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Small Batch has hit the big time Small Batch Coffee - which started out as a coffee cart in 2006 - is set to expand across the UK after a majority stake was bought out by a private equity firm. The coffee company has five cafes across Brighton and Hove, as well as two carts at railway stations in the city. Brad Jacobsen, who cofounded Small Batch nine years ago, sold his stake in

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Coffee cart company set to expand across the UK Bex Bastable @BexBastable From humble beginnings, Small Batch started out as a coffee cart, selling premium hot drinks. Fo u n d e d by B r a d Jacobsen and Alan Tomlins in 2006, the brand has grown, and has since expanded to five stores across Brighton and Hove, together with two railway kiosks. It also boasts a booming wholesale business, providing branded and bespoke blends to an expanding list of leading restaurants, coffee shops, and cafes across the country. Now, after nine years, Mr Jacobsen has sold his stake in the business to Risk Capital Partners, which now has a majority stake in the company. The private equity firm has a track record of helping business to expand, including Hove brand Patisserie Valerie. It will now support the existing management team at Small Batch, led by Nigel

Lambe as chief executive, who has worked alongside the exiting founder, Mr Jacobsen, for five years. Mr Jacobson, who is co-owner of Hove pub The Urchin, is estimated to have sold his share for £3 million. Co-founder Mr Tomlins will continue in his role. Mr Lambe, said: “I am delighted to be teaming up with Risk Capital Partners, who have unrivalled experience in retail and wholesale food and café businesses. We have great ambition for the Small Batch brand and sought out Luke and his team when the opportunity arose.” Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital Partners, said: “I am a huge fan of Small Batch Coffee, not just their delicious coffee but also their cool spaces, friendly staff and meticulous attention to detail. We are delighted to have the opportunity to partner with Nigel and his team to help bring Small Batch to a wider audience.”

of Brighton and Hove City Council’s children’s services team. Mr Stryde left last Friday (November 13) after more than eight years in charge of Longhill School, which Ofsted said “requires improvement” in a report in November 2013. The idea of executive heads running more than one school is not new in the city. Successful examples of this approach are Benfield and Hangleton primary schools, as well as Hove Park secondary and West Blatchington primary, and Coldean and Coombe Road primary schools.

Plans to transform the old White Crow pub at the Vogue Gyratory into student accommodation was approved by city planners on Wednesday. The White Crow pub, at 106 Lewes Road, was demolished “without authorisation”, according to the council, but the site is now set to be the home of a five-storey building, made up of 44 students flats. There will be a reception, communal area, laundrette, toilets, and provision for 36 bicycles. There are no parking spaces allocated for the scheme.

Consultation has started on proposals to merge almost half of Brighton and Hove’s 12 children’s centres. Seven will remain as designated children’s centres, and another five will still deliver services, but not as designated centres. The consultation closes on December 20. To take part in the city council consultation, visit: bit. ly/1HaXznb

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Mr Bradford said: “I am looking forward to working in collaboration with the staff and governors at Longhill School and I a m c e r t a i n t h at t h i s collaborative arrangement will work for the benefit of students at both schools. “I am completely confident that Dorothy Stringer will be in good hands on the days that I am not in school.” Martin Andrews, chair of governors at Longhill, said: “Richard has a well-deserved reputation as an excellent headteacher. We’re delighted our school will benefit from his drive and leadership skills for the rest of this academic year.”

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Dorothy Stringer headteacher takes on Longhill High School R i ch a r d B r a d fo r d , t h e headteacher of Dorothy Stringer School has agreed to take over also as head of Longhill High School for the rest of the academic year. His appointment as executive headteacher of both schools follows the resignation of Haydn Stride, as head of Longhill. Mr Bradford will have two acting headteachers under him until August next year, to allow time for a new head to be appointed at Longhill. Meanwhile, he will split his time equally between the two schools. The move has the full support of governors and senior leadership teams in both schools and

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Exploring trust plans Councillors agreed to “explore” proposals to move the Royal Pavilion and the city’s museums into a trust, to save them from council cuts. The city council’s economic development and culture committee agreed the move last Thursday. A business case will be presented to the policy and resources committee in January for discussion and a decision. If approved, the trust could also include the Brighton Dome and Festival.

Station taxi rank move City councillors will consider a proposal to move the taxi rank from the front of Brighton Station to Terminus Road, at the side of the station, for a trial period, at a meeting on Tuesday. The idea follows concern about congestion and disruption to buses and pedestrians caused by taxis queuing to enter the existing rank on the station forecourt. If approved, the rank will be moved to Terminus Road for a trial period of up to 18 months.

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It’s Burger King vs The Bison Arms Bex Bastable @BexBastable Bison Beer and the Bottom’s Rest pub have teamed up to start a crowdfunding campaign to open The Bison Arms at the old Mariner pub. This comes weeks after a 11,500-strong petition to stop Burger King from taking on the site at East Street in The Lanes. Nick Vardy and Jack Cregan, co-founders of craft beer shop Bison Beer in East Street, came up with the idea with Simon Duddington of Bottom’s Rest in Hove. Mr Cregan said: “Residents and our customers came to us and said there’s clearly a demand for a real independent pub in Brighton. We want to revive Clarendon Mansions as a pub. A pub that champions everything about Brighton and Sussex.” He said it would cost at least £200,000 to bring the site back into use, but said Whitbread, which leases the

Tackling inequality The Fairness Commission, set up by Brighton and Hove City Council to tackle inequality, is set to meet on Thursday. It is the first of five public meetings, and will be held at Moulsecoomb Great Hall from 6pm. The focus will be on strengthening communities. Subsequent meetings will cover children a n d yo u n g p e o p l e , employment, housing, and older people.

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Nick Vardy and Jack Cregan of Bison Beer site, had made an agreement in principle for the idea of a pub. The group has set up a crowdfunding campaign where “investors big and small from the local community can contribute

to the project”, which will use local breweries. Mr Cregan said: “We want The Bison Arms to be funded, built, staffed, supplied and enjoyed by the people of Brighton and Sussex.” The crowdfunding

campaign launch will be held at the Brighton Media Centre, 68 Middle Street, on Friday, November 27, from 7pm. The Burger King application will still go before city planners.

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Unions set to unite against council cuts Bex Bastable @BexBastable Unions in Brighton and Hove are set to team up in a coordinated effort to stop cuts to council services. Representatives from UNISON, GMB, and NUT - covering carers, refuse collectors, teachers, social workers, nursery nurses, and other council staff – addressed dozens of council workers at a public meeting at the Brighthelm Centre on Tuesday. The unions plan to lobby council meetings - including the policy and resources meeting on December 3, where the council budget will be discussed - and there were calls from the floor for staff to go on strike in response to cuts to services. S u e B owe s , U N I S O N branch officer, explained how the council plans to save £100 million in the next four years, as a result of government cuts to funding.

She said: “The Labour administration, and the Green administration before them, has never thought about resisting those cuts in any way. By the end of this term, they expect the council to be 50% smaller than it is now - cut in half. We believe services are best delivered by the public sector.” S u e B e at t y, U N I S O N convenor of adult social care, said “It is extremely c o n c e r n i n g t h at o f a l l services being hit within adult social care, the most vulnerable in our society are being targeted with such speed. We are told that our services are ‘too expensive’. I’d suggest that there is no price that can be put on good services to ensure that the dignity of service users is a key priority.” Simeon Elliott, NUT representative for PreSchool Educational Needs (PreSENS) staff, talked about the redesign to the special needs service, and said: “It is not about numbers it is about lives.”

Dave Russell, GMB representative for Hollingdean Depot, talked about the situation with City Clean, before a wider debate, when union members had a chance to air their views on council cuts. Alex Knutsen, UNISON branch secretary, said: “In Oxfordshire, they have their MP David Cameron speaking out against the cuts! In Brighton and Hove we have to speak up for ourselves. We will ballot for strike action to save services and jobs if necessary.”

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City council leader responds to unions Cllr Warren Morgan, Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, responded to the unions’ call to stop the cuts to council services. He said:“We are facing cuts of £25 million a year f r o m t h e C o n s e r vat ive government, and they will have cut our revenue support grant entirely by 2019.That’s 30% of our funding. We can’t continue to provide our current services on 30% less money and we can’t increase council tax by 30% to make up the lost funding. So we have no option but to cut some services, but we will work closely with the unions, staff and others to find innovative solutions and alternatives, such as shared services, cooperatives, community-run services, trusts and more in order to keep things going and protect jobs wherever we can.” This comes after Cllr Morgan sent a letter to David Cameron, the Prime Minister, who had criticised the council in his own constituency for the cuts they were making. Cllr Morgan wrote: “As leader of a city council facing cuts of over £25 million in the coming financial year, and a budget gap of over £100 million by 2019, I was interested to see your offer of help from the No 10 Policy Unit to your local council in dealing with similar, if smaller cuts, affecting your constituency.

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Petition set up to fight licence refusal Bex Bastable @BexBastable A community-based arts venue in West Street has started a petition, calling on the city council and Sussex Police to overturn its refusal for a premises licence. The Synergy Centre in the former Hedkandi nightclub building - allows local groups to use the space in the week, including The Free University of Brighton, the People’s Assembly, and the DV8 project for young people. But an application to use the centre as a live-music venue on the weekends was turned down by Brighton and Hove City Council’s licensing panel. Steve Peak, founder of the Synergy Centre, said: “Our aim is to use surpluses from weekend events to subsidise smaller, midweek events and activities. At the moment, West Street is dominated by a young demographic, many of whom are not from Brighton

Young people from the DV8 Project use the Synergy Centre and don’t seem to share the city’s progressive, socially aware culture. We want to open a place for local people who have more considerate, mature values to dilute and counter-balance the culture

of heavy drinking and antisocial behaviour that has been allowed to dominate the street.” But Sussex Police opposed the application on the grounds that any

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Strike could cause ‘inevitable’ disruption Olivia Lerche @olivialerche Junior doctors are preparing to walk out over proposed changes to their contracts - which could lead to “inevitable” disruption for patients in Brighton and Hove. Following a ballot of more than 37,000 junior doctors in England, more than 99% have voted in favour of industrial action short of a strike, and 98% for full strike action. The first strike which is set to affect Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust (BSUH), which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, will start on December 1, with another two dates earmarked for later in the month. A spokesman for the BMA, the doctors’ trade union, said: “While the BMA regrets the inevitable disruption that this will cause, junior doctors have clearly been left with no alternative due to the government’s continued threat to impose a contract that is unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors.” The new contract proposes an 11% rise in basic

pay for junior doctors. However, the number of hours during the week which are classed as “unsociable” and therefore better paid are being cut. The government also proposes to scrap guaranteed pay increases, linked to time in the job, and replace them with a system where junior doctors progress through different stages in training. D r R o b G a l l o w a y, Accident and Emergency (A&E) consultant at the trust, said: “The unprecedented high level of support for the strike and the incredibly high turn out shows how badly Jeremy Hunt has handled the situation and the distrust he has created. “Already many juniors in A&E work one in two weekends and we have as many junior staff working at weekends as weekdays. His plans will make weekend emergency cover worse.” Dr Galloway added: “The main worry I have is not about the strike but how much harder it will be to attract good doctors to work in hard specialities like A&E in the NHS the future.” Medical students and doctors from Brighton

marched against the contract at a demonstration in London last month. In response to the strike action, a spokesman for BSUH said: “We are currently working on detailed, speciality-specific plans to ensure the standard of care we provide our patients during the proposed strike is unaffected.” Follow @HSHBrighton on Twitter to have your say about the junior doctor strikes.

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Brighton and Hove pay tribute to Paris fallen

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The Brighton Wheel was lit up in the colours of the French flag, in tribute to those who died in Paris last week The Brighton Wheel was lit up in red, white, and blue at the weekend, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the Paris terrorist attacks on Friday. Silences were held across the city, organised by the French community, and another by Brighton and Hove City Council. The city council also opened a book of condolence at Brighton

Town Hall for people to add messages of sympathy following the Paris terror attacks. The opening message s ay s : “ Th e p e o p l e o f Brighton and Hove are united in sympathy for the bereaved and injured following the attacks in Paris. “We stand together in the face of terror to promote peace and understanding.”

Isabelle Mounet, 43, a French national, has been doing her bit to help the homeless, by crocheting scarves and tying them to posts around the city. The excitement she felt at getting her project off the ground, quickly turned to grief following the terrorist attacks in her home country on November 13. Her friend’s son, Maxime Bouffard, 26, died in the attack at the Bataclan in Paris. Clearly emotional, she turned to the subject of her Pay It Forward scarves project that she started in Brighton last week, when s h e t i e d 1 1 c r o ch e t e d scarves to lampposts near St Peter’s Church, York Place. Each were carrying notes that read: “I am not lost, It is love in my stitches, To help make your day. If you are cold, Or feeling blue, Wrap me around, And feel my warmth around you.”

Isabelle Mounet, and (right) the scarves dotted around the city The project came about after she stumbled across the Canadian Pay It Forward Foundation online, whose philosophy is that, “through acts of kindness among strangers, we all foster a more caring society”. Mrs Mounet said: “Brighton has a lot of homeless people and I have been close to being homeless in the past so I know what it’s like to be so cold you can’t even sleep.

I know its not something that’s going to sort out their problems but with the little note I wanted to tell them, ‘you do matter, we do care and we want you to get back on your feet’. It’s just a tiny step.” She set up her company Babay Fay about a year ago, and as well as crocheting for the homeless, Mrs Mounet also gives 7.5% of the purchase price of her products to charity. She said: “If I sell a baby-related piece,

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Stronger together: What does the Greater Brighton region do for us? Construction Voice, a meeting organised by Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce, explains the Greater Brighton City Deal and how it can benefit the whole of the region’s economy Bex Bastable @BexBastable What is Greater Brighton? How can it benefit the city of Brighton and Hove, as well as Worthing, Lewes, Newhaven, and Burgess Hill? What are its aims? Can it achieve them? Construction Voice, a meeting organised by Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce last week, tried to demystify the concept, and answer those questions. The Greater Brighton City Deal was agreed last year, and unlocked funds for the region to “enable the area to fulfil its economic potential, turning it into one of the highest performing urban economies in the UK operating on an international stage”. But now the Greater Brighton group has gone one step further with a devolution bid. The initial “prospectus” for devolution was submitted in September, but now a business c a s e i s b e i n g bu i l t for devolved powers to the region, with a final submission to government in the new year. The Construction Voice event, which took place at the Sussex County Cricket Club in Hove last Tuesday, brought together a panel representing three of the local authorities involved in the city region, who talked about the work of Greater Brighton so far, as well as what devolution might mean for the area.

The Greater Brighton body aims for a thriving “ e c o - t e c h ” e c o n o m y, more affordable homes, and better transport i n f r a s t r u c t u r e fo r t h e whole region. This includes improving the A27, A259, railway links, and a joinedup bus service, with “an integrated and sustainable transport system”. Local councils are set to work together to plan projects tailored to each part of the region - but for the greater good of the whole area. Whether it is improving Newhaven Port, securing flood defences at

Shoreham, pinpointing areas for homes, or a second mainline at Brighton, the Greater Brighton group aims to work together to bring growth to the area. In a time of austerity and cuts to public services, the region wants to take its fate into its own hands - and the hands of its communities. Nick Hibberd, head of city regeneration at Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “What is Greater Brighton? It is the area

that runs from Worthing to the west, across to the Lewes district in the east, Brighton and Hove, and Mid Sussex to the north. When we think about how this city operates, we now know it operates on a larger area than the local authority border.”

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Andrew Swayne, Nick Hibberd, Miranda Birch, and Max Woodford (Picture by www.vervate.com/Skye Brackpool) He said about 33,000 people commute out of the city of Brighton and Hove, and 28,000 people travel into the city to work. Not only that - but people are migrating in from outside of the region. Mr Hibberd said: “Each year, 3,000 people migrate from London into the city region. There’s also an outward migration, often larger households, moving to the wider city region as they seek more affordable accommodation.” Greater Brighton, he said, aims to achieve three important things: More jobs, more employment space, and more homes. Max Woodford, head of regeneration and investment at Lewes District Council spoke about what Greater Brighton means for the east. He said: “Brighton has a bit of an overheating economy and a lack of growth space. We have more of that in Lewes and

certainly in Newhaven. “Lewes is a small district, we do not have a huge amount of clout on our own. It has given us a voice at the table of government. So what has Greater Brighton done for us in the east? Well quite a lot.” He said being part of a Greater Brighton had contributed to a whole host of projects in the area, such as: the Newhaven regeneration scheme with £82 million investment until 2020; a £30m Network Rail grant for the Lewes to Seaford railway line; £9 million in flood defences; and the investment in the E.on Rampion wind farm. Mr Woodford said the regeneration of Newhaven Port will give the entire Greater Brighton area a direct link to the continent. “It is of vital importance to the city region,” he said. Andrew Swayne, chair of Adur and Worthing B u s i n e s s Pa r t n e r s h i p explained Greater Brighton

in relation to the west. Coming from the private sector, Andrew also spoke about how businesses can engage with the Greater Brighton Economic Board. He said: “Shoreham flood defences is probably the biggest project to the west that is live at the moment. What does that scheme do? That is a classic infrastructure enabling scheme. It protects homes, it enables us to release land for development on the north east corner of the airport. That will be an employment growth centre. “And we must not forget Mid Sussex. A lot of investment is going into Burgess Hill.” Mr Swayne also talked about Greater Brighton’s devolut ion bi d, w hi ch outlined the three strong sectors in the region, which include: Creative digital; advanced engineering; and health and life sciences. He also talked about the region’s tourism pull, with

Construction Voice gets under way (Picture by www.vervate.com/Skye Brackpool)

Brighton and Hove alone boasting 11 million visitors a year. H e s a i d : “ We a r e a powerhouse but people don’t realise it.” Ed Allison Wright, e x e c u t i ve d i r e c t o r a t Haydon Consulting, asked the panel: “If we are trying t o l o o k at b e n e f i t s o f Greater Brighton, is it the view of all authorities in Greater Brighton that what we are facing is regional economic development team, planning team, and other services offered by local authorities?” Mr Hibbert said: “I think the answer is possibly. We meet regularly as a group of officers. The question is, should we go further than that?” Mr Woodford said: “It is only going one way, that is aggregating, In Lewes we work much more closely with Eastbourne. We are offering legal services to Adur and Worthing. It is happening.”

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Gyms, the wellness orthodoxy, and the virtues of ill health

Passing the local gym today, I paused to peer in at what always strikes me as a bizarre, not to say hellish, scene. Hundreds of intense figures, lined up on identical machines, were frantically treadmilling, pulling levers or earnestly striding on the spot. None of them seemed to be doing anything that

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a good walk, jog or bicycle ride wouldn’t accomplish more pleasantly – yet gym membership has become essential. Gyms are voguish, thriving, cool. To be seen actively caring for one’s body, taking one’s fitness seriously, is a notable feature of modern society. According to a recent b o o k , Th e We l l n e s s Syndrome, “wellness has become an ideology”. The contemporary “biomorality”, as its authors term it, views a healthy, happy, mindful person as morally good, while an unhealthy, unhappy, brainfogged person is to be viewed as an “obscene deviant”. A new act of parliament, the Care Act, obliges local councils to promote “individual wellbeing”. Students at certain American universities apparently sign up to “wellness contracts”. There is actually nothing very new about this, except h ow w i d e s p r e a d , e ve n obsessive, it has become. That glimpse through the Madeira Drive plate glass, for example, reminds me of the illustrations to Hieronymus Mercurialis’s De Arte Gymnastica (1573). People were torturing themselves

into fitness centuries ago. Going back even further, there is a passage in Plato’s The Republic in which Socrates, dissing medicine, says it is disgraceful to require a doctor when one’s inappropriate lifestyle has caused the body to become “infested with winds and humours, like marsh gas in a stagnant pool”. In the good old days, he snorts, people had no use for “the modern coddling treatment of disease”. The rot started, a p p a r e n t l y, w i t h o n e Herodicus, a gymnastic master who lost his health a n d b e c a m e a ch r o n i c invalid. Instead of either shaking the thing off or dying quickly, like a true Greek, this blockhead spent the rest of his life enslaved by his illness, “with no hope of a cure and no time for anything but doctoring himself”. Herodicus only reached old age by means of what Socrates sneeringly calls “a prolonged death struggle”. Nobody in a well-ordered society, scoffs Socrates (and some current government ministers appear to concur), should have leisure to “spend all his life being ill”. Medicine, as founded

by the mythical Asclepius, was meant for the benefit of otherwise fit and productive people with some passing ailment, so they could return to work. It was not designed to be “wasted on someone who could not live in his ordinary round of duties and was consequently useless to himself and to society”. No NHS, then, in the Republic, and no sickness benefit. Those controversial Atos assessments would take on an altogether more sinister implication. If you were not as iron-fit as Socrates, you would be condemned. People like me – chronically unwell for half my life – or like the ever multiplying numbers of those with disabling diseases, would be carted off to some place of eugenic elimination. For an alternative to this “wellness” orthodoxy, this Socratic “biomorality”, I turn to more insightful authorities. Virginia Woolf, in her essay On Being Ill, argues for the transformative effect of illness, of “the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed”. Susan Sontag claims we all hold “dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick”.

Weightlifters in 1573 André Gide goes further, maintaining health to be “a state of mediocrity in everything. Cease looking on disease as a deficiency; rather, it is something additional.” The Romanian thinker E.M.Cioran agrees: “The healthy are not real.

Th e y h av e e v e r y t h i n g except their being – which is uniquely conferred by uncertain health.” Graham Chainey is a freelance writer and local historian living in Brighton and Hove.

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A safety net for the homeless as winter draws in ANDY WINTER, chief executive of the Brighton Housing Trust, writes about the work the charity does in a series of features by local organisations in the lead up to Christmas.

Andy Winter @Rockinghorse67 Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) is an organisation aimed at combatting homelessness. BHT employs more than 250 members of staff, who help turn around the lives of their vulnerable clients. Brighton Housing Trust is best known for its shipping container homes and for First Base, a centre

for rough sleepers. We provide a safety net for people who never thought they would need help from a homelessness organisation. When people are faced with losing their home, our advice centre can help prevent homelessness. We constantly review our services and plan to create more innovative and effective services to c o m b at h o m e l e s s n e s s , create opportunities for clients, and promote change

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Ways you can help Brighton Housing Trust this Xmas n The average life expectancy of a street homeless man is 47 years, a street homeless woman just 43 years. Street homeless people are 35 times more likely to commit suicide than the rest of the community and are four times more likely to die from unnatural causes. Donating just £2 will pay for a client at First Base to have their clothes washed and dried. A donation of £25 will pay for an assessment and support plan, to help move someone away from rough sleeping.

n Local residents with a bit more money to spare over the Christmas period can donate £50, which provides a nutritious breakfast and lunch for 60 clients at First Base each day. n A donation of £100 will pay for skills and training, to help a person who is homeless secure employment. More than three quarters of rough sleepers in Brighton and Hove have physical health issues, and 85% have mental health problems. n Each year BHT provides

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Six months on – what we have achieved for your city It has been six months since Labour were elected to run Brighton and Hove on our manifesto “A City That Works For You”. Here’s what we have done so far to deliver on that manifesto. We pledged to make our city a fairer place to live: we are spending £3 million to give 16,000 of the lowest income families in the city an 80% discount on their council tax. We said we would tackle the lack of affordable housing: we have pledged to build 2,000 truly affordable homes, protected from the right to buy. We committed

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to eliminate youth unemployment: we have set up an employment and skills task force, and we are planning to establish an Apprenticeship Training Company across the City Region. We promised we would build 500 new council homes: planning permission has been given for a £14 million council housing scheme in Whitehawk. We agreed to work to reduce the levels of rough sleeping in the city: we have our first lead councillor for homelessness, have signed a new partnership deal with charity St Mungo’s,

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and are holding the first homelessness summit in December. We told you we would establish a Fairness Commission to tackle poverty and inequality: the Fairness Commission is fully underway and will report next spring. We pledged to provide discounted bus travel via credit union membership: the discount was announced by Brighton and Hove Buses and East Sussex Credit Union two weeks ago. We listened to residents who wanted us to prioritise rubbish collection, recycling and street cleaning: a whole range of measures were set out in our strategy published in July. We have also put in place new measures to tackle fly-tipping. Plans for a garden waste collection scheme are in hand. We promised to sign the Time To Change Pledge to tackle mental health stigma and have a lead councillor for mental health: this was approved by heath and wellbeing board, the charter will be signed in the new

Cllr Morgan said the council is on the verge of announcing plans for a number of projects – including the historic arches at Madeira Drive year, and our lead councillor We told you we would projects on time and in has been appointed and help give every community budget: we are on the verge has got to work. We said a louder voice: in May we of announcing plans for a we would work to reduce set up the neighbourhoods, new arena, shopping centre anti-social behaviour: we communities and equalities and leisure centre, as well as have begun consultation committee that now leads plans to restore the historic on public spaces protection that work. We promised Madeira Terraces. We are orders to protect our parks to suspend and review the building a better Brighton and open spaces. We pledged Valley Gardens scheme: it and Hove. to tackle environmental and was our first act in office. Much more is in infrastructure problems: E x t e n s i v e w o r k i s development, including we have set out plans to co- now underway to see if work on making the private ordinate road works and the scheme is viable. We rented sector fairer. We face improve air quality. undertook to deliver major huge and unprecedented financial challenges in the budget process ahead, but we are determined to deliver on as many of our manifesto pledges as we can.

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Showing solidarity in the face of evil Where else can I start my column this week than the dreadful events that took place in Paris last Friday. I, along with my fellow political group leaders have signed a book of condolence in Brighton Town Hall along with the simple statement that sums up how I think we all feel: “The people of Brighton & Hove are united in sympathy for the bereaved and injured following the attacks in Paris. “We stand together in the face of terror to promote peace and understanding.” I would urge as many of you as possible to sign the book to demonstrate our solidarity in the face of such evil.

I found the scenes at Tuesday’s England v France football international at Wembley Stadium very m ov i n g i n d e e d a n d i t demonstrated once again sport’s almost unique ability to unite people. It was the perfect statement to the terrorists that they will never change our way of life, however hard they try. Sport in this city has been very much in the spotlight in recent months with the huge success at the AMEX stadium of the Rugby World Cup matches, this week’s England U21 football international and Brighton & Hove Albion doing so well in the Championship – long may it continue! I have always been a strong believer in the power of sport to bring about wider societal benefits and there is no better example of that than Albion in the Community – the Seagulls’

Plans for smoother journeys in and around the city A new transport plan for the city is set to be approved by councillors on Tuesday. Included are proposals to enhance “neighbourhoods and destinations”, including shopping areas like Boundary Road/Station Road and Church Road in Hove, as well as the route from Brighton Station to the seafront.The area around the proposed Brighton Centre redevelopment - known as the Waterfront project would also be enhanced. The Local Transport Plan covers the period from now until the end of the 2017/18 financial year, and the council said most of the costs would be met from government grants to be spent on transport. The plan aims to meet a number of goals including carbon reduction, cutting air pollution, better accommodation for coaches, reducing the impact of lorry deliveries, improving travel information through technology, and helping people change easily between different means of travel, with better transport interchanges. As part of the longer term transport plan, the council also wants to improve the A259 as an east-west route.

Preston Circus would be r e d e s i g n e d t o i m p r ove access to London Road and the New England Quarter. The wider plan still includes regenerating Valley Gardens between St Peter’s Church and the seafront. Cllr Gill Mitchell, chair of the committee said: “These new strategies and projects are part of the vision for the future as well as a plan to get the basics right like fixing road surfaces and pavements. We want to help people get to work, school and college and other key destinations like the seafront, by various means of transport. “Improving local neighbourhoods and the routes to them for residents is a top priority for us and we want to see where we can use new technology to help people get better information to make their transport choices, especially visitors travelling over longer distances. “Above all we need to make sure any works are co-ordinated to reduce disruption as much as possible.” The plan will be discussed by the environment, transport and sustainability committee on Tuesday.

charitable arm – which is 25 years old this year. Over that period they have invested £40 million in helping some of the most disadvantaged people in Sussex participate i n fo o t b a l l a n d w i d e r health and wellbeing initiatives.

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I have always been a strong believer in the power of sport to bring about wider societal benefits, and there is no better example of that than Albion in the Community.

Many in the sector feel that they have been somewhat marginalised by the council over the last few years and as we continue to argue, now is the time to change that. And whilst we are on the subject of sport, I am continuing to press the council to bring forward plans for a new leisure centre at the King Alfred site in Hove. I understand that council officers are to recommend a preferred bidder in the next

few weeks which is welcome news. Although it is somewhat disappointing that residents are yet to be able to have their say. It really isn’t acceptable for a city of the size and stature of Brighton & Hove not to have a really topclass leisure centre when smaller towns such as Crawley and Burgess Hill do. I am looking forward to real progress on this front in the coming few months.

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Brighton crisis centre marks 25 years Bex Bastable @BexBastable Survivors’ Network, the rape crisis centre for Sussex, is hosting two events to mark 25 years of supporting adult survivors of sexual abuse. Th e B r i g h t o n - b a s e d charity was established 25 years ago, and it has grown, providing a wide range of services for those who have survived any form of sexual violence including a drop-in and helpline service, counselling, and an independent advocacy service. The charity is contacted by more than 900 people every year and that number is growing. The charity’s Break the Silence campaign will be a focus of the anniversary events. Fabia Bates, director of Survivors’ Network, said: “Abuse thrives on secrecy the more that we talk about sexual violence the harder it

becomes to keep it hidden. This includes everything from talking about consent to children and young people and challenging the myths and stereotypes that exist, to making sure everyone feels confident that they can speak out about their experiences and will be listened to and believed. “If we open up the channels for discussion then we can reduce both the prevalence of sexual violence and its impact on the lives of survivors. One of the most important ways that you can support our work is to talk about it.” The Break the Silence campaign will be the focus of the charity’s first event, The Open Space conference, held today (Friday), at The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton, from 10am until 4pm. The Open Space format will put participants in the driving seat, letting them take control, collaborate and answer the question ‘How do we address sexual violence in the next 25 years?’

Harrowing choices on island of Lesbos Davinia Overton @davinia_overton “You have to choose who to help… is it the mum whose child is screaming because he hasn’t eaten for five days? Is it the person in agony because they’re sick? Who do you save from drowning? The baby? The mum?” These are the dilemmas facing volunteers helping refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, said Cookie Arnone, a Brighton resident. She recently returned from a month volunteering in Lesbos, where she watched dangerously overloaded boats arrive each day and helped frantic people onto dry land. “The sheer volume of people arriving is harrowing. You feel helpless because there are insufficient r e s o u r c e s ava i l a b l e t o support everyone,” she said. The crisis is so great Ms Arnone is preparing to return for a further three months and helped establish charity, Refugees START. The charity is providing food, water, clothing, and support for refugees. Seeing what a tangible difference she could make to people’s lives inspired Ms Arnone to keep going, such as the joy of finally reuniting a distraught woman with her three children. She said: “If I can do that on day one and be of help, I’ve got to come back,

Cookie Arnone spent a month in Lesbos volunteering I’ve got to keep doing this.” However, she also spoke of the emotional impact of hearing ‘horrific’ stories from refugees whose homes are now bomb sites and whose relatives had been shot for refusing to fight for rebel forces in Syria. Volunteers for Refugees START have warned Ms Arnone the situation has worsened with the weather and have described seeing boats sink as they approach the land and of pulling people, dead and alive, out of the water. Ms Arnone said: “We’re just treating the symptoms, just making someone’s life better for that day,” and stressed governments and NGOs need to offer much more help. In the meantime, she urged the public to donate or volunteer if they can. Visit: www.refugees-start.co.uk

And tomorrow (Saturday), the 25th anniversary firewalking event at Jubilee Square will include a sponsored firewalk with 100 participants, a trio of local choirs, a photography exhibition on the Breaking the Silence theme and an interactive craft stall to create a special, celebratory mural. It will take place from 3pm until 6pm. For more information on Survivors’ Network, and its 25th anniversary e ve n t s , v i s i t : w w w. survivorsnetwork.org.uk

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At last.The sort of book that I have been yearning for. And what might that be, I hear you cry? Well, it’s a big, beautifully written page turner of a book. And as I write this, it is Remembrance Sunday and it seems wholly appropriate that I should be writing about this book on such a day, as it deals with the Great War. We meet Vivian, a headstrong, capable deb who is trapped into a stultifying dull marriage to Aubrey. She is not only constrained by her marriage, but by the laws and customs of the day, the sort of petty restrictions that are hard to imagine now - a world where not wearing the right sort of gloves could cause a scandal, so leaving a ball with a dashing young buck and making love in the cloakroom has her reputation in tatters. Her only option was to marry the dull and boringly conventional Aubrey. Then,

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Montpelier Villa FC secures sponsorship with OptaNet The future looks bright fo r l o c a l fo o t b a l l c l u b Montpelier Villa after they recently secured a three year sponsorship and partnership deal with OptaNet, Brighton’s local internet services provider. OptaNet will use this platform to raise awareness of their business data and telephony products and services. The OptaNet logo will appear on all match day kit, training and leisure garments until the end of the 2017/2018 season for their flagship first XI and the newly established under-18s team. Nicholas Sheppard, Sales & Marketing Manager a t O p t a N e t s a i d : “ We immediately recognised similarities between our two organisations in terms of growth ambitions. Montpelier Villa FC have a compelling vision, and as a local business we are only

too happy to assist them in achieving their goals.” M o n t p e l i e r Vi l l a F C Chairman, Gary Pleece added: “We are delighted to have signed this deal with fo r wa r d - t h i n k i n g l o c a l business OptaNet. This is the first season in the county league for both the first and youth teams and the club are really pleased that such an innovative and respected local business is supporting The Villa at an exciting time of expansion and growth.” Fo u n d e d i n 1 9 9 1 , Montpelier Villa FC is one of the largest and most established football clubs in Sussex who play their home games at the immaculate Falmer Sports Complex. For more information about the club, please contact Gary Pleece on 07989 159 984 or speak to OptaNet on 01273 646 600.

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Your website copy is the most important salesman Imogen Mergler from Small Fish Marketing led a recent Brighton Chamber Bite-sized Learning session, and here are her top 10 tips Most people put a lot of thought into the design of their website but can the same be said for their copy? Your website copy is your most important salesman when it comes to business. It has a huge impact on the customer experience and determines how your products and services are perceived in the outside world. But is your website copy up to the job? 1. How people read online People are impatient. They scan and don’t necessarily scroll, so put your key message on the left-hand side at the top of the page.

2. Target audience Identify typical user groups for your products or services. Write your copy from their point of view, addressing their specific needs and concerns. 3. Language Use basic language and simple sentence structures. Avoid double meanings, industry jargon, and abbreviations. 4. Tone of voice Consider voice in terms of personality, and tone in terms of mood. It’s an e s s e n t i a l p a r t o f yo u r branding, so think about how you want to come across.

5. Legibility Avoid capitals and italics and don’t underline anything unless it’s a link. Use a “sans serif” font, 12 points or more in size. 6. Headings Keep headings short and make the first two words really count. Put headings in bold to make them stand out. 7. Lists Create bulleted lists to condense information and help people scan. 8. Links Use links to aid navigation and as an alternative to a pull-down menu. Use words that mean something, not just “click here”.

Small Business bus to visit city in UK tour 9. Calls to action If possible, include a call to action on every page. A big button in a contrasting colour works best. 10. SEO Keywords count but content that is informative, relevant and reader friendly counts more. When it comes to keywords, focus on words that will help people find your site. Use terms that will connect with what they’re looking for and confirm they’re in the right place. For help with your website from a specialist copywriter with marketing expertise, visit: www. smallfishmarketing.com For more information about Brighton Chamber’s Bite-sized learning sessions, visit: www.brightonchamber. org.uk

Brighton and Hove has been selected as one of the 27 locations for a national bus tour to promote Small Business Saturday. The tour bus will park up on Ship Street, Brighton, on Monday, offering a raft of information aimed at helping businesses boost trade, not only on Small Business Saturday (December 5), but all year round. The Brighton stopoff is being coordinated by Brighton and Hove City Council with support from a range of stakeholders who will be on hand throughout the day with information about what’s on offer locally and nationally to small business traders, community interest, social enterprise, and start-up companies. Warren Morgan, leader of the city council, said: “Brighton and Hove’s impressive range of independent businesses are a big draw for visitors and a vital part of the local

economy so I’m really pleased the city has been chosen for this stop-off. I hope that as many local traders as possible will visit the bus and take advantage of the extra help it offers ahead of Small Business Saturday.” The day’s programme will include a series of free drop-in workshops and advice, including how to make a business plan, business development, and how to identify your best customer. There will be the opportunity to find out about the benefits of the VisitBrighton partnership scheme, and for consumers and businesses to join Goodmoney, the Brightonbased voucher scheme designed to encourage residents to buy local. The Small Business Saturday tour will visit Ship Street on November 23 from 10am to 2pm.

Employers in Brighton and Hove should take ownership of meaningful apprenticeships You may remember, back in August, Zac Toumazi, chief executive of Sussex Cricket Club, was asked to lead a new Employer Skills Task Force to create thousands of apprenticeships in the city. The reason the task force was set up, is because the city is thought to punch well below its weight in supplying apprenticeships. For example, in 2013/14 the city created just under 1,700 opportunities. Similarsized cities Sunderland and Coventry created 3,500 and 2,940 respectively. This could have something to do with the amount of small and micro businesses in Brighton and Hove - almost 90% - and this is set to be a substantial issue for the task force. The group was set up jointly by the city council and the local business community - but what has happened since? Well the task force has just had its third meeting,

on Tuesday, November 11, which saw council officials, business leaders, and education providers come together to share ideas to the solution of the city’s apprenticeship problem. Mr Toumazi said: “I think it is going well.The challenge is getting ourselves to a point where we have got plenty of knowledge and understanding of what the solution is. This is our third meeting. I think we’re now moving quickly into the solution stage. Our role is to understand and put together a recommendation, and let someone else deliver it.” Th e g r o u p i s s e t t o have three more meetings before handing its recommendations to the council in the new year. Some of the issues the group discussed at Tuesday’s meeting included: what apprenticeships are available in the city; what kind of apprenticeships do young people seek; how

can apprentices help small businesses to grow; how can businesses be supported in taking on an apprentice; and how to get a commitment from employers to make suitable apprenticeships available. Mr Toumazi said: “It is about supporting bu s i n e s s e s w h o m i g h t not have the knowledge or time to find out about apprenticeships.” A significant part of the task group’s vision involves businesses taking ownership of apprenticeships, creating them and building schemes that benefit both the employer in growing their business, the employee in learning new skills, and ultimately the city. Mr Toumazi said: “We need to get the employers engaged. It is as if they shop in Next for furniture - they have got it, and can take it home. We want to get them thinking about going to IKEA, where they can build their furniture. There’s a level

of ownership that needs to happen.” In a wider discussion, the task group talked about what kind of apprenticeships could be created in the city - and whether there would b e a n o p p o r t u n i t y fo r apprentices to work across two sectors; enhancing their skills, but taking the pressure off businesses, which might only need parttime help - and don’t have the resources for a full-time apprentice. This is a crucial in a city with a high rate of micro and small businesses. Giving the disadvantaged a better chance at a career is also part of the reason Mr Toumazi agreed to h e a d u p t h e E m p l oye r Skills Task Force. He said: “It is something I care about. I came from a poor background. The thing that made a difference to me, I had this inner belief that if I set my mind to something I could do it.” Apprenticeships might

be the key to unlock new opportunities for young people in the city, and halfway through what

Mr Toumazi calls “an aggressive timescale” for the task force, solutions are beginning to emerge.

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A radical new approach to business and innovation at Meaning 2015 Emily Yates @MsEYates

Meaning 2015 took place at the Corn Exchange last week, bringing together an eclectic group of thinkers from business, academia, and activism for a day of inspirational TED-like talks. The Brighton-born event takes a radical approach to business and innovation, with this year’s topics including democratic ownership, sustainable banking, and the “circular’”economy. With regular networking b r e a k s , s p e a k e r- l e d workshops and a panel discussion, Meaning 2015 seemed more of a gathering than a conference – drawing together a diverse group of local visionaries and international thinkers in an interactive forum for exchange. The opening speaker, Jos de Blok, set an irreverent tone for the day with the story of Buurtzorg, the Dutch healthcare company gaining attention worldwide for being a model “teal” organisation. Wi t h a m a n a g e m e n t philosophy of “absent except when needed” and special approach to strategy - “when you don’t do it you realise nobody’s waiting for it” Buurtzorg has given radical autonomy to its 10,000 employees, allowing it to lead successful initiatives in its own communities. His appearance paired nicely

with the presence of Jackie Lynton later in the morning. As the strategic mind behind NHS Change Day, Jackie spoke about the value of “giving permission” and “the need to shift positional to relational power” if we are to release a community’s ability to innovate. The theme of democratic management came to a head in Meaning’s colourful panel discussion, with employee ownership specialist Carole Leslie’s emphasis on “the dichotomy between real power and permitted power”, and activist Dave Boyle’s wry reminder that “the Celts liked to kill their King every seven years.” If new sources of innovation are to be found in freeing employees, they are also to be found in freeing partners - a notion central to Miriam Turner’s belief in moving past an out-dated sustainability model to a true “restorative enterprise”. H e r s t o r y o f I n t e r fa c e Inc’s quest for a zerowaste “circular” economy demonstrated unexpected solutions found through the engagement of partners as far away as the Philippines. Curator, Jenni Lloyd, explained the intention behind this year’s schedule: “Meaning looks at ideas from the edges and brings them to the centre. I didn’t want things that everybody’s

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talking about, but things that people are going to be talking about in a year such as “teal organizations” and “the circular economy”. Bringing them into a more mainstream environment means that others can connect with them, and this accelerates their progress.” It is testament to Jenni Lloyd’s confident curation - and in keeping with her belief that “we must cease to ignore the whole spectrum of human existence” - that the shifts between business and inner exploration were achieved so seamlessly throughout the day. Artist Annette Mees took the quest for innovation into our inner lives - where the fact that “art is useless” means we leave our agenda a t t h e d o o r, r e m ov i n g normal power structures t o r e ve a l “ t h e p l ay f u l human underneath”. Her appearance formed the perfect bridge to shamanic practitioner Marcus Coates, whose talk on “unconscious reasoning” explained his use of performance art and transpersonal play in accessing real-world solutions from “the dream space”. Tom Nixon, co-founder of Meaning, expressed his appreciation of the day’s m o s t m ave r i c k f i g u r e : “Marcus Coates highlights the fact that the so-called

Meaning 2015: drawing together a diverse group of local visionaries and international thinkers in an interactive forum.

Louise Ash in the dining hall ‘crazy’ stuff isn’t really that crazy. It’s the status quo that is crazy - continuing on as if we haven’t got runaway climate change, and the world is not becoming drastically unequal through these huge top-down lumbering bureaucracies.” Meaning is the brainchild o f d i g i t a l c o n s u l t a n cy firm Nixon McInnes – recognised as “one of the most democratic workplaces worldwide” – whose members are now busy with their own projects, but still very much in collaboration. Th i s ye a r ’ s eve n t wa s produced by Louise Ash and curated for the first time by Jenni Lloyd, who Tom Nixon calls the original “source” of the concept.

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Jenni Lloyd, curator, and Louise Ash, producer

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Marcus Coate - the day’s most “maverick” figure

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Jos de Blok spoke about Buurtzorg, the Dutch healthcare company

Jackie Lynton, the strategic mind behind NHS Change Day

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Paul provides ‘triptych’ of award-winning comedy Paul Foot – A Retrospective Brighton Dome Studio Paul Foot, the internationallyacclaimed and multiple award-winning comic, is Brighton-bound next month to perform a retrospective showcasing some of his mostloved shows. He appears at the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre from Friday to Sunday, December 4 to 6 (8pm). A spokesperson said: “Hailed as a comedy genius by no less than six national newspapers and known for his musings, rants, ‘disturbances’ and apparent aversion to pop culture, the mullet-sporting pioneer of eccentricity is bringing three shows to Brighton and will perform them on consecutive nights. “It’s a comedy triptych of Paul’s award-winning shows – By The Yard, Still Life and Kenny Larch Is Dead. “ B y Th e Ya r d ( 2 0 0 9 ) is an extravaganza for Connoisseurs of Imperial Comedy from one of the Empire’s (includes USA) most original talents. For a unique experience, don’t wait furlong. Let multi-award winning 2008 finalist of NBC’s prestigious Last Comic Standing take you the extra mile for just a few pounds. “In Still Life (2011) the walls of Baron Ryan Carter’s castle have ears and a rudimentary mouth, which whispers of the 23 comments of old that changed the world, now in the hands and voice

Paul Foot box of Mr Paul Foot. “Kenny Larch Is Dead (2012) is set deep within the sinking sands of the perspex jungle of youth. In the forgotten nebula of nothingness, just off the warm waste waters of New Norfolk, comes an objet du désir: a trombone fruit. Needless to say, it’s another warm year.” Paul said: “This year I really want to revisit three of my shows from the past and perform them side by side, one night after another.

While this might seem an unusual idea, I want to do this because all three of these shows are very different from one another and were all created in a short period of time (2009-2012). I didn’t necessarily intend to create three such different shows; I think they turned out the way they did simply because of an urge on my part to experiment with all aspects of a comedy show.” Each performance is £15.50 or pay £37.50 for all three. Call 01273 709709.

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Chris Goode and Company promise an incendiary piece of experimental storytelling at Brighton Dome Men in the Cities, written and performed by Chris, is on Tuesday, November 24, at 7.30pm. Framed by two violent deaths – the apparentlyinexplicable suicide of a young gay man and the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich in May 2013 – Men in the Cities is a piece about harm and complicity and about the forces that shape our relationships. Spokesperson Emma Robertson said: “From a working-class man nearing retirement who no longer knows whose side he’s on, to a ten-year-old boy cheerfully obsessed with pornography and American punk, Men in the Cities presents fractured snapshots of dozens of seemingly disconnected

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lives that together offer a challenging but radically humane portrait of how we live now. “Men in the Cities takes the gently-seductive storytelling style of Chris’s previous solo shows, like Kiss of Life (2002) and The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (2011), and subjects it to a

controlled explosion. “Blurring fiction and reality to create a complex, volatile, richly-textured work, Men in the Cities is a risky but carefully-crafted piece about the radical possibilities of hope and of change.” Tickets on 01273 709709 or brightondome.org.

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Leading a British renaissance Akala Brighton Dome MOBO award-winning hip hop artist, writer, poet and educator Akala heads to Brighton Dome’s studio t h e a t r e o n T h u r s d a y, December 3. A spokesperson said: “Akala is a label owner and social entrepreneur who fuses his unique rap/rock/ electro-punk sound with fierce lyrical storytelling. “Over the past few years Akala has emerged from London’s hip hop underground and into the mainstream as one of the leaders of a new British artistic renaissance. “Bursting onto the scene in 2004, Akala made history by being the first unsigned artist to have a video appear on MTV UK’s TRL show. “2006 saw his first album, It’s Not A Rumour, drop with trance-sampling smash single Shakespeare being play-listed and championed on BBC’s Radio 1 via the support of DJs Zane Lowe and Pete Tong. “The album received critical acclaim and earned Akala the ‘Best Hip Hop Artist’ award at the 2006

MOBO awards, beating out Kanye West. “Reflecting the disorder and flux of contemporary life, Akala’s second album, Freedom Lasso, was an energetic visionary essay on modern life, drawing influences from the whole spectrum of music – rap, rock, electro, punk and folk. “In 2009, Akala launched The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, a music theatre production company dedicated to offering young people a different view of the arts. “The company has sparked worldwide media interest since its inception, collaborating with the likes of Sir Ian McKellen and Ed Sheeran. “Summer 2010 saw Akala return, with his third LP Doublethink, inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, followed by original mixtape entitled Knowledge Is Power, which saw Akala collaborate with UK hip hop artists Lowkey, Durrty Goodz and English Frank.

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“In 2013 Akala released The Thieves’ Banquet after being inspired by Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s book Devil On A Cross. “Recorded with his live band and featuring artwork collaboration with Japanese artist Tokio Aoyama, the album cover was launched as part of a digital art installation and preview performance at Tate Modern. “His fifth studio album, Knowledge is Power 2, was released earlier this year. “Inspired by the likes of Gil Scot-Heron and Saul Williams, Akala has developed a stellar live show with his renowned drummer and award-winning music p r o d u c e r C a s s e l l ‘ Th e Beatmaker’ (Plan B, The Streets and Keziah Jones), headlining six UK tours. “He has also toured with the likes of Jay-Z, Nas and Damian Marley, M.I.A. and Christina Aguilera and appeared at numerous UK, European and US festivals (Glastonbury, Big Chill, Wireless, and SXSW).

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Night offers stylish blend of fiery rock, blues and raw funk More than thirty exceptionally talented songwriters, bands, comedians, solo artists and recording artists are set to take part in the AHPR Entertainment Showcase evening. The event takes place on Wednesday, November 25, at Preston Park Hotel, Preston Road, Brighton, from 7.30pm with hours of live music and entertainment. There are 10 acts performing throughout the evening. Bands from different genres including soul, pop, rock, swing and even Irish, plus magicians, comedians, solo singers and musicians, will take to the stage to showcase what they can do. All of the acts performing come from the AHPR Entertainment stable, based in Hove, who specialise in providing live entertainment for private a n d c o r p o r a t e e ve n t s , including weddings, private parties, balls, corporate events and launches in Sussex and throughout the UK. Th e s h ow c a s e eve n t will create a stylish blend of fiery rock, blues, soul, R&B, reggae, raw funk and draw from an incredible

Ambrose Harcourt background of musical talent, as well as comedians and great magic. The event is free and there is free parking. Around 100 guests are expected to attend at the picturesque and popular venue for weddings and conferences in Brighton, which remains a gem of timeless charm, easily accessible, comfortable and with easy free parking. Sabeur Toumi, general manager of Preston Park H o t e l , s a i d : “ Th e a c t s performing are fantastic and everyone will have a great time.”

Ambrose Harcourt, whose team is working at putting on the Showcase said: “It will be a real pleasure to introduce such a diverse event, which has great musical appeal to so many different people. “We also hope to raise money on the night for the Hotel’s chosen charity for the year, Chestnut Tree House, the only Children’s Hospice in Sussex.” For more info visit www. ahpr- entertainment. co.uk or call 01273 206111.

Akala: hip-hop writer, artistm writer, poet and educator “He’s also collaborated with the British Council on arts and music projects in The Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and across several countries in Africa and South-east Asia. “Akala is also known for his compelling lectures/ seminars, journalism (The Guardian, Huffington Post UK, New Internationalist

and The Independent), TV presenting and scriptwriting and has gained a reputation as one of the most dynamic and literate talents in the UK. “He has also featured on numerous TV programmes across Channel 4, ITV2, MTV, Sky Arts and the BBC, promoting his music and poetry, as well as speaking on

wide-ranging subjects from music, youth engagement, British/African-Caribbean culture, African History, World History and the arts as a whole. Tickets for the show cost £13.50. Call 01273 709709 or visit: brightondome.org.

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What’s on FRIDAY Reasons to be Pretty 7.45pm/2.30pm, £7-£9 New Venture Theatre, BN1 2PT @nvt_brighton Until November 21. This contemporary tale follows two young American couples as they struggle with the reality of modern relationships. This is an unexpectedly empathetic Neil LaBute at his comedic best.

The Royal Pavilion during World War I Voices of India: The First World War offers a oneday conference in the Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street, Brighton, on Saturday, November 21. A R oya l Pav i l i o n spokesperson said: “For 100 years the story of India’s role in the First World War has been largely forgotten, both within India and by the rest of the world. “This major one-day international conference seeks to bring the diverse voices and experiences of those from India affected by the conflict to life. “How have Indian soldiers and their families been represented in

memory, literature, media and official records, and how can or should they be remembered and viewed a century on? Discover the thoughts expressed by soldiers in letters home, listen to astonishing sound recordings of soldiers in German prisoner of war camps, and find out about extraordinary individuals, such as Sophia Duleep Singh, Maharajah’s daughter, suffragette and nurse.” Visit: brightonmuseums. org.uk. The conference is from 10.30am to 7.30pm. Tickets cost £60 (members £55).

Krater Comedy Club 7pm/8pm/10.30pm, £5-£36.50 Komedia, Gardner Street, BN1 1UN @KomediaBrighton Until November 22. Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians. Acts include: Geoff Norcott, Lloyd Langford, Jeff Innocent, MC Toby Hadocke, MC Stephen Grant and others to be confirmed. Paul Weller 6.30pm, £38 Brighton Centre BN1 2GR @BrightonCentre 2015 has been another whirlwind year for Paul Weller with a 10-date arena tour in the winter taking in towns across the UK from Brighton to Glasgow. Olivia Louvel 7.30pm, £5 Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome

Headlined by award-winning Frenchborn Brit Olivia Louvel, this Spectrum special focuses on women in the electronic music scene. Louvel crafts a fresh set of art inspired electronics. Bogan Bingo 8.15pm, £8 Komedia, Gardner Street, BN1 1UN @KomediaBrighton Mullets, mayhem and mass crowd collaboration come together during this high octane, sell-out smash comedy show where you get the chance to walk away with one of the many prizes up for grabs, including free drinks, bar tabs or an amazing holiday from Travel Talk Tours. Sir Coxsone Outernational Sounds 11pm, £5 Komedia, Gardner Street, BN1 1UN @KomediaBrighton This is the second in a series of sessions featuring reggae artists and sound-systems from Jamaica, the UK and beyond. Support by DJ Felix, playing past, present and future reggae classics. Hayley Ross 7pm, £4 Latest MusicBar, BN2 1TF @latestmusicbar Hayley Ross went travelling all over Europe in a van and this was where she found the space to start writing her beautiful songs. Hayley is a

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vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who writes about the things she understands. She also enjoys the solace of songwriting. Nu Tribe Club Night 8pm, £6/£8/£10 Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, BN1 3FE @Rialto_Brighton Nu Tribe is a collaborative event – a fusion of flavours, personalities and expressions, genres and sounds. The event melds the ancient tribal past of ceremony with the New Age.

SATURDAY Venue B Takeover 7.30pm, £5 Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome Venue B is a group of young people from Brighton Youth Centre who create and organise events by teenagers for everyone. The Rezillos 7pm, £15 Concorde 2, BN2 1EN @concorde_2 The Rezillos burst onto the rock scene in 1976. Through a shared love of Sixties garage rock The Rezillos found themselves inadvertently caught up in the punk or New Wave movement. Christmas Open Day 11am-4pm, free

Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome A host of family-friendly entertainment and activities to get you into the Christmas mood. Soulful Singing 11am-1pm, £5 Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome Group singing teacher Mahasukha leads this uplifting harmony workshop with sacred song and heaps of infectious enthusiasm to get your spirits soaring. No experience necessary, just the will to sing. No need to book.

SUNDAY Jamie Macdowell and Tom Thum 7pm, £16.50 Komedia, Gardner Street, BN1 1UN @KomediaBrighton Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum are two honest, unpolished but highly skilled performers, simply doing what they love. Jamie’s brand of heartfelt songwriting and melodic finger-work is elevated when combined with Tom’s heavy hitting, world-class beatboxing. Celebrate! 10 Years with Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus 7.30pm, £11.90 - £26.90 Theatre Royal, BN1 1SD @TheatreRoyalBTN Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus is a space

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where people can celebrate music, celebrate their sexuality, enjoy the fellowship of other like-minded people and contribute to the local communities.

The Maccabees 7pm, £25 Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome The Maccabees’ studio album Given To The Wild, a sprawling masterpiece of distorted pop, psychedelia and soulful guitar soundscapes, was a top five hit in the UK. With support from Drenge.

Söndörgö 7.30pm, £12 (£10 concessions) Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome Discover the beauty and distinctively different Balkan sound of one of Europe’s most versatile and exciting bands.

Krept & Konan 7pm, £13 Concorde 2, BN2 1EN @concorde_2 Krept and Konan are an award winning hip hop duo from London.

Shona 8pm, £4 Latest MusicBar, BN2 1TF @latestmusicbar Formed in 2015, Brighton four-piece, Shona, accelerate boxcar country, rhythm ’n’ blues down soul tracks with a world weary acerbity and sideshow of remorse. With Simon Harford.

TUESDAY Men in the Cities 7.30pm, £12 (£10 concessions) Brighton Dome, BN1 1UG @brightdome Framed by two violent deaths – the apparently inexplicable suicide of a young gay man, and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 – this Fringe First-winning solo show is a compelling piece about harm, complicity, and the forces that shape our relationships.

Saint Raymond 7pm, £12.50 Concorde 2, BN2 1EN @concorde_2 English teenager Callum Burrows, better known as Saint Raymond, rushed onto the music scene at the tender age of 18, and his indie pop anthems were immediately tipped for big things by the music press. Plus support from Louis Berry and Shannon Saunders.

Dubmatix 7.30pm, £6/8 Komedia, Gardner Street, BN1 1UN @KomediaBrighton

Jellyfunk Allstars present Canadian composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and five-time Juno Award winner/nominee ‘Dubmatix’ for his first ever Brighton Show.

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Dancing for Syria 9.30pm, £8 Latest MusicBar, BN2 1TF @latestmusicbar This is a fundraiser for the Syrian refugees in Calais. Brighton-based tribal fusion belly dancers Hilde Cannoodt and Charlotte Wassell have put together this dance showcase. Performances by people from all over the UK.

Daniel, and Ross MacDonald. Built to Spill 7pm, £19.50 Concorde 2, BN2 1EN @concorde_2 Idaho-based indie-rock band fronted by Dough Martsch, Built to Spill, return to Brighton with their eighth studio album Untethered Moon, finding the middle ground between postmodern, Pavement-style pop and the loose, spacious jamming of Neil Young.

Mr Popper’s Penguins 10.30am, £14.40 Theatre Royal, BN1 1SD @TheatreRoyalBTN Painter and decorator by day, Mr Popper spends most of his time dreaming of Antarctic adventures. He is astounded when one day a packing crate arrives, out of which waddles a penguin. With songs, puppets and a family of performing penguins, this is musical adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s popular book.

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The Ealing Inheritance The Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, Brighton November 24 to 28 Button Pressed Productions present The Ealing Inheritance, a comedy by Simon Messingham, at Brighton’s Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, from November 24 to 28. The show is a ripe, fetid comedy where no one is who they claim to be, where everyone has a terrible secret, where the past

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Brain Gym

No.249

Each number in the grid represents a different letter of the alphabet and every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter(s) to the right of the main grid to start you off.

Last week’s solutions: 2

K W F N U S V

X Y R H Z

Q G O L E P A T B C D M J

Wordsquare

D N S A F H O E I How you rate: 8 words - average; 12 words - good; 16 words - very good; 20 or more - excellent.

Last week’s solutions:

CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Acid test; 5 Toga; 9 Imps; 10 Last year; 11 Issue; 12 Foundry; 13 Loses one’s head; 18 Military; 19 Away; 20 Tension; 21 Light; 22 Drew; 23 Renegade. Down: 2 Comes to; 3 Dispute; 4 Staff entrance; 6 Overdue; 7 Arrayed; 8 Stoups; 13 Limited; 14 Silence; 15 Sets in; 16 Hearing; 17 Abashed. QUICK - Across: 1 Gratuity; 5 Dear; 9 Also; 10 Arrogant; 11 Major; 12 Tripper; 13 Head over heels; 18 Arcadian; 19 Pick; 20 Travail; 21 Meant; 22 Nick; 23 Assisted. Down: 2 Release; 3 Twofold; 4 Turn the tables; 6 Example; 7 Returns; 8 Polish; 13 Hearten; 14 Archaic; 15 Ordeal; 16 Express; 17 License.

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues:

Codeword

Double Crossword Across Down 2. Method of 1. Displace labourer communication in doing duty at British India (5) different times (5,6) 3. One of the first 9. A close shave for members to come brother’s capital (7) to grief (7) 10 & 21Dn. Like 4. Reconstruct the war memorial for thinkers (5,5) the dead (6) 11 & 22Ac. Position for 5. Correct prerogative a bronze (5,5) (5) 12. Taken by coach (7) 6 & 17Dn. This is used 13. Commanding to put the pupil under heavier officer returns with lashes! (7,6) unfinished oath, as 7. An aid for one it happens (6) Quick Clues: engaged in heart15. I want a change Across searching (11) from Formosa (6) 8. Not a vessel used 1. Not easily described 18. Company gets for educational (11) cruise! (11) clear arrangement 9. Voter (7) 14. Anxiety about for this vessel (7) horse slaughter (7) 10. Power (5) 20. Therefore music 11. Ledge (5) 16. Level accusation partly features a against a sovereign 12. Gorge (7) classical figure (5) term, by the sound 13. Remember (6) of it (7) 22. See 11 Across 15. Quantity (6) 23. Maybe I can hit the 17. See 6 Down 18. Wind (7) 19. They are employed bottle from Italy! (7) 20. Overturn (5) on vessels for a 24. Brutality shown sea-trip, one hears 22. Sound (5) by rows among 23. In brisk time (7) (5) quadrupeds (11) 24. Riches (11) 21. See 10 Across

Kakuro 12

Give yourself ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the grid. Each word must use the central letter and at least 3 others, and letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns, but verb forms ending in ‘s’ are permitted. There is one 9-letter word to be found.

ensign, gent, gets, girt, gist, grin, grins, grist, grit, grits, ignite, igniter, ignites, ingest, inserting, nesting, reign, reigns, renting, resign, resting, rigs, ring, rings, rinsing, rising, sign, signer, signet, sing, singe, singer, siting, sting, string, tensing, tiger, tinge, tiring, trig.

13 10

22 14

6 14

12 23

Last week’s solutions:

8 27

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 14. 16. 17. 19. 21.

Fat (5) Obedient (7) Sadness (6) Fire-arm (5) Upstart (7) Dimension (11) Poverty (11) Goblet (7) Half-drunk (7) Sermonise (6) Live (5) Symptoms (5)

6 11

26 7

Fill in the white squares with numbers 1 to 9. Each horizontal block must add up to the number in the shaded square to its left, and each vertical block to the number above. Numbers may be used once in each block. Last week’s solutions: 2 1 8 9 5 4 6 4 2 5 8 5 3 1 3 8 9 7 1 4 9 1 5 9 3

3 4 8 6 9 7 5 2 1

9 5 6 2 5 1 4 1 7 3 4 8 2 4 5 5 8 6 9 7 6 3 5 2 1

Y G

Y P A G R U ? U R A A O

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E D

Last week’s solutions: The letter represented by the question mark is M. Cameroon, Namibia, Somalia, all African countries.

Alphamuddle Rearrange the letters in the grid B to make five words that read both across and down. Five letters have been placed to start you off.

C R A

Sudoku Fill in the grids below so that every column, every row and each of the 3x3 boxes contains all the digits from 1 to 9.

Simple

Replace the question mark with a letter so that the letters within each circle can be arranged to form words on a common theme. What are the three words, and the letter represented by the question mark?

Down

Scribble pad

Circlegram

Intermediate

Difficult

Last week’s solutions: >

O S

From top to bottom Simple, Intermediate, Difficult

S K C C U

T N O R R

R O A O I

I O T O S

T R A N A

Last week’s solutions: Panel, Agora, Nodes, Erect, Lasts.

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Bistro-style dining with home comforts When I first moved to Brighton I was struck by just how many great pubs this fair city possessed. For us normal folk looking for a place to enjoy a drink and a bite to eat this is great news; perhaps not so much for those seeking our custom. Many have the security of being part of a major chain or the backing of a large brewery in order to survive. The downside to this is that these venues are often restricted in their choice of beers, food and décor as a result. One new pub that has decided that they want to go it alone and avoid this is The Independent in Queens Park. Having purchased w h a t wa s t h e Wa l m e r Castle, owners Matt and James spent three months renovating the pub before opening in late June. They have created a laid back, understated but stylish space that retains a pub feel. With a record player on the bar and a selection of vinyl to choose from it is a bit like having a bar in your living room; the dream we all dream - or is that just me? The pub has a strong emphasis on food and head chef Nick has more than 20 years’ experience working in a variety of restaurants and hotels in London. His vision for The Independent is classic bistro-style cuisine. His cooking is about pleasure and providing

Homely cooking: The herb-crust hake with mash, kale, and green beans in a beurre blanc sauce

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This is food to be appreciated in its simplicity and focus on great taste and that in itself is a wonderful thing.

food that people want to eat rather than seeking personal glory - leave your bells and whistle at the door please. The menu is seasonal and ever-changing, based on what produce is available - sourced locally of course, but there is no need to go on about it. I was delighted to see that they offered merguez (£5.50) - a North African spiced lamb sausage - on the starters menu. I’ve had a hankering for these for some time and was not disappointed. Supplied by the Brighton Sausage Co, they had a satisfying

The chocolate orange pot was silky smooth and rich

balance of both heat and spice. Served with an apricot couscous and a pepperoncini sauce for added heat, and a mint yoghurt to counteract it, I quickly polished it off. For my main I went for the herb-crust hake with mash, kale, and green beans in a beurre blanc sauce(£13.95). As I waited for my main to arrive I sat sipping a pint of Goose Island IPA as Lou Reed’s “Transformer” came on the stereo; I really could be at home. The food arrived and I tucked in feeling quietly content. The meaty yet mild hake was cooked beautifully with the crust and crisp skin on the bottom adding texture. Super creamy mash and basic greens complemented it well with the beurre blanc giving just the right amount of acidity. This is the sort of food that I like to make at home, just done better. I finished my meal with a chocolate orange pot served with homemade biscotti (£5.75). Chef Nick trained as a pastry chef and so I had high hopes for this. As with the previous courses I was served a no-frills yet very tasty pudding. The slightly salty biscotti had a crisp yet chewy texture that was much nicer than some of the overly crisp offerings I’ve had previously. The chocolate pot was silky smooth and

indulgently rich with a hint of orange that lingered on the palate. When James and Matt took over the pub their aim was simple. To open the type of pub that they would like to eat and drink in and give that to the community. With chef Nick in tow they have achieved just that. I shared my evening with a table consisting of three generations of a family to my left and a variety of couples to my right. Every one of them was happily chatting away and then murmuring contentedly when their food arrived. I am t ol d t hat t heir Sunday roasts are now pre-book only and based on what I ate I can see why. The food is there to enjoy and feel comfortable with. This is not food that needs to shout about itself as that is not what it is about. This is food to be appreciated in its simplicity and focus on great taste and that in itself is a wonderful thing. Tom Flint writes a food blog Food Booze and Reviews at: www. foodboozeandreviews.com

Kentucky. They call it the Bluegrass State. Bluegrass isn’t even blue - it’s just grass, and not even the illegal kind. The Bluegrass State has the highest-per -capita number of deer and turkey in the United States. Makes you question why the colonel is so intent on that recipe remaining a secret. We’re not suggesting he’s deep frying battered fawns - that would be a little dear... Aside from KFC, Bluegrass music, tobacco, and funny accents, Kentucky is where you’ll find what some people call The Horse Capital of The World. O t h e r s c a l l i t Th e A t h e n s o f Th e We s t , because Espy wrote a poem about how great it is there. It’s terrible. The poem, not the city. The city’s probably alright but the poem really is bad. Everyone else calls it Lexington. The city, not the poem. The poem’s called The Athens of The West. Obviously. Lexington has a Toyota manufacturing plant; headquarters for Xerox, IBM, and Amazon.com; and a peanut butter factory that produces more peanut butter than any other factory in the world. Lexington also has Tony Davis. He owns

Kentucky Knows Studios and he creates art from Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels. But wait, there’s more - Tony uses the barrels to age coffee beans. We’re quite confident that he’s the only person who does this, but you never know. We ’ r e h a u n t e d by images of a Hills Have Eyes-type family ageing beans and body parts in barrels. Tony has 13 barrels of beans currently ageing. A n d i f o n e o f To ny ’ s barrels should accidently fall, he’d have 12 barrels of beans currently ageing. Despite the bourbon barrels, the beans are non-alcoholic. They must just soak up the flavours of the bourbon from the barrel. Shame he didn’t do this with jars at the peanut butter factory instead. Tony’s initial flavours are Bourbon (we guess that one tastes of bourbon), Bourbon Pumpkin Spice (that pesky Starbucks infects e ve r y t h i n g ) C a r a m e l Bourbon (so that’d be bourbon with a hint of caramel), and Bourbon Ball (ooh awkward - we don’t want to know). Hey, Tony! Send us some bourbon barrel aged coffee beans. Any f l avo u r w i l l d o . A ny flavour except Ball.

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TEAPOT milk, sugar, BATHROOM cabinet, books, approx 10, barrell all new, boxed and puzzles, good condition, SIX vintage suitcases, biscuit unopened, white, 73 x 65 open to offers 01273 £30, other items £10 matching and tray, £20. (01243) 861914 upwards. 01293 776402 x 29, £18 0787 962 5199 883432 150 pre- FOUR lager glasses for C O N T E M P O R A R Y FRAMED BUILDINGS STAMPS wash hand basin OF ENGLAND by R T decimal, can post to you £1, ideal for parties. 01243 821315 18"x22x5.5" white £20. Mason, hardback, Coach £5. 01243 672255 01903 785169 Publishing House Ltd, £7. GOLD antique type bath Tel 01403 700601. shower mixer tap, in SUSSEX authoress VGC £35 Worthing 01903 Sheila Kaye-Smith, four 248749 books, £10 the lot, REAR Hardbacks 01273 607231 PS2 and rave station. HALFORDS Dance mat, games, ideal MOUNT 3 cycle rack, P BATH luxury shower present. Good excellent condition with screen 770 x 1500 mm HAYNES manual, Escort xas still boxed £25. Tel 01825 Orion 90-00 H-X £7 condition. all £15. Tel instructions. Tel 01403 01403 730203. 791633. £25. 763133. 01903 248431

BEDS

AQUATIC

ARTS CRAFTS & HOBBIES

CARPETS & RUGS

BABY - GENERAL

COOKERS

CLOTHING

COLLECTORS CORNER & ANTIQUES

CURTAINS & BLINDS

BOARD GAMES & JIGSAWS

BATHROOMS

BOOKS

CUTLERY CHINA & GLASS

COMPUTER ACCESSORIES

CYCLE ACCESSORIES

Friday, November 20, 2015

CYCLES BIKES serviced and repaired at reasonable rates. Collection and delivery service available. Text/Call Ricky on 01243 861961 or 07795370671

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UNTOUCHED 2 ½ ltrs Valspar paint, subtle lilac shade, wrong colour bought and mixed, cost MEN AND WOMENS £27, accept £10, Tel: BIKES from £30 brought, 07535 276577 sold and repaired, LARGE very heavyduty unwanted bikes collect- expandable pop rivet ed free must be in fair gun, opens about 24", condition (01243) 861961 good condition, brass GENTS VTT cycle, holder £10 01903 733114 universal wildthing blowout, 21" frame, 18 JOISTS 10ft for raised speed, twistgrip beds, herb gardens etc. gearchange, £45ono £10 each Tel:01903 230741 07901958692 CLAUD BUTLER ladies WOOD 4" x 2" various tourer cycle, metalic lengths £3.00 per 8' can deliver finish, little used, ex. length, cond., £100. Chichester Tel:01903 230741 01243 783146 CAVITY closers 2.4m MANS LARGE FRAME long for 100mm cavity ROAD BIKE good 20plus £5each. 01243 conditon. £40. 607613 Billingshurst. Tel 01403 ELECTRIC tile cutter, 786704. Wicks, 450 watt, perfect MENS RAYLEIGH working order, VGC, £20. ALASKA 21 gear Bognor 01243 866933 mountain bike, excellent condition. Turquoise Tel FOLDING portable table 01403 791633 £50 ono. 6ft x 2ft, suitable for RALEIGH chiltern unisex wallpaper pasting, £5. 182frame 27"wheels 01243 860781 3spd hubgear rear carrier GAS welder complete kit, side stand £60. 01243 trolley, cylinders, torch, 263501 rods, goggles, £100. BOY'S/GIRL'S mountain 01243 555673 bikes and BMX suit 6 years plus, £15 each JOISTS 10ft for raised Portslade 01273 880097 beds, herb gardens etc. £10 each Tel:01903 FOLDING bike, halfords, 230741 3-speed, stand, bell, seat, cover, GWO, £10. LADDERS x2 aluminium 17rungs 29ft 6" kept in Aldwick 01243 263975 garage, used twice £55. LADIES Raleigh cycle, 01730 814305 19 gears, good cond., £30. 01243 824707 / LOFT ladder, three 07933479168 sections, metal with attachments, good order, LADIES Raleigh Chiltern cycle, 26" wheels, good £25. 01243 780756 condition, £25. (01243) SOREWELD ARC 267154 welder 160 amp, 240v BOYS bike ridgeback with turbo fan. £30. Tel mx16 GC, blue £45ono. 01903 744687. 01798 343076 TARMAC rake, £5. GIRLS bike with Accron prop, 7-12ft, £8. stabilisers, pink GC one strongboy £18. 0771 £15ono. 01798 343076 153 9523 G I R L S / L A D I E S WOOD 4" x 2" various mountain bike for sale, lengths £3.00 per 8' £20 Tel: (01903) 208298 length, can deliver LADIES bike in good Tel:01903 230741 cond., new tyres, £40. WOOD 3" x 2 x 8ft, £2.50 01243 266274 each. 4" x 2" x 8ft, £3 each. 2" x 1½" x 16ft, £2 each. 01903 230741

DANCE WEAR

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES GENERAL

FOR SALE

FOUR WHITE & RED folding kitchen chairs £18. Lovely quilted throwover quilt, matching MIELE cat & dog 2000w pillowcases blue/white. cylinder vacuum, hardly £15. Tel 01444 258744. used inc. all tools and bags, £75. 01243 868027 HANDBAG 12" X14", burgundy leather, beige PHILLIPS Hostess lining. Two handles, three Trolley, VGC £35 01903 compartments. Brand 856111 new, ideal gift. £25. RUSSELL HOBBS (01323) 847216. coffee maker used once, TWO LARGE ceiling fans £20 ono. 01243 375375 with central lights, three speed, suitable conservatory/sunroom £15. each Tel 01273 45 ELVIS DVD'S with 890990. magazines. Brand new, good condition. Buyer to WOK good quality brand collect. £180 - 01306 new still boxed £5 (01243) 574104 711689.

DVDS & DISCS

FASHION ACCESSORIES

FOR SALE

HAYNES workshop manual, covering VW Golf, Jetta, Scirocco, Golf convertible, 1974-1985 £7 (01243) 574104

CANON STARWRITER 30 personal publishing system with two ink cartridges. £25 Lindfield 01444 482335.

EXTENDABLE 2-sided mirror, wall mounted, plain and magnified x 2, new unwanted gift from wilco, £5. 01243 263182

MASSAGE couch, face hole with towelling cover, adjustable height and back rest, portable, £45 ono. (01243) 788172

SPARE WHEEL Brand New 185/65R15 was for 2012 Corsa £75 Tel 01293 526974 / 07762620734

VASES clear glass, modern looking, heavy base, h10"x11" circ. h10½"x 13" circ, nice xmas gift £5 the pair (01243) 574104

CARDBOARD boxes various sizes ideal for moving house, some modular book boxes £25. 01243 602847 Selsey

FISHING ROD Bags 1 Four Tube Stephens of Birmingham £5 1 Three Tube un- named £4 Tel 01444 235250

JUMP leads 7 tow rope PAINTBALL VOUCHER £5. 01243 607613 for holmbush Horsham valid till April 2017 admits 10 £50. Unwanted gift. Tel 01403 240110.

BEDSIDE TABLE Period style, top quality hand- made, in solid rich mahogany. £20. Tel: 01243 585756.

CHILDRENS porcelain xmas themed dinner plates in pretty presentation box £10. 01403 730216

HANDBAG large leather Burgandy three compartments, new with labels ideal gift. £25. Can deliver Tel 01323 847216.

SECURITY GRILLE Heavy Duty Forged Iron, Painted White,28" x 42" for Door/Window £20 Tel 01444 247039

BINOCULARS Carl Zeiss Jena, 6 x 30 Ex military, £10. Tel 01323 641876 07980 604623. Eastbourne

CHRISTMAS TREE 5ft, cones, metal stand, flame retardant, easy assembly, realistic, vgc boxed, £20. 01243 788172

LADY’S DESIGNER WATCH By Pierre Cardin. Quartz movement. Swiss made. £35. Tel: 01243 585756.

SINGLE inflatable flocked mattress plus hand pump, ideal camping, £10. Horsham 01403 267240

WANTED

BH2015/03971 Flat 3 39 Marine Parade Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat. BH2015/04012 Flat 17 Northumberland Court 62-64 Marine Parade Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat including creation of mezzanine level and installation of boiler flue to side elevation. BH2015/03903 Lower Ground Floor Flat 77 Goldstone Villas Hove Full Planning – Erection of a single storey rear extension with alterations to front steps to basement level.

DIMPLEX yeominster log effect two bar 2kw electric fire boxed as new £30. 01243 375351

BH2015/03934 Flats 1 and 2 24 Sussex Square Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to facilitate the conversion of two flats into a single dwelling.

DIMPLEX yeominster log effect two bar 2kw electric fire, boxed as new, £30. 01243 375351

BH2015/03978 The Colonnades 160-161 North Street & 1-4 New Road Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of ground floor and basement and refurbishment works. BH2015/03798 175 Ditchling Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear/side extension and installation of three panel sliding windows to rear.

ELECTRIC fire, fits into fireplace, gold/black, fan blower, £35, deliver locally. (01243) 552466

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BH2015/02676 13 Vernon Terrace Brighton Full Planning – Replacement of existing timber windows and doors to UPVC.

CAST IRON stove style gas fire could convert log burner, £100. Bognor 01243 841338

FOR SALE

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BH2015/04001 Flat 2A Palmeira Court 30 Palmeira Square Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of basement flat and remedial works to front window. (Retrospective)

FIREPLACE wooden surround with marble hearth, gas fire with coals being replced shortly, £100. 01243 780756

DANCE shoes, black WOOD 8ft 3" x 2" £2.50 can deliver satin strappy open toes, each 2½" heel, size 3, £25. Tel:01903 230741 01403 731236 / chair, fully BUILDERS wheelbarrow DESK 07776177900 in VGC, £20 01903 adjustable with arm supports, comfortable, very 204558 heavy with wheels so not to topple over, ideal FENCE-POSTS 8ft & study chair for student, W H I R L P O O L 10ft, 3" x 3", £8 each, good condition bargain DISHWASHER good 01903 230741 £10.ono Tel: (01903) working order, excellent 201542 condition, viewing PIPE bender, hardly used, £20. 0777 875 welcome. £40. Tel 01403 ADULT lightweight 3584 711308. folding transport good SLATS 11ft x 4", £2 each, wheelchair, £25, can ideal for shed and fence condition, deliver locally. Bognor repairs. 01903 230741 01243 268816 STEEL STEPS 8ft, good AUDREY HEPBURN GENERAL tool kit, condition, £20. 01243 PICTURE Breakfast at screwdrivers, pliers, 814620 Tiffany’s theme. In acrylic adjustable tape, on canvas frame. Only 6ft £14. Bargain. Tel: 01243 hacksaw, hammer, STEPLADDER wooden £5. 01243 canvas tool bag, £15, 585756 607613 01243 263992 CHIMNEY POTS H30", TRELLIS making Wood TRELLIS making Wood genuine not repro., £35 8' x 2" x 1½", £2 each , 8' x 2" x 1½", £2 each , each or £60 for both. barTel(01903) 230741 Tel(01903) 230741 gain (01243) 574104

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BH2015/03911 Albany Towers 6-7 St Catherines Terrace Hove Full Planning – Erection of 2no self-contained flats on roof incorporating roof gardens and cycle hire.

ELECTRIC coal effect fire, black with gold front, two heat fan w18½ x H23" x D3", vgc, £20. 01243 587755

FIREGUARD extending £10. 01243 536897

Records Wanted

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 13/11/2015:

FIRES & FIREPLACES

TWO convector heaters, little used, boxed £15 each 01903 755717

WANTED

BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY COUNCIL

NAIL wraps x14 10pcks £1 xmas fun easi to use. 07761390637

SMALL GOOD wood burner. H20" x W17". Glass door. £80 - 07522 077326.

PUBLIC NOTICES BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.8 2015 (REF: TRO-22-2015)

BH2015/04002 107 & 107B Beaconsfield Villas Brighton Full Planning – Alterations to property incorporating installation of new window to lower ground floor rear, replacement of rear bay windows with squared bay windows, replacement and extension of rear ground floor terrace including glazed screening, installation of glazed barrier to front lightwell and associated works. BH2015/04038 57 Springfield Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey side extension and installation of rooflight to rear elevation. BH2015/03914 85 Freshfield Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey side/rear extension. BH2015/03989 109 Freshfield Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of a single storey rear extension.

NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 18th November 2015 made the above named Order under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when it comes into operation on 30th November 2015 will introduce the following;

BH2015/04015 18 Stone Street Brighton Full Planning – Creation of 1no one bedroom residential dwelling (C3) on second and third floors with associated alterations.

• Proposed loading bay in York Road (outside Nos. 7 & 9) and the relocation of the disabled parking bay to outside Nos.25 & 27.

BH2015/02659 57 Tongdean Avenue Hove Full Planning – Erection of 1no five bedroom single dwelling with double garage to front garden of existing property.

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).

BH2015/03876 2 The Conifers Tongdean Avenue Hove Full Planning – Demolition of existing house and erection of 2no dwelling houses (C3) and detached garages.

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: 20th November 2015 Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, 2nd Floor, Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS

BH2015/03947 47 Sillwood Street Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of four storey side extension incorporating front balcony and rear terrace.

BH2015/03248 & BH2015/03249 Percy Wagner Almshouses Islingword Road Brighton Full Planning & Listed Building Consent – Replacement of existing windows and doors, creation of fire escape and removal of air vents. BH2015/03867 The Colonnades 160-161 North Street & 1-4 New Road Brighton Listed Building Consent – Alterations to shopfront including replacement awning and alterations to fenestration and installation of illuminated and non-illuminated signage. BH2015/03891 15 Albion Street Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey side extension and alterations to fenestration. Re-advertisements BH2015/03037 Basement Flat 58 Montpelier Road Brighton Listed Building Consent – Removal of rear fire escape and installation of glass roof over existing rear courtyard with damp-proofing works to existing alcoves (Amended description). BH2015/03568 124 Church Road Hove Full Planning – Change of use from retail (A1) to retail/cafe (A1/A3) with associated alterations. You can view the application on the Council website www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/planning applications. Any representations should be made in writing tothe 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. Jeanette Walsh, Planning and Building Control Applications Manager 20 November 2015

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SUZUKI

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Headlights are things you rarely get to test when you’re taking the car out from a dealer, or even on the international media launch of the car. It’s all in daylight. But I bring good tidings, like a biblical Wise Man. The Vitara’s headlights are excellent. No, scratch that. The LED projector dipped beam is one of the very best I’ve ever used. Asuperb spread of bright light reaches far into the night/ rain/hail/sleet and gives you an amazing view of the road ahead. The beam pattern and consistency of brightness blows most other cars’ headlights into the gutter. In real terms that’s given my wife, who’s not fond of driving on unlit, saturated roads in the evening rush hour, a huge confidence boost. We both love our Skoda Citigo dearly, but it can’t get a look in at the moment because of how much better the Vitara is

after sundown. The lights, in tandem with the raised driving position, make it a pretty perfect car forcommuting at this time of year. Unfortunately the Vitara SZ5 doesn’t share the heated seats of the S-Cross SZ5, which runs on a similar platform. It’s okay because the Vitara’s half-leather seats don’t get as coldas the full leather ones in the S-Cross, but I wouldn’t mind having them anyway. The engine warms up quickly regardless. One of petrol cars’ greatest advantages over diesels is how quickly they start blowing warm air into the cabin, demisting the windscreen and de-icing it too, if needs be. Fortunately temperatures haven’t dropped that low, yet. Once up and running, fuel economy seems to be improving. From just under 40mpg in the first weeks of the test, the overall 5,000-mile average has crept up to 43mpg, while on asteady 60-65mph motorway cruise the car is almost hitting 60mpg. Not bad for a supposedly old-tech normally aspirated petrol engine. The

Vitara’s teeny 1,075kg kerb weight helps with that. The engine is zesty and lively, especially above 3,000rpm, but it’s not perfect. There are a couple of points in the rev range where it flutters sightly under full throttle, as though the fuelling is slightly off. Most

people wouldn’t even notice because it’s so small, but that’s what I’m here for. The Vitara is proving to be an immensely likeable car. It’s riding well, its ground clearance is useful for the growing number of speed bumps and the Continental EcoContact

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The above fuel consumption figures are based on an EU test for comparative purposes only and may not reflect real driving results. Vitara range: Vitara SZ4 1.6 Petrol Manual available at £13,999 to Vitara SZ5 DDiS ALLGRIP Manual with Rugged Pack available at £22,549. All prices and specifications correct at time of going to print. For full details contact your local participating Suzuki Dealer. Offer subject to availability for vehicles privately registered between 1st October 2015 to 31st December 2015 from participating Authorised Suzuki Dealers only. *Model shown is a Vitara SZ5 1.6 petrol available at £18,499 on the road (Single-tone metallic paint available at an additional cost of £430, Dual-tone paint available at an additional cost of £800.) †Optional extra for SZ5 models only, optional ALLGRIP 4-wheel Drive available at additional cost.

Friday, November 20, 2015

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THWAITES

One-stop service and repair shop by staff reporter

Thwaites Garage, in Portslade, is a one-stop repair shop serving motorists in West Sussex. The independent company, run by Ian Jowitt, has built a great relationship over the past 20 years for providing an honest, affordable service. Whether it is motor cars, motorcycles or motorhomes - the qualified technicians at Thwaites Garage will make sure you leave a happy customer. They can MOT cars, motorcycles, mini-buses and light goods vehicles which weigh up to 3,500kg. If your vehicle fails its MOT, Thwaites Garage will provide a re-test at half the price if you bring it back within ten days. MOTs cost from £29.65 for motorcycles and £45 for cars. With the weather deteriorating and the nights closing in, it is more important than

ever to make sure your car ormotorcycle is safe and running as it should be. It is easy to miss a fault on a car, or not realise there is a problem, which is why you should consider taking it to Thwaites to get it serviced. Thwaites Garage will carry out an intermediate or full service depending on your requirements, and will also give the car a thorough check to make sure everything is as it should be. They also carry out all repairs on motorcycles, cars and motorhome. So whether you need a tyre replacing, your exhaust is smoking, the clutch is slipping or there is a strange noise coming from the engine, bring it in and someone will have a look. They will provide you with a quote on how much it will cost and will never carry out work without you giving it the go-ahead. There are also courtesy cars available for local use. As members of the Retail Motor Industry Federation,

Thwaites abide by their codes of practice and take pride inproviding a quality service. Thwaites Garage, which has a brand-new purpose built workshop, is located at at Unit 1, on William Street in Portslade,

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FIRSTDRIVE:TOYOTAMIRAI

A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE by Matt Kimberley

PA motoring writer

Toyota’s all-new Mirai is one of the first production hydrogen vehicles, so it’s part of a huge watershed moment, but ultimately it’s a normal car. There’sfuelcontainedintanks and an electric hybrid system that sends power to the front wheels. A lot like a Prius, only running on something a lot cleaner. The dashboard and centre console are futuristic enough without being scary, and there are familiar touches l i ke Toyota’s nifty little automatic gear lever sticking up near the steering wheel. You’ll findawholerange of drivetrainrelated displays thatcantellyouwhat’sgoingonunderneathyou, which is cool. Again, a lot like the Prius. Aerodynamics are paramountfortheMirai,hencethe unusualstylingthatenhances both the cooling systems and the drag coefficient. The underneath is completely flat, forstarters,whichcanonlybe donebecause therearenohot gases around the engine bay. It would take a brave person to call it pretty, but the functionality within its lines holds the right kind of appeal forearlyadoptersandtheecominded, both of whom will want to be seen to be driving sucharevolutionaryconcept. Driving a car but emitting nothing but water vapour is something to be proud of. On the practicality side,

FACTFILE PRICE: £66,000 ENGINE: Single electric motor producing 152bhp and 247lb/ft TRANSMISSION: Single-speed auto driving the front wheels PERFORMANCE: Top speed 111mph, 0-62mph in 9.6 seconds ECONOMY: 1.23kg of hydrogen per 100 miles EMISSIONS: Water vapour

there’s a 361-litre saloon boot, whichisgoodenoughformost needs.Youcanforgetthattrip to the oak furniture place, but everyday luggage will be fine. There’s loads of rear legroom for average-height adults and despite the Mirai’s slender,

gap-threading footprint on the road, it feels wide inside thanks to liberally-applied horizontal lines across the dashboard. While a 300-mile real-

world range is easy, the obvious limiting factor here is the current availability of hydrogenfillingstations.There,err, aren’t many. Yet. Watch this space.

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Supremequietnessiswhat S i t i h t greets you inside the Mirai. The chief engineer describes difficultiesincontrollingroad noise in such a silent car, but he’s being modest. Squeeze the throttle hard and you’ll hear the fake whirring noise addedtoletownersfeelamore natural sensation of acceleration – and likewise in reverse when you lift off the righthand pedal.

Fantasticallyusabletorque from the hydrogen-electric drivetrain makes the Toyota a dream to drive around town and the suburbs. It gets up to speed with less fuss than a dinner at Downton. The ride is impeccable, too; settled and comfortable. It makes you wonder why all cars aren’t like this. Three driving modes allow you to bias the system towards the electric motor, a calculated mix of that and the hydrogen, or towards maximum output. Outward visibility is great, giving clear views of approaching traffic at roundabouts. Eve r y th i n g w i th i n touching distance feels high-quality, too, including the very comfortable eight-way electrically adjustable front seats. So, how much for this comfort and cleverness? Here’s the rub: the Mirai costs £66,000 on the road, or £750 per month on an all-incllusive leasing deal that coverrs servicing, tyres and the lik ke. You get an awful lot of daay-brighteners for that, like heeated seats (all round), heated d steering wheel and even heeated windscreen wipers. Th here’s no denying that this will be a deeply lovely car to wn or lease, but it’s a bit rich ow or most people. fo Toyota is targeting the Mirai partly at wealthy earlyadopters who live near refuelling stations. But greater uptake is expected among companies looking to reduce theircarbonfootprint–andto beseendoingit.Transportfor London is already a customer, and large carbon-sensitive corporations could well join in with a couple of cars for the right executives.

McLaren sands and delivers with desert special McLaren has unveiled a special edition 650S supercar designedforandtobesoldinthe Middle East only. The 650S Spider Al Sahara 79,namedpartlyafteratranslation of the Arabic word for ‘desert’, is designed to look its best in the unique light and surroundingsofthecountries in which it will be sold. The ‘white gold’ paint uses actual flecks of 24-carat gold toachieveashimmeringlook.

Gold’s atomic number is 79, which forms the second part of the model name. Performance and power remain the same as standard, with 641bhp and 500lb/ft of torque from the 3.8-litre V8. Inside, black and almond white upholstery is accented by contrasting stitching, while the gold-flecked paint finishisextendedtothesteering wheel, centre console and door panels.

Ian Gorsuch, regional director Middle East & Africa, McLaren Automotive said: “McLarenAutomotiveisatrue pioneer in its approach to the design and development of high-performancesportsand supercars, and the 650S Spider Al Sahara 79 is evidence of that.Thistrulyuniqueproject – our first in the Middle East – is inspired by a region that is hometosomeofourmostloyal customers.”

The car was developed by McLaren Special Operations (MSO), the arm of the company responsible for bespokedesignandengineering. Paul Mackenzie, executive director at McLaren Special Operationsadded:“TheAlSahara 79 project offered an exciting opportunity to create a truly bespoke car.” The price for all this starts at 1,456,308 Emirati Dirham (AED), or around £260,400.

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The SV Autobiography is Land Rover’s new ‘halo car’, occupying that vaunted space at the very top of their range. It’s been developed by Land Rover Special Vehicles. And with a starting price of around £150,000 it’s certainly pretty special. But as a result of this money-no-object approach, the SV Autobiography is pretty much the most accomplished all-rounder you can buy – it’s incredibly difficult to get it stuck off-road, and it outperforms conventionally fast cars on tarmac. The Range Rover SV Autobiography smells like money from 20 metres. That’s because Range Rover has adopted what it calls the 20 metre test – it needs to be distinctive from a vanilla Range Rover at that distance. To achieve this, the team at Land Rover Special Vehicles has enhanced the exterior using subtle – but ex-

tremely lavish – tweaks. For some people, the Range Rover is an ostentatious choice. It’s immediately recognisable as a big, expensive car, giving it a very different image to almost every other 4x4. But the styling itself is understated, enabling it to fit in wherever you park it – the SV Autobiography looks as at-home on a shooting estate as it does on the streets of London. The SV Autobiography is a Range Rover at heart, with all the practicality that comes with it. It’s all the car most families will need, with a huge boot, ample passenger space, and tank-like off-road abilities. But the extended wheelbase version of the SV Autobiography goes one step further and offers limo-like rear legroom, without compromising performance on-road or off. The classic split tailgate on the Range Rover’s boot is another practical touch that hascome to represent the model over several decades. It’s a very practical touch, allowing easy access and a place to perch if you’re using your

Range Rover to watch an event (the designers really did think of this). But the SV Autobiography again surpasses the usual high standard of the Range Rover and adds yet more lavish comfort, this time in the form of ‘Event Seats’ – two leather

chairs mounted to the tailgate, complete with stirruplike footrests to ensure total comfort. The SV Autobiography can tow 3,500kg, which is unheard of for a car this comfortable to be a passenger in. It’ll tug a large caravan or a

heavy horsebox and still have the performance needed to keep up with traffic. The only compromise for the SV Autobiography is that it only comes in four-seat form – ruling it out for families with three equally-loved children. Those seats

are incredibly comfortable, though, with details like electrically-deployed tables and a small fridge with branded champagne flutes making it feel more like business class in an airliner than the back seat of a car.

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Championship Yellow cards: S Hutchinson A McCormack A Diarra E Lichaj K Lua Lua K McFadzean D Vaughan S Bamba C Evans J Garner B Kayal J Lynch J Perch R Smallwood J Welsh D Whitehead P Whittingham

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Friday, November 20, 2015

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Is a marquee signing the difference between going up or not?

Is the upcoming January transfer window the most important in Brighton’s history? With the amount of money clubs now make for being promoted into the Premier League – reported to be around £120million next season – financially there has never been a better time to play in the top flight of English football. To be unbeaten 16 games into the Championship season suggests Albion, who are behind leaders Hull only on goal difference, will be right in the mix come the end of the season. Only two clubs h ave e n j oye d l o n g e r unbeaten runs to start a Championship season – QPR, with 19 games in 2010/11 and Wigan with 17 matches in 2004/05 – and both were promoted. One worry for Seagulls fans, however, has been the lack of goals from the team’s strikers. Israeli international Tomer Hemed leads the way

with five but has not scored since September – eight games ago. Strike partner Sam Baldock has just two goals in 15 league matches and Bobby Zamora also has two goals but ten of his 11 appearances have come from the bench. Rumours have linked Brighton with several forwards in the last few weeks and, with Baldock possibly out for a while with the thigh injury he sustained in the win over MK Dons earlier this month, the Seagulls could well delve into the loan market before the transfer window.

One worry for Seagulls fans has been the lack of goals from the team’s strikers Brighton have scored the fewest amount of goals of teams in the top six, admittedly just one less than Derby, two fewer than Burnley and three less than both Middlesbrough and Birmingham. However, other clubs in the promotion mix have

real firepower up front, with Burnley striker Andre Gray leading the way in the Championship scoring chart with ten so far. He cost the Turf Moor outfit a reported club record £9million in August, while Ross McCormack, who joined Fulham for a fee believed to be £11million from Leeds last summer, is joint second with Reading striker Nick Blackman, on nine goals. Bristol City’s Jonathan Kodija, Derby’s Chris Martin and Blackburn’s Jordan Rhodes, who cost £8million from Huddersfield Town in 2012, all have eight goals. Another three players follow on seven goals, including highly-rated QPR striker Charlie Austin and Abel Hernandez, who Hull paid £10million for in 2014. It all suggests that to bag the goals to get out of the Championship, you have to spend big. That is not a criticism in any way of Brighton’s summer signings but that one special player and marquee signing – the X-Factor, if you like – could be the difference between kicking off next season in the Premier League or the Championship.

Tomer Hemed is Albion’s top scorer with five goals this season. Photograph: Angela Brinkhurst

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Promotion credentials to be tested by Clarets By Bradley Stratton @BradStrat Brighton will face one of their toughest tests of the season so far on their return to action against Burnley this weekend. Albion went into the international period on a high after seeing off MK Dons 2-1 at the Amex, a result that meant they moved above Sunday’s opponents and into second place in the Championship, heading into the two-week break. The Seagulls fixture list between now and Christmas sees games against four of the current top six sides and will be a real test of the staying power Chris Hughton’s squad have, as they look to remain in contention for promotion heading into 2016. The worry for Albion going into the next six weeks will be injuries to key players. Having lost Gaetan Bong

until next year, Sam Baldock is set to miss a number of games after picking up a thigh injury a fortnight ago. Kazenga LuaLua’s comeback date from injury is still uncertain, and the influential winger could be set to miss the crucial trip to Turf Moor. Striker Tomer Hemed is likely to lead the front line on his own, with support from Jamie Murphy and Solly March out wide. The Clarets have only lost one of their last 13 games, and with marquee summer signing Andre Gray having scored seven of his eight league goals for the club at home this season, Albion will certainly have to be at their best to come away with any points from Lancashire. The game kicks-off at 1.15pm on Sunday. Albion then have backto-back home games, with Birmingham the visitors to The Amex a week tomorrow and Charlton Athletic the following week.

Kazenga LuaLua’s comeback date from injury is still uncertain Photograph: Angela Brinkhurst

Seagulls duo help England to victory

Jake Forster-Caskey came on in England under-21s’ 3-1 victory. Photograph: Paul Hazlewood Albion duo Solly March and Jake Forster-Caskey helped England’s under-21s beat Switzerland 3-1 at The Amex on Monday evening. March played 57 minutes and Forster-Caskey came on

for the final four minutes, while Seagulls team-mate Christian Walton was an unused substitute. England trailed 1-0 at the break in front of a 12,003 crowd but won

with three goals in the final seven minutes, inspired by substitute Duncan Watmore. He won the penalty that James Ward-Prowse, scored the second and then set up Chuba Akpom for the third.

No international break for the Amex Stadium While the Albion players, for the most part, take a short break for international duties across the continent, the Amex lies far from dormant. E n g l a n d u n d e r21s played their Swiss counterparts last Monday, with the home side earning what was ultimately a wellearned, if late-left, victory. The Albion’s Solly March was included in the starting line-up on the right wing. Sadly for Solly, his contribution was limited to a decent shot just over the bar and a persistent lack of consideration from Ruben Loftus-Cheek – who refused time and again to actually pass to him. The Amex pitch, like many across the country at the moment, also looked a bit sluggish with the recent heavy rain. This, combined with England playing far too much possession football, and not enough penetrative football, didn’t lend itself to unshackling Solly’s turn of pace. March was substituted

Albion Roar’s Ady Packham and Alan Wares on the hour, while Jake Forster-Caskey came on for the last ten minutes for his 14th England under-21 international cap. n A reminder that top sports journalists Paul Hayward and Nick Szczepanik will be joining Ady and Al on stage at the Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, Brighton on Thursday 3 December. Tickets are priced at £7 and £5, and available from the Rialto Theatre Box Office on 01273 725230.

Albion’s women eye attendance record Brighton & Hove Albion will bid to set a new domestic league attendance record for a women’s league match next month. Albion women will play a historic first fixture at the American Express Community Stadium on Sunday, December 6th, when they face Charlton Athletic in the Women’s FA P r e m i e r L e a g u e Southern Division. The current record, which is held by Manchester City, is the 3,180 who attended their Super League game against Notts County last month. Tickets for the match are available free to Albion season-ticket

holders, with season cards automatically activated for the match. For non-season-ticket holders, the prices are £4 for adults, £2 for under18s and £10 for a family of four (two adults and two under-18s). Albion boss James Marrs said: “It’s going to be a fantastic experience for us. As it’s getting closer, it will get a little bit more exciting for us and we’re really looking forward to it. “I expect the players to relish it. I know they’re looking forward to it and it will be the first time they’d have all played at the Amex, so it’s one they’ll be quite excited by.

Albion’s Lucy Somes Photograph: Geoff Penn “I’m just hoping they can rise to the challenge and perform on the day.” Brighton chairman Tony Bloom said: “We would love to beat the attendance record when we play our first-ever women’s game at the Amex and I hope our fans can help us achieve that.”

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There was no first-team action last weekend but it has been an eventful few days at the Amex. I t wa s g r e at t o s e e over 12,000 fans support England’s under-21s on Monday and especially to see local lad Solly March make his debut. Twenty-four hours later the focus turned to Wembley and the scenes of unity and defiance in the aftermath of events in Paris were truly incredible. In my experience, England friendlies of the past have been tired, dreary affairs but this event captured hearts. It was more than football. Saying that, the game was good enough in itself. The French players, e s p e c i a l ly t h o s e w i t h relatives affected, must have been distracted but the name of the night was

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Dele Alli who scored a belter from 30 yards. Some pundits in the build up to the two senior games said it was too early to consider him for next year’s Euros but he may have dashed those critiques.

Handed a debut, March did start well with the England Lions on his shirt. He has a fair bit in common with Dele Alli Under 21s’ boss Gareth Southgate had hoped to have Alli for his own squad but his loss may be March’s gain. Handed a

debut, March did start well with the England Lions on his shirt. The two players actually have a fair bit in common. Alli’s career began at his hometown club MK Dons where he worked his way through the youth set-up before his move this year to Spurs. March, from Hailsham, has progressed to Albion’s senior ranks with his local club but also is keen to remind people of his valuable, but brief, time at Lewes. Unlike Alli, who has been with his country’s u17, u18, u19 and u21, March is a self-confessed late developer. However, the 21-year-old has already equalled his club appearance tally (13) for last season and is sure to be at the heart of Chris Hughton’s plans heading

into 2016. He admitted to the media after the 3-1 win against Switzerland that he needs to score more goals but with two this season his record of four in 25 starts is not to be sniffed at for a winger and someone in the spring of his career. On Monday, we chatted about his wonder goal against Norwich in a preseason friendly which marked his arrival on the scene at the Amex a few years ago. If he can replicate that and the sweet strike against Alli’s former club MK Dons just over two weeks ago we could be hearing a lot more about him and Roy Hodgson’s own new shining light.

Solly March in action for Albion. Photograph: Angela Brinkhurst

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Do Albion need someone like Barnes to continue upwards surge? By Dan Tester @BHIndyAlbion

Albion’s next opponents, Burnley, have over-achieved for their entire existence. Representing a small mill town in east Lancashire, the Clarets were founder members of the Football League in 1888 and have lifted the top-flight title twice – in 1921 and 1960 – as well as an FA Cup in 1914. Not bad for a town of just 73,000 inhabitants! Their famous claret and blue colours were adopted in 1910 as a tribute to the dominant English club of the time, Aston Villa – (You’ll have to trust me on that one!) – changing from yellow and black. Th r e e s t r i k e r s h av e enjoyed mixed fortunes running out for both clubs.

In the early 1990s, just before the proverbial hit the fan in the boardroom, a young Ade Akinbiyi arrived at the Goldstone Ground and went straight in to a team that hadn’t tasted victory for 11 games. The considerable unit – over six foot and built like a brick outhouse – netted four times in his brief southcoast sojourn of seven games before heading to parent club, Norwich City, and an eventual move to our old landlords Gillingham. In fact, while we were schlepping up the M23 every other week to watch turgid fourth-tier football, Ade was scoring the goals at Priestfield that earned a bigmoney move to Bristol City. He eventually ended up at Burnley in 2007 for the first of two spells; the first of which was successful, the second less so. Then there’s Kurt Nogan. The Welsh striker scored his

first Albion goal with his groin when the opposition keeper cleared the ball only to locate the onrushing debutant’s private parts, instead of a teammate. He managed a wonderfully symmetrical 60 goals in 120 appearances but failed to hit the target in his last 20 games. For some reason this alerted Clarets’ manager Jimmy Mullen who took Nogan north – where he enjoyed a couple of productive seasons – in 1995. The final inclusion in this triumvirate of hitmen is the Marmite Ashley Barnes. The Bath-born striker was brought in by Gus Poyet towards the end of 2009/10. Th e r aw 2 0 - ye a r- o l d settled quickly and formed a prolific partnership with Glenn Murray, scoring 20 goals as Albion stormed to the League One championship, more than ‘keeping up’ with Southampton on the way. As Murray headed for

Ashley Barnes celebrates one of his brace of goals in the 2010 destruction of Peterborough. Photograph: Paul Hazlewood the Premier League with that lot up the road, Barnes adapted to new partners up front including CMS and Sam Vokes, who he would eventually join at Turf Moor in 2013. Hitting such heights in his first season perhaps the

Albion faithful expected too much from him? Adept with both feet and good in the air, Barnes wasn’t blessed with pace but has an excellent football brain and would often pop up in the right place, at the right time. Albion need that kind

of player again if we’re to continue our surge towards the top… Dan Tester is Albion editor of Brighton & Hove Independent. You can also follow him: @DJDanteBrighton