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Friday, February 5, 2016

Upset over changes to rail ticket offices

Albion star asks fans: ‘What’s the bottom line?’

Rail union says Govia’s plans could cause ‘carnage’ Railway station ticket offices in Hove, Portslade and Falmer may open only at peak times under plans revealed this week.

In off-peak periods kiosks could be replaced by “station hosts” - staff selling tickets on the station concourse. More than 80 stations could be involved in the shake-up, which rail union RMT described as “ticket office carnage”.

It is to launch an immediate campaign to defend jobs and services in a formal public consultation across routes served by Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern. There are three categories of stations where ticket offices could be at risk: Stations that sell fewer than 12 tickets an hour; stations where more than 12 tickets an hour are sold; and stations that still rely heavily on ticket offices at peak times.

Falmer falls into the second category, and could see ticket selling relocated on to a “station hosting point” on the concourse.

Hove and Portslade fall in the third category, where staff would be relocated to the concourse,but the ticket office would still open at busy times.

Mick Cash, RMT general secretary, said: “These plans, driven by the desire to de-staff our railways in the quest for profit, would unleash a wave of ticket office carnage across rail franchises that are already seen as the basket-cases of Britain’s privatised railway network.

“It is clear that Govia couldn’t give two hoots about passenger services, jobs and safety and are prepared to milk these routes for every single penny that they can extract regardless of what the

travelling public think of them. It is no coincidence that this threat comes as Southern are already gearing up to axe guards from their services in yet another lethal gamble with safety-critical jobs on some of Britain’s most dangerously overcrowded trains and platforms.”

A spokesperson for Govia Thameslink Railway said: “We want to modernise t h e way we o p e r at e approximately 80 of our busier stations across Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink for the benefit of passengers, many of whom now buy their tickets online,or use Oyster, contactless and smartcards.

“Where sales from ticket offices are low, we want to bring staff out from behind the windows and on to the concourse to work where they’re needed most, providing assistance and

helping sell tickets from ticket machines and their own handheld devices.

“All the affected stations will be staffed for longer as a result - at all but two they would be staffed from the very first train of the day to the very last, seven days a week. This will drive other customer benefits – we’ll also be able to increase the opening hours of facilities passengers have told us are important, such as waiting rooms, toilets and lifts.”

Peter Kyle, MP for Hove, said: “It is important that any proposals brought forward make life easier for passengers and I will be carefully scrutinising these plans to make sure this is the case. I’m currently working hard to ensure Southern,Network Rail and Department for Transport begin to get things right for commuters after a 2015 to forget.”

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Bobby Zamora backs Albion in the Community’s campaign Brighton and Hove Albion star Bobby Zamora is urging fans to be on the look-out for symptoms of bowel cancer as part of a drive to raise awareness of the condition across the city.

Th e S e a g u l l s s t a r i s backing Albion in the Community’s (AITC) ‘What’s The Bottom Line?’ campaign by encouraging supporters to visit their GP if they notice any potential symptoms.

He said: “Cancer affects so many of us but you can stay ahead of the game by knowing the signs and symptoms.The earlier you pick up on cancer symptoms, the more likely you are to be successfully treated. In the case of bowel cancer you can massively improve your chances just by speaking up early.”

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Public will have their say Bex Bastable @BexBastable “An absolutely impossible dream” has now come true for a Hove businessman who won the bid to redevelop the King Alfred Leisure Centre.

Rob Starr, in partnership with Crest Nicholson, has revealed the designs for the new leisure centre, which will change the face of Hove seafront.

In light of some criticism on social media, calling the design “boring”, and comparing it with the failed Frank Gehry scheme, Mr Starr said: “The building should be about introducing the seafront, the Frank Gehry design was more about the architecture.

“But if people don’t like it they should come forward.

There is going to be a number of meetings and the whole process will take over a year. I am approachable.

Protest against cuts to council

The rally at Brighton Town Hall Hundreds of protestors marched through the city o n S at u r d ay, o p p o s i n g government funding cuts to Brighton and Hove City Council. Council staff and union members were joined by residents and local campaign groups on the march, which began at The Level and ended in a rally at the town hall.

It comes as the council must make £68 million cuts in the next four years.

Phil Clarke, secretary of the Brighton and Hove Trades Council, said: “The message from our protest was very clear, these Tory cuts are unnecessary and

cruel. They are driven by a desire to shrink the state and privatise services. To protect our city we call on councillors to resist and campaign against these cuts as strongly as possible.”

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, ch a i r o f t h e B r i g h t o n , Hove and District Labour Party said: “I hope we can all channel our efforts to change national policies so as to help our city. It is vital that we take the fight all the way to the Conservative g ove r n m e n t a n d I c a n guarantee that the Labour Party will be there with you calling for an end to unnecessary austerity.”

On This Day Dan Tester @DJDanteBrighton

Excerpts from the recently-published book

1955 | Sunday, October 9 1901 | Tuesday, February 5 Brighton and Hove Albion legend Tommy Cook was born in Cuckfield, 13 miles north of the twin towns.

The greatest goalscorer in the club’s history, 123 in 209 starts, the centre forward topped the leading scorer charts in three seasons and led the England attack against Wales in 1925 as a Third Division player.

An outstanding cricketer too, Tommy made 20,198 runs for Sussex between 1922 and 1937. Tragically, the great man took his own life in 1950 after failing to fully recover from a plane crash in which he was the only survivor.

On Wednesday, I walked up George Street and bumped into four or five people who had a chat to me about it.

Get in contact - I will make time.”

He revealed that more than 75 developers were initially interested in the site, so to win the bid was “an absolutely impossible dream”.

He said: “I was born and bred in Brighton and I have used the King Alfred since I was 18 months old. It’s

really personal to me.”

On how he got involved, the founder of The Starr Trust, said initially at first, he was looking for a seafront base for the charity.

He said: “Initially it had nothing to do with the King Alfred. But walking past the it, I thought ‘what a wasted opportunity’.”

A f t er meet ing C r est Nicholson, he asked the council about the site - and it was good timing, as they were about to have an “open

day” for developers. And they rest was history.

After three years of work on the designs for the £40 million leisure centre with 560 homes, Mr Starr said now the real work begins consulting the community, taking on board feedback, and coming up with a final design that the majority is happy with.

To find out more about the winning design, see a special feature on pages 6 and 7.

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Setting the budget Brighton and Hove City Council has booked the Sussex County Cricket Ground in Hove, for its meeting to set the budget.

The meeting will take p l a c e o n Fe b r u a r y 2 5 at 4.30pm at the fullyaccessible cricket ground.

Councillors will discuss the 2015/16 budget, which could see around £25 million cuts - the start of £68 million cuts over the next four years.

A 3.99 per cent council tax rise for Brighton and Hove will also be debated.

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Ambitious plans reveal new vision for seafront at Hove The winning design for the King Alfred Leisure Centre has finally been unveiled, almost two weeks after the preferred bidder for the site was made public.

Crest Nicholson and The Starr Trust were chosen as the developers for the leisure centre,beating French builder Bouygues Development.

Th e d e c i s i o n o n t h e preferred design for the site was made behind closed doors - first by a cross-party King Alfred board, and then approved by the council’s policy and resources committee.

Although the designs for the losing bid may never be made public, Brighton and Hove City Council released further details of the winning bid this week.

The architect’s drawings for the proposals - which will see a £40 million sports centre and 560 homes - are in stark contrast to the faded 1930s building that currently stands

An artist’s impression of the redeveloped King Alfred Leisure Centre at the site.

Under the plans, the current sports centre would be demolished and replaced with modern public sports facilities. This includes three swimmingpools,a120-station gym overlooking the sea, a crèche, gymnastics centre, sauna, and cafe.

A fifth of the 560 flats would be “affordable”. The housing will be in four main blocks - the tallest of which would be 18 storeys.

Warren Morgan, leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, said: “I’m pleased we can now show residents the initial designs of what will be

a high-quality but deliverable leisure centre on the King Alfred site. It’s important we consult with local residents, however, it is vital that we move forward with the muchneeded and unavoidable replacement of the 90-yearold facility,one that costs huge sums to keep running.”

Duncan Innes, regional development director at Crest Nicholson, said: “We’re delighted to have been selected by Brighton and Hove City Council, along with our partners the Starr Trust, to deliver the KingAlfred Leisure Centre in Hove.

“Ourproposalsincorporate world-class leisure and community facilities set to benefit local residents, together with outstanding new mixed tenure residential properties in this enviable location on the Hove seafront. “ We l o o k fo r wa r d t o working closely with the council and the wider local community to bring our proposals to life and deliver new investment and vitality to the local area.”

Rob Starr, chairman and founder of the Starr Trust said: “When we received the news that we were selected to work with Brighton and Hove City Council to deliver the King Alfred development

I felt a mixture of relief and honour; relief that our hard work for the last three years has paid off and honoured to be trusted, along with our fantastic partners at Crest Nicholson, with such an important job.

“At the Starr Trust we are looking forward immensely to our proposed community hub bringing a real addition to community life - family and young people’s events, community activity, skills development and training, cultural activities and so on – as part of the scheme, contributing to a regenerated seafront to the west of the city that will be a joy for everyone.I know that the coming months and years will bring many challenges, but we will do all we can to give the city the very best of us.”

The council has said a planning application will be submitted in 2017, and the public will be consulted on the plans.

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King Alfred:

Questions answered There was much controversy over the council’s decision to keep the process surrounding the King Alfred Centre’s future under wraps. Brighton and Hove City Council explains why the decision was made in secret, and tells us more about the chosen developers

How did the council decide between the two bidders?

Each of the shortlisted s ch e m e s wa s a s s e s s e d a g a i n s t s e t eva l u at i o n criteria. These covered the project’s primary objective of delivering a new public sports and leisure facility, the enabling development; financial considerations and deliverability. The Crest bid came out with the highest total score.

Why w e re n ’ t t h e t w o proposals shared with the public?

The council used the “competitive dialogue” procurement process.

This offers advantages, particularly in driving better value for money for the council - and therefore taxpayers. But this process also prevents the council from releasing confidential information regarding the tenders received during the tendering process.

Competition between the bidder s drives the developers to provide local taxpayers with the most advantageous and reliable financial proposals. This entailed the companies sharing detailed, private financial information with a cross-party councillor project board, specialist council officers and external experts. Making details of the bids public would be unlawful under Public Procurement Regulations.

It would also undermine competition, as bidders wo u l d g a i n a dva n t a g e from seeing the competing proposals.

Tell us more about Crest Nicholson.

A major UK developer,mainly focused on residential schemes. Among current and recent projects are the award-winningOneBrighton development in Brighton’s New England Quarter alongside the station, a mixed use-regeneration of Bristol Harbourside, plus a development of 1620 homes, a library and shops at Centenary Square in Southampton.

What is the StarrTrust?

The Starr Trust was formed seven years ago and its aim is to support young people aged 10–18 to fulfil their potential through sports, arts and education, by giving a helping hand to

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achieve their goals at a time when they really need it.

TheTrust provides financial grants up to £5,000 for young people in need living in the BN post code area of the UK (Edward Starr Awards), training and development of skills, connections and mentoring. It aims to encourage independent thinking, entrepreneurship and a social conscience in young people through all its activities.

Who are the architects?

Designing the sports centre is LA Architects, a local firm with a strong track record of designing public sports and leisure facilities. Recent local authority projects include the Glass Mill LoampitVale Leisure Centre in Lewisham, the Clapham One Leisure Centre and Kensington Leisure Centre.

The architect responsible for master planning and the wider development is Haworth Tompkins. Haworth Tompkins is a London-based practice which won the UK’s top architecture award, the Stirling Prize, in 2014 for Liverpool’s Everyman theatre.

It has designed a number of successful residential developments, including schemes within the London Olympic Park.

Who will build the sports and leisure centre?

Willmott Dixon will be asked to deliver the sports and leisure facility. In the last 10 years,Willmott Dixon has built more than 100 pools and 70 leisure facilities for private, public and educational sector clients and is widely regarded as one of the market leaders in this sector.

What plans are there for public consultation?

All planning applications m u s t , by l aw, i n c l u d e public consultation and the planning committee must consider representations on planning matters. These include things like the height and appearance of buildings, numbers of flats or impacts on local amenity.

How long is it expected to take?

A planning consultation is due to commence in the second half of 2016. A planning application would be expected in early 2017, which could be determined in summer 2017.

FACTFILE What’s included in the new £40 million sports centre? n A 25mx8m lane competition pool with m o v e a b l e f l o o r, 3 5 2 spectator seats and 100 competitor seats n A 20mx10m teaching pool with moveable floor n A 400 square metre under eight’s leisure pool n Eight badminton courts n One 22mx12m multipurpose room n 120-piece gym n 15-bike spinning room

nThree-rink indoor bowls n 200-space car park for sport and leisure uses n Gymnastics centre n Workout studio for classes up to 35 n Quiet activity studio for classes up to 12 n Eight-person sauna n Health and fitness changing n Café n Crèche for under fives n Soft play room for 72 children n Dedicated martial arts training room

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Big Lemon raises £50k in one week Bex Bastable @BexBastable It’s been one week since The Big Lemon announced in the Brighton & Hove Independent that it would release 1,000 community bonds to help fund £100,000 towards an electric bus.

And already the community interest company has raised half its target sum.

Tom Druitt, managing director of The Big Lemon bus company, said: “I’d like to thank everyone for their support - it’s been overwhelming. It’s really happening now,and to raise that much money in such a short time shows us that people are keen to see this technology in Brighton and Hove. We have £50,000 left to raise, so I’d like to ask everyone to spread the word, check behind your sofas and take advantage of what is a fantastic investment opportunity” AndrewBoag,of Brighton

The Big Lemon Area Buswatch, said: “It is a wonderful achievement of The Big Lemon to reach the halfway mark so quickly.We hope they reach their target very soon. Electric buses are just what we need in

Brighton and it will be great to see them running here.”

E l e c t r i c bu s e s c o s t around £250,000, and The Big Lemon has applied for a government grant to help fund three, but in

order to get the first one, the company needs to raise £100,000. It has released 1,000 two-year fixed rate community bonds at £100.

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Monday 15th February - Thursday 18th February 2016 Avenue Bridge Club, 15 Third Avenue, Hove BN3 2FD

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Come and learn how to play one of the world’s greatest games (no, it’s not Angry Birds). It’s called Bridge and involves old fashioned playing cards.

From 7-20, whether you are a complete beginner, have played a little before, or are a regular player, everyone can enjoy a fun packed four days at the Sussex Junior Bridge Festival.

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PCC hopeful wants more ‘bobbies on the beat’

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Patrick Lowe is UKIP’s candidate for the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner election Joshua Powling @JoshuaPowling Sussex needs “more bobbies on the beat” according to UKIP’s PCC candidate who is hoping to unseat Tory incumbent Katy Bourne in May. Patrick Lowe, who lives in Brighton, switched from the Conservatives last year and actually worked on Mrs Bourne’s successful campaign to become the county’s first Police and Crime Commissioner in 2012.

If elected, he promised to put more bobbies on the beat, to champion the area for more resources, and become a “bureaucracy buster”.

He said: “The message I want to get out today is the public want the police back

on the streets. Get the bobby back on the beat,that’s what I intend to deliver.”

In his first interview since being selected as UKIP’s candidate in a hustings before Christmas,he argued that the force was overreliant on Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), a role which is currently the subject of a review.

H e a l s o s a i d i t wa s “disappointing” that Mrs Bourne had not fought harder for better funding for the county from central government, contrasting Sussex Police’s funding with the situation across the border in Surrey.

Mr Lowe explained how the Sussex PCC office cost £1.4 million in 2014/15, and the public wanted “value for money not an apologist for the precept”, as Mrs Bourne is proposing to increase

Sussex Police’s element of council tax by 3.4 per cent, equating to an extra £5 a year for a Band D property.

He explained that he had made the switch of parties as the values of the current government “do not resonate with what I believe in”.

He continued: “During my campaign I will be listening to what residents want rather than the recent experience of having a yes or no survey.”

Voter turnout was just 15.82 per cent back in November 2012 with Mrs Bourne finishing ahead of Labour’s Godfrey Daniel in the second round of counting.

Mr Lowe suggested that he could pick up a large percentage of second preferences from those who might be unwilling to give any votes to the Tories.

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Schoolchildren head to Westminster to take on the Lords at card game Children from schools around Sussex were recently invited to the Palace of Westminster to play the Peers at the card game Bridge.

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Single parents are losing out on child maintenance Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas

As a local MP, I’m sadly all too often confronted by stories of unfairness and injustice during my regular constituency advice surgeries - and one of the issues that comes up most often, and which is most unfair, is the way the child maintenance system works.

Being a single parent can be challenging. Whether it’s finding time to work, managing the practical necessities or coping financially – it can be a struggle to balance all the requirements of parenting when you’re by yourself.

Added to these pressures is the struggle that many single parents have to go through to make sure that the other parent pays their fair share of child maintenance.

For some couples that have split up the system is relatively simple. For those on PAYE, a new law in 2012 changed the scheme so that the non-resident parent pays a proportion of their income which is calculated according to their HMRC tax records. However, some

non-resident parents who are self-employed, or whose financial resources aren’t so straightforward, are finding innovative ways of cheating the system.

I’ve become aware of these difficulties faced by single parents, who are nearly always mothers, because it regularly comes up in casework.

Two c o n s t i t u e n t s i n particular have alerted me to their cases. Both women came to see me with separate concerns about how the system was working.

One highlighted to me how some non-resident parents are avoiding paying their full because HMRC data doesn’t show their true wealth.

Income from an ISA doesn’t show up for example and, similarly, people can divert money into their businesses, or pour huge amounts into a pension (to be accessed once the children have grown up) thus helping them ensure that their registered income fo r ch i l d m a i n t e n a n c e payments is artificially low.

Single parents can appeal against the amount being paid to their children but the process is complicated and slow,with child maintenance

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system administrators having very limited access to financial records held by the non-resident parent or by HMRC. Even when a calculation is made, if the non-resident parent refuses to pay up then penalties they face are very limited.

At my surgery, the second constituent, told me that her ex had avoided paying maintenance for five years despite,in her words, “going on at least three holidays in a year,turning up in a different vehicle every time he visits and always being in a new designer suit”.

She estimates that the contribution owed towards raising the children is over £10,000,but if her case is like many others,the government is saying the money may never come through.

Around 1.3 million single parent families are owed money the CSA ruled they were entitled to,but accounts prepared for Parliament by the Department forWork and Pensions (DWP) class £2.9bn of the £3.9bn in maintenance arrears as “uncollectable”.

That’s £2.9bn of the cost of raising children that still has to be found – either by the mother (usually) working longer hours, being helped out by her wider family, or

A single-parent family (Photograph: Press Association) being supported through the benefits system.

The system clearly isn’t working. I’m supporting a local campaign to put pressure on the government to ensure that more of what is owed towards children in single parent families is paid

back.

Ultimately we need to have a system which has at its heart the belief that every child matters.

Th at ’ s w hy I ’ m a l s o demanding that the Child Maintenance Service sets up a bespoke service to help

single parents navigate the most complicated cases – and get their children the money they deserve.

If you’re a single parent and experiencing similar problems you can get in touch with Gingerbread – the charity for single parents.

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A Week in the City Charity

Event

A charity gig featuring Brighton’s musical talents will take place on Tuesday to raise money for Brighton Housing Trust’s First Base Day Centre.

The event at the Hope and Ruin pub in Queens Road is organised by Vickie Cuxson from LMagine, an organisation raising money for charities through live music events. Tickets are £3 and doors open at 7.30pm.

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The Regency Society is to host a talk by Stephan Adult, on “the language of architectural drawings”.

Stephan, an architect, will talk about how architectural drawings can inform, confuse and inspire.

The event will be held on Wednesday, from 7pm at Brighton City College, Pelham Street.

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Charity

London to Brighton Pippa Middleton, ambassador for British Heart Foundation (BHF), announced registration is now open for this year’s London to Brighton bike ride.The annual event starts at Clapham Common, and sees cyclists travel 54 miles to Brighton’s seafront. The BHF charity event takes place on Sunday, June 19.

Ms Middleton,said: “Last June, a team of friends and I rode the BHF’s London to Brighton Bike Ride in its 40th year and it was an unforgettable experience.

“The view from Ditchling Beacon, the highest point of the ride at 813 feet, was well earned and hard to beat.

“This event is testament to the fact that cycling is such an inclusive sport that everyone can enjoy and through the money raised, the BHF can continue to help the millions of people affected by coronary heart disease. I encourage anyone who is curious to take place in this historic event.”

To register for this year’s charity bike ride, visit: bhf. org.uk/L2B

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Women’s centre Brighton Women’s Centre has secured funding from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to support a project that helps women offenders turn their backs on a life of crime.

The organisation received a £30,000 grant from the MoJ which match-funded a previous grant from Katy Bourne, the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).

Lisa Dando, director at the Brighton Women’s Centre, said: “This funding will ensure that through our Inspire project we can reach more women at risk of entering the criminal justice service across the county. For the year 2014/15, Inspire engaged with 351 women and of those, 90 per cent successfully completed their Community Orders.”

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The future of the University of Brighton in Hastings is under review as it struggles to recruit enough students to “make the original vision for the campus viable”.

The review will not look at the university’s Brighton and Eastbourne campuses.

A university spokesman said: “The University of Brightonisasuccessfuland popular university.But like all other universities we operate in an increasingly challenging environment.

“We are proud of what h a s b e e n a ch i eve d i n Hastings. But despite considerable investment we h ave s t r u g g l e d t o recruit the numbers of students needed to make the original vision for the campus viable in the longer term.

“We have also been concerned that students are less satisfied with their overall experience at Hastings compared to our other campuses.”

It said a decision would be made in “a few months” following the review.

An online celebrity auction and music quiz is being organised by a collective of Brighton-based refugee support projects.

Satirist Ian Hislop, beauty journalist Sali Hughes, musicians The Fratellis and Billy Bragg, local MPs Caroline Lucas and Peter Kyle, and a range of award-winning children’s authors are just some of the high-profile names donating items for an online auction. All money raised will be split between the Calais School Bus Project and a group of volunteers collecting and sending aid to refugees arriving on the Greek islands.

And on March 24, Sussex Refugee Solidarity is hosting a big music quiz, with support from always possible, The Starr Trust and The Synergy Centre.

The auction can be found at www.jumblebee. co.uk/srsauction2016 and tickets for the quiz can be bought at www.jumblebee. co.uk/srsquiz2016

Seedy Sunday, the UK’s longest established community seed swap event, is returning to Brighton’s Corn Exchange on Sunday.

Speakers include: James Wo n g , e t h n o b o t a n i s t , television presenter; Robert Hill-Snook, head gardener of the Pavilion (Regency) Gardens Brighton; Dr Mike Allen, environmental archaeologist; Dr Dave Goulson, Butterfly Conservation Trust; and Nick Mole, Pesticide Action Network. The Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time team will also be in attendance.

Th e a n n u a l eve n t i s centred around the Seed Swap table,where gardeners

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can swap seeds they saved in 2015 for seeds to grow in 2016. At last year’s event more than 10,000 packets of seeds, from rare vegetables to popular flowers, crossed the table. The event also features 60 stalls from community groups; seed, food and gardening related businesses and charities; children’s activities; cookery demonstrations, and the event sponsor, Brighton’s Infinity Cafe.

Seedy Sunday takes place on Sunday at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on Church Road in Brighton.

The event runs 10.30am to 4.30pm and entry is £3, £2 for concessions or free for children under 16.

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The Color Run is back

Tickets for The Color Run - a vibrant 5k event at Madeira Drive - went on sale on Tuesday. Last year, the event drew in more than 10,000 runners splashed with colour as they made their way around the course.

And this year, Skittles has got on board, with an all-new Tropicolor rainbow zone on the course where participants will be bathed in a tropical array of colours on their way to the finish line.

The Color Run at Brighton Madeira Drive takes place on Saturday, September 17 with two separate runs kicking off at 11am and 4pm. Event entries are priced from £24, with early-bird offers available atThe Color Run website.To sign up, visit: www.TheColorRun.co.uk

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Mood boosting books Schoolchildren in Brighton and Hove are set to benefit from a new book reading scheme to help them feel happier.

The “Mood Boosting Books” scheme, aimed at children aged nine to 11, is based on a list of books picked by children in the city.The list comes from a series of focus groups held with children from three schools in the city - Stanford Junior School,Our Lady of Lourdes RC Primary School,and Coombe Road Primary School.

The chosen books will be available to borrow from libraries across the city in paper format and in some cases as e-Books.

For every book children read they will be given a smiley mark on a special booklist being distributed through their schools.

All primary and junior schools in the city will receive information packs with a copy of the book list.

Dr Tom Scanlon, the council’s director of public health, said: “As far as we are aware this is the first scheme of its kind created with children for children. Reading for pleasure is proven to have an extremely positive impact on different aspects of children’s lives.Many children find themselves having to deal with difficult things in their lives.Reading about characters facing similar issues could make a big difference to how they feel in the face of these challenges.This scheme is also a great way to encourage children to discover books they love and to visit their local library.”

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Wo r k i s u n d e r w ay t o refurbish old and damaged communal bins in the city.

More than 50 bins have been refurbished or replaced, mostly in Regency and St Peters North Laine wards.

Cllr Gill Mitchell, chair of the city’s environment committee, said: “We are moving ahead now with this project following some detailed work that will ensure the right bins are being replaced in the areas that need them.”

Young musicians from Brighton will play in a fundraising concert to enable a visit from children studying at the Gaza Music School.

The Brighton-based students, from the Royal Academy of Music and at the Yehudi Menuhin School, will perform at a Valentine’s Day Concert at St Paul’s Church from 6pm.

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is hosting a snorkelling experience organised by Sussex Wildlife Trust on Thursday, February 18.

The pool will be filled with life-like marine plants and animals, including starfish, crabs and jellyfish.

Learn basic snorkel skills and find out about marine life through games and activities for children aged seven to 11. For more, visit: www.sussexwildlifetrust. org.uk/whatson Photograph: Miles Davies, Sussex Wildlife Trust

East Sussex Credit Union, based at Queen’s Road, Brighton, was this week awarded a £100,000 grant

by Lloyds Banking Group to enable it to support more people in the local community.

The credit union is a not-for-profit savings and loans co-operative, open to all people living and working in the county. To find out more, call 01273 234858 or email info@ eastsussexcu.org.uk

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Lewinna to Richard: Five ancient saints of Sussex

There was a time when any schoolchild could have named the five Christian saints of Sussex. Most of us, even if Sussex born and bred, would nowadays struggle to name more than one.

The earliest appears to have been St Lewinna (aka Leofwynn), who is also the

obscurest. She lived at a time when there were as yet few Christians in the land of the barbarous South Saxons, being martyred for her faith in about 670. What is recorded is that at Easter 1058 a Flemish monk called Balgar landed near Seaford and stole her bones from a nearby monastery, possibly at Bishopstone or Alfriston, where she was venerated, and where miracles had daily occurred in her name.

Balgar took them back to his abbey near Dunkirk, which

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St Wilfrid (Wilfred, or Wilfrith), known as the Apostle of Sussex, was a nobleman’s son,a cultivated cosmopolitan who became Bishop of York, only to be banished when he fell out with his superiors. In 681 he came south to convert the South Saxons and first won the confidence of the people of Selsey, at a time of famine, by teaching them how to fish inthesea.Hestayedfiveyears in Selsey, establishing there a monastery and cathedral which were to flourish for some 400 years – there were 24 bishops of Selsey – before the sea swallowed the see.

St Cuthman may have come from Chidham, near Chichester (some say he came from Cornwall), in which case he may have been converted by Wilfrid.

There are various legends about him. That, working as a shepherd, he once drew a circle around his flock, bidding them not to stray outside it while he went to have dinner. That he journeyed to Steyning, conveying his aged mother with him in some kind of handcart (the wheelbarrow is his saintly emblem). That

he built the first church at Steyning, and when a beam shifted from position, and Cuthman thought he would have to rebuild, a stranger appeared who instructed him how the structure might be saved. This stranger turned out to be Jesus Christ.

Cuthman is the subject of Christopher Fry’s play The Boy With a Cart (1939).

St Dunstan was one of the great ecclesiastical figures of the tenth century, founder of many monasteries. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959. His Sussex connection comes from the fact the archbishops in those days had a bolthole or country retreat at Mayfield, eight miles south of Tunbridge Wells. Among his many skills, Dunstan was a keen metalworker or goldsmith, and according to legend he was one day making a chalice or horseshoe in his forge at Mayfield when the devil appeared.

Dunstan immediately seized the devil’s nose with his redhot tongs, causing the devil to leap the eight miles to cool his proboscis in the Tunbridge spring, thus lending the water its celebrated chalybeate qualities.The very tongs are

Stained glass image of St Cuthman at Chidham church, by Mel Howse (2010) preserved at the convent,and a pair of tongs is Dunstan’s emblem.

Finally, St Richard of Chichester, patron saint of Sussex (his saint’s day, June 16, is also Sussex Day), was appointed bishop in 1245, but for two years was unable to take up his throne as Henry III had installed another. Instead, dependent on alms,he wandered Sussex, ministering to his flock,often staying at Tarring, where he

reputedly grew figs. Finally installed, he proved a stern enemy of corruption, a man of simple habits and limitless generosity, selling his silver to feed the poor.

For centuries his tomb in the cathedral was a place of pilgrimage, before its destruction by Henry VIII. An altar in his honour was restored in 1930, “the gift of a Brighton parish”. His popular prayer has been set to music.

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Conversations Do not cut vital bus service to Meadowview Thepeopleof Meadowview, Brighton, are anxious.

They are scared and they are angry. The number 37 bus which keeps the 5,000 residents linked to the rest of the city is in danger of being chopped.

It is a remote area of Brighton that not many people have even heard of and yet 5,000 people live there, in the 1990s housing estate up a steep hill.

The people that live there rely on the 37 bus to get them to work, school, college and even to the supermarket.

I attended a public meeting back in October regarding the bus service, and the community centre was full to the rafters with very angry residents. With several wheelchairs and lots of prams squashed up against the crowded chairs for the locals including quite a number of elderly folk.

Last year, Brighton and Hove Buses who originally ran the bus to Meadowview decided that as it wasn’t a profitable service for them,

and so CompassTravel took it over.

C o m p a s s Tr av e l initially ran the service on a commercial basis and then had to ask the council for a subsidy to enable the service to continue.

But unfortunately bus subsidies are part of the council’s current cutting frenzy.

The 37 bus is currently being run by Compass Travel with a skeleton service in the evenings and on Sundays, with the bus running every 75 minutes in the evenings.

The council needs to be looking after all its residents and it goes without saying that when the council builds an estate it should make sure that its inhabitants are able to get safely back to their homes at the end of the day.

For the elderly, the disabled, mothers with prams, children, and anyone with more than one bag of grocery shopping, the bus is an essential part of being a car-less resident of Meadowview.

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These residents cannot lose their bus service and it must be more frequent than it is currently.

People living in social housing tend to be marginalised in our society already due to low incomes and we need to make sure that they don’t become more isolated and detached from the rest of Brighton and Hove due to the lack of a decent bus service.

A petition to save the number 37 bus, and to ask the council to guarantee a regular and reliable service, is being presented at the council’s policy and resources committee meeting next Thursday.

The petition can be signed on the council’s website.

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å Dear Editor, Thanks to the Brighton & Hove Independent for publicising the imminent closure of The Practice Surgeries. I have been with the North Street Boots surgery but always thought it strangely under used with only ever one other person waiting for an appointment.

Two very good GPs had to leave owing to management instructions for GPs to increase their hours to cover seven day weeks,weekends,andlunch times. For doctors with family responsibilities

this is an impossibility, and The Practice Group have certainly lost no time in implementing this proposal.

The emerging example of this episode shows that the future trend is quite clearly if you rely on the NHS for health care the expectation will have to be a complete lack of regular doctors who know our health history and even surgeries that can be relied to stay in one place.

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Ambition, innovation and investment in our city

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We are modernising our council to make it fit for the digital age, able to adapt and change and to better deliver what residents want

There’s no escaping the very challenging funding situation for our day-to-day services presented in our council budget today, but there is another story - one of ambition, innovation and investment.

We promised to deliver major projects on time and in budget. This week we revealed plans for a new £40 million leisure centre on the site of the King Alfred in Hove, with three swimming pools, space for badminton and bowls, martial arts and dance, spinning and gym equipment and much, much more.

The £8 million the council will invest in it will come from money we are saving on maintaining the old centre, with the rest coming from new housing including affordable homes for rent through a social housing provider.

We promised to invest in preserving our city’s heritage. Work has begun on the £9 million scheme on the seafront at West Street to replace the crumbling Shelter Hall with a new one, and ensure our highways infrastructure can then withstand the pressures of modern traffic.That’s funded

Shelter Hall is set to be revamped in a £9 million project

with a government grant.

Last week we secured £5 million of Heritage Lottery Funding to restore and improve the Royal Pavilion estate for future generations to enjoy, securing its future at the heart of our arts and tourism offer to visitors vital to our economy.

We pledged to build 500 new council homes in our first term; this week we announced that 240 of those council homes will have started construction in our first year. Next month we will bring forward our plans for over 1,000 truly affordable rented homes for key workers. We promised to focus on the basics like street cleaning and refuse collection. This week we began the replacement and refurbishment of communal bins across the city, and this month our new fly-tipping enforcement team gets to work cracking down on people who dump rubbish in our streets.

We said we would boost jobs, skills and training.

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The new £40 million sports centre proposed for the King Alfred site employment and skills task force and we are working on setting up an apprenticeship company to help small companies take on new trainees. We are working with our creative digital sector, City College and the universities on accelerating this work.The major projects in the pipeline will generate thousands of new jobs.

We said we would do everything we can to tackle

poverty and rough sleeping.

Our Fairness Commission is doing incredible work in bringing together action in the city to reduce inequality, and our Rough Sleeping Summit last month brought a new focus and co-ordination to that urgent work.

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With all this, the arrival of John Lewis, the Circus Street development, Preston Barracks regeneration, and plans to build a new shopping centre, conference centre and arena, Brighton and Hove, under our leadership is once again a place of ambition,innovation and investment.

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Our city’s parks need extra protection I n my e x p e r i e n c e a s a councillor, one of the issues that riles residents more frequently than most others is that of unauthorised encampments of travellers on the city’s parks and open spaces. Not only do these encampments impinge upon the use of the land by local residents, they also cost an awful lot of council taxpayers’ money - more than £200,000 in eviction and clear up costs alone at the last count.

So, I warmly welcome the fact that the council is proposing to try and address residents’ concerns by m a k i n g u s e o f n ew powers introduced by the government called Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs).

PSPOs can be introduced in specific locations where there is substantial evidence of nuisance and anti-social b e h av i o u r c a u s e d by travellers such as driving on grass,fly tipping,lighting fires or simply the act of occupying land in a caravan, vehicle or tent.

The big advantage of PSPOsisthatthebreachingof them constitutes a criminal offence meaning that a fixed penalty notice can be issued or an immediate summons served.

At the moment, most encampments are civil offences,so an expensive and often lengthy application to the courts has to be made by the council and it is very difficult to recover any costs.

The city council has just launched a public consultation on 12 sites that they are proposing to include within the Order which is a very good start.

These are: Greenway (adjacent to the railway in

the New England Quarter); Hollingbury Park; Lawn Memorial Cemetery Woodingdean; Preston Park; Rottingdean Recreation Ground; the seafront including the A259 from Black Rock to Hove Lagoon; Sheepcote Valley and East Brighton Park; St Helens Green Hangleton; Stanmer Park; Surrenden Field; Waterhall; and Wild Park.

However, whilst this list is welcome, by restricting the Order to just 12 sites, the council will inevitably

be making those not on the list more vulnerable to incursion.

Therefore,there are other sites that the Conservative Group would like to see included in addition to the initial 12, including: Hangleton Park, Greenleas Park, Knoll Recreation G r o u n d , H a p py Va l l ey, Saltdean Oval, 19 Acres, Patcham Place, Horsdean Recreation Ground, Carden Park, Withdean Park and Braypool.

These sites are already the

subject of regular incursions by travellers and I have yet to see a good reason why they shouldn’t also be included.

Indeed, I imagine that many residents will be asking why all the city’s parks and green spaces are not being included.

This argument carries even more weight when you consider that the council is currently spending £2.4 million creating 12 permanent and 21 transit pitches at the existing official site in Horsdean.

When this new facility opens - according to the council in June - there really will be no excuse for travellers to form unauthorised encampments on our much-loved parks and open spaces.

If, like my Conservative colleagues and I, you feel strongly about this issue then I would urge you to make your views known.

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G e o f f B r ow n , c e n t r e manager, said: “I‘ve worked for Macmillan for over four years and have been very involved in the development of the Macmillan Horizon Centre,in particular liaising with people affected by cancer to make sure the s e r v i c e s at t h e c e n t r e properly reflect their needs.

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Artist who fell in love with the Downs I’m going to take you out of Brighton and Hove this week.

Not far - just a few miles east on the A27 - to a flint-faced cottage near Firle called ‘Furlongs’.

This was once the home of an incredible twentieth century artist, who despite a unique legacy of paintings of people and landscape – many depicting the Downs - beautiful wallpapers and tile murals, is far from being a household name.Margaret MacGregor “Peggy” Angus (1904 – 1993) was Scottish but born in Chile where her father was a railway engineer.

Settled in London, Peggy won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, where her contemporaries included Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Edward Bawden.

She then trained as a teacher and it was while working in Eastbourne in the early 1930s that she stumbled upon Furlongs during a walk on the Downs.

Despite its ramshackle condition and lack of running water, outdoorloving Peggy decided it was the perfect home.

When its farmer-owner said it was unavailable to rent, Peggy simply set up a tent and camped outside until he changed his mind.

That other Eastbournebased artist, Eric Ravilious, became a frequent visitor to Furlongs with his wife,artist Tirzah Garwood.

D u r i n g t h e s e s t ay s , Ravilious and Peggy would pack up their easels and go out painting together, coming up with wildly different results from the same scene.

While Ravilious’ silvery, whispery watercolours made the South Downs appear haunting and magical, Peggy’s attempts are robust and full-blooded.

“I like doing life, things happening, People doing things,” she once described h e r a p p r o a ch . Pe g gy ’ s South Downs bring ratcatchers, cabbage patches, threshing,milking cows – the

everyday, working life of the countryside, to the fore in glorious, bold colours.

What art lover wouldn’t have loved to be a fly on the wall on those painting trips? The famously jocular Ravilious and Peggy who has been described as “eccentric”, “opinionated”, and “a warrior”, setting down their easels in the rain, perhaps sandwiches or a piece of cake wrapped in paper.

What did they talk about w h i l e t h ey we r e bu s y, creating some of the best loved depictions of the area that’s on our doorstep?

Ravilious claimed that his visits to Furlongs “altered my whole outlook and way of painting”.

One of his most famous works, “Tea at Furlongs” from 1939 depicting a table set for afternoon tea in a wonderful garden makes you want to draw up a chair and help yourself to a scone.

Furlongs became a sort of alternative Charleston, peopled by Peggy’s other friends in the art world - Herbert Read, Serge Chermayeff (co-architect of Bexhill-on-Sea’s De La Warr Pavilion), Brighton artist Percy Horton, John Piper, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy amongst others who would pitch up for the weekend.

In 2013 Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery held an exhibition of Peggy’s work, including a reconstruction of a room in Furlongs.

It was a burst of colour, gorgeous wallpaper, murals and unmatching crockery m a k i n g a c h a o t i c ye t welcoming atmosphere.

Peggy’s work also incorporated boldly geometrically patterned wallpaper and tiles.

Post second world war, her huge tile murals could be seen embellishing many schools, universities and large public spaces - Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, Heathrow Underground Station to name just two. Her marble design on glass cladding d e c o rat e d t h e o ri g i nal Gatwick Airport.

A communist with a deep social conscience,Peggy had a strong belief that art could work as a force for good in society.

Peggy Angus

A self-portrait in the 1920s

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For her, teaching was as important as creating her own work. Ex-students remember her as a dynamic and inspiring teacher who, even in old age, could be seen with a rucksack slung over her shoulder, travelling from Furlongs to London by public transport to teach evening classes to senior citizens.

Pe g gy ’ s p o r t r a i t s o f fellow artist, John Piper, and the family of Ramsay MacDonald can be seen t o d ay i n t h e N a t i o n a l Portrait Gallery.

A wonderful book “Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter” by James Russell is an excellent read for anyone wanting to discover a fuller picture of this interesting and generous artist than the tiny tip of the iceberg I’ve given you here.

Louise Peskett runs the Notorious Women of Brighton walking tours, and blogs about local women’s history at www. historywomenbrighton. com

Portrait of John Piper, 1937 (National Portrait Gallery)

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- it’s on the agenda every month. The unelected Commission has decided that EU We travel back to Strasbourg in early Febstates will have compulsory migrant quo- ruary. Again, we will discuss the crisis, tas imposed upon them. A German min- much will be proposed, more British taxister helpfully suggested that we impose a payers’ money will be spent but nothing fuel levy to fund this issue. This is in addi- done because of the inability of Parliation to the €3bn paid to Turkey to stem the ment to recognise that the nation states migrant flow (with no limit). Turkey also and voters’ views are very different to the demanded (bribed) that work visas should bureaucrats’ vision. be waived and talks accelerated for Turkey’s membership of the EU. Yet still the migrants come.

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Benefits of rose and violet I never tire of Valentine themes. Roses are eternally beautiful and violets are straight back in fashion.

I use a fabulous Violet Leaf Absolute 10 per cent Dilution in Sweet Almond

by N a i s s a n c e fo r my improvised home fragrance sprays (£11.49 for 10ml).

It imparts a surprising freshness, given the earthy aroma. I also love the deep green colour, it is a thick fixative. I find this very calming, and it supports the treatment of insomnia.

Violet Leaf is soothing and comforting on dry, itchy and sensitive skin and can relieve muscle or joint pains when massaged in. I blend with tuberose and jasmine or try it in a herby mix with basil, cumin or clary sage.

Lush use this fresh, grassy antibacterial in several of their products.

The purple toned shampoo for silver blondes called Daddy-O smells of violets (£5.75 for 100g).

Sadly it contains the dreaded SLS foaming agent (labelled as a safe synthetic).

SLS is also in the solid Sugar Daddy-O conditioner.

Perhaps the Kerbside Violet fragrance by Lush is a better bet at £18 for 10ml.

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A new batch of “29 High Street” should be ready in early February.The perfume solid blends heady ylang yang with aromatic jasmine and sultry sandalwood plus sweet tonka absolute.

Rose fanatics can source 60-odd products by tapping rose into the Melvita search

box. You even get three varieties in the organic EDT Rose Sauvages; Rosa Gallica, Rosa Canina and Rosa Rubiginosa.The result is concentrated and very sweet, so I layer mine with woodier notes.

I’ve just sampled a rose facial oil but can’t see it in the UK yet. Romantics will swoon for the Petite Rose discovery collection (under £20) for a Rose Extraordinary Water 25ml, Damask Rose Floral Water 25ml, Fresh Micellar Water 35ml, Moisturising Rose Nectar Face Cream 10ml and a Rose Hand and Nail Cream 30ml.The hydrating SPF15 BB cream is my foundation hero, its tinted formula mattifies with a Wild Rose petal extract to improve the circulation of water in the epidermis.

The dewy day coverage is superb if your skin is light toned, dry or mature (£25 for 40ml), with a divine rose floral water scent.

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by Adam Baron Baron was a stand up comedian and the hero of the book is as well.There is a painfully funny moment during a gig that had me weeping with laughter,and at the same time cringing with embarrassment. How do those comics do it? The courage to face a (usually tipsy) audience and bare their souls is a remarkable feat, to me.

But this isn’t the main narrative of this wonderful book. It’s really about class awareness, the them and us. Greenwich V Blackheath. But it could just as easily be Hove V Hangleton. And it’s about families - families who are very much in love and have small children, that they also love very much.

But it would seem that sometimes love just isn’t enough.The way that Baron writes about the interior lives of the women in his book is astounding, and moving. This is an elegant and intelligent book that

has some wildly funny moments and an ending that shocked me. I urge you to read it as I am hotly tipping it for my book of the year.Yes, it’s that good.

When the two families collide in the story, My heart was in my mouth as I tried,and failed, to guess the outcome of their encounters.And if you have small children, you will identify with all the emotions in this absorbing tale. We are lucky enough to nab Baron for Bookish in March. Don’t miss him!

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On a mission to ‘Brighton’ up dark, grey winter days with bobble hats Charlotte Pearson @Charlotte_May Brighton has acted as the inspiration for many things, but one you may not have heard of is knitted hats.

Jo Hawkins, one half of Brighton-based knitwear brand Kubixl, said: “We wanted to create patterns using bold colours that reflected the character, personality and expression of our city.”

Along with friend Anna Dugard, who lives in Brighton, the pair’s love of hats in bold colours and patterns led them to launch their own business.

“It is our mission to brighten up dark winter outfits with our bright and beautiful bobble hats,” said Jo. “Once we started designing our patterns, it was so fun it was quite hard to stop.

“We sat down together with all our many patterns in front of us and choose which

Jo Hawkins and Anna Dugard - creators of Kubixl ones stood out the best. We then experimented with how they looked in different colours, and thought the brighter the better.”

The patterns are drawn out on square paper, with each square representing a knitted stitch.

Once they are happy with

Kubixl use bright patterns to reflect “personality” of Brighton

the patterns, the designs are transferred onto a computer where they are able to play with different colour-ways.

“It was quite a long process finalising our designs,” said Jo. “We made lots of prototypes to make sure the patterns looked right once knitted.

“We also wanted to make sure all seven different hat designs worked together as a collection.”

The hats, made from premium cotton blend yarn, are unisex and designs include vertical limit, crazy paving and 70s light shower.

“Our hats are machine knitted by a third generation knitwear manufacturer i n L e i c e s t e r, a r e g i o n historically associated with knitwear production,” explains Jo.

“We chose to have them made in Britain because we wanted to support British manufacturers.

“It was very important for us to be able to visit where our hats were being made.”

Each hat is then hand finished by Jo and Anna, who have been friends since they met studying art and textilesA-Levels at BHASVIC (Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College).

“We both wanted to put our practical skills to use,” said Jo. “We also wanted to check every hat was finished to the standard we wanted. “ We g a t h e r t h e t o p section by hand, sew on our leather Kubixl labels and top them with our handmade pompoms.”

As for the name of the brand, the pair wanted to come up with something unique.

“We wanted something that would stand out and reflect the style of our designs,” said Jo. “So we made one up.

“After many weeks of playing around with different ideas, we both chose three letters each, which we re-arranged and developed into Kubixl.”

With its unusual name and colourful look, the designers hope that their customers will make sure they wear their hats with “pomfidence”.

The end of the hiring and firing culture? permanent or contract employment, yet still Kylee Charles retain the project type @T The_PR_Chick work that they enjoy.

“It would reduce the number of individuals Many businesses across that fall into short-term the country resort to unemployment due to hiring contractors for redundancies or lack of short periods of time, contract renewal due to often with very brief notice projects coming to an end.” periods, which means that “ Th e f i r e a n d h i r e highly-skilled individuals culture has been going on can find themselves out of for too long. work all too quickly.

“Hiring managers can B u t r a t h e r t h a n sometimes take weeks or becoming over-reliant on months to find the right recruitment agencies and person, yet due to budget associated fees, perhaps constraints in the future, these companies should could be forced to let this consider outsourcing these person go. projects to consultancies “Rather than having to who are experienced at constantly hire at the start completing projects on of a project and fire at end, time and within budget. competent professionals, Fa r i d a G i bb s , C E O who are completely used of Gibbs S3, told me: to working in a variety “ O u t s o u r c i n g e n t i r e of companies, can come projects to consultancies in and hit the ground is a highly cost effective running.” method for businesses.

“Hiring more skilled Kylee Charles is the professionals can provide director of Sussex-based g r e at e r j o b s e c u r i t y, agency Shotgun PR and w h e t h e r t h ey a r e o n Media.

To find out more about Brighton’s knitwear brand Kubixl, visit: www. kubixl.com

MP meets construction apprentices Peter Kyle MP met with local apprentices to find out more about the opportunities available for people entering the construction industry.

Mr Kyle, Labour MP for Hove, met staff from Tasker Catchpole at a site visit organised by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

The MP was given a tour of Martello Lofts, a former HMRC office being transformed into 28 residential apartments due to completed thisApril.

During the tour of the site

Mr Kyle met carpentry apprentices Samuel Cork, and Karl Hoelscher-Ermert, w h o s h ow c a s e d t h e i r handiwork and discussed the opportunities their a p p r e n t i c e s h i p s h ave afforded them.

The company’s managing director,Stephan Pfeiffer, and operations manager Mathew Constable also provided Mr Kyle with an overview of the Martello Lofts project and the company’s ambition to expand their apprenticeship programme.

The company, formed in 2013 following the merger of JRTasker Contractors andW H Catchpole LTD,is currently undertaking wide range of projects in Hove and across Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey and into London.

M r Ky l e s a i d : “ I t ’ s wonderful to hear that businesses in Hove such as Tasker Catchpole are busy, and using their position in the local community to train up the next generation o f w o r k e r s . Th e r e a r e s o m a ny h i g h - q u a l i t y, skilled jobs in this sector and apprenticeships can

provide a perfect pathway for employers and employees alike. Increasing the number of construction apprentices in our region is incredibly important to the industry and I will continue working with CITB in backing apprenticeships.”

Gillian Cain, regional delivery manager for CITB in the South East, said: “With over 230,000 new construction jobs to be created in the UK over the next five years, I hope Mr Kyle’s visit will encourage more employers in Sussex to support apprenticeships and

Peter Kyle MP on site with apprenticeships and management at Tasker Catchpole (Photograph: Simon Callaghan) help develop the industry’s future workforce.”

Mr Pfeiffer, managing director of Tasker Catchpole, said: “We were delighted to host Mr Kyle to see

our apprentices working on site and hear of the skills they have developed over the course of their apprenticeships withTasker Catchpole.”

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SUSSEX FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS

Winners of Sussex Butcher of the Year 2016 – S K Hutchings

Farmers Market winners – Horsham Local Produce Market

The party was in full swing at the Amex Stadium in B r i g h t o n o n Th u r s d ay, January 29, as the annual Sussex Food and Drink Awards made its grand return.

Dozens of the south’s top food producers gathered in the Brighton and Hove Albion stadium along with hundreds of friends, family and special guests to celebrate the best of Sussex food and drink.

The awards were c e l e b r at i n g t h e i r 1 0 t h anniversary and had a few extra twists including two new categories and a very special performances from the two opera singing chefs.

Guests enjoyed a fantastic s e ve n c o u r s e b a n q u e t prepared by Sodexo Prestige before BBC Sussex’s Danny Pike and former gold medal winning British athlete Sally Gunnell presented the awards.

RyanTomkinson will be a name to watch out for in the future as he beat off some sturdy competition to win Young Chef of the year.

The 21-year-old is demi chef de partie at the Pass restaurantin the South Lodge Hotel, in Lower Beeding, and will look to follow in the footsteps of former Pass chef Steven Edwards who won the award in 2011 and has since gone on to win Masterchef.

His mother revealed the youngster had been working extremely hard after finishing runner up in the category last year, working 90 hours a week.

Ryan,of Bexhill,said: “It’s crazy. I really went for it this year.

“I came second last year so this is more of a relief than anything.

“I’m not sure what will happen next but I’m thinking of maybe working in London, Oxford way.

“I have done everything good in Sussex now but I will never forget Sussex produce and resources, that’s the main thing.”

It was also a successful

T h e p a i r, w h o r u n Southview Farm in Bury, picked up the Sussex Farmer of the year for a second time.

Charlie proposed to his wife Sarah live on stage when they won the award in 2014.

He said both the businesses and the family had come along way since, with Sarah giving birth to their first child last year.

Sarah said: “It’s been challenging with the new addition,juggling work with family life.

“There are lots of things we want to continue and improve but it is lovely to get the recognition.”

Charlie said his wife was even ordering produce from her recovery suite after their new baby was born.

He added: “It is a real privilege to have won it for a second time and shows we are not taking our foot off the

Winners of Sussex Farmer of the Year – Charlie and Sarah Hughes

Cheers to the best of Sussex

Cheers for Sussex Food and Drink Award Winners 2016 night for Horsham Local Produce Market as it picked up its second award in three years.

The twice weekly market, held in the Carfax in Horsham, was crowned Sussex Farmers Market of the year,an honour it previously won back in 2014.

Pj Aldred, of Horsham Local Produce Market, said: “We are over the moon.It was quite unexpected.

“We love Horsham and its customers and we will continue to run it in town.

We absolutely love it.”

Marion Carter, who also helps run the market,added: “We are a bit shocked.

“There are lots of great markets out there in Sussex so its a great achievement to win.”

A couple who have become familiar with the awards are Charlie and Sarah Hughes.

pedal.”

Celebrations were also in order at the The Cat Inn, in West Hoathly,as it picked up the Sussex Eating Experience of the year.

Head chefAlex Jacquemin said: “We are shocked to be honest. We didn’t think we would win.

“It has been a good year for us. Every year we are getting better and better the quality of the food is going up and up.”

It was also a good night for English sparkling wine as Ridgeview Wine Estate took home the Drink Producer of the year.

Staff at the family run business, based in Fragbarrow Lane, Ditchling, were overjoyed with the award and said they were showing the French the British can also make quality sparkling wine.

Ta m a r a R o b e r t s , o f Ridgeview, said: “It means a huge amount.

“Being voted for by the public is an amazing thing and for that to be reflected by the judges I am extremely proud.”

It was a good night for Sean Hutchingson after his shop S.K. Hutchings, in Partridge Green, picked up the Butchers of the Year award.

He said: “This award means a lot because it was the customers who voted for us – that is what did it for us.

We work very hard to give the customers what they want.

“We have done this for 27 years and we had to work hard to get through foot and mouth and BSE.” H o w e ve r, S e a n ’ s celebrations were cut a little short as he had to be back at work by 3am the following

morning.

Farmers atTheTraditional Cheese Dairy, in Stonegate, were left overjoyed as they were crowned Sussex Food Producer of theYear.

Rebecca Dyball, of the Traditional Cheese Dairy, said: “If anyone knows cheese making it is a really kind of secluded job.

“To win this is massive and I might have to ask for a pay rise.”

With the awards also c e l e b r at i n g t h e i r 1 0 t h a n n ive r s a r y t wo e x t r a categories were added to this year’s competition.

The first was Newcomer of theYear which was picked up by Eggs and Apples in Hurst Green.

Susannah Hewett,of Eggs and Apples, said: “We were really up against the big guns tonight.

“Our staff are fabulous,

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Winner of Sussex Food Producer – The Traditional Cheese Dairy

Sussex Eating Experience winners – The Cat Inn

Sussex Food Producer of the Year, sponsored by The Southern Cooperative n Winner: The Traditional Cheese Dairy, Stonegate, East Sussex nRunners up: Higgidy, Shorehamby-sea, West Sussex and Springs’ Smoked Salmon, Edburton, West Sussex Sussex Drink Producer of the Year, sponsored by Rix & Kay Solicitors nWinner: Ridgeview Wine Estate, Ditchling Common, East Sussex nRunners up: Dark Star Brewing Co Ltd, Partridge Green, West Sussex and Nutbourne Vineyards, Pulborough, West Sussex Sussex Young Chef of the Year, sponsored by Sodexo Prestige nWinner: Ryan Tomkinson, The Pass, South Lodge, Lower Beeding, West Sussex nRunners up: Michael Sutherland, The Sussex Ox, Polegate, East Sussex and Stephanie Hayward, Ockenden, Manor, Cuckfield, West Sussex Sussex Farmer of the Year, in association with Farmers Weekly nWinner: Charlie and Sarah Hughes, Southview Farm, Pulborough, West Sussex nRunners up: Julia and Simon Feakes, Sussex Lamb, Horsham, West Sussex and Tim and Rupert Hoare, Adsdean Farm, Funtingdon, West Sussex

Winners of Sussex Street Food – The Troll’s Pantry

Sussex Butcher of the Year, sponsored by Absolute Butchery nWinner: S K Hutchings, Partridge Green, West Sussex nRunners up: A C Coughtrey Butchers, Pulborough, West Sussex and Barfields Butchers, Brighton Sussex Farmers Market of the Year, sponsored by Harveys of Lewes nWinner: Horsham Local Produce Market, West Sussex nRunners up: Lewes Farmers Market, East Sussex and Shoreham Farmers Market, West Sussex

Winners of Sussex Newcomer 2016 – Eggs to Apples

we get so many compliments on their customer service.”

The final new category for the year was Sussex Street Food of the Year which was won by the Trolls Pantry in Brighton. The street food provider, which is based in the Hobgoblin pub in Brighton, prides itself on local, seasonal and ethical food and has made a big commitment to making sure there is no food wastage in the kitchen.

Paul Clark, of the Trolls Pantry, said: “There is a lot of wastage going on and bad standards. I just want to raise the bar.

“It is pretty difficult – in fact it is really expensive but it’s really worth it and the customers think so too.”

Sharnfold Farm Shop, in Stone Cross, also picked up an award for Sussex Food Shop of the year.

Sussex Eating Experience of the Year, co-sponsored by Natural PR and Sussex Food & Drink Network nWinner: The Cat Inn, West Hoathly, West Sussex nRunners up: The Curlew Restaurant, Bodiam, East Sussex and The Sussex Ox, Polegate, East Sussex

Sussex Food Shop of the Year winners – Sharnfold Farm Shop

Sussex Young Chef of the Year winner – Ryan Tomkinson

Sussex Food Shop of the Year, sponsored by Wealden District Council nWinner: Sharnfold Farm Shop, Stone Cross, East Sussex nRunners up: Charlie’s Farm Shop, Bury, West Sussex and Rushfields Farm Shop, Poynings, West Sussex Sussex Newcomer of the Year, sponsored by Spofforths Chartered Accountants nWinner: Eggs to Apples, Hurst Green, East Sussex nRunners up: Coggings & Co, Brighton and Etch Food, Billingshurst, West Sussex

Sussex Drink Producer of the Year winner – Ridgeview Wine Estate

Sussex Street Food Vendor of the Year, co-sponsored by Food Rocks and Hepworth & Co Brewers Ltd nWinner: The Troll’s Pantry, Brighton nRunners up: Boca Loco, Arundel, West Sussex and Jah Jyot, Southwater, West Sussex

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SMART IDEA Brighton Science Festival has come a long way

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Hands-on fun at 2016’s Brighton Science Festival Festival

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JASON DONOVAN Wed 23 Mar

THE SESSIONS Wed 6 Apr

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YES Sat 7 May

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Brighton Science Festival 2016 is underway, running until February 28.

Director Richard Robinson said: “With more than 80 events at 40 venues spread across a whole month, Brighton Science Festival has come a long way since it started as a single weekend of talks in 2005.

“We’ve learned a lot along the way, not least about how people (adults and kids alike) never stop learning. It’s been quite a journey, which is why we decided to make the idea of journeys the theme for this year’s festival, covering everything from animal navigation and migration to

evolution and space travel.

“As usual, our programme deliberately avoids the being-lectured-at style of learning, in favour of handson demonstrations, engaging talks and live experiments.

“In addition to BSF regulars like Robin Ince and Helen and Kat Arney, we’ve brought in a new crop of pop science presenters and entertainers. Robin Dunbar explains why the number of friends you have is defined by a mathematical limit, we hear from Matt Taylor who put a landing craft on a comet and Rosie Wilby examines the science of sex via the nature of pheromones and the origins of kissing.

“Meanwhile there’s more kids’ stuff than ever in our hands-on half term programme. Marty Jopson,

from BBC’s One Show, investigates the shocking story of electricity; Russell Arnott hosts an interactive presentation in which sealife experts champion their favourite underwater invertebrate; and Blast Science examine the mysteries of space and time with an interactive Star Wars astronomy show including a light-sabre battle finale.

“As always, the main attraction is our double day of interactive science fun at Bright Sparks (Hove Park Upper School, February 13 and 14).”

On top of all this, science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd will provide a special one-off show on February 18.

More details on www. brightonscience.com.

Orchestra’s latest is out of this world Music ADAM ANT Sat 28 May

CHINESE STATE CIRCUS Sat 5 Nov

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra say they will boldly go where no orchestra has gone before in their Heroes & Aliens concert at Brighton Dome on Saturday, February 6.

Pete Harrison will conduct the BSO in a concert featuring music from some of the most iconic and successful space movies of all time.

The BSO will perform a blockbuster concert full of film scores at Brighton Dome, including Star Wars, Avatar, ET, Apollo 13, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, War of the Worlds, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and others.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is one of the UK’s busiest orchestras, reaching around 5,000 concertgoers per week across 35 venues, across 10,000

square miles of the UK. 2016 marks the orchestra’s 123rd consecutive year of bringing live music to the south and south west.

Tickets for the concert cost between £10 and £27.50. Call the Brighton Dome box office on 01273 709709 or visit brightondome.org.

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Shakespearean forms are the vehicle for playwright Mike Bartlett as he looks into the future of our royal family.

Mike’s King Charles III, starring Robert Powell as King Charles, is at the Theatre Royal from February 8-13.

“With Shakespearean form, the verse can get into quite complicated forms and ideas,” Mike says. “When we were rehearsing it, we didn’t really know what it was going to be, but obviously, hopefully, we were going in a direction that would speak to a lot of people.

I knew I wanted to write a play about Charles and the royal family. I didn’t really know how until I thought of Charles as a Shakespearean tragic hero. It is very simple, the idea of a man that

has waited all his life for something he might never get to see if he dies beforehand or for something that might actually be his for only a very short period of time. There is something very interesting in that situation.

“Obviously, it doesn’t have huge sword fights and everyone dying at the end as you might in Shakespeare, but within the family you have got the same dynamics of jealousy and succession. Also I don’t think Charles could spend his whole life being as neutral as the Queen has been…because then he wouldn’t have had a life at all. He has made public his views of certain subjects, and he will come to the throne with the public knowing his views in certain areas. But I think he is a very thoughtful man. He has taken his time to think. He likes thoughts that are complicated, ideas that are not quick and easy.”

And this is the man Mike puts into his drama, a man who quickly finds himself at the heart of a constitutional crisis.

Mike has no qualms about putting on stage imagined versions of living, breathing, real people: “I think if my aim had been to be cruel or to be sarky, that would have been wrong.”

His aim was to investigate something considerably deeper, exploring the people underneath the crowns and the unwritten rules of our democracy.

The success of the play comes in a year that has also seen the success of Mike’s TV drama Doctor Foster, the tale of a GP who finds evidence of her husband’s infidelity. It struck a huge chord up and down the country.

“With Doctor Foster, I think most people have had some experience at third hand or

closer of infidelity: maybe they know someone who has cheated or been cheated on or maybe they are the cheated or the person who has been cheated.”

There will be a second series: “I thought there was more to say. I have just started writing. I started last week. It is very exciting. There are lots of thoughts and ideas, and it is fantastic to have the chance to go back and spend time with these characters.”

So does the success of series one heap up the pressure?

“Pressure is good! It is a huge privilege to be writing something like this for BBC1.

It is no bad thing to have a bit of pressure to make sure you are working as hard as you possibly can!”

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The Listings TODAY COMEDY KRATER COMEDY CLUB: Until February 6, 7pm/8pm/10.30pm, £5-£36.50. Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians.

Acts include: Jo Caulfield, Pete Firman, Nathan Caton and MC Stephen Grant.

THE MAYDAYS: Confessions! Plus guest improv superstars. 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Confessions takes audience tales and secrets written down before the show starts and turns them into songs, sketches and beguiling stories.

Expect lies, guilt and gospel music.

THE TREASON SHOW: 8.30pm, £13.50, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road.

After their sell out run at the Dome, the Treason team are back at the Rialto. Until Feb 6 GIGS CALAIS FUNDRAISER: Bangin Lemz

No Borders Party, 11pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Music collective Bangin Lemz is teaming up with the Brighton-based aid organisation The Hummingbird Project to raise funds for the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk. Expect a night of DJs playing the finest in disco, rare groove, funk, soul, house and afrobeat.

FINGERS: 10pm, free, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road. Keyboard extraordinaire Graham ‘Fingers’ Lipscomb will be performing in Bacall’s bar.

ULTIMATE POWER: 11pm, £5, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. A night playing nothing but the greatest power ballads ever written.

VOSSLER: Mann and Mcnamara, 8pm, £5, Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171.

WHO’S WHO AND THE SMALL FAKERS: 7pm, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive. Celebrating 50 years of The Who, with support from Small Faces tribute Small Fakers.

STAGE A SLICE OF LIFE: Red Hat Presents A Slice of Life, 7.30pm, Otherplace, Kensington Street, 01273 987516.

Seven slices of theatre, each one freshly baked, with seasoned ingredients and topped with lashings of home-grown talent.

PRIVATE LIVES: 7.45pm, until Feb 6 (Thurs/Sat mat 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650.

THE ALBATROSS 3RD AND MAIN: Until February 20. The Emporium, 88 London Road, Brighton. Visit www.emporiumbrighton.com.

SATURDAY CONCERTS BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 7.30pm, £27.50, £23, £18, £15, £10, Brighton Dome, (01273) 709709. Heroes and Aliens. Epic Galactic Soundtracks conducted by Pete Harrison.

GIGS AMY IN THE WINEHOUSE: 10.30pm, £10, Rialto Theatre, Dyke

Road. Combining perfectly sung Amy Winehouse classics with razor sharp stand-up comedy.

POUT IS ON YOUR LIPS: POUT presents a retro-cool night full of anticipation and glamour, 9.30pm, £10, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Expect a live Motown band performing all the great Motown hits, a free glass of bubbly on arrival before 10.30pm, a professional sound system, a spacious dance floor and drinks at pub prices.

SOULFUL SINGING: 11am to 1pm, £5 on the door, Brighton Dome, (01273) 709709. Group singing teacher Mahasukha leads this uplifting harmony workshop with sacred song and heaps of infectious enthusiasm to get your spirits soaring. No experience necessary, just the will to sing. No need to book – just drop in.

STAGE OTHERWORLD MULTISENSORY CINEMA: (4yrs plus), 6pm, Brighton Dome, (01273) 709709.

ROUND THE FOOTLIGHTS: 11am, £5, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. Author Mick Escott talks about, and reads from, his latest book Round The Footlights, an exploration of Britain’s amazing collection of performance spaces.

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(01273) 709709. The UK’s longestrunning community seed swap event is back with a host of talks and stalls on all things gardening, growing, ecology and sustainability.

MONDAY

GIGS GAVIN JAMES: 7.30pm, £9, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. A smooth-falsettoed singing songwriter from Ireland. Plus support from Craig Gallagher.

GIGS ACID JAZ AND FUNK JAM: 8.30pm, free, Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171.

CHARLIE MOSS: EP launch plus special guests, 7.30pm, £2, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Charlie is a Top 25 iTunes artist of 2015 and supported X Factor Finalist Tom Mann and Bars and Melody on their tours in 2015.

SOULFLY: 7.30pm, £16, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive. Rescheduled from January 31.

STAGE SEEDY SUNDAY: 10.30am to 4.30pm, £3, Brighton Dome,

STAGE BLEEDING HEARTS CLUB: 8pm, £3, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road. Leave

COMEDY BENT DOUBLE: 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Headliner Jo Caulfield, plus Allyson June Smythe, Andrew O’Neill and MC Zoe Lyons.

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KING CHARLES III: 7.45pm, Feb 8-13, (Thurs/Sat mat 2.30pm), Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650.

TUESDAY GIGS OUTLAW STATE: Plus The Peaks and Grymm, 7.30pm, £4, Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171. Outlaw State are a Brighton-based blues/ rock five-piece, full of soul, charisma and dynamic riffs. Grymm are an energetic indie-punk hybrid.

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STAGE HERDING HEMINGWAY’S CATS: 7.30pm, Otherplace, Kensington Street, 01273 987516. Science presenters and real-life sisters, Dr Kat Arney and Helen Arney, are back at the Brighton Science Festival with a new show after last year’s smash hit How The Victorians Ruined The World.

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Champagne with the finest in the county The Amex stadium hosted the 10th Sussex Food and DrinkAwards lastThursday.

This annual celebration of all that is great about Sussex food and drink seeks to find the best of the year across ten different categories.

All of the leading lights of the Sussex food community a r e i nv i t e d t o e n j oy a champagne reception and seven-course banquet; they even let some of us food writers in to share in the fun.

I donned my tuxedo, turns out buying one a c o u p l e ye a r s b a ck fo r Glyndebourne was a sound investment, and headed to the Amex for what promised to be an interesting evening.

U p o n a r r i va l I w a s handed a glass of rather pleasant sparkling wine courtesy of Carr Taylor, who hail from just outside Westfield village in East Sussex. After a brief chat with guests ranging from Steven Edwards and Josh Stanzl of Etch. food;Tamara Roberts from Ridgeview wine; and Paul Clark of Troll’s Pantry, all of whom were up for awards, we headed down for the main event.

After a brief intro from Sally Gunnell, the banquet began. The highlight of the meal for me was the fish course; consisting of cod in a luscious cream sauce with cheese and topped with breadcrumbs, and served

Chloe Smith, Paul Clark, Alexandros Zafiropoulos, and Lottie Kemp of Troll’s Pantry - winners of the Street Food of the Year award

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It was a great celebration of the wonderful food producers and businesses that we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep

with a mussel bisque heady with the flavours of the sea – it was my kind of food. I was also impressed with the fantastic cheese board showcasing many of the superb cheeses of the area; and also the sloe gin truffles supplied by Cocoaloco of West Grinstead.

So with our bellies full and a few bottles of wine from Nutbourne and Bolney vineyards on the table the awards kicked off.

There was a great victory for The Traditional Cheese Dairy in the “Food Producer of the Year” which was

Sussex cheeses with Harvey’s ale chutney

the smallest of the three finalists. This family-run artisan cheese producer fo c u s e s o n t r a d i t i o n a l methods and techniques, and were worthy winners based on the cheese I had sampled earlier.

Ridgeview Wine Estate took a well-deserved win in the “Drink Producer of the Year” category for the fantastic range of sparkling wines that they produce. If you have not tried them then I recommend the Cavendish from their range; a full bodied sparkling wine that I thought excellent when I tried it.

Th e h o t ly c o n t e s t e d “Young Chef of the Year” was won by RyanTomkinson who currently works at The Pass under the guidance of Michelin starred chef Matt Gillan.

The finalists had to endure a Masterchef-style contest and it was great to see such young chefs putting so much passion into their cooking.

Runners-up Stephanie H ay wo o d a n d M i ch a e l Sutherland deserve a mention in what was a very popular category on the night.

Charlie and Sarah Hughes of Southview Farm we r e awar ded “ Far mer of the Year” and have a personal connection with

the awards with Charlie having proposed on stage at a previous event.

S K Hutchings won butcher of the year and Horsham Local Produce Market took the prize for “Farmers Market of theYear”.

There were wins for Sharnfold Farm Shop and Eggs toApples in “Food Shop of the Year” and “Newcomer of theYear” respectively; and I had to add The Cat Inn of West Hoathly to my places to visit in 2016 list as they took the award for “Sussex Eating Experience of the Year” beating former champion and Michelin starred The Curlew in Bodiam.

Fi n a l l y, B r i g h t o n favo u r i t e s a n d e t h i c a l ch a m p i o n s Th e Tr o l l ’ s Pantry won “Street Food of the Year” much to Paul’s surprise as he told me earlier he had not prepared a speech - he did thankfully hold back on a couple of the options we discussed opting for a more traditional acceptance speech.

In all it was a fantastic evening and a really great celebration of the wonderful food producers and businesses that we are lucky enough to have on our doorstep. I look forward to the upcoming year and seeing which of the county’s dedicated food professionals battle it out for glory in 2017.

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

What do you get if you crossazebraandadonkey?

A Zonkey. How about a horse and a donkey? A Hinny. Ok, how about a coyote and a wolf? That’d be a Coywolf. Look, it’s not supposed to be funny - they’re actual animals with photographic evidence supplied by the ever-truthful internet.

Ever since C.S.Lewis introduced us to Mr Tumnus inThe Chronicles Of Narnia - great name by the way - we’ve been hopelessly hooked on hybrids.

A Wholphin is a whale and a dolphin. Obviously.

A Narluga is a narwhal and a beluga. If we knew what a narwhal was, we might care. There are Leopons, Ligers, Tigons and Jaglions which proves nothing other than the promiscuity of a lion. A Mulard is a Mallard duck and a Muscovy duck. It looks like every other duck. One more and we’ll stop - a Grolar is a brown bear and a polar bear. It’s beige.

F u n a s t h i s i s , we should probably make it relevant to coffee now.

Joffee is the latest hybrid to capture our curiosity.

Joffee is juice and coffee.

The coffee is, of course, Fairtrade, and the juice is that of a blueberry. Most probably not a single blueberry. Lots and lots

of blueberries because they’re really small.

The Texan company Coffee Juice coined the name and invented the Joffee. Coffice sounds better to us, but we don’t fancy juice in our coffee anyway.

Th e c o n c o c t i o n i s available in three other flavours, two of which are immensely boring and irritatingly familiar vanilla and salted caramel.

The wildcard is coconut.

Depressingly, Joffee is sweeping across America and rapidly gaining popularity, so it’s only a matter of time before our delicate British palates are assaulted.

Apparently it’s good for you. Joffee contains 5g less sugar than an 8oz serving of orange juice, and about 40mg of caffeine which is roughly the same as a single espresso. The recipes contain chicory, which itself contains inulin, which is a “powerful probiotic”.Whatever.

We like fruit juice and we like espresso.We don’t have an issue consuming the two from separate drinking vessels. It ain’t broke, and it doesn’t need fixing, so stop with the weird hybrids.

Have these people not seen any Jeff Goldblum films? This sort of thing never ends well.

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AGRICULTURE

BEDS HEADBOARD 3ft bed EC. £15 unused 07594606504

0800 303 2137 or 0798 2911251

WWW.ROOFINGANDGUTTERSDIRECT.COM

CLASSIFIED ACCORDIANS

COLLECTORS CORNER & ANTIQUES

COLLECTION Brighton football programmes 1960's to 1980's 28 in total, £20 tel 01903 NUMBER of black and 700112 white 10" x 8" glossy CIGARETTE card frame reproduction photos of wooden surround, holds vintage Hollywood movie 30 cards, never used, £10 stars £2.50 each. 07798 941189 Tel: (01903) 700112 WOLSELEY stationary engine WD11 1947 for spares/rebuild £55.

01243 572673

COLLECTORS CORNER & ANTIQUES OXFORD die cast Bullnose Morris, sports heroes, Stanley Matthews, autographed cirtificate £20 L'ton, 07779 361843 Eve. die cast OXFORD Bullnose Morris, sports heroes, Gavin Hastings, autographed cirtificate £20 L'ton, 07779 361843 Eve. BOSSOMS 1951 14" wall plaque, very rare Anne Hathoways Cottage. Original label. £175 - 01403 266328.

YS39 MATCHBOX passenger postcoach and horses special edition boxed mint VGC £30. 07968975818

HOLIDAY PARKS

BOARD GAMES & JIGSAWS

FOR SALE

1000P JIGSAWS as new, good selection. £1.50 each - Burgess Hill 01444 233058.

2 Bedroom STATIC CARAVAN Located on 4 Star Isle of Wight Park THORNESS BAY

JIGSAWS 23 x 1000 pieces, 12 x 500 pieces all ccomplete £15 01243 830783

BOOKS

ONLY £1,100 Deposit and £165* a Month £9,995 Inc Site Fees till Jan 2017 And 20 FREE Return Ferry Crossings (t&cs; Apply) For a Free Ferry and Viewing CALL OR TEXT SALENA: 07583114381

PERSONAL

NEW BOOKS many titles, read once, from 50p each or will sell cheaper for bulk. 01293 400083 / 07765 303096.

Digest READERS Successful Gardening in colour 18 hardback vols, never used £36ono.

01243 788528 CHILDRENS Britannica 20vols leather bound 1981, as new £10. 01243 789844 CHERUB books 4 for £6, as new 01243 545737

BEAUTY

MODELS WANTED! Semi-Permanent Make-Up & Brow Micro-Blading

Professional Beauty Training School Established 30 years Beauty Concepts International Hurstpierpoint

Call or text 07909 118 539 bci@beautyconcepts.co.uk

CLASSIFIED ARTS CRAFTS & HOBBIES

ELECTRIC cable on reel for caravan 240v £15.

01243 373633 GAS cylinders 901+907 £10pair 01243 373633 TRANGIA stove 01243 373633

£5

COMPUTER SOFTWARE monitor with DELL cables VGC £10. 01243 789844

CURTAINS & BLINDS BAY window lined curtains, gold/fawn 130 x 180cm EC £30. 01243 784190

BATHROOMS

WHITE Routed pattern adjustable side and end WOODEN tapestry frame bath panel, £25 01273 floor standing EC 452872 Shoreham. adjustable size 27"W pictures available £15. 01243 641359 CERAMIC white shower tray for corner fitting, still in original packing, never used £45. 07594606504 KIDZ Kargo duo twin tandom pushchair, handy for shopping good condition, £50 01903 877921 DUVET Dacron fibre M O T H E R C A R E filled, single, hardly used Expedior pushchair, good £5 01243 574104 condition with car seat, foot muff, rain cover, £35 01903 717783

BABY - GENERAL

RONSON hairdryer 1960's, Like new carrying case, plastic hood, collectors piece. £60. REDKITE travel cot, Crawley 01293 524618. good condition, easy mattress, FABERGE eggs with assemble, stand and spoon, Atlas hardboard and carry case, £10 01903 717783 Harlequin £15ono. 01243 782486 BABY TRAVEL cot H78, MOUSE IN BARREL , L114. £12 - 01444 cheese, piano, 233682. gramophone etc. £8 each BABY WALKER with - 01403 266328. bricks. £16 - 01403 SPORTS annuals from 266328.

1950's, 9 in total, £5 each COT with solid wooden or £40 for lot 01903 ends plus mattress VGC 700112 £10. 01403 7885344 VARIOUS old cameras 2box brownies fed minolta etc £15ono 01428 651225

CAMPING EQUIPMENT

BEDDING

BEDROOM FURNITURE

BRONZE COLOURED METAL 4ft 6" headboard with fittings. VGC £20. Tel 01293 545204.

BEDS JUNIOR BEDS x 2 - 2' 6" x 5' - matching clean mattress inc. duvets and curtains if redq. £50 ono.

Tel 01403 258836 TWIN DIVAN 3ft, firm mattress, drawers, headboard, spare room.

Hardly used.

01892 852196.

WANTED

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CUTLERY CHINA & ELECTRONIC GLASS EQUIPMENT

FOR SALE

FOR SALE

JUICE EXTRACTOR twin health for wide range of fruit/veg including KENWOOD food £100 processor attachments wheatgrass. model EP555, liquidiser, 01903 742568. bowl, whisk plates never NEW Battery, advanced used £20. 07923926893 heavy duty premium, 60ah 500 cca, cost £55 COMMORATIVE plate wrong one ordered, £30 Royal Botanic Gardens Goring 01903 243215 Kew, fine bone china £5.

07923926893 CAR van audio JVC 40W 4chan tape radio DINNER SERVICE nine removable facia £10. person. Superb style, flickering log DIMPLEX 07968975818 gray white. £40 - 01273 effect electric fire, 611820. black/brass finish, as new CD'S Cheap Thrills and Son of Cheap Thrills by china £25. 01243 375351 WEDGEWOOD Frank Zappa £7 01903 sugar box with lid, osbourne design EC £40. FIRESIDE pair fox hunt 714132 bronze and iron TYPEWRITER electric, 01243 545737 ornaments £40. 01243 Silver Reed, £20 01903 672910 761267 ROYAL Doulton coffee set, pot, 6 cups, saucers, perfect condition, never used, £25 Tel: (01903) 766207

FIRES & FIREPLACES

CYCLES

Serviced and BIKES repaired at resonable rates, collection and delivery service available.

Text/Call 01243 861961 or 07795370671 MOUNTAIN bike suit small adult, 24gears, front fork susp, needs work £30. 01243 784190 NEW mountain bike, 20" frame £85, used mountain bike, 18" frame £25 01243 821944

DISHWASHERS BOSCH LogiXXGWO £50. 01243 573215

DIY TOOLS & MATERIALS ACROL microclene air filter 25 watt MC100 5 spare filter suitable lathe/wood workshop £25 01243 584128 BRASS finished flush fitting wall shaver socket, £10 01273 452872 Shoreham. can send pictures EPIPHONE acoustic guitar DR2005 as new, new strings, Martin gig bag, bargain £45 01243 263992 LADDER EXTENSION 4.2m long, double timber styles, aluminium treads, solid, good condition. £55. Tel 01403 563304.

MITRE SAW Lumberjack 255mm double bevel slide compound saw under 2 years old £50 01243 763044 6 panel white door with handles, never used still packaged £15.

07594606504 JOISTS 10ft for raised beds, herb gardens etc. £10 each Tel:01903 230741 MAKITA LTX600 tool holdall on wheels/pull out handle, as new £15.

01243 373633 TARMAC rake, £5. wake plate rubber mat £5, drain rods £10 ono. 0771 153 9523 WOOD 3" x 2" x 8ft, £2.50 each. 4" x 2" x 8ft, £3 each. 2" x 1½" x 8ft, £2 each. 01903 230741 WOOD 4" x 2" various lengths £3.00 per 8' length, can deliver Tel:01903 230741 FENCE-POSTS 8ft & 10ft, 3" x 3", £8 & £10 each, 01903 230741 ROOF tiles s/h roll profile brown 150 plus £15.

01243 699753 SLATS 11ft x 4", £2 each, ideal for shed and fence repairs. 01903 230741 TRELLIS making Wood 8' x 2" x 1½", £2 each , Tel(01903) 230741

FREE TO TAKE AWAY

JOHNSTON STARLEY Janus 3 gas water heater seen working £20 ono COMPOSTER bin, large 01243 827597 FREE to a good home.

RAIN SUIT yellow, 2 01243 779175 piece, brand new, still MAGAZINES monthly packaged, medium size 60+ classic cars 01243 £5 01243 574104 672910 SONY MP3 car stereo CDX GT54091. Good condition. £5. Tel 01323 896687

FRIDGES & FREEZERS

AUDI A3 roof bars, fit all 5dr cars without rails £50. BOSCH tall fridge/freezer 07720876023 GC £70ono.

01243 LANDROVER discovery 698834/07782338862 sump guard, heavy duty £50. 07720 876023 WOODEN staircase £50.

07981962247

FURNITURE GENERAL

FURNITURE GENERAL

FURNITURE GENERAL

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WINGBACK chairs, excellent condition, hardly used, very comfortable, £60 eack or £110 two. Free delivery.

07539 029758

GENTLEMANS superior upholstered chair, extremely comfortable, no signs of wear £40.

01730 816282

ANTIQUE DROP LEAF Table VGC 69"L x 50"W seats eight. £200 Tel 01825 765909 (Uckfield)

DINING TABLE and 4 chairs, 2 carvers, mahogany vgc £100 01243 822610

BED settee, large two seater with bed, tan leather, VGC, free delivery £95 07811 404046

LEATHER ARMCHAIR Cream, vgc space needed, can deliver local. £20 - 01403 258836

4 dining chairs, good condition and quality, buyer collects from Shoreham £50 01273 386880 6 HIGH BACK skirted dining chairs, black leather effect, slightly worn, aldwick, bargain £25 01243 867183 ARMCHAIR recliner cream leather £15. 01243 606349 Selsey

THREE panelled privacy screen, magnified pink flower print 181 x 38 x 3cms, clean/bright £40.

01243 371493

LOST & FOUND

CD cupboard with glass door, oak effect, holds 80 cd's, new condition £25 TWO CREAM LEATHER 01903 714132 FOUND Southsea area swivel recliner armchairs, near Lawrence Arms Pub. cat scratches on arms BLACK 3pce leather sofa Ladies new pescription hence £50 pair ono. Tel GC £100.

01243 glasses. for details call 01403 257886.

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PUBLIC NOTICES BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL

PUBLIC NOTICES

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY COUNCIL PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990 PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) REGULATIONS 1990 The following applications involving or affecting the setting of Listed Buildings or affecting the character of a Conservation Area were registered during week ending 29/01/2016: BH2015/04625 Former Brewery Site South Street Portslade Full Planning and Demolition in a Conservation Area – Demolition of existing buildings, workshops and structures. Erection of 21no two, three and four bedroom residential dwellings (C3) including associated parking, landscaping, external stairs, refuse and bicycle stores.

BH2015/04414 Land at 189 Kingsway Hove (Former Sackville Hotel site) Full Planning – Construction of a 4 to 17 storey building (plus basement) to provide 98 residential dwellings with a mix of one, two and three bedroom units with balconies and terraces, new pedestrian and vehicle access from Sackville Gardens, basement car parking, cycle parking and associated works including new plant, substation and landscaping.

BH2016/00054 9b Bedford Towers Kings Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Partial enclosure of existing balcony with UPVc double glazed screening.

BH2016/00015 51 Westbourne Villas Hove Householder Planning Consent – Alterations to rear elevation incorporating erection of timber onservatory and new balcony at ground floor level.

BH2016/00099 25 Third Avenue Hove Householder Planning Consent – Creation of 2no dormers and installation of rooflight to side of roof slopes.

BH2016/00067 32A Dyke Road Avenue Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of first floor front extension, removal of chimney, alterations to fenestration and other associated alterations.

BH2016/00029 53-54 George Street Hove Advertisement – Display of internally illuminated ATM surround sign.

BH2016/00030 53-54 George Street Hove Full Planning – Alterations to shopfront including relocation of ATM cash machine with new surround.

BH2015/04630 & BH2015/04631 Hove Station Goldstone Villas Hove Full Planning & Listed Building Consent – Demolition of existing cycle rack storage and erection of secure cycle store compound.

BH2015/04611 The Small House 40A Sussex Square Brighton Listed Building Consent – Creation of basement level utilising existing vaults beneath the rear garden, new steps to garden level with glazed entrance and associated landscaping. Internal alterations to layout and replacement of existing UPVC windows with timber sash windows.

BH2016/00013 & BH2016/00012 17 Sussex Square Brighton Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Alterations to garage fronting Church Place including replacement roof and garage doors and render to front elevation.

BH2016/00019 Bristol Mansions 19-20 Sussex Square Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal installation of extraction fan.

BH2015/04639 Ground Floor Flat 46 Stirling Place & Part of 48 Stirling Place Hove Full Planning – Erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2015/04371 21 Meeting House Lane Brighton Full Planning – Installation of roller shutters to shopfront.

BH2015/04656 & BH2015/04657 15 Prince Albert Street Brighton Full Planning & Listed Building Consent – Removal of existing rear external metal fire escape.

BH2015/04675 St Michaels Lodge Lansdowne Road Hove Householder Planning Consent – External alterations including roof alterations, installation of cast iron guttering and down pipes to replace existing, alterations to windows and doors, installation of a rain-screen to first floor south facing wall, addition of metal walkways over swimming pool and associated works (Part Retrospective).

BH2016/00039 13 Princes Square Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of rear infill extension, repositioning of entrance door to side elevation and revised fenestration. Widening of existing crossover and associated alterations to boundary including addition of new railings.

BH2016/00058 21 New Church Road Hove Removal or Variation of Condition – Application for variation of condition 4 of application BH2014/01240 (Application for variation of condition 2 and 3 of application BH2014/00022 (Change of Use from residential (C3) to mixed use residential and dental surgery (C3/D1) ) to substitute plan no. 0335-PP2 to allow for additional dental surgery at ground floor level) to permit the dental practice to be open on Saturdays between the hours of 8.30 to 17.30 and to extend the closing time on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays to 20.00.

BH2016/00035 5 Cornwall Gardens Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Replacement of existing concrete driveway with blocking paving.

BH2015/04677 Flat 4 11 Cavendish Place Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2015/04621 169 North Street Brighton Advertisement – Display of internally illuminated fascia signs and menu boxes, externally illuminated hanging signs and non-illuminated canopy and window decals.

Re-advertisements BH2015/03969 & BH2015/03970 Flat 1 30 Montpelier Crescent Brighton Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Erection of detached garden house to replace existing shed and treatment of boundary wall. (Amended Description) BH2015/03124 19 Prince’s Crescent Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of a single storey rear extension. Replacement garage and replacement boundary treatment. (Amended Description) Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 NOTICE UNDER ARTICLE 13

NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) has on 3rd February 2016 made the Orders named below under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended which when they come into operation on 1st March 2016 will introduce the following changes: BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2015 AMENDMENT ORDER NO. 5 2016 (REF: TRO-21A-2015) New Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places:At Any Time: – Princes Terrace (Zone H), Chester Terrace (Zone J) & Dyke Road (Zone Q) Removal of Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places As they are longer required or on the ground:- Albion Street, Evelyn Terrace, Old Steine, Richmond Street and Royal Crescent Mews (Zone C), Chichester Terrace and Sudeley Place (Zone H), Beaconsfield Villas and Havelock Road (Zone J), Langdale Road, Marmion Road and Sheridan Terrace (Zone R), Queens Park Road (Zone U), Ditchling Road (Zone Y).

Amendment to Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places This bay is to be relocated to a more suitable location:- Kingsway (Zone W) New Disabled Parking Holder Parking Places to be Time Limited:Portland Road (Zone R) BRIGHTON & HOVE OUTER AREAS (WAITING, LOADING AND PARKING) AND CYCLE LANES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2013 AMENDMENT ORDER NO. 5 2016 (REF: TRO-21B-2015) New Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places:At Any Time: – Bexhill Road, Bolney Road, Brentwood Road, Glynde Road, Gordon Road (Portslade), Haig Avenue, Hallett Road, Hanover Terrace, Heath Hill Avenue, Hillside, Islingword Street, Loder Road, Lowther Road, Nesbitt Road, Roman Road, Selmeston Place, Southdown Road (Portslade), Wiston Road, Woodbourne Avenue & Worcester Villas.

Removal of Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places which are no longer required or on the ground:50 Beatty Avenue, (opposite) 27 Birchgrove Crescent, (opposite) 115 Davey Drive (1 bay), 38-40 Franklin Street, 10 Graham Avenue (Portslade), 9 Highview Way, (adjoining 12 Hollingbury Crescent) Hollingdean Terrace, 70 Lincoln Street, 43A Loder Road, Cliff Court Park Road (Rottingdean), 317-319 Portland Road, 37 Sandown Road, Slinfold Close, 78 Station Road (Portslade) & Turton Close

BH2015/04414 Proposed development at: Land at 189 Kingsway Hove (Former Sackville Hotel site) I give notice that Hyde Vale Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Construction of a 4 to 17 storey building (plus basement) to provide 98 residential dwellings with a mix of one, two and three bedroom units with balconies and terraces, new pedestrian and vehicle access from Sackville Gardens, basement car parking, cycle parking and associated works including new plant, substation and landscaping.

Amendment to Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places

BH2016/04184 Proposed development at: Court Farm House King George VI Avenue Hove I give notice that Thornton Properties Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 1no three storey block with basement parking and 3no part three part four storey blocks containing 74no one, two and three bedroom flats (C3) including 30no affordable housing units.

Provision of 112 parking spaces, 67no at basement level and 45no at surface level and 132 cycle spaces with associated landscaping and altered site access arrangements.

Brighton & Hove Various Controlled Parking Zones Consolidation Order 2015 Amendment Order No.5 2016

BH2015/04625 Proposed development at: Former Brewery Site South Street Portslade I give notice that PGMI Portslade Limited is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Demolition of existing buildings, workshops and structures. Erection of 21no two, three and four bedroom residential dwellings (C3) including associated parking, landscaping, external stairs, refuse and bicycle stores.

BH2016/00040 Proposed development at: Bingo Hall Fairway Trading Estate Moulsecoomb Way Brighton I give notice that Custom Pharmaceuticals Ltd is applying to Brighton & Hove City Council for planning permission for: Change of use from bingo hall (D2) to mixed use general manufacturing (B2), offices (B1a), research and development (B1b), light industrial manufacturing (B1c), warehousing (B8) together with external alterations for new windows and doors and new entrance at ground floor level.

You can view the application on the Council website www.brightonhove.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.

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These bays are to be extended:- Lucerne Close, Shelldale Avenue Disabled Badge Holders Parking Places to be Time Limited:- Ladies Mile Road Modifications At the Transport Committee Meeting on 19th January 2016 some changes to the orders as originally proposed and advertised on 18th September 2015 were agreed as follows:-

• Proposed disabled badge holders time limited parking place in Sutherland Road – This has been withdrawn • Removal of disabled badge holders parking place outside 60 Sutherland Road – This has been withdrawn Other changes to the orders as originally proposed and advertised on 18th September 2015 are as follows:Brighton & Hove Various Controlled Parking Zones Consolidation Order 2015 Amendment Order No.5 2016 • Proposed disabled badge holders parking place outside 12 Princes Terrace – This has been withdrawn Brighton & Hove Outer Areas (Waiting, Loading and Parking) and Cycle Lanes Consolidation Order 2013 Amendment Order No.5 2016 • Proposed disabled badge holders outside 85 Hanover Terrace – This has been withdrawn A copy of this Notice, the Orders as made, plans showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for making the Orders may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-finalised These documents plus a copy of the existing Orders that have been amended may also be examined at the Customer Service Centres at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton (Monday to Friday 8.45am-4.30pm) and Hove Town Hall, Ground Floor, Norton Road, Hove, (Monday to Friday 10.00am-5.00pm).

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

Dated: 5th February 2016 Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, 2nd Floor, Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS

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2 WHITE china bedside lights complete with shades blue/green patterned ÂŁ10 01243 574104

CORDLESS PORTABLE PHONE Siemens handset base, gwo, ansa phone, number storage. ÂŁ10. Tel 01403 256782.

MENS CLOTHES

TELEVISIONS

JASPER CONRAN s/brested lightweight wool suit, high/waist beige, 42 chest, 36 waist, 31½ leg only £30 01243 586608 Middleton

SONY BRAVIA 37" LCD TV with Freesat and instruction book, excellent condition ÂŁ95 01243 868027

TV WALL MOUNT tilting BLACK leather jacket, 32" - 55" 40KG Max. size medium, warm Vesa, new, usused, cost lining, ÂŁ35 ono 01903 ÂŁ59 sell for ÂŁ20. Tel 714132 07768 478719.

ORIVS ZAMBEZI Khaki waistcoat, many pockets.

New XXL ÂŁ60. Eves. Tel 01403 256534.

DOLLS PRAM silvercross as new. ÂŁ15.

Tel 01444 243107

TOYS & GAMES

MUSICAL EQUIPMENT GENERAL

OLD doll's bungalow, unusual, in need of a little work, ÂŁ25 01903 204558

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NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES TREASURE HUNTING and Searcher Hunting magazines, 65 copies, ÂŁ5 (01243) 822712

CLASSIFIED FURNITURE GENERAL

GARDENING TOOLS & EQUIP

MAHOGANY corner china cabinet with door half way, in VGC, bargain ÂŁ28, 01903 204558

GREENHOUSE heat lamp mercury vapour 160watt with spare bulb ÂŁ5. 07968975818

RISE AND RECLINE arm chair pale gree good condition ÂŁ100 01243 822610 CARDIGANS x3 size 10 SOFA gold, washable blue, gold, silver ÂŁ4each loose covers, conforms or 3 for ÂŁ10. 01243 flammable safety 193cm 782486 wide ÂŁ100. 01798 342272 GIRLS pink full length fur BOOKCASE 5ft sq, five coat, 8yrs ÂŁ5. 01243 open shelves, polisheed 782486 African hard wood ÂŁ50

GIRLS CLOTHES

CREAM DAMASK two seater settee ÂŁ85. VGC Tel 01444 473145.

DOUBLE bed settee, loose covers ÂŁ50 buyer collects 01243 830783 MAHOGANY Georgian wash stand A/F ÂŁ10 01903 204558 PIANO stool with blue top EC ÂŁ20. 01243 670181 RED BAR STOOLS gas lift ÂŁ709 or 2 for ÂŁ120. Tel 01403 266328 TABLE and 6 chairs, oval mahogany with inlay, ÂŁ100 07413 422220 LEATHER 2seater plus 2 chairs, brown/cream VGC

GARDENING TOOLS & EQUIP MANTIS revolving compost drum, used once still under warranty ÂŁ199 new, asking ÂŁ60.

01730816282

HI FI & MUSIC CENTRES

PIANOS, KEYBOARDS & ORGANS

CASITONE Electronic SONY micro hi-fi system Keyboard MT400 VGC black plays CD's radio Boxed, ÂŁ10. Horsham ipod good condition ÂŁ30 01403 251463.

01243 763044

KITCHENS CHROME PLATED washing up rack, stainless washing up bowl, brand new ÂŁ5 01243 574104

PRAMS & PUSHCHAIRS

quattro GRACCO pushchair pram 4positions, footsnug, carrycot ÂŁ30. 01243 372010/07754196611

OAK units, 4drawer plus double floor units 500mm, 2 wall MACLAREN units 900mm wide £95. buggy with rain cover, foot muff and headrests, 07594606504 as new £60. 01243 PRESTIGE pressure 787498 cooker with SELECTION of footwear instructions/receipe bk size 13. boots £5ea, £15. 01243 782830 shoes £4ea and slippers RANK xerox M750 £1ea. 01243 782486 complete with spare inks HEELYS size 3 roller £5 07968975818 shoe white.pink £10. FAKE fur ž length brown coat, size 16, 07989157669 Kaleidoscope, still SUPERGA trainers size tagged, £25 01903 3.5 £10 07989157669 761267 SALOPELTES selection of skiwear size 10 & 14 WALLIS coat, 18 petite, from £8 £15.

36" long semi fitted, high 07799641916 neck, mulberry, warm, as 1.3.5.7. METAL WOODS new, ÂŁ20 01243 586608 ÂŁ15. VGC carry bag with Middleton stand ÂŁ10. Waterproof LADIES SHEEPSKIN Jacket and Trs. Large COAT size 12/14, as New. ÂŁ5. Tel 01293 new. ÂŁ70 - 01403 AMERICAL pool table. 5' 452105.

266328. x 3'.6 cues + balls, ÂŁ40 Clothes, 01903 718634 VINTAGE furniture, brass and BOWLS size 3m ÂŁ30, copper for sale. Phone shoes 3 pairs, size 7, ÂŁ10 (01243) 863708 each 01243 263810

GIRLS SHOES

PRINTERS

LADIES CLOTHES

SPORTSWEAR

GOLFING

SPORTS & LEISURE

KEEP FIT EQUIPMENT

ROGER Black exercise machine. ÂŁ150, 01903 723109 Littlehampton

LADIES SHOES

DARTBOARD full size ÂŁ10 as new 01403 785344

NEW Jones Bootmaker TANNING TENT good tall brown boots, size 4, EXERCISE bike with condition hardly used 2½" heel, £30 01903 controls £30. 01243 751349 Lancing £100 01243 822610 782830

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Emerald Quay, Shoreham £1,550 PCM

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■ Large one bedroom, sought after Hove location ■ Refurbished throughout to a very high standard ■ Bright living room with wooden flooring and high ceilings ■ Available 02/03/2016

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Old Shoreham Road, Hove £800 PCM

Chichester Close, Hove £1,295 PCM

■ Superb two bedroom luxury apartment ■ Modern kitchen with all appliances ■ Spacious living room and small balcony, GFCH ■ Available Now!

■ One bedroom FFF, walking distance to Seven Dials ■ Newly decorated throughout with double bedroom ■ Separate kitchen with appliances ■ Available 07/03/2016

■ Excellent sized four bedroom family home ■ Good sized rear garden, DG, GFCH ■ Currently being refurbished throughout ■ Available Now!

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Shirley Street, Hove £1,895 PCM

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■ Newly refurbished two bedroom GFF ■ Bright open plan fully fitted kitchen ■ Large doubles which have been newly carpeted ■ Available Now!

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With interest rates still at an all time low, have you considered purchasing property and entering the rental market? We can guide you into buying in the right locations and point you in the right direction with local financial advisors. Please contact us today! All rents quoted exclude other charges/fees which may be payable. For more information please contact us on 01273 208020

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TIPS FOR WINTER DRIVING

Tyre maker Goodyear has issued handy advice to drivers in the wake of snowy weather forecasts in parts of the UK.

The company has carried out research that suggests 53 per cent of drivers find driving in snow and ice nerve-racking.

Almost half (48 per cent) list de-icingcarglassasaproblem they could do without, and a quarterclaimthatwintryconditions add 10-20 minutes onto their commute.

Steve Morris, technical services manager from Goodyear Tyres UK, has offered some useful tips on top of the usual advice concerning lowering your speed and keeping a much greater distance.

He says to be particularly careful over bridges, which are well known for developing icy patches.

Also on the list is not to ‘pump’ your brakes. Use the gears gently to slow down whereverpossible,buttousea steady pressure on the brakes whenever you use them. The car’s anti-lock brake system will manage the car to a halt, and more steering function will be maintained.

Avoiding distractions is also key because the margin for error is so much smaller, the company says. Reduced visibility is likely in winter.

But crucial to safe winter driving is the right set of tyres.

Steve Morris said: “Most drivers find that winter tyres give them extra security when

they’re driving in challenging weather conditions.

“This is because they are made from a specially formulated softer tread compound and have enhanced tread patterns which include extra slits called ‘sipes’. These characteristics give the tyre extrabitetogripwinterroads,

steep hills and corners, especially in cold, snow and icy conditions.”

“Werecommendfittingthe right tyre for the right season.

You wouldn’t choose to wear flip flops in the snow and you wouldn’t wear your fur-lined boots on a hot summer’s day.

The same goes for tyres.”

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Over-50s‘paymore permile’formotoring Older drivers pay more for everycarjourneytheymake, saysresearchcommissioned

by Saga Car Insurance.

While the over-50s contribute about 47 per cent of the total UK’s motoring spend, the insurer says, their mileage costs them about63percentmorethan for younger drivers.

This is partly because the over-50s choose new and premium cars more often than the under-50s, with more than 60 per cent of the new-car spend coming down to older drivers.

And in the year up to September 2015 they were twice as likely to buy a Porsche, MINI or Jaguar than the rest of the population.

Saga reports a typical motoring spend of £311 per month in an over-50s household.

But greater pressure on fixed incomeslikepensions means that extra expenses like car parking mean this age group is particularly choosy over where to shop.Freeparkingisoftena

deciding factor, a survey of 10,000 older drivers found.

Roger Ramsden, chief executive of Saga Services, said: “Motoring plays a vital role in keeping people over 50mobile,independentand engaged in social activities and therefore saving the Government significantly in care and health costs.

“It is essential the Government keeps motoring costs under control for older age groups.

“Saga is fighting for fair motoringchargesincluding cuts to the cost of car parking at hospitals and abolition of Vehicle Excise Duty, [which we believe] imposes an unfair burden on older drivers who drive fewer miles, but for whom a car is essential.”

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FIRSTDRIVE:SKODAOCTAVIAVRS230

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FACTFILE PRICE: £27,550 ENGINE: 2.0-litre petrol unit producing 227bhp and 258lb/ft TRANSMISSION: Six-speed manual driving the front wheels PERFORMANCE: Top speed 152mph, 0-62mph in 6.9 seconds ECONOMY: 44.8mpg combined EMISSIONS: 143g/km of CO2

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by Matt Joy Motoring writer

There’s a lot to love about the Octavia vRS as we know it.

The spacious and good value mid-sized offering can be had in petrol or diesel forms, in hatchback or estate and with manual or slick DSG gearboxes, all of which are blessed withimpressiveperformance and handling. But now there’s a 230 model to make choosing even more difficult.

In petrol-only 230 form, the power output has been bumped by 10PS to give 230 in total, or 227bhp in old money, while underneath it also benefits from the clever electronic differential as

standard.Markingoutthe230 model from a regular vRS are the19-inchalloywheels,black detailing on the door mirrors, grille and roof rails on the estate, as well as unique instrument displays.

Thestylingchangesmaybe only subtle differences to the regular hot Octavia, but the vRS230isevenbetterlooking.

Theblackdetailingaroundthe exterior gives it a little more menace,althoughitisfarfrom a boy racer’s hack; Skoda has always managed to produce sportycarsthatlookgood,but won’tattractthewrongkindof attention,whichisonereason why they’ve proved so popular. There’s also the added cachet of owning the 230 model over the standard car, which

might well prompt a few people to trade up.

The other reason the Octavia vRS is so popular is that you can have it as an estate, which makees it far easier to justify as a family waggon. As with h the standard Octavia, th e boot space iis excellent; a yawning 6110 litreswithth he rear seats iin place and up to 1,740 litres if you fold them.

It’s sensibly shaped too, with storageareasandlashingeyes for bigger stuff. In the cabin, there’s plenty of space too, and unless you need the vast

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legroom of the bigger Superb, you’ll be able to fit adults in all five seats.

Upping the performance factor hasn’t diminished the ore Octavia co qualities of b eing undemanding and m easy to get on with. There’s w a brief burble from the b 2.0-litre tur2 bocharged b unit when u yyoufireitup, but the clutch is light and the gearshift easy and slick.

The extra 10PS doesn’t transform the vRS 230 from hot into scorching, but it’s welcome nonetheless. It’s a

joyously flexible unit that has lots of low-down torque but is also keen to rev, with strong acceleration right around the dial. The sports exhaust adds a little more to the vocals too, althoughit’sfarfromraucous.

Italsoblendsrideandhandlingprowessinawell-judged fashion.Theelectronicdifferential means you can accelerate harder and earlier, and it helps to pull the vRS through bends with alacrity. It’s sufficiently good fun to be entertaining,butnotsohyperactive it will drive you crazy on the motorway.

The vRS 230 costs an additional £2,120 over the standardcarinmanualestateform, but for that you get electric sports seats, the extra power,

electronic differential and all the visual enhancements as standard, which is considerablycheaperthanthoseextras added on top. To put that in perspective, a Golf GTi hatchback with less power will cost you another £2,500.

If you can afford the extra outlay, there’s no reason not to choose the vRS 230 over the standard vRS. The extra powerandgriparewelcomeas are those heated leather seats and it looks smarter too. Happily the Octavia in any guise is a purchase you don’t have to justify; good value, spacious, practical, easy to live with and sturdily built, it can play the role of family car and daily driver whilst still raising a smile.

Ferrari firms up California T after criticism Ferrarihasrespondedtocriticismofitstouring-biasedCalifornia T model by offering a new Handling Speciale upgrade package.

The stiffer suspension springs and dampers “reduce ridecomfortbutlendanextra edge”,saysFerrari,specifically for twisting roads.

Somecornersofthemedia have called the car too boring and reserved, especially in the way it handles. The new

package aims to address that.

The dampers have been set uptorespondtobumpsfaster and give more control in fast cornering, allowing the car to punch out of corners with more sharpness and speed.

The springs themselves are 16 per cent and 19 per cent stiffer at the front and rear respectively.

As part of the modifications, the exhaust noise also gets louder at high revs

comparedtothestandardcar, whilethegearboxshiftsfaster than before.

Ferrari will also add aesthetic upgrades like the matt finish on the grille and rear diffuser, matt black exhaust tipsandaspecialcabinplaque denoting the car as carrying the Handling Speciale package.

It will be displayed at the Geneva Motor Show next month.

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ROADTEST:VAUXHALLASTRAELITENAV1.6CDTI

HIGH-TECH ASTRA IS A STAR

by Alan Candy Motoring writer

One of Vauxhall’s most familiar models has reinvented itself as the safest and most technically advanced Astra ever produced.

The more sharply designed family five-door hatch I tested is notable not just for its improved styling, smooth handling and comfortable travel but for the cutting-edge technology that puts safety first and foremost – computers working hand in hand with motorists, if you like.

The new Astra Elite Nav 1.6CDTI 136PS S/S I have been enjoying has the highest comfort and tech levels I have ever seen in a Vauxhall in more than 35 years of testing cars yet integrates its dazzling operation so seamlessly that it seems naturally to fit your normal pattern of driving.

The star attraction – if you’llexcusethepun–isVauxhall’s unique OnStar, which has three functions displayed

inapanelneartherearview w mirror.

The first, which willl probably be the one mostt gleefully seized upon by alll the family, turns the car in-toamobile4GWiFihotspot which canbeusedby seven devices at the same time.

The second takes you through to an advisor at any time to request information on the move such as where the nearest petrol station is and roadside assistance if you have a flat tyre or run out of fuel, plus vehiclediagnosticssuchas tyre pressures and oil life.

Thethird is an SOSbutton used in an emergency with a hotline to an advisor. They can send 999 teams to you. Another potential lifesaver is that OnStar also features automatic crash response and will contact your vehicle to check if you are OK. If they receive no response, they will immediately send emergency services to your location.

There’s also a MyVauxhall

app for Apple and Android to contact OnStar from anywhere and activate a number of car functions remotely,

such as locking or unlocking the car.

The test car also featured two rear USB charging points;

a Navi 900 IntelliLink system; multi-functional trip computerandtyrepressuremonitoring system, plus auto lighting

c control with tunnel detect tion, space-saving electric p parking brake and daytime L running lights. Phew.

LED Myfavourites?Undoubte edly the heated seats front a and back AND heated steerin ngwheel–theultimatecold w weather luxury.

Which brings me to actuallly driving the car – a highly en njoyable experience.

Ride quality is among the best you’ll get for the money y in this class of car, the tu urbodiesel engine features brrisk acceleration and quiett cruising, while involving stteering and a peachy sixsp peed manual gear change ad dd to the pleasure.

Minus marks? The main diialsforspeedoandrevcounte er are small and hard to see acccuratelyonthemove,there were no parking sensors on th he test car and the load floor is two-tier when rear seats arre converted, rather than completely flat.

ButoverallthisnewageAstra is right in the mix in an age of auto technology.

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CHAMPIONSHIP

LEAGUE TABLE: HOME

GAME OUTCOMES:

AWAY

P W D L F A W D L F A Pts GD Hull 28 11 2 1 30 6 6 3 5 1512 56 27 M’brough 27 10 2 2 20 3 7 2 4 17 11 55 23 -------------------------------------------------------------Burnley 29 9 3 2 2912 5 7 3 1814 52 21 Derby 29 7 6 2 2412 6 5 3 1513 50 14 Brighton 28 9 2 3 1713 4 9 1 1715 50 6 Ipswich 29 6 6 3 2016 7 3 4 1920 48 3 -------------------------------------------------------------Sheff Wed 29 9 5 1 2813 3 6 5 1519 47 11 B’ham 29 7 2 5 1614 6 6 3 2114 47 9 Cardiff 29 7 6 1 2113 4 5 6 1720 44 5 Brentford 29 6 3 6 1921 5 4 5 2320 40 1 Nott Frst 29 6 6 3 2012 3 6 5 1013 39 5 Wolves 29 4 6 5 1921 6 3 5 2019 39 -1 QPR 29 4 8 2 2217 4 4 7 1318 36 0 Preston 29 4 6 4 1213 4 6 5 1314 36 -2 Leeds 29 4 5 5 1215 4 7 4 1718 36 -4 Reading 29 6 5 3 1710 3 3 9 1623 35 0 H’field 29 5 4 6 2419 3 4 7 1523 32 -3 B’burn 27 3 7 3 12 9 3 5 6 1215 30 0 Fulham 28 4 4 6 2323 2 6 6 2025 28 -5 MKDons 28 6 1 7 1319 1 4 9 1022 26 -18 R’ham 29 5 2 8 2227 2 2 101326 25 -18 -----------------------------------------------------------Bristol 29 3 6 6 1522 2 4 8 9 25 25 -23 Charlton 29 3 6 5 1522 2 3 101133 24 -29 Bolton 29 3 8 3 1515 0 4 11 1133 21 -22

Draws: 111

RED CARDS:

P Bauer B Wright B Amos N Baker G Berardi L Best T Cairney S Carruthers C Coady H Dean Derik

2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 8

FALMER STADIUM, 23-01-16 RESULT: BRIGHTON 2 H’FIELD 1

POSSESSION

77% 23% 38% 62%

FRIDAY 5TH FEBRUARY Brighton v Brentford

32%

41%

GOALS SCORED: Home goals

19:45

SATURDAY 6TH FEBRUARY Birmingham v Sheff Wed 15:00 Bolton v Rotherham 15:00 Burnley v Hull 15:00 Cardiff v MK Dons 15:00 Charlton v Bristol Cityy 15:00 Fulham v Derbby 15:00 Leeds v Nott Forest 15:00 M’brough v Blackburn 15:00 Preston v Huddersfield 155:00 QPR v Ipswich 15:00 Reading v Wolves 15:00

Away teams: 92 wins

Away goals

465 367

TUESDAY Y 9TH FEBRUARY MK Donns v Middlesbrough 19:45

Total goals

832 TOP SCORERS:

E Lichaj D Vaughan E Ba N Baker B Bannan S Byram S Carruthers L Cook C Evans Fabio Da Silva

D Dervite J Douglas L Dunk L Fer L Freeman J Garner R Ghoochanneijhad R Green M Hector J Helan A Henley

LAST MATCH

FIXTURES:

27%

Home team: 141 wins

YELLOW CARDS: S Hutchinson M Hudson K McFadzean A Clayton J Garner J Lynch G Bellusci M Davies S Duffy M Kieftenbeld

2015/2016 SEASON

8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

BRIGHTON COR RNERS::

1

SHO OTS:

8

FOULS:

18

A Gray A Hernandez R McCormack A Judge N Blackman F Forestieri C Austin J Rhodes N Wells B Afobe M Dembele J Kodjia C Martin T Ince D Murphy C Wood B Pitman G Hooper D Johnson Nelson Oliveira L Vibe

18 15 15 12 11 11 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7

18

league goals scored by Andre Gray

11

goals scored by Fernando Forestieri

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WINS DRAWS LOSSES

29 11 7

4

11

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GOALS PER GAME

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Albion certainly stronger after January transfer window

The January arrivals of Anthony Knockaert, Steve Sidwell and Jiri Skalak will certainly leave Albion feeling they have a much stronger squad than before the transfer window started.

Liam Ridgewell, on a temporary loan, and Richie Towell also arrived at the Seagulls last month, along with Henrik Rorvik Bjordal and Jonah Ayunga for the under-21 squad.

Czech winger/forward Skalak was the only signing for Albion’s first team squad on Transfer Deadline Day on Monday. Watching the YouTube clips provided by Brighton after his arrivial, Seagulls supporters have a lot to look forward too.

Add in the fact, he is after a place in the Czech squad for this summer’s European Championships and Brighton have a player eager to perform to the best of their ability for the rest of the season.

Albion fans will maybe feel a striker would have been the final piece of the jigsaw. However, the January

transfer window tends to inflate prices and the loan window opens again shortly.

Any forward who Brighton do bring in will arrive later this month,so that the 93-day loan would include the playoffs.

Along with all the signings, players are also now returning from injury. If the Seagulls have a fully-fit squad to choose from, it will certainly give Chris Hughton a selection headache but one he will relish after the preChristmas injury problems.

All of the main additions, bar Towell and Skalak, have been there and done it in

Albion will be pleased with their January work, while Middlesbrough wil also feel they fared well in the Championship English football, while the main trio who have departed, Rohan Ince, Elvis Manu and Jake Forster-Caskey, are all aged 23 or younger.

Midfielder Ince will get much-needed game time at Fulham.Hopefully, he can get back to the form of a couple of years ago and return to the

Seagulls in excellent form for pre-season, or earn himself a permanent move.

Manu’s loan move to Huddersfield was not much of a surprise.The Dutch winger has struggled since his August move from Feyenoord.

He has started just once and made eight substitute appearances. Like Ince, the game-time can only benefit him as he looks to adjust to English football.

Fo r s t e r- C a s k e y w a s another midfield departure, earlier in January, when he re-joined MK Dons on loan.

Albion will be pleased with their January work, while elsewhere in the Championship Middlesbrough will also feel they have fared well.

The arrival - and potential goals - of Jordan Rhodes will surely see them go on to win the league now. Ritchie de Laet, from Leicester, Julien De Sart,who has played in the Europa League for Standard Liege this season,and Gaston Raimrez, from Southampton, were their other January additions.

Other notable moves in January saw Derby add striker Nick Blackman from Reading and Sheffield Wednesday bring in Aiden McGeady from Everton.

Anthony Knockaert. Photograph: Angela Brinkhurst

Tobi makes the move to Sligo Fighting Talk...

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Brighton-based full-back Tobi Adebayo-Rowling completed a deadline day move from Peterborough United to Sligo Rovers in Ireland on Monday.

The 19-year-old former Longhill School pupil played for Brighton & Hove Albion until he was released aged 16. He then joined Eastbourne Borough, before he subsequently signed for Peterborough.

Having started for Posh at the beginning of the season, he has since found his chances limited and has followed former boss David Robertson to the League of Ireland Premier Division.

Adebayo-Rowling said: “Robbo (David Robertson) is a good boss and he believes in me.

“Obviously I’ve worked with him before and I’m looking forward to getting started. It’s going to be a bit strange going into pre-season, as the season doesn’t start until March, but I can’t wait to get going.

“I believe in myself and with the right manager hopefully I can get a bit of exposure and a bit of experience.”

Despite it not working out for Adebayo-Rowling

Welcome to the exclusive monthly column supplied

by Brighton boxer, Lloyd ‘Lightning Bolt’ Ellett.

The 28-year-old Masters champion is campaigning for major titles during 2016 and will keep Indy readers up-to-date with his progress here.

Training has been going well for my next scheduled fight on February 12th at the Brighton Metropole Hotel.

I’ll be entering into my 20th professional contest against a tough Slovakian, Andrej Moravek.

My travelling opponent is used to hitting the road, competing in five different countries during his seven bouts,only suffering defeats to unbeaten prospects. The super-welterweight’s only two victories came against debutants in France and Slovakia last year on points.

Preparations are going well, although I have only just started sparring again after allowing time for a cut to heal.

In my previous bout, in December last year, I defeated Faheem Khan for a second time,outpointing the 33-year-old southpaw from Devon comfortably.

However, in the final round of the rematch

Tobi Adebayo-Rowling (right) in action for Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, he had no gripes with Posh boss Graham Westley.

He said: “I haven’t been playing properly for about three months. The new gaffer is focused on going up, so he wants everyone to be fit in case someone gets injured, so we aren’t in an under-21 league.

“I was injured when he came in and to be fair my competition, Smudge (Michael Smith), is trying to get to the Euros, so I understand why he’s ahead of me.”

In typical deadline day

fashion, the move was a rushed one and AdebayoRowling said: “I went into training on Monday and Barry Fry came up to me and told me not to train.

“I wanted to go out on loan and get some games and I’d tried to go to a League Two side but it fell through. Although it was rushed, I know enough about the league and also the club and there are a few other players there I know.

“It’s going to be an incredible experience for me and I’m confident that it’s going to work out.”

we clashed heads and I sustained a nasty gash above the right eye that resulted in a total of nine stitches to close the wound post-fight.

I had to have a few weeks off, then really take it easy when I got back in the gym to ensure it didn’t open up again.

Fortunately,it’s healed up nicely and it’s been okay in sparring. I went six rounds with a former Southern Area champion,Adam Dingsdale, and all went well.

Despite the injury, I’ve been in the gym since last year, even going for a run on Christmas Day, so I’m feeling fit and sharp.

I train at the talentpacked iBox Gym in Bromley, which is also home to WBO European welterweight champion Bradley Skeete, W B O E u r o p e a n s u p e rbantamweight champion Lewis Pettitt, and Southern Area titlists, Darryll Wi l l i a m s a n d Jo h n n y Garton.

We are all put through our paces by top trainers Alan Smith and Eddie Lamm.

Thanks to their guidance, I’ve picked up three Masters titles, headlined four shows i n my h o m e t ow n , a n d

secured 18 wins from 19 fights in my career so far, which extends back to 2011.

I’m looking to start challenging for major titles this year. I’d like to either fight again quickly or bid for a big belt in the next few months, whether it’s the Southern Area, English or British title.

The February 12th show at the Metropole Hotel also features another popular B r i g h t o n b o x e r, N i cky Jenman, in a Southern Area contest; plus heavyweight action from unbeaten prospect, Nick Webb.

You can buy tickets from my official website www. lloydellett.com To follow me on Twitter go to @lighningbolt07 n Team Lightning would like to thank sponsors KSD Salt Services and The Shore Group and Pingala Media and PR Manager Tim Rickson.

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Sidwell: There’s a real togetherness here Oliver Stevenson @OStevenson12 Albion midfielder Steve Sidwell says he sees plenty of similarities between his new side and the recordbreaking Reading side from ten seasons ago.

The Stoke City loanee was instrumental as the Royals won the second division with a record points tally of 106.

Sidwell said: “You can tell there is a real togetherness on the training ground, which is fantastic and if that is there on the training ground, then it must be ten fold that on a game day.

“Along with that, there’s quality in the squad, that obviously you do need, but as I said before it’s definitely a squad that’s got capabilities of getting promoted.”

Despite going on to play exclusively in the Premier League, the 33-year-old still remembers what it took to get out of the Championship.

He said: “Although we had a good team and we won it

with ease, on reflection there were no egos or superstars, we were a team.

“There was great team spirit there and that got us through more games than individuals winning it, especially on the road as well because that is where it is obviously tough with away games and to do it on a consistent basis.

“As soon as I’ve walked into the dressing room, after a couple of days here, I could see that with the group of lads that are in this building.”

Looking ahead to tonight’s home game with Brentford, Sidwell said: “It’s still bedding in time but once the games come thick and fast, the football talk will start coming out.As I say, I’ve been there and done it, obviously I’ve done it in the Premier League as well, so hopefully I can now pass that experience on to the lads who haven’t done that and we can all do it together again.”

Captain Gordon Greer is ruled out tonight but Sam Baldock could return.

Albion midfielder Steve Sidwell. Photograph: Paul Hazlewood (BHAFC)

Hawks through to semi-finals

Jake Robinson (right) was on target against Steyning Town on Tuesday evening HoldersWhitehawk Football Club reached the semi-finals of the Sussex Senior Cup with a 4-0 win over Steyning Town on Tuesday evening.

Goals from Jordan Rose, Jake Robinson and two from

debutant Junior Morias, on loan from Boreham Wood, took Hawks through against their Southern Combination League opponents.

Whitehawk will now meet Ryman League Worthing in

the last four.

Hawks’ National South match at home to Oxford City on Saturday was abandoned owing to floodlight failure at half-time,withWhitehawk 2-1 ahead.

The Albion Roar Alan Wares @albionroar

The falsely-created marketing wheeze that is transfer deadline day has finished, and the ‘transfer window’ slammed shut on another bout of sending Jim White into hysterical raptures.

So,what is the net result of this? From the Albion’s point of view, they’ve reacquired the services of former 19-year old Steve Sidwell, the amazingly dribblyAnthony Knockaert, who was plying his trade in Belgium, Liam Ridgewell, fresh from playing where they have lumberjacks for cheerleaders,and a relative unknown (except to those who plough through the Czech leagues) Jiri Skalak.

They’ve also gone raiding the Norwegian leagues for young striker Henrik Rorvik Bjørdal.

Meanwhile, the outrageously telescopic Rohan Ince has gone to Fulham - who’ve finally captured a Brighton player this season - on loan.

Elvis Manu has left the building, heading to Huddersfield. JFC, as we

Seagulls boss Chris Hughton Photograph: Paul Hazlewood (BHAFC)

saw on the television, has remained at the remarkably freefalling MK Dons.

So, what does this add up to? A partially newlook Brighton squad; that is a fairly major transformation, and i n d i c at ive t h at C h r i s Hughton was possibly not totally happy with the squad he had to work with.

It also means Jim White can stop screaming and Sky can stop pretending to generate excitement for another eight months. n On air at noon every Saturday, and at 9am every Monday on 97.2FM, online at radioreverb.com, or on DAB.

Seagulls looking to build on resurgent form against Bees Having recorded back-toback Championship wins for the first time since the start of December,Brighton will be aiming to pick up a third consecutive win when they welcome Brentford to the Amex this evening.

Chris Hughton’s side made the most of the chances they had in their last game against Huddersfield two weeks ago, with Anthony K n o c k a e r t p l ay i n g a starring role in the 2-1 victory in his first home appearance since joining the club earlier this month.

The winger was one of six first team arrivals during January, and two more could make their debuts tonight. For Steve

Bradley Stratton @BradStrat Sidwell – on loan until the end of the season from Stoke City – it will be his second debut for Albion, having impressed during a twomonth spell at theWithdean Stadium in the 2002-03 season, scoring six goals in 12 appearances.

Forward Jiri Skalak could also make his Albion bow against the Bees tonight after his arrival from Czech Republic side FK Mlada Boleslav on deadline day.

Albion go up against a Brentford side who they will be confident of getting a good result against.

The two sides played out

Anthony Knockaert

Photograph: Angela Brinkhurst

a 0-0 draw at Griffin Park on Boxing Day, and the Bees sit eight points off the play-off places.

Th ey we r e u n ab l e t o bring any players in during Ja n u a r y, h ow e ve r t h ey managed to hold on to topscoring midfielder Alan Judge, who has 12 league goals to his name this season.

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So, the January transfer window has closed and fans can start to assess their squads for the remaining games of the season. Well, until the loan window opens, anyway!

As a youngster, one of the weekly treats was to head to the newsagents with my pocket money to get the weekly dose of footy insight.

For some it was Match but for me it was Shoot magazine. Would the poster be of someone from your club? What car does your new signing drive and what’s his favourite film? Could I answer all the quiz questions correctly?

Of course, things have changed dramatically since then with the arrival of social media, where clubs post pictures of players training or players can post their pictures at home or out and about.

In an age when the written press faces huge challenges however, it is still reassuring to see those publications from yesteryear still in print.

They may have changed somewhat and adapted to maintain a presence in the caucophony of football

As a youngster, one of the weekly treats was to head to the newsagents with my pocket money to get the weekly dose of footy insight media that now exists but I love the fact that you can flick, not click, through the magazine.

You can pick them up, put them down and then return to them, all in one week. You could,and still can,pile them

high in your bedroom for future perusal.

They are tangible,physical and in those days,had status.

Just like Panini stickers,there are now also Match Attacks.

Things change and adapt, but they still remain the same.

Websites,Twitter,Instagram, blogs, vlogs and YouTube all have their place too now but I like the fact that in the same way books haven’t become extinct now the Kindle is here, you can also pick up a copy of your weekly football magazine (even if it does infuriate your parents when they’re left lying around).

I might just have to pop out and get one. FourFourTwo? Total Football? Always Shoot for me. Guessing the price in 2016 ? Now that may be tricky.

To read more by Johnny Cantor, visit: www.johnnycantor.com

A number of football magazines are still available to buy.

Jury in or out on Albion’s transfer window?

With the transfer window slamming shut on Monday night, I found myself on the cusp of the jury being out and feeling somewhat underwhelmed.

With Jordan Rhodes opting for Middlesbrough and Ross McCormack kissing and making up at Fulham, the arrival of a tried and tested domestic striker didn’t materialise.

Instead, Chris Hughton opted to ‘shop abroad’ with 23-year-old Czech forward, Jiri Skalak, signing for the Albion.

He is, we’re told, an international striker but, to be fair, down the years previous acquisitions have had the same description, only to ultimately disappoint.

As the week has progressed, Chris Hughton has been quick to state that he will need time to settle in. Given the ongoing intensity of the promotion battle, how much time are we actually talking?

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Any purchase, even the aforementioned Rhodes or McCormack, would have been a gamble. Given the situation, this is a huge punt but, if it comes off, it will be looked on as a masterstroke by the manager.

I still don’t think we can rule out the possible return of Glenn Murray on loan from Bournemouth either.

The current sticking point being the 93-day period being able to incorporate the play-offs. Once that window is entered don’t rule out Muzza back in the blue and white stripes.

Elsewhere, I have to say I’m disappointed at the temporary departure of Rohan Ince to Fulham. Then again, that re-iterates that it’s all about opinions and clearly he’s well and truly down the pecking order now.

Another loanee departing the Amex for the time being is Elvis Manu, who has

Jiri Skalak. Photograph: Paul Hazlewood (BHAFC) joined Huddersfield for the regulation 93 days. Elvis is one of those players who appears to have polarised supporters’ opinions.

On one hand, his parents showed great imagination in naming him after the King. On the other, I would like to understand the rationale of the scout who recommended the Albion sign him.

Sorry but he doesn’t do it for me, and I know I’m not alone. Hopefully, different surroundings in Yorkshire might mean a change in

fortunes. But if things do go right at our end of the table, could we really see him in Albion’s 25-man Premier League squad in August? n While the frantic transfer dealings were panning out on Monday, elsewhere ITV aired some of the most distasteful and uncomfortable television in recent years.

The producers, and possibly even Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, should take a long hard look at themselves for their treatment of the

legendary Frank Bruno.

For his part, Bruno’s management also need to take some of the blame as well. Putting a man who is clearly not well on TV and all but creating a Victorian freak show leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.

He was in his time a national sporting icon.

With his appearance on This Morning and the subsequent media furore, he’s turned into a joke and the worst kind.

Talk of a comeback is delusional. Thankfully the British Boxing Board of Control were quick to issue a statement saying he would not be granted a licence under any circumstances. It shouldn’t have got that far, but think of the publicity ITV ended up getting, all at the expense of a good, honest man, who’s in a dark place.

What next, cue Phil “And, after the break, Badger Baiting with Russell Grant?”

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