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Debate on high-rise buildings and the future of housing in Brighton and Hove Bex Bastable

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Tall buildings are a hot topic in Brighton and Hove. There is a severe need for housing in the city; soaring house prices and rents are proof of that, as is the 24,000-strong council house waiting list.

Just this week Brighton and Hove topped a list of the most expensive places to live in the south east by the GMB union, which said the average monthly rent was just half the average paypacket in the city.

There are no easy answers to the city’s housing crisis,

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but it is often said that because Brighton and Hove is nestled between the sea and the South Downs, you can’t build out, you can only build up.

That said, the developers at Brighton Marina have had a pretty good try at ‘building out’, with 11 new towers over the sea – the highest standing at 40 storeys.

But tall buildings in Brighton and Hove have always been controversial.

There was much opposition to Hyde ’s recent plan for a 17-storey building on the site of the old Sackville tower, so much so that the developer has gone

back to the drawing board.

Developers First Base have seen residents complain that 15 storeys is too tall for the Anston House site.

There seems to be less uproar over the 18-storey tower plan for the King Alfred Centre – although that has been the subject of plans for high-rise developments before.

Last week, the Regency Society held a debate on tall buildings and the future of development in Brighton and Hove. For a full report of the meeting, and the discussion over tall buildings, see page nine.

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Praise for sixth form on work preventing student extremism

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A sixth form college in Brighton and Hove has been praised for its work in preventing the radicalisation of its students over the last two years.

This comes after two of its former students, Ibrahim Kamara, 19, and Jaffar Deghayes, 17, died fighting in Syria in 2014.

The pair joined the Syrian conflict alongside Jaffar’s brothers, Abdullah (who also died in 2014), Amer Deghayes and their friend Mohammed Raja Khan.

Education watchdog Ofsted returned to the sixth form after an inspection three years ago, and found that Varndean College remains ‘good’ and had succeeded in taking the right steps after

identifying students at risk of radicalisation.

Ofsted inspector Dr Richard Beynon said: “Students understand the risks associated with careless use of the internet and social media, and the dangers of radicalisation from those supporting extremist ideologies.”

He said the Varndean College had made several ‘successful interventions and referrals’ over the last two years, ‘where staff have identified students at risk of radicalisation’.

Senior staff at the college, Dr Beynon said, had good links with the local authority Prevent co-ordinator - whose job it is to actively prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

The Ofsted inspection at Varndean College took place in September, and Dr

Beynon said the sixth form had also improved the way it sets learning targets, that students enjoyed their time at the sixth form and that student progress was ‘better than in the majority of similar colleges’.

Phil Harland, college principal, said: “At Varndean College students and teachers work well together, and it is that relationship that enables our students to make outstanding progress.

“Staff and students enjoy the Varndean College experience and we all value very highly our inclusive and tranquil atmosphere pervading the college on a day to day basis, making Varndean a happy place to be. During my ten years at Varndean College I have marvelled at the dedication of my staff and the growth I observe in our students.”

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Council to look at changing policy on student housing Campaigners have won a key victory in their battle to reduce the number of multiple-occupancy homes in their area.

At a meeting last Thursday, Brighton and Hove City Council moved to amend current regulation on houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs), usually student homes. The debate took place at Hove Town Hall after the success of local petition Family Homes not HMOs, which reached 1,295 signatures.

William Gandy, chairman of the Bevendean Local Action Team, told the council

about having to sweep up smashed vodka bottles and takeaway packages left on the street by students living in HMOs. He added his concern about the now undersubscribed schools.

“Our future is in your hands,”hesaidtocouncillors.

“You decide the very essence of our survival.

“Your vote will decide whether we live to rebuild our community or become displaced to make way for more HMOs.” There was unanimous cross-party support for the petition.

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proposed a change to the rule that ten per cent of homes in a 50-metre radius can be HMOs. Instead, new applications would be rejected if five per cent of homes in a 150m radius were already HMOs. A Labour councillor added that HMO landlords should pay business rates.

Councillor Tracey Hill said: “The management of HMOs in our city is a business, sometimes big businesses, and in our view should be taxed as such.”

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Back on track? Full timetable restored Oli Poole

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Southern services cancelled as part of a temporary timetable are expected to be fully reinstated by Monday.

Rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) brought in the temporary weekday timetable in July, cancelling more than 300 services a day to deal with staff shortages.

Services have been gradually reinstated, with 34 West Coastway trains restored this week.

A further 46 services will follow on Monday, when services between Brighton and Southampton and Hastings and Ashford will return.

Charles Horton, chief executive officer of GTR, said: “I’m delighted for our passengers that we will be restoring more services to the timetable. This is what our passengers deserve and I

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thank them for their patience during what has been a difficult time for everyone.

“Clearly the industrial relations issues we have are, regrettably, continuing, but we are pressing ahead with our plans and are committed to delivering a better service for everyone.“ Despite the reinstatements, rail bosses have announced 33 Gatwick Express services will not return until December 12

as part of autumn leaf-fall arrangements.

During the leaf-fall period, with challenging slippery rail conditions, trains take longer to reach their destinations, leading to congestion, cancellations and delays.

From Monday until Friday December 9, weekday Southern and Gatwick Express trains arriving or departing from London Victoria or London Bridge may have their journey times extended by between one and three minutes.

Weekday Thameslink trains on the busy Brighton mainline from Three Bridges to Brighton and from Brighton to London Bridge will also have their journey times extended by up to three minutes.

Meanwhile, planned strike action by the RMT union on Thursday, November 3 has been suspended because of London Poppy Day. Other planned strike action will continue.

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Tories’ festive free parking proposals scrapped Bex Bastable

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Conservative councillors’ dreams of free Christmas parking were dashed, when their Labour and Green counterparts voted down the proposals.

Cllr Steve Bell asked council officers to explore making some city car parks free on Sundays over the festive period, including at Norton Road, London Road, Regency Square, High Street and Trafalgar Street.

He proposed the Conservative motion at last week’s Full Council meeting, and said: “Brighton and Hove has an unenviable reputation for ripping off motorists and makes the biggest profit from parking charges of any council outside of London. It really wouldn’t have taken much for the Labour Administration to give this small gesture of seasonal goodwill to our residents, visitors and most importantly, the local businesses who depend so heavily on Christmas trade.”

Cllr Lee Wares, who seconded the motion, added:

“We have recently learnt that the number of day trippers to the city has fallen by around one million. What better way to try and encourage some of these people back than to offer them free parking over the festive season?”

But Labour councillor Gill Mitchell, who heads up the transport committee, said: “Thisisanotheremptygesture from the Conservatives who, as usual, fail to think through the implications of their proposal; a £100,000 cut to bus travel for older people.

“It is vital for local businesses that we keep a good turnover of parking spaces in the city’s car-parks and not block them with longstay, free parking.

“Three car loads of shoppers using one parking space in a day will spend more in our shops than one car load staying all day.

“There is no sign that the city’s unique retail businesses are failing to attract visitors and instead of continually talking the city down the Conservatives should join with me in wishing them an excellent shopping period and a prosperous 2017.”

Free Brexit hotline for worried EU workers A solicitor from Brighton said he is disappointed with the government’s reluctance to set out what Brexit means for EU nationals living in Sussex and the UK. Ivon Sampson, a partner in Healys LLP solicitors in Brighton, specialises in UK and EU immigration law, and has set up a special hotline for those who are worried about what Brexit might mean for them.

Mr Sampson said:

“Immigration issues have suddenly become central to the lives of EU nationals, many of whom never expected such issues to arise and want clarity about their position.

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Jobs bonanza if university building gets the green light Bex Bastable

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A new state-of-the-art Life Sciences building at The University of Sussex could create around 600 new jobs in Brighton and Hove.

The university has submitted a planning application to Brighton and Hove City Council and Lewes District Council for a ‘pioneering’ building on the Falmer campus.

Set over five floors, the new development would include collaborative spaces for staff and students to work in; encouraging molecular biologists, zoologists, neuroscientists, and chemists to carry out research alongside each other. The building’s modern laboratories will also provide teaching spaces for students.

Professor Michael Davies, pro-vice-chancellor for research, said: “A big part of this initiative is about giving back to the community and

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our new building will help to create jobs and boost the local economy.

“By becoming a hub for bioinnovation we will also help to foster an emerging sector in the region – which will have a

legacy for years to come.”

The university said the new building, designed by Hawkins Brown Architects, will remain true to the vision of the university’s founding architect, Sir Basil Spence.

The development of the Life Sciences building is part of the University’s overall Campus Masterplan, which was approved by Brighton and Hove City Council last year.

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Design, the housing crisis and ‘turning Brighton and Hove into Shanghai’ were all discussed during a debate on high-rise building in the city last week.

The Regency Society debate on the future of highrise buildings in Brighton and Hove was held at City College on Wednesday, and saw five panellists debate the issues surrounding taller buildings.

Tom Shaw of Hyde Housing said: “Taller buildings can help our housing supply problem – we have heard already from Dave Robson that there is a challenge in the city to meet the housing need, tall buildings can be part of but not all of the answer.”

JeremyMustoe,chairman of the Brighton Society, raised several points of concern, including that the process once started would be difficult to stop and the effect it could have on parks and conservation areas.

“I’m convinced that tall buildings are generally not the best answer to high-density housing, particularly in relation to the problems that I’ve just mentioned,” he said.

Cllr Phelim Mac Cafferty, convenor of the Green Group on Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “I don’t think we should be afraid of taller buildings,

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Nick Lomax, of Brighton’s LCE Architects, was in favour of tall buildings in principle.

He said: “Higher density buildings can make the most of the transport infrastructure.”

Currently in Brighton there are nine zones deemed appropriate for tall buildings in line with the supplementary planning guidance in 2004. They are: The Marina, Central Seafront, Brighton Station East, Hove Station, Shoreham Harbour, London Road/ Preston Road, Lewes Road, Eastern Road and Western Seafront/Kingsway.

However, Nick Hibberd, executive director of economy, environment and culture at Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “Just because there is a clear zone doesn’t mean to say that means any tall building can be developed, that is not the case.”

He suggested we embrace tall buildings as iconic architecture and gave the example of the Gherkin and

its impact on international attitudes towards London, particularly in Asia, and how it had become an important image in marketing the Olympics.

After the initial discussion between the panellists the evening was opened out for questions and comments from the audience.

Andrew Garrett is project manager at Brighton Marina, where 11 towers are being built. The highest tower is set to stand at 40 storeys.

He said: “If you look at the low density elsewhere in Brighton Marina had we actually built at this kind of scale, I’m not saying 40 storeys across the board, but at a much higher density with higher rise only up to cliff height, actually we could have solved half the council’s housing problem by building on recycled land below cliff top level.”

One member of the audience said: “Can I bring everyone down to earth?

“Everybody talks about Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore – we are Brighton and Hove. I have lived here for 42 years. I love the city but I do not want it to change to Shanghai.”

After the meeting Adam Self, 28, of Oriental Place, said: “I’m a bit scared about the effect on the skyline and them building too many high-rises.”

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Decision ‘a real blow’ for Brighton Bex Bastable

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Politicians from Brighton and Hove were unhappy with the government’s decision to expand Heathrow Airport this week – but for different reasons.

Green MP Caroline Lucas opposed the expansion of Heathrow and Gatwick over climate concerns, but other politicians in the city said an opportunity for Brighton and Hove had been missed after Gatwick Airport was overlooked.

Ms Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, said: “The government is pushing forward with climatewrecking plans for airport expansion at Heathrow.

“Instead of expanding Heathrow the government should introduce a frequent flyer levy to reduce the need for any new runway capacity and invest the money raised in further measures to offer climate-friendly alternatives to air travel.”

But other politicians in the city saw the announcement

Gatwick Airport was overlooked, as the government chose Heathrow for its expansion plans

Warren Morgan said he will continue to lobby for Gatwick expansion

as a missed opportunity for Brighton and Hove.

Peter Kyle, Labour MP for Hove, said: “The Gatwick proposals would have created opportunities for the Greater Brighton economy and we now need to look at how policy makers and politicians can support Gatwick and realise its potential going forward.

“One of the compelling aspects of the Gatwick bid

meantime, the Conservative Group will continue to push for the expansion of Gatwick airport for the benefit of the city and its residents.”

Cllr Warren Morgan, the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “A second runway at Gatwick would have massively benefited Brighton and Hove’s economy, businesses, and residentsaswellassupporting

was how competition it offered to existing Heathrow destinations drove down prices for the benefit of passengers and businesses.”

Cllr Geoffrey Theobald, leader of the Conservative Group for Brighton and Hove City Council, expressed his disappointment over the government’s decision, and said: “The potential benefits of a second runway for the city,

local businesses and residents were hugely significant in terms of delivering jobs, apprenticeships and boosting the local economy.

“In terms of moving forward, I know that spokespersons for Gatwick Airport have previously said thattheycouldtaketheproject forwardwithoutpublicmoney from government and I would implore them to do so. In the

our thriving overseas visitor economy.

“This decision is a real blow for the city.

“We will now be lobbying hardwithGatwickAirportand our partners across Greater Brighton and the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership to seek the massive investment needed in the region’s considerable infrastructure challenges.”

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A night to celebrate the right to stay up late

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A fundraising gig will mark 10 years of campaigning for people with learning disabilities to stay up late.

Brighton charity Stay Up Late launched Gig Buddies, a project that links adults with a learning disability to a volunteer with similar music tastes to go out together.

The charity grew from theexperiencesoftheband Heavy Load, some of whom had a learning disability.

Many of their fans had learning disabilities too, and had to leave early due to their support staff working inflexible shifts.

The anniversary will be celebrated with a gig on Sunday, November 6, at the Green Door Store.

Planning permission has been granted for 44 new homes in Brighton - 40 per cent of them affordable units aimed at local people in housing need.

Half of the homes could be created at the site of the Preston Park Hotel in Preston Road. The development would have 13 flats for sale on the open market andnine affordable homes.

A second development of 22 flats was approved on the site of former NHS and social services complex at 80 Buckingham Road, Brighton.

Approval for both schemes were given at the council’s planning committee last week.

Children take on walking challenge Around 4,000 pre-school children enjoyed walking, scooting and cycling last week, as part of a special campaign.

The children, from around 50 nurseries and pre-schools, were helping celebrate Walking and Wheeling Week.

The campaign encouraged parents, carers, children and staff to walk, scoot and cycle to their nursery, pre-school,

playgroup or childminder.

Cllr Gill Mitchell, chair of council’s environment and transport committee, said: “As well as promoting walking and wheeling as a fun and healthy way to travel, the initiative reduces the amount of traffic around early years settings, cutting pollution, and improving the environment which benefits everyone.”

Racecourse to host fair for vintage trinkets

Foodbank drive at Whitehawk home game

An antiques fair is to be held at Brighton Racecourse next weekend, with 170 stalls of vintage and collectable items.

There will be Art Deco and vintage items, Victorian silver, jewellery, Art Nouveau, 17th-20th century antiques, and paintings. Refreshments will be on hand, and swing singer Steve Conway will perform at the fair.

The event is on Sunday, November 6, from 10.30am to 4pm. Tickets are £3, early entry from 9.30am is £5.

Whitehawk Football Club is asking its fans to donate to the local foodbank at its home match against Margate on Saturday.

The football club will be collecting tinned fruit, tea bags, dried pasta, UHT milk and breakfast cereals to donate to the Whitehawk Foodbank.

Kick off at Whitehawk’s ground in Wilson Avenue is at 3pm.

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Pre-school children in Brighton and Hove took part in the Walking and Wheeling Week

Students to clean up gateway to city A major road that acts as a gateway to Brighton is to be cleaned by students and staff from the University of Sussex.

The university’s housing services team will lead a cleanup of Beaconsfield Road, which is the stretch of the A23 that runs between Preston Park and Preston Circus, on Tuesday. The team of students and other volunteers will spend the day clearing rubbish, sweeping pavements and removing graffiti.

The team tackled Viaduct Road in June, leaving with morethan100bagsofrubbish.

John Duffy, the university’s registrar, said: “In our many meetings and conversations

The university’s housing services team will lead the clean-up

with residents – including with those who come into our shop space in Lewes Road – rubbish and litter comes up as a big concern.”

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A Week in the City Supporting young men through art A photography exhibition at the Brighton Dome will showcase a new project to support vulnerable young men in Brighton and Hove.

The exhibition, On The Level, will be on display from today (Friday) to November 6, and will be launched with a performance by a group of young men aged 15 to 16, from 8pm this evening.

The exhibition will reflect on male representation, investigating the transitional journey from adolescence to manhood, and the risks boys face as they struggle to fit in and prove themselves as adult men.

The project is in response

to research which show men are disproportionately likely to be involved in crime, and also that young men are particularly at risk of suicide it is the second most common cause of death amongst men under 35.

The MPower project will seek to address these issues by creating learning opportunities using photography, creative writing and performance as powerful, transformative learning tools.

The lottery-funded project will be delivered by several local organisations: Photoworks, Brighton Dome, the Connected Hub, and A Band of Brothers.

Celebrating city’s ‘unsung hero’

The Mayor celebrating 40 years of the Resource Centre with volunteers

A Brighton organisation which provides community groups with equipment hire, printing, advice and information celebrated its 40th anniversary last week.

The Resource Centre held a special annual general meeting on Wednesday,

October 19, which was attended by the Mayor of Brighton and Hove Cllr Pete West. He said: “The Resource Centre is, in my book, the biggest unsung hero in our city. The Resource Centre is a genuine asset to the city, and long may it continue to be so.”

One of the photographs in the On The Level exhibition, displayed at Brighton Dome

Awards roll in for The Level after restoration

Enhancing our urban spaces in the city

The Level has one two awards; one for its play area and another for its ‘high quality restoration’.

Brighton and Hove City Council said the awards were from PiPA (Plan Inclusive Play Areas) and the Sussex Heritage Trust.

The Level was restored in 2013 with the creation of a play area for children.

Councillor Gill Mitchell, chair of the council’s environment committee, said: “These awards are a real credit to all those who worked on the project and those who continue to ensure that the Level remains safe, enjoyable and accessible for all.”

‘Greening Elm Grove and Hanover’ is a new event from Hanover Action Group aimed at inspiring local residents wanting to improve their streetscapes and open spaces.

Areas to be discussed range from tree planting and replacement, green roofs and living walls to rain-gardens.

The event is set to bring together neighbours, businesses and the council to explore ways of enhancing the urban environment.

Residents can turn up at The Hanover Community Centre for 6.30pm tonight (Friday).

Fun day for Black History Month A celebration of African arts will take place at Brighton Dome’s café for Black History Month.

On Sunday there will be children’s activities including face painting, a crafts area and story-telling by Banyan Tree Theatre Group.

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The free event runs on Sunday from 10am to 5pm.

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Community groups are set to benefit from £12,500 raised during Pride celebrations Independent reporter

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For one weekend every year, the city is taken over by a sea of rainbows. From the parade watched by tens of thousands, to the festival in Preston Park through to the street party in St James’ Street, the whole city comes together to mark the LGBT celebration, Brighton Pride.

Now, community groups are being invited to bid for money raised from the event to ensure that the positive message of Pride has an impact on areas of Brighton and Hove all year round.

Paul Kemp, director of Brighton and Hove Pride, said: “Community fundraising is central to the purpose of Pride in Brighton and Hove. On top of our record-breaking fundraising for the Rainbow Fund we are thrilled to be able to deliver small grants funding through the social impact fund to small grass roots community

organisations that can help deliver a positive community impact to the wider community.”

The Pride Social Impact Fund aims to support those groups or organisations which need a little helping hand in making a difference in their community. They do not have to be LGBT related; they don’t even have to directly-linked to Pride (although applicants directly impacted will be favoured).

However big or small, the only criteria is that it will

brighten up people’s lives by the time Pride comes round again next year. This year, up to £12,500 is up for grabs.

Funding comes from contributions made by businesses within the St James’s Street Party area.

Mr Kemp said: “We’d like to encourage more local businesses across the city who benefit from the bumper weekend of business Pride brings into the city, to get involved with our fundraising efforts for all our communities.”

How to apply The Social Impact Fund has been set up to provide small grants for organisations within the city with particular emphasis on areas directly affected or in the footprint of Brighton and Hove Pride.

Submissions should be a maximum of 400 words mapping out how the money will be spent and why the

cause is deserving. Please note the maximum award will be £1,000. Please submit it by midday on November 30 by email to Bhsocialimpactfund@gmail.com. Applications will be considered by a panel of local media representatives with successful applicants informed by the end of December.

Launched in 2016, the inaugural awards saw more than £4,500 distributed to groups across the city.

Among the groups to benefit last year include the Friends of Preston Park, which was awarded £1,000.

The majority of this went towards a new piece of playground equipment, while £250 helped put on an Easter Egg Hunt for local children.

Another group to benefit was Brighton’s local community radio station Radio Reverb, which was awarded £500 towards creating a listen again facility.

Ellie Dobing, who sits on the board of directors, said: “The grant from the Pride Social Impact Fund went a long way to helping Radio Reverb move into a new era.

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It’s goodbye from Woodies Diner Rosie Blunt

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A well-loved Portslade institution, Woodies Longboard Diner, closed its doors to customers for the final time last week after 14 years of loyal service.

The family restaurant became a local landmark thanks to its American-style cuisine and retro décor, including neon signs, a chequerboard floor and a jukebox playing rock and roll music.

The owners of Woodies posted a notice on the front door of the restaurant that said: “It is with a heavy heart we have decided to close Woodies Longboard Diner.

We have had 14 rock’n’roll years but it was a 24/7 commitment.”

The restaurant’s closure has provoked a strong reaction among its former customers, with many contacting the owners to say

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James Roberts, a cofounder of the restaurant, said: “We are extremely touched by the incredible amount of people contacting us over Facebook.”

Woodies attracted locals and rock stars alike, with guests including Sir Paul McCartney and Brian May. One loyal patron said: “It’s a real shame. Woodies has been a part of my life for

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The diner was famed for its Man Vs. Woodies burger challenge, which dared diners to eat six 8oz burgers and all the trimmings in an hour sitting in exchange for a free meal and a place on the Woodies wall of fame.

Trip Advisor awarded Woodies a 2016 Certificate of Excellence and rated it as 22 out of 187 restaurants in the area, with reviews saying that it has ‘five-star food’.

However, on the website the owners say: “We are most proud of all the smiles and good times our customers had in the diner over the years. We would like to thank Mike our long-standing head chef, our hard working staff and of course our wonderful friends and loyal customers.”

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Opinion Write to us at: views@brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk

Stop selling off our Downs

Brighton Council is about to flog off crucial parts of its Downland Estate, including important fragments of landscape at the Devils Dyke, Newtimber Hill, Plumpton Hill, and Stanmer Park, and homes which should be available for workers on the Estate. Two of these sites include parts of nationally important Sites of Special Scientific Interest; one contains a Scheduled Ancient Monument; and one is a superb fossil site. We do not believe that councillors are aware of the nature or implications of these sales.

The Brighton Downland Estate, at more than 12,000 acres, is the largest and most important public asset within the new South Downs National Park. These sales are taking place without public consultation, decided in confidential council committees. We have little detail, though we understand the justification is to partfund the Stanmer Park restoration and gain general revenue.

These sales open the door to privatisation of Brighton’s entire Downland Estate.

Without democratic public accountability we must expect threats to public usage, neglect, damage to important wildlife habitat, inappropriate development, and more shooting and hunting. It’s happened before. St Mary’s Farm, sold by Brighton Council, had ancient pasture and woods bulldozed and it’s now a game bird shoot.

Woods sold by the Forestry Commission are now without

public access, neglected, and used for shooting. A golf course sold by Worthing Council lost its public access, and planned access works for the disabled were dropped.

This is in the context of Eastbourne Council’s proposed sale of its 4,000 acre Downland estate, which provides the setting for Beachy Head and includes a range of nationally important wildlife and archaeological sites. With government pressure for local authority land sales, we are faced with the prospect of the new South Downs National Park being asset-stripped of its core publicly owned estates.

This will stymie the National Park’s founding project – for the restoration of its rangegrazed, wildlife-rich, chalk grassland sheepwalks – and open the door to multiple threats to the Downs landscape. The sites for sale include: Plumpton Hill scarp up to the South Downs Way, a nationally important wildlife and archaeological wildlife site, with Bronze Age round barrows and many rarities; The Saddlescombe nature reserve on Newtimber Hill, part of the site of the only remaining Juniper population on the eastern South Downs, with many rarities; Devil’s Dyke Field, part of the main south facing viewpoint of the Devil’s Dyke; Poynings Field, the landing ground for the Dyke hang-gliders, and a crucial part of the Devil’s Dyke’s landscape setting, and a wonderful fossilling site, with ammonites, nautiloids, and crustaceans; Ridge Farm Fields and parts of Tenants Lain Shaw, a Gateway to the National Park, and the first

real countryside on the walk into the wide Downs from Falmer.

Homes on the Downland Estate are crucial to the retention of staff committed to the long term management of this public Downland. By hook or by crook these sales must be stopped now!!

DAVE BANGS Co-founder of the Keep Our Downs Public campaign

Tackling loneliness

Having lived all around the Sussex coast Daniel Harris is spot on with his article on the need for affordable housing (October 7).

Where retired age groups are concerned, however, another very pressing need is companionship of those we find congenial. When loved ones die and no family members are left, the survivor is indeed in a pitiable condition. This happened to me a few months ago when a beloved male partner died.

We were both well-educated academic types and both only children so now I literally have not a friend in the world.

I believe Frankfurt is a shining example of the way ahead for lonely oldies.

There they organise oldies (and younger lonelies too) to find new friends by using simple forms indicating special interests and areas with Germanic skill in organisation (sadly we lack this!) they fit like with like.

Resnet Frankfurt is thriving socially and loneliness is rare indeed!

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Residents wary over library Born to stroll. And is there any better place in which to do so than Hove? Along the way, on a corner or the seafront, one can be sure of meeting somebody keen to talk of this and that – and, for over a year, the subject which so often leaps forth is Hove’s Carnegie Library.

On June 9, after eight wretched months had caused residents anxiety and misery, the latest proposal to close it and shrink it into the Museum was stopped at a memorable, even classic meeting.

Many residents have since then watched the readilyfindable webcast of this. One father told me that he had done so with his nine-year-old daughter so that she could see how local government works.

They were riveted by the debate in which, as he said, the Conservative and Green councillors “forensically built up the pressure and overturned a shoddy Report”.

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There is, however, concern at council leader Morgan’s scripted summing-up that day. He was still insisting that seven branch libraries could close and – ominously - “we will now once again put this decision on hold”.

This leaves residents to speculate what he could be plotting next. As such, at last week’s Full Council meeting, I asked a supplementary to my public question about the schedule for Carnegie maintenance. I said that Cllr Morgan’s concluding remarks in June continue to vex

residents, and so would he now amplify what he meant by them.

Hardly a googly of a question. And yet his reply was that he would have to look at the webcast to see what he had said.

Council Leaders – of whatever hue – have previously been able to parry questions about subjects across the board, especially as substantial and protracted a one as this. All the more so when it has been the subject of an earlier speech.

If Cllr Morgan cannot recall what he said about the Carnegie, what else promptly flees his grasp?

And so residents remain wary, even perhaps now coming to feel – to return to Bruce Springsteen – “baby, this town rips the bones from your back”.

CHRISTOPHER H AWTREE Westbourne Gardens, Hove

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Warren Morgan

Labour councillor and council leader

A hard Brexit would ruin the economy

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ast week there was a brief but widespread panic when Marmite was withdrawn from the shelves at Tesco’s in a dispute over pricing.

It made for some great exchanges on social media and highlighted the divide between those who love it and those who hate it. Underneath it though was a serious point.

Until now we have all continued to spend online and in store pretty much as we have done before June.

This has so far helped to keep the economy buoyant, but has masked a slowdown in the industrial and construction sectors of the economy.

Growth more than halved in the third quarter of the financial year, and the International Monetary Fund is predicting it will drop further.

Our currency is now worth less than at any time in decades.

One pound is now worth less than one euro.

The pound has fallen by an enormous 18 per cent against the US dollar since the summer, meaning the cost of things like clothes and fuel is going up. It was

this that prompted Unilever to ask supermarkets to pay more for some of the big brands last week.

The cost of living, overseas holidays, council tax and more is likely to increase, whilst your wages will be worth less than they are now.

Inflation is expected to rise to 3 per cent next year, outstripping growth in wages. Companies will need to tighten their belts. Major employers and financial institutions will tighten their belts.

Most worryingly, the normally sober and calm British Bankers Association last weekend sounded the alarm bells over banks preparing to quit the UK in order to retain access to the European single market after Article 50 is triggered.

It is three and a half years since David Cameron pledged a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.

Billed as a historic attempt to resolve the issue of our part in Europe’s future, it was in reality a shallow tactic to win back votes from UKIP ahead of last year’s General Election, and ultimately a game of cronies vying for Number 10 when it all

went wrong for the Conservative PM, now likely to be judged one of the worst ever.

His successor, with Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis at her side, seems to have no plan on how to make this work.

To be fair they probably can’t, but by pressing ahead with a “hard Brexit” they seem intent on driving our economy off a cliff.

Our future is uncertain. Our local economy, particularly the financial sector and the higher education sector, are very reliant on Europe.

If people’s spending power is hit, our small and medium sized enterprises are going to be vulnerable.

Our local Conservatives, apparently blind to the harm their party is doing to the economy, have no answers beyond a populist and unfunded Christmas parking proposal that they wheel out each Autumn.

They seem powerless to intervene in tackling the disastrous private enterprise monopoly that is Southern Rail, where failure has been rewarded with more taxpayer subsidy by Tory ministers.

They have no solutions when it comes

to the 40 per cent cuts being imposed by their colleagues in Westminster on local council funding, and no clear voice speaking up for the city’s NHS. People worry that Conservative policies are all too often influenced by whether the private sector can make some money out of it, not about whether it delivers the service people need.

We have all seen from the trains how that turns out.

I am a council leader working to deliver services to residents, and so with different responsibilities from a business leader in the field of commerce.

But supporting the local economy is vital for residents, and I will continue to do whatever I can to protect and promote business in Brighton and Hove and across our city region, fighting for the road, rail and airport infrastructure we need to compete, and pushing for higher wages and affordable housing so that business get the staff they need.

I will be working to ensure that our residents are insulated from any Tory Brexit recession, and are helped to win their fair share of our city’s economic success.

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Homelessness is being tackled by the government

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ollowing the recent report presented to Policy, Resources and Growth Committee on the challenges facing those who find themselves homeless or rough sleeping in Brighton and Hove, I was delighted to see the government support a new bill to reduce homelessness this week.

The Homelessness Reduction Bill will widen the scope of who is eligible for support and transform the way in which homeless people are looked after in England.

Current rules, which date back to 1977, specify that only single mothers and fathers, individuals with mental health issues or victims of domestic violence and those who have recently left the armed forces can go to the front of the queue for housing assistance.

However, the government backed private member’s bill, put forward by Conservative MP Bob Blackman,will place a new duty on councils to prevent the homelessness of anyone eligible for assistance within 56 days, regardless of their official ‘priority need’ status.

During the recent presentation to Policy, Resources and Growth Committee, the Conservative group fully supported officer’s plans to provide a greater and more targeted level of assistance to those who need it and expressed that as a council we should be doing everything we can to help people who find themselves in such situations,

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often through no fault of their own.

I am delighted to see that we as Conservatives are showing such a strong commitment to doing all we can both locally and nationally to help those who become homeless and provide them with the support they need to get their lives back on track.

The government’s support of the Bill is in addition to a £40m programme of new measures to tackle homelessness that were announced last week which includes £20 million for local authorities to pilot new initiatives to tackle homelessness, £10 million for targeted support for those at imminent risk of sleeping rough or those new to the streets and £10 million in Social Impact Bonds to help long-term rough sleepers with the most complex needs.

In less favourable news, I was hugely disappointed that the bid to expand Gatwick airport was not taken forward by the government, who instead opted for the development of a third runway at Heathrow. From a local perspective, the additional runway at Gatwick would have had hugely positive implications for the city in terms of creating jobs and boosting our economy.

Previously, a Gatwick spokesman had said that the airport will continue to prepare for expansion, even if it is not chosen by the UK government over Heathrow.

I hope they will do so following the announcement and I give them my full support.

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Graham Chainey Spooky phenomena at Brighton hotel

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n the early evening of Friday, June 22, 1888, a tall, distinguished looking man, who hadn’t booked in advance, entered the Royal Albion Hotel. He dined alone in the coffee room, and requested a glass of water before retiring at 10.

“The following day,” a local paper reported, “he did not appear downstairs and a maid knocked on the door of his bedroom. She, however, obtained no answer. Later on, she again knocked and, obtaining no answer, she informed the manageress. The door of the room was found to be locked and that lady ordered it to be broken open.”

Edmund Gurney, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research – described by the classicist Jane Harrison as “the most lovable and beautiful human being I have ever met”, and used by George Eliot as model for the high-souled Daniel Deronda in her novel of that name, observing that “his mind was as beautiful as his face” – was dead in the bed. His right hand pressed a sponge bag over his nose and mouth; under

Edmund Gurney

it was a cotton pad; nearby was an empty bottle that had contained chloroform.

The inquest accepted the testimony of one of Gurney’s SPR colleagues that he suffered from neuralgic pain to the face,

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A glance online reveals that, even after the 1998 fire, spooky goings-on continue.

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and brought in a verdict of accidental death. But Trevor H. Hall, in The Strange Case of Edmund Gurney (1964), argues persuasively that the death was suicide.

The previous evening, Gurney had received a mysterious letter which led to the visit to Brighton, a town he had many times previously visited to witness alleged psychical phenomena. Hall contends that on this occasion he learnt he had all along been hoaxed. Having previously failed in a career as a musician, then as a lawyer, then as a doctor, the bipolar Gurney, who suffered fits of depression, now realised the career as psychic investigator, to which he had devoted all his best efforts, was also in ruins. According to Hall, the SPR acted swiftly to cover up the damaging truth.

Ironically, had he but known it, the building where Gurney died has itself a long history of paranormal activity. The lift has been known to move spontaneously, doors to open or close even when wedged or jammed with a chair; inexplicable chills have been reported in certain rooms; in 1985 an engineer received a severe blow to an ear, which remained swollen for days.

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On This Day 1926 Thursday October 28 ‘The maker of modern Brighton’, Sir Herbert Carden, was made an honorary freeman of the borough.

Serving on the council, he was responsible for Patcham’s incorporation into the borough of Brighton – hence the two ‘pylons that straddle the A23

marking the northern border’ – and was hugely influential in the town embracing telephone and tramway systems, and road widening.

He purchased large swathes of downland – which he resold to the corporation for the same amount to defeat unfair pricing – to protect water supplies and to provide recreational facilities for the towns’ inhabitants.

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I could not have been more pleased when this arrived on my doormat. I am a huge fan of Fox, and adored her past books (The Somnambulist and Elijah’s Mermaid).

She manages to do that rare thing in a novel, and that is to totally immerse you in her subject. She has shifted (slightly) in time from all things Victorian to an Edwardian time frame here, cut as it is with contemporary times of 1976.

Set in what was the UK’s answer to Hollywood, we meet Leda in the back streets and twittens of Brighton. Silent movies are being made, and oh, what movies they were: sensuous, sexy and decadent, and Leda was the star.

When Ed Peters, a young journalist, finds an alluring postcard in a junk shop in The Lanes he is astounded to find that the dark-haired girl is alive, living as a recluse in a decaying cliff-top house that she once shared with Charles Beauvois, a director of early films. The films contained stage magic and trick photography and were used to astonishing effect.

There’s the curse of the Egyptian queen that Leda played to deal with and the scars of a horrific accident that left her abandoned for 50 years.

This a truly enchanting and magical book that will have you swooning. I am delighted to tell you that Fox is coming to Brighton – don’t miss the chance to meet her. She will be at The Bookish Supper Salon on Wednesday (November 2).

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Flowers to represent fight against polio Members of the Brighton and Hove Soiree Rotary Club will be gathering at Hove Park today (Friday) to begin planting 5,000 purple crocus bulbs as part of the Purple4Polio campaign.

The planting is designed to raise awareness of Rotary International’s campaign to eradicate polio, which would be only the second human disease to be eradicated, after smallpox.

The colour purple has been chosen as it represents the colour of the dye which is

placed on the little finger of a child on mass immunisation days, when millions of children in entire countries are protected against the disease.

With the support of the Friends of Hove Park and the City Parks Department, the Soiree Club has been allocated a planting area in Hove Park, close to the miniature railway.

Since 1985, the number of polio cases has been reduced by 99.9 per cent, with only 26 cases in just three countries in 2016 to date.

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Ghosts, séances and Count Dracula

n the Halloween season our thoughts turn to the darker side here at Preston Manor, reputedly Brighton’s most haunted house.

The family resident in the late Victorian period certainly believed their home was haunted, and on November 11 1896 held a séance to try to make contact with the undead. The event was attended by one of the leading spiritualistic mediums of the day, and a prominent member of the Ghost Club.

However it was Lily Macdonald, the 30-year-old inhabitant of the house, who was perhaps the most intriguing character present. Lily was a twin; she and her sister Diana having been born at Preston Manor in 1866. Both girls claimed to see ghosts, and although Diana went on to marry and lead a conventional life Lily’s history is more shadowy.

The demise of her intended first husband is almost a horror story in itself. On January 27 1902 Lily’s fiancé, dashing young Scot William Frederick Forsyth Grant, Captain of the Forfar and Kincardineshire Militia Artillery,

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died in mysterious circumstances days after Lily broke their engagement. His recently obtained death certificate shows he died of a ‘wound to chest’, reported as being caused by a fall at home while carrying a sharp knife.

William, aged only 33, took three grim hours to die.

It wasn’t quite a stake through the heart, but William’s home had been Ecclesgreig Castle. This fantastical, turreted creation was said to be an inspiration for Count Dracula’s lair, after being seen by the novel’s author Bram Stoker on a visit to the east coast of Scotland. Following William’s death family statements were taken but no official inquiry took place, and William was hastily buried in a plot on family land. Meteorological reports show a storm raged over Scotland the night he died; as Bram Stoker wrote of such night howls, “the children of the night, what sweet music they make.”

Probably only William, and maybe Lily, knew the events leading to the mishandled knife – and both are long dead. Lily’s 1947 gravestone can be seen

in Preston’s St Peter’s churchyard, next to her childhood home.

Bram Stoker was completing Dracula the year Lily sat at the séance table in the Cleves Room at Preston Manor. She quite possibly read the book when it was published a year later, or even saw the classic 1931 film version, starring Bela Lugosi. If so I wonder whether, in the dark of the cinema, her thoughts wandered back to the time she spent with doomed William at Ecclesgreig Castle?

From Sunday, Lily’s former home, Preston Manor, will be transformed by theatre, as a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is played-out as a site-specific performance by Brighton theatre company Brief Hiatus. The action takes place in atmospheric rooms and spaces unchanged since 1897, so expect full-immersion in the ghostly, gas-lit world of parlour séances and Gothic novels.

1 Dracula will be performed at Preston Manor on October 30 and 31 and November 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 11. For details, visit brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/ events/event/bram-stokers-dracula

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Interview hints from business professionals Culture is very important to us

Finding a new job is never easy, and interviews can be daunting, so we asked employers from across the city to give us their advice on nailing that interview and getting yourself a job. From IT service providers to PR agencies, our employers give an insight into what they look for in a prospective member of staff.

Ability to engage is a rare skill

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Kate Roper, senior HR and recruitment manager Crunch is an online accountancy firm that provides a complete business solution for the UK’s freelance, contractor and micro-business community. They are always on the lookout for talented people to join their rapidly growing team of 170 employees based in Hove.

What do we look for in an employee?

We look for a number of things when recruiting a new employee. Culture is incredibly important to us.

We work hard and have fun, are conscientious, loyal and fun loving. A lot of skills can be learnt, but if a new recruit does not fit with the existing team it won’t work. We look for people whose ethics, drive and personality will fit the culture. If their skill set also matches, we are onto a winner.

Dos and Don’ts Do prepare. I cannot stress enough how frustrating it is when candidates arrive not knowing anything about us or the role. Worse still, when the lack of knowledge is blamed on an agency – do your own research. Come to us with a good understanding of what we do and prepare some interesting questions for us. Do arrive early and have some of our lovely Small Batch coffee while you wait.

What would make a CV stand out?

For me it’s a number of things.

Boast about your achievements, but don’t overdo it.

If you oversell yourself and

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then are not up to the job, it can cause many problems.

Be honest, but be bold. Don’t use silly fonts or multiple colours. Instead, spend the time to write it properly. It’s the only reflection of yourself that an employer will initially see, so ensure there are no grammatical errors and that it’s tailored to the role you are applying for. Links to websites, LinkedIn and articles written are also great to include.

What skills are essential in our industry?

As an accountancy firm, the

main skill set would definitely be a background in accounts – whether you’re just starting out as a uni graduate, studying AAT, or fully qualified. However, we don’t just employ accountants here.

We also design and develop our own in-house software, and have a number of other departments set up to service our growing client base. Essential skills for all roles are determination and a drive to succeed, a good sense of humour and the ability to work well in a team, adaptability, and willingness to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in.

Vicki Hughes, managing director and founder Fugu is a public relations and communications consultancy.

We build awareness and manage reputations, creating the stories that connect brands to their audience. In person, in print, through broadcast or digital, we develop the strategies and establish the channels that drive these narratives forward.

What do you look for in an employee?

The ability to engage – to be both interesting and interested in an interview is a rare skill, and these candidates always stand out.

What are your dos and don’ts in an interview?

Do turn up on time, look presentable and research the job you are applying for - all obvious, but amazingly not always achieved. It’s also important to be yourself and avoid interview clichés. Please don’t say your weakness is that you’re a perfectionist – if you do, your interviewer will let out a silent, internal sigh.

What would make a CV stand out to you?

The instant, and often lasting, impression is made by the covering letter. Taking time with this shows you’ve done your homework and are truly interested in the company you are applying to. Stand out CVs

are the ones that highlight a candidate’s relevant experience and skills clearly and also allow a little personality to come through.

What skills are essential in your industry?

We look for candidates with great communication skills. They need to be able to establish strong relationships with clients and influencers (including journalists and bloggers). They must be able to write clear, succinct copy that is tailored to different audiences.

It’s also important to have a genuine interest in current affairs as well as clear understanding of current trends in social media.

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An opportunity to sell yourself

It shouldn’t be an interrogation

Ideal - IT services

Claire Hopkins, director Ideal is a Brighton based IT services provider that find creative solutions enabling businesses to reach their full potential.

What do you look for in an employee?

At Ideal, we place a lot of emphasis on our core values – pride, relationships and ambition. Our business is very agile and we need adaptable people who embrace change, so we look for candidates with selfawareness, positive attitude, passion, professionalism and flexibility. We believe that people who possess these attributes will be successful in our business.

What are your dos and don’ts in an interview?

Always do your research – the interview is your chance to show us how professional you are. If you arrive with a good insight into our business, it allows the interview to be a business conversation rather than a Q&A. An interview is your opportunity to sell yourself, so prepare as thoroughly as you would for an important business meeting. Know your customer, try to understand what they are looking for and make sure they see you as a solution to their job opening.

Don’ts include the basics such as being late, not being prepared and not asking questions. Finally, you’d be amazed at how many people don’t really explain why they want to work with us – if you don’t paint us a picture then we can’t help fulfil your dream.

What would make a CV stand out to you?

We review based on relevant experience and/or qualifications, and what you can bring that will add value to the business. Align your CV to the job description – addressing the specific requirements of the

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Sam Silverwood-Cope, CMO, Pi Datametrics Pi Datametrics is an enterprise SEO platform, which enables corporations to significantly increase traffic, make PPC cost savings and drive sales globally.

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What are your dos and don’ts in an interview?

Do revision. Find out about my company, my services, my customers, and the industry.

Follow us on Twitter. Do some reading. I like it when candidates discuss an article I have tweeted, or recently written, have an opinion on it and want to discuss it. This tells you so much more about a person than a one-sided CV, plus the interview will be

What do you look for in an employee?

An interview can be a fantastic conversation (which I like) or a one-way interrogation (which I loathe). I tend to look for someone with passion.

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It’s most popular dish is a homemade Naga curry made with hot chillies and it runs a popular membership club giving discounts to regular customers Askor said: “We are very proud of the award because there are a lot of good restaurants in the area producing great food. We want to just keep improving and see how far we can go.”

The annual Curry Life Awards celebrate the contribution of the multi-billion pound curry industry, which includes more than 12,000 restaurants in the UK. One man who has probably visited and eaten in more Indian restaurants than anyone else is Syed Belal Ahmed, event organiser and editor of Curry Life magazine.

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Brighton Digital Exchange is winner of innovation award

By Independent reporter

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Brighton Digital Exchange – the pioneering co-operative Internet hub in New England House – won the coveted Network Innovation Award at the O2 Next Gen Digital Challenge Awards.

The prestigious event, held on October 13 at the House of Lords, celebrated outstanding work by businesses, public sector and community groups in applications and innovation on the net.

The award for the Brighton project was presented by the Earl of Errol.

Brighton Digital Exchange was opened by council leader Warren Morgan in a ceremony last July.

The project was supported

by Brighton and Hove City Council and Broadband Delivery UK. The “DX” – the

first of its kind in the world – is run by a co-operative of digital businesses that are using it to create and deliver new and improved Internet services locally, with an initial focus on Brighton’s New England Quarter.

Warren Morgan, leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said “This is a hugely well-deserved award for a really impressive project, showing the power of what can be achieved through cooperative and innovative ways of working, and I would like to congratulate everyone involved. It is this energy, drive and creativity that characterises the city and the Greater Brighton region, and is one of the reasons we are a real leader for the creative digital and IT sector.”

For more information on Brighton Digital Exchange, contact Joe Kerr on 01273 688088 or Phil Jones on 01273 692888.

Apprentices on the rise in Brighton and Hove The latest provisional figures from the Skills Funding Agency show an increase in apprentice starts in Brighton and Hove.

The full year figure for Brighton and Hove shows 1,560 apprentice starts in the 2015/16 academic year, which is a 19 per cent rise from 2014/15, in which there was 1,310.

The results show an impressive increase and a higher take-up of apprenticeships than elsewhere in the wider region.

Many employers see apprentices as the best way of growing their business with loyal and qualified employees.

Anyone over 16 years old can apply to become an apprentice, whether unemployed, leaving school, already in work or wanting to start a new career.

To find out more about apprenticships, visit: www. b r i g h t o n - h o v e . g o v. u k / apprenticeships and www. brighton-hove.gov.uk/1000apprenticeships.

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With Living Wage Week starting from Sunday, Brighton Chamber of Commerce this week announced that more than 300 companies in the city have now signed up to the Living Wage campaign.

The latest sign ups include cleaning company Consult Cleaning and Support Services, tech start-up Shuttle On, retailer Modish Living, bicycle mechanics South Coast Bikes, retail florist Flowers Unlimited, and this week Matthew Murphy Electrical Services made it 301 businesses to date.

Flowers Unlimited was the 300th business to sign up.

Owner of the Brightonbased floristy David Costa said: “Over the last few years we decided to focus on customer service. In floristry most people focus on the flowers – but to us that was a given. For us, our business model works in a circle.

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Dave Costa from Flowers Unlimited has signed up to the Living Wage campaign in Brighton and Hove PHOTOGRAPH: SIMON DACK

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“As a result, our sales increase; we make more money and can afford to pay our staff more.

“Paying the living wage and signing up to the local campaign feels good, and it’s also a marker on how you’re doing as a business.”

Living Wage Week 2016 will take place between October

30 and November 5.

On Monday, October 31, the announcement of the new UK and London Living Wage rates for 2016/17 will be announced.

The success of the local campaign was recognised at the recent Brighton and Hove Business Awards, being one of the reasons behind the

judges’ choice of Outstanding Brightonian.

Sarah Springford, the director of Brighton Chamber, said “It is such an honour and an accolade to have received this award from the BAHBAs judges.

“And brilliant that the living wage and Brighton Chamber have been recognised in this way by the business community.”

Brighton and Hove City Council leader Warren Morgan said: “People need to be able to afford to live in the city, and businesses, charities and public sector organisations need staff, so the Brighton and Hove Living Wage is essential in making the city affordable, ensuring our economy works, and tackling the inequalities that hold too many people back.

“I welcome and applaud employers in the city paying the local rather than National Living Wage (what used to be called Minimum Wage) and despite the cuts we face I am committed to the city council continuing to be a Brighton & Hove Living Wage employer.”

To find out more about the campaign, or to sign up for free, visit www. livingwagebrighton.co.uk.

Follow the campaign on Twitter @BHLivingWage.

Cobb Digital celebrate expansion in Brighton Cobb Digital – one of Brighton’s leading digital marketing agencies – opened its doors to Brighton and Hove Mayor, Councillor Pete West last week, as he welcomed the team to their new home in New England House.

Having recently agreed a landmarkdealwithLeapfrogg, six digital professionals have moved to join the now 16-strong Cobb Digital team in larger offices.

As well as meeting the team, Cllr West judged the team Bake Off to celebrate the occasion.

He said: “It was fantastic to meet the Cobb Digital team, it’s clearly an exciting time for the business and

I look forward to watching them grow in the future. New England House is the perfect spot for them, surrounded by some of Brighton’s top creative businesses.”

James Dempster, managing director at Cobb Digital, added: “Cllr West is a great advocate for Brighton businesses so it was a pleasure to introduce him to the team and welcome him into our new offices.

“The new offices will allow us to continue to grow as a team and couldn’t be in a better location.”

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Sports complex set to launch unique classes The not-for-profit leisure trust Freedom Leisure, which operates Withdean Sports Complex in Brighton, is set to launch state-of-the-art classes which are not available anywhere else in the city.

In fact, the nearest place in the UK offering these classes is in Epsom in Surrey.

After recently investing £175,000 into new fitness equipment for three of its seven centres Freedom Leisure operates on behalf of Brighton and Hove City Council, Withdean Sports Complex was lucky to receive the very latest pieces if Technogym equipment – the SKILLMILL™ – made famous by celebrity fitness trainer

‘The Body Coach, Joe Wicks’.

On Monday, October 31, there will be an open day at Withdean for anyone in the local area.

There will be free taster sessions of the new classes, which are due to start, for membersonly,on1November.

Throughout the open day, 15 minute taster sessions by Technogym Master Trainer, Tom Eastham will run from 10.00-15.00 with the fitness team running between 15.00 and 19.00 – these free sessions are for anyone to have a go and the team will be offering some great membership offers for those interested in joining also.

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Manager, Ross Philipson, says, “The new and exciting additions are already creating a great vibe within the gym, re-energising people’s workouts with short spouts of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training).

Philpson continues: “It is clear they are very popular so on November 1 we are launching new SKILLMILL™ classes allowing members to really get the most out of the incredible piece of kit.

“Most people who come in to the gym say they have seen the Body Coach using one and that they are dying to try it out too.”

Andrea Battman, fitness manager, says: “15 minutes

may not seem like a long time to exercise but because of the fact it is high intensity, a little does a lot of good!

“Don’t worry though; if you think it might be too intense, beginner sessions will be included in our timetable and we can advise people of all abilities, how best to incorporate the SKILLMILL™ into their routine to really see results.”

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I’d definitely have a synth at home, says Humans writer Joe Barton Sinister sci-fi hit Humans returns this weekend, Megan Donnelly talks to Brighton screenwriter Joe Barton about his work on the show and his new project with Ellen Paige.

Joe Barton is just back from Cincinnati where he’s watched Ellen Paige deliver a script he wrote fresh out of university when I meet him at his Brighton home. He said it can be strange to see your own words being performed.

“It doesn’t normally sound how you’d expect it,” he said.

“The inflections are usually different. Sometimes better... sometimes not.” He admits to cringing mostly and avoiding watching his scripts until much later.

I’ve known Joe since I was 17.

Iwasinastudentfilmhemade, a sort of comedy horror called The Pact where one of the lead characters died after slipping over on a porn magazine.

And while Joe doesn’t exactly credit The Pact as the start of his career, he does have a lot of praise for Brighton.

He studied media and film at Varndean College and received funding via the Ignition Network to make and screen a short film at the Duke of York’s cinema.

He then went on to do film and television production at the University of Westminster and it was when he graduated that he thought about writing.

“I always planned to be a director, but with no spare money for cameras and actors I started writing, as I could do it immediately in my pyjamas in my flat.”

Joe began sending work off, initially securing a job writing a McFly horror video and an online series for MySpace called Freak, before eventually securing an agent, which led to bigger projects and of course, his job on Humans.

“It was one of the best pilot

scripts I’ve ever been sent,” he said. “It was well written, the characters were great and there was depth to it.”

Based on the Swedish series, Real Humans, the British version starts with the same premise of so called ‘synths’ that live among humans, doing the menial work we hate to do.

“I’d definitely have a synth,” said Joe. But I’m not so sure.

Synths report our unhealthy behaviour to the GP, replace a spouse and even kill. It’s a high risk to take for getting a little help with your ironing.

It is this kind of debate that has created huge love for the Channel 4 series.

Delve into discussions on IMDb and the morality of human relationships with synths is a hot topic, with nothing more widely discussed than the interspecies sex scene between lead synth Anita (Gemma

Chan) and human Joe (Tom Goodman-Hill).

“We had a big discussion about if Joe should sleep with Anita, and we decided it was dramatically more interesting if we did,” said Joe. “In discussions about the synths, it’s what many people want to talk about. Although most people found it slightly ‘urgh’.”

So, what should we expect in the second series?

“The first series explored questions people wanted to know like ‘is it weird to have one in your house’, and the second series asks questions about conscious synths and their place in society.”

All the key characters are back with the addition of Carrie-Ann Moss, known for Trinity in the Matrix, playing an AI scientist.

Joe says you can barely move for producers and writers working in Brighton and that might go some way

towards explaining why it has proved a popular place to dramatise, with Cuffs – which he also worked on – and most recently ITV’s The Level putting our city on screen.

Away from Humans, Joe has some big projects in the offing. Ellen Paige and Kate Mara have just produced Mercy, a romantic drama with a lesbian relationship at the centre, which he wrote entirely independently at the start of his career. And there’s iBoy with Maisie Williams coming to Netflix, and a new film, The Ritual, with Ralph Spall based on the book by the same name.

While Joe is certainly busy he says the job of a screenwriter involves a lot of waiting: “I wait to see if anything is commissioned... perpetually.”

Humans returns for a second series at 9pm on Sunday, October 30, on Channel 4.

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GoGo Penguin are on tour on the back of a new EP recorded live at Abbey Road studios.

The three-piece – drummer Rob Turner, double bassist Nick Blacka and pianist Chris Illingworth – play the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) on November 2.

“We have released the EP quite recently,” says Chris.

“We did it as a limited vinyl, but now we have done the digital version.”

Featuring three tracks from Man Made Object (Branches Break, Initiate, GBFISYSIH), the EP also features the recording debut

of ‘Ocean In A Drop’, an extract from their live score for Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi.

“It was our first time at Abbey Road, and it was amazing. The whole atmosphere was incredible, walking into this place where so many great musicians have played. We were playing in the main room where, I suppose, The Beatles recorded. But actually, it just felt like a bit like an old school gym. It was the atmosphere that makes it special.

“And we had a small audience watching us. They do these sessions from there, and so we had like a small crowd which made it feel more like a gig. It was just single takes. We thought let’s just take it as a gig and try to get a different energy.

The tunes are recognisable, but hopefully the way they are played will be rather different. To be honest, I haven’t listened back to it.

I never listen to our music.

It feels to me like once it is done, it is out there for other people to listen to. I try to get a bit of a distance from it by always thinking about moving on.

“We have been together for about three years, maybe a little longer. We originally started it in 2012 with myself and Rob and a different bassist, but the bassist left and luckily we got Nick. We had been mates with him for a long time, and immediately he stepped it. It felt like this was the version of the band we had always wanted.”

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Brighton Dome is set to premiere a new show about the cost of austerity.

From rising homelessness to the increasing reliance on food banks, Tighten Our Belts aims to tackle some important issues.

Previewing at the Dome on November 26, before touring throughout 2017, this production is the inaugural show from Brighton

People’s Theatre, a diverse group of non-professional performers who have created the performance in collaboration with professional theatre-makers.

Naomi Alexander, who set up Brighton People’s Theatre, said: “The philosophy of the company is a belief in, as Joan Littlewood put it, ‘the genius in everyone’.

We believe that everyone is creative but that not everyone has opportunities

to enable them to realise what they might be capable of. We want artists to collaborate long-term with people who might like the idea of being in a show but have never tried it.”

Tighten Our Belts is the result of a year-long process of devising and developing, working with Brighton Dome and the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project (BUCFP).

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Before Jules Craig, there was Edith Sitwell. Before Edith Sitwell, there was Elizabeth I. Jules brings all three together in her one-woman show Edith, Elizabeth and I which she brings to West Dean College on Wednesday, November 2, at 7.30pm – a place rich in Sitwell associations. The college holds Pavel Tchelitchew’s iconic portrait of Edith from 1937 and also Sitwell’s correspondence with West Dean College founder Edward James.

Brighton-based Jules then takes the show to Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre for performances on November 7 and 8.

Jules promises the piece as a comic fast-moving onewoman show with a cast of three, all vying for the role of leading lady.

“I started devising the show with a friend of mine some time ago. We were just playing around with ideas. That was about 2011. It has been a long process! I knew that I wanted to do a one-woman show, and I knew I wanted to do something about Edith Sitwell.

“I was just interested in her.

The play takes the premise, though I am spoofing it a bit, that I look like her. In fact, I do look incredibly like her. I discovered it a long time ago.

My mum sent me a postcard of her when I first left home.

She said ‘You look like her!’”

Jules admits she wasn’t quite sure how to take it: “She was quite a forbidding old lady. She had a prominent nose. And she was very tall. She had enormous headdresses and rings, and her nails were always painted very beautifully. She wore quite old-fashioned clothes.

She had a very distinctive style, and she used to do a lot as a model for paintings.

“She was incredibly

striking, and she had this resemblance to Elizabeth I. She wrote a couple of books about Elizabeth I. She identified with her lookswise, but also in the way that she was very intellectually powerful. She talked about Elizabeth I as being full of fire.

“Sitwell and her brothers were accused of being selfpublicists and quite vain and also quite obstinate, forging their own path and cultivating their own garden. My play is also about taking your own identity, being your own person, being who you are, not being ashamed about who you are. The play is a lot about that.

“In her time, she was incredibly famous. She said she had so many presents for her 75th birthday that she had to put a thank-you notice in The Times. They were celebrities, and yet somehow they have got lost. But they are still very relevant. Her poetry is certainly still very relevant.

She was very interested in form and structure and the

visceral nature of language.

“She was also a great supporter. She was a mentor for Dylan Thomas and various other writers and poets. She championed them all.”

And now Jules finds an affinity: “She was unmarried and had no children, just as Elizabeth I was unmarried and had no children… and so I am unmarried and have no children. I am very interested in the role she played in society, the way that women are judged for the way they looked. Someone said she was as ugly as modern poetry.

She said ‘I don’t know what that has to do with my work.’

I think that kind of comment is still pertinent today. The first thing we notice about a woman is how she looks and what she wears.

“Edith Sitwell lived outside society. She was not married.

She didn’t have children. But she had her own style and had a very productive life and produced a lot of material.”

You can buy tickets at www. marlboroughtheatre.org.uk.

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Will aims to prove a point with his alternative pop Music

Will Joseph Cook plays The Hope & Ruin on Saturday, October 29 (8pm) as part of his first UK tour.

“It’s my first UK run of dates,” says the 19-year-old, “and it’s all very exciting. It’s just a question of finding the right time, though it is always difficult when your shows have been Londonbased. It is a good time now to start doing regional gigs, especially as I have got an album coming out next year, my debut album.

“It is looking like it is going to be the first few months next year that it will be out.

The date isn’t set in stone. I have got a title for it, but it has not been announced yet.

“Because it is the first album, there is a degree of backdating some songs. One of the songs is like a reworked version of something I wrote when I was 15, but I always like to think of an album being fresh and new. I don’t want to put on stuff that has been on EPs on the album.

“I left school a year and a half ago. I purposely didn’t study music at school. It was something that I just enjoyed doing in my own time. If I had followed it on the curriculum, it would have

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become a chore.

“I think it would be true to say that the music is alternative pop music. I quite like umbrella terms so that I am never boxed into a particular genre. I am touring with a live band. I write the stuff and do the arrangements, but it is a band on tour.”

And for Will it is important that he is the sole writer: “A lot of albums, especially for solo artists, are ridden with co-writes. I wanted to steer away from that, at least for now. I wanted to prove a point. If you are going to call yourself a songwriter, you need to show that you can do it by yourself.”

As for content: “I guess I am singing about things

that feel relevant to me. If there is something on your mind, a song is a good way to vent it. It covers lots of things. It is just thoughts and feelings on my life in general and my friends. I guess the songs are whatever you can feel genuinely about, but I am not restricting myself to my own experiences. If I see something I want to empathise with, then I will include it in a song.”

Will recognises it is vital to make that first album count: “Most importantly, it is about good songs. I am trying to boil it down to a highlyconcentrated batch of songs.

I don’t want it to be a long album…”

In a little over a year, Will has released two EPs to widespread acclaim and has amassed well over nine million streams worldwide.

His last single ‘Girls Like Me’ featured a tongue-incheek video, seeing Will going speed-dating with various versions of himself, dressed in drag. The track was immediately added to the In New Music We Trust playlist on Radio 1, gaining more than 20 plays, with support from the likes of Annie Mac, Clara Amfo and Greg James.

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LIFESTYLE: £5, 11pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Lifestyle Music returns for a Halloween hoedown.

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MYMINIDISCO: £8, non-walkers free, 2pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

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STAGE BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA: October 30–November 11, 7.30pm and 9.15pm (matinees Nov 10, 3pm and 5.30pm). £18, £15 members and children. Not suitable for under 11s. Brief Hiatus bring the gothic horror story to Preston Manor. Book in advance, brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/

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FLIT: £16.50-£21.50, 8pm, Brighton Dome (01273) 709709. Exploring themes of migration through songs and stop-motion animation.

MONDAY GIGS CORY HENRY & THE FUNK APOSTLES: 7.30pm, £15, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. A Band on the Wall Fundraiser. Cory is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who uses his primary instrument, the organ, to capture the breadth of the jazz and gospel idioms and produce something new.

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PIERRE BENSUSAN: £15, 8pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. World, jazz and folk inspired music.

STAGE A TALE OF TWO CITIES: £17.50£20.40, 7.45pm, until Nov 5 (Thurs/ Sat mat 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. A Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Royal and Derngate Northampton production.

WEDNESDAY COMEDY GARY DELANEY: £14, 8pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. There’s Something About Gary.

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19. Compassion (4) 20. Ingredient (7)

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13. Unprogressive

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Across: 1 Relish; 4 Swamps; 9 Readyreckoner; 10 Tablets; 11 Fifty; 12 Steal; 14 Close; 18 Ahead; 19 Upstart; 21 Provincialism; 22 Emerge; 23 Beings.

Down: 1 Rarity; 2 Lead by the nose; 3 Style; 5 Wakeful; 6 Manifestation; 7 Strays; 8 Least; 13 Addling; 15 Sample; 16 Punch; 17 Stamps; 20 Stale.

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KAKURO

The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter E in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a former British heavy metal band.

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(4,2,7) 6. High spirits could lead to a broken toenail (7) 7. Ed. sings as he makes patterns (7) 8. What overwrought actresses do in the wings? (3,3) 13. A spell of work the editor changed (7) 14. Involves a silent reformation (7) 15. D. Mason upset by this fruit (6) 16. Don’t spare the printing material - this will hold it (3-4) 17. This clue is to provide some animation (7)

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Opinion

Food and Drink

By Tom Flint

Latest chain offers great value but perhaps too much choice MOD Pizza

Brighton Bakery

Fabulous Florentines ‘bridge the gap’

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Garlic bread with a pesto dip

By Philippa Kelly

brightonbakery@yahoo.co.uk

100% VEGAN

1 The Boardwalk Brighton Marina www.modpizza.co.uk

he humble pizza has been a fast food favourite in this country for as long as I can remember. As a result of this popularity the concept has been pulled and stretched more times than the dough that forms its base. We have had thin crust, deep pan, stuffed crust, no crust and even hot dog stuffed crust (who on earth allowed this); it has been free rein when it comes to the pizza and generally to its detriment.

The pizza has a long and distinguished history and the dish that we know and love today has its origins in 19th century Naples. As with most Italian food, the success of the dish is in its simplicity and timeless flavour combinations. This is something that has been very much lost over time, especially outside of its native land.

Fast forward to the 21st century, and more specifically Brighton Marina, and you will find MOD Pizza, the latest fast food pizza chain to hit our shores. The brand started in Seattle when founders Scott and Ally Svenson combined their “love of authentic Italian street pizza and the UK Mod movement of the 60s and 70s”… no I’m not sure what the connection is either, except perhaps mopeds.

Their aim is to serve super quick pizza that fits in with busy family life and is both affordable and delicious. Given its focus on family-friendly eateries the Marina is the perfect location for MOD. We stopped by on a Saturday afternoon on a day when there was a bit of an exercise awareness event taking place outside. Not deterred by the loud music and shouty people we entered into the large and spacious building.

There is certainly an American feel to the venue with the centre of the room dominated by a soft drink refill station

Bakery Bulletin

Tom’s freestyle pizza

surrounded by large tables and seating.

Step up to the counter and you are faced with the first of many decisions.

MOD offers a menu of pizzas to choose from that are tried and tested. You are able to MODify these if you want, adding extra toppings or removing things you’re not so keen on. Alternatively you can go completely freestyle and, starting with its signature thin crust base, go crazy at the subway style counter, which is obviously what we both did.

Working our way along the counter into different sections, all of which are operated by a different staff member, it is conveyor belt production of the sort Henry Ford would be proud; except with more choice – perhaps too much. Things started well, sticking with a traditional tomato sauce base followed by cheese and some anchovies before steadily descending into mild panic and rash decisions.

By the end of the line I had created a pizza that I had given my name to, but little care or thought had gone into its creation. It disappeared into the oven and I took my seat with a pint of Punk IPA wondering what just happened; the look on my girlfriend’s face told me she

had been through a similar experience.

We sat and chatted about the pitfalls of having too much choice and too little time and waited. Eventually my name was called and we went to pick up our food, except mine wasn’t quite ready it was just garlic bread. A few minutes later I shuffled up to receive my pizza.

This vexed me slightly, and I cannot say that it was ‘super fast’. It was quick but not rapid.

The pizzas looked okay despite the haphazard tale of their conception. The quality of the toppings was good and the super thin crispy bases were just that.

This meant that the slices held their shape well when handled and you could happily munch through them without dropping topping all over yourself.

Despite some odd combinations, the flavours were good and the crisp bases will certainly find some fans compared to the more traditional doughy styles.

I am not exactly MOD Pizza’s target audience and true to form I cannot say it was to my taste. The concept just doesn’t appeal to me and I question how authentic these pizzas really are; not very, something tells me. It was quite loud in the restaurant and is a place to eat and leave as quickly as possible; that’s convenience food for you.

On the plus side the pizzas are pretty good with a wide selection of toppings that are far better quality than other big brand pizza restaurants. They are also really great value with every regular sized pizza costing just £7.47, irrespective of toppings; you can have everything if you want and some people have. It is perfect for families with picky eaters as they can choose what they want, and you get some peace of mind knowing it is all cooked to order in front of you. MOD Pizza fits in well with the other restaurants at the Marina and some people will be big fans, I am sure.

Tom Flint writes a food blog Food Booze and Reviews at: www. foodboozeandreviews.com

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t’s Morphin’ Time! The Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers (the proper ones from the nineties, not the embarrassing remake a la Thunderbirds reboot) was directed by Israeli-born Isaac Florentine.

Mary Florentine is an American psychologist. She coined the term Softness Imperception.

It means an inability to hear sounds that normal people (her words, not mine.

Bit rude, Mary) are perfectly able to hear.

I’m pretty sure that’s just renaming deafness.

Florentine Rost van Tonningen was a nasty piece of work.

She was a Dutch collaborator with Nazi Germany. She admired the “camaraderie, discipline, and commitment” of the National Socialism Movement. See? Nasty.

Florentine is the name of a film.

Apparently it’s a comedy, but it was made in 1937 and it’s Austrian, so I doubt it.

The Florentine is also a film. Notice the subtle addition of the definite article. It was made in 1999, it’s American, and Tom Sizemore is in it, so what’s not to like?

There’s a lost diamond called the Florentine Diamond. It’s Indian and it’s yellow. The Upper Florentine Valley is a region of Tasmania.

There’s an apartment building in Omaha called Florentine, and Florentine Flogging is a BDSM practice involving a flogger in each hand and a rhythmic beating.

Anything from Florence in Tuscany is called Florentine, so there are plenty of Florentine this and Florentine thats.

The above are the exceptions – they have nothing to do with Florence, yet they are Florentine. A baker’s Florentine has everything to do with Florence, as that’s where the story of the Florentine biscuit begins. It’s also where it ends, as history hasn’t remembered much about it.

Florentine biscuits bridge the gap between Florentine items wholly unrelated to Florence, and Florentine items solely related to Florence, as the biscuits aren’t too dissimilar to one of their aforementioned namesakes – they’re hard, full of nuts, and have a chocolate bottom.

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PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICES BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 BRIGHTON & HOVE OUTER AREAS (WAITING, LOADING AND PARKING) AND CYCLE LANES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2013 AMENDMENT NO. 14 2016 (TRO-17-2016) NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 26 October 2016 made the above named Order under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when it comes into operation on 7 November 2016 will introduce the following; * Proposed double yellow lines in Manor Hill A copy of this Notice, the Order as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Order may be seen online at www.brighton-hove. gov.uk/tro-finalised.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).

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Dated: 28 October 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-finalised

NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 26th October 2016 made the above named Order under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when it comes into operation on 7th November 2016 will introduce the following; • Proposed double yellow lines in Burstead Close, Canfield Close, Cliff Approach, Highbank, Lyminster Avenue, Manor Way, Mile Oak Road, Overdown Rise, Shenfield Way & Wickhurst Rise.

Modification At the Transport Committee Meeting on 11th October 2016 a change to the order as originally proposed and advertised on 24th June 2016 was agreed as follows:Brighton & Hove Outer Areas (Waiting, Loading and Parking) and Cycle Lanes Consolidation Order 2013 Amendment Order No.15 2016 • Proposed double yellow lines on east side of Lyminster Avenue – This has been changed to single yellow line Monday to Friday 9am to 12pm A copy of this Notice, the Order as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Order may be seen online at www.brighton-hove. gov.uk/tro-finalised.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 the Order or of any of its provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the Act, or that any requirements of the Act or of any instrument made under it have not been complied with may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply to the High Court for that purpose.

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BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL

BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY COUNCIL

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

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 23/10/16.

BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO.14 2016 (REF: TRO-16-2016) NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 26th October 2016 made the above named Order under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when it comes into operation on 7th November 2016 will introduce the following: ARTICLE AMENDMENT:Remove the provision that allows local authority vehicles to park on no waiting restrictions as this is covered by the provision of a dispensation.

SCHEDULE 1 AMENDMENTS: Zone C Streets eligible for Resident’s Permit – Amend in: – Cavendish Street and St James’s Street Zone F Permit Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Amend in: – Hollingbury Park Avenue Motorcycles Parking Places At Any Time – New in: – Hollingbury Park Avenue

BH2016/05178 Flat 3 Courtenay Lodge 4 Courtenay Terrace Hove BN3 2WF Listed Building Consent Internal alterations to layout of flat. (Retrospective) BH2016/05187 72 - 73 Western Road Brighton BN1 2HA Full Planning Change of use from mixed use cafe/cookery school (Sui Generis) to electronic bingo centre (D2) with ancillary bar (A4), café and restaurant (A3) with installation of new shop front and air conditioning compressors and louvres to rear.

BH2016/05264 25A Amesbury Crescent Hove BN3 5RD Full Planning Existing stairs to fire escape replaced with spiral stairs and loft conversion incorporating installation of rooflights.

BH2016/05271 63 Pembroke Crescent Hove BN3 5DF Householder Planning Consent Installation of iron railings on to existing front wall and gate.

Zone H Permit Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Amend in: – Eastern Terrace and Rock Place

BH2016/05273 31A Ventnor Villas Hove BN3 3DA Householder Planning Consent Installation of new window to side elevation, replacement front door and new retaining wall to front garden.

Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 4 Short Term – 2 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Amend in:- Paston Place and Sudeley Street and Remove in:St Mark’s Street

BH2016/05330 Flat 2 11 Sillwood Place Brighton BN1 2LH Full Planning Erection of single storey rear extension to replace conservatory and internal alterations to layout of flat.

Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 4 Medium Term – 4 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Amend in:- Eaton Place and Upper Sudeley Street

BH2016/05384 9 Steine Gardens Brighton BN2 1WB Householder Planning Consent Erection of two-storey rear extension.

Doctors Parking Places At Any Time – Remove in: – Eastern Terrace

BH2016/05407 Flat 1 51 St Aubyns Hove BN3 2TJ Householder Planning Consent Replacement of existing rear timber framed sash windows with UPVC double glazed sash windows.

Loading Bays Monday to Saturday – 9am to 6pm – New in: – St Mark’s Street Zone J Permit Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Amend in: – Springfield Road

BH2016/05489 44B Brunswick Road Hove BN3 1DH Listed Building Consent Internal damp proofing works.

Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 4 Medium Term – 4 hours (No return within 4 hours) Amend in:- Springfield Road

BH2016/05497 103 North Road Brighton BN1 1YW Full Planning Erection of exterior wall for side access incorporating 2no entrance doors.

Car Club Parking Places At Any Time – Amend in: – Springfield Road Motorcycles Parking Places At Any Time – Amend in: – Springfield Road Streets eligible for Resident’s Permit – Amend in: – Argyle Road Zone M No Loading/Unloading Monday to Sunday – 7pm to 7am and 10am to 4pm – New in: – Western Road Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 3 Medium Term – 4 hours (No return within 4 hours) – New in:- Lansdowne Place Exclusive Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 6pm – Tariff Band 3 Short Term – 2 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Amend in:- Holland Road and Remove in:- Western Road Zone N No Waiting Restrictions Monday to Saturday – 9am to 6pm – Amend in: – Medina Place No Loading/Unloading At Any Time – New in: – Goldstone Villas Permit Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – New in: – Connaught Terrace and Amend in: – Medina Place Exclusive Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 6pm – Tariff Band 4 Short Term – 2 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Remove in:- Connaught Terrace Streets eligible for Resident’s Permit – Amend in: – Blatchington Road Zone O No Loading/Unloading At Any Time – New in: – Davigdor Road Permit Parking Places Monday to Saturday – 9am to 8pm – Amend in: – Lorna Road Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Saturday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 4 Long Term 11 hours – Amend in:- Lorna Road Zone R Streets eligible for Resident’s Permit – Amend in: – Stoneham Road Zone W Permit Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 10am to 11am and 7pm to 8pm – Amend in: Saxon Road and Wish Road Exclusive Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 4 Medium Term – 4 hours (No return within 4 hours) – New in:- Wish Road Motorcycles Parking Places At Any Time – Remove in: – Saxon Road Zone Y Part 1.4 – No Waiting Restrictions Monday to Saturday – 9am to 6pm – Amend in:- Elder place No Loading/Unloading At Any Time – New in: – Dyke Road Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 2 Short Term – 2 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Amend in Elder Place Disabled Badge Holder’s Parking Places At Any Time – New in: – Clifton Terrace Streets eligible for Resident’s Permit – Amend in:- Baker Street and Vine Street Zone Z No stopping Restrictions Monday to Friday – 8am to 6pm on School Entrance Markings except August – Amend in: – Spring Street Shared Permit or Pay & Display Parking Places Monday to Sunday – 9am to 8pm – Tariff Band 1 Short Term – 2 hours (No return within 4 hours) – Amend in:- Spring Street Motorcycles Parking Places At Any Time – New in: – Regency Square Modification At the Transport Committee Meeting on 11th October 2016 some changes to the orders as originally proposed and advertised on 1st July 2016 were agreed as follows:Brighton & Hove Various Controlled Parking Zones Consolidation Order 2015 Amendment Order No.14 2016 • Proposed removal of parking bay in Medina Place – The parking bay is to be reduced in size by only 1.3 metres • Proposed removal of parking bays in Regency Square – This has been withdrawn from the order • Proposed removal loading bay in St Margaret’s Place – This has been withdrawn from the order A copy of this Notice, the Order as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Order may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-finalised.

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 the Order or of any of its provisions on the grounds that it or they are not within the powers conferred by the Act, or that any requirements of the Act or of any instrument made under it have not been complied with may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply to the High Court for that purpose.

Dated: 28th October 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.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-finalised

BH2016/05509 Southern Water Site Chartfield Hove Listed Building Consent Installation of new pipework adjacent to and under boundary wall.

BH2016/05521 28 And 28A West Drive Brighton BN2 0QU Householder Planning Consent Roof alterations incorporating rear dormer and insertion of 3no rooflights. Erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2016/05524 Queens Park Villa 30 West Drive Brighton BN2 0QU Removal or Variation of Condition Application for variation of condition 2 of BH2014/02727 (Change of use at upper ground floor level from offices (B1) to 3no two bedroom flats (C3) with associated alterations and revised fenestration) to allow amendments to approved drawings.

BH2016/05526 16 Powis Square Brighton BN1 3HG Full Planning Conversion of existing property into 7no self-contained units and 1no one bedroom flat with erection of two storey rear extension at first and second floor levels.

BH2016/05552 8 Hampton Street Brighton BN1 3DB Full Planning Conversion of existing house into 1no one bedroom and 1no two bedroom flats (C3) with associated alterations including conversion of garage into habitable space.

BH2016/05565 St Nicolas Church Manor Road Portslade BN41 2LE Full Planning Alterations to west elevation including Installation of ramp, steps and landing. Removal of existing tarmac pathway to south porch and blocking up of south entrance with associated works and landscaping.

BH2016/05595 26 Brighton Square Brighton BN1 1HD Full Planning Replacement of hanging tiles with cement render on front elevations.

BH2016/05596 12 St Nicholas Road Brighton BN1 3LP Householder Planning Consent Erection of second floor rear extension.

BH2016/05598 Land Rear Of 43 Brunswick Place Hove Full Planning and Demolition in CA Demolition of 2no existing garages and erection of 1no two bedroom dwelling (C3).

BH2016/05601 Flat 5 6 Palmeira Square Hove BN3 2JA Listed Building Consent Replacement of entrance door to flat and associated architraves and retention of wall dividing the flat and communal area. (Part retrospective).

BH2016/05609 Flat 6 129-130 St James’s Street Brighton BN2 1TH Listed Building Consent Replacement of existing UPVC windows with timber sash windows.

BH2016/05639 188 Church Road Hove BN3 2DJ Full Planning Change of use of basement level from retail (A1) to 1no two bedroom flat (C3) incorporating the erection of a two storey and a single storey rear extensions and new windows and pavement light to front.

BH2016/05658 Greek Orthodox Church Carlton Hill Brighton BN2 0GW Full Planning Erection of two storey building incorporating ground floor community hall (D1) and 1no two bedroom flat (C3) at first floor level.

BH2016/05659 177 Ditchling Road Brighton BN1 6JB Removal or Variation of Condition Variation of condition 2 of application BH2016/01202 (Erection of single storey rear extension) to allow amendments to drawings.

BH2016/05687 23A Third Avenue Hove BN3 2PB Full Planning Conversion of existing garage into (B1) office space with erection of a single storey rear extension, front extension and associated alterations.

BH2016/05689 First And Second Floor 21 New Church Road Hove BN3 4AD Full Planning Change of use from 1no two bedroom flats (C3) to dental practise (D1) including staff accommodation and erection of first floor rear extension.

ReAdvertisements BH2016/00973 4 Freshfield Place, Brighton, BN2 0BN Removal or Variation of Condition Variation of condition 2 of application BH2015/02223 (Roof alterations including roof extension to rear and installation of rooflight to front elevation.) to permit amendments to the approved drawings to allow alterations to fenestration.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13 BH2016/05530 Proposed development at: Land South Of Ovingdean Road Brighton I give notice that Lightwood Strategic is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for Outline planning application with appearance reserved for the construction of 45no one, two, three, four and five bedroom dwellings with associated garages, parking, estate roads, footways, pedestrian linkages, public open space and strategic landscaping. New vehicular access from Ovingdean Road and junction improvements.

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 28 October 2016

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There’s nothing like a new home Brand-new housing stock comes with a number of advantages over older homes

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uying a newly -built home has always had advantages over buying second hand, but currently there are more reasons than ever to consider purchasing brand new.

At this time of year, perhaps the most obvious is the energy efficiency and warmth offered by modern properties compared to draughty, older, homes.

New homes in the UK emit 70 per cent less carbon compared even to those built in 1990.

By law they have to be well insulated and have heating systemsthatcomplywithrigidregulations, making them not only greener and cheaper to run but much more comfortable and convenient to live in.

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Cosiness at the touch of a button is a real draw.

Built-in energy efficiency is not the only benefit to buying new.

The incentive packages offeredbydevelopershavehelped many people buy property over the last few years in a difficult financial climate.

Developers in the industry have stepped in where the banks feared to tread, offering incentives on their properties such as contributions towards a buyer’s deposit, or partownership deals.

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has sometimes been the only way to step on to the property ladder for buyers without a huge stash of savings to put towards the deal or wealthy family members to help.

For those already on the housing ladder, part-exchange deals offered by developers have also allowed people to move when they wanted or needed to, whether or not they could find a buyer in a slow market.

The luxury of being able to plump for a new home without havingtomarketyouroldone— just hand over the keys — is still a very tempting offer to stressed-out sellers.

Developers can bend over backwards to facilitate a deal and the flexibility available on details such as entry dates is a real plus.

Add to this incentives such asincludingafurniturepackage forfirsttimebuyers,oroffering cash back or help with stamp duty payments for those who

needit and you canunderstand whybuyinganewhome,particularlyforthoseonabudget,has become an easier option.

Choiceisanotherpluspoint.

Viewing a new build development allows you to compare different house styles or apartment sizes and prices, and choose one which suits your circumstances exactly.

Buying early on in the construction phase usually means you get the pick of the bunch and you may be offered the chance to customise your new home, upgrading the kitchen units or converting an integral garage into a study by adding windows, for instance, to create a bespoke home.

Of course, whatever you decide upon, you can be assured that the fixtures and fittings in a new house carry a ten year guarantee.

You are unlikely to have to replace roof tiles or fix a boiler and so outgoings on maintenance are likely to be minimal.

Blue skies ahead - a newly-built home could be the key to hassle-free property ownership

Incontrast,thecostofbringinganoldhomeuptothestandard of finish in a new property has recently been estimated at £22,000.

Which begs the question; if you like all mod cons, wouldn’t you be better buying a new property where they come as standard?

Some interiors ideas for Hallowe’en Twilight Zone "Use the Halloween celebration as a wonderful opportunity to dress th e h ou s e with dram a ," e n t h u s e s Ahern. "I have lit pumpkins and tons of candlelight, which not only gives a flickering, flatteringl glightbut l is a real

scene-setter.

"Conjurelayersbyarranging lights on different levels and at varying heights. So display tea-lights in clusters on tables, candlesticks and candelabras on mantels and shelves, and I particularly like wall sconces. Fairy lights draped around pictures, and in a display in a hearth, will add to the twinkling effect."

Tip: Mirrors and fabrics with metallic finishes, as well as accessories, will reflect the light and add to the magical effect.

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George Home's scary but smart collection features a quirky Day of Dead range which includes a string of Skull Globe Lights, £5; Skull Candle, £4; Skull Banner, £1, and Skull Masks, £1 each - as well as an eerie black and gold theme, with items including a Black And Gold Glam Wreath, £5; Black Shimmering Web, £2, and

Black Glitter Skull Garland, £2.

Sainsbury's by Sainsbury's range features equally weird but wicked touches, with my favourites: a Halloween Raven In Cloche, £12; a Large Silver Stud Skull, £15; Black Candelabra, £15, and Haunted House Tealight Holder, £10.

Make an evening feast even more fang-tastic with a creepily creative table setting. The British Library

shop has a Skull Decorated Plate, £35, while TK Maxx's Bat Serving Plate is a snip at £6.99.

Use a pumpkin as a focal point and ramp up the ghostliness with a Sugar Skull Candlestick, £17.99, Homesense (in stores only). For hot drinks around a Halloween bonfire, Baroque Mugs, from £7.50 each, RE, havesuitablygraphicdesigns and macabre names, including 'snake in the grass', 'fly by night' and 'eye of the beholder'. A monochrome Ghost Tea Set, £12.99, TK Maxx (in

stores only) would add a fun flourish.

For a finishing touch, try a Witches' Brew Medium Jar Candle, £18.99, Yankee Candle. n Abigail Ahern is collaborating with blinds, shutters and curtain specialists, Hillarys

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New Mito on sale from £12,960 by staff reporter

The new Alfa Romeo Mito has gone on sale in the UK priced from £12,960 OTR. Revised for 2016 with a new look to emulate the style and attitude of the all-new Alfa RomeoGiulia,withmoretechnology,arevisedrangeandthe introduction of the updated 1.3-litre JTDM-2 turbo diesel with increased 95hp output and reduced CO2 emissions ( just 89g/km), the new Alfa

Romeo Mito is more enticing and competitive than ever before.

To give the Mito the new Alfa Romeo family feel the styling has been revised with newsportsgrilles,dark-finish headlamp bezels, revised rear bumper designs and new alloy wheels, as well as new Alfa White paint option. Inside, all models get new upgraded seat upholsteries, Uconnect Live services and a new finish on thecentreconsole,dashboard and door trims.

Naturally, the new Alfa Romeo logo features inside

and out, while the Mito badge adopts the same script as that of the new Giulia.

The outgoing “Progression” model is replaced by a new entry-point trim level known simply as Alfa Romeo Mito and its generous standard equipment includes new 16-inch alloy wheels, satin chrome-effect exterior detailing (grille surrounds, headlamp and tail lamp surrounds),airconditioning,Alfa DNA driving mode selector, a rear spoiler and a Uconnect 5-inch touchscreen infotainment system with DAB and

Bluetooth connectivity.

Enginechoicesincludethe 78hp 1.4-litre petrol (£12,960 OTR), 875cc Turbo Petrol TwinAir 105hp (£14,660 OTR) and the 1.3 JTDM-2 95hp (£15,620 OTR) and key options include the Visibility Pack (auto headlamps and wipers, electro-chromic rear-view mirror and folding door mirrors - £310); Comfort Pack (front centre armrest, floor mats, rear parking sensors and front seat lumbar adjustment - £310); Sport Pack (tinted windows and front fog lamps.

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Models shown are New Alfa MiTo 875cc TB TwinAir 105 hp incl. metallic paint at £475, OTR £15,135 & Alfa Giulietta 1.4 TB 120 hp at £19,225 OTR incl. metallic paint at £525. Range of official fuel consumption figures for the Alfa MiTo & Giulietta range: Urban 29.7 – 64.2 mpg (9.5 – 4.4 I/100km); Extra Urban 54.3 – 97.4 mpg (5.2 – 2.9 I/100km); Combined 41.5 – 80.7 mpg (6.8 – 3.5 I/100km). CO 2 emissions 157 – 90 g/km. Fuel consumption and CO2 figures are obtained for

comparative purposes in accordance with EC directives/regulations and may not be representative of real-life driving conditions. ^Customer deposit is £1,710. Optional Final Payment is £3,882. Contract Term is 48 months. Offer available on New Alfa MiTo 875cc TB TwinAir 105 hp incl. metallic paint at £475 between 1st October and end of December 2016. ^^Customer deposit is £1,999. Optional Final Payment is £5,373. Contract Term is 48 months. Offer available on Alfa Giulietta 1.4 TB 120 hp incl. metallic paint at £525 registered between 1st October and end of December 2016. Alfa Deposit Contribution only available in conjunction with Alfa Romeo Preferenza PCP. With Alfa Romeo Preferenza you may return the vehicle instead of making the final payment. It must be in good condition and if you exceed the agreed annual mileage, you will be charged 6p per mile for exceeding 6,000 miles p.a in this example. Subject to status.

Guarantees may be required. Ts&Cs apply. At participating Dealers only. We work with a number of creditors including Alfa Romeo Financial Services. Alfa Romeo Financial Services, PO BOX 4465, Slough, SL1 0RW. We reserve the right to change any offer without prior notification.

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MOTORING/ROAD TEST Perfect for: Buyers who want to feel spoiled but don’t care about premium badges

FORD MONDEO VIGNALE ESTATE

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When the luxury variant of the Ford Mondeo – the Vignale – was unveiled, everyone in the office oohed at the premium, 10-way adjustable leather massage seats, ahhed at the leather-wrapped dash, stroked the tuxedo-stitched leather door panels and marvelled at the silence in the cabin thanks to the acoustic side glass.

Then we had a collective intake of breath when we saw the list price. But is the £36,660priceofourtestcaras unreasonable as it sounds?

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Mondeo last year and has since been rolled out on the Kuga and S-Max, with Edge Vignale due next year. Designed to showcase the best in premium sophistication and ‘sportiness’, the Vignale sits at the top of the Mondeo range.

The recipe seems a simple one. Take a regular Mondeo, coat every conceivable interiorsurfacewithleather,load it full of the latest technology and add a couple of exterior embellishments.

This is the third mk5 version of Ford’s mid-sized rep mobile that I’ve driven

since it launched and it is undoubtedly the best yet.

The sports suspension (a £150 must-buy option) recaptures some of the old model’s cornering sharpness. Aided by the all-wheel drive system, this Mondeo is surefooted andfarmorefuntodrivethan others in the line-up.

Wind and road noise are non-existent and all the cowhide in the cabin transforms it from mid-range fleet fodder to a premium contender.

It’s not perfect though.

Despite all the effort put into soundproofing, the noise from the 178bhp diesel

engine bleeds into the cabin when it’s working hard and undermines the refinement experienced at cruising speed.

The engine pulls well though and, driven normally, the twin-turbo unit delivers its power smoothly. Left in auto, the dual-clutch gearbox can be slow to respond when down-changinghowever,and the system lags behind those in competitors.

Speaking of competitors, Vignale pricing puts this Mondeo bang into BMW 3 series and Quattro Audi A4 territory.

Thestandardcaris£33,610 but luxury must-haves like adaptive cruise control, the power tailgate and heated steering wheel are all optional extras, meaning our test car comes in almost exactly the same an Audi A4 Avant Quattro S Line S Tronic.

The Vignale does a commendable job at bringing the Mondeo upmarket and it’s undeniably a premium proposition. It’s still a Mondeo however, and whether buyers will be willing to part with premium car money for a car without a premium badge remains to be seen.

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Included in the funding is a£20mcompetitiondesigned to help councils introduce

charging points for electric taxis and up to £10m of funding for charging points near workplaces and houses with no off-street parking.

Smaller schemes will include £2m of grants for organisations to use hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and a £3.75m scheme to encourage the use

of zero-emission motorcycles and scooters.

The initiatives come as part of the government’s pledge to invest £600m in ultra-low-emission vehicles by 2020.

Transport Minister John Hayes said: “No matter what mode of transport you need –

a scooter to get to work, a car or a van to run your business – we are here to help you do it with zero emissions.

“The number of ultralow-emission vehicles on our roads are at record levels and new registrations have risen by 250 per cent in just over two years.”

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Wide choice of cars available Claiming a benefit due to you isn’t always as easy as it seems.

Means tests, endless form filling and jumping through countless bureaucratic hoops seesmillionsofpoundsofbenefits go unclaimed each year.

The Motability scheme likes to do things differently and has consistently widened its choice of cars available to disabled drivers.

In July 2014 changes were made to the Motability Scheme which currently represents 6% of all new car sales in the UK. It’s now focused entirely on contract hire.

Motability dropped its Hire Purchase option from 1st July 2014 as this did not include the insurance, breakdown cover, servicing and tyre replacement available through its Contract Hire package.

However, customers who had a Hire Purchase agreement in place prior to July 1st 2014 have and will continued to be supported through until the end of their current arrangements.

TheMotabilitySchemeenables disabled people to lease a new car using their Government funded mobility allowance.

IfyoureceivetheEnhanced Rate of the Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which has replaced the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for disabled people aged between 16 and 64, the War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement (WPMS) or the Armed Forces IndependencePayment(AFIP),youmay be eligible to join the MotabilityScheme.Childrenfromthe age of three and non-drivers can also apply for cars as pas-

sengers, provided they receive the correct allowance.

Customers simply transfer their mobility allowance to lease a suitable vehicle. Motability’s Contract Hire Scheme includes insurance, tyre and windscreen replacement, servicing, breakdown cover and road tax.

No waiting lists, credit checks or medical assessments are required. Joining the Scheme is pretty straightforward - you simply need to make your choice of car and order it at your local dealership but do visit a number of dealers to look at different makes and models, and have a really thorough test drive.

No extra assessments or creditchecksarerequired.Insurance is also taken care of when acquiring a car through the Contract Hire Scheme. It includes breakdown cover,

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servicing, maintenance, car tax and more but it’s surprising how many people are still unaware that all these things are includedin the worry-free package.

Changing to a new car when the time comes is also madeaseasyaspossiblewitha seamless transfer. You simply keepyouroldcaruntilthenew one is ready.

If you have medium-toheavy adaptations for your disability, you may be able to keep your car for longer by extending the lease, or arrange to transfer the adaptations to your new vehicle.

There’s no reason why any Motability customers should be left car-less between leases - unless, that is, you are on holiday and would prefer that arrangement.

Motability isn’t a Government department but it does

work very closely with the Department for Work and Pensions.TheSchemeisoverseen

by Motability, a registered charity, and the Car Scheme is operated by Motability Operations, which is a private business owned by the major clearing banks. All profits are ploughed back into the business for the benefit of the customers.

To be eligible to join the Motability Scheme, you need to receive one of the following mobility allowances: Higher Rate Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance

(HRMC DLA) As of 8 April 2015, this allowance is £57.45 per week.

Enhanced Rate Mobility Component of Personal Independence Payment (ERMC PIP) As of 6 April 2015, this allowance is £57.45 per week.

War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement (WPMS) As of 6 April 2015, this allowance is £64.15 per week.

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Sport

Jim Campbell

Luke Moore

The Football Ramble’s Jim looks at what makes the Championship such an entertaining league

Will it be heartbreak for the Seagulls this season?

The Football Ramble’s Luke Moore looks at Brighton’s chances

The perfect environment for unpredictability

T

he Premier League has long hyped itself as the Best League in the World and while this at times seems like aggressive marketing guff, in terms of entertainment it’s definitely in the conversation. We’re spoiled in England, because a division below we also have arguably the most competitive, unpredictable league in the world and these are both factors which mean that there’s an argument that again, in terms of entertainment, it’s actually the best...

This year the Championship will be as intense as ever and I can say that with confidence as from a neutral point of view it simply never disappoints.

The length of the season and the four play-off places make it the perfect environment for unpredictability. It seems like every season features an unfancied team who’ve been hanging around in mid-table making the play-offs by timing a run of form to perfection. It’s so difficult to predict who will be in the mix by the end.

There may be a gulf in quality between the Premier League and the Championship but it’s not so big that it can’t be bridged. Teams like Stoke City and Swansea have gotten out and stayed out. By the business end of the season the top of the table is like a giant prison break, with everyone desperate to escape. That motivation gives it a frenzied intensity as the spoils are so high, while failure is utterly demoralising, with it all having to be done again next season.

Brighton fans at the Amex. Picture by Phil Westlake

Despite everything that’s great about it, the Premier League doesn’t have an equivalent of this.

By it’s very nature the Championship can’t be top heavy with the same teams dominating every year and that makes it feel like more of a level playing field.

Yes there are big teams like Leeds, Aston Villa and Newcastle – and how nice is it to see Newcastle fans actually being able to enjoy themselves again?

But the pack shuffles every season.

Teams like Derby and Brighton & Hove Albion have come close time and time again only to fall short, yet that was also true of Middlesbrough and they finally managed it. It’s an incredibly tough league to get out of but when a team build something and click they often dazzle, as Leicester did just a few short years ago – and we all know how that turned out.

The Championship is a credit to the sport and we’re lucky to have it.

So many people are growing weary of the over the top glitz of the Premier League but the Championship doesn’t have this. The standard is high and the support is fervent. In fact, it’s so well supported that last season only the Premier League, La Liga and the Bundesliga attracted a bigger overall attendance and it was even the tenth most attended league in the world across any sport.

We have something special here. It may be a tough league to get out of, but for fans of any club involved it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate that there are few places it’s as good to be.

Hughton has plenty of fuel to drive his team on

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t was cruel for the Seagulls last season, there’s no doubt about that. You’d think a team that has had their hearts broken so regularly in the Championship play-offs, that heightened dream sequence in the soap opera that is the English second tier, would be immune to disappointment by now, but the way that 1-1 draw against Middlesbrough came to pass on the final day of 2015-16 was particularly harsh on a team that didn’t lose their first league game until the kids were breaking up for Christmas.

It was unlikely, nay impossible, for Chris Hughton, a man well known for his good nature and motivational skill, to lift his charges for yet another playoff sortie. Sheffield Wednesday breezed past them in mid-May, and history repeated itself yet again. Hughton’s men were brilliant for huge parts of last season. They lost just five games. Not even champions Burnley lost fewer.

Middlesbrough, who finished above the south coasters by virtue of a plus-32 goal difference, two better than Brighton, lost almost double as many. But if we fast-forward to now, could it be a case of same old Brighton? Or might it perhaps be different?

There are similarities of course – Norwich, Newcastle and Brighton are the three best teams in this year’s renewal by a distance, much as Burnley, Middlesbrough and Brighton were last time around, and the way the league is constructed means of course that only two of those three get their wish automatically.

It is vital that Hughton channels last season’s disappointment and turns it into something positive, something he appears to have done so far. If they finish a disappointing third again – the exact position they’re in now – it may well be too much to bear. But, that disappointing 2-2 draw against Preston last week, in which the Seagulls were pegged back in injury-time by a Simon Makienak equaliser, was followed up in mentally-robust style by a 1-0 win over a Wolves side who, while inconsistent, are certainly capable. It was a textbook example of a game they needed to win if they are to climb out of this division.

They did, and despite the late

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Anthony Knockaert - the best player in the Championship?

Wolverhampton Wanderers onslaught, they held firm. There are more reasons for Brighton fans to be positive – Anthony Knockaert has a decent claim as being the best player in this league and boasts top-flight experience both here and abroad.

He is precisely the type of attacking player that can make a vital difference when the points are totted up in May. Lewis Dunk is a hugely talented centrehalf with Premier League potential written all over him, and is only 24 so will still have the legs and appetite for another lengthy Championship campaign. What’s more the manager knows what it’s like to suffer disappointment but eventually lift his side back into the Premier League.

Three times in the last four seasons in one way or another this side has felt the crushing disappointment of failing at the final hurdle. If that counts as fuel to drive a team on, then no-one has more in the tank than Chris Hughton and his men. It’d be foolish to bet against them again.

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CHAMPIONSHIP

LEAGUE TABLE: TEAM

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

P 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

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

L 3 2 4 3 4 5 3 4 6 6 5 7 5 4 5 3 5 6 7 7 6 8 7 10

F 30 18 16 26 16 21 19 15 18 14 19 25 16 16 18 14 10 16 24 13 7 14 13 14

Home team: 78

Pts 31 28 28 27 24 23 23 22 20 20 19 19 19 18 17 17 17 16 15 15 14 12 11 6

14 Walter Zenga Wolves

TOP SCORERS:

28%

Draws: 43

Dwight Gayle Newcastle Tammy Abraham Bristol City Scott Hogan Brentford Cameron JeromeNorwich Dannyy Ward Rotherham Glenn Murray Brighton Chris Woood Leeds Will Griggg Wigan Sam Gallagherr Blacckburn Jacob Murphy Norw wich Apoostolos Vellios Nott ttm Foorest Jacksoon Irvine Burtoon A Knoockaeert Brightonn

26%

46%

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clubs have changed their boss

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Next up at the Amex...

Sport

Albion v Norwich in the Championship on Saturday, October 29, kick-off 3pm

Tickets available at www.seagulls.co.uk or by calling 0844 327 1901

Seagulls boss Hughton relishing Canaries clash Brighton & Hove Albion

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Brighton boss Chris Hughton says victory over fellow promotion hopefuls Norwich City at the Amex tomorrow will be a big boost for his side.

Albion entertain highlyfancied Canaries on the back of a 1-0 win at Wigan last Saturday, which took their Championship unbeaten run to eight games.

Having not beaten promoted teams Middlesbrough or Burnley at home last season, Hughton believes victory could be crucial for his team, who currently sit second in the table.

He said: “They (Norwich) are a team in and around us, if we are not to win the game it’s points that they get.

“It does have an extra meaning, I said the same when we played at home to Huddersfield and of course with the supporters it has that little extra edge.

“Any win against that level of team in this division will be a big boost.”

Hughton spent two years in charge at Norwich, guiding them to an 11th-placed finish in the Premier League in his first season.

Looking back, he felt it was an enjoyable time in his managerial career and said: “I had two seasons with them, certainly the second was more difficult than the first season. I look back very fondly on my time with them and it was a very good experience.”

Dale Stephens got the winning goal after coming off the bench at the Latics last Saturday. Hughton admits the midfielder is pushing for a starting place in tomorrow’s crunch clash and added: “He’s been very close over the last few weeks but a couple of little niggles have set him back slightly. Dale is very much focused, ready and pushing for a place on Saturday.”

Winger Solly March is in contention to be in a matchday squad for the first time this season on Saturday, while defender Lewis Dunk is back and available after serving a one-match ban.

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Lewis Dunk is back available for Albion after missing the Wigan game through suspension on Saturday

Cricket Sussex trio selected for PSL PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE

PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE

Brighton & Hove Albion

Young defender Rob Hunt signed a new contract this week and is now looking to continue improving.

The 21-year-old made his Albion debut this season and has now signed a deal until the end of the 2017-18 campaign.

He has impressed for the under-23 team this season, while he has also featured in three EFL Cup games, as well as once in the Championship when he came on in the second half of the 1-0 win at Burton Albion last month.

Speaking to www. seagulls.co.uk, Hunt said: “I’m very pleased to have signed and now I just want to keep pushing and see what happens.

“It’s [new contract] been talked about for a few weeks and I’m happy we’ve reached an agreement and managed to get it over the line.

“I’ve been here for a long time and I’m so happy to have broken through this season, so I just need to keep pushing hard and towards the main goal.

“I’ve got to keep trying to improve every day. The players and manager are always very supportive of

Seagulls boss Chris Hughton says Rob Hunt deserves his new contract

me, and as a group we want to reach that one goal that we didn’t quite achieve last season.

“I want to play games, get some more experience and just keep doing what I’m doing and it will all work out.”

Seagulls manager Chris Hughton said: “He’s a great example that if you are willing to work hard, you can impress and get those opportunities, and he certainly deserves his new contract.

“Aspartofhisdevelopment, Rob needs that test of regular senior football, and if we’re in a position to loan him out in January, then we will do that.”

Norwich pose biggest home test so far for Brighton Albion v Norwich preview

Three Sussex players were selected for the Pakistan Super League in last week’s draft. The tournament takes place in February and Sussex captain Luke Wright (above) has been retained by last year’s finalists Quetta Gladiators. Paceman Tymal Mills will also join the Gladiators and England all-rounder Chris Jordan has been drafted by Peshawar Zalmi.

Hunt pens new deal with Albion

Having moved up to second in the Championship, Brighton will have a fight on their hands to hold on to that spot when they take on fourth-placed Norwich at the Amex tomorrow.

Chris Hughton’s side extended their unbeaten run to eight games as they came away with a tight 1-0 win at Wigan Athletic last weekend.

There was little to separate the sides heading into the last half hour of the game, however Dale Stephens fired the Seagulls into the lead less than ten minutes after

coming on as a substitute.

With Newcastle pulling away in terms of goal difference at the top of the table, Albion will be hoping to put more daylight between themselves and the chasing pack of sides. However they have a tough task on their hands tomorrow against one of the pre-season favourites for promotion.

Norwich have held on to a number of players from their stint in the Premier League last season, as well as bringing in added quality to their squad in the summer.

The Canaries have been in and around the top end

of the division since the season began, however they dropped out of the top two after last weekend’s 1-0 loss at home to Preston.

Having also been knocked out of the EFL Cup by Leeds on penalties in midweek, Norwich boss Alex Neil will be expecting a response from his players in Sussex this weekend. Striker Cameron Jerome and midfielder Jacob Murphy will look to cause problems for Albion’s defence, having scored 11 league goals between them so far this season.

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Johnny Cantor Straight from the commentary box

It’s a shame more sport events aren’t on free-to-air TV

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Whitehawk celebrate a goal at Welling on Saturday

PICTURE BY DAVID HUNT

Hawks win again away to Welling Millions of BBC viewers watched Sussex’s Maddie Hinch help GB win Olympic hockey gold in Rio

Whitehawk FC

club bars.

On Wednesday night, I took in a nonleague game. Barely 50 fans hung over the sides watching through the gloom.

It may not have been a huge crowd but it was entertaining and more people than the three slouched on the sofa in the club bar nursing one drink to watch Man Utd v Man City in the EFL Cup on a subscription channel.

Sometimes the more we see the more we want to go. Sky and BT have their place of course. I hope we can hold onto a few sports and events on free-to-air TV as well. It may help to inspire more of those in terrestrial households off the sofa and into the grounds and ultimately onto the pitch.

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Whitehawk won at Welling for the second time in a week on Saturday to record a fourth successive victory.

After a 1-0 win in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup the previous week, Hawks ran out 2-1 victors in the league and are now up to 13th in the National League South table.

Whitehawk went ahead on 20 minutes when Ahmed Abdulla scored the rebound after his penalty was saved, following a foul on Danny Mills.

It took the hosts just two minutes to equalise as Adam Coombes headed home.

Whitehawk made a strong

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start to the second half and Ben Strevens almost put them back ahead on 65 minutes but his free kick was deflected just wide.

Hawks got the winner six minutes from time when Mills slotted home his seventh goal of the season.

Forward Chris Assombalonga – brother of Nottingham Forest striker Britt – made his Hawks debut, after joining on loan from Dagenham & Redbridge.

Tony Lee and Jack Masterton, both on loan to Whitehawk from Eastleigh, have extended their deals until mid-December.

Whitehawk entertain 16thplaced Margate in the league on Saturday. n Hawks’ FA Cup first round match at home to Stourbridge will take place

at The Enclosed Ground on Saturday, November 5, with a 3pm kick-off.

It will be pay-on-thegate only, with the usual entry prices of £12 adults, £7 concessions and free for under-12. n Whitehawk’s under-18 team ran out 4-1 winners away to South Park in the Ryman League South Division on Monday evening.

The hosts took a 12thminute lead but Hawks hit back to win with goals from Jordan Pryor, George Coltherd-Walls, Anesu Sisimayi and Lewis Broughton.

Hawks’ youngsters had won 5-0 at home to Molesey last Thursday with goals from Robbie Keith, Joseph Bull, Sisimayi, Coltherd-Walls and Pryor.

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ove it or hate it, Friends is undoubtedly one of, if not the, most enduring television programmes in history.

The ubiquitous presence on the EPG and TV schedules is proof it still delivers an audience advertisers are willing to pay for over 20 years after its inception.

One scene at which our family regularly giggles is when Monica’s father says ‘well, Judy, I think you finally filled her up’. However, it seems the viewers are some way from being satiated when it comes to the American comedy.

This week, some pundits say viewing figures suggest that the paying public may have finally got to the stage where they can’t take another wafer thin mint of live football on television.

With games on pretty much every day of the week the spread of fixtures means the appointment to view is somewhat diminished. Of course, we also now live in a world where you can grab snippets on download or catch up on a host of devices including your mobile phone.

It is becoming a lot easier to access at any time of the day. There is still a difference between digital services on subscription channels and free-to-air.

You might say that because I am an employee of the BBC I would say it but it does seem a shame so many large sporting events are no longer on free-toair channels. Of course, the rights are expensive.

We still have Wimbledon and the Olympics but live football is somewhat limited. One last bastion where viewers across the country and the globe can view domestic football is the FA Cup. Some may say it has lost its magic but as the competition builds with the arrival of the first round proper next weekend, we can all enjoy the stories as they emerge.

It is also a chance for fans to get off the sofa, get out there and get involved.

Good luck to the Sussex sides involved.

Hopefully the crowds will increase across the country and fill the tills of the

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