Brighton & Hove Independent - 18 November 2016

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Revised £150m scheme set to ‘transform a much-neglected stretch of Lewes Road’ Bex Bastable

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The developer of Preston Barracks has unveiled revised plans for the site, which is set to make way for hundreds of new homes, student accommodation, office space and university facilities.

The major scheme would also see the redevelopment of two car parks at the University of Brighton’s Moulsecoomb campus, on either side of the Lewes Road.

The developer, U+I Plc, first unveiled its vision for the site in April, and claimed the scheme would create

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1,000 jobs and bring half a billion pounds into the local economy.

But it has revealed a tweaked plan today (Friday), and changes include: reducing the height of the buildings, additional retail, café and workshop units for independent businesses and facilities such as a gym and outdoor play equipment.

A detailed transport plan has also been included in the new proposals, the developer said, with 750 parking spaces and improvements to junctions on surrounding roads.

Richard Upton, from U+I Plc,0 said: “We have taken the

time to listen carefully to local people’s ideas and concerns and have taken them on board in our proposals, particularly looking at how to make a vibrant new area of the city that benefits local residents and students and staff at the university.”

Debra Humphris, vice chancellor of University of Brighton, said: “We are very excited about the proposed redevelopment of our Moulsecoomb campus. The plans are bold and imaginative and will help to transform a much-neglected stretch of Lewes Road.”

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Scheme is ‘key to delivering new homes and jobs’ in city Bex Bastable

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There are high hopes for U+I’s regeneration of Preston Barracks and the University of Brighton’s Moulsecoomb campus.

Cllr Warren Morgan, the leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “This major development is key to delivering new homes and jobs for Brighton and Hove, to reducing the student pressure on housing and to driving economic growth which benefits the whole city.”

After revealing the revised plans for the site today (Friday), the developer said it hopes to submit a final plan to the council in the next few months.

The three sites set to be redeveloped are: the University of Brighton’s Watts car park, the Mithras car

park sites on either side of the LewesRoadandneighbouring Preston Barracks.

The scheme includes 376 new homes, more than 1,300 student bedrooms, a 50,000 square foot hub for startup businesses, a new home for the university’s Business School and new teaching and learning facilities.

Debra Humphris, vice chancellor of University of Brighton, said: “The new campus will deliver significant benefits for our students, staff and local residents by creating a great place to live, work and learn.

And by delivering over 1,300 additional student bedrooms, at the same time as holding our student numbers at their current numbers, we will take pressure off local private housing.”

There are also plans for a new pedestrian bridge across Lewes Road, linking all three sites, as well as new

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Three-month road closure Dukes Mound – the road connecting the A259 with Madeira Drive near the Marina – is to close for three months for structural repairs to the wall which supports the seafront road. It will close on Monday (November 21) and is scheduled to reopen in February next year. The downhill side of Dukes Mound will reopen at weekends after consultation with traders, and the road will also be opened over the Christmas period – between December 20 and January 4.

Another week, another strike

Proposed pedestrian bridge over Lewes Road connecting all three sites

public squares, and crossings to provide connections to Moulsecoomb station and local bus stops. Also included in the plans are 1,000 cycle

parking spaces, cycle docks to support the city’s new ‘Boris Bikes’ scheme, and a 1km running and fitness route around the site.

An exhibition of the revised plan will be at FIELD, Preston Barracks, today (Friday) from 12pm to 8pm, and tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am to 2pm.

Members of the RMT union are set to go on strike again next week in the longrunning dispute with Govia Thameslink over conductors on Southern trains. The latest strike will take place on Tuesday (November 22) and Wednesday (November 23).

For updates on services throughout the strike, visit: www.southernrailway.com

A lantern for a lost loved one at this year’s Burning the Clocks A Brighton-based funeral directors will create and sponsor 25 ‘in memory’ lanterns at Burning the Clocks, for those mourning a loved one who has died in the last 12 months.

The Burning the Clocks parade runs from New Road to the seafront on the evening of December 21, with around 2,000 participants and more than 20,000 onlookers.

Cara Mair, owner and founder of ARKA Original Funerals announced the firm would sponsor 25 lanterns for the winter solstice celebration in the city, which is organised by charity Same Sky.

Lanterns at the annual Burning the Clocks event in Brighton

Each sponsorship package, worth £100, includes the lantern, two places at the parade and the after party, plus a reading of the lost relatives name at the bonfire

on the beach.

Burning the Clocks is funded through donations, and is running a crowdfunding campaign which has already raised £5,100.

If you wish to take part in the Burning the Clocks parade with a commemorative lantern for a loved one then write to ARKA Original Funerals, 136 Islingword Road, Brighton, B2N 9SH. The first 25 will be invited to join the parade on December 21.

To find out more about Burning the Clocks, visit: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/ burning-the-clocks

Railway restoration at seafront A much-loved seafront attraction has ‘disappeared’ for the winter but will be back bigger and better next year, according to the council, writes Sarah George.

Volk’s Railway has closed for restoration and will remain shut to the public until next spring.

Residents were worried the railway might be closing for good, with one member of the 14,000-person Facebook group Brighton

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People posting: “Where has the Brighton Volk’s Railway Station gone?”

But a Brighton and Hove City Council spokesperson was quick to reassure residents it recently secured £1.65m from the Heritage Lottery fund to be spent on the Volk’s restoration.

Councillor Alan Robins, deputy chairman of the city’s economic development and culture committee, said: “The Volk’s Railway is a

much-loved and integral part of our city’s history.

“We will put the funds to good use to maintain and improve the railway, creating an even better experience for future passengers while staying true to Volk’s vision.”

The funding will go towards a new heritage visitor centre for the famous Victorian attraction and workshop at the aquarium site, as well as the restoration of three original carriages.

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Sparkling start to festive season PHOTOGRAPH: JAMIE MACMILLAN

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Brighton’s Christmas lights were switched on after a ‘mini festival’ including carols and house music on Wednesday evening (November 16).

Hundreds turned up to watch DJs and choirs on East Street, followed by a countdown to the switch-on which was led by comedian Steve Coogan.

“InBrightonwe’reatolerant bunch. We don’t spread hate, fear and division,” said Mr Coogan, before pushing the button that illuminated twinkling messages across the city, including the words ‘peace’ and ‘love’.

Phats and Small got people dancing to their varied set, with vocalist Russell Small delighting the crowd in a gold sequinned jacket.

“I’ve been coming to Brighton now for about 20 years and it’s the most beautiful city in the UK,” Small told the audience.

He praised Brighton’s legendary DJs Fatboy Slim and

Carl Cox, adding: “Let’s turn this into Glastonbury.”

The audience lit the street with their mobile phones, singing along to a remix of Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’.

Jacqui Furlepa, watching with her daughter Aniela, nine, said: “It was like a mini festival. I’m really happy and I think everyone needs a bit of happiness right now.”

DJ George Kwali, The Dionne Slater Singing Group and The Theatre Workshop also performed, with raffle prizes announced by Juice FM for the Rocking Horse charity.

Some people dodged North Street buses on their way home to get a selfie with the lights spelling out ‘Ding dong’.

Yvonne Clarke from Seaford said: “They’re really beautiful.

I can’t wait for Christmas now.”

The Christmas lights are funded by businesses in the city centre through the Brilliant Brighton initiative, where an additional 1.25 per cent on top of their business rates is put in a pot to spend on improving the city.

The Theatre Workshop performed before the switch on

PHOTOGRAPH: JAMIE MACMILLAN

Steve Coogan

PHOTOGRAPH: JAMIE MACMILLAN

The lights at Bond Street PHOTOGRAPH: JAMIE MACMILLAN

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Festive words and emojis lit up the sky in North Street

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Living wage homes get the go ahead in joint venture Bex Bastable

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The first stage of a £105 million scheme to build 1,000 affordable homes for rent and shared ownership was agreed by councillors on Wednesday, although concerns about the details remained.

The scheme, an joint venture between Brighton and Hove City Council and housing association Hyde, is set to provide affordable homes for those on the ‘living wage’ (£8.25 per hour).

In these homes, rents would be set at around 40 per cent of the ‘living wage’ paycheck.

The move is in response to a housing crisis in the city, which has more than 23,000 households on the council housing register, 1,800 households in temporary accommodation and rising homelessness.

The matter was deferred from the last housing committee, as Conservative and Green councillors were concerned that there were not enough details in the plans.

Members of the opposition groups continued to express

concerns on Wednesday, over where the homes would be built, affordability, and how the scheme will be scrutinised.

Conservative councillor Steve Bell had a range of concerns over the scheme, including the lack of councillor involvement in the plans, and said this hindered elected members’ ability to protect taxpayers’ money.

Green councillor David Gibson remained worried that the homes would actually be affordable, but said: “I think it’s an imaginative and exciting proposal and has a lot of benefits.”

After a long discussion, and a number of amendments by the Greens and Conservatives, the first stage of the plan was agreed.

Labour councillor Peter Atkinson said: “By the very nature of this type of venture there will be ongoing questions that will be answered as we go ahead.”

The plans will now go before the policy, resources and growth committee, asking it to give officers permission to develop and negotiate the deal with Hyde.

Remembrance Services held across city PHOTOGRAPH: KEVIN MEREDITH/BRITISH AIRWAYS I360

Brighton and Hove remembered its fallen soldiers last week, with a series of services on Armistice Day (Friday, November 11), and Remembrance Sunday (November 13).

A special service was held on Friday at the British Airways i360 (pictured), and poppies were projected onto the tower.

On Sunday, services were held at Regency Square, Old Steine, Easthill Park in Portslade, Hove Cemetery, All Saints Church in Hove and at the Middle Street Synagogue in Hove.

Report into BLM2 ‘sat on desk for too long’ A report into the possibility of a second Brighton Mainline has ‘sat on the desk for too long’, according to the government’s Transport Secretary.

Chris Grayling was asked about his policy on improving rail infrastructure in Sussex in the House of Commons yesterday morning (Thursday) by Lewes MP Maria Caulfield.

A second Brighton Mainline, also known as

BML2 running between the city and London through Uckfield, has been promoted as a way of increasing rail capacity in the South East.

Ms Caulfield said: “I welcome the current investment in the infrastructure that is currently causing 50 per cent of delays, but does he not agree with me in the long term a second rail mainline between Sussex and London is needed to increase rail

capacity in the South East and improve journey times for my constituents?”

Mr Grayling responded: “First of all I’m well aware of the degree of campaigning that’s been behind the Brighton Mainline 2 concept.

“It’s something that my honourable friend the rail minister and I are discussing, I’m aware we have a report that’s sat on the desk for much too long, and I intend to make sure it does not sit

on the desk for very much longer.”

Sussex commuters have faced months of misery on Southern services operated

by Govia Thameslink Railway and while a significant proportion of the disruption has been caused by staffing issues, delays between London and Brighton are frequently down to either engineering problems, which are down to Network Rail, or capacity issues.

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Reclaiming views of the sea with a ‘lantern in the sky’

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“After 16 years of waiting for Bartholomew Square to be regenerated, now we are doing it ourselves.”

Those were the words of Nicholas Rohl, co-founder of Moshimo, who has just had his radical vision for the evolution of the Japanese restaurant approved by the city council.

‘Skylight’ is the name of the proposed building, that will ‘emerge like a periscope’ from the existing Moshimo restaurant on the ground floor, soaring over the surrounding buildings seven floors up.

Mr Rohl, who owns Moshimo alongside cofounder Karl Jones, said the square is ‘a cul de sac’ in a city which benefits from being beside the sea. He said: “You are simply not aware of the proximity to the sea.”

But the new building which could be open by the

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end of next year - will change that. Mr Rohl said diners at ‘Skylight by Moshimo’ - will have views of the sea and the Old Town. And he added that the building, designed by studioSPOON, would have little impact on surrounding

area, and ‘glimpsed from adjacent streets, it will appear like a lantern in the sky’.

“Skylight has the potential to transform and inspire,” said Röhl. “We’re thrilled that Brighton and Hove City Council has given the

building the go-ahead. It’s a bold decision that will see Brighton continue to thrive and adapt into the future.”

He added: “If this goes ahead, which it will, we might turn our attention to other spaces in the city.”

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Staff and students at City College Brighton and Hove are celebrating, after the news it has maintained its ‘good’ rating by education watchdog Ofsted.

It was last inspected in 2011 when it was found to be ‘good’, and in the latest Ofsted report published on Tuesday, inspectors praised the college for its high standard of teaching and students progression into higher education and employment.

This comes ahead of City College’s proposed merger with Northbrook College, which has just passed the consultation phase.

Ofsted inspectors found that learners at City College received a good education in well-managed programmes, felt safe, and were wellsupported to develop their personal and career aspirations.

Achievement rates were good, and learners were engaged and respectful towards each other and to staff.

The report also praised the management and governors, which inspectors said had successfully implemented strategies to raise standards and ensure financial stability after ‘significant challenges’.

Principal Sharon Collett said: “We are incredibly proud of the result of this inspection, which is a tribute to the ongoing hard work and

dedication of all the staff at the college to provide our students with the highest quality teaching, learning and assessment.”

Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove, said:“It’s great to see City College getting such a positive Ofsted report.

“This is a testament to the hard work of staff and students alike and is particularly impressive as it has been achieved during such a challenging period for the Further Education sector nationally.”

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: “I’m really proud to have such an excellent college in my constituency and wish staff and students all the best for the next year.”

Schools join academy trust Two schools in Brighton and Hove are set to work even more closely, joining the same multi-academy trust ‘for the good of students and their local communities’.

Both Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) and Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA), run under independent trusts sponsored by Aldridge Education. But the schools are now set to join the multiacademy trust launched recently by the academies’ sponsor.

Dylan Davies, principal at

BACA, said: “The government is encouraging academy schools to work more closely together through multiacademy trusts. At BACA and PACA we’ve already seen the benefits of working closely together.”

He said the two schools already share some backoffice expertise, which frees up front line spending on students Katie Scott, principal at PACA, said: “Both academies have significantly improved academic results in recent years and joining Aldridge Education will help us

continue this improvement while making it easier to develop further exciting new initiatives.”

Chris Tweedale, Aldridge Education chief executive, said: “Each school in the multi-academy trust has its own unique character and we are very committed to ensuring our schools retain their individual community identities. Our principals will continue to run their schools day to day, but will now be able to work even more closely together for the good of students and their local communities.”

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The true cause of the Southern Rail crisis

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s co-founder of the Association of British Commuters (ABC), a pressure group formed in Brighton this summer, I can say with certainty that the Southern Rail crisis is getting worse, not better.

Barely a day goes by that we do not hear of four-hour delays due to some minor fault on the track, the abandonment of a busload of passengers in the middle of the night, or major health and safety risks, such as a train travelling with a door open. To borrow the words of former rail minister Norman Baker: “Southern Rail have shown ineptitude of a scale I thought impossible.”

The witness reports we read have a personal element too, and our campaign has received hundreds of stories of job losses, home relocation, and disabled passengers now too scared to travel. It is on behalf of these passengers, and every weary commuter in the south, that we are now proceeding with a crowdfunded legal action against the government for their catastrophic handling of the Southern Rail franchise.

Our legal grounds for judicial review assert that the Department for Transport

Chaos at Brighton station

(DfT) has acted unlawfully in its failure to provide transparency about its relationship with Southern Rail. A recent report from the Transport Select Committee backs up our argument, calling the DfT’s behaviour ‘completely unacceptable’ and deliberately ‘evasive’. Indeed, the chair did not stop short in last week’s hearing of asking senior civil servant Peter Wilkinson if he had misled and ‘deceived’ the Select Committee.

It’s important to remember that the relationship between the DfT and Southern’s parent company Govia is not a typical franchise agreement but a ‘management contract’; making the company no more than a subcontractor paid a fixed fee by the government. The full extent of this close relationship lies in heavily redacted contractual documents which the DfT refuse to disclose.

As the industrial dispute with the RMT union worsens, and Southern Rail continues to collapse even on non-strike days, we will argue that the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, has either failed to inform himself of the devastating impact this crisis has had on our lives, or chooses to accept the harm done to the public as collateral damage.

Either way, we will argue his failure to monitor the Govia franchise is unlawful.

Our lawyers will also argue that the government is providing unlawful state aid in refusing to penalise Southern Rail for its long-term failure and catastrophic mismanagement. The £20 million taxpayerfunded ‘improvement fund’ has only rubbed salt in the wound, and is a sure sign of the government’s intention to continue

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Though our legal case does not take on the industrial dispute directly, it is no wonder that both Southern Rail and the DfT are so intent on deflecting blame onto the RMT union – the only possible defence for what we say is their own misconduct.

In concealing their true role in the dispute, the DfT ensures a toxic and bad-faith environment that prevents any successful negotiation between the RMT and a company now commonly believed to be the government’s puppet.

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There are fears that a ‘longterm partnership’ between the hospital trust running the Royal Sussex County Hospital and a West Sussex NHS trust is the first step towards a merger.

It was announced last week that the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust (BSUH) and the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WSHT) are to ‘buddy up’ and work together more closely. This means the chief executive and chair of WSHT will take on those very same jobs at the BSUH from next April. It is the first sign that the two organisations could merge.

Healthwatch Brighton and Hove said it ‘cautiously welcomes’ the closer working relationship between the two trusts, but a spokesperson said: “BSUH have told us that ‘this is not a merger’ and that BSUH and WSHT remain separate organisations. In the past however ‘buddying’ arrangements of this sort have led to the merger or effective takeover of one NHS Trust by another.”

NHS Improvement made the announcement last Friday (November 11), and said patients would see improvements to their local NHS service as a result of the move. This comes after BSUH - which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath - was rated ‘inadequate’ by health inspectors and was placed into special measures.

WSHT on the other hand, runs two ‘outstanding’ hospitals; Worthing Hospital and St Richard’s in Chichester.

Anne Eden, executive regional managing director for the south at NHS Improvement, said: “The people of Sussex deserve the best healthcare possible. We already know Brighton and Sussex has started work to address the areas of concern but we want to make sure that it has what it needs to continue to improve its services.

“We want local people not only to see improvements made quickly, but to see improvements that will provide them with quality services for years to come.”

Marianne Griffiths, chief executive of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The challenges faced by staff at BSUH have been well documented and I’m very pleased that NHS

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Improvement has asked us to help overcome them.

“There are no easy answers but it is the people working in the hospitals in Brighton and Haywards Heath who are best placed to find and implement the solutions their patients need. We know the organisation has many great people in it already and the role of the team at Western Sussex will be to give them the tools, skills and support to make improvements.

“This is a great opportunity for all of us and we are looking forward to working together to improve hospital care for the people of Brighton and Sussex.”

Dr Gillian Fairfield, interim chief executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Since we had the CQC inspection in April, we have been working incredibly hard to stabilise the Trust and to make the immediate

changes and improvements needed. We have developed a comprehensive integrated recovery and improvement plan and have made significant progress in a large number of areas to ensure patients being cared for in our hospitals today are getting a better standard of service.

“It is essential that BSUH keeps up the momentum it has started and this new arrangement with Western Sussex will help ensure this

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or merger by stealth? arrangements in the past have masked ulterior motives

Daniel Yates, lead councillor for health in Brighton and Hove

can be achieved both in the short-term and the long-term.

I see this as an extremely positive step in BSUH’s journey to be the thriving and excellent organisation that we all want it to be and we look forward to working closely in the coming months with our colleagues at Western Sussex.”

NHS Improvement said WSHT’s ‘proven track record willhelpittosupportBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals to make the right

changes and continue to improve care for patients’.

This comes after BSUH – which NHS Improvement said ‘has a history of long-standing and complex issues’ – was put into special measures by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in August. In October 2016 it was placed into financial special measures after it deviated from its planned savings targets, and the ‘buddying arrangement’ is set to include supporting

Brighton Kemptown MP Simon Kirby

the trust to deliver on its requirements under both types of special measures.

Cllr Daniel Yates, chair of the city’s health and wellbeing board, said: “I am hopeful that the new executive and governance team will continue to build on recent improvements at the trust. As a health and wellbeing board we know that our acute hospital is under massive pressure and that the dedicated staff are committed

to turning the trust around to deliver the best services possible for local people.”

Simon Kirby, the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown, said: “I am hopeful that BSUH will benefit from working with Western Sussex which is one of only five Trusts in England to be rated outstanding by the CQC. I will be keeping a close eye on the situation to make sure that patients and staff get the very best possible deal.”

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Jean Calder Sexism in the city – sexist crime is hate

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ver the past four years, across the country, reports of rape and sexual assaults have doubled. In 2015-16, there were 23,851 reported rapes of adults compared with 10,160 in 2011-12. The perpetrators were overwhelmingly male. Nearly all victims were women or girls.

Here, in Sussex, over the same period reports of rape more than doubled. From April 2015 to March 2016, 973 rapes were reported, compared to 826 in the previous year. There was a 12 per cent increase in recorded attacks on adults and a 10 per cent increase in those of children.

Nev Kemp, divisional commander of police in Brighton and Hove, recently revealed that in this city around 300 rapes are being reported each year.

It is accepted by the government and senior police officers that sexual offences are under-reported. Crime statisticians’ estimate is that the number of actual rapes is about six times greater than those reported, which if true, suggests that there are at least 1,800 every year in our city alone – and 5,838 in Sussex.

A recent Sussex University Student

Union survey revealed that 28 per cent of participants said they had seen someone sexually assaulted over the past six months.

Appallingly, more than a third said they had seen someone have their drink spiked.

More than half said they perceived levels of sexual harassment in Brighton nightlife to be either fairly or very high.

These figures are horrifying, especially given that conviction rates remain stubbornly low. However, most troubling of all is the failure of most politicians and senior police officers to treat such crimes with genuine urgency – or to address sexist violence as a political issue capable of solution. Instead of monitoring all male violence against women – from harassment to rape, FGM to forced marriage, domestic violence to homicide – and attempting to address the common cause, successive governments have treated each form of violence as a separate entity. Obsessed by notions of ‘gender neutrality’ they have failed to properly confront a tsunami of offences against women, refusing to acknowledge their roots in sexism, prejudice and attitudes of contempt. Whole departments of local government are taken up with ‘hate crime’, but have no strategy to

In Brighton and Hove, police said more than 300 rapes are reported each year

confront either sexism or sexist crime.

It’s unthinkable, in this day and age, that any social group other than females could so regularly be attacked by another, without political outcry and demands for effective strategies for intervention and prevention. Yet here in the UK, the outrage is largely saved for two days – International Women’s Day and International Day of Violence Against Women – and even then the discussion is muted and almost entirely led by women.

Here in Brighton and Hove, when confronted by inconvenient statistics, kindly senior police officers do what they have done for decades. They state complacently that increased reporting is to be welcomed because it ‘almost certainly’

indicates, not an increase in attacks, but increased ‘trust’ in the police and a greater willingness amongst victims to come forward. They boast of improved police response to allegations and of local support for domestic violence and survivors’ projects. At times they suggest, as they have done recently, that they have had to redeploy officers from investigating other crimes. There is just the merest, martyred hint that in so doing they have exceeded requirements and that to ask for more would be unreasonable.

The trouble, as anyone who’s been around long enough knows, is that after the reports are published, nothing changes.

Like a stone thrown into a greasy pond, the water closes over both troublesome victims and inconvenient statistics and it is as if they never existed. Meanwhile, year on year male violence against females increases.

In this so-called ‘City of Sanctuary’, women and girls are far from safe.

On September 12 the charity For Our Daughters wrote to the Chief Constable (as it did unsuccessfully back in 2012) to ask that Sussex Police monitor sexist crime as they do other hate crimes. Two months on, he has yet to respond.

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Simon Kirby Conservative Party MP for Brighton Kemptown

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Residents are angry – and an apology is just not enough

have been contacted by hundreds of concerned Woodingdean residents and ward councillors Dee Simson and Steve Bell regarding the erection of the Woodingdean telecommunications mast which had planning permission granted by default due to a mistake by Brighton and Hove Council.

The council refused permission for the telecommunications company’s application to erect a mast and cabinet but failed to issue the decision notice outlining the refusal in the required statutory time of 56 days. In such cases, planning permission is granted by default. Despite protests to the council, local residents have seen that the telecommunications company has ploughed ahead, despite being fully aware of local feeling on the matter, and the 12.5 metre telephone mast has been erected together with equipment cabinets on Warren Road.

It is true that the council has issued an apology to local residents but residents are asking what is an apology when there is a 12.5 metre telecommunications mast opposite the shops and in front of the area’s historic cottages?

We all use mobile phones and understand that telecommunications companies need to build masts so

that we can have better coverage.

That is not the point – the point is the unsuitable location of the mast. The application for a mast on that site was refused in a democratic process which is supposed to take into consideration local people’s views and opinions and it is not fair that local residents in Woodingdean who objected to the application in the correct way now have to suffer because of a mistake made by Brighton and Hove Council.

I am also receiving complaints saying that the mast is so tall and big and white it is reflecting the shops’ neon lights and the traffic lights making the street so bright that residents are unable to sleep. I urge the council to do all they can to rectify the situation.

I have contacted ministers at the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Culture Media and Sport to see if there is anything they can do to help.

I have also contacted the managing director of CTIL, asking them to do the right thing and remove the mast and work together with the council to find a more suitable location.

Woodingdean residents are frustrated and angry about the mast and an apology is not enough. They will not give up the fight and I will be supporting them to make sure that their views are heard.

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Tracey Hill

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Launching a website for the city’s renters

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he experiences of people renting privately in Brighton and Hove have been a concern for some time. Around a third of housing in the city is privately rented, and while many people have a good experience of renting, there is evidence of not-so-good experiences: poorly maintained properties, bad service and sharp practices. While there is good information out there for tenants, many are not aware of it and only begin to reach out after things have started to go wrong.

In March 2015 a scrutiny panel reported to the council after hearing evidence from many different groups and individuals. The panel made a number of recommendations, including use of landlord review sites and surveys, looking at models for ethical letting agencies, accreditation schemes and better information for tenants. Many of these ideas would be unfeasible to progress by the council alone.

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January and June through a series of working groups and full sessions, we agreed to do two things.

First we would set up a website to include basic information and advice to tenants wanting to rent in the city, and giving links to the many sources of information and advice that are already out there. I am very pleased to say that this website

is now live and can be found at www. rentsmartbrightonhove.org.

Our second task was that we would encourage tenants to use a ratings site to evaluate their letting agent. When looking into the idea of ratings sites, we felt that using an existing site was more feasible than trying to set one up. AllAgents.co.uk has been running for ten years and carries reviews by tenants as well as landlords (and clients of sales agents as well). We want to encourage people to use this site and leave reviews of their experiences. At the moment some agents in the city have a good number of ratings but many only have a handful. This is despite the fact that there are thousands of people renting in this city.

We would really like to grow awareness of AllAgents and see the number of reviews go up, so that letting agents can be evaluated in a fair and independent way.

AllAgents is industry-specific, it’s fully moderated, only genuine customers of the agent can leave reviews, and agents also have a right to reply. AllAgents has cooperated with us to ensure that all possible letting agents in the city are listed on the site.

Confirmed Rent Smart partners so far

are: Brighton and Sussex Universities, Sussex University Students Union, Brighton Housing Trust, Citizens’ Advice Brighton and Hove, Sussex Student Lettings and the Southern Landlords’ Association.

It has been a real privilege for me to work with the Rent Smart partners, who throughout have been committed and enthusiastic about this great initiative.

They all have a lot of expertise on housing, through working directly with tenants, landlords and agents in the city, and understand the plus sides and the challenges of this sector. It is also really beneficial to be working alongside landlords and letting agents committed to improving experiences for tenants. We plan to continue as a partnership and work on new campaigns in the future.

In a city like ours, a partnership like Rent Smart makes so much sense, and I believe it will not be long before we will wonder how we ever did without it. So, please help spread the word about Rent Smart.

We are on Twitter @RentSmartBH and Facebook under Rent Smart Brighton & Hove, and please email theteam@ rentsmartbrightonhove.org if you would like to attend the launch event.

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have written previously about so-called ‘Sustainable Transformation Plans.’ Fortyfour new NHS regions have been set up across England. Our region includes East Sussex, West Sussex and East Surrey. The stated aim of Sustainable Transformation Plans is to integrate health and social care services.

Harmless as these plans sound, this week I learnt more of the detail behind the plans to ‘transform’ the NHS. A report has been published which finally gives us some clues as to what is going on.

On the one hand the report reminds us the population is getting older and their health is deteriorating, yet simultaneously proposes a 40 per cent cut to the budget for emergency care for patients aged over 75. The report states that hospital bed provision is currently stretched to capacity and that demand will increase, yet there will be a 50 per cent cut in funding for hospital beds. GPs across the city are tasked with providing ‘clinical leadership’ yet GP surgeries are closing in our city at an alarming rate.

This report would make many Swiss cheeses envious for the quantity of holes it exhibits.

One of the very few clear elements under STP is that NHS deficit budgets have to be cleared by 2020. In our region that will mean in excess of £650m will be cut from NHS Services. There is no way in which that can be done without colossally damaging implications for the National Health Service.

I am deeply concerned that the STP proposals have been put on the table at the same time as important parts of healthcare in our city have been put into special measures. In effect the private

sector will be posed as the only way out for the NHS when we already know that market forces can neither allocate healthcare fairly, nor efficiently.

Green councillors have pushed for the maximum scrutiny of these plans including a meeting of the health overview and scrutiny committee devoted to studying the STP. Greens will continue to relentlessly push for the principle that the NHS is our most treasured national public service, that should be free at the point of entry.

Green councillors fully condemn the STP as a charter for mass cuts and privatisation. The damaging political agenda behind these cuts will hit the people who rely on the NHS most- the poorest and most marginalised.

We have also been concerned to see such little opposition from other local political parties. Labour controlled councils in Liverpool and in Camden have been swift to scrutinise and condemn these ‘STPs’ – but not so here.

It has been particularly appalling to read Labour’s chair of the health and wellbeing board, Cllr Daniel Yates, say he is ‘very happy to broadly comply’ with the massively damaging proposals outlined in this cuts charter. We appeal to Labour to join us in refusing to support any plans that will damage our NHS. It is worth reminding ourselves that only last year David Cameron said, ‘the NHS is safe in my hands’ when in reality the Conservative government is taking a sledgehammer to the NHS. It is telling that this week the chief executive of NHS Providers reminded us that communities ‘have the ability to sink STP plans they don’t support’.

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On This Day 1972 | Saturday, November 18 Local boy Steve Piper donned the stripes for the first time. The 1-0 home defeat to Burnley – the start of a 13-match losing streak – didn’t bode well for the Brightonborn defender/midfielder. Steady performances endeared him to his fellow Sussex folk and he was ever present during

the promotion campaign of 1976/77. Steve moved to Portsmouth for £20,000 in February 1978.

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Curry Leaf Café? Nishat? (I like them all, I hasten to add, but the fact that Curry Leaf is at Brighton Station just about nudges it into poll position!) Bhogal is the real deal, with a cookery book packed full of authentic Indian recipes that are completely do-able for family life. She’s a star in the grocery world where her ready meals sold over a million in the first year of being in Tesco (winning her a national award) and she masterminded the recipe book – A Fair Feast for the Make Poverty History campaign. She passionately believes that authentic, Punjabi home cooking is available to us all and is miles away from being the difficult or time consuming meal making we may think. The book is beautifully produced with spoonful’s of her life alongside the recipes, which are sharp and bright with a healthy tang of vibrancy to them. I made her tamarind chutney the other week, and I have been inundated with orders! (who knows, Santa may deliver a few to some chosen mates) It was easy to make and utterly delicious.

I am delighted that she’s coming to Brighton and invite you all to come and meet her. Perhaps we could all vote for a favourite takeaway dish?

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Events and fairs to fundraise for barn From hair braiding and mosaic workshops to haberdashery sales and a quiz night, Brighton’s latest community venue is putting on a series of events to raise money for its renovation.

The Westdene Barn, which is being leased from Brighton and Hove City Council by the Friends of Westdene Green, needs around £15,000 spent on the interior.

A village fair raised around £3,000, and volunteers are planning a film night and Christmas mulled wine and

wreath-making event.

The Crowdfunder runs until mid-December and has attracted supporters from around the city.

Fundraising co-ordinator Rebecca Luff said: “We’ve still got a way to go to reach our initial target and ultimately we want raise around £25,000 to be able to turn the barn into a fully accessible, exciting space for a range of activities and events for the whole community.”

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written by Dan Tester @DJDanteBrighton Excerpts from the book Brighton & Hove On This Day (signed by the author) available exclusively on eBay most popular sport. Patrick Micallef, who worked in a mortgage call centre, was spotted by a director as he left his office.

One screen test later the Seven Dials resident was cast in The Penalty King, shot in Brighton. Patrick, 43, said: “I was just leaving the office when I was stopped by Chris. He said he liked the way I looked. I then did a day’s shooting with Nick Bartlett, whose last film was Gangs of New York.”

2006 | Saturday, November 18 The Brighton and Hove Albion matchday programme reported on the visit of Albion in the Community’s Jacob Naish to Tanzania for the Coaching For Hope Conference. The project used football to educate people on the dangers of HIV and Aids.

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ur Nige is going to be back in town. The maverick maestro is playing a big gig at the Dome.

Fabled fiddler Nigel Kennedy, erstwhile enfant terrible of classical music – he of the spiked hair, stubble chin, mockney accent, Aston Villa shirt, he who made Vivaldi cool and conductors, critics and concert managements hot under their conservative collars – will be performing next week in tribute to one of his musical idols, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who himself played the Dome back in 1967.

I say “our Nige” since he was born and bred in Brighton – and not, please “Hove, Brighton”, as the publicity flyer has it.

He was born in the Royal Sussex County Hospital on December 28 1956 – which means that, incredibly, the bad boy who once shook the musical establishment is coming up for 60.

It’s tempting to look back to those early Brighton days for some insight into the guy’s unorthodox style, his edgy insecurities, his irreverence for authority figures (he remembers when angry, aged five, jumping from a chair and trying to “punch God”).

Nigel Kennedy

His father, an orchestral cellist, having shipped back to Australia before he was born, he was brought up by his mother and grandmother – both piano teachers – in a flat in Regency Square. His early memories are of being under the piano while lessons were in progress, of tricycle rides on the

prom, and of climbing from the bed in his attic room onto “a sort of window shelf” from which he could look out across the roofs to the sea. He loved watching the sea in its various moods, and charting the progress of boats across its surface.

There’s a photo of little Nigel on the balcony looking perfectly conventional, and in his youth, as he confesses, he “spoke properly, and all that”. His first school was a newly opened Montessori school in New Church Road called The Fold (still going), where he remembers breaking a bottle over another boy’s head (he had already developed a useful split personality, blaming such unfortunate incidents on “Bertie”, his rebellious other half). When the dentist on the ground floor of the Regency Square house decided to sell up, the Kennedys moved to a terraced house in Lyndhurst Road, Hove.

By the age of seven he had won a place at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School, near Leatherhead. Menuhin – Kennedy’s first surrogate father figure – apparently saw in him something he was as yet unaware of himself, and paid his fees, though as a boarder Kennedy was at first lonely, miserable, introverted. “I guess

something like 80 per cent of what I was formally taught at my schools, particularly at the Menuhin, I reacted to badly.” His mother’s remarriage and move up north were further traumas.

It was his second father figure, jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, whom he first met aged 14, who helped free him up and find his own unique personality. He recalls doing a Dome gig with Grappelli, and being impressed that Grappelli spent the day browsing the antique shops in the Lanes and knocking back double brandies – yet played sublimely and got a standing ovation.

From that moment, Kennedy ceased trying to be Menuhin.

No one doubts Kennedy’s versatility, his musical engagement, his infectious spontaneity, and he has done much to bring classical music to a wider audience – and, for that matter, to introduce classical fans to such genres as jazz, klezmer, gipsy, folk. For all his clownish cultivation of a yobbo image, he’s mischievous rather than subversive, antisocial by style rather than by act. To use his own quaint vernacular, he’s the bloke with the golden Guarneri, and his Hendrix gig is sure to be unpredictable, fiery, and hip.

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Going ‘make-up-free’ and organic

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n honest piece on going a month ‘make-upfree’ by Ayesha Muttucumaru on Get the Gloss reminded me of the no-make-up selfie wave a while back.

The article (www.getthegloss. com) is a considered reflection on how it feels longer term. Ayesha’s motivation to drop the mask was to gain inner confidence – to wear self-esteem rather than Maybelline.

More gratifying, she was considered younger looking without the slap!

Many older women shudder to forgo their ‘look’ at work or in public, let alone on a night out. I personally find it hugely empowering to go out barefaced on better days – allowing my relative health and vitality to glow through. I also love to create strong looks and both sides happily co-exist.

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My other inspired read returned to switching from high-end and mainstream lines to clean, green, natural or organic to eliminate toxic ingredients.

This can be daunting at first, but read up and refer to sites such as LoveLula (www.lovelula. com) or Big Green Smile (www. biggreensmile.com) where there are regular deals and starter or travel kits to be had.

Lots of brands have indexes and detailed explanations to decipher the Latin, and of course half the battle is knowing what to avoid.

Make the change over time and to read up on what best fits your lifestyle. Start with affordable lines and bundle offers, have a sniff and test instore, too.

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Artists and makers showcase their work at citywide event The festive edition of Artists Open Houses will be a haven for Christmas shoppers Jess Brown & Bex Bastable

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It’s that time of year again when creatives in Brighton and Hove throw open their doors to the public in the lead up to Christmas.

More than 50 venues will be part of this year’s festive Open Houses event, with artists from all over the city opening their homes and studios to showcaseaselectionofunique artworks and Christmas gifts.

Many hosts will also be holding family-friendly and adult workshops, craft activities, puppet shows, drawing and making classes.

The Open Houses trail takes arts and crafts lovers all over the city, from the fishermen’s houses of Hanover to the urban warehouse spaces of the North Laine and cottages of the South Downs village of Ditchling.

The festival dates back to 1981 when Ned Hoskins, an artist from Fiveways, opened his house to the public to view his work. Other artists in the area followed suit to form the Fiveways Artist Group, and it has since grown into a citywide event, with festivals in May and December each year.

Judy Stevens, festival director, said: “Visiting Artists Open Houses is a great way to take the strain out of Christmas shopping and this Christmas the Artist Open Houses Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever.

“The wealth of established and professional artists and makers, as well as new and emerging artists, offers the perfect opportunity to pick up a unique and original Christmas gift for friends and family.”

Visiting Artists Open Houses is a great way to take the strain out of Christmas shopping JUDY STEPHENS Artists Open Houses festival director Artists Open Houses starts next weekend (Saturday, November 26, and Sunday, November 27), and will take place for the following two weekends in December.

Studio Loo, one of the festival’s more unusual venues, will be back for its second year with a selection of work from local designers and makers – all set within a converted public WC design studio at 201 Portland Road.

Art by men and women who have experienced unsettled housing and homelessness will be on display at William Collier House on North Road, in partnership with Brighton YMCA. 229StudioattheKingsRoad Arches, and 9A Hove Place are both set to display ceramics, sculptures and paintings by a variety of artists over the Open Houses weekends.

Wick Hall on Furze Hill will have a range of prints and cards on offer, and visitors will be handed a complimentary glass of mulled wine.

Brighton artist Cecil Rice

will open hold a Christmas show at Granville Road, Hove, with a selection of oil paintings and watercolours of Brighton, Venice, Cornwall and Sussex. New print editions, books, painting DVDs and greeting cards are among the affordable gifts on offer. His art will also be displayed alongside the work of five other artists for one day only – Sunday, November 27 – at Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue in Hove. Cecil’s ‘Sunset, West Pier’ will be on show, alongside works by Claire O’Hea from Portugal, Simon Chinnery from London and fellow Brighton artists Ilana Richardson and Annelies Clarke.

Polish designer Cat-Arzyna will be opening her home in St Keyna Avenue, Hove, to showcase her Christmas decorations made from everyday objects.

The Stanley Road Store, close to London Road, will feature a range of ‘peculiar and unusual’ gifts from a range of makers, including coin jewellery, hand-sewn leather goods, handmade soaps and beauty products, tapestry cushions, talismans and lucky charms, children’s soft toys made from recycled fabrics, jams and preserves, and embroidery kits.

And Fabula at Hove Museum will host a collective of local and international artists from many different backgrounds united by a desire to tell stories through image, objects and text. On sale there will be prints, notebooks, gifts, jewellery books and Christmas cards.

For the full programme and venue opening times, visit: aoh.org.uk

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Dan Webb is the founder of Goodmoney CIC

Gift vouchers to support local businesses

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oodmoney CIC is a Brightonbased social enterprise. Last year we launched a gift voucher that can be spent with a network of independent local businesses.

The council -backed scheme supports the local economy by helping independent businesses get a bigger share of the gift market and we’re delighted to have already sold £10,000 worth of local gift vouchers!

Congratulations to the growing list of member businesses who’ve already had Goodmoney gift vouchers spent with them: Bison Beer, Boho Gelato, Boulder Brighton, Brighton Apothecary, Brighton Chilli Shop, Bucket & Spade Cafe, Coggings & Co, Draw, Eatalio, amp; Spoon, The FAIR Shop, Ginkgo, hiSbe, Kemp Thai, Kooks Restaurant, Libby Barnes Piano Teacher, Little Beach Boutique, Mojo Coffee House, Philly King Massage, Present in the Laine, Purezza, Quaff Fine Wine, Rayment Cycles, Redwood Coffee House, Sew Fabulous, Silverado, The Mucky Duck, The Old Bank Steak and Ribs, The Wax and Thread Company, Viva Verde and Whirligig Toyshop.

We launched Goodmoney gift vouchers as a paper gift voucher (with lots of security features) to make it easy for independent

Nick Vardy, director at Bison Beer

businesses to get involved.

We’re now working with Bristol Pound CIC to implement Cyclos, a digital payment system used around the world. When it’s up and running it will be a fantastic community asset that will help us provide a whole range of new services to support local business and the wider community. Firstly we plan to help local businesses sell their own-brand gift cards and access various sales channels that are usually the preserve of major high street brands

– like the corporate rewards and voluntary benefits market. This is where employees of large organisations buy gift cards and gift vouchers from high street chains, with payment organised via their payroll.

In return for committing their monthly spend in advance they typically receive five per cent to 10 per cent cash back.

It’s estimated that corporate rewards and voluntary benefits account for the majority of the £5 billion spent on gift cards and gift

vouchers each year in the UK. We’re really looking forward to helping smaller independent businesses access this market. We also see an exciting opportunity for local business to use gift cards to make it easier to swap goods and services with each other.

For example, imagine you run a sandwich shop and you’re friends with a mechanic around the corner.

You might have already chatted about using sandwiches to pay for your car to be serviced, but how do you keep track of all those sandwiches, especially if you’re not always serving in your shop? With a gift card it’s very easy. Say, it costs £150 to service your car.

Just add £150 worth of credit onto a gift card and give it to your mechanic friend. They can then use the gift card to pay for sandwiches in your shop until the £150 worth of credit runs out.

It’s a great time for local businesses to get involved. If you sell products or services to consumers, why not start accepting Goodmoney gift vouchers? If you’re a local employer, why not give your staff a Goodmoney gift voucher for Christmas and support local businesses at the same time? For more information, visit www.goodmoney.co.uk or call Dan on 01273 915757.

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The Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Awards are the annual celebration of the very best of food and hospitality in our city.

Co-ordinated by the Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Festival team, the public were invited to nominate their favourites in 17 categories throughout the spring and summer before the top three in each category went to secret shopping and interviews to verify the public’s choices.

Only businesses with a food hygiene rating of four or more where allowed through to the finals this year. The judges comprise of media and business people passionate about both food and drink, and representatives from the food festival.

Presented by Andrew Kay (Latest TV) and Allison Ferns (BBC Sussex), new categories introduced this year included Best Sunday Lunch and Best International Cuisine, recognisingthebreadthofthe hospitality and food offering in Brighton and Hove.

This year’s awards were hosted at My Brighton hotel on Jubilee Street, with drinks

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Festival director Nick Mosley said: “To get into the top three is a huge achievement,andeverysingle business and individual who made the top three in each

category really is at the top of their game. Brighton and Hove truly punches above its weight when it comes to restaurants, bars, pubs, cafés, hotels and – increasingly – food and drink production.

“While we can’t lay claim to a Michelin-starred restaurant, we do have an

incredibly broad range of hospitality businesses from fine dining and bistro to back street boozers and street food style outlets. For a city of our size, we have a hospitality sector that is unmatched in the UK, and is the envy of towns and cities across the country.”

The food awards are just one of the many activities that the food festival organisation delivers each year.

Alongside the 10 day Spring Harvest festival in May, twice yearly free entry Sussex and The World Weekends on Hove Lawns featuring the Live Food Show, Children’s Food Festival and a host of other interactive events, they work with partners to champion food and drink not only in our region but also nationally and globally through initiatives such as International Chef Exchange which has seen us take chefs from Brighton to the Channel Islands, Holland, Sweden and Italy in 2016.

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Gengahr step out of the shadows to showcase new indie pop pieces Music

Gengahr are promising to reveal new material on their latest tour, which takes in Brighton’s Green Door Store on Monday, November 21.

Spokesman Thom Williams said: “Bringing their spectral indie pop to a local music haunt near you this autumn, Gengahr announce their return to the live stage with a slew of intimate UK shows.

Metis: World Factory will explore the global textile industry at the Attenborough Centre

Attenborough’s values on stage Theatre

Bex Bastable

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A revamped art space at the University of Sussex is celebrating its first season of events under the new creative director Laura McDermott.

The Attenborough Centre – formerly the Gardner Arts Centre – opened this autumn, following a nineyear period of renovation and refurbishment.

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The programme has been shaped by the values of the theatre’s namesake, the late Sir Richard Attenborough, including human rights, social justice, creative education and arts for all.

The final performance of Metis: World Factory takes place tonight (Friday), and weaves together the stories of those in the global textile industry, from the factory floor to the catwalk.

Oh! What a Lovely War, the 1968 anti-war classic directed by Richard

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“Looming from the shadows with a clutch of new songs, the four-piece will be previewing new material penned for their highlyanticipated follow-up album.”

Gengahr vocalist Felix Bushe said: “Since touring the UK last year we’ve been writing and recording our next album. We’ve broken things up a little by performing at a few festivals and touring Europe with

Wolf Alice but by and large we’ve been focused on making LP 2.

“After finishing the record we wanted to get out on the road and start to get our heads around the new songs as soon as possible and begin to get our heads around the new songs and see how they translate live.”

The show starts at 7pm.

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Cabaret duo find female inspiration Stage

Attenborough will be screened next Wednesday, as part of a collaboration between Cinecity and the West Pier Trust, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the pier – which appeared in the film many times.

This is just one of the collaborations the centre is making, and Ms McDermott said she wanted the centre to be a ‘porus place’ for different organisations to come together. For the full autumn programme, visit attenboroughcentre.com.

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Brighton Fringe Cabaret Award Winners 2016, Joanna Eden and Leigh McDonald, are back in town.

Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe they’re bringing their musical cabaret The Unbearable Pleasure of Being a Woman back to Brighton at The Nightingale Room on Saturday, November 19 (8pm).

The show is crammed with original songs and their specialist subject is ‘being female’.

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A good comedian won’t let you run out of laughter Comedy

Phil Hewitt

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Contrasting laughs is the big appeal as Jasper Carrott and Alistair McGowan join forces on the road, with dates including Sunday, November 20, at Brighton Theatre Royal (01273 764400).

“I didn’t really known Alistair”, says Jasper. “We may have met briefly, but they put us together at the Henley Festival. There was a tent with 800 seats, and they didn’t have anything to put on. They asked me, but at that stage, I didn’t fully have my act up and running with the material. I said I didn’t want to do the whole thing, and so they asked would I share with Alistair McGowan.

“And the great thing is that I have got a bit of form with impressionists. In the mid-90s, I did nearly 300 shows with Phil Cool, and that worked incredibly well because the types of humour were so different. And so I did the show with Alistair, and it was great.

“I can’t absolutely explain it hook and nail, but it is that difference that counts. When he does his impressions, Alistair is not him. He changes. When I come on, obviously I am me, and I do quite a personal show.

“Alistair does half an hour and then I do half an hour, and then he does half an hour again and then I do another half an hour, and with Alistair, he is very rarely himself. He morphs. I am always myself – and the two

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different approaches go well together.”

It is all part of the instinctive understanding of showbiz, which must lie behind a show and which comes only with experience.

Between them, they know they absolutely mustn’t exhaust the audience. As Jasper says, it is perfectly possible for an audience to be “all laughed out.”

“The secret of concert comedy is always to take people up and to bring them down. You get them laughing and then you build it up and then you get them interested in something and you keep them going, and then you build it all up again and go for broke at the end.”

The show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £20-£28.75, plus a £2.85 transaction fee.

Violinist pays tribute to Jimi Hendrix Music

The world’s biggest-selling classical violinist of all time, maestro and maverick Nigel Kennedy, performs the music of Jimi Hendrix at Brighton Dome (Friday, November 25, 8pm).

Kennedy’s performances have ranged from straight classical interpretations to collaborations with Stéphane Grappelli, Kate Bush, Robert Plant and Paul McCartney.

However, from early on in his career there has been one composer to whom he keeps on returning: Jimi Hendrix.

This concert comes almost 49 years after a young and emerging Jimi Hendrix performed at the Brighton Dome in 1967.

Kennedy, who was born in Hove, is a lifelong fan and has been heavily influenced by the music of Hendrix. Nigel Kennedy Plays Hendrix sees Kennedy work with a brand-

new international line-up, including guitarist Doug Boyle (regular collaborator with Robert Plant), 18-yearold guitar prodigy Julian Buschberger, vibraphonist Orphy Robinson (founding member of The Jazz Warriors), and European rhythm section Tomasz Kupiec and Adam Czerwinski (the Jarek Smietana band).

Tickets cost £32-£70. Call 01273 709709 or visit www. brightondome.org.

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A tender take on D H Lawrence’s tale Theatre

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As Hedydd Dylan points out, the nudity was straightforward to deal with for the simple reason that the nudity is essential to the piece.

Hedydd is Lady Chatterley as D H Lawrence’s novel comes to Theatre Royal Brighton until November 19.

“Lady Chatterley’s journey of self-discovery is portrayed quite clearly in Phillip Breen’s adaptation, but I would say that it is helpful for the audience to come into it remembering that it is set just after the First World War and that she has been caring for her husband at the point we meet her for four years.”

Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage. Feeling emotionally and physically neglected by her husband Clifford, she flees to the arms of their handsome gamekeeper Mellors.

As their passionate affair

escalates, Constance begins to realise that she can no longer live in a world of the mind alone.

“We come to her as she is discovering her own freedom, her own mind, her own sexuality. She has like an awakening. It feels almost like a return to the self, the true self without societal constraints.

“And I think that social element of the story has not dated. The director was pointing out that, even today, people still do not really marry outside their class. It would still be frowned upon today.

People still have certain ideas like that, and that surprised me when I thought about it.

And that’s an important part of the story – and another reason why the nudity is important.

It is only when they are naked together that we appreciate they are just two human beings and that it should feel as simple as that.”

There is a line where Mellors points out that Lady Chatterley should get dressed,

with the implication that it is only by dressing again that she becomes Lady Chatterley.

Naked, they are equals: “It just highlights how idiotic that whole thing about class is.

“The effect is the humiliation of her husband, but that is not the intention.

“People who say they remember the book often forget that her husband has invited her to have affairs so that he can have an heir. He is not an innocent bystander.

He wants the seed planted.

She has an affair with an Irish playwright that her husband introduces her to, but the relationship fizzles out. And then she meets Mellors, a man who is very gentle with her despite being a strong masculine man. He has sensitivity and gentleness.

“For D H Lawrence, the ultimate title of the book was going to be Tenderness, and that’s what this adaptation tries to bring out. There are the risqué elements, but the thing that is really important is that the relationship is

Andy White: ‘You’ve got to reinvent yourself as an artist’ Music

Irish singer-songwriter Andy White plays The Greys in Brighton on Monday, November 21, in support of the release of his boxset Studio Albums 1986-2016.

Half of the albums are pre his move to Australia; half are post, though he prefers to see each album as a separate chapter in its own right.

“The first one is about growing up in Ireland,” he explains.

“It is not all about politics though much of it is. The second is about going outside Ireland for the first time. The third one is back living in the countryside and not having the pressure of the record label. The fourth is about eastern Europe. The fifth is about having a baby. The fifth is post-ALT (a trio with Tim Finn of Split Enz and Liam Ó Maonlaí of Hothouse Flowers)… So no, I don’t really see the difference between the first half and the second half.”

But certainly there is an element of drawing a line in bringing them all together in this way.

“People are still just about buying CDs, and this seemed like another watershed moment. It is 30 years since

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my first album came out, and in many ways that is quite a big deal. 30 years since that first one is a big anniversary.

I have sold out of four or five of them, and it seemed better to just make them all again rather than ordering separate ones.”

As a teenager in the Belfast portrayed in indie film Good Vibrations, listening to punk, folk, and Beatles albums, Andy grew up writing poetry and playing bass. He picked up the guitar when a friend threw a 12-string out of the window of a first-floor flat in University Street, and recorded Religious Persuasion in a field in County Antrim with school friend Rod McVey. Stiff Records released

the Religious Persuasion EP during the ’80s acoustic revival spearheaded by The Pogues. The Whistle Test and Janice Long championed Andy as he started playing shows in the UK. When Stiff bit the dust, he was signed by London Records who released Rave On Andy White in October 1986.

Melody Maker pronounced “Yer Man’s Brilliant!”, Andy opened for Van Morrison on tour, and then Billy Bragg with whom he shared UK manager Peter Jenner.

Andy has been in Australia for about 12 years now: “I have spent a long time on tour until the past couple of years, but this is definitely home now. This is my base.

It seemed like the right time to change. You have got to reinvent yourself as an artist.

You have got to do it creatively and you have got to do it in your life if you are lucky enough to have the chance to do so.

“There are as many people in Melbourne as there are in Ireland, and it has got a really good indie scene and a really good acoustic scene.

And there is space. I have got a studio here. It is really great place to be.”

Tickets cost £10 from www.songkick.com.

tender and sincere.”

The production has been getting a great response: “Reactions differ from place to place. You forget it can still shock. When we get a younger audience in, they aren’t shocked at all. But if you get an older audience in, the interesting thing is that they are very relaxed by the nudity, but shocked by the language.

“But I am sure – and I am sure other people would disagree – that it is necessary.

I just had to find my own way to be comfortable with the nudity. People say I must be very brave, but I don’t feel brave necessarily. I felt quite sacred of it at first in rehearsals, but the good thing is that now I feel very relaxed about it, I realise it is actually quite strange that we are all so body conscious.

It seems bizarre to me that men are topless on the beach, but women aren’t. It is just one of those strange societal restraints…”

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JASPER CARROTT AND ALISTAIR MCGOWAN: £28.75, 7.30pm, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650.

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Medicine and music: an effective duo Review

Emily Turner

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Medicine and Mortality, Ensemble Moliere, Brighton Friends’ Meeting House, November 5 France, 1725. A Monsieur Valancourt has taken ill. The bells of Sainte Genevieve Abbey sound in the Parisian neighbourhood, and, as the patient’s condition worsens, the medical staff prepare to send him on his last journey from this world to the next.

Brighton. 2016. The tale of Valancourt is brought to life in the present day through an arrangement of flute, violin, viola da gamba, basson and harpsichord.

A journalist with little to no knowledge of classical music is surprised to find she can actually tell what’s going on.

Despite having an oftentumultuous two-year relationship with my violin, classical music is a subject I often find difficult to fully appreciate.

Because of this, I approached Ensemble Moliere’s performance for the Brighton Early Music Festival 2016 with a cautious interest. The draw for me was seeing how, as the BREMF programme promised, a gall bladder operation performed without anaesthetic would be interpreted through the medium of classical music.

Medicine and music are an unlikely duo that has often been creatively linked over the years.

Science and the humanities have a complex relationship.

Historically, the two as academic disciplines have been kept quite separate, but in more recent years, the drive for interdisciplinary study has seen the two operate together, mutually informing each other’s work and producing creative results.

It is exciting, therefore, to see that the Brighton Early Music Festival has chosen ‘Nature and Science’ as its theme for 2016, championing observation, discovery, invention and creation

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through its music endeavours.

It could be argued that the history of medicine adds another dimension of complexity to the mix, representing the collision of the two worlds of science and nature, two forces which battle it out for life and limb.

For such an intellectual theme, however, Ensemble Moliere’s ‘Medicine and Mortality’ performance is wonderfully accessible, even

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to a complete novice like me.

Held at the Friends’ Meeting House on Ship Street on November 5, this musical performance explored life, death and beyond through a spoken narrative and a selection of musical pieces.

A helpful programme was handed out before the performance, outlining the selected performance pieces, why they were chosen, and how they related to the

story of the fictive Monsieur Valancourt (particularly useful if, like me, you got stuck on a bus and completely missed the introductory scene).

In addition to the poor soul and his unmedicated surgery, an asthmatic and a convalescent are also met, and the music enables the audience to auditorily witness their experiences.

As a member of the audience, it is surprisingly

easy to hear how the narrative permeates the music.

A particularly clear example of this is in Marin Marais’ ‘La Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris’. There are three descending notes in an ostinato pattern played repeatedly and obsessively during the piece. The music was written in this way to evoke the sound of the bells of Sainte Genevieve Abbey in the Paris neighbourhood where the composer grew up.

Inspired by Marais’ musical illustration of a removal of a urinary bladder calculus, an operation the composer may have experienced first-hand, the music, although beautiful, does not allow us to forget the misery and terror involved in 18th century medicine.

Polyhymnia, the goddess of hymn, bade farewell to the story’s lost soul as it rose to heaven. I felt like thanking my own lucky stars that such experiences are no longer a scientific reality, but remain to us in the arts.

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Down: 1 Estimate; 2 Oversee; 4 Cheery; 5 Industrial; 6 Again; 7 Eddy; 10 Rebellious; 12 Grandeur; 15 Primate; 16 Joiner; 18 Miner; 19 Acid.

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Cryptic: Across: 1 Bush; 3 Gainsaid; 8 Stem; 9 Stagnant; 11 Beat about the; 13 Deduct; 14 Clutch; 17 Scatterbrain; 20 Homework; 21 Fore; 22 Pastries; 23 Legs.

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Opinion

Food and Drink

Tom Flint

Brighton and Hove is an ‘up-and-coming’ food city Brighton and Hove Food Awards 2016

PHOTOGRAPHS: JULIA CLAXTON

www.brightonfoodfestival.com

By Philippa Kelly

brightonbakery@yahoo.co.uk

Brighton Bakery

100% VEGAN

Regal and vegan -the Bourbon biscuit

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n Monday evening the Brighton and Hove Food Awards 2016 celebrated this fantastic city’s wonderful hospitality sector. I was invited to the festivities to join the great and the even greater that make up the food and drink scene that I feel privileged to write about each week.

Our hosts for the evening would be My Hotel in the centre of Brighton where the awards took over the Merkaba cocktail bar. We arrived at 6.30pm sharp and discovered an already heaving and bubbly atmosphere. Clutching our drinks tokens we headed to the bar for a glass of the excellent Ridgeview Cavendish. Other options included Blackdown spirits and mixer, or a can of Beer Collective craft beer; given it was an awards night sparkling wine seemed the only way to go.

As in previous years the awards were presented by Andrew Kay from Latest, and local radio presenter Allison Ferns of BBC Sussex. They took to the stage at 7pm and, after a brief period of crowd control and a few technical hitches, got the awards started. Learning from past experience, it was decided to ban all winner’s speeches and to only call up the gold winners; not because of any controversial past speeches, rather as a time-saving exercise.

The first award was a celebration of Brighton’s growing food and drink production industry. Not only do we have excellent places to eat and drink but the city also has an ever-increasing group of producers who are promoting the city beyond its borders. Up for the award this year were Brighton Gin, Boho Gelato and Brighton Bier.

For me there was a clear winner in this category and it looks like the judges agreed and it was a popular decision.

After a superb year, which saw two of their beers win international gold and

Bakery Bulletin

Ridgeview Cavendish was flowing at the awards

their Downtown Charlie Brown go on to challenge for international recognition, Brighton Bier took gold. Next year is set to be another exciting one for the brewery who are opening their own Brighton Bierhaus in the city.

Once they were off the awards came thick and fast. I will not go through the whole list, which you can browse at your leisure elsewhere in the paper. On a personal note, I would like to congratulate Fourth and Church for their bronze in the Best Newcomer (it should have been gold if you ask me); the Chilli Pickle for their win in the hotly contested Best International Cuisine; Butlers Wine Cellar for their gold in best Food and Drink Shop; and finally, one of my favourite places in Brighton, The Basketmakers Arms for yet another gold in the Best Pub category.

A couple of the awards were not without a touch of controversy. Infinity Foods taking the gold for Sustainable Food Business when many thought it would go to Silo, especially following their win at the Observer Food Monthly Awards. The Best Food Pub category pitched The Ginger Pig against the Ginger Dog for a bit of internal rivalry with the younger upstart the Ginger Dog taking the award. Be sure

Michael Bremner’s Special Recognition award was well deserved

to cheer on head chef ‘Big Jim’ Villiers on Masterchef: The Professionals as he enters knockout week.

Finally, I want to congratulate the big winners of the evening who deserve some additional recognition. The Set took the gold for the coveted Best Restaurant category, and The Curry Leaf Café had a fantastic evening making the top three in no less than five categories. Special mention to head chef Kanthi Kiran Thamma for his gold in the Food Hero category for all his work supporting charities both in Sussex and back in his native India. They also took gold in the Young Chef of the Year category with Roman Mikulica taking the crown.

Brighton’s man of the moment, Michael Bremner of 64 Degrees, picked up the Special Recognition award for all the work he and his team have put in for the city.

This was a much-deserved award and when I spoke to him afterwards he was very pleased; although slightly worried it might represent a lifetime achievement award and it would be downhill from now on. Based on the huge year Michael and 64 Degrees have had I am sure that the only way is up.

With the awards over it was time to hit the bar and the buffet which featured some amazing Indian nibbles from the neighbouring Chilli Pickle. Awards events such as this are always a wonderful opportunity for us to celebrate the variety of venues to eat and drink in Brighton and it is always great to be reminded of this.

I would like to extend my thanks to Nick and the team behind the Brighton and Hove Food Awards who do a great deal all year to support the local hospitality scene both in Brighton and beyond. The main thanks, however, should go to each and every chef, bartender, owner and producer who work tirelessly to make Brighton one of the most exciting up-andcoming food cities in the UK. Tom Flint writes a food blog Food Booze and Reviews at: www. foodboozeandreviews.com

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n 1857, James Peek and George Frean founded a biscuit company.

They could have called it anything – James George, George James, Peek-a-Boo, Fre-an Easy – but they didn’t. They went with Peek

Freans.

Lame name chosen, they began baking biscuits in their Bermondsey bakery.

In 1861, they made Garibaldis.

In 1865, they manufactured the first soft biscuits in the UK and called them Pearl. Naming things wasn’t their strongest suit.

Nobody wants a biscuit with the same name as their Nan and a tampon.

A Marie was similar to a Rich Tea, and a Chocolate Table fared better when they changed its name to Digestive. Pat-aCake shortbread, Golden Puff, and Creola were created in 1902, 1909, and 1910 respectively.

Glaxo (not SmithKline) made its debut in 1923, and Twiglets in 1930.

According to the internet, their fountain of invention dried up after the Twiglet. Not sure I’d bother doing much else having made a Twiglet.

Mister Marmite’s eureka moment must have marked the end of his desires to be a part of society. I didn’t even invent it, yet give me a jar of Marmite and every aspect of a productive life seems pointless.

It’s the Creola from 1910 that interests me, and not just because it reminds me of crayons. Creola biscuits were renamed, and that’s when they became the King of Biscuits – the Bourbon.

They were named after the House of Bourbon, a European royal dynasty which originated in France, spread to Naples, Sicily and Parma, and still occupies thrones in Spain and Luxembourg.

So they’re not just the King of Biscuits because I like them; they really do have a royal heritage.

The best thing about Bourbons is that they are accidentally vegan.

Yes, it’s true - those rectangular sandwiches of joy, those delectable dunkers, those English Oreos, are suitable for vegans.

To be fair, Oreos do fall into the same category, but we win because Bourbons are better.

You might even say they’re our trump card.

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Friday, November 18, 2016

BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY COUNCIL PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) REGULATIONS 1990 The following applications involving or affecting the setting of Listed Buildings or affecting the character of a Conservation Area were registered during week ending 13/11/16 BH2016/05670 30 West Hill Road Brighton Full Planning Demolition of existing rear extension and erection of glazed extension and creation of rear dormer.

PUBLIC NOTICES

BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL

BH2016/05763 Flat 1 2 Denmark Terrace Brighton Householder Planning Consent Replacement of existing single-storey rear extension.

BH2016/05893 Medina House 9 Kings Esplanade Hove Full Planning and Demolition in CA Demolition of existing building and erection of a single residential dwelling (C3) with associated hard and soft landscaping.

BH2016/05900 3 Pembroke Gardens Hove Householder Planning Consent Conversion of existing garage into habitable living space, creation of canopy to front entrance, alteration to fenestration, alteration to front garden wall and other associated alterations.

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

BH2016/05914 8 Marine Parade Brighton Full Planning Change of use of part of highway forecourt to form external seating area for use in association with adjoining bar/public house.

BH2016/05916 Flat 4 and Flat 5 36 Brunswick Square Hove Listed Building Consent Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/05919 12 Marine Square Brighton Listed Building Consent Repair and remedial works to roof structure, including stabilisation of existing masonry and renovation works to flat below. (Part retrospective).

BH2016/05968 17A Wilbury Grove Hove Householder Planning Consent Replacement of existing window and door with bi-folding doors and enlargement of existing dormer to rear.

BH2016/05976 Bath Court Kings Esplanade Hove Full Planning Replacement of existing 17 metre monopole with a 25 metre high monopole and installation of 6no shrouded antennas, 4no equipment cabinets and meter cabinets.

BH2016/05977 9 Brunswick Terrace Hove Listed Building Consent Removal of existing external fire escape to rear elevation with associated works.

BH2016/05982 Shawcross Building North South Road University of Sussex Brighton Listed Building Consent Installation of new suspended ceiling at first floor level to facilitate new ventilation ducts, revised fenestration to high level windows, boxing around duct work on first and ground floor and internal alterations to layout.

BH2016/05984 Flat 4 28 Brunswick Terrace Hove Listed Building Consent Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/06005 82 Beaconsfield Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent Installation of rear dormer and front roof lights, with associated alterations.

BH2016/06020 11 Waldegrave Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent Demolision of existing conservatory and erection of single storey rear extension with associated alterations. Installation of new window to front elevation.

BH2016/06038 6 Lucerne Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent Installation of rooflight to front elevation.

BH2016/06047 Flat 5 40 Medina Villas Hove Householder Planning Consent Replacement of 2no timber windows with 1no timber window to the rear at first floor level.

BH2016/05481 171 Waldegrave Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent Erection of single storey side extension with associated works.

Re-Advertisements BH2016/01736 48 Surrey Street, Brighton, BN1 3PB Full Planning Extensions at basement and first floor level to convert existing dwelling house into 3no self contained flats. (C3).

BH2016/05677 41 High Street Rottingdean Brighton BN2 7HE Advertisement Display of 1no illuminated hanging sign and 1no illuminated fascia sign.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13 BH2016/05908 Land off Overdown Rise And Mile Oak Road Portslade I give notice that Crest Strategic Projects is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for Outline planning permission for for the erection of up to 125 dwellings with associated access, landscaping and informal open space and approval of reserved matter for access only.

Re-Advertisements BH2015/04184 Court Farm House King George VI Avenue Hove I give notice that Thornton Properties Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 2no three storey blocks (one with basement parking) and 2no part three part four storey blocks containing 69no one, two and three bedroom flats (C3) (including 28no affordable housing units). Provision of 107 parking spaces, (67no at basement level and 40no at surface level) and 132 cycle spaces with associated landscaping and altered site access arrangements.

BH2016/02756 The Former Texaco Garage Site, 133 Kingsway Hove & 22 Victoria Terrace Hove I give notice that Rocco Homes (No 2) Ltd and Co-operative Foodstores Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for Proposed demolition of the former Texaco garage and shop and demolition of outbuilding to the rear of the former Alibi Public House. Proposed erection of 55 No. residential apartments and 375 sq.m of retail floorspace (A1 Use Class) in a new building of between 2 and 9 storeys together with associated parking and landscaping; a change of use of the ground floor of the former Alibi Public House to an A1 cafĂŠ, and conversion of the first, second and third floors to provide 3 No dwellings.

You can view the application on the Council website www.brighton hove.gov.uk/planning applications.

Any representations should be made in writing to the Planning and Building Control.

Applications Manager, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ, or via the website, within 21 days of this notice, quoting the application number.

Please note that all representations received will be open for public inspection and late representations may not be considered.

Planning and Building Control Applications Manager 18 November 2016

BRIGHTON & HOVE OUTER AREAS (WAITING, LOADING AND PARKING) AND CYCLE LANES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2013 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.* 201* (REF TRO-24B-2016)

It will also revoke the mandatory cycle lane in Jubilee Street, though cyclists will still be allowed to travel southbound.

BH2016/05941 46 Church Street Brighton Householder Planning Consent Erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2016/05955 2 Hanover Crescent Brighton Listed Building Consent Erection of single-storey rear extension. Installation of glazed roof to existing rear lower ground floor courtyard. Associated internal and external alterations.

BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.*X 201X (REF: TRO-24A-2016)

NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (‘the Council’) proposes to make the Orders named above under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which if they come into force will introduce a Restricted Zone in Jubilee Street, this will mean the current parking restrictions will only be signed and the road markings removed, this will apply to the current double yellow lines, disabled bays (Monday to Sunday Maximum Stay 3 hours – no return within 1 hour) and Taxi Rank (6pm to 6am) and Loading Bay (6am to 6pm).

BH2016/05908 Land off Overdown Rise and Mile Oak Road Portslade Outline Application Outline application for the erection of up to 125 dwellings with associated access, landscaping and informal open space and approval of reserved matter for access only.

BH2016/05953 157 Ditchling Road Brighton Full Planning Removal of 2no chimney stacks.

PUBLIC NOTICES

BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 BRIGHTON & HOVE (EAST STREET AND LITTLE EAST STREET) PROHIBITION OF DRIVING AND RIGHT TURN ORDER 2016 (TRO-12A-2015) BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.13 2016 (TRO-12B-2015) NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Councilâ€?) has on 16th November 2016 made the above named Orders under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when they come into operation on 21st November 2016 will make permanent the following:• Prohibit vehicles in East Street between the taxi rank and Kings Road on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm (with the exception of pedal cycles) • To allow vehicles to travel in Little East Street on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm • Prohibit right turn movement from Kings Road onto Grand Junction Road ( with the exception of pedal cycles) • Alter parking restrictions in East Street on west side to loading only while vehicles are not prohibited. In Kings Road (between East Street and Grand Junction Road) the parking will all become loading only on the south side of the road and in Bartholomews a pay and display bay will be replaced by a loading bay on the east side.

The changes described above were originally the subject of an experimental traffic order that was made and advertised in May 2015 A copy of this Notice, the Orders as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Orders may be seen online at www.brighton-hove. gov.uk/tro-finalised. The documents can also be viewed using the public computers at Customer Service Centres at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton (Monday to Friday 8.45am-4.30pm) and Hove Town Hall, Ground Floor, Norton Road, Hove, (Monday to Friday 10am-4.30pm).

Any person who wishes to question the validity of either or both of the Orders or of any of their provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the Act, or that any requirements of the Act or of any instrument made under it have not been complied with may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply to the High Court for that purpose.

Dated: 18 November 2016 Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove BN3 3BQ www.brightonhove.gov.uk/ tro-finalised

A copy of this Notice, the proposed Orders, a plan showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Orders may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-proposals.

The documents can also be viewed using the public computers at Customer Service Centres at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton (Monday to Friday 8.45am-4.30pm) and Hove Town Hall, Ground Floor, Norton Road, Hove, (Monday to Friday 10am-4.30pm).

All objections and other representations relating to the proposed Orders must be made in writing and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made and should be sent to the Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, Room 217 Hove Town Hall, Hove, BN3 3BQ quoting the TRO reference number shown above or by e-mail to parking.consultation@brighton-hove.gov.uk or online (see details above) no later than 9 December 2016. Please ensure you include your full name and address.

Dated: 18 November 2016 Executive Director Economy, Environment & Culture, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, Room 217 Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove BN3 3BQ www.brightonhove.gov.uk/ tro-proposals

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Home is where the heart is Research shows family comes first when choosing property, writes Kirsty McLuckie

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roximity to work and a social life or a specific wish to live in a city, suburb or rural setting can all playapartindecidingonwhere you want to live, but a study by TSB has found that the biggest reason to choose a location to buy a home is to be near family.

The report found that almost half of Britons live in orneartheirchildhoodhome, many of them moving back after work or studying away for some years.

For those aged 25 to 34, the need to be close to family proved to be the biggest attraction – 58 per cent cited it as their main reason for moving.

It is no coincidence that this is the time of life when many of us choose to settle down and have children.

Those people who returned to be near family – or were planning to – normally make the decision by the age of 29,

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the report said. Ian Ramsden, TSB’s mortgage director, said: “Family ties are a key factor in the decision to move home. For many people this centres on giving and receiving support to raise their own families or support older generations as external pressures such as childcare costs are beginning to impact on everyday living.”

Butitisn’tjustyoungadults with the pressures of balancing work and families that see the advantages of living close to relatives.

While many of us considering retirement spend time researching locations with warm weather, activities, opportunities to make friends

More families nowadays are moving to be closer to their loved ones

and to afford a comfortable lifestyle, if retirement coincideswitharrivalofgrandchildren, these considerations can pale next to the lure of being involved in wider family life on a day-to-day basis.

For those considering a move closer to family, there

are some key considerations however. Moving in together, in a multigenerational house, can solve a lot of a family’s challenges at a stroke.

There is always someone on hand to babysit occasionally or take a greater role in daily childcare. For older

relatives living in a house with younger adults is reassuring and as they age, if more involved care becomes necessary, help is on hand.

Increasingly, it is a wise financial move too. Instead of parents having to sell up to provide deposits for a house purchase for their children, the investment is combined, meaning the family - with the older generation providing the equity, and the younger generationservicingthemortgage - can afford much more than they could individually.

Granny flats, separate floors and annexes can provideadegreeofprivacyfortwo households while combining costs. But you do need to be realistic about the strains such an arrangement can put on family relationships and it may be better for some to live close, but not cheek-by-jowl, to their relatives.

Having grandparents a few streets, or a few miles,

away can still give many of the benefits of babysitting and socialising, without having to split bills or gripe about home maintenance.

For some, however, the arrival of grandchildren can prompt a move in the opposite direction, whether that is to distance yourself from interfering in-laws or get out of babysittingduties. Anna Constantis, who runs a relocation serviceinPaphos,Cyprussays she has had UK clients buying a home there precisely to avoid being tasked with childcare of a new generation.

Shesaid:“Theyaredelighted to see their grandchildren on holiday for a few of weeks of the year, but don’t want to have a responsibility in their upbringing. Buying a house out here, either as a permanent home or just somewhere to spend the winter, is a gentle, kinder way to ensure that happens, without any offence being caused.”

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Detached 3 bedroom house, through lounge/dining room, kitchen, conservatory, bathroom, rear garden, ORP, pte drive to garage, Potential for a side extension (stnc). NO UPWARD CHAIN.

Spacious 5 bedroom Victorian town house situated in the town centre, triple aspect 23' living room, kitchen/breakfast room, conservatory, en-suite + bathroom, south rear garden, off road parking.

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2 bedroom period cottage situated in the town centre, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, courtyard garden, gas central heating. NO UPWARD CHAIN.

3 bed. 2nd & 3rd floor duplex penthouse with direct views of the river and town centre, open plan lounge/kit, 2 balconies, en-suite, bathroom, parking, gge, lift. NO UPWARD CHAIN.

5 bed. 3 storey town house with coastal views, south facing lounge, kit./breakfast room, bathroom, shower room, en-suite shower, south rear garden, undercroft parking. NO UPWARD CHAIN.

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£555,000 Freehold

£425,000 Freehold

● 4 double bedrooms

● Potential to improve and extend

● Fantastic elevated rooftop views

● Off street parking

● Popular residential location

● No onward chain

● Detached, EPC C71.

● Large west facing rear garden, EPC D60.

Call Fiveways Office 01273 566777

Call Fiveways Office 01273 566777

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HONEY CROFT £415,000 Freehold A SPACIOUS 4 BEDROOM FAMILY HOME- Situated on a quiet residential cul-de-sac in Hangleton, the property benefits from a double garage with store room under, boarded loft and West facing garden. Offered to the market with no onward chain. Energy rating: D62

Call Hove Office 01273 321000

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£475,000 Freehold

£475,000 Freehold

● 3/4 Bedrooms

● 3 double bedrooms

● Private Driveway

● Detached

● North Woodingdean Backing Onto Downland

● Attractive rear garden

● Double Garage. EPC D65

● Popular location, EPC D59

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● Bespoke kitchen/breakfast room

● Smart modern kitchen & bathroom

● West Facing Garden

● Single Garage

● Lovely walled rear garden. EPC C69

● Gas heating, d/g. Chain free. EPC C69

● No Onward Chain. EPC: D66.

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT SOLICITOR

Working with an engaged and proactive estate agent is worth its weight in gold when you are selling or buying. Whichever you are, seller or buyer, a good and experienced agent will want the sale to go through smoothly and will expend great efforts to ensure it does! A big part of this is that they nurture an effective two-way relationship with an efficient conveyancing solicitor.

Good estate agents keep regular tabs on sales progress and can contact your solicitor to see what is causing a holdup. As agents we are used to investigating to find out what is going on and we find conveyancers respond well to focused queries by email or phone. To be honest, we realise that they want to get on with their work so having to return calls is a burden on their precious time. So we generally use email, to which they can respond quickly and promptly. Buyers, often inexperienced and not sure what question to ask, can rely on a good estate agent to get the information they need. Of course, as a seller, you need to provide your solicitor with the information they request from you in a timely manner, so they can send this over to the buyer’s solicitor promptly.

Unfortunately, sellers and buyers sometimes give insufficient thought to their choice of lawyers. No offence meant, but using the ‘family lawyer’ because they have dealt with your father or mother 20 or 30 years ago is no guide to their efficiency in conveyancing a local Brighton or Hove property. This is especially relevant here, as you are quite likely buying or selling a leasehold property (even though it may have a share of freehold) or a property with Bungeroosh construction. If your conveyancer is not used to local leases or structural issues on surveys, dealing with these issues and potential complications can lead to transaction times of 6-9 months rather than 6-9 weeks. You will get desperate! An example of side-effects caused by long delays can be that your mortgage offer may expire and you will need to get a fresh valuation done or worse, the seller or buyer could pull out of the deal...you really do want to avoid that. I hope you can now see the value of locally experienced conveyancers.

Most estate agents have great relationships with a variety of solicitors, so it will pay to look at who they recommend and why. Many estate agents earn small referral fees from lawyers: this in itself is not a problem since those fees are clearly disclosed in any quotes you receive. Conveyancing solicitors introduced in this way want to make sure they deliver a good service as they will be of course be keen to receive more referrals.

One thing to be very aware of: if you go online and google cheap conveyancing, that’s what you’ll get! It applies to solicitors/conveyancers as much as it does to estate agents; cheap rarely equates to good. As I’ve said before; you get what you pay for so be careful. Selling or buying property is probably the biggest transaction you will make in your life so don’t make that mistake.

At Bonett's, being part of the team Association network of independent agents, we work with team's Conveyancing arm and recommend highly efficient local solicitors. They work hard to ensure sales go through expeditiously whether they are working for a seller or buyer.

Of course, if you have friends who have recently sold or bought locally and can recommend a local firm, give the firm a call and see what you think.

Our Sales Manager, Timothy Denning can always give you good advice and a recommendation if you wish: 01273 677365 timothydenning@bonetts.co.uk Q & A: We are going to launch a FAQs about selling and buying in our editorial.

Email paulbonett@bonetts.co.uk with your queries about the sale process, whether you’re in the middle of it or thinking of what to do for the best.

Whether to do with agents’ practice, solicitors, surveys. Just ask. We will attempt to answer all questions as promptly as possible and can write to you confidentially if preferred.

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Kemp Town, Brighton £950,000

Kemp Town, Brighton £2,750 pcm

Attractive period property in the heart of Kemp Town Village A large period property in a popular Kemp Town location currently arranged as three self-contained flats. All three separate flats have outside space, including the maisonette (arranged over the first and second floors) which has a roof terrace. The potential annual rental income for all three flats is in the region of £40,800.

Impressive 5 bed family home full of character A beautiful 5 bedroom period house, within walking distance of the sea and close to Kemp Town Village. Many original period features, fireplaces throughout, separate kitchen, two bathrooms and wrought iron spiral staircase.

Off-road parking. Available now, unfurnished. Call us now for an immediate viewing.

VALUATIONS: Would you like to know what your property is worth today? Please call and arrange an appointment for one of our experienced valuers to come to your property and give you our best advice.

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Order books open for new Giulia by staff reporter

Order books have opened for Alfa Romeo’s new Giulia saloon.

Priced from £29,180, the Giulia has been highly anticipated.

There are four engines to choose from, with two diesels and two petrol units givingconsumers agood range of powerplants.

All engines are being driven through an eight-speed au-

tomatic transmission.

Damien Dally, country manager at Alfa Romeo UK, said: “The all-new Alfa Romeo Giulia is a true driver’s car, offering beautiful Italian styling and stunning performance, and so we’re delighted to see strongearlyinterestinthecar.

“Passion and practicality combine in the Alfa Romeo Giulia; there’s never been more temptation to own an Alfa Romeo.”

The new Giulia also features a wealth of new technology. This includes autonomous emergency brake,

forwardcollisionwarningand pedestrianrecognition.These systems, though advanced, feature on even the entry-level Giulia.

Allof these systems helped the Giulia achieve a five-star Euro NCAP rating, scoring 98 per cent for its protection result for adult occupants.

All cars feature dual-zone climatecontrol,afullinfotainment system with DAB radio, and Bluetooth connectivity.

There’s also an eight-speaker audio system, cruise control and parking sensors.

The most powerful car in

the Giulia range is the Quadrifoglio, which represents everything an Italian sports car should be. Powered by a bi-turbo V6 petrol engine, it produces 512bhp and 600Nm torque, powered through an eight-speed automatic transmission, which can be operatedbysteeringwheel-mounted paddle shifters. The Quadrifoglio is priced from £59,000.

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SHOREHAM VEHICLE AUCTIONS OVERWHELMED BY SUPPORT FOR CHESTNUT TREE HOUSE CHARITY CAR AUCTION Caffyns Volkswagen, Newton Honda, Dinnages, H.A. Fox, Peter Cooper Group and Harwoods all generously donating to the cause in a bid to better the 2015 total of £14,000 raised on the night.

With just under a week to go until the sixth annual auction in aid of the Arundel-based children’s hospice, Shoreham has received a plethora of donations, including dealership part-exchanges, signed sporting memorabilia and tickets for Premiership Rugby, Championship football, horse racing and T20 cricket, as well as a Land Rover and Jaguar F-Pace for a weekend.

A round of golf for four at local courses, a London lunch for two, a free MOT and interim service and alloy wheel refurbishment will also be going under the hammer on the night.

• Taking place on 21st November, there will be over 50 lots to raise funds for the children’s hospice • Incredible generosity displayed by individuals and the motor trade in Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire • Donations also include signed sporting memorabilia and tickets and luxury vehicles for a weekend

Chestnut Tree House and Shoreham Vehicle Auctions have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the south coast motor trade and individual donators ahead of its charity auction on Monday 21st November.

Dealerships across Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire have exceeded their incredible support from last year’s auction, with Yeomans Group, Frosts, Tates,

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“The response we’ve had from the local community, and dealerships further afield has been incredible.

I can’t thank all of our customers enough for their generosity in donating some fantastic lots, which we’re sure will be snapped up quickly on the night,” commented Catherine Stone, Business Development Manager at Shoreham.

“Every member of the Shoreham team is passionate about raising as much as possible for such a worthy cause and we can’t wait to see what the final total will be,” she added.

For a full list of auction items available, visit www.shorehamvehicleauctions.com/sales-catalogue.

As annual service charges exceed £3m, the hospice relies heavily on donations, which will also be used to fund community nurses in the local and surrounding areas, allowing children to receive around-the-clock care at the hospice or at home.

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CHAMPIONSHIP

LEAGUE TABLE: TEAM

Poss 1 Newcastle 2 Brighton 3 Huddersfield 4 Reading 5 Norwich 6 Leeds 7 Birmingham 8 Fulham 9 Bristol City 10 Sheff Wed 11 Preston 12 Brentford 13 Barnsley 14 Aston Villa 15 Ipswich 16 Derby 17 QPR 18 Burton Albion 19 Wolves 20 Nottm Forest 21 Cardiff 22 Wigan 23 Blackburn 24 Rotherham

P 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

MATCHES W D 12 1 10 4 9 2 8 4 8 3 8 2 6 7 6 6 7 3 7 3 7 2 6 4 6 3 4 9 5 6 5 5 5 5 4 6 4 5 4 4 4 3 3 5 3 4 1 4

L 3 2 5 4 5 6 3 4 6 6 7 6 7 3 5 6 6 6 7 8 9 8 9 11

F 34 25 17 20 28 19 21 23 23 17 22 21 27 17 14 12 17 18 19 25 14 14 16 17

GOALS Pts A Av 13 2.1 37 9 1.6 34 18 1.1 29 18 1.3 28 27 1.8 27 17 1.2 26 18 1.3 25 18 1.4 24 19 1.4 24 19 1.1 24 20 1.4 23 16 1..3 22 24 1.7 21 16 1.1 21 15 0.9 21 13 0.8 20 22 1.1 20 20 1.1 18 21 1.2 17 30 1.6 16 25 0.9 15 19 0.9 14 25 1.0 13 38 1.1 7

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games as manager of QPR from 2001-06

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Next up at the Amex...

Sport

Albion v Aston Villa in the Championship tonight, kick-off 7.45pm Tickets available at www.seagulls.co.uk or by calling 0844 327 1901

Resurgent Villa will test Albion’s unbeaten run Brighton & Hove Albion

Bradley Stratton

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Brighton will be looking to further consolidate their place in the Championship’s top two when they return from the international break against Aston Villa this evening at the Amex.

Chris Hughton’s side opened up a five-point gap between themselves and the play-off pack with a comfortable 2-0 win at Bristol City a fortnight ago, with Steve Sidwell and Jamie Murphy finding the back of the net for the Seagulls in the first half.

Having gone into the international break on a run of ten games without defeat, Albion will be hoping to maintain that momentum tonight against an Aston Villa side who look to have got their act together after an underwhelming start to the campaign.

After being relegated from the top flight for the first time in almost 30 years in May, Villa’s woes continued

in the opening few months of this season, winning only one of their opening 11 league games.

Manager Roberto Di Matteo was sacked after four months in charge in October, and replaced by Steve Bruce.

Since then the midlands outfit have remained unbeaten under the former Hull boss, winning three of their last five games, as they have moved up to 14th in the table.

The 55-year-old’s appointment has also coincided with the return to form of striker Jonathan Kodjia.

The Ivory Coast international scored 19 times for Bristol City last season; however he had scored only once for the former Premier League side since making the £11m move to Villa Park at the end of August.

But the 27-year old has scored five goals in as many games since Bruce took over.

Tonight’s match is the first of back-to-back home games for Albion, with Fulham the visitors to the Amex next Saturday.

PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE (PW SPORTING PHOTOGRAPHY)

Chris Hughton will look to increase Albion’s unbeaten run to 11 games when they host Aston Villa tonight

Cricket Sussex to hold open trial day

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Football

Brighton & Hove Albion forward Bronwen Thomas has spoken of her ‘great honour’ after she was recognisedamongtheworld’s best players and crowned Wales’ young women’s player of the year.

The 16-year-old collected the FAW’s gong for 2016 at a star-studded gala evening to celebrate an historic year for Welsh football.

She was one of the headline-makers at the event which featured Wales boss Chris Coleman and Real Madrid legend Gareth Bale.

The award is the latest in a series of achievements for Thomas and follows her call-up to the Welsh senior squad in September for Euro qualifiers against Israel and Austria.

In a remarkable year, Thomas also broke through to the senior team at club level. She netted a hattrick for Albion as they retained the Sussex Women’s Challenge Cup with a 5-1 win over Crawley Wasps, at the Sussex County FA Headquarters.

Just three seasons ago Thomas was playing in the Sussex County Women & Girls’ Football League with

Bronwen Thomas collects her young player award

Horsham Sparrows, and captained their under-14 team to Sussex Girls’ Challenge Cup success.

She said: “It came as a total surprise. I was so excited to have a invitation to attend the Wales awards evening with the men that had done so well at the Euros and had no idea I was going to get an award.

“It means a lot, just playing for your country means a lot but to be picked as young player of the year is amazing, it’s a great honour.

“I’ve got to keep working really hard and improving as a player to keep getting the opportunities I am at the moment with Brighton and Wales.”

Voting now open for Sussex club of the year award Sussex Sports Awards

Sussex Cricket are holding an open trial day on Friday, January 13, and anyone interested can register now. The day will begin at 11am in the Aerotron Indoor School at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove. All trialists must be in possession of a British or European passport.

Anyone interested should email player services manager Colin Bowley by December 12 on colin.bowley@sussexcricket.co.uk. For more information, visit www.sussexcricket.co.uk

Bronwen nets Wales’ young player award

Withdean Youth Football Club are one of three teams nominated for the Sussex Sports Awards club of the year award, which is the only category to be decided by the public vote.

The awards evening takes place at The Grand Hotel, Brighton, next Friday, with five-time Olympian Jo Pavey MBE the special guest.

The clubs nominated for the award are Withdean, Steyning Town Community Football Club and Crawleybased FastStep Badminton Academy.

Among the achievements made by Withdean this year was securing Charter Standard club status, resulting in 23 qualified coaches from Level 1 to UEFA B. The club was also awarded Sussex FA Charter Standard club of the year in 2016 and invested £1,000 for pitch maintenance and new goals at Balfour School.

Steyning is not only a FA Charter Standard community club but also one of the first Nike Partner Clubs in the country.

The club has invested heavily in coach develop-

ment over the past few years and already met the tougher Charter Standard requirements coming in for the 2017/18 season.

In the past two years, FastStep has established itself as one of the biggest and most successful junior badminton clubs in Sussex.

Run as a not-for-profit club to keep fees low and drive inclusivity, it has had a 300 per cent increase in members over two years.

Votes can be made by visiting www.activesussex. org, with voting closing on the night of the awards.

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Johnny Cantor Straight from the commentary box

It will be great to see Tommy – one of the good guys

S

o, 1983 was the last time that Brighton & Hove Albion took on Aston Villa in the league; however the last occasion when the two teams met was in the Midlands in the FA Cup in 2010.

It’s a day I remember very well indeed. A chilly afternoon in January but it’s not just about the weather. Ultimately the Seagulls were beaten that day by three goals to two but showed huge courage and were still in the game after Tommy Elphick had pulled a goal back for them.

It looks as if Elphick will not start against Chris Hughton’s team tonight but he is a player and a character that the club can be very proud of.

He made nearly 200 appearances in white and blue (and other colours!) scoring nine goals, but it is Elphick the person that shines through.

The Albion are enjoying success right now but it was not always that way. It was the central defender from Woodingdean who was often wheeled out after defeats to face the media.

Honest, articulate and determined, he has always spoken well and I’m delighted that he has continued his career, after a bad injury, at both Bournemouth and Villa.

He was also thrust in front of the camera lens during the move to Falmer and explained what it meant to local people in this new stadium.

Tommy has dipped his toe in the water when it comes to punditry already and after appearing on TV, I can certainly see him enjoying a fruitful career in the studio if he decides to go down that route after he retires (plenty of time before that, though!).

The defender also has a keen interest in racing and can sometimes be seen at some racecourses across Sussex and the rest of the country during the year.

He has never offered me a winning

Danny Mills was on target for Whitehawk on Saturday

PICTURE BY DAVID HUNT

Hill: We didn’t get rub of the green Football Tommy Elphick made nearly 200 appearances for Brighton

tip yet but I look forward to shaking his hand on his return to the south coast.

Once again, we have seen a few headlines in the press this week about footballers’ off-the-field antics but Elphick is one of the good guys. A leader and a gentleman.

Tonight should be a cracker but here’s a note for the diary. The last game of the season pits the Seagulls once again against Villa in the midlands. It could be a day to remember for both teams.

Follow all the action, home or away, on BBC Sussex Sport or Twitter: @BBCSussexSport or @johnnycburger To read more by Johnny Cantor, visit www. johnnycantor.com

Whitehawk FC

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Whitehawk Football Club boss Richard Hill felt his side did not get the rub of the green as they lost their FA Cup first-round replay 3-0 at Stourbridge on Monday evening.

Hawks were bidding to reach the second round for the second successive year, with a home tie against League One Northampton awaiting the victors.

However, three secondhalf goals took Stourbridge through and Hill, speaking to Hawks’ website www. whitehawkfc.com, said: ”Stourbridge played really well, and over the two games were better than us.

“Up until the first goal I felt we made it really difficult for them. But then a decision doesn’t go our way, and all of a sudden we are two goals down and chasing the game.

“I don’t want to complain about referees, but I felt there were inconsistencies in his performance which did us no favours. There are two teams on the pitch who are equally entitled to decisions, and I felt we didn’t get the rub of the green at all.”

Hawks keeper Adri Munoz – who made his final appearance for the club as he left by mutual consent on Wednesday – made a great save early on.

Whitehawk striker Danny Mills then fired into the side netting from a tight angle and Sergio Torres headed just wide, before Chris Lait put Stourbridge ahead after a mix-

up in Hawks’ defence on 51 minutes.

Stourbridge doubled their lead through Luke Benbow, with Whitehawk appealing for a foul in the build-up on the hour, before Benbow curled home a free-kick for the third on 76 minutes.

Hawks had lost 3-2 at home to East Thurrock in National South on Saturday. They trailed 3-0 after 25 minutes before they got goals back through Ahmed Abdulla and Danny Mills but could not force an equaliser.

Whitehawk travel to Poole Town tomorrow and Hill said: “We now need to roll our sleeves up for a big month ahead, with several league games coming up.

“We need a response, and I am confident in the players that they will produce.”