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MY HONOURABLE FRIENDS?CAROLINE LUCAS AND WHATSHE REALLY THINKS ABOUT POLITICS IN BRITAIN TODAY
VICTORY STROLL After the launch of our Pavements for Pedestrians campaign, the city council is taking steps to clear the clutter >> PAGE 3
THE BEST-READ NEWSPAPER IN THE CITY Official figures show Brighton & Hove Independent continues to race ahead; The Argus newspaper sinks to another record low and prepares to downsizeunder plans to move out of its headquarters. But where will it go? >> PAGE 21
For a book by one of the world's "bravest and most principled politicians" (Naomi Klein, the social activist) - whose words "will empower and inspire all of us who believe our democracy is under threat" (Owen Jones, socialist writer) - it seems trivial to begin with false rumours about Caroline Lucas.
But some are so outlandish
that they are comical. How about the real reason the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion wants to stay in our city? To set up a UFO monitoring station, of course.
Or the "fact" that she and her husband, Richard, own "four or five houses" - some in different names, including that of her dog, Alfie?
These are the specific rumours she says she has heard about herself, when we met earlier this month; these are the ones she addresses in her remarkable new book.
Unknown to her, however, the rumours have recently escalated, to 15 houses, -all rented to students. Apart from that house in Switzerland, to which she flies every weekend. Oh! And haven’t you heard? Her husband is a multi-millionaire owner of a road-haulage company. Relatively sane people peddle this rubbish.
For years, I have heard such malevolence whispered conspiratorially by political
■ The first look at the Green MP's book that lifts the lid on modern democracy
EXCLUSIVE by Greg Hadfield@BrightonIndy
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YOU’VE HAD YOUR SAYBUT DID THEY LISTEN?
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Brighton and Hove was last night (Thursday) heading again for a messy mish-mash of council budget compromises, with a 1.9% council tax increase looking ever more likely - pushed through, just like last year, by the Labour Party, with the smallest group of councillors (13). At the beginning of our "Have Your Say" exercise (the final results are above), we warned we were heading for Groundhog Day. If you log on the our website today (Friday), you will see if we were right: www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk.
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Council takes action to ensurepavements are for pedestrians
Vice-chancellor warns Labour about social mobilityProfessor Michael Farthing, vice-chancellor of Sussex University, has criticised the Labour Party’s plans to cut university tuition fees - warning they will reverse social mobility and reduce the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He said the proposals - to cut the maximum tuition fees by one third per student to £6,000 a year - overlooks the fact that only those universities that can demonstrate they are investing large sums into attracting students from lower socio-economic backgrounds are entitled to charge
higher fees: “About half of our new undergraduates here at Sussex are now first-generation scholars - with no family background of university education or from lower income backgrounds.”
By 2017-18, universities plan to spend about £719 million a year attracting students from disadvantaged backgrounds in exchange for permission to charge higher fees.
“These extra fees are all about social mobility. The stated government policy aim is that eventually all students who are
bright enough and who wish to attend will have an equal opportunity to come to university," Prof Farthing said.
Respite is in sight for pedestrians fed up with dodging advertising boards and other obstructions cluttering busy pavements.
Within weeks of Brighton & Hove Independent launching its "Pavements for Pedestrians" campaign, councillors are preparing to take action.
The council hopes the move will improve safety for all pedestrians but particularly for those with buggies, for wheelchair-users, and for people with visual impairment.
Officers will mark out the areas outside city-centre restaurants and cafés to ensure tables and chairs remain within the permitted site. The schemes will also be used for outdoor shop displays and advertising boards.
The highway-enforcement officers will begin visiting businesses in April to re-measure the licensed areas and mark the footways with anti-slip tape to
show the boundaries. It is hoped all outside seating areas, shop displays, and advertising boards will be marked out by October.
Any business within the city’s licensing zones, wishing to place an advertising board shop display or outside seating on the public highway must apply for a council licence. Licences are issued for a maximum of 12 months and are reviewed annually.
Last year, Brighton and Hove City Council issued 440 licences for A-boards and 280 for tables and chairs. In addition, 1,852 skip licences and 1,497 scaffolding licences were issued.
The council claims its "robust approach" to licensing has resulted in a drop of complaints this year; complaints about A-boards fell from 70 to 48 and those about tables and chairs fell from 53 to 36. Complaints about scaffolding fell from 153 to 38.
Councillor Stephanie Powell, chair of the licensing committee, said: “Outdoor seating, advertising boards, shop displays and outdoor seating are important marketing tools for businesses and add to the vibrant street scene in Brighton and Hove. However, the safety of pedestrians is our upmost priority and we must do everything we can to ensure that pavements are kept free from clutter, particularly for those with young children or who are sight- or mobility-impaired."
A report outlining the scheme will be presented to the council’s licensing committee on Thursday (March 5).
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Devolving powers to our cities promises big, positive changes
The shift of power away from Westminster to our local areas is looking more likely than it has in a generation.
Groups such as Core Cities (the biggest nine cities in the United Kingdom) and Key Cities (the 25 mid-size cities) are making big progress in shifting the debate after the shockwave that was the Scottish independence referendum. All parties are racing into the general election competing hard to offer the most in terms of devolution.
The speed at which this may happen is astonishing.
Greater Manchester, after a decade of slow but strong progress, has suddenly - in four months - won major new powers and £6 billion of NHS funding devolved locally. Bringing together in this way both council social care and NHS services is clearly the way to survive the growing demands of an ageing population.
As one of the most centralised countries in the world, this
slight loosening of the reigns by Whitehall is very welcome, if long overdue.
To make the most of these opportunities here in Greater Brighton - which covers Adur, Worthing, Mid-Sussex, Lewes, and Brighton and Hove - then we need to start work now, and we have.
I was delighted when the Greater Brighton City Deal with government was formally signed early last year. It was the conclusion of almost a year's hard work and unlocked tens of millions of funding for vital projects across the city region. Business space, flood defences, and ultrafast broadband were some of the many key projects that benefited.
Since that deal was signed, council, education and business leaders have been working together on the Greater Brighton Economic Board to deliver the investments promised. We can see the huge potential this way of working has to improve the quality of life, transport and economy for our citizens.
It's been a big, positive change in how we work together.
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Jason Kitcat is leader of Brighton and Hove City Council
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Countdown to Brighton Fringebegins with programme online
Theatre Royal
A Mad World My Masters
It’s 1956 in Soho. Glamour rubs up against filth - and likes it; the posh mix with musicians, whores, and racketeers; “virginity is no city trade”; and a dashingly-impecunious bachelor in need of quick cash and a good time has to live on his wits.Welcome to A Mad World My Masters, which began as a Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) – who is perhaps best-known for The Changeling and The Revenger’s Tragedy.English Touring Theatre presents the Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday, March 10, to Saturday, March 14. Evening performances begin at 7.30pm; matinees on Thursday and Saturday are at 2.30pm.
For tickets, visit: www.atgtickets.com/brighton
Brighton Fringe has launched its 2015 programme online - starting the countdown to a record-breaking year for the biggest arts festival in England.
Running from May 1 to 31, 750 events are confirmed so far, the highest number ever to appear at the festival. About 250,000 people are expected to attend the festival, which will showcase 233 world premieres.
The programme includes two internationally-acclaimed cabaret artists: Camille O’Sullivan, original star of La Clique; and Tina C, comic creation of the multi-award-winning Christopher Green.
Tim Cook, the Royal Court Young Writer, returns to premiere Crushed, set during the 2010 student protests. Other theatrical offerings include Wildspark’s The Bombing of the Grand Hotel, a visceral new play that tells the real-life story of the unlikely relationship between bomber Pat Magee and Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the blast, and Black is the Colour of My Voice, Apphia Campbell's hit one-woman show inspired by the life of Nina Simone.
The Bucket Club’s Lorraine & Alan, a modern re-telling of the Selkie myth - with live electronic sound design, song, and several hundred plastic bottles - which won the Brighton Fringe Excellence Award at Edinburgh Fringe last year, makes a much-
anticipated appearance.Comedy comes courtesy of
more than 200 acts, including: sketch-sensations BEASTS; John Hegley, “comedy’s poet laureate” (The Independent); Radio 4 favourite John Osborne and Mock the Week’s Zoe Lyons.
A total of 60 international productions will appear, including: a concert from the Soweto Spiritual Singers; I Am Not Antigone, from the Netherland’s Idreman Foundation; Sjoerd Meijer’s The Liberation of an Angry Little Man, winner of the Best Show at Amsterdam Fringe in 2013; and PAND 7090, which scooped the top prize at Amsterdam Fringe last year. Audiences can also see life-size elephant and giraffe puppets at the Largest Marionette Circus in the World, a UK premiere from Poland.
A total of 181 venues will host Brighton Fringe events, including: the ever-popular Spiegeltent, which returns to the Old Steine; Sussex County Cricket Club, where a wedding reception with a difference will be performed; and Brighton Racecourse, which welcomes Hydrocracker Youth Theatre for a site-specific play about Brighton’s hidden histories.
Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, said: “Brighton Fringe is more than just a festival: it is a living, breathing, year-round artistic ecosystem that needs
to be sustained. With the right support we will continually reach out to more and more people, so we thank all our partners for their continued confidence in us. We look forward to working with you for many years to come.”
For more information, visit: www.brightonfringe.org. Follow @brightonfringe
Sketch-sensations BEASTS are among more than 200 comedy acts at Brighton Fringe
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There are 21 wards in Brighton and Hove, electing 54 councillors
Ward profile: East Brighton
Declared candidates for three seatsDavid Plant (Conservative)
Jan Young (Conservative)
Maggie Barradell (Labour) – @maggiebarradell
Councillor Gill Mitchell (Labour)
Councillor Warren Morgan (Labour) – @warrenmorgan
Sitting councillorsCouncillor Gill Mitchell (Labour)
Councillor Warren Morgan (Labour)
Councillor Chaun Wilson (Labour)
East Brighton is not so much a ward - with candidates vying for the votes of the electorate - as a Labour fiefdom, where the party's "selectorate" determines who will join Warren Morgan and Gill Mitchell in the ranks of the Labour Group.
The excitement of democratic politics in this most working-class part of the city lies in finding out who is the latest candidate to have risen without trace in the Brighton and Hove District Labour Party.
Councillor Craig Turton stood down in 2012 for health reasons; Councillor Chaun Wilson emerged, only to announce last year she was unable to continue for family reasons; for May 7, the new name on the block is Barradell, Maggie Barradell. It is a familar name; her husband is John Barradell, former chief executive of Brighton and Hove City Council and now chief executive of the City of London Corporation.
It's fair to say that the branch is not the most active in the city. Indeed, some have wondered about what would happen if two of Labour's most able and determined councillors were to move on and get on with real life.
There's no sign of that happening any time soon.
It's a feature of city politics that nearly a quarter of the 13-strong Labour Group - the smallest on the council - come from this single ward. And the Labour leader is elected only by Labour councillors, not by the 1,600 party members in the city.
We should mention the other candidates. But with Labour majorities of 1,000 or more, it's not really worth it.
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■■ Number who cannot speak English well: 168■■ Dependent children in household (% of all households): 25.7%■■ Christians: 45%■■ No religion: 41%■■ Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 235■■ Divorced: 12%■■ Living as co-habiting couple: 15.9%■■ Married: 27%■■ One family - all aged 65 and over: 3.9%■■ Long-term unemployed: 2.5%
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ELECTIONS 2015
Poll watch
Candidates Votes (%)
Chaun Wilson (Labour) 1,596 (56%)
Joe Miller (Conservative) 531 (19%)
Carlie Goldsmith (Green) 456 (16%)
Sabiha Choudhury (UKIP) 148 (5%)
Dominic Sokalski (Liberal Democrats) 59 (2%)
Jon Redford (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 55 (2%)
By-election on Thursday, October 18 2012, after the resignation of Councillor Craig Turton
East Brighton
Candidates Votes (%)
Gill Mitchell (Labour - elected) 2,059 (18%)
Warren Gavin Morgan (Labour - elected) 1,862 (17%)
Craig Turton (Labour - elected) 1,616 (14%)
Alison Ghanimi (Green) 955 (9%)
Peter Booth (Conservative) 940 (8%)
Chris Sandland (Conservative) 826 (7%)
Lianna Etkind (Green) 815 (7%)
Kelvin Poplett (Conservative) 803 (7%)
Pip Tindall (Green) 627 (6%)
Paul Jonathan Chandler (Liberal Democrats) 323 (3%)
Bruce Graham Neave (Liberal Democrats) 218 (2%)
Bill North (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 142 (1%)
2011 election results
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Candidates Votes (%)
Chaun Wilson (Labour) 1,596 (56%)
Joe Miller (Conservative) 531 (19%)
Carlie Goldsmith (Green) 456 (16%)
Sabiha Choudhury (UKIP) 148 (5%)
Dominic Sokalski (Liberal Democrats) 59 (2%)
Jon Redford (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 55 (2%)
Candidates Votes (%)
Gill Mitchell (Labour - elected) 2,059 (18%)
Warren Gavin Morgan (Labour - elected) 1,862 (17%)
Craig Turton (Labour - elected) 1,616 (14%)
Alison Ghanimi (Green) 955 (9%)
Peter Booth (Conservative) 940 (8%)
Chris Sandland (Conservative) 826 (7%)
Lianna Etkind (Green) 815 (7%)
Kelvin Poplett (Conservative) 803 (7%)
Pip Tindall (Green) 627 (6%)
Paul Jonathan Chandler (Liberal Democrats) 323 (3%)
Bruce Graham Neave (Liberal Democrats) 218 (2%)
Bill North (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 142 (1%)
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The New Pension Fund Freedoms and how this may benefi t and affect youSkerritts are holding two seminars at the Amex Stadium in Brighton on Thursday, March 19 covering pensions and the changes being brought in from April of this year. The seminar is being presented by Steve Bee, a leading industry fi gure who is also very entertaining (yes, even on the subject of pensions!). The Seminar will cover:
• Should I access my pension fund and what are the advantages/disadvantages or doing so? • How to ensure that my pension fund is passed to my benefi ciaries tax-free on my death? • Can my pension provider give me the new freedoms in my existing plan? • How can I increase my investment returns or reduce my investment risk? • Should I pay more money into my pension fund?
Pensions are the hot topic at the moment, so Skerritts are holding the seminars in response to demand from clients and have now opened them up to a wider audience.
The seminars are free to attend and no obligation:
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The Seminars will last for one hour and attendees will then have the option of an Amex Stadium tour if they wish.
The Seminars are aimed at: • People who have a pension fund and are interested in their options from April; • People who have a pension fund and want to ensure it is invested in the right areas; • People who have a pension and want to ensure that it will receive tax free death benefi ts; • People who are considering investing in or investing further into a pension.
Who are Skerritts?Skerritts is a Hove-based fi rm of Chartered Financial Planners and Wealth Managers. They are ranked in the top 100 fi rms in the Country (Citywire) and have been awarded the Citywire NMA Award for the fi fth consecutive year. They offer professional and impartial advice on all types of pension.To book your invitation, please email [email protected] or contact Sophie on 01273 204999.
Two FREE seminars at the Amex Stadium in Brighton on Thursday, March 19
Oh my goodness. You can tell this is written by a real police officer.
Because there’s no alcoholic solitary detective who solves the case single-handedly, while moodily staring out of the window and brooding about his ex-wife.
I do object to those characters and I’m thrilled to discover from this book that detectives really aren’t like that.
This is about a believable, real person in the shape of DC Nina Foster. She has returned to work after a near-fatal injury and she’s supposed to be taking it easy. She’s given a cold case to work on, but gradually uncovers a link from the past that makes the current cases her colleagues are working on - a spate of heroin-related deaths, shootings, and robberies - relevant.
DC Foster is brought face to face with a network of criminals who will do anything to protect their empire.
The camaraderie of the police officers in this book breathes new life into a crowded genre of detective novels.
If you love detective books, you are going to adore this one: fast-paced, brilliantly-plotted, and - very importantly (for me, anyway) - every single word of it credible.
We are so lucky to have Lisa Cutts at Bookish Supper Society soon and I’m dying to ask her some questions about the police. One of them simply has to be: Does anyone ever actually say the infamous words "You’re nicked".
I bet they don’t. Let’s get it from the horse’s mouth.
Lisa Cutts will be appearing at the Bookish Supper Society on Wednesday, March 25. Tickets are available from Tabl.com
Remember, Rememberby Lisa Cutts
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The Book DoctorHousing First is innovativeapproach to homelessnessBrighton and Hove City Council is to become the first local authority in the country to commission a "Housing First" project to tackle street homelessness and stop the revolving door of rehabilitation, hostel, and street.
Developed in New York in the 1990s, Housing First is designed to work with long-term and repeatedly homeless men and women, most of whom have complex needs relating to addiction, poor mental health, learning disability, and domestic abuse. Many have been through the criminal justice system and have a background of institutional care and traumatic life events.
The right to permanent accommodation is at the heart of the Housing First model. Identified rough sleepers are placed straight into scattered, self-contained flats away from their old associations. Taking the chaos out of homelessness makes it easier to stabilise the situation with an intensive package of care and support designed to surround the service user helping him or her to settle in, gain independence and sustain their tenancy.
Brighton and Hove is one of eight English local authorities that have piloted Housing First, which has been extended until March. The service was delivered in the city by CRI, a health and social care charity.
In September 2013, a mix of 10 clients was identified as suitable for the pilot scheme. Some were not coping in hostels; others were sleeping rough. The clients were placed in scattered properties in the city, leased through the council. Three were referred for further support. So far they have all remained in their homes, reduced their chaotic behaviour, and are living independently with a good level of self-care. They have been able to avoid the temptation to reconnect with their old homeless network through their support from Housing First recovery mentors.
With their help, service users have built an alternative structure through community activities, counselling, art therapy and training. The programme demands only that service-users pay rent, abide by the tenancy conditions, and agree to engage with their support workers.
In the words of one of the Housing First clients, Jane: ‘This flat is the best thing that has happened."
Councillor Bill Randall, chair of housing, said: “Some people with complex needs often find life in hostels very difficult. Having to share with a range of residents, obey house rules and follow a structured route to recovery can be very stressful and lead to conflict and, too often, eviction. The immediate placement cuts out the ‘staircase’ of stages that people with such complex needs often have to meet before they are ‘housing ready’. Housing First is a very useful addition to the portfolio of measures we use to deal with homelessness in the city.”
Bill Randall, chair of housing
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Tattoo conventionA three-day tattoo convention took place at the Hilton Brighton Metropole over the weekend. About 350 tattoo artists from around the world came to the Brighton Tattoo Convention to celebrate the art form and offer enthusiasts the opportunity to spectate or get tattoos inked onto their bodies. Hundreds of tattoo booths filled two floors of the hotel’s exhibition suites. Guen Douglas and Ryan Evans won awards for the best tattoos of the weekend. The Meteors and the Sex Pistols Experience provided the entertainment. The convention also featured specialist barbers flown in from California.
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Comedian Tony Hawks was born in Brighton. Educated in the town, he shot to fame as leader of the trio Morris Minor & the Majors and reached number four in the UK charts with the Beastie Boys parody, Stutter Rap (No Sleep Til Bedtime) in 1988. He’s written five books including One Hit Wonderland which describes his attempt – over ten years after his first – to write a second hit song. It culminates in him performing on Albanian television with Norman Wisdom and Tim Rice. He is often confused for the famous skateboarder Tony Hawk and once appeared on Celebrity Mastermind using the American as his chosen specialised subject. Hawks noted that his correspondents “might be able to do backside aerials but they can’t spell to save their lives”.
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Lick of paint for city sewersThe hosts of Southern Water’s world-famous Sewer Tours are giving parts of Brighton’s Victorian sewers a fresh lick of white paint. Stuart Slark and his fellow tour guides will spend the next few weeks refreshing the main areas of the sewers ready for this year’s tours, which start in May.
For more than 50 years, the tours have given visitors a glimpse underground at the Victorian infrastructure, which is still in use today.
Last year, 1,600 people delved beneath the city streets with Stuart and his crew. Mr Slark said: “For most people a spring clean means vacuuming behind the wardrobe – for us it means finding ways of making a working sewer as pleasant as it can be."
To find out more and book your place on one of this year’s tours, visit: www.southernwater.co.uk/brighton-sewer-tours.
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A Week in the CitySeven Dials
Roundabout repairsRepairs to the Seven Dials roundabout are being put on hold while roadworks around Brighton Station continue. Cracks began to appear in the kerbs at the roundabout less than a year after it opened in December 2013. The council decided the cracks pose no risk to the public. Bob Potter, a resident who raised the issue in October, said: “I’m amazed that anyone could say these loose and fragmented tiles do not pose a safety risk.”
Charity
Dance marathonDance enthusiasts and charity supporters are invited to join a dance marathon to raise money for the Martlets Hospice in Hove. The event will be led by professional instructors and have a “glow-in-the-dark” theme. The three-hour long Zumba Glow aims at creating a club-like feel and will include percussionists to bring energy to the event. The challenge will take place at 7.30pm at The Old Market, Hove, on Friday (March 6).
Nursery
Little OaksA nursery that has failed to meet requirements made by government inspectors could face closure. In the latest inspection of Little Oaks nursery, in Islingword Road, Brighton, it was deemed that staff were poor at spotting signs and symptoms of abuse and had weak knowledge of safeguarding procedures. Teresa Owen, the executive nursery manager, said: There’s lots of work to do and it’s still a work in progress.” The nursery will be kept under observation.
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The Tempest InnA pub with a cave-like interior will open on the seafront. The Tempest Inn, which takes its name from Shakespeare’s play, has replaced the former club LIFE. It is the most recent development by the Laine Pub Company - formerly Drink in Brighton - and will be used for live music, drinking, and supper clubs. 7.30pm at The Old Market, Hove, on Friday (March 6).
Seafront
Car park purchasePlans to extend Churchill Square to the seafront have advanced with the purchase of the Russell Road car park. Standard Life Investments, which owns the shopping centre, has bought the car park - let to NCP - for £13.3 million. A proposed £450 million seafront regeneration envisages the demolition of the Brighton Centre and Kingswest complex, and a conference and entertainment centre at Black Rock.
A space for educating young people in creative technology will open in London Road. The Brighton Makerlab will host courses in Minecraft programming, game design, robot-building, and product engineering. Simon Riley, director of project leader MakerClub said: “Creating cool stuff with technology isn’t just fun, it’s essential for developing opportunity and giving young people every chance of succeeding in the ‘big wide world’.”
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Footgolf launchesUnder-used golf courses are being used to launch a new sport that combines football and golf. Football fans gathered at Waterhall at the weekend to launch Brighton’s first footgolf course. The aim of the sport is to chip footballs into large golf holes across the course. The 36-par, nine-hole course spans 1,120 yards and costs £8 for a round. There are more than 80 footgolf courses around the country; the first opened in 2012.
Roads
Improvement schemeThe Brighton railway station taxi rank has closed temporarily to allow for the repaving of the taxi approach road. Taxies are permitted to park on the south side of Terminus Road running down to the station to pick-up passengers as roadworks continue. The redevelopment is part of the Brighton station improvement scheme, which will also include more green space, improved bus -top facilities, better lighting, and more seating.
An estimated 10,000 people visited the 37th annual Modelworld exhibition at the Brighton Centre. Chris English, the joint exhibition manager described the event – which featured hundreds of models of all types and sizes - as “very successful, one of the best ever."
Hospital
£60m extraJeremy Hunt , the health secretary, visited the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton yesterday (Thursday) - with Simon Kirby, the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown - to announce an extra £60 million towards an eight-year modernisation project. He accepted inflation in construction costs meant the bill had risen from £420 million to £480 million. There were concerns about the project because the headline cost is now £60 million higher than the figure agreed by the George Osborne, the chancellor, just under a year ago.
Food
Waste reductionA weekly café has opened with the aim of reducing wastage of food. The Real Junk Food Brighton Café in One Church, Gloucester Place, creates healthy meals out of food that can no longer be sold by supermarkets. The restaurant uses mainly food that has been donated to them and runs on a “pay-as-you-feel” basis.
Labour
Miliband questionsEd Miliband, the leader of the Labour Party, will host one of his weekly People’s Question Time sessions in Hove on Monday (March 2). The series of events, launched last month in Nottinghamshire, will be held in various parts of the country every week until the general election on May 7. Mr Miliband will answer questions from 10.30am to 1.30pm at a venue in Hove that has yet to be made public. Meanwhile, the cover of Labour's One Nation membership magazine features Brighton and Hove activists on the beach (pictured right).
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I have yet to spot one myself, but Jo Jenner saw one in the trees by St George’s Church in Kemptown on January 15, while David Moon spotted one (possibly the same), “with distinctive boisterous chatter”, flying over the Kemptown industrial estate the following day.
A fortnight earlier, one was reported in Seaford, and late last year one or more were logged at Brooklands Park, Worthing. Jan-Paul Charteris clocked one flying over Portland Road, Hove, on November 1. Sussex sightings had been sparse until recently (just nine reported in 2013); but, by last November, an observer in Rusper, on the Surrey border, could write, “I think the colonisation of Sussex has begun” - having seen two flocks of 10 flying over his house, and “heard the unmistakable din of a landed group” in a nearby copse. Others have been spotted at Horsham, Hailsham, Hurstpierpoint, Birling Gap, Pevensey Levels, Bexhill, Selsey, Lewes and elsewhere. (Information from the Sussex Ornithological Society’s invaluable sightings log.)
I am talking about feral ring-necked parakeets.
These bright-green, gregarious, screechy birds, originating in India, have become an increasingly-common sight in London parks and suburbs. But they have also colonised Manchester and have now reached as far north as Scotland. If they can flourish in Bishopbriggs, I am surprised they have not long ago saturated the balmy south coast.
Some people may welcome their exotic presence, but there is no doubt they pose problems. They devour food from garden feeders intended for native songbirds; they strip trees of fruit and flower buds; they take over the nesting sites of other species, such as robins, jackdaws, starlings, and owls; they make noise and mess; and they can devour crops, and have been known to attack vineyards on the North Downs.
Nobody is sure where they
came from in the first place. Urban myths abound. Some say they escaped from the Shepperton set of The African Queen in 1951. Some blame Jimi Hendrix for releasing a pair in Carnaby Street in the 1960s. Some say they escaped from an aviary during the 1987 hurricane. Whenever and however they started, they are multiplying prodigiously, and now number up to 50,000. Kew, Kingston, Twickenham, and Esher are badly-affected areas.
Their cousins, the monk parakeets, hundreds of which were colonising the Isle of Dogs and threatening to spread, have been successfully culled in a costly Defra operation, their expansion plans scuppered just in time. (These birds, originating from South America, build colossal communal nests in pylons and phone masts, often causing power blackouts and other nuisances. In southern Spain, their population is said to be out of control.)
But a Defra spokeswoman opined last September - of the ring-necked variety currently staking out our city and other Sussex locations - that “it is no longer cost-effective or viable to eradicate this species, which means that we now must bear the ongoing environmental, economic and social impacts from these birds”.
Like the grey squirrel, like Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed, like the red duckweed choking Sussex rivers, like feral mink and boar, like the skeleton shrimp and signal crayfish in Shoreham harbour, like the false black widow spiders that have bitten people in Brighton, like the marsh frogs at Rye, like scores of other alien species that have infiltrated our country in recent years, it looks as if the blighters are here to stay.
In a few years, our local parks and gardens are likely to be infested with them. Sussex Ornithological Society has added them to their checklist of 397 Sussex species. According to the London Wildlife Trust, we must accept that parakeets are now “as British as curry”.
Graham Chainey is a freelance writer living in Brighton and Hove
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Hilton Brighton Metropole’s Midsummer Ball returns this year on Saturday, June 20 - in aid of Hilton in the Community Foundation and Rockinghorse, the children’s charity.
The 2015 Midsummer Ball - famed for its "Strictly Come Dancing" theme - sees the return of Zoe Ball, the television and
radio presenter, as head judge. Along with her panel, she will help score those brave enough to take part in the dance competition in front of nearly 500 guests.
Four celebrities and local personalities - with expert partners - will be attempting The Charleston 1920s inspired dance at the Great-Gatsby-themed
charity ball.This year’s dancers are:
Eleanor Harris, chief executive of the Brighton i360 tower; Barry Carden, managing director of Cardens Accountants in Hove; and Nicola Hume and Tom Evans, co-hosts of the Heart Sussex Breakfast Show.
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Foundation helps young people have a brighter future in Brighton, across the United Kingdom, and across Europe; Rockinghorse is the official fundraising arm of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton.
Sascha Koehler, general manager of Hilton Brighton Metropole, said: “I am excited to be part of this great city and to be involved in this fantastic event. Working together with Rockinghorse Children’s Charity and the Hilton in the Community Fo u n d a t i o n is an exciting project and we look forward to hosting the Midsummer Ball at the Hilton Brighton Metropole on June 20.”
Simon Sheehan, director of Hilton in the Community Foundation, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Rockinghorse Children’s Charity again, and together we will be transforming lives. Thanks to our intrepid dancers and generous sponsors, the Midsummer Ball will be a spectacular evening of 1920s frivolity whilst supporting the work of two charities who
help the young people of Sussex.”Ryan Heal, chief executive
of Rockinghorse, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen as the local beneficiary charity of the Hilton Brighton Metropole’s Midsummer Ball for the third
year and we look forward to working closely with new general manager Sascha Koehler and his team.
“We’d like to extend our thanks to Skerritts
who are our headline sponsors again this year, as well as all of our event and media partners that make the ball
possible." Guests will enjoy a sparkling
drinks reception, three-course dinner with wine, plus the dance competition and entertainment courtesy of the E3 Group. They will also have the opportunity to take part in various fundraising activities on the night, including a charity auction as well as enjoying the infamous indoor dodgems.
Tickets for the event - on Saturday, June 20 - are selling fast. To book, contact Nicky Willard on 01273 715043 or email [email protected]. Tickets are £80 each or £750 for a table of 10.
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Earthquake projectThe University of Brighton is joining forces with universities in Greece and the United States as the first step towards establishing a Europe-wide project to learn more about earthquakes. The university and the National University of Athens, with assistance from North Carolina State University, are upgrading GPS monitoring equipment at Greece’s Santorini volcano in the Aegean Sea.
Schools
New headteacherBilingual Primary School has appointed Wendy King as its headteacher. It will be her third headship in the town. Ms King previously served as headteacher at Bevendean Primary School, where the verdict of Ofsted inspectors changed from “needing improvement” to “good”. She will join the school on Tuesday, September 1.
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Brighton Game Collective: A hub forthe city's creative game developers
Video game development used to require big teams and big budgets to bring a successful product to market. But ,with the rise of easy to use development tools and digital distribution systems, a new era of development has emerged.
Games developed by bedroom programmers and small teams have rapidly become a mainstream market, where developers have the ability to bring small products to a worldwide audience via distribution platforms such as Steam (store.steampowered.com), an online storefront where approved developers can sell their games to millions of players around the globe.
This rapidly- emerging trend sparked the creation of game development hubs around the United Kingdom, spurred on by enthusiastic social-media
audiences, low entry costs, and inspiring stories of other successful developers being able to turn their hobby into a full time career.
Brighton and Hove is one such hub, home to hundreds of game developers employed by the local games industry and many who are pursuing their own ventures. Meetup groups like Brighton Indies - meeting on the first Wednesday of the month at the Fountain Head pub - have found tremendous success with more than 100 members attending the last meetup.
Members of groups like these can find support from one another and receive advice on a wide range of subjects.
When Just a Pixel (www.justapixel.co.uk) started out, our living room quickly took the shape of temporary office premises, while we looked for our first office, which was quickly found. But it lacked other developers to converse with.
With the help of the community,
however, we released Light, published by Team17 last July, and won the Best Start up Award from The Independent Game Developer Association (TIGA). Finding the monthly meetups were essential to growing the business, we wanted to find a place to work together with other developers.
Brighton Game Collective became a reality when Tom Pickard and Julian McKinlay, former Creative Assembly veterans, started their own studio,
Knifey Spoonie, and joined forces with Just a Pixel to look for shared office space where they could be surrounded by similarly-minded professionals from the games industry. After realising that what was required did not exist in Brighton, we did what all good developers do - and so created it ourselves.
Last month, the collective moved into The Dock Hub in Wilbury Villas, Hove (www.thedockhub.co.uk). Operating as a not for profit
company, the collective re-invests all profits into the maintenance of the space and the creation of events for the local game development community. Within two weeks of moving in, the additional office space was rented by freelance developers and the collective is now seeking to expand its office space within The Dock Hub.
For more information, visit: www.BrightonGameCollective.com. Follow: @TheBrightonGC
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Business Why Google discriminates against most businesses Mark Brown is an entrepreneur who is passionate about helping businesses to implement a surefire strategy called the 4Rs that can grow any business.
On Thursday (March 5), Mark will be running a bite-size learning session for Brighton Chamber of Commerce to help businesses to build a five-star online reputation. These sessions provide affordable and practical support to local businesses looking to build their skills.
As a business-owner who grew his first business pre-internet, it is interesting to see how everything has changed. But the fundamentals remain the same.
People buy from businesses that they know, like, and trust.
Once you understand that in the online world, the same rules apply. You will quickly see how you can win or lose new customers, based on what past customers are saying about you.
More than 90% of the online UK population use Google to search for local businesses. Google knows that most people trust online reviews. It figures that businesses with the most highly-rated reviews are likely to deliver the best service to its users.
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As Southern Water’s pioneering metering programme nears completion, there is good news for the water saving public in the South East.
With nearly 500,000 meters installed customers are using, on average, 16.5 per cent less water. That is far more than the national average of ten per cent. This means that in Brighton and Hove, for example, 2.8 million litres of water are being saved each day. That’s more than enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
The findings are revealed in a study published this month by Dr Carmine Ornaghi and Dr Mirco Tonin who are economists at the University of Southampton and are both Associate Professors. They conclude that the five-
year metering programme, which began in 2010, has had a significant effect on water consumption.
Dr Mirco Tonin, said: “In our study we find a strong decrease in consumption due to the Universal Metering Programme. What is remarkable is that households start
changing their behaviour as soon as the meter is installed, despite the fact that for three months they have no financial incentives to do so, as there has not yet been any switch of contract.”
Southern Water runs a comprehensive information campaign alongside its metering programme to give customers full details of how they can reduce their water consumption and
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In addition, the company offers free water audits, carried out by water saving experts known as Green Doctors, for customers in financial hardship. Since 2010, the Green Doctors have visited more than 48,000 households and distributed 156,000 water-saving products. This has resulted in a predicted average saving of 20 litres of water per household a day.
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Argus sinks to new lowand looks to downsize
Can it get any worse? After three months without an editor - a period characterised by an improvement in its journalism - things can now only get better. Surely.
Mike Gilson, the new editor and a well-respected figure with a substantial record of achievement, must certainly hope so.
He arrived from the Belfast Telegraph on Monday (February 23), only 48 hours before the latest circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). Inevitably, the number of copies sold per issue plummeted again, falling to a record low of 13,309 (nearly a third, 31% of them at a discounted price) - a year-on-year fall of 12.2%.
And that's in the whole of Sussex. (For the record, Mr Gilson's old newspaper reported the smallest year-on-year fall of all regional dailies – a drop of 3.4%, down to 45,905.)
In sharp contrast, according to the official industry-standard ABC data, Brighton & Hove Independent increased to 13,005 copies per issue. All but 400 of them distributed within the boundaries of Brighton and Hove.
By any sensible comparison, we believe we are the city's best-read newspaper.
But we have to be careful.Dawn Sweeney, managing
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She has told us The Argus
sells 5,783 within the city boundaries. Therefore, she claims that puts The Argus in pole position as the city’s best-read newspaper.
Let me run that by you again: Brighton & Hove Independent, 13,005 copies per issue (less 400); The Argus, 5,783 copies per issue.
Of course, she has a lot on her mind, The Argus exclusively revealed last month it had sold the leasehold on its offices - on Hollingbury Industrial Estate, on the periphery of the city - to a property developer.
A significant transaction for those who live in Hollingbury. So far, however, it has not been able to reveal to its readers who the property developer is - nor what the development plans might be.
Nor has it been able to say where it is moving to. Having abandoned its 146,000 square feet of offices – headquarters for about 100 employees - it is advertising for city-centre offices of about 6,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet (pictured left). That is room for a maximum of, say, 80 employees, property experts estimate.
And that's without taking into account the
hugely-impressive Journalist Works, which rents space in The Argus building, providing a steady stream of trainee reporters to its newsroom, and hopes to move with it this summer.
Things can only get better. Eventually. Perhaps. For some people.
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opponents - and, of course, by those who write "below the line" in the city's second-most-read local newspaper. Why doesn't The Argus let its most-opinionated commenters use green font?
For years, I have dug around and found nothing. And I used to work for the Daily Mail.
So why has she confronted these rumours - albeit briefly - in an intelligent and important contemplation about parliament and the fight for change?
"I put it in there because it was an opportunity to try to put the record straight. Because it matters. If people already have a pretty low impression of MPs generally and one of the perceptions is that politicians are hypocrites and people who lie, then it's not helpful if there are rumours out there that suggest that I am hypocritical and lying."
The facts: Ms Lucas and her husband – a secondary English teacher and former professional cricketer for Warwickshire; he once claimed the scalp of Viv Richards - own one house in the Brighton Pavilion constituency. It is still "significantly owned by the bank". The Co-operative, since you ask.
We don't discuss it, but - if you think it important - she paid £925,000 for the six-bedroom, four-reception-room, detached home - for which the asking price in 2011 was £950,000. By a long way, it is the most expensive house in the road.
Ironically, given the current debate about council budgets and Labour's mansion tax, it is in Band F for council tax (the third-highest).
One Labour councillor, writing in the wake of the last city council elections, said the party could not attack the Greens "because it is liking clubbing seals". Clearly, four years is a long time in local politics. There will be no seals in this article. But be warned, there may be badgers.
"Badgers are big," Ms Lucas jokes - when she noticed I'd marked mainly the sections of her book about the NHS, about feminism, about equality, about taxing the rich who got us into the mess rather than the poor who suffer the most, about the socialism
of pre-Blairite Labour, about the old boys' club that still masquerades as the "mother" of parliaments, about dispensing with ludicrously-expensive deadly weapons, such as Trident. Not because they despoil the planet; because the destroy human flesh.
Inevitably, there is a lot about climate change. At one stage, she makes what I think is a rather unhelpful comparison with the Second World War and the need for a new "home front" against climate change.
Does she see her self as the Winston Churchill to defeat climate change?
"There is genuinely a sense of almost desperation that I feel personally about what do we have to do to wake up politicians to the very serious danger of climate change. Looking back to the Second World War was about trying to find what precedent is there recently that people can relate to in some way of
major political change that happens as the result of the perception of a threat.
"I appreciate that the threat of war looks and feels different from the threat of climate change, not least because it's more immediate. Churchill and everybody else had to make a hell of a big case for the fact that we needed to be organising, because the threat is very real."
The analogy, she said, isn't that far-fetched. "I don't see myself as the Churchill of climate change. But I think there might be some lessons we could learn from the kind of communications that were done at that time."
Communications are important to Ms Lucas, who is a former press officer for Oxfam. The subject comes up when I steer the conversation to the rather parochial matter of city politics and the minority Green-led administration.
Brighton and Hove does not get many significant mentions, although
Ms Lucas says there are lots of them: "I've counted them. Electronically."
Although she insists, understandably: "You've got to admit, In the shape of the book, wouldn't it be a bit odd if I had suddenly had a whole thing about Brighton Council?"
So what does she think about how well the Greens in power for the first time have
fared? Her comments are the most detailed I have heard, so I will quote them at length:
"I think they've done a good job in incredibly-difficult circumstances. I think that they have done some things I haven't agreed with - and that's hardly a new revelation.
"It's been perfectly clear that I thought the way in which the bin strike was handled was not as good as it could have been. Obviously, with a brand new council, mistakes will be made - as they always are.
"But what I also think, crucially, is that if they were to have their time again to have somebody whose job it was to communicate all the fantastic things they've done is something they should do.
"They can't - it's not appropriate to - rely on the council press office to do that. It's not their job. But the Green Group never had a press person whose
job it was to say, for example, that we've got more tourists coming to Brighton than ever before; we've got the fourth-highest-level of start-ups outside of London; our digital community is rivalling anything else in the country; they championed the Living Wage; one of the first things they did was to reduce the differential between the highest-paid and the lowest-paid in the council; they brought in £71 million in from outside the authority.
"The challenge is that people don't know this stuff. Someone was giving me no end of grief how he perceived money had been diverted from other things within the council to cycle lanes. It's extra money that the Greens have bid for from national government and brought in; £71 million is no mean amount. One of the things we have learned from the last four or five years is that the council needs to be singing about its successes rather than thinking they will just seep out automatically."
There is a detail-packed page about the Green-led council's housing achievements - the "facts" may be controversial, but Mr Lucas insists they have been "triple-checked".
There's lots more to discuss: the Labour Party, its heyday (the immediate
post-war period), and how it has lost its way, its vision, and its conviction; the "progressive alliance" she hopes to form - cement is the wrong word - in the run-up to the election, with Plaid Cymru and the SNP - "could put some serious pressure on a minority Labour government. What's exciting about that idea is it is actually something a lot people like better than the idea of a majority Labour government. That's quite an interesting statement."
How many Green MPs will there be
when we wake up on May 8? Thinking carefully, she said: "Let me just preface my answer by saying things are changing so fast, the Green Party is on practically 60,000 members - which has gone up from 15,000 less than a year ago - so we are in uncharted
I don't see myself as the Churchill of climate
change. But I think there might be some lessons we could learn from the kind of communications that were done at that time.”
Her arguments are always to the issue, not to the individual. Never
ad hominem. And certainly never ad feminam. One of the many quotations in the book is by Ian McEwan: 'Shall we have womanly times? Or shall we die?'”
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post-war period), and how it has lost its way, its vision, and its conviction; the "progressive alliance" she hopes to form - cement is the wrong word - in the run-up to the election, with Plaid Cymru and the SNP - "could put some serious pressure on a minority Labour government. What's exciting about that idea is it is actually something a lot people like better than the idea of a majority Labour government. That's quite an interesting statement."
How many Green MPs will there be
when we wake up on May 8? Thinking carefully, she said: "Let me just preface my answer by saying things are changing so fast, the Green Party is on practically 60,000 members - which has gone up from 15,000 less than a year ago - so we are in uncharted
times. Partly, one could say anything could happen. Looking at where we are now, getting a handful of Green MPs is possible."
Five? "Brighton Pavilion, Bristol West, and Norwich South are the most likely ones." Three, then. Possibly.
Much of the book is about the ludicrous inefficiencies of parliament: the whips, the party machinery, the deliberately-arcane procedures; the advantages job-sharing MPs would
bring; the rampant, condescending sexism. Owen Paterson, the former Conservative environment secretary, and a Conservative MP called John Hayes (who?). Both get a good kicking. My words, of course. Not Ms Lucas, who rarely seems to have a bad word
to say in public about any individual.Her arguments are always to the
issue, not to the individual. Never ad hominem. And certainly never ad feminam. One of the many quotations in the book is by Ian McEwan: “Shall we have womanly times? Or shall we die?”
Sadly, there's no time to discuss another bizarre analogy about what trade unions might learn from the RSPB. The Royal Society for the Protection of the Working Class? A cruel joke that she does not fully deserve.
And what about badgers? I'm afraid we have run out of space. Buy the book.
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Her arguments are always to the issue, not to the individual. Never
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Alasdair Buchan
For lefties in search of inspiration,Lucas’s book provides little solace
As an elector of - but not a voter for - Caroline Lucas, I was looking forward to her first book since being elected.
For an old leftie like myself, the years marked by the emergence of the Green Party in parallel with the Blairite domination of the Labour Party's structures and leadership have been difficult.
For people, who still began speeches with "comrade chair", the Labour Party no longer seemed like our natural home.
On the other hand, the Greens' style of campaigning - iPads apart - would have been familiar to any activist of the last 100 years: a mix of Aldermaston stalwarts and Occupy youngsters; marches, banners, and leaflets; and endlessly long discussions. Meat and drink to us lefties.
So should I be over there with Ms Lucas? Has she words to inspire
me? The book does not begin well
for my purpose. She insists: "It is ... not a 'political memoir, written during a time of reflection. Nor is it a manifesto. I would have loved to say more about ... what the Greens can offer now and in the future.'" Indeed, she adds, it does not aim to be comprehensive ... "many things are left out".
I'll say.The topic of recycling gets a
big shout-out, but there's not a word about the treatment by Green councillors of the Cityclean workers - from which she rightly distanced herself.
You'll search in vain for other hot Brighton and Hove topics, such as cycle lanes. Or Green Party splits. Pete West and Keith Taylor get encomiums. But what about Jason Kitcat, Geoffrey Bowden, and other Green bigwigs? Not a word. Curious.
To be fair, the fractured Westminster Portcullis on the front signals her priority is explaining her experiences inside parliament
and her proposals for change. Very promising, but the pattern of her writing doesn't satisfy my search for inspiration. One after another, the chapters start with some good colour writing or an anecdote. But they tail off quickly into little more than "Stay Calm and Vote Green".
However, the chapter entitled "The Progressives: How Those Who Want A Fairer Society Could Work Together" offered me hope. It starts with high, very high, praise for the Labour Party's historic contribution to "the same streams of radicalism and challenge to the established order ... that still inspire the Green Movement today". But the betrayals of Labour grieve her and the "brothers 'who had 'the power to turn off the lights' were
almost all men, opposing equality for women in the workplace" and "dragging their feet" on racial equality.
Then, she turns to the Liberals. Apparently, they were responsible for all good things, such as legalising abortion. Yes, that was
down to David Steel's courage and tenacity as a backbencher, but could only get enough votes thanks to the adoption of the bill by the 1967 Labour government.
Her statement that the end of criminality for gays was thanks to "future Liberal" Roy Jenkins is pure sophistry; he was Labour home secretary and remained in the party for another 15 years.
The way to end this hated coalition, she says, is to ... create another coalition. This time a coalition of tents (her clumsy metaphor): George Galloway over there in an Arab tent; a few glamping Conservatives; all those
Occupy pop-ups; Liberals in VW camper vans; and a leaking ex-army marquee with camp beds and primus stoves for me and my like.
Oh god! This is where I came in. Can the People's Front of Judea be far behind?
Alasdair Buchan is a former Daily Mirror journalist and a Labour Party member living in Brighton; his parents were Norman and Janey Buchan, unforgettable figures of the socialist tradition, as then represented by the Labour Party.
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‘The Good Divorce’ Year of the goat
This weekend I saw that many of the supermarkets and food shops around Brighton had special deals on Chinese food and I was reminded that it was Chinese New Year.
I like to acknowledge this festival not because I have any special connections with China but well it is just a bit more interesting and spiritual than our own New Year.
I like the fact that the Chinese celebrations are also known as the Spring Festival so a reminder that better weather is now upon us.
This year is the Year of the Goat though there has been some confusion about whether Sheep, Goats and Rams are all the same animal when it comes to the Zodiac signs.
Year of the Goat …..doesn’t have a great ring to it does it? So I looked into it further and found actually that negative image is just a cultural thing. In the UK we tend to think of Goats as stubborn and sometimes rather aggressive. But according to the Chinese, Goat people are elegant, charming, romantic and sensitive
Their good manners and charms meaning they have many friends and admirers.
But interestingly for me as a Collaborative Family Lawyer and Mediator when it comes to relationships it seems goats are slightly more complex.
Goat people can be very insecure they need to feel protected and loved and are easily drawn into complex situations.
They will shy away from confrontation, and completely withdraw when faced with heavy decision-making. They blatantly refuse to get involved in any form of conflict. They are sweet when in love but also incredibly lazy.
So all this stargazing got me thinking about some of the clients I work with – how many of them resemble goat people?
Often when a couple finally splits up I hear that laziness and avoiding any difficult conversations formed a big part of why the relationship ended. The once sweet, romantic partner has over time become lazy about the relationship or insecure so constantly picking fights.
But what I also see is that essentially those couples that chose the collaborative process rather than the adversarial do so precisely because they still want what is best for all involved. They want to sort things out in a way that doesn’t cause
unnecessary hurt or anger. They want good manners and mutual respect to form the basis of the process. And in time although they no longer have a romantic involvement they can and do move on and treat each other well post parting. In other words the good goat qualities win out in the end.
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Shining a light on urgent issues SICK! Festival kicks off Monday, March 2
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Celebrity auction of promises@GrassrootsSP
Grassroots Suicide Prevention will be hosting a ‘Celebrity Auction of Promises’ at the All Saints Church in Hove, on March 6. The Brighton-based educational charity has collected various items for bidders to set their hearts on, with promises of extraordinary gifts and surprises.Gail Porter, TV Presenter and former Model will be
introducing the auction with light entertainment in the form of live jazz, followed by a DJ.
Tickets cost £10 and the ticket price includes entry, together with canapés and a complimentary drink. Tables of six are offered at a discounted rate of £50.
Grassroots Suicide Prevention is proudly working towards making Brighton and Hove the UK’s first Suicide-Safer City. Grassroots core belief is that no one should contemplate suicide alone; they support communities to prevent suicide, one life at a time. They reach wider communities via extensive campaigning over social media, and by teaching specific training packages, namely SafeTALK (Suicide Alertness For Everyone) and ASIST (Applied Suicide Prevention Skills Training), and they also have presence on National Strategic Suicide Prevention Boards.
The money raised on the night will go towards further suicide prevention activities, supporting local communities across the South East of England to be safer from suicide.
For more information on Grassroots Suicide Prevention and for further details of their auction, visit: www.prevent-suicide.org.uk
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A monthly celebration of all things vintage and antiqueOn the first Sunday of every month, the Open Market on London Road is a bustling and vibrant celebration of all things vintage and antique. The Brighton Vintage and Antiques Market (BVAM) opens its doors at 10.30am and runs till 4pm taking over the plaza with up to 60 stall holders from all over Brighton, Lewes and London.
Rapidly becoming the new Spitalfields of Brighton, it promises to have everything from traditional Antiques, collectables and Decorative arts to Vintage clothing and Mid Century furniture and home-ware. In the previous four months since its launch the Market has already attracted a large number of regular stall holders providing completely unique and bespoke lighting, traditional French antiques and linens, and decorative interiors pieces. Being situated minutes from Brighton station and the town centre its a perfect day out for collectors, bargain hunters and ideal for interior designers!
Further info about BVAM and its stall holders can be found on the BVAM Facebook page: www.bvam.co.uk or search Facebook/BrightonVintageAntiquesMarket If you are an antiques dealer or vintage boutique interested in taking a stall at BAVM, please email Jess & Dan: [email protected]
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Brain Gym No.211
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:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26O R F W G E B L Q H M A S
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From top to bottom - Simple, Intermediate, Difficult Simple Intermediate Difficult
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How you rate:
10 words - average;15 words - good;20 words - very good;25 or more - excellent.
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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.
ceil, cite, cited, cites, clod, close, closed, closet, clot, clots, code, coed, coedit, coedits, coil, coiled, coils, cold, coldest, cole, colitis, colt, coset, cost, costed, cote, dice, dices, diciest, disc, disco, docile, edict, elicit, elicits, iced, ices, iciest, idiolect, licit, scold, sect, slice, sliced, solicit, solicited, stoic.
Last week’s solutions:
Scribble pad ✍
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.
Double Crossword
Across Down
Across Down
Quick Clues:
Cryptic Clues:Choose either quick or cryptic clues.
1. Acted as a would-be officer (5)
4. A faultless rider could still put his foot in it (7)
8. New ones may be expensive if stout, perhaps (7)
9. A wedge shot that doesn’t go straight (5)
10. Posh sort of business (4)
11. They fight, though they’re not boxers (8)
13. Written authority for many to strike (4)
14. It makes fast speed at sea (4)
16. An aptitude to write and sing (8)
17. Boast about dress (4)
20. A gesture one doesn’t care to make (5)
21. Notedly brisk (7) 22. The peace
subsequently includes the French (7)
23. It’s erect, whichever way you look at it (3,2)
1. Angry over
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3. Tidy haircut (4)
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such clothing (7)
7. Set out to influence
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in the U.S. (8)
13. Manage a medium
agency (7)
15. The occupant is at
home with his wife
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19. Thunderous
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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:
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1. Fat (5) 4. Advantage (7) 8. Petty (7) 9. Lucid (5) 10. Destiny (4) 11. Half a minim (8) 13. Profound (4) 14. Extremely (4) 16. Marred (8) 17. Notion (4) 20. Ingenuous (5) 21. Shorten (7) 22. Voter (7) 23. Mirror (5)
1. Exasperated (3,2,8)
2. Live (5)
3. Wicked (4)
4. Campanile (6)
5. Fine points (8)
6. Newly (7)
7. Reverse fortunes (4,3,6)
12. Dregs (8)
13. Rob (7)
15. Swordsman (6)
18. Play (5)
19. Conceited person (4)
CirclegramReplace 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?
Last week’s solutions:
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The letter represented by the question mark is T. Stilton, Emmental, ricotta, all cheeses.
AlphamuddleRearrange 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.
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Last week’s solutions:Manic, Alone, Nomad, Inane, Ceded.
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Last week’s solutions:CRYPTIC - Across: 3 Intercept; 8 Cock; 9 Put across; 10 Peahen; 11 Donor; 14 Giber; 15 Nuts; 16 Limbo; 18 Ahoy; 20 Chair; 21 Keeps; 24 Matron; 25 Hal-loween; 26 Esau; 27 Ill-wisher. Down: 1 Scapegoat; 2 Scrapbook; 4 Noun; 5 Erato; 6 Carbon; 7 Pisa; 9 Pearl; 11 Du-mas; 12 Run across; 13 Astronaut; 17 Ocean; 19 Yellow; 22 Pawns; 23 Call; 24 Mete. QUICK - Across: 3 Physician; 8 Omen; 9 Unmindful; 10 Spring; 11 Sheen; 14 Admit; 15 Lure; 16 Erase; 18 Long; 20 Error; 21 Drive; 24 Dismal; 25 Burlesque; 26 Onus; 27 Infertile. Down: 1 Constable; 2 Reprimand; 4 Hang; 5 Smith; 6 Cudgel; 7 Abut; 9 Unite; 11 Shape; 12 Nutriment; 13 Heartless; 17 Eerie; 19 Grille; 22 Visit; 23 Turn; 24 Dull.
Thistle HotelFashion Show
spring/summerSaturday 18th April
Show times 2.00pm, 2.45pm, 3.30pm
Outfits and accessories from:
Make up by AvedaHair by Alex at Ciscos Karma
Charity raffle in aid of the MartletsHosted by Guy Lloyd - Juice 107.2 and Sophie Corbett
Styling, staging and production by Jane Busby
freeentry
Brighton Bespoke Tailoring
Eyesite Opticians
Mistral
Jacu
Laundry Boutique
MatchBags
Pretty Eccentric
Rock Lobster Boutique
The Fair Shop
Simon Carter Menswear
Tegen Accessories
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06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 Bookenders (x2)09:00 Mike Mendoza's Adur & Worthing09:30 Best of Brighton Lights10:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)12:00 Brighton Lights (x2)13:00 Best of Brighton Lights13:30 Cook It (x3)15:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)17:00 Under The Radar17:30 Bowlegs
06:00 Under The Radar (x4)08:00 Brighton Album Chart Show08:30 Noise Reel09:00 Albion Night12:00 Brighton Lights (x2)13:00 BWC British Wrestling Weekly14:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)16:00 BWC British Wrestling Weekly17:00 Post Feature17:30 Cook It
06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 The Newspapers (x2)09:00 The Vote (x4)11:00 At The Amex11:30 Latest Community Sport12:00 Brighton Lights (x4)14:00 At The Amex14:30 Latest Community Sport15:00 International Chef Exchange16:00 Brighton Lights (x4)
06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 Bookenders (x2)09:00 The Newspapers (x2)10:00 Total Tone Up10:30 Millionaires' Row (x4)12:30 Brighton Lights13:00 Best of Brighton Lights13:30 Dudley's Comfort Food14:00 Carib-Asian Cookery14:30 In The Pot15:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)17:00 The Brighton Lights Sessions17:30 All Star Unplugged
06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 Bookenders (x2)09:00 The Newspapers (x2)10:00 Total Tone Up10:30 Millionaires' Row (x4)12:00 Brighton Lights (x2)13:00 Best of Brighton Lights13:30 Northern Cuisine14:00 Dudley's Comfort Food14:30 Carib-Asian Cookery15:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)17:00 Under The Radar17:30 All Star Unplugged
06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 Bookenders09:00 Mike Mendoza's Adur & Worthing09:30 Best of Brighton Lights10:00 Total Tone Up10:30 Millionaires' Row (x4)12:00 Brighton Lights (x2)13:00 Best of Brighton Lights13:30 In The Pot14:00 Northern Cuisine14:30 Dudley's Comfort Food15:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)17:00 Under The Radar (x2)
06:00 The Vote (x4)08:00 Bookenders (x2)09:00 Best of Brighton Lights09:30 Mike Mendoza's Adur & Worthing10:00 Total Tone Up10:30 Millionaires' Row (x4)12:00 Brighton Lights (x2)13:00 Best of Brighton Lights13:30 Carib-Asian Cookery14:00 In The Pot14:30 Northern Cuisine15:00 Millionaires' Row (x4)17:00 Under The Radar17:30 All Star Unplugged
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 The Newspapers Mike Mendoza is joined by guests to discuss this week's stories in the press. 19:00 Brighton Lights A nightly entertainment show presented by Guy Lloyd and Lynn Ruth Miller. Expect to see all the talent from Brighton and beyond. 19:30 Latest News 20:00 The Vote Frank Le Duc covers local and national politics and the upcoming key elections for our future. 20:30 Latest News 21:00 You Make It, We Show It! Latest Bill and David Netherton present films made by you, the great Brighton public. 21:30 Bloody Mary Hit internet horror satire. 22:00 Modern Toss (x2) Modern Toss. The stink of excellence in a world gone tits up! Comedy animation and live action series. Lots of swearing. 23:00 Noise Reel Amplifying a wave of music news and entertainment to your TV every fortnight. Featuring interviews, exclusive performances, discussion and much more. 23:30 Brighton Album Chart Show Our monthly top 10 is compiled solely from albums bought in Brighton's independent cult store, Resident Records. 00:00 Bowlegs Live music sessions and interviews with the artists. Presented by Julian Tardo. 00:30 Under The Radar (x2) Paul Mex and Jeff Hemmings show and discuss great music videos 01:30 Bored Gamers Combining the exciting worlds of video and adult board gaming to bring you news, reviews and much more. 02:30 You Make It, We Show It! 03:00 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Varjak Musical guests and band highlights from the Brighton Lights live sessions. 03:30 Noise Reel 04:00 Brighton Album Chart Show 04:30 Under The Radar (x2) 05:30 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Uncle Arthur
18:00 The Newspapers Mike Mendoza is joined by guests to discuss this week's stories in the press. 18:30 Best of Brighton LightsRichard Shayler takes a cheeky look back on episodes of Brighton Lights, first aired on the internet. 19:00 Brighton Lights A nightly entertainment show presented by Guy Lloyd and Lynn Ruth Miller. Expect to see all the talent from Brighton and beyond. 19:30 You Make It, We Show It! Latest Bill and David Netherton present films made by you, the great Brighton public.20:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 20:30 BWC British Wrestling Weekly All the latest happenings from the world of the British Wrestling Coalition. 21:30 Latest News 22:00 Best of Brighton Lights 22:30 You Make It, We Show It! 23:00 Bowlegs Live music sessions and interviews with the artists. Presented by Julian Tardo. 23:30 Under The Radar (x2) Paul Mex and Jeff Hemmings show and discuss great music videos that may have been under your radar.00:30 Latest News 01:00 FilmFest on TV Jessica Kellgren Hayes introduces Latest TV's very own weekly Film Festival, a dedicated film night for movies, shorts, and new brand new work from film makers. 03:00 Bored Gamers Bored Gamers combining the exciting worlds of video and adult board gaming to bring you news, reviews and much more. 04:00 Bowlegs04:30 Latest News 05:00 You Make It, We Show It! 05:30 Under The Radar
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 At The Amex Latest Sport were at the Amex. Tune in to see the story of the day. 19:00 Brighton Lights A nightly entertainment show presented by Guy Lloyd and Lynn Ruth Miller. Expect to see all the talent from Brighton and beyond. 19:30 Latest News 20:00 Hindsight: The Past That Moves You Victims and survivors in Northern Ireland. How do we remember and how does Northern Ireland remember its recent past? 20:45 Teens4teens: Behind The Project A group of Surrey children have recorded an amazing CD with songs to support the Teenage Cancer Trust. This is a video about the project and the people involved. 21:00 FilmFest on TV Jessica Kellgren Hayes introduces Latest TV's very own weekly Film Festival, a dedicated film night for movies, shorts, and new brand new work from film makers. 23:00 Under The Radar (x2) Paul Mex and Jeff Hemmings show and discuss great music videos that may have been under your radar. 00:00 Latest News 00:30 FilmFest on TV 02:30 Latest News 03:00 FilmFest on TV 05:00 Latest News 05:30 At The Amex
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 Mike Mendoza's Adur & Worthing Latest TV's Mike Mendoza present's his weekly entertainment show - focusing on all things Adur and Worthing. 19:00 Best of Brighton Lights Richard Shayler takes a cheeky look back on episodes of Brighton Lights, first aired on the internet. 19:30 Latest News 20:00 The Vote Frank Le Duc covers local and national politics and the upcoming key elections for our future. 20:30 Northern Cuisine Chef and Pop Up Restaurant guru Gareth Kyle sources regional food to celebrate local producers. Using their produce he cooks inspiring meals out and about or in a cookery school in Alnwick. 21:00 Latest News 21:30 International Chef Exchange Top chefs swap for a week with chefs from all over the world. Andrew Kay presents from glamorous locations almost as nice as Brighton. 22:30 Latest News 23:00 Under The Radar Paul Mex and Jeff Hemmings show and discuss great music videos that may have been under your radar. 23:30 All Star Unplugged A live music show from Leeds presented by Katie Skinner and Manny Brown showcasing the best live music talent in the region. 00:00 Latest News 00:30 Mike Mendoza's Adur & Worthing 01:00 Best of Brighton Lights 01:30 Latest News 02:00 The Vote Frank Le Duc covers local and national politics and the upcoming key elections for our future. 02:30 Northern Cuisine 03:00 Latest News 03:30 International Chef Exchange 04:30 Latest News 05:00 Under The Radar 05:30 All Star Unplugged
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 You Make It, We Show It! Latest Bill and David Netherton present films made by you, the great Brighton public. 19:00 Best of Brighton Lights Richard Shayler takes a cheeky look back on episodes of Brighton Lights, first aired on the internet. 19:30 Latest News 20:00 The Vote Frank Le Duc covers local and national politics and the upcoming key elections for our future. Expect heated debates as Brighton decides on Latest TV! 20:30 Love That Car 21:00 Latest News 21:30 Ordinary Lives: Always Somewhere Else Always Somewhere Else is a diary of a journey across the USA echoing Denis' fathers travels during the 20s & 30s. Serendipity and chance encounter are central to the making of this short film. 22:00 Life Stories22:30 Latest News 23:00 All Star Unplugged All Star Unplugged is a live music show from Leeds presented by Katie Skinner and Manny Brown showcasing the best live music talent in the region. 23:30 The Brighton Lights Sessions Musical guests and band highlights from the Brighton Lights live sessions. 00:00 Latest News 00:30 You Make It, We Show It! 01:00 Best of Brighton Lights 01:30 Latest News 02:00 The Vote 02:30 Love That Car 03:00 Latest News 03:30 Ordinary Lives: Always Somewhere Else 04:00 Life Stories 04:30 Latest News 05:00 All Star Unplugged05:30 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Black Rooster Musical guests and band highlights from the Brighton Lights live sessions.
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 Post Feature All the latest movie news, reviews and previews. With Jessica Kellgren Hayes and Joseph Gunn. 19:00 Brighton Hi-Lights The best conversation, music and funniest moments from the first series of Brighton's topical magazine programme. 19:30 Latest News20:00 The Vote Frank Le Duc covers local and national politics and the upcoming key elections for our future. Expect heated debates as Brighton decides on Latest TV! 20:30 Millionaires' Row From penthouse to pool, take an exclusive tour of exceptional, outstanding, and unique dream houses. 21:00 Latest News 21:30 Beyond The Grave (x2) Josh Ellis is joined by Lou Pope, a psychic medium. The mystic duo take on some of Bristol's spookiest spots and speak to local people about life...Beyond the Grave. 22:30 Latest News 23:00 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Varjak Musical guests and band highlights from the Brighton Lights live sessions. 23:30 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Uncle Arthur 00:00 Latest News 00:30 Post Feature 01:00 Brighton Hi-Lights 01:30 Latest News 02:00 The Vote 02:30 Millionaires' Row 03:00 Latest News 03:30 Beyond The Grave (x2) 04:30 Latest News 05:00 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Varjak 05:30 The Brighton Lights Sessions: Uncle Arthur
18:00 Latest News The latest news where we are, the latest sports news, plus national and international updates, and the up-to-date forecast for your area and beyond. 18:30 Post Feature All the latest movie news, reviews and previews. With Jessica Kellgren Hayes and Joseph Gunn. 19:00 Brighton Hi-Lights The best conversation, music and funniest moments from the first series of Brighton's topical magazine programme. 19:30 Albion Night The Seagulls weekly show with Latest Sport. Featuring news about all the squads and competitions. Classic games from the club's archives and much more. 22:30 Latest News 23:00 Under The Radar Paul Mex and Jeff Hemmings show and discuss great music videos that may have been under your radar. 23:30 All Star Unplugged A live music show from Leeds presented by Katie Skinner and Manny Brown showcasing the best live music talent in the region. 00:00 Latest News 00:30 Post Feature 01:00 Brighton Hi-Lights 01:30 Albion Night 04:30 Latest News 05:00 Under The Radar 05:30 All Star Unplugged All Star Unplugged is a live music show from Leeds presented by Katie Skinner and Manny Brown showcasing the best live music talent in the region.
Ones to watch ....Monday, March 2 International Chef Exchange9.30pm
As much as we adore having restaurants here that source their recipes from all over the world, is it really the same as actually going to India, Italy, France or any other place in the world? Andrew Kay hosts a mission to find out when top chefs swap for a week with chefs from all over the world. Are all kitchens alike?
Thursday, March 5 Albion Night7.30pm Albion Night is The Seagulls weekly show with Latest Sport news and updates. Featuring information about all the squads and upcoming competitions. Also featuring classic games from the club's archives from back in the Withdean days and much more.
Wednesday, March 4 The Vote8pm Frank le Duc is at the helm of LatestTV’s flagship political discussion programme, with interested parties discussing key issues ahead of the forthcoming elections. Can’t be bothered to go to the hustings yourself? Tune in and watch the arguments unfold from your sofa. Who needs to read manifestos with this on telly.
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We'd like to discuss a white crystalline purine. A methylxanthine alkaloid closely related to the adenine and guanine, which are present in deoxyribonucleic acid.
That was the science bit.Now let's have a chat about
caffeine and why, as coffee merchants, we are basically just glorified drug-dealers.
The world's most-commonly-consumed psychoactive drug is caffeine and it's totally legal and completely unregulated. It really is a drug - the World Health Organisation says so. WHO? The World Health Organisation.
Caffeine stimulates the nervous
system and provides clearer thought and better co-ordination, as well as improved performance. That all makes it distinctly different from what you'll get from the local crack-dealer.
Like all drugs, caffeine can cause intoxication and withdrawal, but you simply can't be addicted.
It is possible to overdose and suffer dependency, but if we take the definition of addiction as "compulsive use despite adverse consequences", then our druggie regulars cannot be classed as addicts.
Tea contains more caffeine than coffee in its original form. But, once brewed, coffee wins. It's a bit like saffron and gold being worth the same in weight - despite us knowing this, we'd all rather be given a bullion than a hairy little bundle of orangey yellow stuff.
Chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine as
decaffeinated coffee. Not sure how that works.
The Americans invented a caffeine lip balm called SpazzStick. Unsurprisingly, it was withdrawn from sale. Surprisingly, this was due to health concerns and not the name.
Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Mountain Dew are all heavily caffeinated. But, if you're a grown-up, then your recreational drug of choice should be consumed in the form of coffee.
Robusta contains about twice as much caffeine as Arabica, which is why we use a blend of both beans. Pop on down to our legalised drug parlour and join our gang. You can have a brownie if you get the munchies - and we'll even give you a loyalty card.
You won't get that on the street.
Find The Little Coffee Company at 4 Bartholomews, BN1 1HG
Coffee Chroniclesby
The Places I Eat
Causing waves of interest across our seaside city, The Salt Room opened its doors last weekend and I’ve not seen such hype about a new Brighton restaurant in years.
The Salt Room sits in a prime location, with sea views promised come warmer weather. Located in such an ideal tourist hotspot, it will have no problem with passing trade and hungry custom from the adjoining Hilton Brighton Metropole.
Sister establishment of The Coal Shed, the well-received steak restaurant on Boyces Street, The Salt Room is a much bigger and bolder sibling.
The decor is simply fantastic: exposed brickwork, ocean-blue benches, white granite table tops, prints of the West Pier stretching out across wooden-clad walls - not to mention low-swinging metallic lampshades and an al-fresco dining space that, in summer, will effortlessly complement the sleek and charming interior.
The main entrance leads to a 16-seat cocktail bar and the drinks selection does nothing but impress: aperitifs, champagne, old and new world wines, and a great range of gin and tonics. The cocktails - aptly titled "Sailors Tipples" - looked especially appealing.
We sipped on a seductive Smokey Tart (£8) with mezcal, peach citrus, and apple, and a My Tie (£8) with El Dorado three-year-old rum, tarragon and almond syrup, citrus and icing sugar. Tthe latter, however, tasted far too sweet for a pre-dinner tipple.
With a menu that focuses on grilled fish, seafood and meat, owner Raz Helalat wisely includes the steak options on which he built his business foundation.
And yes, the Josper oven and hot charcoal cooking method from The Coal Shed is also a feature of The Salt Room. There is also a touch of Japanese influence with dashi, miso, ponzu, yuzu, and pickled vegetables sparingly featured across the menu.
To start, we ordered the fire-
roasted crab claws with garlic, chilli, and lime (£11) and cured salmon, miso, crème fraîche with burnt cucumber and truffle (£7). Upon ordering, I was warned by our fantastic waitress that the crab claws would “take some work”. And boy was she telling the truth.
The dark claws were served in a deep plate with a brown-and-red spicy sauce - a sauce so piquant that any scraping of delicious white crab meat was overpowered by the taste of chilli. Less spice and more lime would have been far better.
The low lighting meant that, upon gently cracking the rusty-red warm shell, bits of it fell into the aforementioned dark sauce and I repeatedly endured mouthfuls of crunchy shell. Not enjoyable and a messy, complicated starter. Suzanne fared better, giving kudos to the soft, silky texture of the salmon, but found that the crème fraiche didn’t deliver the desired tartness to off-set the fish. A garnish of thinly-sliced cucumber would have fared much better had it been lightly pickled.
For mains, we chose the Sussex cod, braised octopus, sea herbs, and shellfish bouillon (£17) and the roast halibut, braised oxtail, parsley root, and mushroom tea (£20).
The Sussex cod was cooked beautifully, utterly faultless, along with the tiny morsel of octopus that sat alongside it. But the shellfish bouillon itself was disappointing. Very salty and verging on bland, the broth did nothing to to lift the dish. Piled high with samphire, the plate was underwhelming. And, with a price-tag of £20, I’d have expected a lot more, both in quantity and quality.
Suzanne’s halibut was slightly rubbery - a sign it had perhaps been left under the pass too long - and the rich oxtail was meltingly tender
Claire Beveridge@placesieatbtn
The Salt Room: A seafront winner with excellent service and decor
Recipe of the Weekby Luis Rodriguez
Method Pre-heat the oven to 160C, the fryer to 180C, and light the grill. Cut the squid into individual tentacles. Wash the mackerel. Peel the potato and cut into 3cm thick slices and cut out a variety of rings using cutters. Place the peppers in the oven for 35 minutes; remove from the oven and place into a bowl; cover with cling film for 30 minutes more. Peel and crush the 10g of garlic for the potatoes. Place all the potato in a pan with the Amaretti, red wine, and peppercorns, along with the garlic and thyme; boil until cooked for 25 to 30 minutes; drain. Peel the avocado; add 10g of the garlic; add to the milk and oil; blend, being careful not to let it split. Peel the peppers and remove the core and seeds then portion into eighths Place the mackerel on baking parchment and under the grill until golden and crispy; turn over and finish off cooking. Dust the squid in lightly-salted tempura flour and fry until golden and drain on kitchen paper. Place the peppers back in the oven until hot. Plate up and serve.
Luis Rodriguez is demi chef de partie at Hilton Brighton Metropole
Grilled mackerel, accompanied by Amaretto potato, confit pepper salad, crispy squid, and avocado aioli
Four mackerel fillets Two Maris Piper potatoes Selection of three bell peppers Six squid tentacles
100ml milk 50g avocado 25ml olive oil20g garlic cloves 175ml Amaretti liquor
Six peppercorns 5g salt5g thyme 100 ml red wine50g tempura flour
The Salt Room@TheSaltRoomUK
106 Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 2FU
01273 929488
www.saltroom-restaurant.co.uk
but overpowered the delicate fish. The parsley root was an interesting new flavour, though, tasting much like parsnip.
We finished with the much-talked about Taste of the Pier (£16), a novelty sharing dessert consisting of exceptionally sweet candy floss, a really good salted caramel "99"-style ice-cream, a bizarre rum and coconut marshmallow, fantastic and fun doughnuts that tasted exactly like those from Brighton Pier, chocolate "pebbles" and sweet honeycomb. A fun but very sweet way to end a meal.
The Salt Room has many positives: excellent service, well-executed design and interiors, and a brilliant drinks menu. The food, however, has to be consistent to truly impress. But, as with all new openings, there is plenty of room for changes and refinement and I’m sure, come summer, Brighton and its tourists will flock for al-fresco dining and views of the sea.
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Laundry Boutique opened in Prince Albert Street in The Lanes in April last year. It is a gorgeous boutique that stocks a winning combination of different and beautiful - but affordable - clothing, footwear, and accessories. Local residents and visitors to Brighton are surprised and delighted by what they find in this fashion treasure trove.
Sian Elin Jones and her team pride themselves on being able to cater for all women - whatever
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Laundry Boutique is showing on the catwalk in the third Brighton Thistle Fashion Show at the Thistle Hotel on Saturday, April 18. The free show times are 2pm, 2.45pm, and 3.30pm; they are hosted by Guy Lloyd and Sophie Corbett.
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INSOLVENCY ACT 1986
IN BANKRUPTCYBRIGHTON COUNTY COURT
NO 1019 of 2007 RE: JANE ANNE MAYNARD (Also known as JANE ANNE SPRINGER)D.O.B: 7 December 1969
I intend to pay within four months from 25th March2015 (being the last day for proving) the first and finaldividend of 5.73 p/£.
Creditors who have not yet proved their debts must doso by 25th March 2015 otherwise they will beexcluded from the dividend. The required proof of debtform is available on the Insolvency Service website(www.bis.gov.uk/insolvency, select “Forms“ and thenform 6.37). Alternatively, you can contact my office atOfficial Receivers Office, RTLU North West, 2nd Floor,3 Piccadilly Place, London Road, Manchester M1 3BNor telephone 0161 234 8500 to supply a form.
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I like to think I’m doing a decent job as mum to Tibbons. I am by no means perfect, but I reckon I’ve got the basics down and Tibbons certainly seems a happy, content and secure boy.
Nevertheless, I find myself wondering on occasion how I’m faring. If I were subjected to the rigours of Ofsted, what would they say?
If they’d seen me this week, their assessment would definitely be “could do better”. I’ve been rather off my game as a result of a nasty chest infection and less able to play and entertain poor Tibbons.
Thankfully, he also has the abundant attention and affection of Daddy-O, and of his grandparents. Even so, I’ve felt rather guilty about being less hands-on than I would like to be.
This then was the mood I found myself in when we visited our local kitchen showroom to select a new worktop (in case you were wondering, attempting such a
task after work, with a toddler, is not smart - but I suspect you could work that out on your own). As Daddy-O and I pondered the relative merits of “midnight blossom” vs “appleberry blues”, Tibbons contented himself with running around the empty kitchens.
I hold my hands up. Normally I would be more attentive, but in my defence I did have sight of him at all times and he was far more interested in running than in touching anything.
But yes, I was off my game and already feeling guilty about it. It was about go get worse: my shame ringing out across the store courtesy of their loudspeaker system: “Customers are requested to supervise children at all times in our stores for their own safety.”
Oh. The. Shame. The only comfort is that it was
pre-recorded, so we can’t be the only transgressors.
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THE LICENSING ACT 2003(PREMISES LICENCES AND CLUB PREMISES CERTIFICATES) REGULATIONS 2005Regulation 25 AdvertisementTO : WHOM IT MAY CONCERNWe The Traditional Fish And Chips restaurant, do hereby give notice that it is our intention to apply to Brighton & Hove City Council in the county of East Sussex for a variation of a premises licence or club premises certificate to use or permit the use of premises known as The Traditional Fish And Chips restaurant, 122 Kings Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 2FA for the following licensable activities which it is proposed will be carried on, on or from the premises: To serve alcohol for eat-in customers between the hours of 1100 to 2100 daily. Any person who desires to make a representation to the application, should send to Head of Planning and Public Protection, Health & Safety and Licensing, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton, BN1 1JP no later than the 24th of March 2015 a brief written statement of the grounds of his/her objection. Copies of the register and applications may be viewed at the above council office during normal office hours; summaries are available via www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/licensing.It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application and the maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for the offence is currently £5000 [level 5].Dated this: 27th day of February 2015
Section 43(5) Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 and Section 20(4) Marriage Act 1949.Church of St Patrick, Hove in the Diocese of Chichester.The Registrar of the Diocese of Chichester hereby gives notice that the Bishop of Chichester has revoked the licence for the publication of banns and the solemnisation of marriages and the licence authorising the performance of Divine Service at this church to take effect from 28 November 2014.Matthew Chinery, Diocesan Registrar, Minerva House, 5 Montague Close, London, SE1 9BB
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What you can get for ... £400,000
Property
This attractive styled cottage is located in a small cul-de-sac just off of Western Road. The property offers an open lounge diner with a spacious kitchen, leading into the conservatory with a door to the rear patio. Upstairs you will find two main bedrooms a bathroom and a loft room currently used as bedroom three.
Crown StreetBrightonTelephone: 01273 777000 www.fox-and-sons.co.uk
£400,000
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■ Stylish duplex apartment
■ 3 bedrooms all with sea/pier views
■ 2 bathrooms
■ Open plan living room
■ Large roof terrace
■ Amazing sea views
£400,000
This superb four/five bedroom semi-detached chalet style bungalow is situated in Elvin Crescent, a quiet and residential area, located in the picturesque village of Rottingdean. The property has been completely refurbished and redecorated by the present owners to an exceptional standard.
Elvin Crescent RottingdeanTelephone: 01273 289335 www.kingandchasemore.co.uk
A large 6 bedroom chalet home that can really accommodate a large growing family and still retain a spacious atmosphere throughout. The accomodation has great views and is extremely versatile given that there are four rooms just within the ground floor area and that’s excluding the kitchen / diniing area and sunroom extension.
Wilson Avenue BrightonTelephone: 01273 681811www.cubittandwest.co.uk
£400,000
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£675,000Marine Parade
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The new property portal causing a stir in the estate agency world
OnTheMarket.com, the new property search site, is causing quite a stir in the estate agency world. Launched in January, and with a TV advertising campaign gaining momentum this month, the immediate effect has been unsettling, and the long term future is unclear.
For some time, agents have been looking for an alternative to the dominance of Rightmove and Zoopla. OnTheMarket is their challenge: owned and controlled by themselves and run at cost. Membership is restricted to ‘office based local estate or letting agents’ who, controversially, are only allowed to advertise on one other site.
Have the agents signed up to OnTheMarket missed something in their eagerness to cut costs? How will buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants react to a new site which restricts advertising, gives them less information; is not as easy to use, and which has apparently been
set up for the benefit of agents rather than their clients?
Maybe this is the reason that nearly all of the Brighton and Hove agents who have so far signed up to the new property portal have chosen Rightmove rather than Zoopla as their other site. Aware that they might lose business by moving away from the market leader have they ‘hedged their bets’, at least for the time being?
Rightmove is the most expensive site for agents, but it is also the most well-known and established, as far as the public is concerned.
It has taken Zoopla time, effort and a large financial investment, to build up its reputation as a worthy competitor. With the number of visitors to OnTheMarket.com still relatively small, it has a long way to go to catch up.
There is still a lot to play for. It is not yet known how many other agents will join OnTheMarket, or how many will leave; how many agents, especially small independents and letting specialists, will stay with Zoopla; or whether the restrictions OnTheMarket has imposed will lead to lack of choice, and ultimately its downfall.
Denise Whittington
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WE SOLD ALL THESE PROPERTIES AT OR ABOVE
THE ASKING PRICE.
IN FACT THROUGH 2014 WE ACHIEVED, ON AVERAGE,
100.7% OF THE ASKING PRICE COMPARED TO THE LOCAL
AVERAGE OF 97%
THAT’S THE DIFFERENCE OF OVER £12,000 ON THE
AVERAGE BRIGHTON HOME
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Ten years ago, if someone used that term, we would all have scratched our heads, ruminated for a few seconds and then said, ‘what’s that?’ The strange thing is that today, we have the two camps: those amongst whom I count myself; using Twitter and Facebook, the two most commonly heard platforms on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, and those who just don’t do it and don’t want to do it.
Interestingly, as most people know, the Arab Spring series of revolutions were born in social media, as it initially pulled people together, for instance in Libya, when people began to realise they were not on their own in wanting to get rid of Gadaffi and suddenly they launched into action. Latterly, social media has been the cause of much dysfunction in some of these areas, with different factions staying in silos and spreading extreme views. That is clearly the negative side of these media.
Like any communication medium, it can be good or bad. We use it in what seems quite a trivial way on the whole, but it can be really useful for helping to bridge physical as well as social gaps. One of my favourite
Facebook pages is ‘Marine Square and Kemp Town’, a great page with a whole heap of interesting historical information on the area. It is a community page; not trying to sell anything but it allows people from the area and those who were brought up locally but now live far away, sometimes the other side of the world, to rediscover a whole host of fascinating information about it. There are I believe some very elderly people who use the page and really love it, as it brings alive their personal history and connects them with people who they knew back in their schooldays, long ago! The amount of action on the page tells a story about social media: it needs to be relevant to be used.
Bonett’s has a both a twitter feed and a Facebook page. For a business, they can be useful as we often post new properties on them as soon as they are ‘live’ so for people looking to rent or buy, watching social media can get you the first information on a property. Interestingly, if we are selling a property and it is on our page, if the sellers ‘share’ it with their friends, it’s a way of spreading the marketing as you never know
who is out there, maybe not actively looking to buy but could suddenly get excited about a property. It is like a web, where once it is on it, you never know if there is someone connected to someone else who could be the ‘right’ person who will see it. It’s not straightforward, like an advertisement in a paper, but it works specifically in a ‘roundabout way’.
Of course, you are never going to attract the non-users as they are just not on the playing field in the first place, so businesses
which rely on social media for all their marketing are missing a sizable segment of the population. We assume that these media are ever-expanding but there is talk that people suddenly just leave it, bored or overwhelmed with information and just want some peace. Social media: rather like an itch, it’s hard not to scratch it. The more you scratch, the more you want to. It’s definitely a 21st century problem!
As I said: 10 years ago, we would not have known what someone meant by ‘social media’.
In 10 years time, will it be ancient history and what will have replaced it? In the meantime, almost daily, I take a look at ‘Marine Square and Kemp Town’ to see what amazing old or new photographs of the area or items of social history have been posted up and sometimes get involved in discussions about people, places, architecture, events - it’s great!
Paul Bonett F.N.A.E.A. M.A.R.L.A.
[email protected]: @bonettpa
Chapel Terrace, Kemp Town £350,000 A charming two bedroom first floor balcony flat forming part of this converted period property in the heart of Kemp Town. The stylish living space has a high ceiling and an open aspect overlooking St Georges Church and grounds.
Brighton Marina Village £485,000 A really super duplex three bedroom south facing apartment with a top flight kitchen, within the sought after Marina complex. With its own courtyard garden, balcony, and garage , it also has excellent security and is of course close to a whole host of amenities
Chichester Terrace,Kemp Town £400,000 A two double bedroom lower ground floor seafront apartment in one of Kemp Town's most impressive Grade 1 listed terraces. The south facing living room over looks a secluded, private patio area. The property has use of the stunning Kemp Town enclosures
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The French Apartments, Brighton £425,000 Very well presented ground floor apartment forming part of this historic Grade 2 listed period building, which is surprisingly secluded. You will find well planned living accommodation, private patios, well kept communal gardens and off road parking.
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LEWES ROAD 01273 677001 � WOODINGDEAN 01273 278866 � CHURCH ROAD 01273 321000 � FIVEWAYS 01273 566777
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LOCKWOOD CRESCENT £369,950 Freehold A spacious and beautifully presented contemporary 3 bedroom semi-detached house. Shower room and bathroom, conservatory and beautiful landscaped east facing rear garden ... plenty of space for the whole family! EPC D66
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LANGLEY CRESCENTOffers in excess of £235,000 Freehold■ 3 bed end of terrace house ■ Modern bathroom and kitchen/dining room ■ Cosy home with a 'hidden' garden/seating area ■ Off road parking space■ EPC C71
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WILLOW CLOSEOffers in excess of £360,000 Freehold■ Great potential to work from home■ 6 bedroom home ■ OR 4 bedrooms with granny annex■ Off road parking ■ Views over Woodingdean to the Downs/sea■ En-suite to the master bedroom■ EPC C71
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BEAR ROAD£210,000 Leasehold■ 2 double bedroom ground floor flat■ Own entrance ■ Gas heating, double glazing■ 41' rear garden■ EPC E52
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BEACONSFIELD ROAD£245,000 Leasehold■ Top Floor 2 bed flat ■ Lounge, fitted kitchen■ Bathroom■ EPC D55■ Exclusive to Maslen Estate Agents
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HOLLINGDEAN TERRACE£369,950 Freehold ■ 3 Bed bay fronted period home■ Lounge/dining Room■ Modern Kitch/bfast room, garage■ Bathroom, study area & decked terrace■ EPC E46
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HOLLAND ROAD£225,000 Leasehold■ 19ft dual aspect lounge ■ South/west rooftop views. Parquet floor ■ TFF with lift. smart kitchen & bathroom■ Double bedroom■ EPC E50
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JEVINGTON DRIVE £299,500 Freehold■ Well presented 3 bedroom house ■ Fantastic views in sought-after road ■ Double glazing, gas heating■ 57'3 rear garden, garage■ EPC C73
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CLARENDON VILLAS£190,000 Leasehold■ 2nd floor 1 bed converted flat ■ 17ft 4 lounge with bay window■ Double bedroom■ Separate kitchen■ Available chain free■ EPC E48
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112 Western RoadBrighton BN1 2AB
01273 771111
CROSS STREET, HOVEGuide Price £600,000 - £625,000
• Rarely available four storey four / five bed house• Home and income potential• Two shower rooms and a bathroom• South facing roof terrace• Brunswick town conservation area
• Delightful terraced house with two double bedrooms• Beautifully presented• Lounge / dining Room• Rear patio garden• Highly desirable poets’ corner Location
COWPER STREET, HOVE £450,000• Sixth floor purpose built apartment• Two double bedrooms• Stunning sea views• Balcony and communal parking• Lovely order throughout
FURZE HILL, HOVE • One bedroomed first floor flat• Ideal first time buy or buy to let• Allocated off street parking• Sought after city centre location• No ongoing chain
STANFORD AVENUE, PRESTON PARK £200,000
• First floor two double bedroom flat• Good decorative order• Allocated parking• Close to Preston Park Station• Share of freehold
CUMBERLAND ROAD, PRESTON PARK • Newly refurbished two bedroomed cottage• Open plan living• Rear patio garden• Sought after town centre location• No ongoing chain
SHIP STREET, SHOREHAM £315,000• Stunning top floor converted flat• Two double bedrooms• Kitchen / breakfast room• Loft potential• Share of freehold
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York Villas, Brighton £800 PCM■ One bedroom minutes from Brighton Station
■ Spacious lounge, double bedroom with ample storage
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18TH
League position
League goals
TEIXEIRA 6 DUNK 5 BALDOCK 2 DARYL MURPHY (Ipswich Town) 21
League form guideL - D - D - W - W - L - W - L - L - D - D - W - W
Leeds WBirmingham WSheff Wed D
Last 3 league fixtures
0 - 04 - 32 - 0 Bolton 28/02/15 A
Derby 03/03/15 H Reading 10/03/15 A
Next 3 league fixtures
Championship table PL GD PTS
1 Derby 33 33 65
2 Middlesbrough 33 28 63
3 Ipswich 33 20 60
4 Bournemouth 32 31 59
5 Norwich 33 27 59
6 Watford 33 26 59
7 Brentford 33 10 58
8 Wolves 33 6 54
9 Nottm Forest 32 4 44
10 Blackburn 33 -1 44
11 Sheff Wed 33 -4 43
12 Huddersfield 33 -9 42
13 Cardiff 33 -5 41
14 Leeds 33 -8 41
15 Reading 33 -13 40
16 Charlton 33 -9 39
17 Birmingham 33 -12 39
18 Brighton 33 -4 37
19 Bolton 33 -12 37
20 Fulham 33 -14 36
21 Rotherham 33 -17 34
22 Millwall 33 -22 31
23 Wigan 33 -18 25
24 Blackpool 33 -37 22
Albion league statistics 2014 -15
19TH
Opponent's position
50%
73%
53%
79%
Average Possession
Pass completion Albion
Bolton
37
53
41
15.5
4.2
12.6
37
42
38
12.6
4.4
15.5
Points
Goals against
Goals
Shots conceded per game
Shots on target per game
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Bolton Wanderers go into tomorrow’s match with Brighton & Hove Albion having lost five of their last six games in all competitions – a statistic which will surely be music to the ears of Albion fans hoping their heroes can prolong their recent upturn in form.
The Trotters narrowly lost to high-flying Middlesbrough earlier this week, having leaked four goals in their two previous games – away to Nottingham Forest and at home to Watford.
That run is in stark contrast to the rapid improvement being enjoyed by the Albion at present. Tuesday night’s 2-0 win over Leeds United was more comfortable than the scoreline suggested and was the
third clean sheet kept by Chris Hughton’s charges in their last four games.
Much of that has been down to the increasingly-impressive form of David Stockdale in the Albion goal. Not only has the former Fulham custodian been responsible for a string of superb saves, but his distribution has helped launch an array of Albion attacks.
Defensive improvements, however, tell only half the story behind the resurgent Seagulls. Joao Teixeira is flourishing in a central creative role under Hughton, helped in now small part by the performances of the deeper-lying Beram Kayal, who has won plaudits-a-plenty since arriving from Celtic.
Against Leeds, though, Teixeira’s display owed just as much to the tireless running of Craig Mackail-Smith. His
intelligent off-the-ball work manoeuvred the Leeds central defenders into uncomfortable positions and created the space in which Teixeira could thrive. A tactical masterstroke from Hughton.
Bolton dropped below Albion after Tuesday night’s round of games and will be keen to reassert themselves above the Seagulls with a win tomorrow. Like Brighton, they have struggled to unearth a regular goal threat, although Eidur Gudjohnsen brings a wealth of experience to their front line.
Match previewBolton Wanderers v Brighton and Hove Albion
The Albion boss had special praise for Sam Baldock after the Leeds United victory. The 25-year-old prefers playing as a centre forward, with a partner, but has been deployed elsewhere, both by ex-boss
Sami Hyypia and his successor Hughton, who said: “The two qualities that help Sam is that he gets into positions and he works hard. They are two good qualities which will help the position he is currently playing in.”
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All smiles from the goalscorers (Photograph: Paul Hazlewood)
No wandering who isresponsible for the upturn
(Speaking after the Leeds United victory)
Chris Hughton Albion manager
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For a national reporter football is just the gift that keeps giving. This week alone is proof that 24 hrs doesn’t go by without fresh headlines and controversy.
On Sunday, the papers led with the furore over that tackle from former Albion striker Ashley Barnes. Then, off the pitch, the news that the World Cup in 2022 would be moved to the winter and possible compensation for clubs.
Tuesday, matters returned to the pitch as the reliable Messi faltered from the penalty spot against Manchester City.
Meanwhile, Albion were performing the heroics at the Amex in one of the best performances of the season. With barely time to burn your
mouth with a morning coffee and Albion had been hit by a £90,000 fine from the FA over a deal to bring Dale Stephens to the club in 2014. Burgess Hill made it 32 games unbeaten in the League as they try to emulate Arsenal’s untouchables, just as the Gunners failed to deliver again at home to Monaco. Now there’s Europa League fall out. Then it’s a huge weekend in the Premier League. It’s relentless but the appetite for airtime and column inches is as voracious as ever.
Whether it’s governance or goals, the British public appears devour stories about the game. Social media has also fuelled the debate on any issue and brought an immediacy to any
controversy. Sometimes it may a struggle to keep up but I do hope there is still a desire to read, hear and see longer features, room for humour and fun, and also a sense of perspective. It’s after all a game, but one that appears will never eat itself. Now that would be a story.
Finally, thanks to all those who have contributed to the huge numbers of texts, tweets and calls on the show recently. There has been joy, anguish and humour. Maybe they are exactly the ingredients that get our stomachs rumbling when it comes to football.
Dan Tester@BHIndyAlbion
A sea of smiling faces at the Amex was a rare sight earlier in the season. The last two results have brought back a level of chirpiness not witnessed since Ulloa was finding the back of the net almost a year ago. And it’s all down to goals.
It’s the objective of the game: to place the bag of wind (as my nan used to call it) into the opponent’s net using either foot, either knee, your head, back, thighs or face. If the entire ball crosses the goal-line into the goal (24-feet wide, eight-feet high) – legally – it registers on the scoresheet.
Looking at the size of a goal compared to a ball, it should be relatively straightforward to score. But, it isn’t, and that’s what makes the game so entertaining.
Whether it’s a thunderous free-kick in-off the crossbar (Jimmy Case at Highbury, 1983), an exocet missile from distance (Stuart Munday at Leicester 1994), a diving header (Lee
Steele against Bristol City at Withdean in 2002), a tap-in (Ian Chapman, in the wrong net, at home to Leeds United, 1990), last-minute-winner-after-being-a-goal-behind-in-a-new-stadium-opening-fixture (Will Buckley in 2011), seeing the ball hit the onion bag is what it’s all about.
Last Saturday’s 4-3 victory over Birmingham City was a fantastic spectacle. A saved penalty, carbon-copy conceded soft goals, shocking defending, and a bonafide Albion legend bagging a brace on his 200th appearance, the game was certainly an improvement on the previous home reverse to Nottingham Forest.
In Albion’s 5,307 senior encounters since 1901 – league, cup competitions and war league – the score at the final whistle has been 4-3 on just 39 occasions; 19 in the stripes’ favour.
The first seven-goal thriller – a loss – was witnessed by 5,000 hardy souls against New Brompton, now Gillingham, at Albion’s former temporary home, Priestfield, in a Southern League
Division One fixture in September 1906. In the space of just three days in April 1934, Albion lost 4-3 with the unfortunate Oliver Brown scoring two at home to Norwich City, and a hat-trick at Charlton.
Last time Albion played out two 4-3s in a season was the memorable final campaign at the Theatre of Trees in 2011. Rare goalscorer Liam Bridcutt featured heavily in both contests –Carlisle United and Dagenham & Redbridge – volleying home a spectacular left-foot effort in the last minute against the Cumbrians, which would have lifted the roof off, had there been one.
Hitting a cow’s behind with a banjo
There doesn’t appear to be much to talk about on this week’s Albion Roar. Only six points, six goals (half of which were scored by the Basque Love God,
Inigo Calderon), a freeze in season ticket prices, a freeze on
beer prices, the discontinuing of eCash at the stadium and the club being fined £90,000 after being misled by a solicitor.
New REMF chairman Mike Langridge, and vice-chairman Brett Mendoza, will be joining Al live in the studio to talk about the charity and the events coming up over the next few months, while Ady visits the in-laws en route to Bolton.
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West Upper season ticket holder Jessie Hodson shares her thoughts on the last week at the Albion.
“Skilful, goal scoring, confident and funny. This week’s matches have had it all. From Saturday’s seven-goal drama, Calderón and Teixeira both getting a brace,
Stockdale making some great saves, including a penalty that boosted us just before half time. The only downside being the usual mistakes at the back that led to three goals.
"Tuesday night brought more goals from the fantastic Calderón and one for Baldock and a clean sheet. There was a Benny Hill-style moment where how we didn’t score I don't know. Six points from two games and the giddy heights of 18th – brilliant!”
Jessie Hodson
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