lexx and David Mills. LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON: £20-£22.90, 7.45pm, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. The Invisible Dot Ltd’s Brighton show with headliner Adam Buxton. GIGS VIVA SOUL: £8, 8.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Bank Holiday super funk and soul special with the Soul Steppers Live. Nothing but a strictly
vinyl, killer dance floor selection of soul, funk, disco, jazz and latin music all night long.
STAGE GEEK CENTRAL: 10am, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Mini convention with guests, games and artists.
TUESDAY GIGS ACCESS TO MUSIC: 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. All proceeds go to Music As therapy. UB40: £35, 7pm, Brighton Centre 0844 8471515. Featuring Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue. STAGE KING LEAR: £12.25-£20.40, 7.45pm, until May 7 (Thursday/Saturday matinee 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. Sponsored by Lancing College. Four-time Olivier Award nominee Michael Pennington leads
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GIGS ACCESS TO MUSIC: 7pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Featuring new and original talent from the UK’s largest Further Education Music Provider All proceeds go to Music As Therapy. accesstomusic.co.uk. JACK HUES AND THE QUARTET: £12, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. THE LONG RYDERS: Final Wild Songs tour, 7pm, £17.50, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. STAGE SKIP’S AFTER SCHOOL CLUB: Dragons & Unicorns, 4pm, £6.50, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. Explore all kinds of mythical beasts in this session that includes games, a Michael Pennington stars in King Lear look on stage, drama and craft activiat the Theatre Royal ties and squash and biscuits.
THURSDAY GIGS THE ICICLE WORKS: £15, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Alternative rock band. WE ARE SCIENTISTS: 7pm, £15.50, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. STAGE HAMMER & TONGUE: 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. The UK’s poetry slam people, making new champions and promoting the best in touring Spoken Word. LE GATEAU CHOCOLAT: Icons (preview), The Warren, Main House, St Peters Church North, York Place, 01273 987516. Walking the tightrope between his public and private personas, Le Gateau Chocolat explores relationships with our icons – the people, the moments, the books, the relationships that have come to shape us, or the ideals we aspire to.
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SUDOKU
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.
Cryptic Clues: Across
Down
7. A physics book (13) 8. Sifted and covered up (8) 9. Observes Bishops’ responsibilities (4) 10. Underground place where the salt is kept (6)
WORDWHEEL
12. Coves that are strangely
You have 10 mins to find as many words as possible silent (6) using the letters in the wheel. Each must use the hub letter and at least 3 others. Letters may be used 14. Literary pieces only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or written for proper nouns. There is at least one 9-letter word to be found. trials (6)
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change course - this will upset him! (7-6)
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8. Sit astride (8)
2. Gratify (6)
9. Title (4)
3. Tart (4)
6. Serene (4)
14. Rupture (6)
11. Airy (8)
16. Dismal (6)
13. Humidity (8)
18. Agitate (4)
15. Transversely (6)
20. Perching (8)
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CODEWORD: 1=W, 2=P, 3=M, 4=Q, 5=U, 6=V, 7=K, 8=S, 9=H, 10=Z, 11=A, 12=T, 13=J, 14=G, 15=L, 16=I, 17=X, 18=Y, 19=O, 20=C, 21=F, 22=E, 23=N, 24=B, 25=D, 26=R. WORD WHEEL: REQUISITE.
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SUDOKU: CLOCKWORD: 1 Salmon, 2 Toucan, 3 Enjoin, 4 Parson, 5 Happen, 6 Etymon, 8 9 4 6 3 2 7 1 7 Notion, 8 Damson, 9 Origin, 10 Reason, 11 Falcon, 12 Fasten. 1 5 6 7
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CELEBRITY: Stephen Dorff.
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DOUBLE CROSSWORD: SUDOKU: Cryptic: Across: 1 Star; 8 Alarm-clock; 9 Keep cool; 10 Wrap; 12 Sought; 14 Theory; 15 Visage; 17 Seldom; 18 Heed; 19 Parapets; 21 Piledriver; 22 Kiss. Down: 2 Take notice; 3 Ramp; 4 Layout; 5 Amulet; 6 Fly-wheel; 7 Skip; 11 Air hostess; 13 Grandees; 16 Export; 17 Strove; 18 Hope; 20 Park.
4. Oblique (8)
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Each horizontal block of squares must add up to the number in the shaded square to its left, and each vertical block must add up to the number in the shaded square above it. No number may be used more than once in any one block.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Quick Clues:
KAKURO
The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter N in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a British comic actor.
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Opinion
Food and Drink
By Tom Flint
Pop-up dining courtesy of a 2015 Masterchef finalist H.en
Brighton Bakery
Whoopie Pie, Black Moon & Gob
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By Philippa Kelly
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asterchef has come a long way since the days of Lloyd Grossman. Back then the competition seemed to have little impact with only one winner, Sue Lawrence, establishing a food-based career. Since its revamp in 2005 the winners and runners-up have enjoyed much more success – highlighted by Thomasina Myers, and Wahaca recently opening in Brighton. One of last year’s finalists, Tony Rodd, is forging himself a career as a supper club host and private chef. He has linked up with Brighton restaurant H.en and pop-up dining specialists Polygon to host two special events in the city. H.en is a relatively new player in Brighton’s food scene and pride themselves on being a high-welfare chicken restaurant with an ethical approach to business. Situated on Trafalgar Street they are a daytime café/restaurant that serves up fried and grilled chicken, waffles and burgers with a selection of craft beers to wash them down with. They will be opening a new restaurant in London in the next few months and spreading their love of ethical chicken. On the evening of Tony’s pop-up the menu consisted of a four-course set meal with optional wine matchings. Possibly remembered for his snappy dressing and facial hair almost as much as his food the chosen name for his popup experiences, ‘well-dressed plates’, is pretty apt. A cursory glance at the menu provided reassurance that the meal was not going to be a case of style over substance with some classic flavour combinations on offer. After a brief introduction, in
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which we found out that another two Masterchef contestants were assisting in the kitchen, the meal began. First up we had some pre-meal nibbles in the form of a selection of chorizo or rosemary and Parmesan madeleines. It was a low key start to the meal with the chorizo the stronger of the two. Next up, a deliciously simple and honest dish consisting of cured trout, crab salad and watercress with lemon pearls. This was a fantastic plate of food with the firm and flavoursome fish providing a great centre piece. This was topped with a hit of sweet and rich crab meat with tiny explosions of citrus provided by the lemon pearls. This was matched perfectly with a glass of Jean-Luc Colombo Cotes Du Rhone. Not one to usually mention wines this one was lovely with floral notes and a dry apple finish that partnered the dish wonderfully. The meat dish was a classic offering of slow cooked lamb rump with textures of beetroot and a salsa verde. This was another simple yet elegant dish that was executed to perfection. The lamb was
meltingly soft and sweet, with every mouthful a pleasure to tuck into. The varying textures of beetroot gave variety and layers to the dish that impressed and the refreshing salsa verde was neatly balanced. A very accomplished dish that was matched with a delightful Valle De Leyda pinot noir from Chile. The conclusion to the evening came courtesy of a strawberry and chocolate tart with a basil sorbet. According to Mr Rodd, of the 200 people that had tried the sorbet only one person disliked it, ‘and so if you don’t like it, you’re wrong’. As it turns out I did like it very much. Equally refreshing and sweet with a flavour that made me think of mojitos there was not much to dislike. The accompanying chocolate and strawberry tart could have offered a little more. The pastry was light and flaky with juicy ripe strawberries sat atop. I felt that the chocolate filling could have been a little more prominent as it did get a little lost alongside the other flavours. The whole dining experience was a pleasurable one and it was good to have the opportunity to experience Masterchef finalist level cooking and have a chat to Tony at the end. As mentioned this was the first of two evenings that Tony Rodd will be hosting at H.en. The second of these takes place on Sunday (May 1) with a completely different but equally exciting menu. Details of this, and future events at H.en, can be found by visiting: www. henstories.com It also features a whole host of other Polygon collaborations worth looking out for. They will also be holding a charity karaoke fundraiser to help build a school in Dunkirk for child refugees in association with The Brighton Shelter Build Project on Monday (May 2). Tom Flint writes a food blog Food Booze and Reviews at: www. foodboozeandreviews.com
verything about a Whoopie Pie is as American as American can be. Who else would actually call something that? They also call it a Black Moon, a Black And White, a BFO or Big Fat Oreo (for real - we don’t need to make things up when they hand us gems like this) and last on the list of names for a Whoopie Pie which are even worse than Whoopie Pie (an impressive feat) is Gob. Pittsburgh is responsible for Gob. Not all gob, just Gob. Everything else in Pittsburgh is Carnegie This or Heinz That, so Gob must have evolved on a more inventive day; a day when they were less phlegmatic perhaps. Their finest hour was the day they named the Frick Art Centre. Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania. Maybe you knew that already. Maybe I had to Google it. Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire can’t agree about where the Whoopie Pie first appeared, and they all claim to be the state of origin. They do all agree about how to make it though - it’s basically a giant Oreo. Not giant like a giant, but comparatively speaking, in the Oreo kingdom, it’s quite large. The biscuit parts are made of chocolate cake and the cream in the middle is frosting, which is buttercream icing to an Englishman. The Pennsylvania posse reckon that it’s an Amish tradition. Other Amish traditions include the rejection of pride, the value of submission, the reluctance to be self-promoting or to assert oneself, and the refusal to operate labour-saving technologies. We like so wouldn’t get along. The Maine massive have crowned the Whoopie Pie their State Treat. They also have a State Dessert. It’s a blueberry pie. Come on America, you’re not doing yourself any favours. The Maine Whoopie Pie Festival has been held annually since 2009. Last year, 7,500 people attended the Maine event. Given that the population of Maine is 1,329,328, it’s not that big of a deal. Massachusetts and New Hampshire have done nothing noteworthy to cement their claims of Whoopie Pie invention. If we had to pick a winner, we’d ignore all the evidence and choose Maine. Forget Big Fat Oreos, Maine breeds big fat cats. Maine Coons are the world’s largest domestic cat. Enough said. Maine invented the Whoopie Pie.
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3 DOUBLE oak wall cupboards, 1 glass fronted corner cupboard. ÂŁ5 each - 01403 263409.
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BISLEY 3 drawer steel filing cabinet with files. H100cm W47cm D63. ÂŁ50 - 01903 742568. BISLEY 3 drawer steel filing cabinet. H60cm W44cm D50. ÂŁ30 - 01903 742568. storage CD/DVD cupboard, oak effect, holds 80 CD's, 96 DVD's, VGC, ÂŁ25 01903 772574 DINING chairs x 6 slatted backs soft seats oak colour ÂŁ35. 01243 538218 BOOKCASE suitable for hardbacks ÂŁ15. 01243 783174 DARK wood sideboard glazed doors, cupboards under ÂŁ50. 01243 783174 SOLID oak refrectory style coffee table 36x18" ÂŁ30. 01243 527769 VINTAGE nursing chair brocade upholstered ÂŁ50 01243 783174 WHITE BISTRO style chair. ÂŁ10 - 01903 892741. DARK leather two seater sofa ÂŁ50. 01243 783174
GARDEN FURNITURE SMALL GARDEN table, four chairs + parasol. Pale grey colour. Used once, excellent condition. ÂŁ40 - 07828 143630. 4NOVA green recliner chairs with cushions sold seperately ÂŁ10each 01730 814410 eves
PHONE Cream coloured, 50's retro style full working order ÂŁ30 01243 574104
reclining LAFUMA loungers x 2 cost ÂŁ100, asking ÂŁ40pair, hardly used 01243 605880
PICTURE frame brown windsor new sealed 38cms x 25cms ÂŁ8. 01243 780849
NEW 3FT garden seat, solid wood, very well made. ÂŁ15 - 01403 251463 (Horsham).
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50 ASSORTED golf GOLF CLUBS 7 putters, balls. ÂŁ10 - 01903 drivers, graphite shafts. 892741. ÂŁ40 ono buyer collects. 07715 979081 (Haywards GOLF CLUBS with bag. ÂŁ25 - 07947 906155. Heath).
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ROOF rack for car/small van, suitable for vehicles CALOR GAS fire with gutter, £10 Goring PARASOL GREEN 3m x portable plus gas bottle. area, 07867 775501 2m Homebase, 3 heat settings. £45 decorative metal base, cabinet, 6ft x 3ft, STEEL 07761 390637 vgc. £25 - 01403 255214. 3 shelves, lockable, (Billingshurst). yellow doors, as new, £15 COAL effect warm air 01903 771113 electric fire, wooden surround fully functional T Y P E W R I T E R underwood portable £25.01243 783174 9inch roller, fair condition, CACTI garden, unique £60. 01903 505346 design, stone effect 2 breakfast chairs, white finished in white slip, tiered areas, specially AUDREY HEPBURN £15 the pair 01243 made £12 ono 01903 PICTURE ’Breakfast at 870847 503304 Tiffany’s theme. JUMP leads & tow rope Measures 35� square. £5 the pair 01243 607613 FLYMO hover mower Only £16. Bargain. Tel: VGC, and working order, 01243 585756 little used, £40 01903 204558 BEDSIDE TABLE Period style, top quality BLACK WATER butt hand- made, in solid rich complete with lid, tap. mahogany. 28� high x 19� £10 - 01403 823654. wide x 18� deep. Only L.E.C. Fridge VGC 85cm high x 52cm deep x 50cm £20. Tel: 01243 585756. 14" cylinder QUALCAST wide, £25 01903 204558 petrol mower, VGC £85 line airer ROTARY 01903 204558 aluminium 2.4kgs with carrybag suitable QUALCAST PUSH caravan/motorhome mower Panther 30s 12" 135x135x140cm as new vgc. £15 - 01403 255214. £20. 01243 512929 C O M P U T E R STRIMMER electric, BACK massager for W O R K S T A T I O N choice of 2 £5 each upper amnd lower back, Fellowes 2440 with four 01243 607613 provides relief for aching drawers H15cm W53cm muscles. £10 01903 D37cm. £10 - 01903 VARIOUS tools, spades 742568. 204558 shears etc £1 each 01243 607613 BLUE argos HAIR Straighteners, GHD BOYS IV styler used once wardrobe and matching SHREDDER GWO £25. boxed, heat mat and toy / storage box. Good 01243 512919 thermal protector. £60. condition. £30 - 01403 273482. Tel 01403 255560
JOISTS 10ft for raised beds, herb gardens etc. £10 each Tel:01903 CURTAINS dark blue 230741 HAYNES workshop 72"D x 41"W. Fully lined, manual, covering VW as new. £10. Tel 01403 LADDER wooden ladder Golf, Jetta, Scirocco, Golf with metal rungs, 24ft 255560 extendend £25. 01903 convertible, 1974-1985 £7 (01243) 574104 CURTAINS deep rose 767661 pink velvet very heavy JVC TRIPLE CD and 136" x 59" plus pelmet LADDER WOODEN two double cassette player 12 foot sections. Buyer £60. Tel 01403 255560 speakers, nice collects. £15 ono - 01444 with cond., £20. 01243 242435. 868027 WOOD 4" x 2" various lengths £4.00 per 8' PEPPA Pig items, folding 2-6yrs, also length, can deliver chair, rucksack bag and ROYAL STAFFORD Tel:01903 230741 cushion, VGC £5 01903 'Apple' - 56 piece dinner WOOD 3" x 2" x 8ft, 367815 and tea service. £50, £2.50 each. 4" x 2" x 8ft, buyer collects. 07715 £3 each. 2" x 1½" x 8ft, SODA SYPHON 979081 (Haywards £2 each. 01903 230741 bear8ing logo of Heath). Chichester Cross and CAR TRAILER 5ft 3ft Pinks Ltd £10 01243 LOVELY box with 5 1.5ft. £50 - 07775 574104 champagne flutes, Royal 556350. Doulton, VGC, only £5 VAX carpet washer, DOUBLE aluminium model VRS5W + 1ltr. 01903 367815 ladder, 17 rungs each, cleaner fluid, used once, VGC £40 01903 204558 £40 Lancing 01903 756616 FENCE-POSTS 8ft & 10ft, 3" x 3", £8 & £10 VIDAL Sassoon tangle each, 01903 230741 free hot air stylerwith BOARDMAN new cycle attachments, 2 heat 11ft x 4", £2 each, SLATS helmet boxed ladies. £20, settings, new, boxed, £10 was £70 - 01273 611820 ideal for shed and fence 01903 367815 repairs. 01903 230741 or 01273 515852. CHICKEN water fountain TILE cutter, heavy duty, galvanised brand new unused, in case, £20 medium size £10. 01243 07467 254041 787263 GENTS 18 speed dual TREATED planed timber POT suspension Boxter Saxon 4"x3" 2.4m £5each 1.6m CHIMNEY Terracotta. Height 21". mountain bicycle with £3 each 01243 607613 Good condition. £20. Tel stand. Excellent 01403 823654 condition. £50 - 01825 765493. CLOTHES RAIL 4' knowck down, never BIKES Let me re-cycle or used. £20, cost £50. service all types of adult 01403 823654. bikes. Reasonable rates. Call 01243 861961 or DOLLS house, purpose Text 07795370671 KENWOOD CHEF built, work in progress, and ladies Kenlyte bowl plus mixer large, many accessories, GENTS mountain bikes, both 'K' blade attachment. £15 £99.99 01903 260280 excellent condition £25 buyer collects. 07715 (Haywards DOUBLE glazed window and £35 each, Tel: 979081 opening 1600wide Heath). (01273) 880097 500deep top hung EC LADIES apollo 18 cycle GOBLIN TEASMADE £50. 01243 530317 used 4 times £95. 01243 wakes you to a lovely cuppa instantly. Clock IMPERIA home pasta 375491 timer light. £10 - 01323 maker, ravioli, lasagna, fettucine etc. VGC £38 MOUNTAIN bike suitable 659487 (Hailsham). 01903 204558 young adult GC £20. 01243 784190 INOVAR hot air styler with 2 heat settings, in MANS BIKE Pioneer clear zip case, new, £5 vgc. £35 - 01403 786704. 01903 367815 MOUNTAIN bike, vgc, PANASONIC recorded LADY’S DESIGNER £35 01243 870847 player disc or hardrive WATCH By Pierre boxed £35. 01243 Cardin. presentation box 776379 pm only £35. Tel: 01243 585756. DISHWASHER Bosch Exxcel, full size, excellent condition. Bargain £65. Louis Tel 07970 549221 ROBERT Stevenson, 22 navy Horsham leather bound books, BOSCH full size gold lettering, well known VGC, £50 dishwasher, VGC white, classics, 01903 249734 £75 01903 204558
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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICES THE LICENSING ACT 2003 {PREMISES LICENCES AND CLUB PREMISES CERTIFICATES) REGULATIONS 2005 Regulation 25 Advertisement TO : WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I/We SkyFall Hove do hereby give notice that it is my/ our intention to apply to Brighton & Hove City Council in the county of East Sussex for the variation of a premises licence to use or permit the use of premises known as 42 Church Road, Hove BN3 2FN... for the following licensable activities/ proposed variation which it is proposed will be carried on, on or from the premises: .The Showing of film and tv shows in our Function room.. *In the case of an application for a provisional statement, representations are restricted after the issue of a provisional statement Any person who desires to make a representation to the variation, should send to Head of Planning & Public Protection, Health & Safety and Licensing, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton, BN1 1JP no later than 15th May 2016 a brief written statement of the grounds of his/her objection. The register and records of applications may be viewed at the above council office during normal office hours; summaries are available via www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/licensing. It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application and the maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for the offence is currently ÂŁ5000 [level 5]. Dated this : 18 day of April 2016 *28 days starting the day after applying to the Licensing Authority
BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.8 2016 (REF: TRO-6A-2016) NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council�) has on 27 April 2016 made the above named Order under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (“the Act�) as amended which when it comes into operation on 1 May 2016 will introduce a change in the wording of the current tariff banding and introduce a new tariff banding in the Various Controlled Parking Zones. This new band would affect the following roads in Zone M:Adelaide Crescent South, Alice Street, Brunswick Place, Brunswick Road, Brunswick Square, Brunswick Street East, Cambridge Road, Farm Road, Holland Road, Lansdowne Place, Lansdowne Street, Little Western Street, Palmeira Avenue, Palmeira Square, Waterloo Street, Western Road and York Road The new tariffs would be as follows:Tariff Type and Zones
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3.00
4.00
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A copy of this Notice, the Order as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Order 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 10.00am-5.00pm). Any person who wishes to question the validity of the Order or of any of its 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: 29 April 2016. Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council c/o Parking Infrastructure, Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS.
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1976 NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council�) proposes to make the Orders named below under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which if they come into force will amend descriptions of various parking places and loading restrictions in the traffic order to reflect correct on-site measurements and locations for the following roads as well as the specific changes as mentioned below:In addition under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1976 Section 63 notice is given that the Council wish to revoke the taxi rank on Hollingbury Terrace and install a new taxi rank on Ditchling Road with the operational hours of 6pm to 6am. Brighton & Hove Various Controlled Parking Zones Consolidation Order 2015 Amendment Order No.* 201* (Ref: TRO-11a-2016) Zone F: – Ashford Road, Ditchling Road, Dover Road, Hollingbury Park Avenue, Hollingbury Terrace, Hythe Road, Kings Parade (Ditchling Rd), Lowther Road, Osborne Road and Sandgate Road. New shared taxi rank 6pm to 6am and loading bay 6am to 6pm: – Ditchling Road New permit parking bays: – Hollingbury Terrace Zone G: – Ditchling Gardens and Hollingbury Road, Brighton & Hove Outer Areas (Waiting, Loading and Parking) and Cycle Lanes Consolidation Order 2013 Amendment No.* 201* (Ref: TRO-11b-2016) Removal of taxi rank: – Hollingbury Terrace New double yellow lines: – Adams Close A copy of this Notice, the proposed Orders, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Orders may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-proposals. These documents together with a copy of the existing Order 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 10am-4.30pm). All objections and other representations relating to the proposed Orders or the revocation and provision of the Taxi Ranks must be made in writing and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made and should be sent to the Head of Transport, Brighton & Hove City Council, 2nd Floor (Parking Infrastructure, Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove, BN3 2LS quoting the TRO reference number shown above or by e-mail to parking. consultation@brighton-hove.gov.uk or online (see details above) no later than 27 May 2016. Please ensure you include your full name and address. Dated: 29 April 2016. Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS.
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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 22/04/2016: BH2016/01285 41 Bond Street Brighton Removal or Variation of Condition – Application for variation of condition 2 of BH2012/00577 (Change of use of first and second floors from retail (A1) to hostel incorporating extensions and alterations to existing building including creation of additional floor with mansard roof, infill extension at second floor level and associated works) to incorporate the existing basement into the application. BH2016/00734 Flat 1 9 Palmeira Square Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of detached outbuilding in rear garden.
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BH2016/01229 Flat 2 57 Brunswick Place Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat. BH2016/01255 Flat 2 2-3 Palmeira Square Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat.
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BH2016/00668 24 Borough Street Brighton Listed Building Consent – Installation of door to replace existing rear window and blocking up of existing side door opening. Replacement of internal doors to kitchen and hallway. BH2016/01294 120 Church Road Hove Full Planning – Change of use from post office (A1) to cafe/restaurant (A3) (Retrospective). BH2016/01124 33 Chichester Place Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension, enlargement of basement level with terrace above, installation of rooflights to front and rear and other associated alterations. BH2016/01130 4 New Steine Brighton Listed Building Consent – Replacement of bay structure and windows to front elevation (Part Retrospective). BH2016/01192 236 Eastern Road Brighton Advertisement – Display of non-illuminated free-standing poster boards, wall mounted poster boards and window vinyl signs. BH2016/01262 8 Sudeley Terrace Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Creation of 2 no. rear dormers and insertion of 3 no. front rooflights. BH2016/01314 8 Sussex Mews Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Conversion of garages into habitable space incorporating revised fenestration to front elevation. BH2016/00559 Land to the rear of 74-82 Denmark Villas Hove Full Planning – Erection of 2no two bedroom single storey single dwellings. BH2016/01417 19 & 20 Denmark Mews Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of canopy to front elevation of 19 and 20 Denmark Mews and extension of garage under canopy to 20 Denmark Mews. BH2016/01225 Queens Hotel 1 Kings Road Brighton Full Planning – Erection of additional floor to create 8no additional hotel rooms (C1) and public bar (A4) with terrace. Alterations at ground floor to form terrace, new drop off bay and access ramp. BH2016/01226 Queens Hotel 1 Kings Road Brighton Listed Building Consent – Erection of additional floor to create 8no additional hotel rooms (C1) and public bar (A4) with terrace. Alterations at ground floor to form terrace, new drop off bay and access ramp. Internal alterations including installation of lift and formation of new staircase. BH2016/01279 36 East Street Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to ground floor. (Retrospective) BH2016/01201 54 Marlborough House Old Steine Brighton Advertisement – Display of externally-illuminated mesh scaffold shroud. BH2016/01171 Portslade Railway Station Portland Road Hove Listed Building Consent – Installation of 1no ticket vending machine to front of station. BH2016/00846 24 Southdown Avenue Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey side extension. BH2016/01202 177 Ditchling Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension. BH2016/01237 8 Freshfield Place Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of rear roof extension above first floor flat roof with associated alterations. Re-advertisements BH2016/00742 Adelaide Cottage St Johns Road Hove Listed Building Consent – Creation of roof terrace to front with timber staircase to access from existing courtyard and glazed balustrading. BH2016/00743 Adelaide Cottage St Johns Road Hove Householder Planning Consent – Creation of roof terrace to front with timber staircase to access from existing courtyard and glazed balustrading. Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13 BH2016/00793 Proposed development at: City College Brighton & Hove Wilson Avenue Brighton I give notice that City College Brighton & Hove is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Variation of conditions 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 19, 24, 26, 27 and 28 of application BH2014/00459 (Demolition of the eastern two storey section of the existing building and erection of a three storey building to accommodate a new Construction Skills Centre. Erection of a two storey entrance extension to the south west corner of the building. Change of use of the tennis courts to a car park and a multi-use games area, other on-site parking and servicing amendments and hard and soft landscaping. Refurbishment of remaining existing buildings including replacement aluminium windows and profiled metal roofs.) to allow amendments to the approved drawings. To extend timescales relating to car, motorcycle and cycle parking, BREEAM assessments, fences, means of enclosure and smoking shelters, multi-use games area and planting schemes. Reduce BREEAM assessment level to Very Good. BH2016/01004 Proposed development at: East Slope Refectory Road University of Sussex Brighton I give notice that University of Sussex & Balfour Beatty Student Accommodation are applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Reserved matters application for approval of appearance, landscaping and layout in relation to ‘East Slope’ development which includes 1,868 student bedrooms and ancillary accommodation, pursuant to outline approval BH2013/04337 (Demolition of existing buildings and construction of new buildings providing new academic facilities (D1) circa 59,571sqm, 4,022no new student accommodation bedrooms (C1) and new mixed use building circa 2,000 sqm, providing (A1, A3, A4, C1 and D1) uses, incorporating new pedestrian, cycle, vehicular and service routes, landscaping, new parking, upgrading of related infrastructure and associated works). 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. Planning and Building Control Applications Manager 29 April 2016
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MOBILITY SCOOTER 'Little Star' fits car boot, new batteries, good runner, bargain £100 01243 587852
JUDO SUIT Blitz white heavyweight. 100% cotton size 3/160. £10, buyer collects. 07715 979081 (Haywards Heath).
DISABLED RAMPS 1 pair for car or house GENTS WHITE steps unused. £40 - waterproof bowls jacket 07828 143630. and trousers. Large. £15 01403 265699.
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PANASONIC FZ45 digital camera 24x zoom, HD movie box, can case, execellent. £65 01903 905972
HI FI & MUSIC CENTRES PHILLIPS F1131 stereo music centre, two speakers, record player, instruction book. £40 01273 834027.
JEWELLERY & ACCESS GENERAL CRYSTAL necklace, 1930's excellent condition, as new, good quality, Unique gift, £20 ono. 01903 503304
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GENUINE Early Days Laura Ashley dress, pretty tiny white flowers on green lace inserts, size 16/18 offers? 01903 503304
FOUR matching gold twin wall lights including shades and bulbs.good condition.£50 01903 YAMAHA electric organ, 297504 tabletop plus legs, perfect condition with case, huge range, BULBS 150 watt pearl £40 01903 bayonet (B22). 5 for bargain £6.50. Tel 077613 390657 877590 (Billingshurst). PIANO iron frame GC MAGNIFYING lamp £50. 01243 673477 Optima swing arm 60w as new £15. 01243 673114
ONE strap blue prom dress, selling because too long. Never worn, Size 10/12, bought for £70 sell for £40, Tel:(01903) 201542
EDWARDIAN style Laura Ashley white hat with veil, worn only once by bride, excellent condition, £15 VINTAGE style standard lamp gold shade, needs 01903 503304 attention £30. 01243 HIGH quality raincoat,zip 783174 in v.warm lining, Khaki/brown, long trench STANDARD lamp brass coat style, 10/12/14, finish adjustable height £10. 01243 790213 CROSSTRAINER XT2 £20ono 01903 503304 12programs from John LADIES size 12-14, Lewis £100 Selsey 01243 summer skirts, jackets, 604112 tops, dresses, 20 items BLACK leather jacket, walking £50 07535 276577 EXERCISE size medium, warm machine £20 01903 MONSOON cornflower lining, £35 ono 01903 761267. around 4-5pm. blue linen suit/jacket skirt 714132 size 12 £15. 01243 DINNER SUIT jacket 780849 48", trousers 42", leg 29" JACQUES Vert pale pink £10 01243 870847 PRESERVING Pan 9L, jacket, skirt, blouse size 13x16cms, £15. 01903 14. £15. 01243 780849 WINTER COAT chest 767661 48" £10 01243 870847 MONSOON pale blue sequined top size 14 £10. 01243 780849
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TABLES & CHAIRS TEAK DINING table plus four chairs. Black leather seats. £50 ono. Excellent condition. 07828 143630.
TELEVISIONS BT VISION powerline adapters to provide wired broadband to different rooms NEW in box & instructions £25ono (01903) 201542
TOYS & GAMES 1970'S Petite super child's typewriter, needs new ribbon, collectors item VGC £5 01903 367815
JELLY bean machine £6. 01243 JUBAEA Chilensis palm, original hardy, in large pot, 4ft tall, 780849 good healthy planr, £55 01903 810424
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MONKEY puzzle tree, 3ft tall, 4ft wide, in large blue glazed pot. £99.99 01903 VACUUM CLEANERS 810424 Dirt Devil bagless 1200w lightweight. Spare filter, user guide, upright. £20 01825 767892. PONDOMATIC large pond vac with booklet, tools, never used, still boxed, make Pontec, £50 WAR MEMORABILIA still boxed wanted, helmets, uniforms, medals, cash paid. Tel 01273 472622 or 07967 464471.
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SUSSEX GINGER beer BERGAUS freeflow 25 bottles / flagons wanted OVER 30 items, size 10- PANASONIC micro oven rucksack keeps back cash paid. Tel 01273 lime green 472622 or 07967 464471. 14, some new, all VGC £20 GWO 07732760661 cool lightweight £29.50. ALFA ELECTRIC sewing £20 01903 367815 Bracklesham 07989875409 machine model 482, instruction book BLACK waterproof full attachments. £30 - 01273 length riding boots, size 834027. LADIES black evening MIRROR guilt frame, 6½, excellent condition, 01903 773891 BRAND NEW Zanussi shoes, small stilleto plus 36"x36" bevelled, brand £10 washing machine 9kg. demure dark beaded new still in original Rustington. design on front, size 5 wrapping £40 01243 EASTON ice skating Purchased £349, accept £200 ono. Buyer collects. BEAUTIFUL elegant 1/2, VGC £10ono 01903 574104 boots, size 7 black & 01273 473263. long black edwardian 503304 white, used twice, cost MANTLE Mirror 42" style, feminine, demure, wellington wide, curved top, 30" £60, accept £20 ono. LG WASHING machine lovely material, long HUNTER 01243 820079 8kg, 1400 spin, white, transparent sleeves boots green size 6 EC high, gold finished frame. excellent condition, £25. 01243 538218 £50 01903 297504 £15ono 01903 503304 new black bargain. £50 - 07526 BRAND punching/sparring pads BRAND new prom / SUMMER shoes 7/8/6 WALL mirror new, black or for martial arts, only 049835 anytime. bridal pink strapless pairs. £10 07535 276577 wrought iron surround, £10 01903 367815 20x20"slight damage, not dress, size 8-10 . Never visable £5. 01243 779330 ICE skates, new Fagan been worn due to it being too long. £60 01903 Pathfinder Linkmaster 201542 figure skates, size 8, black, £20 01273 607231 JACQUES Vert pale pink BATTERY operated hat suitable weddings etc JACQUES Vert pale pink WHEELCHAIR pendulum S/P ANCHOR 3kg plus 3½ longcase boxed £10. 01243 handbag £12. 01243 large size £70. 01243 mtr chain. £10 01273 wallclock £40 VGC 01243 780849 841408 780849 574931 462262
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CHARTFIELD £780,000 Freehold ● ● ● ● ●
Sought after location Open plan Great family home Excellent condition throughout EPC: E50.
Call Hove Office 01273 321000
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This Sunday May 1, we see our non-contact formulae including Hot Rods, Stock Hatches, Prodstox and Saloon Rods. On Bank Holiday Monday May 2 we will see the return of all our Contact groups, fea-
turing our very own CB Privy Bangers including a non-contact class, tyre burning Drifting from some of southern England’s best drifting champions, Micra Stox and the return of our metal crunching 1400cc Bangers. The day will also feature our world famous Car Jump Spectacular featuring some of the most fearless grease monkeys known in the sport. Amongst the drivers will be the reigning Car Jump championfromSantaPodBradley Lock as well as local drivers Luke Denyer, Ryan Brown and Toby Southgate to name but a few .
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Good news for Great Britain by Allan Candy
Motoring writer
Vauxhall’s latest go-faster estate is a Good News Car. Good news for Britain, good news for workers, good news for drivers who relish performance driving. The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer ticks so many boxes. Alongside its hatchback stablemate, it has helped secure 2,00 jobs into the next decade; is up to 190kg lighter than the outgoing model and biggerinside;Britishdesigned and built; and gives a £70m boost for UK firms. Yes, Ellesmere Port’s latest offering is the darling of the UK motor industry – but how does it shape up on the road? Thankfully, it’s a thumbs up. The estate’s new lightweight construction and refined steering system work in tandem to offer a scintillating drive–especiallywhenthevehicle is in Sport mode. Letofftheleash,thesupermodelAstra(thinkgreyhound
slimmed down to whippet) seemstogobbleupthetarmac atanastonishingrate-yeteverything is so smooth and under control. A turbo-charged, refined petrol turbo is still hard to beat. The press-on driver soon finds the confidence to tackle challenging bends, safe in the knowledgethatthetourerwill hold a sure and true line without any fuss. And all the action is nicely orchestrated up by a peachy, light six-speed manual gearbox. Ridequalityremainsexcellent under all driving conditions. Starting back to front, as it were, the tourer’s all important boot area builds in a surprising amount of space in a relativelysmallfootprint.Rear seats convert in one motion to form an almost flat floor, which lies conveniently at bumper height for easy loading. Handy tie-down hooks and unobstructed width and there’s plenty of room to gobble up the luggage.
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Peeking under the floor reveals a surprise – no spare wheel. That could cause problems. Inside, the tourer’s cockpit comeswithapleasingamount ofsoft,tactilesurfaces.ButI’m not sold on the overcooked
amounts of slabby ‘piano black’ gloss plastic on show. It even adorns the exterior Bpillars. Ergonomically the tourer is a bit of a curate’s egg – good in parts. Tiny displays for speedo
and rev counter are hard to decipher accurately and it’s a good thing there’s a digital speedo on offer, too, which is more accurate. Talkingofspeed,the‘speed assist’ sign recognition just doesn’t match the driver’s
and is inconsistent – I prefer to trust my own judgement. The touchscreen infotainment system is over sensitive andhardtoploughthroughon the move – you get there in the end, but it’s all a bit of a jumble andcoulddowithsimplifying. And while I’m being picky, yes the tourer is athletic and streamlined – but doesn’t that shortbonnetlookalittleoutof proportion to the rest of the car in side profile? Great to drive, versatile and comfortable, the Astra Sports Tourer is undeniably good. But interior ergonomics had me peering and pokingaround.Adisappointment when the rest of the car is so impressive.
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CHAMPIONSHIP
LEAGUE TABLE: P Burnley.......................44 Middlesbrough ..........44 Brighton .....................44 Hull..............................44 Derby..........................44 Sheff Wed...................44 Cardiff.........................44 Ipswich.......................44 Birmingham...............44 Brentford ...................44 Preston.......................44 Leeds ..........................44 QPR.............................44 Wolves ........................44 Reading ......................44 Huddersfield..............44 Nottm Forest..............44 Blackburn...................44 Rotherham.................44 Bristol City..................44 Fulham........................44 Milton Keynes Dons...44 Charlton .....................44 Bolton .........................44
W 24 26 24 23 21 18 17 16 16 17 14 14 13 13 13 13 12 11 13 12 11 9 8 4
D 15 9 15 11 14 17 16 15 13 8 16 16 18 15 13 12 15 16 10 13 15 12 13 15
L 5 9 5 10 9 9 11 13 15 19 14 14 13 16 18 19 17 17 21 19 18 23 23 25
F 68 60 70 64 65 62 55 49 50 64 42 48 53 50 50 58 40 42 52 50 65 36 38 40
GAME OUTCOMES:
A Pts 35 87 28 87 40 87 33 80 41 77 43 71 47 67 49 63 46 61 66 59 43 58 55 58 53 57 56 54 54 52 61 51 45 51 45 49 65 49 70 49 76 48 64 39 76 37 80 27
Draws: 166
RED CARDS:
P Bauer F Forestieri B Wright S Ameobi F Amorebieta B Amos N Baker B Bannan Y Barbet G Berardi
2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FIXTURES:
28%
Home team: 216 wins
FRIDAY BIIRMINGHAM V BORO SA ATURDAY BOLTTON V HULL BRENTFO ORD V FULHAM BR RISTOL C V HUDDERS IPSW WICH V MK DONS LEEEDS V CHARLTTON FORES ST V WOLVES S READIN NG V PRESTON N R’H HAM V BLAC CKBURN N SHEFFF WED V CARDIFFF MONDA AY BRIIGHTTON V DERB BY BURN NLEY Y V QPR R
31%
41%
Away teams: 146 wins
GOALS SCORED:
Awaay goals
Home goals
709 562
19:45 12:30 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 14:30 16:45
Total goals
1271
14 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11
G Leadbitter L Cook M Davies S Duffy P Gallagher A McCormack M Mills D Stephens D Whitehead
L Best P Billing T Cairney S Carruthers C Coady C Conway C Cropper H Dean M Derbyshire Derik
LAST MATCH
23-04-16 RESULT: CHARLTON 1 BRIGHTON 3
POSSESSION
77% 23% 59% 41%
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YELLOW CARDS: K McFadzean A Clayton G Bellusci S Carruthers R Fredericks J Garner M Hudson S Hutchinson B Wright C Evans
2015/2016 SEASON
11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
CHARLTON CORNERS S: 6 SH HOTS: 12 FO OULS: 16
A Grayy Burnley R McCoorm mack A Hernanndez T Hemed J Kodjia N Wells M Dembele F Forestieri C Martin J Rhodes A Judge L Vibe S Vokes T Ince C Wood N Blackman CO Donaldson G Hooper C Austin T Chery
244 21 19 17 177 17 15 15 15 15 14 13 13 12 12 11 11 11 10 10
league goals scored by Burnley’s Andre Gray
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Taylor relishing county experience Bruce Talbot
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Ross Taylor says he is looking to get a lot more out of his first prolonged stint in county cricket than merely scoring runs. The 32-year-old former New Zealand captain could have spent the next few months picking up good money in the IPL and its Caribbean equivalent. But the idea of experiencing the county circuit at length for the first time held more appeal and he has joined Sussex until the end of July, having played some T20 for Durham in 2010. And when he made his first appearance for his new county a fortnight ago against Essex, Taylor was also able to tick off another little milestone in his career. He said: “I came to England as an MCC young cricketer when I was 18 and was due to play at Hove but it rained all three days. They told me there was a slope at the ground but I had no idea how big it was until I got here. Hove was
the only county ground in England I hadn’t played at so it’s nice to tick that one off. “I wanted to come and experience as much of the county circuit as possible. I know it can become a bit of a grind but I am looking forward to it. “It’s just as much a lifestyle thing. When you play a lot of international cricket you do a lot of travelling. It’s nice to finish a day’s play, go home and sleep in your own bed. “Also, I enjoy the English countryside and exploring new places. My family arrive next month and I’m sure they will enjoy living by the seaside in Brighton.” Taylor returns to action for Sussex against Leicestershire on Sunday, having been grateful for the ten days’ break since their last game to rest a troublesome finger injury which flared up against Northamptonshire on the opening day of the season. “It’s not broken but the tendons around the joint are a bit sore,” Taylor said. “The break also allows me to get to know my team-mates a bit better which is nice.”
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Ross Taylor in action for New Zealand
Hawks move into play-off places Danny Mills struck in secondhalf injury-time to ensure Whitehawk Football Club moved into the National South play-off places on Tuesday evening. Mills’ late strike ensured Hawks came away with a 1-1 draw at Truro City, which was enough for them to move into fifth place with just one game to go. Whitehawk looked to have
missed their opportunity as Matty Jay fired the home side ahead on the hour mark. However, Mills netted with time running out to set up a tense final day. This was all after Hawks had won for the fifth successive time on Saturday when they beat Maidstone 1-0. David Ijaha got the game’s only goal. Whitehawk are now
above sixth-placed Hemel Hempstead, who they travel to tomorrow, on goal difference, so know a win will see secure their place in the play-offs. A draw could well be enough for Hawks, providing seventh-placed Dartford do not claim all three points and win by a five-goal margin on the final day away to relegation-threatened St Albans City.
Seagulls to beamback Boro clash Brighton & Hove Albion will be screening a beamback of their top-of-the-table Championship match at Middlesbrough next Saturday. The game, which kicks off at 12.30pm on May 7, will be broadcast live via a special pitchside big screen for up to 3,000 fans in the North
Stand and in the BUPA and Heineken lounges. Tickets to watch in the BUPA lounge are £10 for adults and £5 for under-18s, which includes a pie and a pint for adults, with children’s tickets including a pie and a soft drink. Tickets to watch in the
North Stand, with the game also being broadcast on the screens in the concourse, are £2 for adults and £1 for under18s. Tickets are on general sale from 9am this morning on www.seagullstickets.co.uk and from 2pm by calling 0844 327 1901 (option 6).
Entries open for 2017 marathon Entries are already open for next year’s Brighton Marathon. The race takes place on Sunday, April 9, and entries open at £55 with 5,500 places
available at that price. Entries will then be priced at £65 for the remaining 5,500 places. A record 10,947 runners started this year’s marathon, which was won by Kenyan
Duncan Maiyo for the second successive year, in 2hr 09min 56sec. To enter next year’s race, visit www.brightonmarathon. co.uk
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Next up at The Amex...
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Brighton & Hove Albion v v Derby County in the Championship Monday, May 2, kick-off 2.30pm Tickets available online at www.seagulls.co.uk or by calling 0844 327 1901
Rosenior hopes for a memorable finish Brighton & Hove Albion
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Liam Rosenior believes his previous taste of Championship promotion will stand him in good stead as Albion’s top-two hunt hots up. Rosenior was part of the Hull side that finished second in 2013 when the Tigers reached the promise land of the Premier League. The Albion full-back is hopeful he can achieve that same feat with Brighton, who are third and behind leaders Burnley and second-placed Middlesbrough only on goal difference. Brighton continue their push for promotion on Monday with an Amex clash against Derby County before their season comes to a close five days later at Boro in what is set to be a shoot-out for promotion. Rosenior admits that knowing what it takes to go up in this league will serve him well in those final two crunch clashes.
He said: “When you have experience, it helps you to deal with situations that you’ve come up against before and it helps you to be able to give advice to others and their focus on their own performances. “It’s been an immeasurable experience for me to be promoted with Hull and it was one I’ll never forget but I want to make sure I have more memories.” Should Brighton end up in the Championship’s toptwo or go up via the play-offs, Rosenior believes it would be the biggest achievement of his career, eclipsing reaching the Premier League with Hull. He said: “It’s the best one – the next one is always the best one. “I don’t like looking back on my career or what I’ve done, I want to do much more in the future as a player, as a coach, and maybe one day as a manager. “The next one is the most important, so this one now would be fantastic and hopefully it will happen here with Brighton.”
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This week has been the calm before the storm
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his week has been the calm before the storm. Nine days without a game for Albion has allowed all fans to return to a bit of normality with their lives; no worrying, panicking, biting nails over what may or may not happen. To have 87 points would normally see a club promoted from the Championship but a team could finish third with 91 points this year. The last time a side failed to get promoted from the second tier with more than 87 points was Sunderland, with 90, in 1997-98. That year, fourth-placed Charlton got 88 points and they went up through the play-offs. Brighton entertain Derby on Monday and even a draw will mean Albion go into the final game at Middlesbrough a week tomorrow knowing victory will guarantee Premier League football next season. There are a number of permutations in the threehorse race for promotion. Middlesbrough are first in the firing line when they travel to Birmingham this evening. Albion and Burnley have both won at St Andrew’s recently, so it’s difficult to see anything but an away win. The Seagulls are then next up when they host Derby, with a 2.30pm kick-off on Monday. The Clarets follow later in the day, with a 4.45pm kick-off against Queens Park Rangers. On paper, Brighton have the trickiest final two matches but they are unbeaten in 12 games, scoring 29 goals and conceding just six times, so confidence is definitely high.
Albion full-back Liam Rosenior
Player of the season Kayal lands Seagulls award PAUL HAZLEWOOD
Albion’s promotion hopes face Rams test at the Amex Albion v Derby preview
Midfielder Beram Kayal was named Albion’s player of the season at the club’s end-of-season dinner on Sunday. Kayal scooped 41 per cent of the fans’ vote, which left Bruno second with 36 per cent. David Stockdale and Tomer Hemed came third and fourth respectively.
With the race for promotion to the Premier League set to head into the final game of the season in eight days, Brighton will want to put themselves in the best position possible in their penultimate game with Derby County on Monday. The Championship’s top three sides – Burnley, Middlesbrough and Albion – all sit on 87 points heading into the final two matches of the campaign. The Seagulls travel to Boro on the final day of the season for a clash which could decide who
will go up to the top flight automatically, and who will be forced to go through the lottery of the play-offs. Chris Hughton’s side go into the last week of the campaign on the back of a goalscoring spree, having scored 12 times in their last three matches against Fulham, QPR and Charlton. The likelihood is they will have to score more than once at the Amex on Bank Holiday Monday to pick up all three points against a Derby side looking to take momentum into the play-offs. The Rams are on a run of five games unbeaten, which
has seen them secure their place in the top six, and a semi-final clash with Hull looks likely. Thelateformhascoincided with Harry Redknapp joining the club as a football advisor alongside head coach Darren Wassall, who took over from former boss Paul Clement in February. Albion fans will no doubt expect striker Chris Martin to threaten at the Amex, with the 27-year old having scored in five of his last six appearances against the Seagulls. BRADLEY STRATTON @BradStrat
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Johnny Cantor
The Albion Roar
Straight from the commentary box
by Alan Wares @albionroar
There have been so many highs and lows this season
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n the last week or so, as the climax to the Championship season approached, I was asked to contribute to a piece for the BBC sport website about the three-horse race for automatic promotion to the Premier League. When you’ve travelled to, watched and commentated on all 50 odd games, it’s so difficult to condense your thoughts. There have been so many highs and lows. The Charlton comeback. The Fulham late drama. The explosive start at Huddersfield. However, I could not omit that fateful day in August when lives were lost in the Shoreham air crash. The events on that day appear to have strengthened the resolve of the players. That resolve was evident on Sunday evening at the club’s awards ceremony. Goalkeeper David Stockdale was clearly still emotional as he accepted his PFA Community Champion award but then dedicated it to the families who lost their loved ones. We were also reminded as well of the work of the first responders from the emergency services on the day. The Sarah Watts Inspiration Award given to them was very fitting. One of those on stage reminded everyone how much the club had done to help house everyone and turn itself into a base for everyone to do their jobs. I was privileged to sit on a table on Sunday with the family of Lance Corporal James Brynin, an Albion fan who lost his life in Helmand, and 84-year-old Graham Wood who watched his first game in 1943. Diagnosed with macular degeneration he watches the games at the Amex through binoculars with BBC Sussex on his ‘transistor radio’ clamped to his ear. The sense of togetherness and appreciation was obvious. Across the floor on the tables were the players. Prompt, smart and engaged. Some conducted interviews with a microphone for the big screen, others spent time huddled with fans for selfies.
ANGELA BRINKHURST
Albion celebrate the winner against Charlton in December
It may not have helped us with the facts and figures for the piece but it was a timely reminder of how important it is to get things right. Do things right. We don’t know whether the season will end in ultimate success and promotion but whatever happens over the next few weeks, so many people can be proud of the way they have reacted on and since that sunny day in 2015. It would seem fitting if the Seagulls do make the move up. If it does happen, Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt won’t be there to see it but I’m sure it would be dedicated in some way to them, and those others who are no longer with us. Follow all the action, home or away, on BBC Sussex Sport or Twitter @BBCSussexSport @johnnycburger To read more by Johnny Cantor, visit www.johnnycantor.com
Justice has at last been enacted for Hillsborough
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didn’t fancy going to Elland Road that afternoon. The season was drawing to a close – a nothing game towards the end of a nothing season to be honest. Leeds won 1-0. That was in the days when Leeds United used to beat us. Instead, three of us went to Eastbourne for a northern soul do. We decided to go in the afternoon and make a day of it, before heading to the venue. We were listening to Radio 2 on the way over, hoping to catch the football commentary of the two FA Cup semi-finals. As the journey wore on, it was becoming more apparent that something was going horribly wrong in one of the semi-finals – the one at Hillsborough between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Reports were rolling, and unclear. Fatalities had been reported, numbers yo-yoed and facts were beginning to give way to conjecture. Around 14 people had been presumed dead, we’d heard when we got out of the car. We went to the do a little shell-shocked. Upon arriving back in Brighton, we caught the midnight news. The number appalled us. “93 people are known to have died....” WHAT? Lord Chief Justice Taylor, in his report on the disaster, blamed the police, and exonerated the fans. Yet somehow, the truth was still being distorted to suit a continuing lie, and he set the blueprint for the way football fans could be treated subsequently. The advent of all-seater stadia, we now realise, wasn’t totally necessary. The gentrification of football on the back of this, leading to ticket hikes, and pricing out those previously assumed guilty has been a nationwide phenomenon. There is the appalling notion of a ‘bubble match’, the intrusive surveillance; the ludicrous situation of not being able to drink alcohol in sight of a football pitch on a match day. Never
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The memorial stone outside Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium
mind that it’s perfectly legal – in fact, actively encouraged – for people to do so at cricket and rugby matches. It’s football which must still be treated like the small boy forever on the naughty step. We now know that these draconian laws foisted upon football supporters were based on lies. Make no mistake, the fact that it has taken 27 years for a correct verdict of unlawful killing to be handed down is because of a coverup and an attempt to stigmatise a city, and sport and its culture to cover other failings. Today, we pay an enormous tribute to the tenacity, courage and the spirit of the bereaved who merely wanted one of the cornerstones of British society – justice – to be enacted. Was that ever too much to ask? To all of them, rest assured, they will never walk alone.