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MAYOR’S NO SHOW ECOSTREAM WAR Exclusive: Official portrait of the Mayor of Brighton and Hove will not be seen in Brighton Town Hall

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■ Greens bid to trigger historic poll ■ Labour move vote of no confidence ■ Conservatives slam ‘political stunt’ Greg Hadfield @BrightonIndy Brighton and Hove City Council’s minority Green Party administration will attempt to trigger a citywide referendum to push through a 4.75% increase in council tax.

Councillor Jason Kitcat, leader of the city council, revealed the surprise move yesterday in what appeared to be a successful attempt to put political opponents - especially Labour - on the back foot in the run-up to this year’s council budget.

The referendum - the first of its kind in the country - is required under legislation for any proposed tax increase above a governmentimposed threshold, currently 2%

- although there are fears this could be reduced to 1.5% in future.

The vote is due to take place on May 22, the same day as the European Union elections, which will help cut democratic costs.

Previously, Cllr Kitcat has said - in a webcast interview - that the cost of a referendum would be “a waste of money”. He said in the interview in July last year: “The referendum rule is mad. It’s not really workable and would cost about £300,000 to run.”

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Go hang! What council officers told the Mayor to do with her specially-commissioned portrait EXCLUSIVE by Greg Hadfield @BrightonIndy It began with a moment of serendipity, not an act of vanity.

The Mayor of Brighton and Hove found herself in the seafront home of Paul Tash Ostrer, a professional photographer turned portrait artist.

For Councillor Denise Cobb, the gathering in September last year - connected to the appearance in the city of Sir Terry Pratchett, the author - was just one of countless civic engagements in her year of office, which ends on

from Paula Murray, the city council’s assistant chief executive no less, explained the obstacles: there was no discussion or agremeent before the commission; there certainly was no agreement about it being hung in Brighton Town Hall, about which there would have to be “some decision-making process of some kind”; there would be the risk of precedent (every future mayor might want one!); there had been no information about “the nature, content or quality” of the portrait; hundreds of other local artists would “quite legitimately”

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Inspired by the many selfportraits hanging on the walls of the artist’s flat, Cllr Cobb had a sudden idea: why not re-instate the tradition of having a portrait of the Mayor painted for hanging in an appropriate public place. It is thought that the last one was completed more than 30 - or is 50? - years ago.

She mentioned it briefly too briefly, as it turns out - to her officials; she thought little more about it. After all, she was paying for the commission out of her own pocket. She was not even distracted from her duties by the need for studio sittings; Mr Ostrer was content with painting from a well-taken photograph.

Fast forward to last week and the sizeable work was complete and framed. All that was left was to decide was where - in Brighton Town Hall, outside the council chamber preferably - it could be hung. A meeting with officials was organised. And that is when the project ran into trouble.

There are rules. There are processes. There are cross-party discussions to be had. So Cllr Cobb was told, in no uncertain terms.

A late-night six-point email

ask why there was no proper tendering of the project. And so it went on.

In brief, as things stand, the oil painting - a photograph of which we are publishing for the first time - is not going to brighten the walls of Brighton

Town Hall any time soon. The dark and dirty images of longdead mayors, aldermen and town clerks - all men - that dominate them can look down from on high knowing that no arriviste intruder will disturb their mothballed quietude.

Cllr Cobb is disappointed: “I am not doing it as a big-headed thing. It’s very disappointing.

It’s spoiled my whole year.”

There is, however, a bright spot. The official - or is it semiofficial? – portrait will be unveiled at 7pm this evening (Friday) at The Naked Eye Gallery, Farm Mews, Farm Road, Hove.

And Cllr Cobb is determined to press her point with councilors and council officers.

If you are unable to make it tonight, you can see it as part of a “Reflections” exhibition of Paul Tash Ostrer’s work, which runs until January 31.

The exhibition is sponsored by Graze Restaurant (www.grazerestaurant.co.uk).

In this exhibition, the artist is showing his self-portraits that represent the emotive key stages in his life. He said: ‘We all paint ourselves in one way or another, but the images are not necessarily of us. Introspection is a necessary process not to be confused with narcissism.

“Being conscious of my own mortality, self-portraits leave a reference behind, more lasting than photographs in a cupboard.

Added to this, with selfportraiture you choose your own narrative, you’re unrestricted by someone else’s constraints.”

Paul Ostrer, a former professional photographer, began painting in 2005

The portrait of Councillor Denise Cobb will be unveiled tonight at The Naked Eye Gallery

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We want to offer citizens a choice: accept austerity in all its awfulness or vote for a fair, compassionate city Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat

Readers will know that public services have for the last few years seen significant government cuts. Here in Brighton and Hove, we have so far been successful in protecting essential services by saving tens of millions of pounds through genuine efficiencies.

But darker storm clouds are on the horizon.

Councils are facing what many are calling “a cliff edge” in funding and, as a result, huge chunks of services could disappear.

Simply put, we can no longer absorb all of the government’s cuts while also meeting the increasing demand for our services from a growing yet ageing population.

Nationally, councils have seen a 38% reduction in funding, compared with government

community and protect funding for the city’s charities.

The increase in council tax we are asking of residents will not only save services this year, but also improve their security for years to come. If agreed, the money will specifically go towards supporting home care, residential community care, day services, support for those with learning disabilities looking for work - as well as protecting grants to the city’s third sector.

The elderly We think it is right that we have worked hard trust the residents of Brighton all their lives and deserve our and Hove to decide what they continued support want from local services” in their old age.

And the city’s a fairer and more compassionate charities, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations also society.

Let the coalition cuts take their provide essential services across toll, or agree to pay a little bit all our city’s communities. We extra each month to fund care for know that investment in our older and disabled people in our third sector benefits the city trimming only 8% off Whitehall departments.

And, sadly, per head of population, Brighton and Hove has been one of the worst-hit councils in the country.

We want to offer you, the residents of our city, a choice: accept the full weight of austerity cuts imposed on Brighton and Hove by Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, or else cast a vote for

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Without additional funding, the coalition’s cuts will seriously impact upon some of the most vulnerable people in our city.

We think it is right that we trust the residents of Brighton and Hove to decide what they want from local services - particularly given the drastic changes to the financial situation since the 2011 election.

So we want to hold a citywide

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referendum in May 2014 on whether we should raise council tax by 4.75% for the coming financial year.

We ask the people of the city to vote in favour; to reject austerity in Brighton and Hove, and to help us to preserve a more compassionate society, one which cares for older and disabled people, supports social enterprises and protects the not-for-profit sector that is so vital to so many in our community.

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Bold move by Greens to make budget add up Green administration.

Councillor Warren Morgan, group leader, said: “It is the basic duty of a council administration “The coalition’s cuts mean we to set a budget. The Greens have cannot deliver the services we absolved themselves of that were elected to provide and which responsibility and put forward our consciences say we should a 4.75% council tax increase that provide. We have no choice but to they know will not be supported seek the views of local people on by opposition parties at council funding these services through a or by the public in a referendum. tax increase.

“We cannot support such a “Westminster’s ideologically huge increase when people are driven cuts to local councils are finding hard to meet rising bills. huge and relentless while demand Instead, they have handed the for our services continues to responsibility of dealing with grow. Vulnerable people who the cuts to others. They cannot depend on our services are being now remain in office playing threatened from Westminster these political games rather than like never before. running the city effectively. I am “We have so far been successful calling on the Greens to resign in saving tens of millions of and allow a crosspounds but we can party caretaker no longer find enough administration to efficiencies to absorb run the council till all the cuts. Without the elections in 400 today’s proposal, I days.” fear for the serious C o u n c i l l o r impacts on the most Geoffrey Theobald, vulnerable in our city leader of the from the coalition’s Warren Morgan Conservative cuts.” group, said his The Greens argue party opposed a that a significant referendum and council tax increase condemned it as a is needed to funding waste of money. He local services said: “It’s a political threatened by stunt.

We don’t government cuts, think residents will including care for the go along with this. elderly. They insist Geoffrey Theobald It’s money down the proceeds from a 4.75% drain.” council tax increase would be For the Greens, Dr Lucas said: used directly to fund adult social “This is a bold move and one that care services, including care for I know the council is taking very the elderly, and grants to thirdreluctantly. The people have not sector organisations. voted for austerity. They have not A 4.75% council tax increase chosen to have services they rely would raise an additional £2.75m on destroyed by draconian cuts. more than last December’s draft This is an appalling situation, for budget - which assumed 2% tax which the coalition government increase. is alone to blame. A referendum For a household in a Band would allow the people of C property, it is estimated the Brighton and Hove, including my council tax bill would rise by constituents in Brighton Pavilion, £5.30 a month; for a Band D to decide on the best response.” property, the monthly increase Last night, there were clear would be £5.97. signs that the referendum call Yesterday’s announcement was designed to put Labour follows reports that some Green opponents on the spot. Cllr councillors were unwilling to Morgan and his party must support the party’s draft budget, with the brunt of £24 million of now decide either to support a cuts being borne by the most referendum or face being blamed vulnerable people in the city. for cuts imposed as a result of Party sources emphasised government funding. that the referendum call was a Cllr Kitcat told Brighton & unanimous decision of Green Hove Independent: “The other councillors, made with the full parties, especially Labour, will support of Caroline Lucas, the need to decide whether they trust Green MP for Brighton Pavilion; the people of Brighton and Hove Keith Taylor, the southeast Green to make this decision. The Green MEP; and Natalie Bennet, the administration I lead did not Green Party leader. seek an election mandate to raise The Labour and Co-operative taxes in this way and in previous Party immediately called for a years I have opposed going down motion of no confidence in the this route.”

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Graham Greene, Brighton’s premier novelist, deserves a proper memorial in our city Graham Chainey

It is 75 years - and a few months - since Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock was first published.

It is the book that to this day remains the most celebrated and seminal novel of Brighton. If places do not fully exist until they are recreated in the crucible of a great artist’s imagination, then one could claim Brighton did not fully exist on the world’s imaginative map until July 1938.

The symbiosis between Greene and Brighton was exceptionally strong. You could say Brighton was waiting for Greene, just as Greene needed Brighton.

The most globetrotting of writers, he set fictions in Haiti, Havana, Liberia, Mexico, and other exotic locations. Yet his association with Brighton was one of his longest; he once claimed no city had such a hold on his affections.

He first came to Brighton in 1910, aged six. Taken to see a silent movie, it was here that he began his lifelong relationship with the world of film.

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Terrified Charles Hale had a chance encounter with Ida Arnold on what was then Palace Pier

In 1926, he came to recuperate from an appendix operation, staying at 32 Regency Square.

Sitting in a seafront shelter, he got into conversation with a muffled figure who claimed to be a “royal Romany”.

In Brighton Rock, Hale’s murder occurs in the same shelter. Later, one of Pinkie’s gang gets into conversation with a muffled figure there.

While here, Greene researched the background to his first novel, The Man Within (1929), a tale of smugglers set on the Downs.

Brighton Rock itself was researched during several visits.

Hale is based on Lobby Ludd, of the News Chronicle; his kidnapping by the pier is based on a real-life kidnapping in Madeira Drive; Pinkie’s gang is based on the Sabini gang; and the hotel where Colleoni stays is probably based on the old Bedford.

In the book, the pre-war Brighton Greene knew and loved comes vividly alive: the pier with its penny amusements, where Pinkie spills vitriol on the deck and where he records on a novelty gramophone his real feelings for Rose; Sherry’s nightclub in West Street; the racecourse where Black Boy wins by a whisker and Pinkie is slashed by Colleoni’s mobsters while “the four-thirty went by in a drumbeat of hoofs beyond the rail”; Snow’s restaurant where Rose works; the slums of Nelson Place, where both she and Pinkie were born; the dingy lodgings near Montpelier Place, where Spicer falls to his death.

The blind musician Pinkie forces off the kerb, the gulls flapping

like lost souls below the pier, the beachcomber prodding the shingle, the “dark poison-bottle green” sea itself, that “sucked and slid like a wet mouth round the piles”.

All build up a typically “Greeneland” impression of Brighton as seedy, threatening, damned.

Greene continued to visit in later years. In 1959, he and Carol Reed took a suite at the Metropole while working on the screenplay for Our Man in Havana.

Greene often stayed at the Royal Albion while working on novels, speaking of “the crowd of memories which surrounded me there”. His favourite pub was The Cricketers, and in those days there were lots of secondhand bookshops for him to browse in. In Travels with my Aunt (1969), the retired bank manager and his eccentric aunt, Augusta, visit Brighton at the start of their travels together, and once again there is a scene in a shelter.

I know there is a bus with Greene’s name on, but I am going to stick my neck out and suggest there ought to be some more permanent memorial to him.

There was talk not long ago of redesigning the junction by the pier to incorporate a monument of some kind.

Dare I suggest such a location, opposite his favourite hotel, would be ideal for a statue or sculpture to commemorate this man whose spirit came to be entwined in so many ways with that of our city?

Graham Chainey is a freelance writer living in Brighton.

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Female unemployment: Does anyone care about young working-class women who are not academic?

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In a recent interview, Tristram Hunt, Labour’s shadow education secretary, said the United Kingdom’s schools system is failing “white British boys” - and that they are being damaged by immigration from the European Union accession states.

Hunt admitted to journalist Mary Riddell that Labour under Tony Blair “did not focus on vocational education and the FE (further education) sector to the degree that [it] should have done”; he commented: “What we can do in the education sphere is to [show] that there is a growing issue of white British boys not getting the education they want.”

Riddell noted that this group “seemed to preoccupy him above all others”. She asked whether he “sees them as the cohort most failed by a migrant influx”. He replied: “None of this is to say there isn’t more work to do with black Afro-Caribbean boys and in urban areas. But we do know… there is a strand of low-attaining, not necessarily poor, boys in suburban coastal districts... who are not being challenged or served effectively enough by the education system.”

What is remarkable about this – apart from the belated recognition that neglect of technological education did a disservice to Britain’s children – is Hunt’s complete indifference to the needs of girls.

The lives and job prospects of working-class girls, in particular, have been damaged as much as, or more than, those of boys – and girls’ long-term financial prospects are worse.

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Some 54% of women aged 16 to 25 have experienced feelings of self-loathing, with one in six having been prescribed antidepressants. They are also significantly more likely to suffer panic attacks and feelings of inferiority than men their age.

Almost one in five young women have faced mental health problems as a direct result of being unemployed, while one in four believe they have “no talent”.

They are also more likely to feel Prince’s Trust research has highlighted mental health problems unhappy with their employment apprenticeship schemes, which faces the nation - and the fact prospects. Around 30% of the - unless there are radical that thousands of older women girls questioned said they were changes in policy - will benefit workers lose jobs or work-hours unhappy with their mental health unemployed British boys and because of caring responsibilities and were significantly young men. Any vacancies are - we might have hoped for more likely to feel like likely to be filled by male workers investment in high-quality care Almost one in five young a failure if they asked from abroad. facilities for frail elders, thus Given Labour’s declared creating jobs and allowing older for help. women have faced mental Martina Milburn, commitment to gender equality, carers to remain in work. health problems as a direct Again, nothing like this seems chief executive of we might have hoped for a result of being unemployed” the Prince’s Trust, strategy to retrain British girls to be under consideration. said: “Unemployment and women in non-traditional Of recent years, governments is driving young skills – committing a future of all stripes have abandoned engineering qualifications. Vince people to despair, with many Labour government to ensure working-class and non-academic Cable, the business secretary, facing significant mental health that at least 50% of new girls to early motherhood or warned that many companies problems – particularly young apprenticeships are reserved inadequate training for low-paid for females and supporting or non-existent work in “beauty” had a “psychological barrier” women.”

The response from both them in countering sexism and or child care. against female engineers, saying: “Half of all state schools don’t government and Labour has been harassment in training schemes In respect of declared policies, and the workplace. There is no Ed Miliband has yet to show that a have a single girl doing physics”. deafening silence.

Labour’s only declared large- sign of this.

Tristram Hunt recognises government under his leadership Given the care crisis that would be any different. disillusionment in unemployed scale plans for job expansion young men. He would do well involve a proposed houseprogramme with E views@brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk or to note recent research by the building @BrightonIndy white boys.

Hunt ignores evidence that females are being hardest hit by current economic policies. He fails to mention that women’s traditional public-sector sources of employment are being slashed, while wages in the private sector are driven down by low-paid EU labour and government failure to enforce the minimum wage – especially in the care sector, where many jobs are now advertised only abroad.

Hunt makes no reference to last November’s report by Professor John Perkins, chief scientific adviser to the Department for Business, which revealed that less than 10% of Britain’s engineers are women – the lowest figure of all European countries.

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Swap your seeds at Seedy Sunday and help promote biodiversity Steve Bustin @steveinbrighton

Seedy Sunday is a community seed swap, the largest and longest-established of dozens of such events held across the United Kingdom.

Last year, about 3,000 gardeners, allotment-holders, and those interested in sowing and growing, came along to the aptly-named Corn Exchange for a day of swapping seeds, stalls and speakers.

Seed swaps are a brilliant way to find things to grow this year, whether you want to grow fruit and vegetables, or flowers and foliage. But they also have an important role to play in keeping seeds in use. Seed swaps also keep older varieties of seeds - often referred to as heritage varieties especially vegetable seeds, in circulation.

Seed companies have to license any variety they want to sell, which costs thousands of pounds. So if a seed does not sell well, they won’t pay for the license and

the seed disappears from their catalogues - even if it is a tastier or hardier variety than the newer one.

Local seed swaps are also important as a chance to find seeds that thrive in your area.

If a plant does particularly well in your neighbour’s garden, it obviously likes the soil, climate and other conditions.

If you saved some seeds after you harvested last year, now is the time to pop them into envelopes (you can pick up free Seedy Sunday envelopes from Infinity Foods in North Road) and bring them along to swap.

A programme of speakers is being headlined this year by Bob Flowerdew, best-known as one of the panellists on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time. Bob

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But it was bang on the money, with the first naked doublepage spread of a man and wildly-sexualised models and articles about multiple orgasms, cooking fresh tuna (how exotic), and how to buy your own beach house in Malibu. Yeah, right!

And we just thought you drank it.

Anyway, in those pages, the voice of reason and common sense prevailed - thanks to the hippest-ever agony aunt, Irma Kurtz.

This is her story - from being a single mum, to being an American living in London.

She tells of her unshockable character and her ways of dealing with us Brits being

is an organic gardening guru and will be talking about why going organic is good for us and the environment.

snooty. And the trials of going shopping with her best friend: “Buy the beige dress, not the red one; it’s too flashy and you’ll never wear it.” She bought the beige and never wore that, but the lesson was learned.

She has dealt with every possible problem that tends to confuse us all, from motherdaughter relationships, eating disorders, office politics and, of course, those perennial areas of interest: love and sex. And she has always maintained her sense of humour and compassion.

And, lucky us, she’s coming to Brighton! Do you want to write your own agony letter to the Queen of Advice? You can do so and bring them along.

Irma Kurtz will be at The Bookish Supper Society on Wednesday, February 12 at The Naked Eye Gallery. Tickets from Brighton Dome ticket office, telephone 01273 7090709.

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Boycotts simply do not work and certainly not in ‘green’ Brighton!

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Neil Duncanson

For the boycott Ecostream, Brighton’s eco-store, is a green beacon in a green city.

It sources the majority of its goods from Sussex farmers and suppliers. A breath of fresh air in a busy urban environment, this British store is well supported by its ever-growing clientele.

Unfortunately, for 18 months, Ecostream has seen an anti-Israel protest outside its front door. The protesters seek the closure of the shop and an end to Sodastream, Ecostream’s Israel-based parent company.

A year-and-a-half ago, a Christian and a Jew - both supporters of Israel’s right to exist - met by chance outside the store and witnessed the hate-filled rhetoric and wilful distortions spouted by groups associated with last week’s Brighton & Hove Independent columnist (page 8, January 10).

In response, they literally took to the pavement and decided to stand up for the shop, its Sussex suppliers, and its locally-employed staff.

A rally in support of the shop has grown since those early days. Now, a wide network of supporters from not only the Jewish and Christian communities, but also the local gay community as well as unaffiliated but concerned supporters, gather weekly outside the store to hand out literature that provides some balance and lets passers-by make up their own minds about Israel.

The shop has also grown, stocking a growing number of locally-sourced goods from suppliers across Sussex and the United Kingdom. Its customers arrive with empty cartons and bottles; they re-fill with everything from oils and vinegars, detergents and soaps, to nuts and locallyproduced fudge.

Sodastream, like many international companies, has one of its factories in the industrial

The Ecostream store in Western Road has been the scene of protests and counter-protests

zone of Mishor Adumim, just outside Jerusalem. In the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, this was designated as Area C, whose final status is to be determined as part of a final international agreement.

As an economic bridge towards that goal, the factory employs 600 Palestinian workers, working side-by-side with their Israeli colleagues.

All Sodastream staff benefit from good salaries, health care and a friendly and safe working environment without prejudice.

They share the same rights, attend universities, own their own land, use the same public transport, restaurants and hospitals.

Whether Israeli or Palestinian, all Sodastream employees enjoy the same rights and opportunities.

This is the spirit of equality and acceptance - living together in harmony while finding ways to acknowledge and resolve differences - which lies at the heart of the pro-Israel/pro-UKbusiness rally at Ecostream. It affirms a solution that provides for two states, a safe and secure environment for all who live in Israel and, above all, the balance in debate that allows everyone to make up their own mind and not be swayed by those who shout loudest.

Boycotts simply do not work.

The UK is now Israel’s biggest export market after the United States. In 2012, two-way trade and services stood at over $8 billion up a massive 34% on 2011.

Last week, Britain’s Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, said: “These flourishing bilateral links between both our countries are the most eloquent answer to those calling for boycotts of Israel. The British government rejects those calls for boycotts. Boycotts divide people. Our collaboration brings people together.

“Our partnership is about building a better, more prosperous, healthier future for both our people. Our cooperation means sharing innovation, creating jobs, and achieving more through working together than we could achieve apart. This is the real headline of our relationship”.

Rather than painting a picture of the store in monochrome, Tony Greenstein and his supporters should add some colour.

Ecostream is a green store, a green beacon in a green city, with green credentials second to none.

His boycott will never work.

Neil Duncanson is director of Sussex Friends of Israel.

For more information, visit: www.sussexfriendsofisrael.org

Congratulations to the Brighton & Hove Independent for printing the article “Why I support the boycott of Sodastream” by Tony Greenstein (page 8, January 10).

His article makes very clear why protesters are recommending a boycott of Sodastream products.

While governments stand by and do nothing to curb the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, it is up to people of conscience to stand up against Israel’s defiance of international law In this, the United Nations year of Solidarity with the Palestinians, we note also that there are still over 60 Israeli laws that discriminate

against the Palestinian Arabs who make up 20% of Israel’s population.

This makes nonsense of Israel’s claim to be a democracy.

These truths are unpalatable to the Zionists who turn up to oppose the protesters. The protesters have been appalled by the sheer hatred and vilification and abuse which the supporters of Israel express towards Muslims and Arabs abuse which goes unchecked by the police on duty at the protests.

I was delighted to read the excellent article about the boycott of Sodastream. As someone who has stood on the pavement outside Ecostream on Western Road, come rain or shine, every week since the shop opened, I can confirm that the general public are curious and very interested to know why we feel so strongly about this.

The article gives an excellent explanation. When anyone stops for long enough for us to explain

our reasons for wanting to boycott this shop, the vast majority are extremely sympathetic, not wanting to have any part in the further brutalisation and disposession of the Palestinians.

The very vigorous group who oppose our actions have no real counter-arguments. They descend to personal abuse and attempts to block out our message in any way they can.

Penny Porter

Congratulations on your publication, which is already bringing a breath of fresh air to this modern and vibrant community.

Your article on the shame of Sodastream was both interesting and stimulating, and - as a member of Jewish Voice for Peace - I feel it’s important for everyone to know the truth about what is behind this local business.

I hope everyone will boycott Sodastream in Brighton and everywhere else, as much of its production is based in an illegal

settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Since the colonisation has been declared illegal under international law, those profiting from it should also be subject to justice in my opinion.

Please keep up the good work.

And let’s have some positive stories about business and services in our city and why we should support them. But not this one.

Jill Matthews, Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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to boycott Ecostream store Against the boycott Tony Greenstein has long been one to lay strong and negative views on Israel.

His attempt to tar Israel with such a slew of misdemeanours and errors, ultra-extremist ills and the like reminds me of one who seems happy to attack one’s enemy knowing he is safe from prosecution.

The fact is that he can do so happily both in Brighton and in Tel Aviv, for both in the United Kingdom and in Israel freedom of speech, freedom of expression exist. As he himself says, he - as a

Jew, albeit one who despises the Jewish state - can settle in Israel should he wish to do so. He could even stand for Israel’s parliament, as do a number such as a number of Arabs whose aim is to deny the Jewish nature of the state.

But, if Mr Greenstein tried to criticise almost any Arab country from within any of those lands he would be given short shrift: Indeed, as a Jew he would be denied citizenship in most.

Tony Greenstein has his facts wrong about Israel having “entrenched apartheid within the law”.

Yes, like other states in the Middle East, Israel has its share of bigots, religious extremists and hardliners. But Arabs in Israel have full civil rights. Of course, there is discrimination there, but bear in mind that Israel has been subjected to conflict and the threat of annihilation ever since its independence.

I don’t condone the situation in the West Bank, but even there, while it’s true that Palestinians suffer many restrictions, it should be seen in the context of the many Israel-Arab wars and decades of

suicide terrorism. The Palestinians there are not Israeli citizens and the situation has nothing to do with the repugnant racial policies of South Africa until 1994 (as Desmond Tutu has wrongly claimed).

Mr Greenstein even drags the Talmud into his rant. These teachings are 2,000 years old and I don’t doubt that they’re not as politically correct as a Borgen script. But if he is trying to convince us that Israel is a theocracy based on ancient prejudices, then I suggest he looks elsewhere in that region.

The article by Tony Greenstein (page 8, January 10) is the work of a very disturbed man.

Firstly, he does not substantiate any of his outrageous claims about Israel with any solid evidence.

So there can be no legitimacy for his wild accusations. The whole piece is a list of slurs and wild imaginative statements. This is the work of a man so filled up with hatred that he does not quite know what to do with it.

Someone only has to visit Israel to see, immediately, that there is absolutely no form of apartheid

existing there. It is a pluralistic, democratic country that offers the kind of freedom to all its citizens, men and women, Gays, Muslims, Christians and Jews.

Fourteen members of the Knesset are Arabs. The most senior judge in the land is an Arab. Israeli Arabs do not want to live in a Palestiniancontrolled state. That speaks for itself.

Jordan has the largest number of Palestinian refugees, but refuses them citizenship.

Abbas has stated over and over that he will not recognise Israel as a Jewish State, which is the total reason for the obstacle to peace. And he will never allow any Jew to step foot inside Palestine.

Gaza fires rockets at Israel on an almost daily basis. Christians are persecuted and driven out of their lands, and mass slaughter is visited on Syria. But Mr Greenstein turns the world’s moral compass upside down and scapegoats Israel.

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Why I support the boycott of Sodastream My first political demonstration Tony Greenstein was against the whites-only @TonyGreenstein 1970 tour of the Springbok rugby team. Apartheid’s supporters also argued that there worse The death of Nelson Mandela black African regimes.

Israel claims to be the “only was symbolic of the struggle for liberation in Africa, the scene of democracy” in the Middle East, despite ruling over four million terrible massacres and genocide.

Apartheid South Africa was in Palestinians. On the West Bank, a league of its own because you there are two systems of law: cannot change your colour or one military and another for Jewish settlers.

Thousands “race”.

Israel has entrenched of Palestinians are put in apartheid within the law. administrative detention where Benjamin Netanyahu was the only Palestinian children are shackled leader not to attend Mandela’s by the feet in military courts. It commemoration. Apparently, he would not happen to an Israeli Jewish child. The “peace talks”, could not afford the fare!

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the after more than 40 years, are Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote: about preventing peace by giving “I have been to the Occupied Israel an excuse.

Israel is a state of all Jews, Palestinian Territory and I have witnessed the racially- wherever they live, not its segregated roads and housing citizens. I can “return” to Israel, that reminded me so much of but Palestinian friends of mine the conditions we experienced in cannot. In Tamarin and Uzi South Africa under the racist system of Our freedom is incomplete apartheid.”

Chris McGreal without the freedom of the showed (The Palestinians - Nelson Mandela” Guardian, May 24 2010) that Israel was South Africa’s closest Ornan, the Supreme Court ruled political and military ally. PW that there is no Israeli nationality.

Botha asked Israel for nuclear In most states, citizenship and warheads and Shimon Peres, now nationality are coterminous. In Israel’s president, offered them Israel, one-and-a-half million Israeli Arabs are tolerated at the “in three sizes”.

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In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled, in Kadan, that refusing to lease land to Israeli Palestinian citizens was illegal.

The Jewish National Fund controls 93% of “Jewish” national land. Britain’s Jewish Chronicle ran a debate August 2 2007) entitled: “Is it racist to sell Israeli land only to Jews?” All you have to do is substitute “Jews” for ‘Arabs.

This is betrayed in popular attitudes. In March 2007, 75% of Israeli Jews did not approve of shared apartment buildings; more than half believed the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to “national treason”; and 60% would not allow an Arab to visit their home. More than half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate and 55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”.

The Orthodox Rabbis are Israeli Ayatollahs. They have state power in personal matters. Alone among western democracies, there is no

civil marriage in Israel. In 2010, Rabbis Yitzchak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur wrote a book on when a Jew is permitted to kill a non-Jew “Torat Ha’Melech”.

It was claimed: “There is justification for killing babies, if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us.” Israel’s Military Chief Rabbi, General Ronski, did likewise. There are even Orthodox rabbis who advocate sending Arabs to the gas chambers.

In the Talmud, it is forbidden to save a non-Jew’s life on the Sabbath and murder of a Jew is more serious than a non-Jew. All this became obsolete as Jews adopted the emancipation.

Israel has reverted to the Middle Ages. The Chief Rabbi of Safed, Shmuel Eliyahu, banned the letting of apartments to Arabs and the worst bigot, settler Rabbi Dov Lior, told the Israeli army: “There is no such thing as civilians in wartime… A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail! and

captured Palestinian militants could be used to conduct medical experiments.”

For over a year, there has been a boycott, which I support, of Sodastream, maker of homecarbonated soft drinks.

Because boycott is a weapon of the oppressed. It was used against slave-grown sugar, the siege of Nazi shops, and apartheid.

Sodastream’s main production facilities are based in Mishor Adumim, on confiscated Palestinian land. It benefits from the labour created by the occupation. It is a small sacrifice not to purchase its products.

Is soda water worth the lives of the Palestinians?

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Rent controls do not work, so here is an idea that is so simple even 12-year-old Justin will understand it Mike Holland @RealMikeHolland

As someone who has been a residential landlord for the past 40 odd years, I was astonished to read a report written by one of our city politicians claiming rents had gone up in the past year by 25%.

I would be the first to agree that rents in our city are way too high and that some landlords are just plain greedy. Most of these, however, will be people who have taken a chance and bought a couple of buy-to-let properties.

They will have been buoyed up by young, eager and inexperienced agents chasing commission and will have been led to believe that some ridiculously-high rent is the norm.

An experienced landlord by contrast will steer well clear of eager agent Justin, aged 12, and pitch rents just below what is the expected norm for their area. It is much better to keep tenants happy and not have lengthy void

It is my experience that, since housing benefit caps were introduced, real rents locally have actually gone down. Savvy tenants know this and will now negotiate with you, because they know no landlord wants an empty property.

In this environment, it is indeed true, though, that some inexperienced landlords are listening to all this claptrap about rising rents and are chancing their arm.

So here is an idea for our wonderful local politicians to mull over. Why not lead the way for Brighton and Hove and do something truly Silly scaremongering useful for both landlord encourages landlords to and tenant alike. We all rent controls don’t demand even larger sums” know work, because there immediately becomes a wild statements such as those shortage of property.

Therefore, why not add onto made in another local newspaper your rating department a rent recently.

Silly scaremongering simply advisory section. It would not encourages impressionable new be compulsory for landlords to landlords to demand even larger register – but, for a small fee, sums of money than Justin has they could have their property accredited. The advice could be already insisted are achievable. periods - while Justin, aged 12, tries to convince some other poor mug that they are getting value for money.

With the virtual abolition of empty rates, it is in everyone’s interest not to have lengthy voids – because landlords not only are unable to pay their mortgage, but also face a hefty rates bill.

It is my experience that there is a huge disparity in rents caused by misinformation coming from our politicians and, consequently, the press. It is extremely irresponsible for a politician to be misleading people by making

An experienced landlord pitch rents just below the norm for their area (Photograph: Andrew Hasson)

that a fair monthly rent in our city may be deemed to be £600 for a one-bedroom flat, for example.

When advertising that flat to let, you would advertise your flat as accredited at £600 - but available to let at, perhaps, an additional £50 because it is in good decorative order, and so on.

The prospective tenant would be better served and the uncertainty would be taken out of the market, especially for

those starting out and moving into rental accommodation. It would also stop Justin from misleading wannabe landlords into thinking they can get ridiculous rents, thereby fuelling equally-ridiculous remarks by politicians.

We need politicians with business acumen who can actually think outside the box and come up with innovative ideas, not political whingers.

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What do they know?

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA) gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities. Brighton and Hove City Council has an agreement with mySociety, a charity to help people “become more powerful in the civic and democratic parts of their lives”.

As a result, all FoI requests are now published online.

The following are some recent requests and responses, both of which are edited because of space.

FoI requests to date

Total: 844 requests 705 are in progress 130 were successful 9 were unsuccessful

You can find out with the help of Freedom of Information requests

Right-to-buy statistics

Housing benefits cap

Number of dog-fouling complaints

■ Number of properties sold through the Right to Buy (RTB) for each year since 2010; ■ Number of one-bedroom properties sold since for each year since 2010 through the RTB; ■ Number of two-bedroom properties sold since 2010 through the RTB.

1 Of the households affected by the benefits cap, what is the number and percentage who rent their property in the private rented sector?

Date: January 15

Date: January 15

2 Of the households affected by the benefits cap, what is the number and percentage of those who were in receipt of housing benefit of: ■ Between £13,000 and £19,999; ■ Between £20,000 and £25,999; ■ £26,000 and over?

From: Brighton & Hove Date: January 15

Date: January 14

The number of properties sold for each year since 2010 ■ All sales 2010/11: 16, 2011/12: 14, 2012/13: 25, 2013/14: 56* ■ One-bedroom sales 2010/11: 7, 2011/12: 5, 2012/13: 4, 2013/14: 14* ■ Two-bedroom sales 2010/11: 8, 2011/12: 6, 2012/13: 12, 2013/14: 27* *To December 31 2013

From: Brighton & Hove Date: January 14 1 As at January 14, the total number of capped claims is 166; 59 - or 35.5% - rent their home from a private landlord.

2 ■ Between £13,000 and £19,999? 90 - or 54%; ■ Between £20,000 and £25,999? None; ■ Between £26,000 and over? None.

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To make a request to Brighton and Hove City Council under the FoI Act or to browse responses, visit: www.foi.brighton-hove.gov.uk

‘Blue Monday’ is behind us Well few of us can say that 2014 has got off to a bright start. The weather in Sussex has been truly awful and pouring rain day after day soon washes away any feelings of optimism. Our resolve to stick to those well intentioned New Year Resolutions of getting fitter and giving up the comfort food are being really tested; I for one haven’t managed it! But there is some good news – according to mood experts the worst day of the year is already behind us.

January 6th has been touted as Blue Monday, D Day, Divorce Monday. The name is more than a marketing gimmick it has gained currency for a number of reasons. Post Christmas debt, miserable weather, January payday being a long way off. All are factors that contribute to a spike in the number of divorce cases.

Ask any lawyer and they will tell you January – particularly the first two weeks is a hectic time. People are looking to get out of unhappy relationships at exactly the time of year when most of us would far rather just go into hibernation and not face up to problems.

Change takes energy and that’s something that’s in rather short supply this month. But as a Collaborative Family Lawyer and Family Mediator I prefer to focus on the possibilities for growth and change that January can bring.

When couples come and see me I encourage

them to focus on what lies ahead – that like Blue Monday maybe with some hard work the worst days are behind them.

This isn’t just empty optimism. Whereas the Adversarial law route focuses on the negative and pits couples against each other Collaborative law is a more positive and fair approach to separating from your partner. We look forward not back and try and do things differently. The process is built on trust and transparency; all advice is given openly, meaning there is less confusion and expectations are managed.

As with any big change or loss to make something good out of something difficult takes hard work but change is possible. Like Blue Monday when you recognise you have hit the lowest point sometimes there is only one way to go. January is the month when we often take stock of how our lives are shaping up and it’s a natural time to assess relationships.

The work I do with separating couples builds on this I help couples particularly those with children see that whilst their romantic relationship may be over they can move on and have a new sort of relationship based on love for their children and looking forward to the future not back at past unhappiness.

Jo will be delighted to discuss (free of charge and confidentially) how she can assist you and your family.

Call today: 07780 676 212, Email: jo@osullivanfamilylaw.com or visit her firm’s site on www.osullivanfamilylaw.com

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A Week in the City Roads

Vogue Gyratory scheme Work is due to start on a new road layout at the Vogue Gyratory in the late spring or early summer.

The work is expected to take about four months to complete and is intended to make the junction safer and simpler. Before work can start, people will have a chance to object to details of the £600,000 scheme, which includes a continuous twometre wide northbound cycle lane.

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VisitBrighton, the city’s official marketing body, is looking to harness some of London 2012’s sporting spirit by introducing its own band of on-street volunteers to provide information to visitors.

People with passion, knowledge and enthusiasm for Brighton and Hove are being recruited.

The “City Champions” will be provided with a branded uniform to make them easily recognisable and approachable. They will be stationed at key locations throughout the city.

Pavement café tables, better shopping and fewer accidents are the hopes for a scheme for car-free streets in Brighton’s historic heart.

The city council has approved measures that would exclude vehicles most of the day from key parts of the Old Town, the area surrounding the Town Hall.

Main changes include prohibiting traffic from East Street between 11am and 7pm each day.

Planning

Police

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Nursing home

Stolen property

Coaches in Roedean

A nursing home in Hove on the edge of the Downs would address genuine local need, a planning inquiry was told.

Harriet Townsend, the barrister representing the company behind the proposal, accused the council of being unreasonable in opposing the plans. Mike Holland, the property developer, wants to demolish Court Farm House and build a 58-bed nursing home and five houses at the top of King George VI Avenue.

Sussex Police want to trace the owners of dozens of stolen items.

The paintings, signs, brass fittings, antiques, ephemera, ornaments and similar items were stolen in about 30 burglaries between March and October last year. Detective Constable Richard Valder-Davis said: “Most of the properties targeted were large, historic apartment blocks in Brighton and Hove. The items recovered are all unique and identifiable.” Recovered items can be viewed at: property. sussex-police.co.uk.

Residents in the Roedean have made a fresh plea for the city council to relieve a problem with coach and lorry parking in the area. Victor Mower, of Roedean Residents’ Association, presented a petition signed by 159 people asking for lorries and coaches to be banned except for access.

Councillor Pete West was concerned any change might displace the problem: “Alternative sites have proved elusive.”

West Hove Infants’ School is celebrating a notable double achievement: retaining its outstanding Ofsted rating even after expanding onto a second site.

The school’s base in School Road was supplemented in 2011 by a second site on Connaught Road.

Ofsted identified “outstanding” teaching, an “inspirational” headteacher and a “dynamic” senior leadership team as the key reasons why pupils make outstanding progress.

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Reading Well The city council’s public health team is co-sponsoring a “Happy Book” scheme this month. Libraries are making a wide range of moodboosting titles available.

They are also asking people to tell them about their favourite feel-good novel or poetry, so they can share the city’s top 20 feelgood book titles. Mind, the mental health charity, and the national Reading Well campaign have supported the scheme.

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Royal

Housing

Women

Princess Anne

Investment plans

Inspiring students

The Princess Royal visited the city yesterday (Thursday) to open the new offices of Kineo, an e-learning company in Church Street in Brighton, and to visit the Carers Centre in Hove. Princess Anne is president of the City & Guilds London Institute, which bought Kineo in late 2012. The Carers Centre for Brighton and Hove, in Bedford Place, is a local charity created as a drop-in centre in Hove in 1988.

Thousands of tenants will see improved homes under a £65 million investment plan. More than £37 million is earmarked in 2014/15 for managing, maintaining and improving the city’s 12,000 council homes. A further £28 million is planned for estate regeneration, new lifts and windows, fire safety improvements, a major rewiring programme, energy efficiency and solar panels, upgrading older sheltered housing, and council house buildings.

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove, has called on city schools to take part in a national campaign to highlight the role of “Inspiring Women”.

The Inspiring Women campaign will see 15,000 women from a wide range of occupations going into state schools over the coming year to speak to 250,000 young women.

Schools can register at: www.inspiringthefuture.org.uk.

Pollution

Low-emission zone Proposals to tackle pollution hotspots in North Street and near the Clock Tower have been given cross-party support by councillors.

A “low emission zone” will regulate vehicles entering a particular area.

This would mainly apply to regular bus services. Councillor Pete West said: “We’re pleased that our work with the bus companies will help clean up our air for all who visit, work, and shop on these streets.”

Charity

Homeless

Buses

Collective support

Christmas thanks

Better shelters

Brighton and Hove Youth Collective have won the hearts and minds of the BrightonandHoveJobs.com team, which has decided it will support the organisation throughout 2014.

The collective is made up of eight charities: including the Young People’s Centre (YPC) Crew Club, Deans Youth Project, Brighton Youth Centre, Tarner Community Project, Hangleton and Knoll Project, The Trust for Developing Communities, and Sussex YMCA all of which are charities.

Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) has thanked donors for their generosity this Christmas and for helping to bring homeless men and women in from the cold over the holiday period. Donations can still be made online at www.justgiving. com/alliwant. Andy Winter, BHT chief executive said: “We feel very grateful that people have been so generous at a time when, economically, things are incredibly tough.”

Brighton & Hove Friends of the Earth (BHFOE) is calling for better bus shelters as the city council is going out to tender for their installation, maintenance and cleaning. BHFOE said many shelters were not fit for purpose, with no guttering and little protection, or narrowed pavements because of advertising hoardings. It said a radical approach was needed to accommodate large numbers in busy shopping areas, such as Churchill Square.

Eggs

Joke journalism The Argus newspaper devoted most of page 3 to its disclosure that a Hove couple bought half a dozen eggs that had double yolks. It illustrated the article with Julia Warnes holding a box of eggs. “It was a funny old experience,” she said. The couple were, of course, “shell-shocked”, according to headline-writers – who, presumably, rejected “cracking story”. As the article said: “It’s enough to scramble your brains.” Yolk yournalism!

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This old photograph shows the view looking east along Marine Parade; it was taken - some time aeound noon - in about 1905. Lower Rock Gardens is on the left and the pillar box stands at the end of Atlingworth Street.

The buildings are mainly high-status homes, with only four or five lodging houses. (Old photograph courtesy of Step Back in Time, 36 Queen’s Road, Brighton.)

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Jugal Sharma: a private £2m property portfolio

Perrylands Farm, Hackhurst Lane, Lower Dicker BN27 4BP: A 30-acre farm, tied to agriculture, was bought by Jugal Sharma for £535,000 on January 25 2005. Six days earlier, his younger brother - then known as Ashone Sharma and describing himself as “self-employed” - joined him as a director of a company called Perrylands Farm Limited. The company was dissolved on October 17 2006, without having filed accounts with Companies House

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION

by Greg Hadfield @BrightonIndy The suspended head of housing of Brighton and Hove City Council has acquired a private property portfolio that is valued at up to £2 million.

Jugal Sharma - sometimes involving members of his family, including his brother, Ashley Parker (formerly Ashone/Ashoni Sharma and Ashoni Parker) - is named on the deeds of at least four properties in Brighton, East Sussex, and London. He does not live in any of them.

Mr Sharma’s properties include a 30-acre farm that is occupied

by a tenant, who happens to be a senior colleague in the city council’s housing department - and who is paying a reported £1,200 a month.

Perrylands Farm - at the end of a mile-long unmade dirt track at the end of Hackhurst Lane, Lower Dicker, East Sussex - was bought

by Mr Sharma for £535,000 on January 25 2005.

Six days earlier, his younger brother - then known as Ashone Sharma and describing himself as “self-employed” - joined him as a director of a company called Perrylands Farm Limited.

The company was dissolved on October 17 2006, without having filed accounts with Companies House.

Today, the farm’s value, with grazing, is estimated at about £1 million.

The current tenant was alerted to the property after what is reported to have been “a chance conversation” in 2006 with Steve Bulbeck, then head of housing needs and social inclusion with the city council.

One source said: “Jugal’s original plans for the farm with his brother didn’t work out.”

The property has to be used for farming purposes.

Mr Bulbeck is now chief executive of Brighton and Hove Seaside Community Homes, the not-for-profit charitable company - financed with a £28 million loan from Santander -

that was controversially set up by the council to raise investment to help improve all council tenants’ homes to the government’s Decent Homes Standard.

The Perrylands Farm tenant is Dennis Watts, who cares part-time for his elderly mother at the isolated three-bedroom bungalow; he is the city council’s supported accommodation services manager, with responsbility for hostels for the homeless.

Although there is no evidence of any wrongdoing, the disclosures raise further questions about Mr Sharma, 53, and his relationship with his 51-year-old brother, who owns KEM Property Services Limited (KEM).

Sussex Police have launched an investigation into alleged fraud at the city council. Mr Sharma joined the council in 2002 from the London Borough

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Title Number : ESX81475

Title Number : EGL48812

This title is dealt with by Land Registry, Coventry Office.

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This title is dealt with by Land Registry, Wales Office.

The following extract contains information taken from the register of the above title number. A full copy of the register accompanies this document and you should read that in order to be sure that these brief details are complete.

Neither this extract nor the full copy is an 'Official Copy' of the register. An official copy of the register is admissible in evidence in a court to the same extent as the original. A person is entitled to be indemnified by the registrar if he or she suffers loss by reason of a mistake in an official copy.

This extract shows information current on 12 JAN 2014 at 19:32:45 and so does not take account of any application made after that time even if pending in the Land Registry when this extract was issued.

REGISTER EXTRACT

REGISTER EXTRACT

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The following extract contains information taken from the register of the above title number. A full copy of the register accompanies this document and you should read that in order to be sure that these brief details are complete.

Neither this extract nor the full copy is an 'Official Copy' of the register. An official copy of the register is admissible in evidence in a court to the same extent as the original. A person is entitled to be indemnified by the registrar if he or she suffers loss by reason of a mistake in an official copy.

This extract shows information current on 12 JAN 2014 at 23:22:17 and so does not take account of any application made after that time even if pending in the Land Registry when this extract was issued.

REGISTER EXTRACT

Title Number

: ESX81475

Title Number

: EGL48812

Title Number

: EGL316534

Address of Property

: 17 Guildford Road, Brighton (BN1 3LU)

Address of Property

: 121 Balfour Road, Ilford (IG1 4HS)

Address of Property

: 106 Newark Street, London (E1 2ES)

Price Stated

: £295,000

Price Stated

: Not Available

Price Stated

: £135,000

Registered Owner(s)

: JUGAL SHARMA and AUDREY FERN SHARMA of 17 Guildford Road, Brighton BN1 3LY.

Registered Owner(s)

: JUGAL SHARMA and SATESH SHARMA of 121 Balfour Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4HS.

Registered Owner(s)

: JUGAL SHARMA and ASHONE SHARMA of 106 Newark Street, London E1 2ES.

Lender(s)

: Bank of Ireland (UK) PLC

Lender(s)

: Lloyds Bank PLC

Lender(s)

: Bank of Scotland PLC

17 Guildford Road, Brighton BN1 3LU: Jugal Sharma and Audrey Fern Sharma, his wife, bought the property for £295,000, with a Bank of Ireland mortgage, on September 21 2001

121 Balfour Road, Ilford IG1 4HS: Jugal Sharma is the registered owner of this property, with Satesh Sharma - whose relationship to him is unknown. The property was bought for an unknown amount, with a Lloyds Bank mortgage, on July 17 2009

payments to KEM Property Services - totalling more than £8.3 million in only 43 months - an average of about £193,000 a month. The biggest single payment was £137,669 on June 29 2012.

It estimated that the company - which was founded in 2003, shortly after Mr Sharma’s appointment in Brighton and is nearing the end of a 10-year agreement with the council - may have received as much as £20 million of taxpayers’ money. The city council, however, did not disclose the actual total.

Today Brighton & Hove Independent can reveal three properties - in addition to Perrylands Farm - in which Mr Sharma has an interest.

Although it is believed Mr Sharma - and his wife, Audrey, an environmental health officer with the city council - live in Holland Road, Hove, they do not appear on the latest electoral roll. For six months, until May 2013, they rented a house - for unknown reasons - at 23 Capenors, Burgess Hill, at a monthly rent of about £950.

The properties owned

by Mr Sharma include: 17 Guildford Road, Brighton BN1 3LU Jugal Sharma and Audrey Fern Sharma, his wife, bought the property for £295,000, with a Bank of Ireland mortgage, on September 21 2001; the property is currently occupied by tenants who report that Mr Sharma is “a good landlord”, although they deal mostly with Mrs Ashone Sharma became a director of Perrylands Sharma - “who always Farm Limited on January 19 2005 fixes things if anything of Hillingdon, where he served for four years as housing needs manager. Suspended in late October, his salary is £82,500.

Neither he nor his brother could be contacted for comment.

Last week, Brighton & Hove Independent exclusively revealed that KEM had received up to £20 million in taxpayers’ money to provide homes for the homeless in a 10-year agreement with the city council.

Mr Parker became a director in March 2008; he became a shareholder in February 2009. By which time, KEM owned at least six houses in the city - using mortgages with the Royal Bank of Scotland that totalled more than £3 million.

A number of properties sub-let

by KEM were reportedly owned at the time by Mr Parker, but the company paid the mortgages on them.

This newspaper published details of more than 400 council

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Title Number : EGL316534

This title is dealt with by Land Registry, Birkenhead Office.

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The following extract contains information taken from the register of the above title number. A full copy of the register accompanies this document and you should read that in order to be sure that these brief details are complete.

Neither this extract nor the full copy is an 'Official Copy' of the register. An official copy of the register is admissible in evidence in a court to the same extent as the original. A person is entitled to be indemnified by the registrar if he or she suffers loss by reason of a mistake in an official copy.

This extract shows information current on 12 JAN 2014 at 16:51:22 and so does not take account of any application made after that time even if pending in the Land Registry when this extract was issued.

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106 Newark Street, London E1 2ES: Jugal Sharma is - with Ashone Sharma - registered as owner of this property, which was bought for £135,000 - with a Bank of Scotland mortgage - on October 5 2000

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23 Capenors, Burgess Hill, RH15 9QL: Jugal Sharma and his wife rented this threebedroom semi-detahced house for £950 a month for six months until May 2013

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Jugal Sharma is understood to live in Holland Road, Hove - but is not on the electoral roll

goes wrong”; 121 Balfour Road, Ilford IG1 4HS Jugal Sharma is the registered owner of this property, with Satesh Sharma whose relationship to him is unknown.

The property was bought for an unknown amount, with a Lloyds Bank mortgage, on July 17 2009; it has a restriction, dated August 7 2006, that it be not sold without written consent by Ashley Parker, “care of Reeve Fisher & Sands, Estate Offices, Coronation Drive, Elm Park, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 5BL.”; 106 Newark Street, London E1 2ES Jugal Sharma is - with Ashone Sharma - registered as owner of this property, which was bought for £135,000 - with a Bank of Scotland mortgage - on October 5 2000. Again, it has a restriction, dated July 3, 2006, that it be not sold without written consent

by Ashley Parker, “care of Reeve Fisher & Sands, Estate Offices, Coronation Drive, Elm Park, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 5BL.” A Sussex Police source close to the investigation said enquiries were continuing and no arrests or charges were imminent.

An Independent View Open data fuels the move towards open democracy In recent years, there has been much talk about “open data” - particularly in the field of democratically-accountable organisations.

Increasingly, organisations especially those that are funded or part-funded by taxpayers’ money - are being required, voluntarily or not, to publish data in a machine-readable open format. That is, in a format that computers can understand and interpret.

There are many reasons for this: one relates to the creation of new digital applications and services; the other relates to transparency and accountability.

Brighton & Hove Independent’s ongoing investigation into KEM Property Services, its contracts, its directors and shareholders, and those associated with them

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would not have been possible - or would have certainly been more difficult - had it not been for open data. The starting point was Companies House, the Land Registry and the electoral roll. Not that long ago, hard copies inspected in person were the only means by which investigative journalists could discover truths. Now, there is the internet.

More importantly, perhaps, there is the approach of national government and local authorities to open data. It is only in the last few years that councils have been required to publish openly details of payments over £500 to contractors. It was because of this that this newspaper was able to identify how KEM Property Services Limited had received more than £8.3 million in 43 months.

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More than 200 attend debate about ‘gagging bill’

More than 200 people attended a meeting at St Mary’s Church, in St James’s Street, about the government’s “gagging bill” to regulate lobbying.

A panel of speakers comprised: Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion; Becky Jarvis, of 38 Degrees, the online campaigning organisation; Conservative councillor Graham Cox; and Ian Chisnall, a local community activist.

These are the views of Purna Sen, Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, who attended the meeting: “The meeting demonstrated the strength of local feeling about legislation that Angela Eagle - the Labour MP leading the parliamentary opposition to it - described as ‘inadequate and sinister and partisan’.

“Rather than curbing the backstairs influence of Westminster’s bigbusiness lobbyists, this bill will stifle democratic debate during election periods.

“I have worked for Amnesty International and am a trustee of local and national charities concerned with equalities and violence against women. I know how vital is that fundamental right of organisations to lobby politicians – especially as elections draw near.

“As a parliamentary candidate, I want to know the views of charities and campaigners - from national groups such as the Women’s Institute and the RSPB to local campaigns about schools and hospitals.

“Now this government wants to limit long-respected aspects of our democratic political process by restricting what organisations can spend and forcing them into further bureaucratic registration.”

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NHS organisations sign up to Living Wage FIGURES AS AT JANUARY 2014

How the Living Wage Campaign is working in Brighton & Hove

Three organisations within the NHS in Brighton and Hove have signed up to the city’s Living Wage campaign.

Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) marked the start of 2014 by announcing its support for the campaign- ensuring that anyone working for the organisation will earn at least £7.65 per hour.

Dr Xavier Nalletamby, chair of the CCG, said: “This is absolutely the right thing to do. As a responsible organisation, we are working hard to ensure that we support the people who work for us.

“We believe that by adopting the living wage, we are setting a powerful example to other organisations in the area to do the same.

“At present, 18% of people working in Brighton and Hove live in relative poverty and all organisations need to play an

CCG sign-up, Futurehealth - a new wellbeing centre on the proposed King Alfred site - also joined the campaign endorsing the statement, along with the Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Centre.

Dr Sarah Andersen, of Futurehealth, said: “We are proud to be first GP surgery to sign up to the Living Wage Scheme which is so essential to the health and wealth of our seafront city.”

It is hoped that the Living Wage will be introduced in other GP surgeries and We are setting a areas of the NHS powerful example to other other locally.

The Living Wage organisations in the area” Campaign aims at encouraging local body - is obliged to make sure businesses to voluntarily pay all that everything it does, whether employees a decent hourly rate. that be commissioning and Set independently and updated designing services or procuring annually, the Living Wage is goods or services, is done in a calculated according to the basic way that has a benefit socially. cost of living in the UK and is the That could be reducing amount that allows a person to social isolation, improving live, rather than just survive. It is mental well-being, currently £7.65 an hour. providing employment to local people, or increasing For more information about available training and the local campaign, visit: www. education. livingwagebrighton.co.uk Shortly after the active role in reducing that number for the benefit of the community in which we live and work.”

The group’s governing body has also endorsed changes to its commissioning and procurement processes by aligning them with the Public Services (Social Value) Act. The act, which came into full effect on January 31 2013, sets out guidelines to ensure that the CCG - and any other public

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In April 2012, the Living Wage Commission announced that a business-led, two year campaign for a Living Wage would be spearheaded by the Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce with the goal of making the city a great example of how the Living Wage can become the normal and accepted minimum level of payment for all employees.

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The Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign aims to encourage local businesses to voluntarily pay all employees a decent hourly rate.

Set independently and updated annually the Living Wage is calculated according to the basic cost of living in the UK and is the amount that allows a person to live, rather than just survive.

£7.65 Success Companies Signed-Up 120 115 105 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5

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Businesses vote

The Living Wage hourly rate as at 4th Nov 2013

The campaign has been running for 20 months. The target was to sign-up 100 businesses in 2 years and increase 200 salaries.

This is how we’ve done so far...

Salaries Increased 850 800

Participating Business Sectors

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"We have always viewed a Living Wage as a positive business decision.

Satisfied staff who stay longer in their jobs makes for happier customers and greatly facilitates the business."

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Within 18 months the campaign reached its target of 100 companies.

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Percentage of Argus newspaper readers supporting the Living Wage in a recent ballot

What employers say...

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In February 2012, Brighton Chamber held a Big Debate to enable the city’s businesses to voice their views directly and, when it came to the vote, the Living Wage received overwhelming business endorsement.

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LoveLocalJobs.com finds evidence that local job growth is strong LoveLocalJobs.com - the leading southeast jobs board - has backed a new national report that suggests job growth is at a four-year high.

Gary Peters, founder of the LoveLocalJobs.com family of job boards and chair of the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership, said national findings were reinforced by evidence of what is happening across Sussex and beyond.

Visits to BrightonandHoveJobs. com have risen by more than a third in the last 12 months, while visits to GatwickDiamondJobs. com have more than doubled rising by a remarkable 109% in the same period.

The recent KPMG/Recruitment and Employment Confederation Report on Jobs highlights signs of a strengthening job market across the United Kingdom.

December saw permanent placements growing at their fastest rate since March 2010,

while temporary billings increased at their fastest rate for 15 years.

Salaries are also improving, the report states, with the highest level of permanent salary growth since October 2007.

Demand increased for every type of permanent job, most strongly in the executive/professional category.

In terms of temporary/contract sectors, the strongest demand was for IT/computing staff.

As expected, demand for staff remained stronger in the private sector than in the public sector.

According to Mr Peters, the same picture is being seen in the Sussex region, with a surge in the number of professional positions being advertised on LoveLocalJobs.com and a lack of suitable candidates in certain areas. Locally, some sectors are growing faster than others, such as aviation, engineering, legal, IT and education.

In Brighton, education has

seen a 52% rise in enquiries on BrightonandHoveJobs.com, with a 22% rise in engineering related enquiries. In Gatwick, IT has seen a 58.7% rise in enquiries.

Mr Peters said: “There is no doubt our job boards across the whole region are also seeing a sharp year on year rise in activity, both from companies posting job opportunities and from candidates. Most notable is the rise in professional and technical employment positions in sectors such as education, legal, IT and advanced engineering, which would suggest local companies are experiencing rapid growth in line with an improving economic climate.

“Compared with previous years, December was our strongest on record and early indicators are that this trend looks set to continue well into 2014. We now need to see an increase in quality

candidates to fill the positions that now exist.”

Jenny Finch, of leading UK recruitment experts Search Consultancy and a founding member of GatwickDiamondJobs. com - powered by LoveLocalJobs. com - said: “December was the busiest we have had for five years and 2013 saw more applications than ever before for our jobs. It’s important as the jobs market grows that jobseekers feel confident to move roles as there are definitely more genuine opportunities for people with the right skills to advance their careers.”

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For more information or for class timings, contact the centre on 01273 542100 or visit www. freedom-leisure.co.uk.

Maycroft Manor Care Home on Carden Avenue opened in November 2013; a residential, specialising in nursing and dementia care. The 99-bed home is the first in the area from Hallmark Care Homes, an award-winning care provider with homes across England and Wales.

Outstanding facilities The home includes two cafés where residents can relax with a cup of coffee or enjoy time with their friends and relatives. There is also a corner shop enabling residents to continue a daily routine. Residents are able to do their own laundry, if they wish, in one of the home’s laundry rooms or treat themselves to a new hair cut in the hair salon and a manicure in the spa therapy room. The library and cinema offer the chance to get lost in a whole new story while the roof top terrace gives the opportunity to get a bit of fresh air and enjoy views of the surrounding landscaped gardens.

Relationship-centred care Maycroft Manor provides nursing, residential and dementia care, so if the needs of a loved one change, they won’t have to move home.

The home’s relationshipcentred care approach means placing the individuals’ needs at the very centre of the care provided. This means building a relationship with every resident, listening to their stories and learning about their lives.

Dementia community The home has a separate dementia community with its own range of facilities, including a residents’ laundry room, corner shop and café.

Residents living with a form of dementia are enabled to continue to live an active and independent life.

Discover why Maycroft Manor is a care home with a difference. Speak to Maycroft Manor’s Customer Relationship Manager on 01273 859790.

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City council aims at providing 70 apprenticeships Long-serving Peter marks to help people gain vital skills for the future 40 years Residents are gaining vital work experience working across services provided by Brighton and Hove City Council services - including in children’s nurseries and as trainee electricians - as part of the council’s apprenticeships drive.

As well as necessary work experience, apprentices are eligible for government bursaries to provide added incentive to those following the apprenticeship route.

Two apprenticeships at Roundabout Nursery have both received a £3,000 bursary from the National College for Teaching and Leadership.

Daisy Lane, one apprentice said: “With the money, I will be buying a laptop so I will be able to do my college work at home. This will allow me to stay on top of my college work and stay organised.”

Working alongside JobCentre Plus, the council is supporting people into work-placements and apprenticeship. This means not only work experience, but also a nationally-recognised qualification.

With 23 apprenticeships already in place, a further 46 will be created by April.

Penny Thompson, chief executive

Headquarters of the National College for Teaching and Leadership, which is giving £3,000 bursaries

of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “One of the biggest difficulties entering the job market for the first time is trying to break the cycle of no experience.

“So it’s important that as the city’s biggest employer we offer residents the opportunity to gain vital skills and experience to prepare them for work. At the same time we need to recruit, train and develop local young talent that will help us find innovative ways to deliver the 800 services we provide everyday.

“We want to support young people to make a successful transition to independent living, helping them to meet their potential, achieve their abilities, hopes and aspirations.”

Council-organised sessions have helped inform job-seekers and care-leavers about apprenticeship opportunities giving a better understanding of the role as well as crucial encouragement to apply for future opportunities.

Jack Weallans, a housing apprentice, said: “I think the

apprenticeship is an amazing opportunity. It has introduced me to a field that I previously knew nothing about and developed within me a passion and interest that will stay with me forever. I have gained in depth knowledge and have felt like a valued member of the team throughout.

“I am now certain that I want to pursue a career in housing, and with the hands on experience I am currently gaining, along with the qualification I will receive; I feel this goal is well within reach.”

Peter Falconar not only remembers the days of mental maths accounting and carboncopy orders. After 40 years in wholesaling, he is so good with numbers he does not own a telephone book.

Peter now holds the title of the longest-serving head-office-based employee at Palmer and Harvey, the UK’s No1 delivered hholesaler .

His experience in the industry started at Plymouth-based WC Griffiths and Sons as a trainee accountant where his ability with numbers shone.

“I used to have a competition with a colleague in the office,” says Peter. “She’d add up figures on a calculator and I would read them from a long list upside-down from the opposite side of the desk. We’d have a race to see who could come up with the right answers first. I usually won!”

Sadly, he added, the wager was often just 10p!

After Peter’s 10 years’ service, Palmer and Harvey acquired WC Griffiths in 1984 to complete their network of warehousing and he moved to the company head office in Portslade.

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Ken Scott’s American remake of his own French-Canadian comedy has all the same problems as the original film, but remains an enjoyable, feel-good comedy with a likeable performance from Vince Vaughn.

anonymously to the children, as “Starbuck”), David becomes curious about his progeny, so he begins tracking them down one by one and helping them out, Guardian Angel style.

To complicate things further, David’s girlfriend Emma (Cobie Smulders) announces that she’s pregnant and there’s also the small matter Vaughn slightly tones the loan sharks down his usual fast-talking of who keep popping screen persona and plays round to violently the $80,000 things relatively straight” retrieve he owes them.

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meet him and are filing a suit for his identity to be revealed.

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lead to the documentary Donor Unknown. Vince Vaughn stars as meat truck driver David Wozniak, a 40-something slacker who suddenly discovers that he’s the biological father to 533 children (thanks to his enthusiastic visits to the sperm bank in the 1980s) and that 142 of them want to

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That said, what he loses in comic impact and manic delivery, he gains in general sincerity, generating a series of touching relationships without descending into forced sentimentality.

Delivery Man is an enjoyable, feel-good comedy with likeable performances

The Bad It’s probably fair to say that remaking the film has highlighted some of the problems of the original, most notably the less convincing moments, such as the daughter who makes the world’s fastest recovery from heroin addiction because she gets a job in Bloomingdales, or the emo son

who seems like a character from a different film.

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The remake lacks some of the scruffy charm of the original, but remains an entertaining and emotionally engaging comedydrama with a strong central performance from Vince Vaughn.

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January 17 - 23 FRIDAY

SUNDAY

Lunchtime Concerts

Call my Bluff

German soprano Eva Rustige and pianist Joe Ward perform a varied programme including works by Mozart and Schubert.

12:30pm-1:15pm, £3.50 Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, BN1 1UF

Wine Tasting Event @ Ten Green Bottles. Fun wine tasting and quiz team event with prizes and a booby prize. No wine knowledge necessary.

4pm start. £15 each (Call 01273 567176 to book) Ten Green Bottles, 9 Jubilee Street, BN1 1GE

Masquerade Adorn yourself in your finest gowns and find yourself a vintage mask. Whisk yourself away in the ballroom where passion, glamour and illicit behavior meet.

7pm, £34 per person Proud Cabaret Brighton, 83 St Georges Road, BN2 1EF

Old Times Harold Pinter’s darkly erotic and tantalisingly enigmatic drama explores many of the themes that characterised his finest works.

7.45pm Matinee: Sunday December 8 at 2.30pm. £7 - £10 New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, BN1 2PT

Too Darn Soulful Expect floor shakers and foot stompers - all part of the talcum powered beatin’ rhythm that is Northern Soul!

11pm, £5 Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN

SATURDAY Bikram Yoga Brighton Open Day -

Royal Pavilion Annual Free Day To celebrate the purchase of the Royal Pavilion by the town of Brighton in 1850, admission charges are waived one day a year.

Royal Pavilion, 4/5 Pavilion Buildings, BN1 1EE

Terry Garoghan: The Man in Slacks Terry ponders the meaninglessness of middle-age angst and his fatal attraction to the gentleman’s clothing of Marks and Sparks 1pm, £6 Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN

Brighton Dome & Strings Attached Coffee Concert Hand-picked senior students of the Royal College of Music come together to perform works of the chamber music repertoire.

11am, £17.50/£15 Brighton Dome, Church Street, BN1 1EE

New Year fitness resolution?

Try out hot yoga classes for free at Bikram Yoga Brighton’s purpose built ‘hot’ studio.

Classes at 9:00 and 11:30am.

Free entry (call 01273 289485 to reserve your place) Olugbenga House, 26 - 28 Franklin Road, Portslade, BN41 1AF

MONDAY

Dome Discovery Tours Get up close and personal with Brighton Dome past and present on this special behind-the-scenes encounter.

10.50am, £8.50 (£7.50 concessions) Church Street, BN1 1EE

Internationally acclaimed French sculptural artist Denis Tricot gently transforms landscapes and buildings across the world with his wooden sculptures.

Nymans, Staplefield Road, Handcross, Haywards Heath, RH17 6EB

I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

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Join Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jeremy Hardy and host Jack Dee for an unmissable evening of inspired nonsense. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.

2.30pm & 7.30pm, £26, £23 Brighton Dome, Church Street, BN1 1EE

Catalyst Club Monthly event which blends the old traditions of a French Salon with debating societies.

8pm, £5 Latest Music Bar, 14-17 Manchester Street, BN2 1TF

Fire and sculpture

An exhibition in the Prince Regent Gallery, Royal Pavilion centred on our recent acquisition of J M W Turner’s watercolour Brighthelmston, Sussex (1824).

10am–5.15pm (last admission 4.30pm) Royal Pavilion Gardens, New Road, BN1 1UG

Robin Cousins’ ICE Show - a dynamic and atmospheric spectacle - Launches on Wednesday, January 22 at The Brighton Centre

TUESDAY Cafe Scientifique Monthly talk.

Doors 7.30 Price Free, collection made to cover costs.

Latest Music Bar, 14-17 Manchester Street, BN2 1TF

Reflections Paul Tash Ostrer is offering you a chance to see his striking exhibition ‘Reflections‘. Paul is showing his self portraits which represent the emotive key stages in his life.

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Various times, £11.25 - £80 Brighton Centre, Kings Road, BN1 2GR

THURSDAY Warpaint In follow up to their critically acclaimed 2010 album The Fool, Warpaint return to Brighton to mark the release of their self titled second album released on Rough Trade on 20 January 2014.

8pm, £17.50 Brighton Dome, Church Street, BN1 1EE

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The Voice UK The Voice UK BBC1, 7pm BBC1, 7pm Given Jeremy Renner and Given Jeremy Renner and Christian Bale’s rendition of Christian Bale’s rendition of Tom Jones’s classic Delilah Tom Jones’s classic Delilah in acclaimed movie in acclaimed movie American Hustle, we doubt American Hustle, we doubt the Welsh recording legend the Welsh recording legend would have turned round would have turned round for them had they for them had they auditioned for this show, auditioned for this show, but plenty of other but plenty of other wannabe stars have wannabe stars have impressed his ears. This impressed his ears. This week it’s round two of the week it’s round two of the contest to find the nation’s contest to find the nation’s best new vocal talent. best new vocal talent.

Coaches Kylie, Tom, Coaches Kylie, Tom, will.i.am and Ricky Wilson will.i.am and Ricky Wilson aim is to build a team of a aim is to build a team of a dozen singers or acts dozen singers or acts apiece, all chosen on their apiece, all chosen on their vocals alone. Emma Willis vocals alone. Emma Willis and Marvin Humes host. and Marvin Humes host.

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1.15 Final Live Snooker: The Masters. 4.30 Score. 5.15 Masters.

4.30 Final Score.

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8.20 The National Lottery: Who 8.20 The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins. Nick Knowles Daresthe Wins.

Nick Knowles hosts game show in hosts the in which twogame pairs show of strangers which twobypairs of strangers compete listing as much compete by listing much as they know aboutasgiven as they know about the given subjects.

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11.45 The Football League Show.

11.45 The Football League Show.

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1.05 Weatherview. 1.10 BBC News.

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9.35 5 News Weekend.

9.45 Celebrity Big Brother.

9.45 Celebrity Brother.

HighlightsBig of the famous Highlights of the24famous residents’ past hours residents’ past 24 hours under the all-seeing eye of under the all-seeing Big Brother, includingeye a of Big Brother, including second chance to see a second Friday’s chance eviction.to see Friday’s eviction.

10.45 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit 10.45 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Psych.

Psychological on the Psych. analysis of the Psychological housemates’ analysis of the housemates’ behaviour. behaviour.

12.00 SuperCasino. 3.05 Baby 12.00Brides.

SuperCasino.

BabySOS. Face (R) 4.003.05 Wildlife Face4.25 Brides.

(R)It4.00 Wildlife (R) Make Big. (R) 4.50SOS. (R) 4.25 It Big. Roary theMake Racing Car.(R) (R)4.50 5.00 Roary the Racing(R) Car. (R)Hana’s 5.00 Angels of Jarm.

5.10 Angels of Jarm.

(R) 5.10 Hana’s Helpline. (R) 5.20 Angels of Jarm.

Helpline.

(R) 5.20 Jarm.

(R) 5.25 The FunkyAngels ValleyofShow.

(R) 5.40 5.25 Roary The Funky Valley Show.

(R) the Racing Car. (R) (R) 5.40 Roary the Racing 5.50 Hana’s Helpline.

(R) Car. (R) 5.50 Hana’s Helpline. (R)

BBC Three BBC Three 7.00 Great Movie Mistakes: 7.00 GreatofMovie Mistakes: Revenge the Fifth 7.15 Top Gear Revenge the Chronicles Fifth 7.15 Top 8.20 Film:ofThe of Gear 8.20 Film: The Chronicles Narnia: The Lion, the Witchofand the Narnia: The(2005) Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 10.30 Russell WardrobeGood (2005)News 10.30 Russell Howard’s 11.00 Family Howard’s Good News 11.00 Family Guy Guy BBC Four BBC Four 7.00 Wild China 8.00 A Very British 7.00 Wild China A Very9.00 British Murder with Lucy8.00 Worsley The Murder11.00 with Lucy 9.00 The Bridge SladeWorsley at the BBC Bridge 11.00 Slade at the BBC ITV2 ITV2 2.00 Film: The Sisterhood of the 2.00 Film:Pants The Sisterhood the Traveling (2005) 4.20ofYou’ve Traveling Pants6.50 (2005) 4.20 Been Framed!

Film: TheYou’ve Been Framed!

Film: TheFilm: Incredible Hulk6.50 (2008) 9.00 Incredible 9.00 Film: The World Hulk Is Not(2008) Enough (1999) The World Is Not Enough (1999) 11.35 The Magaluf Weekender 11.35 The Magaluf Weekender ITV3 ITV3 2.45 Film: The Pure Hell of St 2.45 Film: The Pure of St Trinian’s (1960) 4.40Hell Inspector Trinian’s7.00 (1960) 4.40 Inspector Morse Rosemary & Thyme MorseDoc 7.00 Rosemary & Thyme 8.00 Martin 9.00 Agatha 8.00 Doc Poirot Martin11.00 9.00 Agatha Christie’s Prime Christie’s Poirot 11.00 Prime Suspect Suspect ITV4 ITV4 3.10 Film: The Cimarron Kid (1952) 3.10 Cimarron (1952) 4.55 Film: Film: The Horizons WestKid (1952) 4.55 (1952) 6.35 Film: Film: Horizons The HorseWest Soldiers 6.35 Film: Horse Soldiers (1959) 9.00The Film: Memphis Belle (1959) Second 9.00 Film: Memphis Belle (1990) World War drama, (1990) Second World War drama, starring Matthew Modine. 11.10 starring Film: TheMatthew HowlingModine.

(1981) 11.10 Film: The Howling (1981) E4 E4 3.30 Film: Dragonball Evolution 3.30 Film: (2009) 5.10Dragonball Rude(ish) Evolution Tube 6.05 (2009) 5.10Your Rude(ish) How I Met MotherTube 7.006.05 The How I Met Your Mother 7.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Tomorrow People 9.00 Film: Top Tomorrow Film: Top Gun (1986)People 11.10 9.00 The Big Bang Gun (1986) 11.10 The Big Bang Theory Theory Film4 Film4 2.45 Nacho Libre (2006) 4.35 2.45 Nacho Libre (2006) 4.35 Bugsy Malone (1976) 6.25 Stardust Bugsy Malone 6.25starring Stardust (2007) Fantasy(1976) adventure, (2007) Fantasy adventure, starring Charlie Cox and Claire Danes. 9.00 Charlie Cox and(2003) Claire 11.30 Danes.Ferris 9.00 Runaway Jury RunawayDay JuryOff (2003) 11.30 Ferris Bueller’s (1986) Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

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Phillip Phillip Schofield Schofield Dancing on Ice Dancing on Ice ITV, 6.15pm ITV, 6.15pm The atmosphere between The atmosphere between Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Hollyoaks actress Jorgie Porter and her professional Porter and her professional partner Sylvain partner Sylvain Longchambon may have Longchambon may have seemed rather icy, but it was seemed rather icy, but it was still a shock to see the 2012 still a shock to see the 2012 runner-up become the first runner-up become the first celebrity to be voted off the celebrity to be voted off the show. Judge Jason Gardiner show. Judge Jason Gardiner and the voting public have and the voting public have made it clear that the celebs made it clear that the celebs won’t be able to glide won’t be able to glide through on their past through on their past glories, but who will impress glories, but who will impress this week,? At least hosts this week,? At least hosts Phillip Schofield and Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley will be on Christine Bleakley will be on hand to give the unlucky hand to give the unlucky couple a consoling hug on couple a consoling hug on what has been dubbed the what has been dubbed the “kiss and cry” step. “kiss and cry” step.

6.00 Breakfast. 7.35 Match of the 6.00 Breakfast.

7.35 MatchMarr of the Day. (R) 9.00 The Andrew Day. (R)10.00 9.00The TheBig Andrew Marr Show.

Questions.

Show. Sunday 10.00 The Big Questions.

11.00 Politics.

12.15 11.00 Sunday Politics.

MOTD2 Extra. 1.00 BBC12.15 News; MOTD2 Extra.

1.00 BBC News; Weather. 1.15 Moving On. (R) 2.00 Weather.

1.15 Moving On. 2.00 Bargain Hunt. 3.00 Escape(R) to the Bargain Hunt.

3.00 Escape to the Country. (R) 3.45 Lifeline. 3.55 Country.

3.454.30 Lifeline.

3.55 Songs of(R) Praise.

Hidden Songs of Praise.

4.30BBC Hidden Kingdoms.

(R) 5.30 News; Kingdoms.

(R) 5.30 BBC News; Regional News; Weather.

Regional News; Weather.

6.00 Fake or Fortune? New 6.00 Fake Fortune? series.orFiona BruceNew and series.Mould Fiona Bruce and Philip investigate Philip Mould investigate potentially valuable works of potentially works of art, helpingvaluable a man who art, helping a manawho believes he owns painting believes owns a painting

by Frenchhepost-impressionist by FrenchVuillard. post-impressionist Edouard Edouard Vuillard.

7.00 Countryfile Winter Special.

7.00 Countryfile Winterthe Special.

The team explores The team explores countryside duringthe winter, countryside searching forduring hardywinter, wildlife, searching for hardy wildlife, revealing how farmers cope revealing howafarmers cope and unveiling sculpture by and unveiling a sculpture landscape artist Andy by landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy.

Goldsworthy.

8.00 Call the Midwife. New 8.00 Call theThe Midwife.

New series. nuns and series. Themove nunsinto andtheir midwives midwives moveJenny into their new premises, is new premises, Jenny is concerned about a patient’s concerned about a patient’s mental state and Chummy mental state and Chummy struggles to adjust to life as a struggles adjust to life as a housewifetoand mother. housewife and mother.

9.00 The Musketeers. New 9.00 The Musketeers.

New series.

Swashbuckling series.

Swashbuckling adventure set in 17thadventure set in 17thcentury Paris. century Paris.

10.00 BBC News; Regional News; 10.00 Weather.

BBC News; Regional News; Weather.

10.25 Match of the Day 2.

10.25 Including Match of the Day 2. of highlights Including of Chelsea v highlights Manchester Chelsea v Manchester United.

United.

11.25 The Revolution Will Be 11.25 The Revolution Will Be Televised.

Televised.

11.55 Film: Shifty. (2008) Drama, 11.55 Film: Shifty.

(2008) Drama, starring Riz Ahmed. starring Riz Ahmed.

1.20 Weatherview. 1.25 BBC News.

1.20 Weatherview. 1.25 BBC News.

6.00 This Is BBC Two. 6.45 Film: 6.00 This(2008) Is BBCDrama, Two. 6.45 Film: Blessed. starring Blessed.

(2008)8.05 Drama, starring James Nesbitt.

Monty Don’s James Nesbitt.

French Gardens.8.05 (R) Monty 9.05 Don’s French Gardens.

(R) 9.05 Countryfile.

(R) 10.00 Saturday Countryfile.

10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best(R) Bites.

11.30 The Great Kitchen Best Bites.

11.30 The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. (R) 12.30 Sport Relief Bake Off. (R) 12.30 The Great Sport Relief Bake Off. (R) The Great Sport Relief Off. (R) 1.30 Live Snooker: TheBake Masters.

1.30 Snooker: Masters.of HazelLive Irvine presentsThe coverage Hazel Irvine presents coverage the opening eight frames of theof the opening eight frames of the final from Alexandra Palace, final fromwhere Alexandra Palace, London, the best-of-19London, wheretakes the best-of-19frames match place. frames matchprogrammes takes place.subject Subsequent Subsequent programmes subject to change. 5.15 Ski Sunday.

The to 5.15from Ski Sunday.

The firstchange. semi-final Alexandra first semi-final from Alexandra Palace, London.

Palace, London.

6.00 Flog It! From Derby. (R) 6.00 Flog It! From Derby. (R) 7.00 Live Snooker: The Masters.

7.00 Live The Masters.

HazelSnooker: Irvine presents Hazel Irvine presents coverage of the second coverage the second semi-finaloffrom Alexandra semi-final from Alexandra Palace, London, where the Palace, London, where the line-up for the final will be line-up for the final willMark be confirmed.

Third seed confirmed.

Thirdover seed12th Mark Selby prevailed SelbyGraeme prevailed over 12th seed Dott with a 6-5 seed Graeme Dott with victory in last year's a 6-5 victory in last year's concluding semi-final, concluding earning himsemi-final, a chance to earning chance to claim thehim titlea in a contest claim the title in a contestWith against Neil Robertson. against Neil Robertson. commentary

by Dennis With commentary

by Dennis Taylor, Ken Doherty, Stephen Taylor, Stephen HendryKen andDoherty, John Virgo, and Hendry and John Virgo, and analysis by Steve Davis and analysis by Steve Davis and John Parrott. Subsequent John Parrott. subject Subsequent programmes to programmes subject to change. change.

11.00 Film: A Serious Man. (2009) 11.00 AFilm: A Serious Man. (2009) mild-mannered professor A mild-mannered professor seeks spiritual advice as a seeks spiritual advice as a series of disasters disrupts series disasters disrupts his life.ofThe Coen brothers’ his life. Theblack Coencomedy, brothers’ 1960s-set 1960s-set black comedy, starring Michael Stuhlbarg starring Michael and Richard Kind.Stuhlbarg and Richard Kind.

12.40 Sign Zone: Countryfile. (R) 12.40Holby Sign City.

Zone:(R) Countryfile.

1.35 2.35 This (R) Is 1.35 Two. Holby City. (R) 2.35 This Is BBC BBC Two.

6.00 CITV: Pat & Stan. 6.10 Pat & 6.00 CITV: Pat Pat & Stan.

6.10(R) Pat6.25 & Stan.

(R) 6.20 & Stan.

Stan.Dan. (R) 6.20 Pat &Dino Stan.Dan. (R)(R) 6.25 Dino (R) 6.40 Dino Canimals.

Dan. (R) 6.40 (R) 6.50 (R) Dino 7.00 Dan. Canimals.

6.507.05 Canimals.

(R) (R) 7.007.10 Canimals.

(R) Canimals.

Om (R) 7.05 Canimals.

(R)Sooty.

7.10 Om Nom Stories.

(R) 7.15 (R) Nom Om Stories.

7.15 Sooty.

(R) 7.25 Nom(R) Stories.

(R) 7.30 7.25 Om Nom Stories.

(R) 7.30 Scrambled! 9.30 Murder, She Scrambled!

9.30 Murder, SheReal Wrote. (R) 10.30 Dickinson’s Wrote.(R) (R)11.20 10.30ITV Dickinson’s Real Deal.

News; Weather.

Deal. (R) 11.20 News;Trust.

Weather.

11.30 Inside theITV National 11.30 The Inside the National Trust.

12.25 Crocodile Hunter 12.25 The Hunter (R) Diaries.

(R)Crocodile 1.25 Catchphrase.

Diaries.

(R) 1.25 2.10 Splash!

(R) Catchphrase.

3.40 Film: Dr(R) No. 2.10 Splash!

(R) 3.40Programme Film: Dr No.; (1962) 5.50 Regional (1962) 5.50 Regional Programme ; Weather.

Weather.

6.00 ITV News; Weather.

6.00 ITV News; Weather.

6.15 Dancing on Ice. Having 6.15 progressed Dancing on from Ice. Having the first progressed from the firstthe round of performances, round of performances, 10 remaining celebrity the 10 remaining skaters now gocelebrity head to head skaters nowPresented go head to on the ice. byhead on the ice.

Presented Phillip Schofield and by Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley.

Christine Bleakley.

7.45 All Star Family Fortunes.

7.45 With All Star Family Fortunes.

Birds of a Feather star With Birds of aand Feather star Lesley Joseph comedian Lesley Joseph and comedian Stephen K Amos.

Stephen K Amos.

8.30 Dancing on Ice: The Skate 8.30 Off. Dancing on Ice: The Skate One celebrity hangs up Off. One celebrity hangs up their skates for good. their skates for good.

9.00 Mr Selfridge. New series.

9.00 Lady Mr Selfridge.

New series.

Mae’s husband arrives Lady Mae’s husband arrives unexpectedly in London. unexpectedly in London.

10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather.

10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather.

10.15 Birds of a Feather. Sharon 10.15 makes Birds ofa adiscovery Feather.inSharon the loft. makes a discovery in the loft.

(R) (R) 10.45 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: 10.45 Neil PiersMorrissey.

Morgan’s Life Stories: The actor Neil Morrissey. actor discusses some The revealing discusses topics.

(R)some revealing topics. (R) 11.45 River Monsters. Jeremy 11.45 Wade River Monsters. investigatesJeremy the Wade investigates alligator gar fish in the Texas. (R) alligator gar fish in Texas. (R) 12.10 The Store. 2.15 The Jeremy 12.10Show The Store.

2.15ITV The Jeremy Kyle USA. 3.40 Kyle Show USA. Nightscreen.

5.053.40 TheITV Jeremy Kyle Nightscreen.

Show.

(R) 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show. (R)

6.00 The Treacle People. (R) 6.10 6.00Hoobs.

The Treacle People.

6.10 The (R) 6.35 The (R) Hoobs.

The7.05 Hoobs.

(R) 6.35Race.

The Hoobs.

(R) Snowdon 8.00 Will (R)Grace.

7.05 Snowdon Race. 8.00Loves Will & (R) 8.30 Everybody & Grace. (R) Loves Raymond.

(R)8.30 9.00Everybody Frasier. (R) Raymond.

(R)Brunch.

9.00 Frasier.

9.30 Sunday 12.30(R) How I 9.30Your Sunday Brunch.

Met Mother.

1.0012.30 How IHow MetI Met Your Mother.

1.00 How I Met Your Mother. 1.25 The Big Bang Your Mother.

1.25The TheBig BigBang Bang Theory.

(R) 1.55 Theory.

Theory. (R) (R) 1.55 2.25 The The Big Big Bang Bang Theory.

Bang Theory. (R) (R) 2.25 2.55 The The Big Simpsons.

Theory.

The Simpsons.

(R) 3.25(R) The2.55 Simpsons.

(R) 3.55 (R) 3.25 The Simpsons.

3.55 Film: Honey, I Shrunk the(R) Kids.

Film: Honey, I Shrunk Kids.

(1989) 5.45 Deal or Nothe Deal.

(1989) 5.45 Deal or No Deal.

6.40 Channel 4 News.

6.40 Channel 4 News.

7.00 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday 7.00 Night JamieFeast. and Jimmy’s ActressFriday Sienna Night Feast.

Sienna Miller shares Actress her recipe for Miller shares her recipe Tuscan duck ragu, Jamiefor Tuscan duck ragu, Jamie Oliver cooks a whole salmon Oliver a whole salmon in salt cooks and Jimmy Doherty in salt and Jimmy Doherty creates a DIY hog roast for creates a DIYcrackling. hog roast(R) for the ultimate the ultimate crackling. (R) 8.00 Speed with Guy Martin. The 8.00 racing Speed fan withbuilds Guy Martin.

The a prototype racing fan and builds a prototype toboggan heads to the toboggan and heads to the Pyrenees, where he attempts Pyrenees, hefor attempts to break thewhere record the to breakfastest the record for the world’s gravityworld’s fastest gravitypowered sled. Last in the powered sled. Last in the series. series.

9.00 Don’t Look Down. The 9.00 death-defying Don’t Look Down. new The craze of death-defying new craze of urban free-climbing, where urban free-climbing, where daredevils scale cranes and daredevilswithout scale cranes buildings safetyand buildings without safety equipment and hang equipmentofand hundreds feethang above the hundreds of feet above the ground. ground.

10.00 Film: Haywire. (2011) 10.00 Premiere.

Film: Haywire.

Action(2011) thriller, Premiere.Gina Action thriller, starring Carano. starring Gina Carano.

11.45 Film: Domino. (2005) 11.45 Thriller, Film: Domino. starring(2005) Keira Thriller, starring Keira Knightley and Mickey Knightley and Mickey Rourke.

Rourke.

1.55 Southland. (R) 2.40 Film: 1.55 Southland.

(R) 2.40 Film: Internal Affairs. (1990) 4.30 Phil Internal Affairs.

Phil Spencer: Secret(1990) Agent. 4.30 (R) 5.25 Spencer: Secret Agent.

(R) 5.25 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems. (R) 5.30 Kirstie’s Vintage Deal or No Deal. Gems.

(R) (R) 5.30 Deal or No Deal. (R)

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6.00 Milkshake!: Peppa Pig. 6.05 6.00 Milkshake!: 6.05 Roary the Racing Peppa Car. (R)Pig. 6.15 Fifi Roary Racing Car. 6.15 Fifi and thethe Flowertots.

(R)(R) 6.25 Bubble and the Flowertots.

(R) 6.25 Bubble Guppies. (R) 6.40 The Mr Men Guppies.

6.40 The Mr Men (R) Show.

(R)(R) 6.50 Chloe’s Closet.

Show.Roobarb (R) 6.50and Chloe’s Closet.

7.05 Custard Too.(R) (R) 7.05 Bananas Roobarb in and Custard(R) Too.7.25 (R) 7.10 Pyjamas.

7.10 Bananas in Pyjamas.

(R) 7.25 Make Way for Noddy. (R) 7.35 Bert MakeErnie’s Way for Noddy.

(R) 7.35(R) Bert and Great Adventures. and Ernie’s Adventures.

(R) 7.40 City ofGreat Friends.

(R) 7.55 Little 7.40 City of (R)the 7.55 Little Princess.

(R)Friends.

8.05 Olly Little Princess.

White Van.(R) (R)8.05 8.10Olly Thethe Little White Van. (R) 8.10 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and Adventures of Bottle and His Best Friend Corky.Top (R)Bill 8.25 His Best Friend Corky.

Angelina Ballerina.

(R) (R) 8.408.25 Rupert Angelina (R) 8.40 Rupert Bear.

(R) Ballerina.

9.00 Ben and Holly’s Little Bear. (R) 9.00 Ben and Kingdom.

(R) 9.15 JellyHolly’s Jamm.Little (R) Kingdom.

(R) 9.15 Jamm.

9.30 LazyTown.

(R)Jelly 10.00 Power(R) 9.30 LazyTown.

(R) 10.00(R) Power Rangers: Super Samurai.

10.35 Rangers: Super Samurai.

(R) 10.35 Slugterra.

(R) 11.00 Highland Slugterra. (R)(R)11.00 Emergency.

11.30Highland Celebrity Big Emergency.

11.30 Celebrity Brother.

(R) (R) 12.30 Film: The In-Big Brother.

(R) 12.30 Film: Laws. (2003) 2.25 Film: The InLaws.

(2003) 2.25 Film: Something’s Gotta Give. (2003) Something’s GottaHome Give. Alabama.

(2003) 4.55 Film: Sweet 4.55 Film: Sweet Home Alabama.

(2002) (2002) 7.00 Film: Legally Blonde.

7.00 (2001) Film: Legally Blonde.

Comedy, with Reese (2001) Comedy, Witherspoon andwith LukeReese Witherspoon Wilson.

Editedand forLuke language.

Wilson. Edited for language.

8.55 5 News Weekend.

8.55 5 News Weekend.

9.00 Celebrity Big Brother. The 9.00 remaining Celebrity Big Brother. The housemates remaining embark onhousemates their final week. embark on their final week.

10.00 Film: The Lake House.

10.00 (2006) Film: The Lake House.

Romantic fantasy, (2006) Romantic fantasy, starring Sandra Bullock. starring Sandra Bullock.

11.55 Autopsy: Whitney Houston’s 11.55 Autopsy: Whitney Houston’s Last Hours.

Dr Richard Last Hours.

Dr Richardthe Shepherd investigates Shepherd investigates death of the singer in the death of the singer February 2012.

(R)in February 2012. (R) 12.55 SuperCasino. 3.05 Living 12.55 SuperCasino.

3.05 (R) Living with ADHD: Louis Smith.

4.00 with ADHD: Smith.

(R)It4.00 Wildlife SOS.Louis (R) 4.20 Make Big. Wildlife SOS. (R) 4.20 Make It (R) 4.50 Roary the Racing Car.Big. (R) (R) 4.50 Roary the Racing Car. 5.00 Angels of Jarm. (R) 5.05 (R) 5.00 Angels of Jarm.

(R) 5.05 Hana’s Helpline. (R) 5.20 Angels of Hana’s(R) Helpline.

(R)Funky 5.20 Angels Jarm.

5.25 The Valley of Jarm.

Funky Valley Show.(R) (R)5.25 5.40The Roary the Racing Show.

5.40 RoaryHelpline. the Racing Car. (R)(R) 5.50 Hana’s (R) Car. (R) 5.50 Hana’s Helpline. (R)

BBC Three BBC Three 7.00 Great Movie Mistakes: 7.00 GreatofMovie Mistakes: Revenge the Fifth 7.15 The Voice Revenge of theMonsters Fifth 7.15vs The Voice UK 8.35 Film: Aliens UK 8.35 Film: Monsters Aliens (2009) 10.00 Family Guyvs 10.45 (2009)11.15 10.00American Family Guy 10.45 Uncle Dad! Uncle 11.15 American Dad! BBC Four BBC Four 7.00 The Man Who Discovered 7.00 The Man WhoHistories: Discovered Egypt 8.00 Hidden Egypt 8.00 Hidden Histories: Britain’s Oldest Family Businesses Britain’s Oldest 9.00 Film: PointFamily BlankBusinesses (1967) 9.00 Film: Point Blank 10.30 Me and Me Dad: (1967) A Portrait of 10.30 Me and Me Dad: A Portrait of John Boorman 11.20 Nelson’s John Boorman 11.20 Nelson’s Caribbean Hell-Hole: An Eighteenth Caribbean Hell-Hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered ITV2 ITV2 3.10 Film: Free Willy (1993) 5.30 3.10 Film: Free Willy (1993) 5.30 Film: The Perfect Storm (2000) Film:You’ve The Perfect 8.00 Been Storm Framed(2000) and 8.00 You’ve Been Famous!

9.00 TheFramed Magalufand Famous! 9.00 TheFilm: Magaluf Weekender 10.00 The Fast Weekender 10.00Tokyo Film:Drift The(2006) Fast and the Furious: and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) ITV3 ITV3 2.45 Film: Columbo: Negative 2.45 Film:(1974) Columbo: Reaction 4.40Negative Agatha Reaction (1974) Christie’s Marple4.40 6.45Agatha Agatha Christie’s Marple 6.45 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 9.00 Film: Ray Christie’s Poirot 9.00 Film: Ray (2004) Biopic, starring Jamie Foxx.

(2004) Biopic, starring Jamie Foxx.

ITV4 ITV4 3.15 Film: Captain Newman MD 3.15 Film: Newman (1964) 5.45Captain Film: Lonely AreMD the (1964)(1962) 5.45 Film: Are the Brave 8.00 Lonely Dirty Britain 9.00 Brave Kull (1962) Dirty Britain Film: the 8.00 Conqueror (1997)9.00 Film: Kull (1997) 11.00 Hellthe on Conqueror Wheels 11.55 Film: 11.00 on Wheels 11.55 Film: The BigHell Lebowski (1998) The Big Lebowski (1998) E4 E4 4.00 Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD 4.00 The Marvel’s AgentsPeople of SHIELD 5.00 Tomorrow 6.00 5.00 The Tomorrow People Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6.30 The6.00 Big Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6.30 The Bang Theory 8.00 Film: Big Big Bang Theory 8.00 Film: Big Momma’s House (2000) 10.00 Momma’s Rude TubeHouse 11.00 (2000) The Big10.00 Bang Rude Tube 11.00 BigYour Bang Theory 11.30 HowThe I Met Theory 11.30 How I Met Your Mother Mother Film4 Film4 3.00 The Producers (1968) 4.45 3.00Jewel The Producers The of the Nile(1968) (1985)4.45 6.50 The Jewel of the Nile 6.50 Step Up 3 (2010) 9.00(1985) The Sentinel Step Up 3 (2010) 9.00 The Sentinel (2006) 11.10 MacGruber (2010) (2006) 11.10 MacGruber (2010)

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Hammer. (R) 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. 11.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.00 BBC News; Weather.

1.30 Regional News; Weather. 1.40 Doctors. 2.10 Father Brown. (R) 3.00 Perfection. 3.45 Escape to the Country. (R) 4.30 Antiques Road Trip. 5.15 Pointless. 6.00 BBC News;Weather. 6.30 Regional News Programmes; Weather. 7.00 The One Show.

7.30 Inside Out; BBC News; Regional News. 8.00 EastEnders. 8.30 Police: Shooting to Kill? – Panorama. 9.00 New Tricks. The team reinvestigates the 15-year-old murder of a boxer.

(R) 10.00 BBC News. 10.25 Regional News; Weather. 10.35 Have I Got Old News for You. (R) 11.20 Who Do You Think You Are? USA. 12.05 The Graham Norton Show. (R) 12.50 Weatherview.

12.55 BBC News.

Hammer. 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. 11.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 BBC News; Weather.

1.30 Regional News; Weather. 1.40 Doctors. 2.10 Father Brown. (R) 3.00 Perfection. 3.45 Escape to the Country. 4.30 Antiques Road Trip. 5.15 Pointless. 6.00 BBC News; Weather. 6.30 Regional News Programmes; Weather. 7.00 The One Show. 7.30 EastEnders; BBC News; Regional News. 8.00 Holby City. Jac fails to support her daughter as she undergoes surgery. 9.00 Death in Paradise. The filming of a horror movie ends in murder. 10.00 BBC News. 10.25 Regional News; Weather; National Lottery Update. 10.35 The Naked Rambler. 11.25 Film 2014. 11.55 Film: White Mischief. (1987) Fact-based drama, starring Charles Dance. 1.40 Weatherview. 1.45 BBC News.

Hammer. (R) 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. 11.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.00 BBC News; Weather.

1.30 Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Doctors. 2.15 Father Brown. (R) 3.00 Perfection. (R) 3.45 Escape to the Country. 4.30 Antiques Road Trip.

5.15 Pointless. 6.00 BBC News; Weather. 6.30 Regional News Programmes; Weather. 6.55 Party Political Broadcast. (R) 7.00 The One Show; BBC News; Regional News. 8.00 Waterloo Road.

Gabriella continues to make more enemies than friends. 9.00 Crimewatch. 10.00 BBC News. 10.25 Regional News; National Lottery Update. 10.35 Crimewatch Update. 10.45 A Question of Sport.

11.15 The League Cup Show. 12.00 Film: Color of Night. (1994) Psychological thriller, starring Bruce Willis. 1.55 Weatherview. 2.00 BBC News.

Sheriffs Are Coming. (R) 7.50 Helicopter Heroes Down Under.(R) 8.20 Sign Zone: Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds. (R) 9.05 Antiques Roadshow. (R) 10.05 Britain’s Empty Homes. (R) 10.35 HARDtalk.

(R) 11.00 BBC News. 11.30 BBC World News.

12.00 Daily Politics. 1.00 Live International Bowls.

The World Indoor Championships. 5.15 Flog It! (R) 6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 7.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge. 8.00 Winterwatch 2014. 9.00 The Search for Alfred the Great. 10.00 House of Fools.

10.30 Newsnight; Weather. 11.20 Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow. (R) 12.20 International Bowls. 1.20 Sign Zone: The Midwives. (R) 2.20 This Is BBC Two. 3.55 BBC Learning Zone.

Zone: Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds. (R) 9.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (R) 10.00 Kangaroo Dundee. (R) 10.30 See Hear. 11.00 BBC News. 11.30 Daily Politics. 1.00 Lifeline. (R) 1.10 Live International Bowls. The World Indoor Championships. 5.10 Flog It! (R) 5.55 Party Political Broadcast. 6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 7.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge. 8.00 Winterwatch 2014. 9.00 Winterwatch Unsprung 2014. 9.30 Russia on Four Wheels. 10.30 Newsnight; Weather. 11.20 The Search for Alfred the Great. (R) 12.20 International Bowls. 1.20 Sign Zone: See Hear. (R) 1.50 This Is BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone.

Hammer. 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. 11.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 BBC News; Weather.

1.30 Regional News; Weather. 1.45 Doctors. 2.10 Father Brown. (R) 3.00 Perfection. (R) 3.45 Escape to the Country. 4.30 Antiques Road Trip.

5.15 Pointless. 6.00 BBC News; Weather. 6.30 Regional News Programmes; Weather. 7.00 The One Show. 7.30 EastEnders; BBC News; Regional News. 8.00 Hidden Kingdoms. Documentary following a young tree shrew on the lookout for food. 9.00 Silent Witness. Part one of two. A teenage girl's body is found in a suitcase. 10.00 BBC News. 10.25 Regional News; Weather. 10.35 Question Time. David Dimbleby chairs a topical debate from Dundee. 11.35 This Week. 12.20 Skiing Weatherview. 12.25 BBC News.

Hammer. (R) 11.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. 11.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 12.15 Bargain Hunt. 1.00 BBC News; Weather. 1.30 Regional News; Weather. 1.40 Doctors. 2.10 Father Brown. (R) 3.00 Perfection. (R) 3.45 Escape to the Country. (R) 4.30 Antiques Road Trip. 5.15 Pointless. 6.00 BBC News; Weather. 6.30 Regional News Programmes; Weather. 7.00 The One Show.

7.30 A Question of Sport; (R) BBC News; Regional News. 8.00 EastEnders. Linda suggests Mick should ask his father for some cash. 8.30 Room 101. New series. With Richard Osman, Joan Bakewell and Roisin Conaty. 9.00 Silent Witness.

10.00 BBC News. 10.25 Regional News; Weather; National Lottery Update. 10.35 The Graham Norton Show. 11.25 EastEnders. 1.15 Weatherview.

1.20 BBC News.

6.00 Homes Under the Hammer. (R) This Is BBC Two. 6.05 Homes 6.00 Homes Under the Hammer. (R) 6.00 This Is BBC Two. 6.05 Homes BBC2 7.00 BBC2 6.00 BBC2 Under The Sheriffs Are Coming. (R) Under the Hammer. (R) 7.05 The BBC2 7.00 The Sheriffs Are Coming. (R) 7.45 the Hammer. (R) 7.05 The BBC2 6.00 This Is BBC Two. 6.05 Homes Under the Hammer. (R) 7.05 The 7.45 Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 8.15 Sign Sheriffs Are Coming. (R) 7.50 Helicopter Heroes Helicopter Heroes Down Under. (R) 8.15 Sign Sheriffs Are Coming. (R) 7.50 Real Lives Reunited.

(R) 8.20 Sign Zone: Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds.

(R) 9.05 Britain and the Sea. (R) 10.05 Britain’s Empty Homes. (R) 10.35 Click. (R) 11.00 BBC News. 11.30 BBC World News. 12.00 Daily Politics.

1.00 Live International Bowls. The World Indoor Championships. 5.15 Flog It! (R) 6.00 Eggheads.

6.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 7.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge. 8.00 University Challenge. 8.30 Winterwatch 2014. 9.30 Russia on Four Wheels. 10.30 Newsnight; Weather. 11.20 Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow. (R) 12.20 International Bowls. 1.20 Sign Zone: Trust Me I’m a Doctor. (R) 2.20 This Is BBC Two. 4.00 BBC Learning Zone.

ITV

6.00 Daybreak. 8.30 Lorraine. 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 10.30 This Morning.

12.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV News; Weather.

1.55 ITV News London; Weather. 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show. 3.59 ITV London Weather. 4.00 Britain’s Best Bakery.

5.00 The Chase. 6.00 ITV News London; Weather.

6.30 ITV News; Weather. 7.00 Emmerdale. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones. 8.30 Coronation Street. 9.00 The Bletchley Circle. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather. 10.30 ITV News London; Weather. 10.35 Film: Accepted. (2006) High-school comedy, starring Justin Long. 12.20 Jackpot247. 3.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA. 3.45 ITV Nightscreen.

5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show. (R)

Channel 4

6.25 Countdown. (R) 7.10 Will & Grace. (R) 7.35 Will & Grace. (R) 7.55 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 9.00 Frasier.

(R) 9.30 Frasier. (R) 10.00 The Secret Millionaire Australia. (R) 11.00 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses.

(R) 12.00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary.

12.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 12.35 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.35 Come Dine with Me. (R) 2.10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun. 3.10 Countdown. 4.00 Deal or No Deal. 5.00 Come Dine with Me. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks. 7.00 Channel 4 News. 8.00 Are You Addicted to Sugar? Channel 4 Dispatches. 8.30 Food Unwrapped. 9.00 Benefits Street. 10.00 My Baggy Body. 11.00 The American Football Show: The Road to the Super Bowl. 12.00 Random Acts. 12.05 Speed with Guy Martin. (R) 1.00 Hostages. (R) 1.55 World Without End. (R) 2.50 Coming Up. (R) 3.20 Dave: Loan Ranger. (R) 4.15 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent. (R) 5.10 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures. (R)

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff. 11.10 Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun. (R) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime.

12.15 Celebrity Big Brother. (R) 1.15 Home and Away. 1.45 Neighbours. 2.15 NCIS. (R) 3.15 Film: Family Gathering. (2010) Drama, starring Natasha Henstridge. 5.00 5 News at 5. 5.30 Neighbours.

(R) 6.00 Home and Away. (R) 6.30 NewsTalk Live.

7.00 Robson’s Extreme Fishing Challenge; 5 News Update. 8.00 Go Hard or Go Home; 5 News at 9.

9.00 Celebrity Big Brother. 10.00 Helix. 11.50 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. 12.50 Campus PD. (R) 1.10 SuperCasino. 3.05 Autopsy: Whitney Houston’s Last Hours. (R) 3.55 House Doctor. (R) 4.45 Michaela’s Wild Challenge. (R) 5.10 Wildlife SOS. (R)

6.00 Daybreak. 8.30 Lorraine. 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 10.30 This Morning.

12.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV News; Weather.

1.55 ITV News London; Weather. 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show. 3.59 ITV London Weather. 4.00 Britain’s Best Bakery.

5.00 The Chase. 6.00 ITV News London;Weather.

6.30 ITV News; Weather. 7.00 Emmerdale. 7.30 River Monsters. 8.00 Weight Loss Ward. 9.00 Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather. 10.30 ITV News London; Weather. 10.35 Chris Eubank: Sports Life Stories.

11.35 The Crocodile Hunter Diaries. (R) 12.05 Jackpot247. 3.00 Loose Women. (R) 3.45 ITV Nightscreen. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show. (R)

ITV

6.00 Daybreak. 8.30 Lorraine. 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 10.30 This Morning.

12.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV News; Weather.

1.55 ITV News London; Weather. 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show. 3.59 ITV London Weather. 4.00 Britain’s Best Bakery.

5.00 The Chase. 6.00 ITV News London;Weather.

6.25 Party Political Broadcast. (R) 6.30 ITV News; Weather. 7.00 Coronation Street. 7.30 The National Television Awards 2014. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather. 10.30 ITV News London; Weather. 10.40 The Jonathan Ross Show. (R) 11.40 Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands. (R) 12.05 Jackpot247. 3.00 Film: Columbo: Grand Deceptions. (1989) Crime drama, starring Peter Falk. 4.35 ITV Nightscreen.

5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show. (R)

Down Under.(R) 8.20 Sign Zone: Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds. (R) 9.05 Tudor Monastery Farm. (R) 10.05 Kangaroo Dundee. (R) 10.35 HARDtalk. (R) 11.00 BBC News. 11.30 BBC World News. 12.00 Daily Politics. 1.00 Live International Bowls. The World Indoor Championships. 5.15 Flog It! (R) 6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 7.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge. 8.00 Restoration Home One Year On. 9.00 Winterwatch 2014. 10.00 Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe. 10.30 Newsnight; Weather. 11.20 Russia on Four Wheels. (R) 12.20 International Bowls. 1.20 Sign Zone: Police: Shooting to Kill? – Panorama. (R) 1.50 Iceland Foods: Life in the Freezer Cabinet. (R) 2.50 This Is BBC Two. 3.55 BBC Learning Zone.

Channel 4

Channel 4

6.00 Daybreak. 8.30 Lorraine. 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 10.30 This Morning.

12.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV News; Weather.

1.55 ITV News London; Weather. 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show. 3.59 ITV London Weather. 4.00 Britain’s Best Bakery.

5.00 The Chase. 6.00 ITV News London;Weather.

6.30 ITV News; Weather. 7.00 Emmerdale. 7.30 The Rise of the E-Cigarette: Tonight. 8.00 Emmerdale. 8.30 Birds of a Feather. 9.00 Benidorm. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather. 10.30 ITV News London; Weather. 10.35 Weight Loss Ward. (R) 11.35 Strictly Kosher. (R) 12.30 Jackpot247. 3.00 The Rise of the E-Cigarette: Tonight. (R) 3.25 ITV Nightscreen. 5.05 The Jeremy Kyle Show. (R)

ITV

6.25 Countdown. (R) 7.10 Will & Grace. (R) 7.35 Will & Grace. (R) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 9.00 Frasier. (R) 9.30 Frasier. (R) 10.00 The Secret Millionaire Australia. (R) 11.00 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses. (R) 12.00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary. 12.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 12.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.10 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 2.10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun. 3.10 Countdown.

4.00 Deal or No Deal. 5.00 Come Dine with Me. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks. 7.00 Channel 4 News. 8.00 Location, Location, Location. 9.00 The Taste. 10.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. 11.00 The Undateables. (R) 12.00 Random Acts. 12.05 Poker. 1.00 KOTV Boxing Weekly. 1.30 Trans World Sport. (R) 2.25 Beach Volleyball. 3.20 Snowdon Race. (R) 4.20 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent. (R) 5.15 Hugh’s 3 Good Things: Best Bites. (R)

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff. 11.10 World’s Worst Holiday Horrors. (R) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime. 12.15 Celebrity Big Brother. (R) 1.15 Home and Away. 1.45 Neighbours. 2.15 NCIS. (R) 3.15 Film: Patricia Cornwell’s At Risk. (2010) Mystery, starring Andie MacDowell. 5.00 5 News at 5. 5.30 Neighbours. (R) 6.00 Home and Away.

(R) 6.30 NewsTalk Live. 7.00 Highland Emergency.

(R) 7.30 Highland Emergency; (R) 5 News Update.

8.00 Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun; 5 News at 9.

9.00 Celebrity Big Brother. 10.00 Autopsy: Anna Nicole Smith’s Last Hours. 11.00 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. 12.00 My Post-Baby Breakdown:Jennifer Ellison.(R) 1.00 SuperCasino.

3.05 Hens Behaving Badly. (R) 3.55 House Doctor. (R) 4.45 Michaela’s Wild Challenge. (R)

6.25 Countdown. (R) 7.10 Will & Grace. (R) 7.35 Will & Grace. (R) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 9.00 Frasier.

(R) 9.30 Frasier. (R) 10.00 The Secret Millionaire Australia. (R) 11.00 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses.

(R) 12.00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary.

12.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 12.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.10 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 2.10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun. 3.10 Countdown. 4.00 Deal or No Deal. 5.00 Come Dine with Me. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks. 7.00 Channel 4 News. 8.00 The Restoration Man. 9.00 24 Hours in A&E. 10.00 Children on the Frontline. 11.00 Benefits Street. (R) 12.00 Random Acts. 12.05 Music on 4: Launched at Red Bull Studios. 12.35 What Happens in Sunny Beach. (R) 1.30 Film: Topaz. (1969) Hitchcock spy thriller, starring John Forsythe. 3.55 Amelia and Michael. (R) 4.05 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent. (R) 5.00 Deal or No Deal.

(R) 5.55 Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard. (R) Milkshake! 9.15 The Channel 5 6.00 Wright Stuff. 11.10 Robson’s

Extreme Fishing Challenge. (R) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime. 12.15 Celebrity Big Brother. (R) 1.15 Home and Away. 1.45 Neighbours. 2.15 NCIS. (R) 3.15 Film: Shadow on the Mesa. (2013) Western, starring Wes Brown. 5.00 5 News at 5. 5.30 Neighbours. (R) 6.00 Home and Away. (R) 6.30 NewsTalk Live. 7.00 The Town the Travellers Took Over; (R) 5 News Update. 8.00 Terror in the Skies: Scariest Flights; (R) 5 News at 9. 9.00 Celebrity Big Brother: Live Eviction. 10.30 Hens Behaving Badly. 11.30 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. 12.20 The Big Game. 1.15 SuperCasino.

3.05 Botched Up Bodies. (R) 3.55 House Doctor.

(R) 4.45 Michaela’s Wild Challenge. (R)

ITV

Channel 4

6.20 Hugh’s 3 Good Things: Best Bites.6.25 Countdown.

(R) 7.10 Will & Grace. (R) 7.35 Will & Grace. (R) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 9.00 Frasier. (R) 9.30 Frasier. (R) 10.00 The Secret Millionaire Australia. (R) 11.00 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses.

(R) 12.00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary.

12.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 12.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.10 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 2.10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun. 3.10 Countdown. 4.00 Deal or No Deal. 5.00 Come Dine with Me. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks. 7.00 Channel 4 News. 8.00 Supersize vs Superskinny. 9.00 The Undateables. 10.00 What Happens in Sunny Beach. 11.05 24 Hours in A&E. (R) 12.05 One Born Every Minute. (R) 1.00 Random Acts. 1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. (R) 2.00 The Fat Fighters. (R) 2.55 Fat Family Tree. (R) 3.50 Food Unwrapped. (R) 4.20 Are You Addicted to Sugar? Channel 4 Dispatches. (R) Milkshake! 9.15 The Channel 5 6.00 Wright Stuff. 11.10 Police

Interceptors. (R) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime. 12.15 Celebrity Big Brother: Live Eviction. (R) 1.15 Home and Away. 1.45 Neighbours. 2.15 NCIS. (R) 3.15 Film: Carnal Innocence. (2011) Thriller, starring Gabrielle Anwar. 5.00 5 News at 5. 5.30 Neighbours. (R) 6.00 Home and Away. (R) 6.30 NewsTalk Live. 7.00 Winter Road Rescue; (R) 5 News Update. 8.00 World’s Worst Holiday Horrors; 5 News at 9. 9.00 Celebrity Big Brother. 10.00 Botched Up Bodies. 11.00 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. 12.00 SuperCasino. 3.05 True CSI. (R) 3.55 House Doctor. (R)

Zone: Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds. (R) 9.00 The Sacred Wonders of Britain. (R) 10.00 Question Time. (R) 11.00 BBC News. 11.30 BBC World News.

12.00 Daily Politics. 1.00 Live International Bowls.

The World Indoor Championships. 5.15 Flog It! (R) 6.00 Eggheads. 6.30 Great British Railway Journeys. 7.00 The Great Interior Design Challenge.

8.00 Mastermind. 8.30 An Island Parish. 9.00 Italy Unpacked. 10.00 QI. 10.30 Newsnight. 11.00 Weather. 11.05 Steve McQueen: Are You Sitting Uncomfortably? A Culture Show Special. 12.05 International Bowls. 1.05 Sign Zone: Question Time.

(R) 2.05 The Culture Show: Gaga – The Mother Monster. (R) 2.35 This Is BBC Two.

ITV

6.00 Daybreak. 8.30 Lorraine. 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show. 10.30 This Morning.

12.30 Loose Women. 1.30 ITV News; Weather.

1.55 ITV News London; Weather. 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show. 3.59 ITV London Weather. 4.00 Britain’s Best Bakery.

5.00 The Chase. 6.00 ITV News London; Weather.

6.30 ITV News; Weather. 7.00 Emmerdale. 7.30 Coronation Street. 8.00 The Martin Lewis Money Show. 8.30 Coronation Street. 9.00 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories: Beverley Callard. 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather. 10.30 ITV News London; Weather.

10.40 The Americans. (R) 11.30 Benidorm. (R) 12.25 Jackpot247. 3.00 Film: Best in Show. (2000) Spoof documentary, starring Eugene Levy. 4.30 ITV Nightscreen.

Channel 4

6.25 Countdown. (R) 7.10 Will & Grace. (R) 7.35 Will & Grace. (R) 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R) 9.00 Frasier.

(R) 9.30 Frasier. (R) 10.00 The Secret Millionaire Australia. (R) 11.00 Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses.

(R) 12.00 Channel 4 News Midday Summary.

12.05 Come Dine with Me. (R) 12.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.10 Come Dine with Me. (R) 1.40 Come Dine with Me. (R) 2.10 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun. 3.10 Countdown. 4.00 Deal or No Deal. 5.00 Come Dine with Me. (R) 6.00 The Simpsons. (R) 6.30 Hollyoaks. 7.00 Channel 4 News. 8.00 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast. 9.00 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

10.00 My Big Fat Gypsy Holiday. (R) 11.05 Brooklyn Nine-Nine. 11.35 Film: Saw III. (2006) Horror sequel, starring Tobin Bell. 1.30 Random Acts. 1.35 Film: Thirst. (2009) Horror, starring Kang-ho Song.

3.50 Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23. 4.10 Phil Spencer: Secret Agent. (R) 5.05 Deal or No Deal. (R)

Channel 5

6.00 Milkshake! 9.15 The Wright Stuff. 11.10 Winter Road Rescue. (R) 12.10 5 News Lunchtime. 12.15 Celebrity Big Brother. (R) 1.15 Home and Away.

1.45 Neighbours. 2.20 The Mentalist. (R) 3.15 Film: Murder 101: College Can Be Murder. (2007) Murder mystery, starring Dick Van Dyke. 5.00 5 News at 5. 5.30 Neighbours. (R) 6.00 Home and Away. (R) 6.30 NewsTalk Live. 7.00 Ultimate Police Interceptors; (R) 5 News Update. 8.00 Road Terror: Caught on Camera; (R) 5 News at 9. 9.00 Celebrity Big Brother: The Final. 10.30 Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. 12.00 SuperCasino. 3.05 True CSI. 3.55 Highland Emergency. (R) 4.20 House Doctor. (R) 4.45 Divine Designs. (R) 5.10 Wildlife SOS. (R)

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Food and Drink

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Open in the heart of Hove is your new favourite French bistro: the masterpiece of Pascal Benamari, who has previously worked at La Fourchette, Havana Spoon, Terre a Terre and, of course, Braserie Pascal, his former stomping ground just down the road.

Situated just past Palmeria Square, opposite St John’s Church, Bistro Nantais has a gloriously welcome feel to it, while retaining a modern and refreshing interior.

Long gone are the days of Harry’s and Forty One, with their large oak tables. Bistro Nantais is contemporary and classy with light grey walls, candles and a well-thought-out floorplan, incorporating many tables without making you feel as if you are dining on top of one another.

Open from 9am, Bistro Nantais hosts a wonderful collection of French and English breakfasts and brunches, starting at £3.75

for fresh fruit salad. A traditional plate of croissants, French bread, confiture, freshly-squeezed juice plus coffee starts at £5.95.

Pascal offers a signature dish, ’Pascal’s Breakfast’, consisting of l’oeuf à la coque (soft-boiled eggs to you and me), smoked salmon and a beurre nantais sauce, for only £6.95. With a south-facing patio, it is easy to picture spending many a morning here, basking in the sunshine, watching the world go by.

The lunch menu runs from noon to 5pm and is already proving to be a popular choice. During my visit, there was not a spare table going and I would recommend checking availability or booking ahead if you plan on visiting. Two courses are priced at £8.95, with three coming in at £10.95. Superb value for money and, after sampling the menu, it was easy to see why Pascal’s food is so popular.

Ordering the soup of the day - which happened to be a classic French onion - followed by the beef bourguignon proved to be a winning combination. The soup

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Claire Beveridge

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Beef bourguignon with creamy and luxurious mashed potatoes

was served in beautiful, ornate bowls and was laced with silky and sweet slathers of slow-cooked onion. Topped with a slice of cheese-coated bread, I marvelled in watching the slice of loaf saturate with the warm, mellow broth. Filling and a meal in its own right, the starter was a sure-fire indication that Pascal can truly cook excellent traditional French cuisine.

The beef bourguignon came with a side of smooth, creamy and luxurious mashed potatoes and a generous helping of tender green beans. The bourguignon was dark, rich and contained some of the most tender chunks of beef I have recently encountered. Swimming among the red wine sauce were bites of earthy mushroom and the whole dish was a further

delectable example of Pascal’s cooking. Generous portions meant no room for dessert, however tempting they may have been.

Bistro Nantais is a fantastic addition to the Brighton and Hove dining scene: affordable, bustling and welcoming, serving beautifully-cooked French cuisine throughout the day.

Whether you are looking for a leisurely brunch, a relaxing lunch or a high quality evening meal, Bistro Nantais can accommodate for any occasion. Why not give them a whirl this Friday and take advantage of their two-for-one cocktail offer before enjoying some of the best French cooking this side of Sussex.

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It takes its name from the French word merle, meaning blackbird, perhaps due to the grape’s distinctive darkblue/black hue - or possibly to the fact that the sweet, early-ripening fruit is a favorite of young blackbirds . that inhabit the vineyards of southern France.

A central figure in the production of the famous wines of Bordeaux, it thrives in the heavy clay/limestone soil of the Pomerol and St Emilion regions.

Some of the finest wines in the world are produced there.

A good example is Petrus, which regularly sells for upwards of £1,000 a bottle and is made entirely from Merlot grapes.

The wines it produces are soft and mellow with a delightful fruitiness to them. Deep-red and tasting of dark fruits, these wine are a favorite at both the lunch and dinner table. They also make excellent drinking wines.

Try matching Merlot wines with meat, lamb, veal and stewed dishes. Mushrooms, chicken and pork also work very well.

Without question, it is one of the best varieties to accompany a good cheese board.

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The highs and lows of a marathon in breathtaking Bhutan is bound to test the endurance of runners Tom Gallagher @GallagherTDG

Sandwiched between the two economic powerhouses of India and China, the comparativelypoor kingdom of Bhutan is a nation defined by its Himalayan mountain spine.

In this most uncompromising of environments, visitors who are so inclined – and who are perhaps a little unhinged - are invited now to experience the mountains in the country’s first international marathon.

To be held on Sunday, February 23, the Bhutan International Mountain Marathon also features a half-marathon event; both courses will take in the highs and lows of this unique mountain kingdom.

Bhutan’s ancient Buddhist culture and its towering environment make it an alluring destination. In 2008, monarchic rule in the country gave way to a two-way parliamentary

democracy and with it came a desire to open more widely its doors to the international tourist.

The Bhutanese name for Bhutan, Druk Yul, means “Land of the Thunder Dragon”. With such a dramatic moniker, it is no surprise that the course is characterised by peaks and

A mixture of dirt paths and roads

Pretty Good Thinking

Sarah Morgan @sarah_morgan

The good, the bad and the ugly in your bathroom cabinet I have been reluctant to get all preachy about going natural and organic - because the products are always a no-brainer for performance, and often on price as well.

For me, however, choosing organic is an easy avoidance strategy to dodge trouble down the line: I really do not want to damage the planet, or compromise my own health with any unwelcome or aggravating toxins.

Put simply, your skin is a major organ and it absorbs most of what you put on it.

I do not want to layer mine with petrochemicals and nasties that could interact with me in unknown ways over time, then flush them down the plughole.

These are not new concerns; I should emphasise that organic personal care already has a long legacy.

The lesser-known facts about high-street cosmetic ingredients might be new to some readers.

I used to work for Green People in Sussex, and they have made a pretty little infographic about the big ugly details. See their website; www.greenpeople.co.uk.

plunges of breathtaking beauty.

Both the marathon and halfmarathon will start at Gasa Dzongkhag in Punakha at 7.30am; Gasa, set in the north of the country, spans the middle and high Himalayas. It is the least-developed of the districts and home to pristine rainforests and natural hot springs.

Starting at 6,700 feet, runners will follow a route along the Mo Chhu River, through the rural surroundings of the Punakha Valley, along a mixture of dirt paths and roads.

The Mo Chhu river is a major tributary in Bhutanthat begins its life in Gasa, close to the border with Tibet. Culturally, Bhutan shares much in common with Tibet, which is reflected in dress, customs and the working life of the Bhutanese through which runners will pass on their way.

A country famed for its high altitudes, the Bhutanese race will test runners’ endurance as they ascend and descend hills throughout the course.

Some of the early brands do enjoy founder status: Aubrey Organics, for example, has handcrafted natural products to scale since 1967. I have a great little directory by Aubrey Hampton that describes common terms and definitions in a really accessible way. It lists amazing natural ingredients across 200 products, made over 40+ years in the business.

Aubrey’s personal advice to consumers is characteristically simple. He said: “Learn to read labels and refuse to settle for half-natural hair and skin care.”

The booklet also lists the 10 synthetic cosmetic ingredients to avoid. The most commonlyknown baddies include Parabens, Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate (SLS) Petrolatum – petroleum jelly, synthetic colours and synthetic fragrances, and PEGs (Polyethylene Glycol).

We are also exposed, of course,

The course has peaks and plunges

Passing through the Punakha Valley rainforest, runners will travel past temples, monasteries, paddy fields, villages and the Chorten memorial.

Punakha is one of the lowestlying valleys in the kingdom and its temperate climate lends it the title of the market garden of Bhutan.

Used by many Bhutanese as the winter capital of the country, the valley is home to the incredible Punakha Dzong, a majestic structure of temples and administration that was once the centre of the nation until its capital city was moved.

Here, the competitors will finish their journey. For those taking on the full marathon distance, a little over 26 miles will have been run through imposing scenery and age-old Himalayan culture.

The event is organised by the

Bhutan Olympic Committee, which hopes that runners will be attracted by the adventurous nature of the race and touched by its spiritual heart.

Registration for international runners competing in the Bhutan International Marathon and Half-marathon is now open and costs US$150 (about £91) for the full marathon and US$110 (about £67) for the half-marathon.

Tom Gallagher is a Brightonbased freelance journalist interested in travel and sport.

He is founder and publisher of Sussex Active, the online magazine for anybody looking to discover new ways to get active. Visit: www.sussexactive.co.uk

Green People; a pretty little infographic about the big ugly details

to a huge array of products beyond our personal care. Think about the fire retardants in your couch and bedding, the damp course in your home, the wipes for your computer gear, dry cleaning, the detergents used at work or on public transport. I could go on and on.

So many hazardous compounds! It is actually quite a relief to live by the seaside and enjoy fresh air.

And after a weary day at the coalface, it sure feels good to bathe in pure nature. Let us wash the hazards of modern life clean away.

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Brain Gym

No.153

Double Crossword

Last week’s solutions:

CRYPTIC - Across: 1 Fact; 3 Lavender; 8 Airs; 9 Contempt; 11 Reinvestment; 13 Cheers; 14 Clothe; 17 Treating with; 20 Couriers; 21 Spar; 22 Dredging; 23 Arid. Down: 1 Flat-race; 2 Carmine; 4 Arouse; 5 Entomology; 6 Demon; 7 Rate; 10 Overlaying; 12 Tethered; 15 Tripper; 16 Citron; 18 Route; 19 Aced. QUICK - Across: 1 Cove; 3 Penchant; 8 Note; 9 Standard; 11 Inconsistent; 13 Canopy; 14 Stupor; 17 Discourteous; 20 Initiate; 21 Weir; 22 Extended; 23 Edge. Down: 1 Convince; 2 Vatican; 4 Entail; 5 Constitute; 6 Again; 7 Tidy; 10 Inspection; 12 Preserve; 15 Proceed; 16 Subtle; 18 Idiot; 19 Rife.

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues: Across

Codeword 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.

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3. Playfellow? (9) 8 & 23 Dn. Where you’ll find the times are changing? (4-4) 9. Dominating - like a school replete with teachers? (9) 10. This may hold the wine for a tradesman, we hear (6) 11. He is involved in a dubious act (5) 14. There will be a timelag if this is too slow (5) 15. Record part of the scale (4) 16. Part of the score a choir manage to achieve (5) 18. A curse the witness may be under (4) 20. Superfluous letter disclosed to the public (5) 21. Ground with unlimited space all round (5) 24. Natural tendency to make a great effort (6) 25. Exactly locates the golfer’s target with compass directions!

(3-6) 26. Look over southern vessel (4) 27. Bringing about a lowering of French classification (9)

1. Cane out! I’d change what goes on in school! (9) 2. Deadlock produced by a companion out of condition (9) 4. Bring up right close to a sound receiver (4) 5. This will provide a light competitive encounter (5) 6. Painting in brown material is checked (6) 7. The ego is trodden underfoot, we hear (4) 9. A key for the army officer (5) Quick Clues: 11. Violent impact producing Across commercial failure (5) 3. Competent (9) 12. Patience that gives a certain range of 8. Spike (4) latitude (9) 9. Total (9) 13. This clue is 10. Stupid (6) appropriate to the 11. Dreads (5) subject (9) 14. Scope (5) 17. They entertain the crowds (5) 15. Resound (4) 19. Basket to prove an 16. Rigid (5) obstacle to progress 18. Hints (4) (6) 20. Abundant (5) 22. Made an effort, but produced an irritating 21. Fop (5) effect (5) 24. Lament (6) 23. See 8 Across 25. Trivial (9) 24. Weapon used in the closest engagements 26. Greet (4) 27. Dispirited (9) (4)

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digs, dislodge, dislodged, dodge, dodged, dodges, doge, dogs, geld, gelid, gels, gild, gilded, gilds, glide, glided, glides, goes, gold, legs, lodge, lodged, lodges, loge, logs, ogle, ogled, ogles, slog.

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Wrong (9) Swollen (9) Impel (4) Big (5) Number (6) Consumes (4) Donkeys (5) Supernatural being (5) Reluctant to believe (9) Anticipate (9) Drops (5) Tray (6) Blunts (5) Rid (4) Unsullied (4)

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.

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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.

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M E C D D A L A ?

N E R I E O T R B Last week’s solutions: The letter represented by the question mark is L. Fletcher, Scholes, Neville, all Manchester United players, past and present.

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

U R I

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

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Last week’s solutions: Lambs, Afoot, Mouse, Bosun, Stent.

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Health

The new Lamborghini Huracán - a whirlwind of a car Let’s accelerate into 2014 with gusto in a bright and breezy supercar.

The year has barely begun and there’s already enough doom and gloom around to last the full 12 months.

But what better way to banish the blues than to contemplate subject to a lottery win - having some fun behind the wheel of the new Lamborghini Huracán?

With a price tag of £165,000, the new Lambo is powered by a mighty 5.2-litre, V10 engine developing 602 bhp - about the same as half a dozen Ford Fiestas.

It will accelerate from rest to 62 mph in a mere 3.2 seconds with a top speed in excess of 202 mph.

This beast will even hit 124 mph in just 9.9 seconds - faster than it takes many family saloons to reach half that speed.

The Huracán is named after a legendary Spanish fighting

A beast: The car’s engine has about the same bhp as half-a-dozen Ford Fiestas

Gallardo range - aiming to take on rivals, including Ferrari’s 458 Italia and Britain’s McLaren 12C. It’s due for launch at the Geneva Motor Show This beast will even hit in spring and should 124 mph in just 9.9 seconds reach these shores by the - faster than it takes many autumn. But to fill the order books, Lamborghini family saloons” will this month embark on a series of 130 private preview aluminium. The Huracán is set events in more than 60 cities to replace the long-standing world-wide.

Inside, the driver is cosseted in fine Nappa leather and suedelike Alcantara. A 12in full-colour instrument panel delivers all key information to the driver - from the speedometer and rev counter to navigation maps, entertainment and information.

It’s still a bit of a gas-guzzler, returning around 22 mpg. But stop-and-start technology has brought CO2 emissions down to around 290 g/km.

The model is being built at Lamborghini’s HQ in Northern Italy.

The driver is cosseted in fine Nappa leather and suede-like Alcantara

bull of the late 19th century and created from lightweight, but super-strong, carbon fibre and

Jaguar motors into new year with record sales in 2013 The UK’s largest car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has reported record breaking global sales for 2013, the company has said.

Together the prestige UK brands sold 425,006 vehicles in 2013 – up 19 per cent on 2012 – setting new sales records in 38 international markets.

In the UK, Jaguar sales were up 15 per cent and Land Rover sales were up 13 per cent.

Globally Land Rover is proving the firm favourite among customers representing the largest share of sales with 348,383

sold in 2013, an increase of 15 per cent.

But demand for the luxury Jaguar has surged over the last 12 months, almost doubling its international sales to 76,668.

Dr Ralf Speth, chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover, said: “2013 has proven to be a very positive year for Jaguar Land Rover thanks to continuing strong demand for vehicles across the range.

“Our unrelenting focus on design, technology, innovation and quality has seen Jaguar Land Rover reach global consumers in

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more markets than ever before thanks to its most desirable product line-up, enriched further in 2013 by the Jaguar F-TYPE and all-new Range Rover Sport”.

The glowing sales report comes just days after the car giant launched the first phase of a recruitment drive to take on employees at its new engine manufacturing centre.

Jaguar Land Rover hope to create about 600 jobs over the next four years at the firm’s site near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

Get smarter this year with realistic goals that you can share with your friends and family Paul Coneyworth

We are well into January now.

Is the dry month you penned in the diary going according to plan? Or are you as dry as the peninsula that is Brighton Pier?

This week, we pose the question: Why do we make New Year resolutions? And how do we keep them?

In such a health-conscious, active and fitness-oriented region - trust me, I’m from Yorkshire - I’m sure many of your New Year promises and plans are based around beginning a new health-andfitness kick or upping your existing one.

The origins of the practice of New Year’s resolutions can be traced back as far as the Babylonians.

One recent study estimates that nearly half of us will set them for ourselves – but, shockingly, only about 8% of us will succeed in keeping them.

Another telling statistic suggests that men achieved their targets 22% more often when they engaged in goalsetting, (a system where small measurable goals are being set: such as, a pound a week, instead of saying “lose weight”) - while women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.

Therefore, it does not take a genius to work out that the most realistic way of fulfilling all those fitness wishes is to be realistic and to share them.

Dynamic Pilates classes can help

Partner up with a friend, colleague or family member: Spotting, sparring, and socialising.

In an attempt to set genuine and achievable New Year’s resolutions, try this acronym, or as we like to say in the health-and-fitness industry, this mnemonic: SMARTER: ■ Specific ■ Measurable ■ Achievable ■ Realistic ■ Timed ■ Exciting ■ Recordable

You can apply this to a set plan, regardless of ambition or scale.

You may have something in mind that can be achieved from the comfort of your own home, or the local park.

If you want something a little different, group Dynamic Pilates classes run six days a week with us in Preston Village. It may be the perfect way to channel your New Year’s resolutions and to keep on track and focused; we encourage sets of friends to come and challenge each other to tighten up those core muscles, stretch out those arms or address that niggling injury.

So, this year, make sure you don’t become part of the 92% group.

Paul Coneyworth is master trainer at BeauPilates, 14 Bavant Road, Brighton BN1 6RD. For more information, visit: www.beaupilates.co.uk

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NORTH STAND CULT HERO

Sport

PLAYER PROFILE

#26:

Name: Junior Lewis DoB: October 9 1973 Place of birth: Wembley Position: Midfield

Junior Lewis Karl Junior Lewis was a divisive figure during his short spell at the Albion – who he joined on loan from Leicester City in 2002. A decent enough midfield player, Lewis is best remembered for the fact he appeared to follow former Brighton boss Peter Taylor wherever he went. Lewis played for Taylor at six different clubs – he went on to work for him as a coach at both Wycombe and Bradford.

Career statistics Appearences: 189 Goals: 6

Albion statistics Seasons: 2001-2002 Appearences: 15 Goals: 3

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Brighton’s cash and Grab raid on AFC Bournemouth Richard Morris

Brighton and Hove Albion were expected to secure the signing of Bournemouth goal-getter Lewis Grabban yesterday (Thursday) after the Seagulls triggered a release clause in the striker’s contract.

The Albion moved for the former Crystal Palace prospect late on Wednesday evening – lodging a £1.1million bid with the Cherries.

That forced Bournemouth’s hand because of a clause in the forward’s contract and the player travelled to The Amex yesterday to discuss personal terms. Championship rivals Queens Park Rangers were rumoured to be showing late interest but Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe seemed resigned to the fact his striker would be leaving for a new life in Sussex.

If the Seagulls do secure Grabban’s services, it will be just the fourth time in the club’s history that the Albion have paid

Albion were expected to sign Lewis Grabban yesterday

£1million or more for a player – with the attacker joining Will Buckley, Craig Mackail-Smith and Leo Ulloa at the top of the Albion’s list of outgoings.

Having lost Ashley Barnes to Burnley last week, Oscar will have recognised the need for attacking reinforcements despite signing John Obika on loan from Spurs.

And in Grabban – who is not only used to playing in a lone striking role but boasts some much-needed pace and an eye for goal – the Albion have identified a versatile player.

He is also capable of playing out wide, in attacking midfield or in a second central slot.

Grabban has plundered ten goals from 24 appearances this season – more than any Albion player – clocking up 73 shots, two assists and 21 key passes.

The 26-year-old would be the Seagulls’ second signing of the week after Oscar added Preston winger and one-time Arsenal youth player Jeffrey Monakana for an undisclosed fee. The youngster will join Brighton’s development squad.

Homeless football project returns to The Amex Brighton and Hove Albion and Albion in The Community (AITC) have been selected for the second year running to host a regional football training centre for young homeless people. Albion has been selected with nine other professional clubs for the Homeless FA programme.

The football and personal development programme involves an accredited Sports Leaders qualification and football sessions led by AITC coaching staff.

Last year four young people from the programme at the Amex went on to represent the England national homeless teams with Nicole Webley skippering the women’s side at the Homeless World Cup in Poland. Players on this year’s course could be selected for this year’s tournament in Chile.

AITC head of inclusion Stuart Christie said: “We are delighted to be one of the Homeless FA’s 2014 regional training centres and we hope to build on the success of last year’s centre

here.”

Applications are open to those who have experienced homelessness in the last year.

Organisations working with the local homeless community are also being encouraged to recruit possible participants.

Applications can be made through the Homeless FA website; www.omelessfa.org/ the-football/training-centres, before 28th February 2014.

The programme will take place between the 16th April and 14th May.

JOHNNY CANTOR

@johnnycburger

Straight from the commentary box I think everyone was gutted when Albion midfielder Andrew Crofts punched the ground as the whole Amex stadium realised his season was over through injury. He has been back at his best and back in the goals this season. Of course we wish him well but fear not, he will be in good hands.

The man who will oversee his recovery is head of sports medicine and science, Helge Riepenhof. The German doctor has been far too busy for his liking since he joined with longterm injuries to Tommy Elphick, Gary Dicker, Adam El Abd, Will Hoskins and Craig MackailSmith. It would be reasonable to expect him to adopt a glum disposition bearing in mind his job but I have found him, exact, practical and above all, positive. He arrived from the BG Trauma clinic in Hamburg which specialises in sportsrelated injuries and methods

to all but it is the doctor who is ensuring all the necessary needs are met. The training ground will have pitches identical to the Amex but we must hope that the soft top and hard underside

Albion’s doctor, Helge Riepenhof

that plagued the Amex in year one will not recur. The venue looks to be state of the art and represents another step on the path to the top-flight. the bulldozers The venue looks state Once have moved on it of the art and represents will be the amiable who will care another step on the path German for the team, prepare to the top-flight” their regimes and oversee their routines at what will effectively be their of recovery. He has a wealth of new home. experience in cycling having I’m sure the players will be worked with riders like Mark delighted to officially move into Cavendish at the HTC cycling the ground in June. Riepenhoff team and is now an integral will too if he is afforded time part of the Albion. He remains to watch them train once he with the team full-time and has emptied his busy treatment suggests the return of Hoskins room. He may yet prove to be and Mackail-Smith may not be one of the club’s best signings. too far off.

I wish him and Crofty all the He also has a huge task to best in the next few months and oversee the implementation look forward to seeing them at of the training ground and the new training ground this academy at Lancing. The summer. benefits of the facility are clear Follow all the action, home or away, on BBC Sussex Sport or via Twitter @BBCSussexsport | @johnnycburger | @BrightonIndy.

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David Lopez

Brighton start difficult road trip of away games at Rams Brighton head to high-flying Derby County for the first in a run of away games which Oscar Garcia hopes will cement his side’s place in the play-off pack.

The Rams have climbed the division since the arrival of former England umbrella boss Steve McClaren but go into tomorrow’s (Saturday) match on a run of three defeats on the bounce.

A home loss to Wigan was followed by a predictable FA Cup exit at the hands of Premier League Chelsea before McClaren’s outfit were humbled 4-1 at home to Midlands rivals Leicester City.

They have no fresh injury concerns and will be looking to recapture the form which saw them win eight and draw one in the nine games before the Wigan reverse.

Brighton will likely continue to do without Liam Bridcutt – in the starting eleven at least. The official reason for his absence is a slight knock, but supporters could be forgiven for thinking it might have something to do with his recent failed transfer request and continued interest from Sunderland.

With Andrew Crofts – the Albion’s Mr Consistency this season – now a long-term casualty, Bridcutt may make the bench. Keith Andrews

Highest

Albion Midfielder

Brighton will be without the impressive Andrew Crofts after he picked up an injury

– who was superb last time out against Birmingham City – will almost certainly start alongside Rohan Ince. The 21-year-old midfield enforcer has now clocked up 16 first team appearances and only been on the losing side once – in the home match against Derby County back in August.

And, in the nine games in which Ince has completed a full 90 minutes, the Seagulls have seven wins and two draws.

The back four will almost certainly remained unchanged while Leo Ulloa will again start in the central striking position after Oscar backed his talisman to come good after a rusty return from long-term injury.

Kemy Agustien, Jake ForsterCaskey and David Lopez will compete for the third and final

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midfield slot should Oscar decide against re-introducing Bridcutt.

Kazenag Lua Lua – man of the match last weekend – will consider himself hugely unfortunate if he doesn’t make the starting line-up on the left.

Andrea Orlandi, Solly March, John Obika and – if signed in time – Lewis Grabban will likely fill the remaining gaps on the pitch and bench.

A win could move Brighton into fifth place above Nottingham Forest, who entertain Blackburn Rovers.

Subsequent away games with Watford and Burnley – and the speedy reunion with Ashley Barnes – represent a tricky run of fixtures for Oscar, with an FA Cup tie with Port Vale on January 25 the only chance for Oscar to rotate and rest.

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CALDERON CROFTS ULLOA

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19th

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MCCORMACK (Leeds United)

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Form guide W-W-W-D-L-W-W-D-L-W-D-W Last 3 league fixtures 1-0 W Birmingham AFC Bournemouth 1-1 D Blackpool 0-1 W Next 3 league fixtures Derby 18/01/14 A Burnley 28/01/14 A Watford 02/02/14 A

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KEITH ANDREWS

84.4%

Lowest

League goals

Action Man:

PASS COMPLETION*

Jan 13th

Aug 5th

The goal saved me! I had seen Solly was coming on, maybe for me, but I had my one chance and I scored.

“I am feeling better with every game but I need more games, more training and to keep working hard so in the upcoming games I can help the team.

“It was a good day for me, not only because of the goal, but also because it was good for the team.

“We needed the three points and it was very important for us to win here in front of our fans.”

“At the start of the season we were aiming for the play-offs and today is the first time we are there, so we need to keep winning and these next four away games are very important for us.”

Position: Midfield Squad No: 4 Age: 33 Height: 6ft 0in Brighton Statistics: games/goals: 14/1

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Albion Team News Likely starting XI: Kuszcak, Bruno, Greer, Upson, Ward, Andrews, Ince, Agustien, Lua Lua, Ulloa, Lopez.

Likely subs: Brezovan, El Abd, Chicksen, Forster-Caskey, March, Orlandi, Obika.

Out: Hoskins (achilles), Mackail-Smith (knee), Bridcutt (slight knock), Crofts (knee).

2-3

League position:

(Talking after win over Birmingham)

Richard Morris

Michael Taylor

Albion Statistics:

With widespread rumours surrounding the immediate future of Liam Bridcutt, Keith Andrews has shown signs he is more than capable of filling any void in the Albion’s deep midfield role.

Encouraging recent performances have shown the Irish international to be not only a player who enjoys being in possession of the ball, but one willing to work hard to win it back.

ACCURATE PASSES*

586

INTERCEPTIONS*

21

KEY PASSES*

6

TACKLES*

31

Every morning, Bill used to enjoy picking up the papers.

He still does.

At Maycroft Manor, industry-leading residential, nursing and dementia care are just the beginning. We really get to know our residents too - it’s how we support them to enjoy all the little things that make a big difference to their day.

From picking up the paper from the corner shop each morning, to the sights and sounds of the cinema and the taste of fresh coffee and homemade biscuits in the cafés, it’s all about living life to the full within our community.

To see for yourself what makes Maycroft Manor a care home with a difference, go to hallmarkcarehomes.co.uk, call our Customer Relationship Manager on 01273 859790, or drop by for a visit at 2-8 Carden Avenue, Brighton BN1 8NA.