Brighton & Hove Independent - 10 June 2016

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Exciting £30m blueprint to improve Madeira Terraces Bex Bastable

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Cafes, shops and businesses could move into a regenerated Madeira Drive after the leader of the council revealed his vision for the dilapidated arches.

In what Warren Morgan is calling ‘The Lockwood Project’, the Terraces could be overhauled into a new tourist hub for the city.

The £30 million project

is just one part of the regeneration of the area east of the Palace Pier, which is set to benefit from a new outdoor pool, zip-wire attraction and a conference centre at Black Rock. If funding is secured, work could start on the Terraces by the end of next year.

Cllr Morgan said the project is ‘anintegralpartofthemultimillion pound regeneration of Madeira Drive’.

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Library sell-off hits a wall of opposition Bex Bastable

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Hove Library will remain at its 108-year-old home after Conservative and Green councillors ‘put party politics to one side’ and stopped the sell-off of the historic Carnegie building.

Under Labour’s plans, the library was set to move to an extension at Hove museum, with the old library building sold off. But opposition councillors submitted a joint amendment to stop the move, which was passed at the policy, resources and growth committee last night (Thursday).

The amendment commits the council to keeping all libraries in the city open, while reallocating £100,000 from an underspend in the last year’s council budget to keep the library at the Carnegie building.

Cllr Ollie Sykes, Green finance spokesperson, said: “Hove residents were being asked to give up a muchloved community resource on the basis of a misleading and frankly inaccurate business plan.

“Rather than address our genuine concerns with their plan, Labour chose to make impassioned pleas and thinly veiled threats about closing community libraries. That’s why we decided to work across party lines to stop the plans in their tracks, and ensure that all community libraries are protected from closures by the Labour council.”

Conservative councillor Tony Janio, said: “We put party politics to one side and came together with the Greens for the good of the community and have achieved a great result for the people of Brighton and Hove.”

Christopher Hawtree of the Save Hove Library campaign, said: “The past eight months have been such a rollercoaster that the new owners of the Palace Pier could consider calling one of their rides the Hove Library Campaign. We have had thrills and spills, screams of exasperation and sighs of relief, and so it went on. What was heartening all the while, what made it work, was the way in which so many people – residents, artists, writers, politicians – came together, often meeting for the first time, and stuck with it. “I am delighted that the branch libraries, too, will not close. These are essential – and, as branches, they depend upon the trunk that should be a main, fullystocked Carnegie.”

See page 19 for an article by Geoffrey Theobald, leader of the Conservatives.

The city council has said it cannot afford to subsidise a new ice-rink in Brighton and Hove, but would explore whether private companies would pay for such a project.

This comes after a 2,000-strong petition was handed to the council last year, asking for a permanent ice-rink in the city.

A report is set to go before next week’s economic development and culture committee, asking councillors to agree to a ‘soft marketing testing’ exercise, to see if there is potential for a rink in the city.

Cllr Alan Robins, committee chair, said: “It’s important we have this report to show we understand public clamour for a rink – but also to explain the challenges involved.

Rinks need lots of space and consume lots of money through energy bills and staffing. But if councillors agree, the next step would be

to see if there are potential developers interested in providing an ice rink for the city. There is certainly no quick or obvious solution.”

The report said that rinks elsewhere tend to rely on either being part of a large complex or having a ready supply of money to cover costs.

The council said it cannot subsidise any facility, due to a lack of money, and does not own a suitable site that is readily available.

Proposals by a developer for a rink at Black Rock, next to Brighton Marina, fell through around 2012 when private financial backing could not be found. The site has since been set aside for a new conference centre.

Brighton’s major rink at the Kingswest site closed in 1972. A smaller facility in Queen Square was shut by its private operators many years ago. The committee meets on Thursday, June 16.

inflicting a short-sighted political defeat on the Labour administration means more to them than engaging in difficult decisions about how to improve public services for residents of the city.”

Warren Morgan, leader of the council, said: “The government has set us a challenge to operate with 40 per cent less money to spend on local services. We’ve put forward a four-year libraries plan that keeps a library in every community that has one, doubling the hours

they are open, and providing Hove with a new library with a café and outdoor space.

The alliance between the Conservative and Green councillors rejects that plan, putting it on hold for two years and threatening up to seven community libraries with closure as a result.”

He told opposition councillors: “Don’t ever lecture us again on financial responsibility, or delivering value for money, or on doing what is right for the taxpayer.”

Ten arrests after drug raids in city Sussex Police arrested 10 people on drugs offences after raids on six homes in Brighton and Hove.

The raids took place on Tuesday, at addresses in Pool Valley, Preston Grange, Donald Hall Road, Regency Mews and London Road, and Hove Park Villas. Two men aged 23, two aged 21 and others aged 35, 34, 32, 28, 42, 26 were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. A 57-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of an immigration offence.

Gridlock on seafront road Gas works outside the Hilton Metropole caused tailbacks on the A259 eastbound on Tuesday and Wednesday, with commuters stuck in traffic for up to an hour.

In addition to the works on Shelter Hall, which will take up to two years to complete, the gas works closed one lane on the seafront road, causing significant delays.

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Labour’s fury as plans scrapped As Labour’s plans for Hove Library were defeated last night, councillors have hit out at the opposition’s ‘regressive alliance’.

Tom Bewick, Labour councillor for Westbourne, said: “The vast majority of my local residents will be utterly dismayed by this regressive alliance of Green and Tory councillors. They have scuppered the opportunity of improved library and museum services in Hove.

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‘Unpleasant reality’ as GP surgeries close Bex Bastable

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Pressures on GP services in the city are likely to continue, according to the chair of the city’s health and wellbeing board.

Cllr Daniel Yates spoke of the ‘difficult and unpleasant reality of the pressures’ on primary care at a meeting of the board on Tuesday.

This comes as more than 11,000 residents received letters from NHS England this week, outlining the future of their care in the face of four GP surgery closures.

In January, The Practice Group announced it was ending its contract to run five surgeries in the city – citing a shortage of GPs and rising costs – and it said since the announcement there had been ‘difficulty in retaining staff’ across the surgeries.

A letter to patients this week said: The Practice at Hangleton Manor will close

on July 15; the North Street branch will close on July 29; The Practice Willow House on September 16; and the Whitehawk Road surgery will close on November 30.

The Practice Group will continue running the The Brighton Homeless Healthcare Surgery until January 2017, and in the meantime NHS England is set to put the contract out to tender.

Residents attending the four outgoing GP surgeries will be registered at neighbouring surgeries.

Cllr Yates, said: “It is unfortunate that local people are going to see significant changes, certainly the 11,000 that are affected by the changes with The Practice Group.

“I would like to say we saw firsthand the work NHS England tried to do, alongside the CCG (clinical commissioning group), in terms of identifying alternatives, in terms of

trying to encourage practices to expand to support and deliver primary care in a consistent way across the city.

“We did not expect this sort of change, but we knew from Goodwood Court from earlier last year, and at the beginning of last year changes at Eaton Place, that significant pressures in primary care are going to continue and I cannot see them going away any time soon.

“We may think we have been over a significant hump but we shouldn’t expect this is the last hump we are going to hit in the process.”

He thanked NHS England, the CCG and Healthwatch for work on finding a solution for residents at The Practice Group surgeries, but admitted: “They are not perfect solutions. I am sure local people in significant numbers won’t be happy with the solutions that are being offered.”

Back to the drawing board Ideas sought on Sackville scheme

A developer held the first of its design workshops for the site of the old Sackville Hotel on Friday, with Hove MP Peter Kyle and Westbourne councillor Denise Cobb giving their input.

This comes after its plan for a 17-storey building was scrapped, following fierce opposition from campaigners. Hyde said it has now wiped the slate clean,and is looking to design a new scheme with the help of residents, before a formal consultation. The next workshops take place on: June 15 (2.30pm to 5.30pm), June 20 (5.30pm to 8.30pm), and June 24 (1.30pm to 4.30pm). To book a place, visit: www.189kingsway.com

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Dirty tricks on the trains – or a simple human error?

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Southern has slammed a union’s allegations that the company is lying to the public about train delays as ‘simply ludicrous’.

RMT union chiefs said they believed the company - which is run by Govia Thameslink - was ‘attempting to shift the scandal of short-staffing’ onto the workforce.

In a letter to Southern managing director Charles Horton,aunionrepresentative said that a driver, train and guard were available to work on the 7.10am on June 1 from Brighton to Lewes, but that the train was cancelled due to shortage of train crew.

But Southern said this situation – and similar one from London Bridge to Tattenham Corner – was simply down to ‘human error’.

A Southern spokesperson said: “In one, a train was cancelled because we wrongly thought the crew were not available. By the time the crew arrived for the service, it was too late to reinstate it. In the other instance, an incorrect

explanation was inadvertently given as the reason behind a cancellation.

“Both of these mistakes are regrettable, but must be seen in the context of unprecedented levels of staff sickness resulting in more than 80 train cancellations each day, and putting pressure on the staff who are at work. The accusation that we are deliberately cancelling services is quite simply ludicrous.”

Mick Cash, general secretary for the union, said, “RMT will not tolerate the disgraceful attempts to blame the current operational crisis at Southern on the front-line staff when the responsibility lies with those at the top of this basket-case franchise.”

He said the company had been caught ‘red-handed’, and said: “Southern should stop the dirty tricks and start talking with us in a serious and responsible manner.”

This comes as Brighton MP Caroline Lucas said: “Behind closed doors, Govia has been handed permission to cancel services. This stitch up is failing passengers and staff – and it must be stopped.”

Investigation into hospital transport no-show An elderly man from Brighton died just days after he missed urgent health tests when his transport to the hospital did not turn up.

The family has made a complaint to Coperforma, theprivatecompanythattook over the patient transport service from the South East Coast Ambulance Service in April.

The companyhaslaunched an investigation to find out why the ambulance failed to

pick the patient up.

Campaigners from Sussex Defend the NHS, said although the man was very unwell with a respiratory illness, and the outcome ‘might well have been the same’, it had caused him to be distressed in his final days.

Val Knight, a neighbour of the elderly man who died this week, said: “This makes me so angry. The distress caused to an elderly, disabled person and the suffering

in their final days is utterly unacceptable. And we are all left wondering if the outcome would have been different if he had been taken for the scan he was booked in for.

“Those who commissioned this company are still just talking about what to do. Until they get rid of Coperforma and go back to SECAmb who used to run the service reliably this can happen again and again. I want our health and social

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A spokesperson from Coperforma said: “An investigationisunderwayinto the precise circumstances surrounding the transport service experienced by this patient and his family.

“A report will be sent direct to the family once that is complete. Coperforma extends its sympathy to the family at this very sad time.”

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Campaigners celebrate at Withdean’s ‘puppy park’ Sarah Morgan

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Dogs and their owners gathered at Withdean Park on Saturday, to celebrate the success of a campaign to keep and maintain the fences at the popular walking spot.

A fundraising drive began after Brighton and Hove Council planned to remove the fence at the so-called ‘puppy park’ – claiming it can no longer afford to repair and maintain it. But park users set up the Withdean Park Dog Walking Community group, and raised enough to repair the fence. With help from the council’s park ranger team, two of the gates have already been replaced.

The group has raised more than £1,200 towards the project, and campaigners were joined by Lee Wares, Conservative city councillor, andhisdogsDoogleandAlbie, to cut a celebratory ribbon for the new gates. Cllr Wares said: “This is a great example

Angela Cox and councillor Lee Wares by one of the new gates at Withdean Park

of a community coming together to look after a space for the benefit of everybody.

I’m grateful for all this hard work and to the council for working with the committee to make this happen”.

Volunteers will complete further jobs around the 1,000m fence with a council ranger, and the date to replace some of the rotting fence posts is set for Sunday, June 26. To get involved,

visit: www.facebook.com/ savewithdeanparkfence The group will hold an annual meeting on July 28, at Ladies Mile function room, from 7.30pm. Visit: withdog. co.uk

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Vision unveiled for the Terraces

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Cafes, shops and ‘overnight beach huts’ could move into the crumbling Madeira Terraces after the £30 million planned restoration.

Warren Morgan, leader of the council, revealed his vision for the area, which he calls ‘The Lockwood Project’, named after Phillip Cawston Lockwood, a Brighton surveyor who created the Terraces and the Bandstand.

Cllr Morgan said: “The option we’re proposing is self-contained but serviced glass-fronted units within the terrace arches, structures that preserve the integrity of the Terraces but

allow new space to be leased or rented for use as cafes, shops, businesses or even ‘overnightbeachhuts’butnot permanent accommodation.

“None of this can be achieved without some public funding and we are placing a bid at the end of this month for £4 million of Coastal Communities funding to get the Lockwood Project underway. Further funding will be sought from grants, lottery funding and private investment, and we’ll look at using the same Public Works Loan Board borrowing as the i360 for some of the estimated £20 to £30 million costs.”

He said the policy, resources and growth committee would consider

the plan in July, to begin a year-long process of consultation. Work could begin by the end of next year if funding is secured.

Cllr Morgan said: “The restoration of the Madeira Terraces will be an integral part of the multi-million pound regeneration of Madeira Drive, with the new swimming pool, new zip wire attraction, Aquarium Terraces replacement, children’s play area and our new ten thousand seat arena and conference centre at Black Rock. From the pier to the marina, the whole area will be improved and enhanced, whilst restoring the wonderful Madeira Arches for future generations.”

Project to restore ironwork Unveiling his plan for the arches, Warren Morgan said: “Our iconic Madeira Terraces have lasted over 130 years, a remarkable testimony to the quality of Victorian craftsmanship. Sadly the seaside environment has taken its toll on the ironwork and major restoration is needed. I’m committing the council to a project that will fully restore or replace that ironwork and return the Madeira Terraces to their original condition.

“Where possible we will restore the ironwork, but where modern engineering

methods, materials and treatments allow and can be justified we will also use these to replace iron work on a like-for-like replica basis.

“TheTerraceswerecreated as a covered promenade to attract tourists from London on the new railway of the 1800s. In the 21st century we need something more, and something that will help fund the restoration and upkeep of the Terraces.

“We are exploring ways of achieving this with colleagues at Historic England that protects the integrity of the Terraces,

but also provides new ways of generating income and to provide new activity along this important stretch of our city’s coastline. Importantly, we are looking for ways to preserve the unique and historic green wall which predates the Terraces.

“It is my hope that the Lockwood Project will preserve a much-valued part of our local heritage, while adding to our tourist offer in the same way the Terraces did in Victorian times. I’d like to think that Phillip Cawston Lockwood would approve, and I hope you will too.”

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‘Dangerous’ schools trust plan sparks row Bex Bastable

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The council’s plans to create a trust or limited company to improve the city’s schools has been called ‘dangerous’

by Green councillors.

The children, young people and skills committee agreed to consult on the proposals this week, after the leader of the council Warren Morgan announced he would ‘seek to create a co-operative trust to run our schools’, in response to the government’s plans to turn all schools into academies.

Phélim Mac Cafferty, convenor of the Green Group on the council, said: “Should this new structure go through, we are concerned that ultimately, parents may have less say in their children’s education. Council officers have stated that these are rapidly changing times, yet the council is now committed to a costly

consultation on options that could substantially change before any decision is made.

This is wholly premature and will waste precious council resources. We must continue to work as a city to keep our schools under the management of the local authority. Campaigns to save schools across the country have already started to have an impact, and will continue to do so. In the city in the recent past at Hove Park and at Varndean, parents, pupils and governors have roundly rejected academy proposals.

“That’s why we are encouraging parents and teachers to oppose the creation of a limited company, co-operative trust or similar structure that will move schools further away from local control.”

The plans have also been criticised by the Hands Off Our Schools campaign, which accused the council of ‘embracing’ government plans to force

the academisation of schools.

Tom Bewick, chair of the children, young people and skills committee, said: “Once again the Green Party shows it has nothing constructive to say about how to improve school standards and tackle the city’s widening inequality gap in education. Instead, they’ve fallen into the same ideological trap as the Conservative government, suggesting to parents that the main thing that matters about education is the governance structure of our schools. Our approach is more pragmatic. If the consultation can engage school leadership teams, teachers and parents in an open debate about how we future proof our schools from forced academisation, whilst protecting local parental involvement, then why wouldn’t we? It appears that some campaigners are more interested in closing down a local democratic discussion.”

Dance Former Pussycat Doll visits school

Students from Balfour Primary School took part in a dance class with Grammy-nominated artist and dancer Kimberly Wyatt on Wednesday. Balfour Primary School won the dance class after entering a competition at the Youth Sport Trust national conference. Kimberly visited the school as part of her Well-Fit initiative, aimed at primary school girls and boys and uses dance to increase physical activity levels, self esteem and boost confidence among young people. Marcelo Staricoff, headteacher at Balfour Primary School said: “The pupils were all really excited to hear about her career and loved getting involved with the dance activities. Her passion towards empowering teachers to feel confident to teach dance and encouraging young people to feel positive and body confident is truly inspiring.”

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Pop-up protest by Portslade parents Frustrated parents, children and teachers at St Peter’s School in Portslade set up a pop-up zebra crossing on Church Road on Wednesday.

The stunt was in the hope that Brighton and Hove City Council would install a real zebra crossing on the busy road, after several requests.

Rae Powers, who helped

organise the protest, said: “It’s urgent now. It’s the recommended tourist route for road users to the new i360 attraction, so even more traffic will soon come along this dangerous road. The local council is aware of our concerns as we have been asking for a safe crossing place for three years.”

The inflatable crossing at Church Road

Council to seek views on school holidays

EU debate at Hove for undecided voters

Parents have been asked to choose a preferred week for a new school holiday, to make breaks cheaper for families.

Brighton and Hove City Council is now consulting on its plans to move five days from existing school holidays, to create a new break.

The choices are the week commencing: Monday, October 16 2017; Monday, November 20 2017; or Monday, March 5, 2018.

A final decision on the new week’s holiday for 2017-18 will be made in early July. To give your views before the deadline on June 28, visit: www. brighton-hove.gov.uk/ school-term-consultation

An EU referendum debate aimed at those who are unsure of how to vote will be held on Thursday at The Coral Brighton and Hove Greyhound Stadium.

Ollie Sykes, Green city councillor, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, chair of the Brighton and Hove District Labour Party, and Sally Prentice, Labour councillor for Lambeth will speak for the ‘remain’ camp. Conservative Sir Andrew Bowden, Caroline Stephens of the Vote Leave campaign, and Ian Brown of Business for Britain will speak for ‘leave’.

The event at the Hove stadium will be held from 7pm to 9pm, and it is a free non-ticketed event.

First competition for uni polo team Dede Jevans, 22, rode her horse Quill along Brighton seafront on Tuesday to celebrate the University of Brighton’s polo team’s first year of competition.

The team is taking part in this weekend’s National Universities Championship along with 50 other universities. It is renting the ponies with help from the

university’s Springboard Grants Programme which provides awards of up to £2,000 to university societies sports clubs.

Team president, Luke Sandys-Renton said: “The Springboard team have been fantastic help to us. The programme makes the time we spend at the university the best it can possibly be.”

Digital art to promote the Open Market

Council’s pledge to support Fair Trade

Brighton Digital Festival has teamed up with Brighton and Hove City Council to offer a £15,000 opportunity for a digital artist.

The commission is for a digital artwork to be sited in or nearby The Open Market in Brighton and seeks to increase awareness of the market as a destination for residents of the city and visitors.

The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Monday, July 4. Visit: brightondigitalfestival. co.uk/artist-commission/

The council was set to renew its commitment to buying Fair Trade at last night’s policy, resources and growth committee.

Cllr Warren Morgan, chair of the committee and leader of the council, said: “It makes absolute sense for us to continue the council’s commitment to buying Fair Trade and take part in Fair Trade fortnight.

The social, economic and environmental benefits of fair trade are well known and we fully support this approach in the council’s procurement strategy.”

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Luke Sandys-Renton (centre) with the University of Brighton polo team

Bus named after community star Brighton and Hove Buses has named a new bus after muchloved community campaigner Chris Cooke.

Mr Cooke was a well-known activist in the Kemptown area, campaigning for his community and for gay rights.

There was widespread shock when 48-year-old Mr Cooke died in February following a fire in the Essex Place tower block off Montague Street.

Martin Harris, bus company managing director, said: “We’re really pleased to be able to honour Chris Cooke in this way. He’s done so much for the local community including his work as an

The new ‘Chris Cooke’ bus was unveiled this week

LGBT campaigner. It’s very fitting that we can name a bus after him on service 1 which runs through the heart of Kemptown.”

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A Week in the City Bike challenge for Albion’s charity Brighton and Hove Albion’s assistant manager is cycling around 85 miles to raise money for disability football sessions across Sussex.

As part of Chris Hughton’s backroom staff Colin Calderwood helped Albion record one of their highest league finishes in years.

Now he is determined to the help the Seagulls’ official charity, Albion in the Community (AITC), by taking part in its Brighton to Brussels Cycle Challenge.

A clash of dates means he is unable to cycle the entire distance between the AMEX and the Belgian capital, but he will complete day one of the

three day route today (Friday).

Colin said: “I really wanted to cycle the entire distance but because it isn’t possible this year I still wanted show my support for AITC by joining the other cyclists for the first day. .”

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A special visitor at city’s deaf school

Peter Field, Lord Lieutenant, being presented with the card for the Queen

Children at Hamilton Lodge School for deaf children made a birthday card to celebrate the Queen’s 90th Birthday.

They presented it to Peter Field, the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex on Tuesday.

David Couch, school principal, said: “Often deaf

children can feel left out and confused by the ceremonial heritage and events because nobody has explained to them what it means. They were really happy to have such an important visitor and were confident in asking lots of questions.”

Colin Calderwood is set to take on an 85-mile cycle challenge

Birthday bash for the Queen in Hove

Hundreds raised for charity at art sale

Residents in Wilbury Villas are set to host a street party celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday on Sunday.

There will be games and activities for children, a range of stalls, ice-cream and tea from midday, as well as three live bands and a DJ. Residents are asked to bring food and drink to share, and there are plans for a tombola and raffle.

The road will be closed to traffic from midday to 7pm, and residents are asked to move their cars ahead of the event.

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The Art Yard Sale at Jubilee Square raised £500 for homeless charity the Brighton Housing Trust on Sunday, through the sale of its event poster.

Andy Winter, the charity’s chief executive, said: “It’s fantastic to have the support of the local art community.

“The funds will be used to buy provisions for First Base Day Centre on Montpelier Road – a safe place for people who are homeless or rough sleeping to shower, receive medical checks, cooked meals and access to support to help them get back on their feet.”

Recovery Centre marks 50 years Preston Park Recovery Centre celebrated 50 years of supporting people in Brighton and Hove last week.

City councillors Caroline Penn and Julie Cattell were joined at the event by Pete West the mayor of Brighton and Hove. Run by Southdown Housing, the Recovery Centre offers people with mental health needs the opportunity to learn new skills, and provides services to assist

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Grab your mat, get your comfy joggers on and head to the biggest ever Brighton Yoga Festival.

The free event is in its third year and has moved on from its home at St George’s Church in Kemptown, to Brighton Dome.

Taking place on July 23, the festival will include classes, talks, workshops and demonstrations to meditation sessions, therapies and nutrition advice. There are yoga classes especially suited to beginners and children, pregnancy yoga, yoga for runners, and for mindfulness.

There will also be a local bazaar of stalls, face-painting, and a dedicated nutrition area, with food from the Real Junk Food Project.

Davy Jones, festival founder and chair of trustees, said: “The aim of Brighton Yoga Festival is to bring yoga’s

mental and physical health benefits to everyone, free of charge, and to introduce yoga to people who’ve maybe never considered it.

“Whatever people’s age, level of fitness or experience, and whether they’ve ever tried yoga before or not, there will be free yoga for everyone.

And that includes people who’ve been practicing yoga for a long time and fancy trying a different discipline or approach.

“The day is absolutely packed with new things to try, discover and explore, in and around yoga, together with stalls, children’s activities and good, wholesome food and drink.”

Last week, Brighton Yoga Festival was awarded charity status, for its work in highlighting the mental and physical health benefits of yoga.

Brighton Yoga Festival is on July 23, from 10am to 6pm.

To find out more, visit: www. brightonyogafestival.org/ register

Brighton Yoga Festival promotes the mental and physical health benefits of yoga

Sponsored sea swim challenge for hospice Martlets Hospice will be holding its annual sponsored Saltwater Splash on Sunday, August 21, at Yellowave on Brighton Beach.

Aimed at confident, strong swimmers this year’s challenge will see people battling the waves in distances of between 100m and 1,500m.

Eloise Miller took part last year with a team of nine other friends and family members in memory of her sister Lara, who had been a patient at Martlets in 2014. She said: “It was much harder than I thought, and I’d been training.

One direction was against the tide and it really did feel quite an achievement to finish it.

“I have to say that I was very proud of us all and I know my sister would have been too.”

Antonia Shepherd from the hospice’s events team said: “The Saltwater Splash is definitely a challenge for brave people who are confident swimming in open waters.”

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Brighton landlord told to stop using property for student digs

The Sail Boat Project

Does the future lie in worker’s cooperatives?

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What do a Brighton-based sailing school, art gallery and micro-brewery have in common? They’ve got no bosses, no hierarchy and every member has an equal say.

All three are workers cooperatives. They believe that working together, rather than in competition within a top-down system, is a more empowering, flexible and meaningful way of working.

They have offered their insights into the rewards and challenges of running a cooperative and the secret to thriving in a capitalist world.

Artist Lucy Kenward was fed up with the way galleries were traditionally run, controlled by one owner with countless hidden costs for exhibiting artists.

The 33-year-old and three friends decided that if they wanted a transparent, fair alternative, they would have to create it themselves.

Lucy said: “It was daunting and very challenging. But it made it all the sweeter when we did it. We had a shared vision and at every hurdle we were all so determined.”

Last September they realized their dream of setting up a not-for-profit gallery to sell and exhibit local art, The Corridor Gallery, at 28 York Place. Lucy said: “Artists tend toworkalone,soweencourage artists to work together and pool resources. It’s bigger than one individual’s ego.”

Making decisions collectively is key to being a cooperative and Lucy thanks the group’s shared passion for art for making the process relatively stress-free.

She said: “We’re really lucky because we’re usually on the same page and we always come to a consensus. It’s not about pleasing everyone, but it’s democratic and we all take votes.”

The concept that became The Sail Boat Project started with a chat over a pint in the pub for experienced sailor Dhara Thompson, 42. He describes the coop as a hybrid between a commercial sailing school and a sailing club.

He said: “A lot of people say it’s an exclusive sport, so we widen access to sailing. So many of us live by the coast and don’t see the sea.”

The co-op takes clients from the Migrant English Project on relaxing days on the water and have continued their work with recovering addicts.

“It had such an impact that we took them out again and again. It helps four or five people to live independentlythey cook for everyone on the boat,theylearnpracticalliving skills. It has a transforming effect on people.”

Originally from Rochdale, the proud home of the coop movement, the founder of Bartleby’s Brewery, Matt Wilson, 39, has always been passionateaboutcooperatives.

All the beers he produces at his Brighton brewery are vegan and are created with English hops only. They are delivered by bike and sold in recyclable containers.

With only two members, the coop is an unusual one, but it is true to the core values of the movement.

Matt said: “It’s different from a business where there is someone telling you what to do, where there is little discussionordebate.Weshare

power and responsibility, and there’s a lot of trust. Even though I set it up, we are completely equal partners.”

For Matt, the challenges of working cooperatively are ultimately worth it.

He said: “We definitely have our disagreements and decision-making can be time consuming. But when you make a decision, you are all behind it. You don’t get people who are disgruntled because they’ve been told to do it. You have a happy and empowered workforce.”

He acknowledges that it is hard to work in a way so different to the competitive environment we are conditioned to work in.

He said: “We are not raised in a coop culture.

Our behaviours are deeply influenced by the culture we live in, we are raised to understand hierarchy.”

This is why Matt believes cooperatives working together is vital and why he helped set up Mutual Aid in Sussex (MAIS), a network that holds monthly meetings to foster support between cooperatives.

MAIS is holding a free event on Saturday, to introduce people to cooperatives and strengthen and deepen networks for existing coops.

He said: “The cooperative movement needs to grow in a way that sticks to its principals. If we talk and discuss, it will be a positive growth, but we can’t just let it coast. It’s not going to happen on its own.”

Cooperative Alternatives is organised by MAIS and Free University Brighton, at The Synergy Centre on Saturday, from 10.30am to 7pm. Visit: maisnetwork.wordpress.com

A government planning inspector has told a Brighton landlord he must stop using a family home for student accommodation.

This comes after the council took enforcement action against Terence Hermonforhousingstudents at 21 Upper Wellington Road without planning consent.

Landlords need planning permission to convert homes to ‘Houses in Multiple Occupation’ (HMOs) in five council wards, which include: Hanover and Elm Grove; Hollingdean and Stanmer; Moulsecoomb and Bevendean; Queens Park, and St Peter’s and North Laine.

The property in Upper Wellington Road was converted in 2013, according to the council, with six bedrooms, a shared lounge,

kitchen, bathroom and toilet.

An enforcement notice was issued to Mr Hermon last November.

Mr Hermon appealed against the notice, and a government planning inspector concluded six individuals sharing a house would generate more noise and disturbance than a family would. The inspector rejected claims that the property had not harmed the living conditions of neighbours.

The council said if 10 per cent of homes within a 50 metre radius are already HMOs, then permission for a HMO licence should not be granted. For the property in question, the council said the figure was 24 per cent; while the owner said it was almost 23 per cent. Either figure, the inspector said,

breached a policy.

Dismissing the appeal Mr Woolnough said use of the property as an HMO must cease three months after his decision, which would be August 20.

Cllr Julie Cattell, chair of the planning committee, said: “We take this issue very seriously and will always seek action against landlords who set up HMOs without planning permission in areas where the limit has been exceeded.

“I’m very pleased that the government’s Planning Inspectorate has backed our policy, which was developed to help us protect neighbours and to maintain balanced communities.”

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Tom Bewick

Lead councillor for children’s services

Education damaged by heartless cuts

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hen we came to office last year, we inherited a legacy of indecision and drift in how the council was seeking to improve the lifechances and educational performance of our city’s 50,000 children and young people.

The scaling back of youth services; cuts to further education colleges; and austerity cuts have taken millions of pounds out of the local economy. These heartless Conservative Government cuts are a major factor in the growing use of food banks by some families in the city. Of equal concern is the fact young people report increased mental health and emotional well-being difficulties in our schools.

This is all the consequence of a myopic government that is failing to invest adequately in the long-term future of our children and young families.

It shows up in the fact that the city ranks 156 out of 324 local authorities in terms of the official definition of social mobility.

The rhetoric of government ministers is of boosting life chances, but the evidence here on the ground tells a very different story.

Despite these national challenges, the Labour administration locally is firmly committed to ensuring that our values of fairness and social justice underscore every decision that we make.

We acknowledge the good work that has come before but we have renewed ambition for children and young people.

It’s why in the past year – despite cuts to other council service areas of over 30 per cent – we have protected children’s services budgets by reducing them, on average, by nine per cent. The youth service budget for the community and voluntary sector has been fully protected in cash terms.

Indeed, we were able to achieve this by turning around a projected overspend in children’s services spending of £3 million, inherited from the previous Green Party administration.

In addition, we have made significant efficiency savings by re-organising our social work teams better and reducing our reliance on expensive agency staff.

This has resulted in fewer children on protection plans and a reduction in the number of children at risk coming into or staying for longer than is necessary, in care. We have achieved these results –

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not by lowering risk thresholds –but by intervening with families much earlier.

We should celebrate the fact that our city has no schools judged to be inadequate by Ofsted, a tribute to the hard work of our head teachers, governors, teachers, support staff and council officers.

Our attainment results were in the top quartile of national attainment levels last year. Our special educational needs provision is also judged outstanding at Downs View and Hillside special schools.

But we must also be open and honest about the scale of the challenges.

Not a single secondary school in the city is judged outstanding. The government’s Social Mobility Commission ranks the city in the bottom 40 per cent of local authorities in England on educational performance linked to social mobility.

We are in the bottom 20% when linked to GCSE performance and free school meal pupils (FSM).

Last summer’s results showed that the pupil premium and FSM attainment gap in the city is widening.

At my committee recently, councillors across the political spectrum were united in exhorting our head teachers and the

secondary schools they lead to do much more.

I’m asking chairs of governors and head teachers in particular to focus with renewed vigour on the progress of our disadvantaged students.

If these school leaders are finding that they can’t deliver better results with the additional money they are given to tackle disadvantage, then they and we need urgently to ask how we can challenge each other more so that the necessary progress can be made.

It’s very clear to the elected members of my committee that the city cannot go on with a system that is not reducing educational inequality.

A pupil is three times less likely to get the choice of a good school in a poorer area than they are in a more affluent one.

It is why over the next twelve months we will focus with razor sharp determination on breaking the link between demography and destiny in our city. We can only achieve that ambition of course if by working together our schools can collaborate even better together and deliver a real step-change in performance to close the disadvantage gap.

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am sad to say that political scaremongering reached a new low this past week with the latest campaign run by Labour to frighten residents into getting us to support the relocation of Hove Library.

They have stated on leaflets that Labour Members have been distributing widely in Conservative areas and on Councillor Morgan’s blog that if my Conservative colleagues and I were to vote against the Labour administrations plans to move Hove Library, then at least seven other libraries would shortly close.

I can categorically state that this would never happen and indeed there was no such proposal on the table at yesterday’s meeting of the Policy, Resources and Growth Committee.

The only Party who could bring forward plans to close seven libraries is the Labour administration and, if they had chosen do so neither me, nor my Conservative colleagues, would have allowed this to happen.

Despite criticism from Labour for us scrutinising their proposals to merge Hove Library and Hove Museum, doing so has uncovered countless errors and miscalculations in the actual costs of both maintaining the Carnegie Building and Hove Museum as they currently are, or moving the two services into a single space.

Indeed, the Labour Administration originally told the public that moving Hove Library to a new extension at Hove Museum would save £337,000 in revenue costs over three years and that these savings were necessary due to Government cuts to their funding.

Upon further questioning by us, it turns out that the actual savings dependent upon moving the Library would be less than half that figure £167,000 – and that 80 per cent of those savings would be down to employing less staff at the Hove Museum site.

Let me put that figure in some context.

At yesterday’s meeting there was a report that showed that the council underspent its budget by £4.8 million last year, despite dire warnings from the Labour administration that the council was on the verge of going bankrupt and faced a deficit of well over £8 million.

This surplus of £4.8 million would be enough to keep the Carnegie Building open for at least another 30 years!

Finally, the cinema proposal that Cllr Morgan decided to reveal at the 11th hour, based on one meeting with a potential operator, is a red herring.

Council officers have effectively advised that it is a non-starter and would likely not raise anything like the amount of money they require in order to relocate

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the library and build an extension at Hove Museum.

In my view no well-thought-out case has been made for closing this wellused and much loved library that is in a purpose built building and convenient central location.

Nor has the case been made for spending far more than what this Grade II listed building is likely to achieve on the open market to build an extension on to the gardens that surround Hove Museum.

Consequently the Green Group and ourselves tabled an amendment at yesterday’s meeting to delete the Labour Administration’s proposals for Hove Library but to continue with the remainder of the Libraries Plan.

Thus the proposals for Hollingbury Library, which we support, will go ahead and no library will close.

Indeed many opening times will increase.

Our stance on this issue is a victory for the residents of this city and I am proud of the part that the Conservative Group has played.

So, all the threats and worries that the Labour Party has caused to residents all around this city by their misleading information have proved unfounded.

I await an apology from Councillor Morgan for his Party’s disgraceful tactics.

Sunday 19th June 2016.

For more information on road closures in your area please visit bhf.org.uk/L2BCommunities The British Heart Foundation would like to thank local communities for their patience, understanding and support for this event.

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On This Day Monday June 10 1839 Sussex County Cricket Club played their inaugural first-class match versus Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s.

The oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, Sussex has a limited overs team called the Sussex Sharks and the club was founded as a successor to the

various Sussex county cricket teams – some going as far back as 1611 – including the old Brighton Cricket Club, representative of the county as a whole since the 1720s.

The club colours are traditionally blue and white – as are the Albion’s – and the shirt sponsors have been Palmer and Harvey since 2014.

In addition to the County Ground in Hove, the club also play matches around the county at Arundel, Eastbourne and

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Beneath the Surface

by Heidi Parks

This is a horrifying book.

Horrifying in as much as that it is totally believable.

Abigail Ryder is devastated when she gets home from school to discover that her family have gone. Vanished.

As if into thin air. She searches from room to room with an ever-increasing sense of bewilderment and dread. Her mother and her two young twin sisters seem to have packed up and gone, leaving no note, and no clue as to where they could have gone to. Nothing makes any sense, things are missing from the house and her sisters’ room is completely empty.

When she calls the police, they think that she’s trouble, and when her grandmother, Eleanor, tells her to forget them all and to move on with her life there seems to be no choice but to face the future, alone. Fourteen years later Abigail and Adam are in a secure and happy relationship, on the verge of parenthood, but the past comes back to haunt Abigail.

It seems that the only way she can move forward is to go back to the past and uncover the truth - and reveal the dreadful secrets that a mother has been hiding all these years.

This is a completely gripping page turner of a book that had me guessing and being proved wrong again and again. Heidi Parks will be appearing at The Bookish Supper Salon on June 15.

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Signed Albion shirts auctioned for charity BrightonandHoveAlbionfans are being given the chance to buy rare signed shirts to help fund disability football sessions across Sussex.

The Seagulls’ official charity, Albion in the Community (AITC), is the largest provider of disability sport opportunities in the area and holds more than 30 regular football sessions.

To raise funds for the charity, fans can bid on a string of match-issued Albion home shirts signed by the individual players.

They are the one-off Albion in the Community sponsored shirts used by the Seagulls for their home game with Cardiff City earlier in the season and players whose shirts are up for sale include Bruno, Kazenga Lua Lua, Lewis Dunk, Liam Rosenior, Sam Baldock and Uwe Hunemeier.

The online auction runs until June 22, bids start at £25, there are no reserves, and proceeds got to AITC. To find out more, visit: www. charitystars.com/foundation/ albion-in-the-community

written by Dan Tester @DJDanteBrighton Excerpts from the book Horsham.

Starved of success for the majority of their long history, Sussex won its firstever official County Championship title in 2003 – after a wait of 164 years – and subsequently became the dominant county of the decade, repeating the success in 2006 and 2007. The Sussex crest depicts a mythological, footless bird called the martlet, similar to the county’s coat of arms.

The club’s cricketers’ sweaters are adorned

by six of the birds while international players also have white trimming on their caps to signify their achievements.

Tuesday 10th June 1947 Jim Walker was born in Northwich, Cheshire. The midfielder was signed from Derby County but never lived up to his £25,000 price tag and left for Peterborough United in 1976.

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Beauty Gunk, shine and goo-free face cream Pretty Good Thinking with Sarah Morgan @sarah_morgan

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caught myself asking a brand for ‘hero’ products or award winners today, as if this were a given. It isn’t.

Then Jurlique announced their first Cosmetic Executive Women Beauty Award in the ‘Eco Beauty’ category for 2016.

This prestigious sustainability recognition was scored on science-based criteria to reduce environmentally harmful materials and practices, and increase the consideration of human rights. Jurlique’s ‘from seed to skin’ expertise has evolved over the past three decades, from growing and extracting potent ingredients on Adelaide hillsides, to crafting product formulations at their factory in South Australia.

You can find Jurlique in M&S beside another Australian brand on the shelves nearby.

I often struggle to find something moisture-rich enough for my dry skin but absorbent enough for my impatience when

trowelling on morning makeup.

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The cult beauty brand Alpha-H is behind ‘Protection Plus Daily’, my latest sunny goto. The case for daily sunscreen use is strong.

More than 80 per cent of skin ageing and damage is caused by everyday sun exposure throughout the year.

This goes far beyond the beach; in the UK, malignant melanoma is linked to international travel as well as the greater use of sunbeds.

It is the fifth most common cancer in England, according to a Mintel Report (Key Themes and Innovation in the Suncare Market, 2015).

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A common problem that can affect us all Goldie Khera, a Consultant General Surgeon who specialises in laparoscopic (key-hole) upper GI surgery, talks about hernias - a common problem which can affect us at any age.

What is a hernia?

Hernias are lumps commonly around your abdomen and groin areas caused by a weakness of muscles and protrusion of the body’s internal contents. Left to their own devices hernias can cause pain, aches, discomfort, get big and become unsightly.

In rare cases, they can also cause severe pain and strangulation of bowel if

Mr Goldie Khera, Consultant General Surgeon

it gets trapped into the hernia defect - requiring emergency surgery.

What should you do if you think you have a hernia?

If you notice any unusual lumps or bumps about your body then get in touch with a Doctor. Once a hernia has been diagnosed and other conditions excluded, then surgery needs to be considered.

Make an appointment with a Consultant Surgeon to discuss your options.

What’s your best treatment option?

Laparoscopic (also known as key-hole) surgery achieves safe day case surgery with low complications and very tiny 1cm scars. Laparoscopic surgery usually allows early return to daily activities and normal function.

Even though a general anaesthetic is required

for the surgery, it is also ideal for day case surgery - getting you back home as soon as possible.

Longer term recovery and a return to sports and daily activities is speedier following this type of surgery.

Early diagnosis is the key so get any lumps or bumps looked at by a surgeon as early treatment for hernias with laparoscopic surgery is always the best option!

Mr Goldie Khera, Consultant General Surgeon offers private consultations at The Montefiore Hospital, Hove. Mr Khera specialises in Laparoscopic (keyhole) Upper GI and weight loss surgery. To book an appointment, call 01273 828 148 or email montefioreinfo@ spirehealthcare.com.

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Graham Chainey The boy who never made it to Brighton

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e’re going to Brighton for the summer,” the Palestinian boy in Room 5 told me.

“Everything’s booked. I’m looking

forward to it.”

Room 5 in the Kuwait fever hospital held just the two of us. Exactly forty years have elapsed since I was in that room, but the journal I kept in May and June 1976, with plans of the hospital and descriptions of the various patients, doctors, and nurses, brings it all vividly back to me.

The plan of the main hepatitis ward, where I was first admitted, reveals I had a corner bed, with the others containing “big Kuwaiti”, “young Kuwaiti”, “cigaretteholder Yemeni”, a Lebanese, an Iranian, an Egyptian, and Hajji (“one-eyed old Bedu, unprepossessing; swollen liver, itches, bad case of hep; eats with hands, drinks straight from jug; prays regularly on scarlet prayermat at foot of my bed”).

When pipe-smoking Dr Samir (who happened to be the brother of one of my Egyptian work colleagues) did his rounds, he glanced at my notes then shouted “Remove this man to Room 5”. Room 5

The plan of Room 5, Kuwait fever hospital

turned out to be a private room previously occupied, I was told, by a high-ranking army officer.

After a day or two, Rashid arrived there too.

He had the illness worse than I did (my

bilirubin level was 6.4, his was 12), was “very yellow”, and was on dextrose drips.

His family and friends poured through that room, bringing gift-wrapped presents he was too weak to open, home cooking that made him vomit, flowers.

“An old orderly in a skull-cap attends assiduously to R (presumably for a consideration), putting his slippers straight, warming up his food, fetching a vomit-bowl etc. Two large tins of sweets/chocolates have so far changed hands in my presence.”

There is a drawing of the locust that got in the room, details of the games of noughts-and-crosses I played with a little Indian driver (I always lost) whose Kuwaiti employer owned 24 cars, and remarks on the barbers who shaved us (“they use the same razor and water in all the wards – typhoid, malaria, chicken-pox, hepatitis”).

In the cool of the evening, those of us well enough would assemble outside under the eucalyptus trees (“Fri night diwania, 15 of us sit in big circle on grass, story-telling etc”).

Everyone was kind to me – the Yemeni, for example, used to lend me his transistor so I could listen to the news in English.

Rashid never got to see Brighton. His condition worsened, he sank into a coma,

he died.

The prized new digital watch on his wrist, which he used to consult every five minutes, did not stop when he died.

The world for the rest of us did not stop – Aisha the flirtatious Egyptian nurse, Dr Samir puffing his pipe as he examined me, old Hajji’s veiled wife pulling her abaya over both their heads as she embraced him before leaving, the curious tin vase containing plastic flowers that was placed in the corridor during visiting hours, and on the radio today’s audiences of his highness, news from the Occupied Territories – but the world for him stopped there. He was just 16.

Abiit ad plures, in the words of Petronius – he is gone to the majority. Of all the hundreds of people I have known who have gone to the majority – and by now I know more people there than in this living world – he is the youngest.

And when, along the prom in the summer, on the lawns of Hove, I see Gulf Arabs in their abayas and dishdashas, and the boys chasing a ball across the grass, I still remember Rashid, who never knew the place, though I bring him here, belatedly, to be among them, after all.

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Meet the befriending volunteers Charity workers celebrate winning Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Bex Bastable

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A befriending charity in Brighton and Hove was handed a Queen’s Award for voluntary service last week for its work in alleviating loneliness in the city through its neighbourhood care scheme (NCS).

It also runs a cancer advocacy service, providing practical help and support to people living with cancer, and a Better Futures scheme which gives people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions, and mental health needs a chance to volunteer.

Its network of 240 volunteers is the largest in the city, from young students to 90-year-old women, and from well-known local celebrities to cancer survivors.

Impetus volunteers provide thousands of hours of their time a year to support vulnerable adults who are dealing with loneliness and isolation because of age, disability or poor mental or physical health.

Here are some of their stories.

Teenagers Nellie Mills and Lucy Cross were 14 and 15 when they started volunteering for NCS as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award, but they decided to carry on their visits after they had completed the programme. In January, the woman they visited died, and they now visit another woman in Kemptown. Nellie said: “It gives you an insight into someone else’s life and stops you thinking about yourself.”

Lucy said: “It opens your eyes to a completely different way of life and

teaches you compassion for other people.”

Sheila Manning is a former teacher who began volunteering in 2003. Sheila has worked with a number of clients, but her unique story has been her long-standing relationship with Stella Salmon, who turns 100 this August. Originally Sheila just provided social company to Stella, but this relationship developed over the years and has allowed Stella to venture out more. The pair have struck up a real friendship, starting with Sheila taking Stella on trips out to the shops and library together.

They have been seeing each other regularly since then and the relationship formed by the initial pairing of the two women has been hugely positive and made a significant impact on both their lives.

Guy Lloyd, a Juice FM presenter, visits an 87-yearold man in Hollingbury, who had become lonely since his wife died several years ago. He and the radio show host have become firm friends and Guy is currently arranging for the man he volunteers with to become part of a social club in the local area.

Guy said: “I really enjoy talking to someone who has lived a full life and it’s great that we both have a good relationship. I know he enjoys talking to me too, which makes me feel I’m making a difference to his life.”

Sheila Wood is a longserving volunteer who began volunteering following the death of her husband. Sheila visited her first client for six years following her move from sheltered housing to her care home. In the care home, she was one of Jacky’s

very few visitors and kept a sharp eye on the quality of her care. Sheila has recently been visiting a 92-year-old woman living in residential care.Shesaid:“It’sachallenge to enter a new person’s life but with a ‘let’s see what we both like and know’, it very quickly becomes a happy friendship.”

Comedian Zoe Lyons got to know about the NCS through a community awards in Brighton that she was asked to host. She was so impressed she decided to volunteer. For the past 10 months she has made weekly visits to a man in his mid-90s.

Zoesaid:“ThepersonIvisit is really quite remarkable, he is now housebound because of his age, he is in his mid 90s. Despite this he is still very capable and interested in the outside world. He was quite adventurous when he was younger and more able, and we have quite a few shared interests including skiing and travel.

He occasionally asks me to get him some things from the shops but mostly we just have a lovely chat once a week and last summer we hired a wheelchair and took a few spins down the promenade, a place he used to like to roller blade until at the age of 78 he decided to give it up!”

Zoe has also spent time volunteering in the Impetus office for the last four years doing database tasks that help the charity with monitoring and reporting the volunteers’ impact.

She said: “Being a volunteer has really made me consider the lives of those who struggle to do day to day things either through age, disability or mental health issues. There are so many people who are living

behind closed doors.”

Lorraine Fifer was originally involved with NCS as a scheme member, as she had been unwell. As she recovered she offered to volunteer in the office. For the last four years, Lorraine has played a pivotal behindthe-scenes role in NCS, inputting huge amounts of data including surveys,

volunteer quarterly reports and equalities forms. She said: “I really enjoy coming into the office. Over the years, I feel that I’ve become part of the team. It’s good to have something useful to do.”

David Huyton is a VAT advisor and provides his professional skills to Impetus on a pro bono basis. He works with the

charity’s finance manager and treasurer to ensure they are VAT compliant, they keep the taxman happy, and they can run their social business in the most efficient way.

He said: “I have had a very rewarding professional career which has provided me with a good life. However, I am conscious that there are others in our community

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who are less advantaged and need help. As such I feel that I should use the skills I have learned in my business career to give something back to the local community.

Impetus helps the less advantaged people in our community and by assisting Impetus I feel that I am helping them help others in the Brighton and Hove area.”

Bunty Bateman, 85, is a volunteer community navigator, supporting people to take up services and activities in the city.

Navigators find and give people the information they need and help them access the right services and groups.

Bunty has seen more than 100 clients since starting in October 2014, and even

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received a community service award from the Rotary Club of Brighton.

Sue Seymour volunteers as part of the Lay Assessors Scheme (LAS), interviewing people who receive home care to assess their satisfaction with the service. Sue visits people who receive home care in Brighton and Hove and talks to them in their

own homes about the home care they receive on a day to day basis. The work plays an important part in the lives of the people they help and the quality of care home provision across the city.

Ian Snoxell is volunteer receptionist for Impetus. He is responsible for answering the door and welcoming visitors, helping with mail

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outs and franking, and other office tasks such as shredding.

He said: “I came here to find voluntary work experience.

I’d been volunteering in a shop before, but it was very boring and I wanted to get some office experience.

When Impetus said there was a volunteer receptionist role available, I thought I’d have

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a go at it. I’m much happier here than I as before. Next year is a special year for me – my 10th anniversary!”

Jason, 26, was supported

by Impetus’ Better Futures service to get started in the role of front of house volunteer at the visual arts organisation and art gallery Fabrica. Jason found meeting new people difficult, as he has an autistic spectrum disorder, but he was able to share knowledge about the art exhibitions with groups of visitors and was praised for his warm and positive impression.

As well as developing confidence within the role, his social confidence has grown.

Elin Karlsson, Fabrica volunteer coordinator, said: “It really seems like volunteering here has been a positive experience for Jason and he is a leading example for other volunteers on how to interact with the public, talking to groups and adapting to new situations.”

Judith Pearson volunteers for the cancer advocacy service, providing support to older people who are affected by cancer in association with Macmillan. With one client, Judith was assisting with a number of key aspects of their recovery and realised that the client had no central heating. Judith liaised with the housing association and was able to secure all the relevant funding and paperwork to install vital heating in this person’s home in time for winter. Judith herself was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and so has been through all of the things the clients are struggling with. Her ability to empathise with the clients and provide personal support has been essential for some of the clients she has worked with.

To find out more about Impetus, or to join the volunteeing team, visit: www. bh-impetus.org

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YoungAchiever(agelimit28)SponsoredbyUniversityofSussex By a young age, some people in business have made an indelible mark in their company or in their trade on a national scale. The winner will be someone who can demonstrate exceptional achievement or performance within their industry.

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A not-for- profit, ethical savings and loans co-operative which has helped many fledgling companies across the county is the latest organisation to support the Brighton and Hove Independent Business Awards 2016.

East Sussex Credit Union (ESCU) is , appropriately, sponsoring the Start-Up category ofthe awards,which take place later this month.

Nikki Plummer, Business Development Manager for ESCU, said: “If you are looking to start-up a business or give your small business a boost with a loan – then talk to us.

“We offer loans to all kinds of businesses and we will loan topeoplewithpoor credithistories who may be refused loans elsewhere – but you would need to prove you can afford the repayments.

Baron Estates, headline sponsor of the Brighton and Hove Independent Business Awards.

“We run a very successful Payroll Deduction Scheme with many employers in East

Sussex including Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council, Brighton &HoveBuses,University ofBrighton,EastSussexFire& Rescue, and many more.

“This scheme helps members to save and repay loans with us through their payroll so any payments are made at source, and very soon members don’t even notice the deductions.” To find out more about the East Sussex Credit Union visit www.eastsussexcu.org.ukorcall 01273234858.

The Brighton and Hove Independent Business Awards ceremonywilltakeplaceatthe Bupa Lounge, Amex Stadium on June 17. The awards are sponsored by Baron Estates and celebrate business excellence within the circulation of the Brighton & Hove Independent newspaper.

Winners short-listed for Business Awards The Brighton & Hove Independent Business Awards are a JP South Events Johnston Publishing regional award ceremony, all winners from this event are automatically shortlisted into the JP South Business Awards held in

September at the Grand Hotel Brighton, along with winners from the following regional awards: The Portsmouth News Business Excellence Awards The Observer & Gazette Business Awards

Adur & Worthing Business Awards Business Matters Annual Business Awards Wealden & Lewis Business Awards 1066 Business Awards Eastbourne Business Awards

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Small businesses pack a big punch Small Business (up to 10)

Exceptional performance, growth and market leadership in companies with less than 10 employees is what this award is all about.

The HR Dept. Brighton and Eastbourne goes the extra mile for customers, providing a full package under one roof.

Gaining an in-depth knowledge of the individual business and culture, The HR Dept. tailors its advice accordingly, allowing clients to use HR and employment law in a practical way.

Helping clients with everything from stopping smoking to conquering fears and phobias, Julie James Hypnotherapy aims to change people’s lives.

Julie has studied hypnosis, hypnotherapy and psychotherapy at the worldrenowned Merjon School of Hypnosis in London and is a fully-accredited member of the Hypnotherapy Association.

Murray Media is the team behind Brighton’s Big Screen – the biggest seafront cinema in the UK. A full service, marketing, communications and public relations agency, it works with Brighton-based companies wherever possible and has educationalpartnershipswith the University of Brighton and Brighton College, giving students the opportunity to showcase work.

Delivering marketing and business development solutions, in the last 12 months Consortium Business Solutions has grown from operating from a small office in Worthing to gaining a new Brighton base through the Entrepreneurial Spark scheme.

Its core values centre on helping clients help themselves, supporting the local community and providing the highest-quality expertise through flexible working.

Ten2Two was set up by two busy mums who wanted to combine a fulfilling career with family life, professionals

Winners celebrate at our sister papers’ award night

back into work following a career break.

It focuses on part-time professionals, rich talent and affordable cost and taps into the growing trend for flexible working, finding talented part time and flexible candidates to help fulfil business needs.

A search marketing agency based in Hove, Search Seven has a community ethos which makes it stand out from the crowd and works with local, national and international brands to improve their online exposure on search engines.

Set up as an ethical business, from day one it pledged to put seven per cent of its profits each year back into the community and towards charities.

First Payments aims to bring quality service and products to ensure customers

are processing credit and debit card payments securely, quickly and at low cost.

Its focus is on offering the best deal, with maximum savings while also providing the customer with the perfect solution and product.

At Turn Beautiful the aim is to offer the highest quality treatments, independent advice and service at the best possible price.

Independently owned by beautician and Dermalogica Skin Care expert Jennifer Turner, over the last five years the salon has built up a team of knowledgeable senior therapists in a relaxed, friendly, private environment.

Formed in 2015 by Plumpton College wine business graduate Louise Oliver and investor Anna Lowe, Seven Cellars is an independent wine merchant and tap room.

Operating close to Seven Dials, it houses an eclectic range from all over the globe, independently sourced and encompassing everything from everyday offerings to fine wines.

Ten2Two Sussex nominated for Best Start Up and Best Small Business, contact Emma Cleary on emma@ten2two.org to find out how we can help you source local, professional talent on a flexible, part time basis

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Team spirit is key to their success Medium business (11-49) Sponsored by Juice 107.2 www.juicebrighton.com

We are looking for a medium business which competes with the big boys in every way – except size. Our winner will need to demonstrate a good team spirit among the employees and a strong customer service ethos.

Founded in 2012, Pier Recruitment is a bespoke recruitment agency focusing on bringing excellent customer service back to the sector.

The founders wanted to open a ‘friendly approachable’ agency, priding themselves on delivering high-calibre clients, using their local market knowledge.

Pierhasgonefromstrengthto-strength, expanding from a team of three to 15 in just under four years.

Having reallocated the use of a spare bedroom, managing director Norman Mayhew established the Sussex Sign Company on January 1, 1995, with his father and motherin-law.

In 2016, it continues to push boundaries, with turnover in excess of £1.2m and a reputation built upon design and signage credentials.

It has two manufacturing and sales facilities, employing 23 team members, a fleet of six vehicles and the provision of products and or services to more than 4,000 clients.

In three short years, the Bluebird Tea Co has gone from two people and a dog packing tea in a bedroom to shops in Brighton and Tunbridge Wells, with another set to open in Bristol, a warehouse in Hove and a team of around 30 people (and two dogs).

The company’s aim is simple – it wants every single person it encounters to walk away happy with their Bluebird experience.

With expert tea mixologists hand-crafting flavourful tea blends, the company has doubled in size in the last 12 months, supplying amazing restaurants, taking its experience to famous festivals like Glastonbury, won the UK Chai Championships

All our short-listed medium businesses rely on teamwork to succeed

and shipped to more than 60 countries across the world.

A specialist executive search firm offering the full spectrum of services to the senior end of the life sciences market, Stelfox maintains the fundamental values of a boutique search firm while

continuously growing the business.

In 2010, it launched a 10year strategy to expand and develop its business with a key target being international growth and has now launched its first overseas office in Switzerland.

Stelfox’s core value is empowering development and this is reflected in its team, clients, company and professionals it works with.

Despite the very limited budget and experience of its founders, the Curry Leaf Café has established itself

as one of the most exciting and popular dining brands in the city. From its humble beginnings, it has gone on to encompass three sites in the city, built a workforce of 37, earned numerous awards, and undertaken a large number of charitable enterprises to help the community it has built its foundations in.

Placing Indian street food and craft beer at its heart, it presents top-quality cooking in a casual, modern environment tailor-made to contemporary diners’ preferences.

Harrison James provides a full consultation services, encompassing advice, design, visualisation, construction and maintenance of bespoke, hand-crafted garden buildings.

In the last 12 months, it has doubled on site capacity and prominently featured at the Ideal Home Show, London.

Service is focused on building relationships with each individual customer to gain an understanding of how its products can help lifestyle improvements.

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Exceeding customer expectations Large Business (50+ employees)

Sponsored by Worthing Coaches www.worthing-coaches.co.uk

Our judges are looking for a winner with a well-deserved excellent reputation in the community, a record of innovative measures to enhance employee relations and a commitment to never fail to deliver on its promises to meet – and exceed – customer expectations.

The first finalist in this category is TTMC. A trusted provider of high quality, unscripted B2B telemarketing and telesales services to the world’s leading organisations, the telemarketing company is based right here in Brighton.

Operating since 1990, the company specialises in voice-based outbound demand creation and lead generation with more than 200 seats across its dedicated telemarketing, research and inbound divisions.

TTMC prides itself on training, acting as an accredited centre for both the ISMM Telesales award and the MRS AITS and IQCS awards. All agents receive a structured coaching program

These awards are all about celebrating our wonderful city

leading to externally audited awards under industry best practice schemes. All the agents develop their skills to nationally recognised standards.

TTMC has held Investors in People accreditation since 2001. Agents are motivated by regular progression bonus and incentive schemes rewarding quality of delivery.

Our second finalist is Paxton Access Ltd, a leading manufacturer and designer of electronic security systems controlling people’s access through doors in a building.

With its head office in Brighton, Paxton has more than 30 years’ experience in the security industry. Despite employing 300 people and exporting to more than 60

Our sister titles have been holding successful awards for years

countries, it has stayed true to its roots and invested in local people.

As well as the office in Brighton, it also manufactures at a facility in Eastbourne and has offices in 12 locations in the UK, USA, France, Germany, South Africa, UAE and Benelux.

From its inception in 1985, Paxton has aimed for

engineering excellence, designing and manufacturing intelligent and innovative products that make life easier for customers.

In the past three years, turnover has risen by more than 65 per cent, growing by £13m. The company’s success is down to its core values of ‘simplicity and quality’ placing this at the heart of everything

it does to enhance customers’ experience.

In 2014, through its ongoing charity work, Paxton raised £24,474 for a number of good causes.

These included helping out at the Martlets Hospice, the Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare near Lewes, and Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice.

Commitment and market leaders Training and Development

Training and employee development are the keys to business success so the winner of this category will have demonstrated a real commitment to developing and motivating their workforce.

Brighton Housing Trust’s Learning & Development Team (BHT Training) has been providing essential training to the voluntary sector for more than 10 years.

With a reputation, both as a leading provider of community training and as an employer of choice, BHT Training provides a comprehensive and highly practicaltrainingprogramme.

At Consortium Business Solutions the team helps local businesses to thrive through networking events, mentoring and training programmes.

Director Lara Squires motivates her team to continue to drive the business forward and focus on the core value of helping clients help themselves.

At Always Possible focuses on training and development

Brighton has a host of popular visitor attractions and, right, Lynne Edwards from Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure sponsor Portfolio

that is ‘effective, memorable and dynamic’.

It believes in enabling values-led organisations to be sustainable, resilient, imaginative and healthy by helping to tell their story and fill the strategic planning around creative engagement, skills development and learning.

Hove College has

successfully prepared thousands of individuals for rewarding careers in both the UK and worldwide in as little as six months.

It provides higher education courses in web design, internet marketing, creative communications, motion graphics and film and digital design to name but a few.

Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure

Sponsored by Portfolio www.portfoliopublications.co.uk

Our judges are looking for a business that has demonstrated exceptional financial returns, innovation, strong growth and market leadership in the field of tourism, leisure or hospitality.

The Float Spa is fast becoming one of the ‘premier’ health and wellbeing centres in Brighton and Hove offering flotation, yoga and therapies under one roof.

It works in partnership with a range of health and wellbeing practitioners to offer treatments and therapies and also runs exciting weekend workshops

including the popular Shake tension release workshop.

Lagoon Watersports at Hove Lagoon aims to get everyone as passionate and involved in watersports as possible.

Everyone is welcome to have a go, whether they want to train to competitive level or just take part for the enjoyment.

In an effort to get more children involved in sports, the centre also works closely with schools in the area, offering everything from oneoff sessions to linking with subjects.

The Volks Railway on Brighton seafront was officially opened on August 4, 1883, however this short demonstration line was very different to today’s popular attraction.

Over the years changes have taken place with extensions in 1884 and 1901 and moving the terminuses at Black Rock and the aquarium. The outbreak of the Second World War saw the line closed and virtually wrecked by neglect but in 1948 it was reopened and has been under local authority control ever since. Now it runs every summer delighting visitors and residents alike.

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Awards

Determination and drive to succeed Start-up Business

Sponsored by East Sussex Credit Union Ltd www.eastsussexcu.org.uk

For this award our judges are looking for a winner with determination, drive and passion to start and grow a successful business during tough financial times. The winner will also demonstrate their vision to succeed and overcome many obstacles along the way.

Bishop Sullivan Lettings aims to provide value for money, modern, transparent letting services to landlords and tenants.

A ‘hybrid agency’ its website, launched in August, 2015, provides free information to the public, it has a growing portfolio of let and managed properties and, because Bishop Sullivan doesn’t have a shop window, its low overheads mean it can offer value for money without compromising on standards.

Specialising only in hair removal, The Wax and Thread Company is the brainchild of company director Faith Suwanprathet.

By catering to its niche, it aims to stand out from the

crowd and provide the best results and it seems to be paying off with steady growth and positive feedback over the past 12 months.

Its core value is to provide excellent service with realistic great results.

Opened in February, 2015, The Float Spa is fast becoming a premier health and wellbeing centre, with more than 3,000 customers and dramatically growing staff numbers, partners and therapies available.

Offering flotation, yoga and therapies, more than £50,000 has already been invested back into the business,

including building a new therapy room and completely noise-proofing the spa.

Sitting in a niche between larger high street agencies and the headhunting community Ten2Two finds talented part time and flexible candidates to help fulfil business needs.

It helps clients look at alternatives to full-time staff that work better for the business.

Sixty-five per cent of its members do not register with any other resourcing company, meaning it can offer a huge pool of talent no other businesses can tap into.

At Nature Shop the

ambition is to encourage people to get active and get outdoors no matter what the weather by selling ‘top quality’ gear from great reputable brands.

This small, family-owned, independent retailer prides itself on giving traditional, excellent, personal customer service to its treasured customers.

It believes the small things really do matter and if everyone does their share, no matter how big or small, we are all contributing to making a difference and creating a better future for generations to come.

Founded in 2015 by Giles Gailer,AccountManagement has grown rapidly in turnover and employees, hiring local people to provide a flexible sales support service.

It provides telemarketing, business development managers and account managers on a flexible, payas-you go basis, working remotely or on site to give businesses operational sales support.

Since officially launching in 2015, Anna L Designs has become a go-to location for Laura Ashley designs and allround style advice.

Founded by former Miss Malaysia Anna Lin, the business focuses on honesty and ensuring customers are happy with the quality and price of products. Anna believes every home deserves the best comfort and quality of furnishings, with a huge selection of styles on offer.

With a vision for a new type of consultancy and critical support agency for social entrepreneurs and public sector leaders, Always Possible started with £15 in a business account and

by month 10 had turned over £50,000 and secured an additional £25,000 in investment and grants.

The company delivers projects, coaches executive leaders,designsnewproducts, works on strategy and supports good organisations to be brilliant.

Always Possible works across education, the arts, socialbusinessandthecharity sector as an objective set of eyes to spot solutions that might otherwise be missed.

In under two years Jody Raynsford Copywriters has cultivated a company ripe for attracting top marketing talent to Brighton, helped put the city on the map to a global marketing audience and propelled businesses with ‘disruptive ideas’ to a place where they can make a real dent in their industries.

It produces copy and written content woven with carefully researched messages to touch each client’s audience meaningfully and authentically.

JDR consistently returns boosted leads, sales and customer ratings for clients.

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Innovation and market leadership Manufacturing & Construction Sponsored by DBR www.dbrlimited.com

We’re looking for a company which has demonstrated exceptional financial returns, innovation, strong growth and market leadership.

At The Bluebird Tea Co. the whole team is committed to creating award-winning blends. Their blends offer the whole experience – they look great, smell great and deliver on taste, meaning no more fruit teas which taste like dish water.

The team’s focus on experience has gained Bluebird famous fans from Prince Charles to Zoella as well as support from some of Brighton’s top restaurants including 64 Degrees, Food For Friends, The Chilli Pickle as well as masses of devoted Teabirds – the company’s loyal fans and friends.

From starting off in a bedroom, it now has stores in Brighton and Tunbridge Wells, with another set to open in Bristol, and a warehouse in Hove.

The Bluebird Tea Co. is also

online, selling all over the world, and is in the process of developing a ground-breaking new website to take its personal in-store experience to customers’ homes.

At The Sussex Sign Company the whole team

is committed to providing a complete design and signage service from project conception to completion.

Last year signified a great milestone for the company as it celebrated 20 years of creating branding and signage

for a wide and varied portfolio of clients.

It is proud to invest time and money into actively engaging in community development, whether locally or globally, to best support action by local people, including volunteers,

community organisations ad social enterprise with a donation that is of most benefit to them.

The Sussex Sign Company has worked with Brighton Fashion Week, the RNLI, the University of Sussex, Martlets

Hospice, the University of Brighton and Active Sussex to name but a few.

Starting four years ago in a disused shed at a local garden, Harrison James has developed and maintained a full in-house manufacturing process, now occupying a fully-functioning workshop with full-time dedicated staff.

It provides a full consultation service, encompassing advice, design, visualisation, construction and maintenance of bespoke, hand-crafted garden buildings.

During the last 12 months the company has doubled on site capacity, added to the salesteam,createdadedicated accounts department, been prominently featured at the Ideal Home Show in London and opened a second show location in Windsor to supplement the head office.

Having created valuable and long-lasting relationships with suppliers, Harrison James has confidence in the long-term quality and providence of sustainable raw materials.

Putting customers at the forefront Customer Service

Sponsored by Regis Removals of Brighton www.regisremovals.co.uk

This award celebrates those who exceed expectations in their service.

Customer service is an essential part of any successful business and this award will recognise a company, individual or team for outstanding achievement.

Bishop Sullivan Lettings was set up to provide fair and consistent customer service, with reasonable fees and where everything is done by the book.

Its focus is on providing a modern and reliable service which cuts down on the impact on tenants’ and landlords’ valuable time.

It welcomes regulation, going beyond the minimum requirement to ensure there are no hidden terms for its clients.

At Pier Recruitment every employee is dedicated to providing outstanding customer service to both candidates and clients alike.

It consistently receives outstanding feedback, proven by numerous evaluation of service forms, testimonials and online feedback on both social media and Google+.

For clients’ peace of mind, Pier has service level agreements in place to ensure excellent service at all times.

Nature Shop believes customer service is one of its strongest qualities and, being a small company, it is vital to keep it as one of its top priorities.

From its beginnings it said ‘excellent, traditional and personal customer service’ was how it was going to trade and over two years it hasn’t altered from that message.

In a ‘busy and unconnected time that we live in’, Nature Shop feels it is important to consistently be helpful, friendly, unhurried and ensure it goes that extra mile for customers.

Fresh produce company Fin and Farm follows a philosophy of putting customers first to create a person-centric business model.

It works in two ways – a website for ease of ordering for domestic customers and a tailored commercial side to fit in with restaurants and other commercial kitchens.

The team also phones customers twice a week for their orders as they know chefs are busy and like to discuss new produce.

Sponsored by Regis Removals

Key to the commitment to customer service at Paxton is its significant investment in the post-sales support of its customers, providing technical support from purchase to post-installation and backed up by an ultimate returns policy, five-year warranty and streamlined replacement process.

Customer feedback is published live and unedited

on its website for all to see.

Search Seven aims to deliver fantastic customer service to its clients and partners as well as adding superb value to the local community.

With a ‘great’ client retention rate and longstanding client base this company takes pride in building strong relationships that last to ensure they are

giventhe bestservicepossible.

Despite being in business for 25 years, Bonett’s Estate Agents is continually reappraising its customer service.

As well as this continual assessment, the company recently decided to undergo a rigorous external audit of its service to ensure what it does now and in the future is what the public wants and needs and it says people have already noticed the difference.

The team at Flowers Unlimited say great service means understanding what the customers really want from them and the company has invested a great deal of time and energy developing this understanding so it can reflect it in every step of its service.

Its aim is to deliver a customer experience so good that customers actively tell their friends and family about it. This ‘customer first approach’ has not only allowed Flowers Unlimited to grow through an ‘incredible’ number of repeat and referral business – it has also become a model for other florists.

For any business, without customers there is no business which is why First Payment says it treats each of

its customers as if they are the only one.

This personalised approach, including business advice, installation and explanation, is already leading to business founder Karen Fabrizi getting referrals from happy customers.

At Turn Beautiful the team are proud of the fact that many of the clients liken having a treatment at its Brighton salon to visiting a friend.

Its five-star customer testimonials pay tribute to the friendly staff and excellent results, as well as founder Jennifer Turner for starting her own business from scratch. Others complement the professionalism, politeness and knowledge of Jennifer and her team.

As well as offering wine from all over the globe, Seven Cellars offers customers a rotating selection of four to five draught beers and ciders fresh from cask or keg available to take away by the pint.

From its location close to Seven Dials, it hosts monthly in-store tasting events and meet the wine maker evening, typically focusing on a specific production region, grape or wine style, to enhance the customer experience.

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Celebrating the city’s tastiest treats Place to Eat or Drink Sponsored by Gusto Wines www.gustowines.co.uk

We all know our city has amazing restaurants and takeaways and in this category we’re looking for a worthy eatery providing great customer service from a quality environment and, of course, consistently fine food.

A truly independently run business, Indian Summer has a reputation for offering the highest quality and consistency.

Known for its Indian cuisine with a difference, the restaurant recently moved to a much larger premises in Brighton to cope with demand and plans for further growth will allow it to push boundaries further.

As well as running regular fund-raising events, Indian Summer promoted Brighton as the UK Curry Capital – despite not serving ‘curry’ – and is award winning, being named Best Indian Restaurant (South Coast) at the prestigious Asian Curry Awards.

Since launching in July, 2015, Skyfall has established itself as a versatile and popular restaurant, live music lounge and private event space in the heart of Hove.

Working with local suppliers, head chef Sam Ireland creates a seasonable, sustainable, locally-sourced menu focusing on modern British and European cuisine.

Owner Jordan Tsar opted for a unique contemporary and industrial look for the venue – stylish yet relaxed, high specification, yet welcoming – and provides free Wifi and power/USB points for every table.

With three sites in Brighton, including a kiosk at the railway station launched in January, The Curry Leaf Café offers top-quality, locally sourced, seasonal ingredients combined with South Indian Spices.

A ‘new concept’ in casual dining, it places Indian street food and craft beer at its heart to present top-quality cooking in an environment tailor-made to contemporary diners’ preferences.

Gusto Wines is sponsoring Place to Eat or Drink

As well as a standalone lunch menu, the bespoke Indian spiced brunch menu has proved a hit with diners and the café is already winning awards, including Best Newcomer, South Coast, in the 2015 Asian Curry Awards.

A community café in the heart of the city, The Helm, has undergone significant refurbishment and renovation over the past three years to ensure customers get the best experience possible.

Serving tea, coffee and cakes, this café has a

communityaimtoensurefood is fairly priced and is building relationships around quality food rather than achieving the highest profit margin by using cheap ingredients and high prices.

Aswellasprovidingcatering for events held in the city,

this light and contemporary venue also runs a lunch club for over 60s, works with volunteers, runs community art exhibitions, uses food from the community garden and lends space for a monthly drop-in for the homeless.

In just over a year, The Salt Room has gained an impressive reputation as a renowned seafood restaurant, including coming in the top 40 in the National Best Restaurants Awards 2015.

Dedicated to the highest sustainability standards, the restaurant is committed to award-winning supplier MCB Seafoods and is fearless in what it serves – always moving away from the generic to introduce customers to ‘new and extraordinary’ seafood experiences.

It is also planning to publish The Salt Room’s guide to fish, giving advice to the public about buying, preparing and cooking sustainable fish, as well developing relationships with fishermen along the coast and improving customers’ perceptions of alternative seafood.

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Care for staff and the environment Employer of the Year

The judges are looking for a business with great staff relations, good staff retention, excellent training and which cares for its employees.

Staff at St John’s College are truly engaged with its core value of transforming lives because they are given opportunities to contribute and challenge how the service is provided.

The team came up with their own employee values in 2013 which included a good sense of humour, being considerate, having team spirit, patience and energy.

At Rickshaw Travel it is all about putting people first and recognising a truly engaged team needs to feel valued, heard by the management team and truly part of the success of the business.

The company has excellent staff retention of 90 per cent and great staff relations with 60 per cent of employees friends with the owners outside of work.

Working closely as a team is key to success at Stelfox

which holds and attends extensive training courses and shares ideas in an ‘open and constructive’ way.

To increase the mental wellbeing of the team, Stelfox recently exercised a break clause in its lease and moved to a roof top office with a private garden which is now used for meetings and extensive brainstorming sessions.

At the end of 2015, its most successful year to date, The Big Lemon decided its focus on 2016 would be making the company the best place to work for staff, building on its existing family culture.

Toachievethisthecompany is focusing on five key areas: fair pay and benefits, a focus on staff wellbeing, regular socials and extra-curricular activities, empowerment in decision making, and ‘making dreams come true’ by putting 10 per cent of profits aside for a Staff Fund.

OptaNet encourages staff to attend overseas events the company are involved in. All employees receive biannual bonuses and are invited on

An example of the work by Harrison James, sponsor of the Green Business category

annual company retreats.

The company value ‘ownership and accountability’ provides staff with the satisfaction of seeing projects through to completion. OptaNet has an enviable 100 per cent staff retention rate.

Green Business

Sponsored by Harrison James contemporarygardenrooms.com

This award is aimed at any business or organisation, irrespective of its size or sector which demonstrates environmental awareness and responsibility.

Sustainability is at the heart of everything Rickshaw Travel does from office management to the suppliers it works with. Since the end of 2013, staff have voluntarily been taking on more responsibility to implement a more sustainable model.

At NatureShopbeing green and environmentally aware is one of the main driving forces of the business.

Everything from the brands stocked to the services used are carefully considered to ensure they adhere to its social and environmental goals.

Fin and Farm uses local produce to reduce its carbon footprint as low as possible and collecting from farms to deliver straight to the kitchen door means no fridges or warehousing needing fossil fuels.

Buying produce for customers to order not only means it is fresh but there is also no wastage.

The Big Lemon wants to provide clean, affordable, energy-efficient transport negating the use of fossil fuels instead using renewable energy.

The company aims to be a template for industrywide change and believes in sharing knowledge and best practice to help everyone learn and create a ‘better, more sustainable’ world.

Effort and determination is the key Employee/Team of the Year & Business Personality of the Year

In the Employee/Team of the Year category our judges are looking for an exceptional individual or team whose efforts and determination have made an exceptional contribution to their business.

When Lynne Edwards started Portfolio magazine she brought together a dedicated group of freelance writers who have now formed a close-knit team despite not sharing an office.

They have supported her professionally and personally, and in her own words: “I owe all these talented and committed associates a huge debt of gratitude.”

The office at Pier Recruitment is very openplan allowing everyone to chat and ‘bounce off each other’s energy’ and the team are all good friends, often spending time together outside of normal office hours.

The company has recently been named the Perkbox ‘happiest team’ out of more than 65 entries and believes a happy team results in high staff morale, increased productivity and increased creativity.

The Observer and Gazette business awards have been successfully running for years

In the past three years the team at Stelfox has taken their market by storm, far exceeding market growth and client expectations and always striving to be better.

“Any company is only as good as the team within it and our market leading results have been made possible by the amazing team here at Stelfox,” said nominator Steve Kerassitis.

The team at the Curry Leaf Cafe has helped build it into one of the biggest success

stories in the Brighton & Hove food and drink scene.

From humble beginnings as two guys with a bank loan and a draft menu it has gone on to encompass three sites, each with a unique offering, in the city and now has a workforce of 37 people.

In our Business Personality category the judges are looking for outstanding individuals with larger-than life personalities who show drive, commitment and enthusiasm and never settle

for second best.

GlenysChatterley from the Effective Business Network believes in getting out and talking to people – as she says you don’t win any new customers by hiding behind a tree in the corner.

Having taken over in 2012, she has grown EBN from six small groups in central Essex to a thriving network in five counties and it is still growing now.

Adventurer Neil Laughton of Laughton and Co Ltd has

climbed Mount Everest and is the entrepreneur who founded Brighton City Airways, Office Projects Ltd and Footprint Furniture Ltd. As well as working with internationalclientsincluding Virgin Atlantic, he offers free advice to start-up companies and free motivational talks to businesses, schools and charities, including Chestnut Tree House.

Former Miss Malaysia Anna Lin started off as an air hostessandisnowthefounder

of Anna L Designs, stocking Laura Ashley products and offering style advice.

She believes every home deserves the very best comfort of home furnishings and promotes good quality at reasonable prices at her Hovebased store.

Always Possible founder Richard Freeman started out on his own for six months with two young children and no savings or investment – just his vision for a new type of consultancy and critical support agency.

By month 10, Always Possible had turned over £50,000, secured an additional £25,000 in investment and grants, had around 20 clients around the UK and was employing three additional staff.

Turn Beautiful owner Jennifer Turner started her career as a football coach working at Macclesfield Town FC but soon found her true passion in massage, nails and the beauty industry and began working in respected spas.

Five years ago she established her own salon in the Brighton Lanes and since then Jennifer has built up a team of knowledgeable senior therapists and gained a reputation for her dedication and knowledge.

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Getting creative and innovative...

Innovation

Thewinnerofthiscategorywill demonstrate an exceptional ability to think outside the box, whether it is discovering better ways to work, a groundbreaking product or showing outstanding marketing abilities.

Having held directorships on other publications, in the past two years Lynne Edwards founded her own luxury, free monthly magazine Portfolio covering property, interiors, business and highlights in the city.

The magazine sought to be innovative, seeking a niche in an already crowded market by asking customers to reinvent the way they showcased themselves and their properties.

Clive Bonny of Strategic Management Partnerships employed Lewis Poku on an internship from Sussex University to support his innovation projects and Lewis has continued to be mentored

by Clive as he creates his own business.

“Clive’s innovation mentoring gave me the skills and confidence to set up my own new business,” said Lewis in his nomination.

Jane Busby has brought Fashion Clash Mob events to the city and worked with partners to put on fashion shows highlighting local shops and businesses and drawing huge crowds.

As a stylist, personal

shopper and choreographer she uses her ‘outside the box’ skills to benefit residents and businesses.

Go-experience has been nominatedforitsGOpopvideo product – the only company in the UK to deliver this type of product at this level.

It brings together the best of the entertainment industry, including choreographers, filmmakers and editors, to

deliver pop video party events to groups nationwide.

Innovative food and drink is key to the success of Curry Leaf – one of the first licensed Indian restaurants in Brighton to embrace the street food culture.

It is currently collaborating with Bison Beer on its own India Pale Ale brewed with curry leaves – something it believes is a world first.

Award-winning community interest company, The Big Lemon was launched to pioneer communityfocussed, sustainable public transported. It has always been about trying new things and harnessing pioneer spirit and was the first in the UK to run its entire fleet on biodiesel from waste cooking oil.

Brighton and Hove’s full service ISP is making waves in the telecoms industry. In parallel to OptaNet’s more traditional services, they have successfully identified and addressed issues building developers have with antiquated methods of internet provision.

Developments now benefit from active connections prior to tenants moving in.

Set up by University of Brighton graduate Paula Fash, Big Booth Boutique puts a new spin on the photobooth market.

Rather than an automated photobooth, she created a pop-up photo studio complete with themed backdrops, studio lighting and a professional photographer.

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Our judges are looking for strong growth, an innovative approach to customer and employee relations and creativity to enhance sales.

Since launching earlier this year, Seven Cellars has expanded its wine portfolio, championed Sussex produce, expanded its popular Tap Room, held monthly in store tastings and recently started running a pop-up wine bar from the store.

FinandFarmdelivers fresh produce straight from farms to homes and businesses in Brighton and Hove, giving customers diversity and choice at accessible prices and this year it has seen business growing by around 50 per cent.

At Flowers Unlimited the emphasis is on getting to know what the customer really wants and developing a deep level of understanding which can be reflected in every step of its carefully refined service to offer truly ‘customer first’ approach to floristry.

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For those who give something back Outstanding Contribution to the Community

Sponsored by The Best of Brighton and Hove

Many firms consider it important to contribute to their local supporters through charity work and helping schools, colleges and community groups. This award aims to recognise those who have taken the time to give something back.

Off The Fence has been providing life-saving services for almost 20 years in Brighton and Hove by tackling social poverty.

It has found long-term accommodation for people who were previously homeless, vulnerable women have received support in times of need and its schools team has supported thousands of young people facing issues such as isolation, abuse, and bereavement.

Since being founded in 1997, its work has grown in profile within the community, it has been nominated for a Queen’s Award and for the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award.

Sea PR was set up in 2012 with a distinct

mission to provide a service which charities and social enterprises could use to help communicate their important message out into the wider domain.

It has worked tirelessly to make a difference to the

community and ensure local organisations receive recognition for their impact.

It has promoted more than 30 keyorganisations in the city from charities to energy cooperatives and ethical startups to established groups.

Fugu PR is dedicated to supporting third-sector organisations that would otherwise not have the budget for public relations or communications support.

Its support is of particular value to charities and

organisations looking to drive donations.

Having worked with digital businesses across the UK the team also strives to support and showcase the local digital scene and enjoys playing a key role in developing the

reputation of the Brighton Digital Festival.

Community is one of Brighthelm’s key values – it is in its mission statement and all staff receive an induction on community values.

Based right in the heart of Brighton, it has a pre-school, café, community garden and chapel on site and supports Community Christmas and homeless drop-in events at the café. Some of its achievements include becoming the first official Pesticide-Free site in Brighton and installing the first chalk bank in the city centre.

Heroes Run is a Brightonborn superhero-themed family fun run and the main fund-raising event for Pass It On Africa.

Since 2010, a team of four dedicated volunteers have worked tirelessly to elevate the race to the success it is today – evolving from buying shoes to building and supporting schools in four African countries and a few thousands pounds raised has turned into more than half-amillion.

Achievements to be shouted about Lifetime Achievement

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This award will go to an individual who, in the opinion of the judges, has demonstrated an unrivalled record of achievement for many years, showing outstanding performance within their industry, a commitment towards their staff and who demands – and delivers – exceptional customer service.

Andy Winter, chief executive at Brighton Housing Trust, has dedicated his life to homelessness during the 31 years he has been with the organisation, challenging discrimination and fighting for the rights of people less fortunate than himself.

Given the ‘desperate housing situation’ in Brighton and Hove, imaginative solutions are required and Andy has risen to the challenge, pioneering new approaches to tackle the city’s housing crisis.

In partnership with QED Property, BHT transformed 36 shipping containers into homes for homeless men and women.

Even before becoming chief executive, Andy was

developinginnovativeservices aimed at addressing some of the city’s most complex issues, including BHT’s Addiction Services which helps people with a history of drug and alcohol dependency become and remain alcohol and drug free.

Under his leadership, BHT has grown from a business with a turnover of £4.5m to £13m, employing 250 members of staff and now operates in Hastings as well as its traditional base in Brighton, with some satellite services in Eastbourne.

Andy has brought clients to the centre of decisionmaking and they are involved at all levels – from sitting on interview panels to policy forums ensuring quality improves and the organisation is accountable to those who use it services.

Matt Lambert and James Macdonald are the founders of Heroes Run, raising funds for Pass It On Africa.

The charity was started in 2005 when the pair ran the Dublin Marathon to help raise £1,000 to buy shoes for the orphans of the Tenderfoot school, Nariobi, Kenya.

However, they quickly discoveredTenderfootneeded to build a six-classroom

Early Peach Childcare sponsors the Lifetime Achievement award

block and James wasted no time jumping on a plane to visit the school and the rest, as they say, is history. From that moment Matt and James were 100 per cent committed to setting up a charity to help build the Tenderfoot school.

Heroes Run was born because the guys really enjoyed dressing up as superheroes for the marathon but were surprised at how

few costume runners there were and decided to create a dedicated superhero fancy dress run.

Since then the race has grown from 241 runners in year one to a peak of 1,432 in 2014, has a dedicated team of volunteers and raised more than half-a-million pounds to help build and support schools in four African countries.

In 1996, a small group of surfers led by founder Dave Samuel decided to bring together the surfing community in a special seafront event which would raise money for charity at the same time.

From the 50 people who attended the first Paddle Round the Pier the event has evolved into what is now regarded as the world’s largest free charity beach festival, with average visitor numbers of 50,000+ people.

However, the ethos has remained the same since its inception: “Spread a little aloha-spirit and have a good time doing it.”

‘For the betterment of others’ is Dave’s personal mantra which is why he proudly promotes the outreach work Paddle funds, along with partners such as Brighton& Hove Bus Company who support the Access Beach, giving disabled children and their families the chance to enjoy the beach and sea.

The ‘aloha-spirit’ is demonstrated again with Schools Surf Lifesaving Program, sponsored by Jeep, putting 30 children a day through their paces as lifeguards throughout June.

Young Achiever

Sponsored by University of Sussex Careers &Employability Centre

At a young age, some people in business have made an indelible mark at their company, in the local market, or in their trade on a national scale.

Our winner is someone who demonstrates exceptional achievement or performance within their industry.

Alice Johnson joined Fugu as an account executive in April, 2013, and her rapid promotion to senior account executive, to account manager and now senior account manager is the fastest progression in the company’s five-year history and significantly outpaces traditional career growth in the sector.

Since joining the company, Alice has increased the average income of her client portfolio by 25 per cent with one example of exceptional growth being The Student Room. Alice also led the pitch for the hugely successful Dr. Martens Brighton store launch in 2013 and, as a result of her leadership and the results generated, Fugu was appointed to deliver regional campaigns across the South East.

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Recognising, rewarding and celebrating business excellence in our community

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Employee/TeamoftheYear An award for an exceptional individual/ team whose efforts and determination has made an exceptional contribution to a business.

The winner of this award will have shown determination, drive and passion to start and grow a successful business during tough financial times.

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SmallBusiness(uptotenemployees) This award is open to all businesses with less than 10 employees that can demonstrate exceptional performance, growth and market leadership.

MediumBusiness(11-49employees) SponsoredbyJuice107.2radio

We are looking for smaller businesses which compete with the ‘big boys’ in every way – except size. The winner will need to demonstrate a good team spirit and a strong customer service ethos.

LargeBusiness(50+employees) Business-SponsoredbyWorthing Coaches

The winner will have an excellent reputation in the community, a record of innovative measures to enhance employee relations and demonstrate a commitment to never fail to deliver on its promises and to meet – and exceed – customer expectations.

OverallBusinessoftheYear SponsoredbyBaronEstates This prestigious award will be given to one of the winners from the business categories above. The company that carries off this award will be chosen on the basis of being the best business that has most impressed the judges.

Hospitality,Tourism&LeisureSponsoredbyPORTFOLIOmagazine

An award to a locally-based business that has best demonstrated exceptional financial returns, innovation, strong growth and market leadership in the field of tourism, leisure or hospitality activities.

EmployeroftheYear An award for a business that has great staff relations, good staff retention, with excellent training and who cares for their employees. The best company to work for!

By a young age, some people in business have made an indelible mark in their company or in their trade on a national scale. The winner will be someone who can demonstrate exceptional achievement or performance within their industry.

TrainingandDevelopment The winner of this category will have demonstrated real commitment to developing and motivating their workforce.

This category is open to businesses which have an exemplary training programme for their employees, or training providers – whichever you are, the judges will be looking for evidence that your training programmes work!

PlacetoEatorDrink-Sponsoredby GustoWines

Restaurants, takeaways – all have a chance to be nominated in this category. We’re looking for a worthy eatery providing great customer service from a quality environment with, of course, consistently fine food.

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Retailer-SponsoredbyFirst PaymentsLtd

An award for the retail business that can best demonstrate strong growth, an innovative approach to customer and employee relations together with creativity to enhance sales.

Manufacturing&ConstructionSponsoredbyDBRLtd

Anawardtoacompanythathas bestdemonstratedexceptionalfinancial returns,innovation,stronggrowth andmarketleadershipinthefieldof manufacturingand/orconstruction.

GreenBusiness-Sponsoredby HarrisonJames

An award for a business or organisation, irrespective of its size or sector, who can demonstrate environmental awareness and responsibility in all aspects of its work and output.

Innovation The winner – either a company or an individual – will demonstrate an exceptional ability to think outside the box, whether it is discovering better ways to work, discovering a ground-breaking product, or showing outstanding marketing abilities.

BusinessPersonality Outstanding businesses often require outstanding individuals with largerthan-life personalities who show drive, commitment and enthusiasm and never settle for second best, either with their products or in their relations with staff and customers.

We are looking for an individual who shows tremendous commitment and innovation,withoutstandingleadership and vision and the drive to deliver.

CustomerService-Sponsoredby RegisRemovals

Award for a company who exceeds customer expectations in its service.

Customer service is an essential part of any successful business. This award aims to reward and recognise a company, individual, or team, for their outstanding achievements.

LifetimeAchievement:Sponsoredby EachPeachChildcare Thisisan awardtoan individual who,inthe opinionofthe judges,has demonstrated anunrivalled recordofachievementinthearea formanyyears,showingoutstanding performancewithintheirindustry,a commitmenttowardstheirstaff.

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Businesses play a signifificcant role in the community.

Manyfirmsconsideritimportantto contributetotheirsupportersthrough charitywork,andhelpingschools, collegesandcommunitygroups.

Time to choose your favourite Readers’ Choice

Sponsored by Brighton & Hove Independent brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk

Our panel of judges will find it a tough task selecting the winners and looking at the shortlist featured in this 16-page special it is not hard to see why.

It’s impossible to please everyone and the standard of businesses entering has been exceptionally high.

Therefore the onus is on you to vote for your number one business or individual from the selected shortlist below.

Readers can cast their votes by emailing the name of the company they wish to vote for and the category to helen. watt@jpress.co.uk by 5pm on Tuesday, June 14.

All winners will be announced at the black tie evening at the American Express Community Stadium on June 17.

Tickets are available at www.jpsouthevents.co.uk or by calling Helen Watt 07818 272958.

Shortlist Small Business: HR Dept.

Brighton and Eastbourne; Julie James Hypnotherapy; Murray Media; Consortium Business Solutions; Ten2Two; Search Seven; First Payment; Turn Beautiful; Seven Cellars.

Medium Business: Pier Recruitment; Sussex Sign Company; Bluebird Tea Co; Stelfox; Curry Leaf Café; Harrison James Ltd. Large Business: Paxton; TTMC. Start-up: Bishop Sullivan Lettings; The Wax And Thread Company; The Float Spa; Ten2Two; Nature Shop; Account Management Now; Anna L Designs; Always Possible; Jody Raynsford Copywriters.

Customer Service: Bishop Sullivan Lettings; Pier Recruitment; Nature Shop; Fin and Farm; Paxton; Search Seven; Bonett’s Estate Agents; Flowers Unlimited; First Payment; Turn Beautiful; Seven Cellars.

Young Achiever: Alice Johnson.

Manufacturing and Construction: Bluebird Tea Co; The Sussex Sign Company; Harrison James Ltd. Employee/Team of the Year: PORTFOLIO magazine; Pier Recruitment; Stelfox Pharmaceutical Team; Curry Leaf Café.

Employer of the Year: St John’s School & College; Rickshaw Travel; Stelfox; The Big Lemon CIC; OptaNet. Contribution to the Community: Off The Fence; Sea PR; Fugu PR; Brighthelm; Heroes Run.

Place to Eat or Drink: Indian Summer; Skyfall Restaurant; Curry Leaf Café; The Helm Café; The Salt Room.

Innovation: PORTFOLIO magazine; Clive Bonny; Jane Busby; Go-experience; Curry Leaf Café; The Big Lemon; OptaNet; Big Booth Boutique.

Training and Development: Brighton Housing Trust’s Learning & Development Team (BHT Training); Consortium Business Solutions; Always Possible; Hove College.

Retailer: Fin and Farm Ltd; Flowers Unlimited; Seven Cellars.

Business Personality: Glenys Chatterley (Effective Business Network); Neil Laughton (Laughton and Co Ltd); Anna Lin (Anna L Designs); Richard Freeman (Always Possible); Jennifer Turner (Turn Beauitful).

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure: The Float Spa; Volks Railway; Hove Lagoon.

Green Business: Rickshaw Travel; Nature Shop; Fin and Farm; The Big Lemon.

Lifetime Achievement: Andy Winter (Brighton Housing Trust); Dave Samuel (Paddle Round the Pier); Matt Lambert & James Macdonald (Heroes Run in aid of Pass It On Africa).

Good luck to them all!

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Charity wedding gets business backing Bex Bastable

bex.bastable@jpress.co.uk @BexBastable

When Bevendean couple Sharon Williams and Steve Burns got engaged, they decided to use the opportunity to raise money for a cause close to their hearts.

Sharon Williams lost her mother Barbara and sister Sandra to cancer, and discovered she had an 85 per cent chance of suffering from ovarian or breast cancer.

After test results revealed Sharon had the BRCA gene – which increases the risk of cancer – she and Steve escaped to Spain, and Steve proposed during a moonlight beach walk.

Sharon had a hysterectomy in 2014, followed by a double mastectomy a few months later, and after recovering, decided to start planning their wedding.

It was then that the pair decided to get married for charity–withguestsdonating money to the chosen cause.

The couple teamed up with friend and event organiser Jax Mitrovic to start planning the day.

Jax, who runs event company Anything Organised, said: “We debated

Sharon and Steve will tie the knot to raise cash for Cancer Research

which charity to raise money for and every time we came back to the idea of making Cancer Research the charity to benefit from this wedding; because without their work the giant leaps in discovering the BRCA genes may not have been possible and Sharon would be living with a potential time bomb inside her.”

Jax got married for Oxfam herself in 1992, so has experience of charity weddings, and she quickly got a handful of business on board.

Linda Johnson of Beretun Designs, a boutique shop in Bond Street, offered to help Sharon with her outfit for the big day, and Steve will be dressed in a suit from the Brighton branch of Young’s at Debenhams.

The Railway Inn at Portslade will host the reception, putting on a festival-themed wedding in its bespoke venue space ‘The Platform’, as well as taking over part of the garden.

Mark Stack who runs promotions company Zooberon, which gives

a platform for new and emerging talents to ply their trade, will provide the stage equipment for the wedding.

Sound on Q will help with sound and lighting, and hosts a range of charity events in and around the city.

Founder Roy Weird said: “It was through one of these fundraising events I met Jax who spends an inordinate amount of time organising charity shows. I was very happy to help her out with this particular event and lend my expertise to make the day work. Should be fun!”

AboveMedia, a Brightonbased design company will design and print all the invites, and souvenir ‘festival programmes’ for guests to use on the day.

Flower Show Presents will be on hand to help with bouquets, and owner Katie Kearns said: “We heard about this charity wedding and thought it would be a lovely way to do our bit to ‘give back’ so jumped at the chance of creating a bouquet for Sharon and flowers for the reception venue.”

Sharon and Steve’s big day is set for September 23, and any business wanting to get involved should contact Jax on anythingorganised@ gmail.com

New colours could improve staff standards

with Kylee Charles @ShotgunPRAgency Businesses are forever trying to find ways to boost productivity.

Be it with innovative management practices or the promise of a pay rise, the lengths businesses go to to get the best out of their employees is commendable.

What if it was as simple as painting your office walls a different colour or rolling up a blind or two?

According to a survey

by Create a Wall, ‘blue’ is the colour of choice for those who want to set up a productive working environment.

However, there

is more to colour psychology than you might think, so you shouldn’t adopt a onesize-fits- all approach to your office décor.

Studies have shown that providing staff with a ventilated, well-lit workspace, that utilises natural light, can enhance productivity by 16 per cent.

Boosting natural light doesn’t have to mean smashing holes in your external walls either; using mirrors to reflect the natural light you do have, providing the illusion of space, is a quick and easy option.

Daylight bulbs are also now widely available and easy to install.

The idea of using different designs to segment an office has been shown to inspire and motivate staff.

Think strategically and don’t treat your workforce as one single entity.

The question is, will the finance department get the same kind of subconscious benefit from a geometricpatterned wallpaper as your sales team might?

ADVERTISING FEATURE

Freedom Leisure hosts free family fun day Freedom Leisure, which operates seven leisure facilities on behalf of Brighton and Hove City Council, is organising a family fun day extravaganza as part of Brighton’s TAKEPART Festival.

TAKEPART is an award winning two week festival, celebrating sport, dance and active lifestyles in Brighton and Hove, which officially launches on June 18.

On Saturday, June 25, as part of the festival Moulsecoomb Community Leisure Centre, Stanley Deason Leisure Centre, Portslade Sports Centre and

Withdean Sports Complex are opening their doors for a free family fun day.

Depending on which facility you choose to visit participants can take part in a wide range of activities including athletics, badminton, five-a side football, squash, tennis as well as a whole host of different exercise classes.

For any adults wanting to go swimming, King Alfred Leisure Centre, Prince Regent Swimming Complex and St Lukes Pool are offering a swim for a £1 on Saturday, June 25.

“We are delighted to be involved in this year’s TAKEPART festival, it’s

such a great opportunity to celebrate sport, dance and exercise in Brighton and Hove,” says Freedom Leisure area manager Chris Lovelock.

“We look forward to welcoming as many of the community as possible to our centres and hope they will get involved in some of the fantastic sessions we have on offer.”

All events are open to all abilities and no registration is required to take part.

For more information on the event and for a full timetable of activities please visit www.freedomleisure.co.uk or call your local centre to find out more.

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o you live in the Brighton area?

Are you interested in finding out about the range of health and social care organisations that are available locally? Whether you are looking for an opportunity for professional

networking, or to find out about support and services in the area, then the Public Health Exhibition at the Faculty of Public Health’s (FPH) annual conference is for you.

FPH’s Public Health Exhibition will take place on 14 and 15 June 2016 at the Brighton Centre, Kings Road, Brighton.

It’s a unique opportunity to me eet more than 80 organisations, charities and employers working across hea alth, education, social care, disability and beyond.

FPH President, John Ashton, said: “We’ve made a real effffort f to grrow the exhibition side of the conference in Brighton. There are more than 80 difffferent f exhibitors from the voluntary sector, professional bodies and lots of organisations that are making a significant contribution to public health in their own ways.”

The Public Health Exhibition is open to the public and free to attend. The Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Councillor Pete West, will officially open the exhibition on 14 June at 10.45am. The ceremony will include performances by local groups such as St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School who will be singing and signing Reach Out Your Hand, a song specially written for deaf charity SignHealth. Brighton’s Latest TV station will be covering the event.

Brighton and Hove Community Radio will base their studio at the venue and are due to broadcast live interviews, while social enterprise Café Art, supported by the Royal Photographic Society, will be taking the pictures – their award-winning photographers are people who have experienced homelessness and are now being mentored by professionals to help them develop their skills.

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The exhibitors include local organisations such as: • Brighton and Sussex Medical School • Visit Brighton • Bricycles • Brighton and Hove City Council • Food Matters Brighton and Hove Partnership • Helen Dodds Therapy • Impact Initiatives • Brighton Mitsubishi • Sussex Armed Forces Network • Sussex Beacon • Sussex Clubs for Young People • Sussex Community Development Association • The Carers Centre This year’s FPH conference is in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing whose expertise in public health nursing will be an integral part of the programme. Mental health also features strongly, as well as wellbeing across the lifespan - from maternity, via the Best Beginnings film Baby Blue, through childhood and adolescence, and on to suicide prevention and dementia. Our Public Health Film event will feature five films across the two days.

For further information about the conference and to register, go to: http://www.fph.org.uk/fph_annual_ conference_and_public_health_ exhibition_2016

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Delegates will be able to register and pay at the Brighton Centre on the day.

What is public health?

Public health is about improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of groups of people (or ‘populations’) rather than treating individual patients.

About the Faculty of Public Health FPH is the UK’s leading professional body for public health specialists, as well as other professionals working in public health. Our specialist members are trained to the highest possible standards of public health competence and practice, as set by FPH. With 3,800 members in the UK and internationally, we work to develop knowledge and understanding, and to promote excellence in public health.

We are committed to improving and protecting people’s mental and physical health and wellbeing. Our vision is for better health for all, where people are able to achieve their fullest potential for a healthy, fulfilling life through a fair and equitable society.

Professor John R Ashton CBE FPH President 2013 – 2016

bigger picture. This could be for a rural community, an organisation, an entire city – or the whole world. They take action to: • Promote healthy lifestyles • Prevent disease • Protect and improve general health • Make sure that vital health services are available.

Public health specialists look at the Award-winning charity Streetwise Opera performing at last year’s FPH conference

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Community gardens aid happiness Angelika Rusbridge

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Therapeutic gardening is changing the lives of the most vulnerable and isolated residents in Brighton and Hove, according to a new video by Brighton and Hove Food Partnership.

The organisation released a short film outlining the health benefits of the Sharing the Harvest project, which has helped place over 600 volunteers into more than 70 gardening projects all over the city. Volunteers are given information about a growing project, usually in parks, allotments, woodlands or the grounds of local organisations such as charities or housing associations. Some adults join mixed groups open to anyone from the city like the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden while others may be directed towards programmes for people with additional support needs.

Colin Dodd, 37 from Hollingdean, volunteers at the Stanmer Community Garden Group.

He said: “I started coming to the garden when I was 19.

I was homeless, suffering from serious mental health problems and living in a bedsit. At first I was really shy and couldn’t talk to anyone but gradually I go to know people through the gardening and found it easier to talk.

“I took over running the project with other volunteers a few years ago and we now manage the work sessions. I have met so many different people through coming to the garden and it has changed my life. I think it is the combination of meeting different people, being outside, having responsibility and working together. We often have barbecues to share the food we’ve grown together, we go out for meals to celebrate birthdays sometimes or we just catch up with people every Tuesday or Friday.”

Marco Borgatti, 44, from Brighton, set up a community garden with his neighbours at a time when his life was very troubled. He said: “I’d had to giveupworkthroughill-health and I felt very depressed and

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A community garden in Stanmer Park

suffered anxiety. I lived in a flat with a very run-down garden. With the help of the Food Partnership and the Seaside Community Homes we were given help to start planting vegetables.

“Gradually as we started working on the garden, my neighbours would come and join in with their children. I found myself getting involved more and more, then doing training and workshops and

PHOTOGRAPH: JO THORNE

The beginnings of a herb garden

going to gardening events.

Getting involved has changed my life. I’d felt so low that I was getting more and more cut-off from people. My confidence has grown so much and I feel more like the person I used to be before I became ill.”

Jo Glazebrook, Brighton and Hove Food Partnership volunteer coordinator, said: “What really stands out for me is, meeting someone for an advice session who has been

referred by a support worker.

“Then I meet them a few months later, or even a year later in a garden, still volunteering, and as well as hearing from them how they are benefiting, I can visibly see they are flourishing, interacting with new people, taking on responsibility, teaching others, and really feeling that they are part of something.”

A study by the University of

Essex found that 97 per cent of volunteers surveyed said their new skills in gardening and food growing has ‘improved happiness’, and 58 per cent of those attending a community garden expressed ‘significant improvement to wellbeing’ in three to six months.

For more information, visit: bhfood.org.uk To watch the video, visit: youtube.com/ watch?v=JCLdQCSJkSA+6

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Friday, June 10, 2016

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A riotous, rock ’n’ roll take on one of the Bard’s best Theatre Macbeth

Brighton Open Air Theatre June 30 and July 1

RONAN KEATING Sun 2 Oct

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Thur 6 Oct

THE AUSTRALIAN PINK FLOYD Fri 21 Oct

THE NEXT STEP Thur 27 Oct

TOM ODELL Fri 4 Nov

CHINESE STATE CIRCUS Sat 5 Nov

MICHAEL BALL & ALFIE BOE Tue 15 Nov

THE STYLISTICS Fri 18 Nov

PROFESSOR BRIAN COX Sat 19 Nov

DEACON BLUE Sun 20 Nov

CATHERINE TATE Thur 24 Nov

MADNESS Sat 3 Dec

Oddsocks Productions is heading back to Brighton with an exciting new look at one of Shakespeare’s classics.

Macbeth will take to the stage at Brighton Open Air Theatre on Thursday, June 30, and Friday, July 1 (7.30pm), with a hearty dose of Oddsocks comedy.

The touring company was set up 26 years ago by Andy Barrow and Elli Mackenzie.

The group take classic texts and aim to create bold, innovative and interactive theatre for everyone.

Whether it’s a live onstage car chase (Romeo and Juliet, 2009) or the fairy king as an avatar superhero (A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2014) Oddsocks have no boundaries when it comes to creating unique comedy productions of the classics.

The group’s ‘rock ’n’ roll’, steampunk production of Macbeth promises Oddsocks’ usual mayhem and anarchy.

Shakespeare’s story of murderous ambition is hilariously brought to life with a soundtrack of classic songs.

Oddsocks artistic director Andy Barrow says: “This is Shakespeare for today.

Seriously silly Shakespeare.”

“Oddsocks is a theatrical experience for everyone,” he continues. “Highly energetic, full of life and plenty of laughs. It’s Shakespeare, but not as you know it.”

Macbeth, one of the Bard’s most popular tragedies,

tells a story of greed and witchcraft about a Scottish general who tries to take the king’s throne for himself.

Oddsocks offers an approach to theatre that aims to be holistic, with no hierarchy or elitism, just a desire to engage as many people as possible in exploring the potential of live drama. Alongside touring theatre work, Oddsocks also run an Open Doors scheme, which engages families and local charities with theatre, aiming to inspire, engage and entertain those who may not normally be able to access theatre.

To find out more visit www.oddsocks.co.uk.

Tickets cost £14 (£16 on the door). Visit www. brightonopenairtheatre. co.uk

Enjoy some blockbusters on the beach Cinema THE HUMAN LEAGUE Fri 9 Dec

PLACEBO Wed 14 Dec

JOOLS HOLLAND Sat 17 Dec

BOOTLEG BEATLES Sun 18 Dec

box office 0844 847 1515* www.brightoncentre.co.uk *calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge

Brighton’s Big Screen, presented by ibis Hotels, promises the ultimate beach cinema experience when it returns to the city from June 10 to July 10.

Spokeswoman Julia Saborowski says there is a great line-up of blockbuster and classic movies plus live coverage of the Football in France.

“More than 35 cinematic

treats will be shown, including the 2015 blockbusters Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Spectre and Inside out, a selection of all-time classics, plus top live sporting events, including the Football in France and Wimbledon.”

Situated on Brighton Beach next to the Pier and the Volks Railway, Brighton’s Big Screen is one of Europe’s largest open-air cinemas.

The event celebrates its fifth birthday this year and organisers are expecting more than 100,000 attendees.

There will be a gigantic, weather-proof screen, a fully-licenced bar, popup restaurants, a seated, covered grandstand and a VIP area with bookable ibis double beds.

To buy tickets or to find out more visit www. brightonsbigscreen.com.

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Triple award win for one-man play Theatre

Brighton Fringe Awards The Warren Sunday, June 5

Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford, ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, won three times at the Brighton Fringe Awards on Sunday, June 5.

The show, which appeared at Sweet Venues and was part of the Fringe’s WINDOW programme for high quality new work, won the Fringe Review Outstanding Theatre Award, the Bobby Award, and the Fringe Guru Brighton Fringe Award for Theatre.

Patrick Sandford said he was “completely gobsmacked, amazed and thrilled” by the hat-trick win.

He continued: “This has made me realise I have to keep going with the show.

It’s a challenging piece and understandably quite hard to sell to audiences but at Brighton Fringe we did a

long run and the audience just built over time. It’s the people who produce the show – including my wonderful producer Kate Anderson, my director Nancy Meckler and the charity Mankind (a support service for men who have been sexually abused) – who have made it the success that it is.

“Brighton Fringe has been utterly brilliant. I would love to come back next year.”

A total of 19 awards were presented at the ceremony, which took place at The Warren on the final evening of Brighton Fringe in front of a 200-strong audience made up of performers, journalists, venue representatives and leading figures from the arts industry. Fringe favourite Boogaloo Stu and Brighton Fringe’s managing director Julian Caddy oversaw proceedings.

Other winners include cabaret artist Alfie Ordinary, who won £2,500 to tour his debut show Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous to an

international Fringe festival as part of the first ever Pebble Trust International Touring Bursary. Best venue went to Lamb Comedy @ Nowhereman on Upper North Street, a huge achievement for local promoters Lulu Baker and Amy Mac who have only been putting on Lamb Comedy shows at Brighton Fringe for two years.

Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop won best comedy, It Started with Jason Donovan won best dance act, Press and Release won best visual arts show, The Unbearable Pleasure of Being a Woman won best cabaret, Leaving Home Party won best music show, The Secret Garden won best children’s show and Woodland Tribe won the Spirit of the Fringe award.

Other shows from the WINDOW programme also did well with The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon, It’s Okay I’m Dealing With It, Deep in the Heart of Me and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot all receiving nominations.

Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, said: “Brighton Fringe is an essential platform for people involved in the arts in all areas, whether they be artists, producers, technicians, box office, front of house, reviewers and much more besides.

“I’d like to congratulate the winners and nominees, but also to thank the thousands of unsung heroes of this festival and the millions of hours they have put in to make it the success that it is today.

“The arts world is not always an easy environment in which to work, so to have such an incredible collective energy in one place for an entire month is aweinspiring.”

Each award-winner receives free registration to next year’s Brighton Fringe, and some received additional prizes from their judging organisation.

To find more about the Brighton Fringe visit www. brightonfringe.org.

Patrick Sandford and Mankind CEO Martyn Sullivan. Picture: Xavier Clarke

Natural storyteller Sarah shares gag-packed anecdotes

Celebrate the Queen’s 90th at South of England Show

Comedy

Events

One of the UK’s most successful comedians is coming to the Brighton Dome Concert Hall this month.

Sarah Millican performs at the venue from Wednesday to Friday, June 15-17 (8pm).

A Dome spokesperson said: “In just seven years Sarah Millican has gone from winning the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to becoming one of the UK’s most successful and multiaward-winning comedians, who also holds the record as the highest-selling female comedian in the DVD market.”

Outsider is Sarah’s fourth stand-up tour.

“In the past when you put Sarah Millican outside, she asked things like: ‘Why? Where is the taxi? Do I need a cardie?’ and said things like: ‘There’ll be wasps. I’ve nothing to sit on. Is that poo?

Can we go home?’ But things have changed – now she has outside slippers. She can tell a chaffinch from a tit, but she still can’t tell if it’s an owl or her husband’s asthma.

“As well as her success at the Edinburgh Fringe

The South of England Agricultural Society will be one of the largest regional events celebrating the Queen’s official 90th birthday weekend on June 9, 10 and 11, in Ardingly, with participants from Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Kent.

The prestigious South of England Show takes place over three glorious days at the home of the South of England Agricultural Society, whose patron is Her Majesty the Queen.

The show will throw the spotlight on both the new and traditional, with stunning displays of the best of British agriculture, equestrianism, countryside learning, country crafts and sports; as well as music, food and drink and shopping.

Iain Nicol, CEO of the South of England Agricultural Society, said: “We have lots of new attractions this year, including ‘the Ardingly Eye’, a spectacular 32 metre high giant wheel, where visitors will get a unique bird’s eye view of the entire 150-acre showground, which will be alive with hundreds of competitions and

Sarah Millican

Festival, Sarah was voted the People’s Choice Queen of Comedy at the 2011 British Comedy Awards.

“She has also fronted three series of her critically acclaimed BBC2 show The Sarah Millican Television Programme, for which she received two BAFTA nominations. Sarah is also a popular guest on primetime shows such as The Graham Norton Show, QI, 8 Out of

10 Cats, The Jonathan Ross Show, Live at the Apollo and The Royal Variety Performance.

“Sarah is a natural storyteller who charms the audience through her skilfully delivered gagpacked anecdotes about life’s curiosities.”

Tickets for the Brighton show cost £26. Call 01273 709709 or visit brightondome.org.

More than 1,500 horses will take part in the equestrian showcase

entertainment for all ages.”

There will be new entertainment in the main ring this year with the Royal Signals White Helmet motorcycle display team who will be performing their death-defying stunts every day of the show.

Other highlights include the high-energy, microsized Shetland Pony Grand National; hound parades; and the famous livestock display where hundreds of beef and dairy cattle, sheep, pigs and goats have their

moment of glory; as well as an exciting new Music Stage that will showcase a range of talented, up and coming performers from across the region.

Under 16s go free (accompanied by a paying adult, £20); senior citizens and students over 16, £18.

There is also free parking and a regular bus shuttle service from Haywards Heath railway station.

Save 10 percent by booking online. Visit www. seas.org.uk.

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The Listings COMEDY KRATER COMEDY CLUB: Until June 12/16, 7pm/8pm/10.30pm, £5-£36.50, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

GIGS CANDI STATON: Young Hearts Run Free 40th Anniversary Tour. 7pm, £22.50, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311.

EIGHT MILES HIGH: Tickets on door, 11pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton 0845 293 8480. A night of mind-melting psychedelic sounds from past and present.

LEBEAUX PLUS SUPPORT: 12am2am, £7, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, 01273 725230. Fusing R&B, funk, rock and pop into a bold and energetic sound.

SHADOWLANDS: £4, 9pm Latest MusicBar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton (01273) 687171. A goth and alternative night for all the night folks out there, playing gothic rock, dark alternative, new

wave and post-punk.

STEP IN TO THE LYME LIGHT: £5, 11pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

A collective of Brighton’s finest DJs and musicians.

with the original 1977 line up.

THE BLACK TIBETANS USA: £12, 9pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Plus support, Rothstein, The Quantums and DJs The Collins Kids.

STAGE BRIDESHEAD REVISTED: £16.90£37.90, 7.45pm, until June 11, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal present Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, reimagined for the stage by Tony Award nominee Bryony Lavery and Olivier Award winning director Damian Cruden.

OTHER EURO 2016 – ENGLAND V RUSSIA: £3 entry (£10 entry, burger and drink), 7pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Watch England’s progress in the best possible location that doesn’t involve catching a plane (or the eurostar).

FAMILY FRIENDLY APP TOURS: 10.15am, £7.50, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 0844 871 7650. A familyfriendly interactive tour that lets you see what happens backstage when a show is on and explore hidden parts of the building not open to the public.

THEATRE TOUR: 11.30am, £6, Theatre Royal. See behind the scenes of Brighton’s theatrical treasure.

YOGA: Hot Yoga South (formerly Bikram Yoga Brighton) open day.

Franklin Road, Portslade. Five free classes, 8am-12pm. Hot Yoga, Warm

SATURDAY GIGS BLISS ART: £16, 8pm Brighton Dome (01273) 709709. Performing favourites from their albums On The Edge and Hold On. SHAM 69: Pursey, Parsons, Treganna, plus Angelic Upstarts.

7pm, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. Sham 69 perform live

Flow and Aerial. Book online at www. bikramyogabrighton.com or call 01273-420179.

STAGE STREETFUNK PRESENTS STRAIGHT UP ’16: £12-£14, 6pm Brighton Dome (01273) 709709.

Streetfunk’s annual youth showcase.

SUNDAY GIGS BIG SUNDAY MEATBALL MOTORCYCLES 5TH ANNIVERSARY: £10, 2pm-10pm, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, 01273 673311. All-day event featuring performances from The Black Tibetans, Thee DB3, Red Raucous, Kings of Hong Kong and Teetotum.

MONDAY COMEDY CHEEKYKITA AND JODY KAMALI: £8, 7.30pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

Edinburgh Preview double bill

GIGS MBONGWANA STAR: £12, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. A mix of Congolese rhythm, hip-hop and electro.

STAGE BLEEDING HEARTS CLUB: 8pm, donation on the door, Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, 01273 725230. The very best new music, poetry and performance art.

TUESDAY GIGS DEAD MEN WALKING: £18, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton 0845 293 8480. Starring Dave Ruffy, Jake Burns, Kirk Brandon and Segs Jennings.

OTHER EVENING RACING: Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road, 01273 603580. The penultimate evening race meeting of the season. Seven thrilling races with stunning sea

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views over Brighton and the South Downs.

STAGE JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT: £12-£14.90, various times until June 18, Theatre Royal, Brighton 0844 871 7650. Starring Joe McElderry as Joseph and Lucy Kay as the narrator.

PETER PAN – A MUSICAL ADVENTURE: £17.50-£19.50, 7pm until July 9 (Sat/Sun 2pm) 88 London Road, Brighton (formerly The Emporium) www.emporiumbrighton.com.

Matthew Chase will star as Pan alongside Natalie Sexton as Wendy.

WEDNESDAY COMEDY SARAH MILLICAN: £26, 8pm, until June 17 Brighton Dome (01273) 709709. Sarah Millican: Outsider.

STAND UP AND SLAM: £5-£8, 8pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Poetry and comedy.

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STAGE A NORMAL FAMILY: Free but ticketed, 7.30pm, Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480. Spoken word (radio recording).

THURSDAY COMEDY JOHN DOWIE: 8pm, £5, The Old Market, 01273 201801. John Dowie will introduce his forthcoming memoir The Freewheeling John Dowie.

GIGS JUST AND EXCUSE TO PARTY: £3, 7.30pm Komedia, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton, 0845 293 8480.

The Wildfires, Dubordinates, Hatton.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Picture by Mark Yeoman

STAGE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST: 7.45pm, £9, New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton, 01273 476118. Until June 25. A play

by Dario Fo, directed by Rod Lewis.

It’s the end of the 1960s and bombs

have been going off in Milan. The suspected bomber (the Anarchist) falls to his death from a police station’s fourth floor window. Did he jump or was he pushed?

CINEMA BRIGHTON DUKE OF YORK’S (0871 902 5728): When Marnie Was There (PG) Fri 1.00, 10.00; Sat 1.00, 6.00; Sun 12.30, 6.00; Mon 1.00, 6.00; Tue 6.00; Wed 1.15, 6.00; Thu 8.30; Silver Screen: Tue 1.00; Big Scream: Wed 10.30. Where To Invade Next Plus Satellite Q&A (15) Fri 6.15.

Where To Invade Next (15) Sun 3.00. Love And Friendship (U) Fri 3.30; Sat 3.30, 8.30; Sun 8.30; Mon 3.30; Tue 8.30; Wed 3.45, 8.30; Silver Screen: Tue 3.30; Thu 10.30.

Kids’ Club: Oddball And The Penguins (U) Sat 10.30. Toddler Time: Hopster Showtime Dinosaur Fun (U) Mon 11.00. Andrei Rubley (Re: 2016) (15) Mon 8.15. Silver Screen: Kes (U) Tue 10.30. Discover Arts: Leonardo Da Vinci (12A) Thu 6.30.

Matthew Chase

A swashbuckling musicaladventure Stage

Matthew Chase is set to star as Pan alongside Natalie Sexton as Wendy in Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure, which opens in Brighton on Tuesday, June 14.

Matthew’s credits include Follies (Royal Albert Hall) and Pugsley Addams in The Addams Family

Musical. Natalie Sexton’s credits include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Glastonbury) and Alfie in the TV animation GhostBoy. This production of the Stiles & Drewe musical takes place at 88 London Road from June 14 to July 9.

Adult tickets cost £17.50 (kids £14.50). Visit www.88londonroad.com.

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SUDOKU

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CODEWORD Codeword is the crossword puzzle with no clues. The number in each square corresponds to a letter. Work out the words in the grid using the letters provided. Fill in these known letters first, then use skill and judgement to work out the others.

Cryptic Clues: Across

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20. Patchy picture of a law-giver (6) 21. Racehorses in the racket (6) 22. Turns up in icy surroundings but is wellliked (7) 23. The sun on one is a comfort (6) How you rate: 24.

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16. Take away (6)

23. Careless (6)

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Cryptic: Across: 1 Shock troops; 9 Arm; 10 Title role; 11 Ketch; 13 Entwist; 14 Enlist; 16 Spying; 18 Regatta; 19 Sight; 20 Train fare; 21 Ale; 22 Chickenfeed.

Down: 2 Hem; 3 Catch; 4 Tithes; 5 One-step; 6 Providing; 7 Dark secrets; 8 Get together; 12 Telegraph; 15 Satanic; 17 Manage; 19 Shelf; 21 Awe.

Quick: Across: 1 Crestfallen; 9 Inn; 10 Manliness; 11 Panda; 13 Lounger; 14 Exceed; 16 Reason; 18 Scuttle; 19 Ladle; 20 Rendering; 21 Arc; 22 Alternately.

Down: 2 Run; 3 Samba; 4 Fondle; 5 Leisure; 6 Energised; 7 Displeasure; 8 Astringency; 12 Nocturnal; 15 Extreme; 17 Region; 19 Light; 21 Awl.

CODEWORD: 1=C, 2=H, 3=D, 4=T, 5=E, 6=R, 7=P, 8=I, 9=V, 10=X, 11=L, 12=K, 13=Z, 14=U, 15=Y, 16=S, 17=B, 18=O, 19=F, 20=G, 21=M, 22=A, 23=W, 24=N, 25=J, 26=Q. WORD WHEEL: ADDICTIVE.

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Opinion

Food and Drink

By Tom Flint

Some nice touches on the menu of the Dyke Tavern The Dyke Tavern

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brightonbakery@yahoo.co.uk

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218 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 5AA 01273 555672 www.dykepub.co.uk

he Dyke Tavern is one of those pubs that I have passed many times but never actually ventured into. I put this mainly down to its location rather than anything else. Occupying a space on the busy crossroad at Dyke Road and The Upper Drive I am always on my way to or from somewhere else. As with most pubs I am always interested in seeing what they are like. Some might call that inquisitiveness, others a thinly veiled excuse for a drinking problem – either way I decided to go.

From asking around it would seem that the pub has built up a bit of a reputation as a good local for dog walkers, parents with push chairs and families. For a pub of this size, and given that they have a day time café on the premises, this makes sense in my mind. A bit of research online provides a mix of opinions regarding the food, no surprises there, and so I went with an open mind – as always.

The inside of the pub is lovely and light and airy with a mix of styles.

There is a café area off to the right with a fairly traditional feeling bar in the centre. The restaurant area toward the back overlooks the garden, which is where I sit to enjoy a beer before my meal. It is not the best of days but still a pleasant place to wind down after work with an ale.

We take a seat inside and look over the menu. The basic menu is pretty standard in terms of options.

There are a few starters such as soup of the day (£5.50), fried brie (£6.50) and sticky wings (£6.50).

The standard mains include fish and chips (£13.50) and a selection of burgers and pizzas that start at around the £10 mark.

The daily specials menu has the most

Bakery Bulletin

A generous and tasty burrito

interesting option of a pork knuckle burrito (£16.50) which is what I go for.

My friend decides to give their “Green Nutty Vegan” pizza (£12.50) a try on the advice of a friendly regular.

After a bit of a wait the food arrives, and first impressions are good.

The burrito is huge and comes with garlic potatoes and a plethora of other bits and pieces.

It looks pretty impressive although I am not sure how much of the extras are just for show or whether they add much to the dish.

The burrito itself is really tasty with a generous helping of tender pork meat that has that classic sweet yet smoky flavour that you would expect.

There is a lovely tangy chutney to cut through the richness of the burrito and the potatoes are crisp with a soft centre.

I just about manage to finish the dish and feel very full.

The vegan pizza is a bit of a new one on me in that it does not have any cheese and consists mainly of greens, tahini and hazelnuts.

It actually tastes pretty good although the overriding element is the chilli heat from the jalapenos – although I am a

bit rubbish with spice these days. As a vegan version of a pizza it does actually work and my friend enjoys it – I do give him a bit of my burrito as well as that was what he wanted originally.

Despite being very full we go for dessert as there are some very interesting options. My friend orders the gin and cherry bakewell tart (£5.50) and I have the mint and white chocolate terrine (£6).

We have to wait for quite a while for the desserts to arrive but when they do they look very appetising.

My terrine is served with a chocolate sauce and chocolate chips and it is a real celebration of all things chocolate and I tuck in and forget all about being full.

The gin and cherry bakewell does have a slight hint of gin which is pleasant and the pastry is crisp and flaky. Unfortunately it lacks the other elements of a bakewell and so is not quite the finished article.

My overall impression of the Dyke Tavern was of pub that still had a little way to go if it wanted to be taken seriously as a food pub.

There were some really nice touches on the menu and the food was pleasant without being outstanding. I think that they could probably take a look at their prices as they are a little on the high side compared to other food pubs.

This is especially true of the pizzas given the quality now available in the city at a fraction of the price.

The food also took too long as the pub was pretty quiet when we were there but still had to wait about half an hour for each course.

There are certainly positives in terms of the quality of the food and the staff were friendly and attentive.

With some tweaks they could put out good quality pub food and become a decent venue for the local community.

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

nna Ivanovna was from the House of Romanov, and ruled as Empress and Autocrat of All The Russias from 1730 to 1740.

Anna Chapman (née Kushchenko) worked as a spy for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service on what the FBI called The Illegals Program.

She was a “sleeper agent”.

Basically, it was The Americans TV programme, but for real. And therefore without Matthew Rhys. Sad face.

Anna Karenina is what Tolstoy considered his first novel. Perhaps that can be seen as an admission that War And Peace was not a novel, nor an observational account, but an endurance test and highly successful method of selfinflicted torture.

Seriously, you’re not missing anything - it’s as boring as you think it is. I haven’t subjected myself to Tolstoy’s Karenina, but Time magazine’s survey concludes that it’s the “greatest book ever written”.

Just to put that in perspective, the Time magazine Person Of The Year 1938 was Adolf Hitler.

Anna Pavlova was a Russian prima ballerina. She was the principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet; the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world; she created The Dying Swan character which influenced interpretations of Swan Lake; she once performed thirty-seven turns atop a moving elephant in China (a planned event, not a spontaneous attack), and the only fact more interesting than all of that is that she had a pet swan called Jack. And pavlova is named after her.

Pavlova as in Anna Pavlova is pronounced differently to pavlova as in a meringue with cream and fruit, and we don’t just mean using a ropey Russian accent a la Brian Cox in Red. Anna Pavlova toured Australia and New Zealand throughout the 1920s, and during this time, the pavlova dessert was created in her honour.

Whether that was in Australia or New Zealand is, even today, a matter of much dispute. They can’t agree, even to disagree, and it’s a fairly evenly matched fight. Kind of like a kiwi versus a koala. Or a sheep versus a kangaroo.

When Anna Pavlova died, her last words were so much more inspiring than “no really, I’m fine” or “don’t worry, I’m feeling a bit better”.

Anna’s immortal last words were “get my swan costume ready”. Powerful stuff, but if you didn’t know the back-story, it’d be an unsettling request.

Professor Helen Leach, a culinary anthropologist, has compiled a library of 300 sources contributing to an anthology of 667 recipes for pavlova. To be honest, we’d struggle to come up with six. The old ones are always the best – meringue, cream, summer fruits, and some aren’t.

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BH2016/01722 Flat 5 29 Brunswick Square Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/01734 First Floor Rear Flat 20 Waterloo Street Hove Listed Building Consent – Removal of chimney on north elevation and installation of rainwater downpipe on west elevation (Retrospective) BH2016/01738 & BH2016/01739 56 Brunswick Square Hove Full Planning & Listed Building Consent – Replacement of existing front entrance tiling.

BH2016/01789 & BH2016/01790 Flat 3 Lansdowne Mansions 110 - 112 Lansdowne Place Hove Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension and internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/01157 139 Church Road Hove Full Planning – Replacement of existing steel and timber window with a UPVC window to the ground floor on the West elevation.

BH2016/01711 Land to The Rear of 27 Medina Villas Hove Full Planning – Erection of new 4no bedroom dwelling fronting Albany Villas.

BH2016/01727 18 Victoria Terrace Hove Full Planning – Conversion of basement from retail storage (A1) to 1no self-contained flat (C3) incorporating erection of single storey rear extension.

BH2016/01646 17 Denmark Villas Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension. (Part retrospective) BH2016/01628 4 Portland Mansions 134-136 Marine Parade Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat.

BH2016/01706 14 College Street Brighton Full Planning – Conversion of existing house to form 1no self-contained flat and 1no self-contained maisonette (C3).

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BH2016/01313 HSBC 152-153 North Street Brighton Listed Building Consent – Replacement of external signage with new illuminated and non-illuminated signage.

BH2016/01679 129 Gloucester Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Creation of 3no front dormers.

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ELLEN (otherwise EILEEN BERNADETTE) DOCKERILL (nee McCARTHY) Deceased Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim or an interest in the Estate of the aforementioned deceased, late of Flat 11, Mayflower Square, New England, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4GN, who died on 14/11/1993, are required to send particulars thereof in writing to the undermentioned on or before 11/08/2016, after which date the Estate will be distributed having regard only to claims and interests of which they have had notice.

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BH2016/01698 & BH2016/01699 28B Brunswick Square Hove Householder Planning Consent & Listed Building Consent – Erection of rear basement extension in courtyard to replace existing extension and internal alterations to layout.

BH2016/01346 Flat 3 3 Lewes Crescent Brighton Listed Building Consent – Roof alterations including raising of ridge height and installation of rooflights to rear elevation.

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BH2016/01526 Flat 2 32 Brunswick Square Hove Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of flat and relocation of boiler flue to rear elevation.

BH2016/01721 7 Hangleton Lane Hove Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension and extension of front porch.

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BH2016/01757 18 Ship Street Brighton Full Planning – Creation of additional floor to create 1no three bedroom flat with associated alterations.

BH2016/01744 35 Upper St James Street Brighton Full Planning – Conversion of lower ground, first and second floor from residential accommodation to form 2no self-contained flats and 1no two bedroom flat incorporating front and rear dormers.

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BH2016/01756 18 Ship Street Brighton Full Planning – Erection of upper first floor rear extension to create one bedroom flat.

BH2016/01783 128 Church Road Hove Full Planning – Erection of external flue to rear. (Retrospective).

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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 03/06/2016:

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BH2016/01765 8 Princes Square Hove Removal or Variation of Condition – Variation of condition 2 of application BH2015/02552 (Erection of a single storey rear extension with roof alterations incorporating extension, rooflights and rear dormers with associated external works.) to allow amendments to the approved drawings.

BH2016/01572 9 Preston Park Avenue Brighton Full Planning – Erection of two storey dwelling (C3) on land to rear of existing dwelling.

BH2016/01668 166 Havelock Road Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey side infill extension.

BH2016/01705 112 Preston Drove Brighton Full Planning – Demolition and erection of single storey side extension, alterations to fenestration and other associated works.

BH2016/01745 St Johns Church Knoyle Road Brighton Full Planning – Installation of new stained glass window to south elevation.

BH2016/01761 120 Stanford Avenue Brighton Full Planning – Enlargement of existing porch, replacement of existing gates and installation of railings to front elevation.

BH2016/01769 10 Edburton Avenue Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of a single storey rear and side infill extension with rooflights. Revised fenestration and associated works.

BH2016/01751 5 Roundhill Crescent Brighton Full Planning – Replacement of existing timber casement windows with sliding sash windows at first floor front elevation, replacement of existing plastic rainwater pipe with cast metal rainwater pipe and alterations to existing balcony with other associated alterations.

BH2016/01752 5 Roundhill Crescent Brighton Listed Building Consent – Internal alterations to layout of house. Replacement of existing timber casement windows with sliding sash windows at first floor front elevation, replacement of existing plastic rainwater pipe with cast metal rainwater pipe and alterations to existing balcony with other associated alterations.

BH2016/01811 Units 1-3 1-6 Grand Parade Brighton Advertisement – Display of internally illuminated ATM surround.

BH2016/01812 Units 1-3 1-6 Grand Parade Brighton Full Planning – Installation of ATM to existing shopfront with associated signage.

Re-advertisements ADJOINING LISTED BUILDING BH2016/00816 68A St Georges Road Brighton Full Planning and Demolition in a Conservation Area – Demolition of existing office building and erection of 1no three bedroom dwelling (C3) to rear of site (Part Retrospective).

BH2015/04604 43 Edburton Avenue Brighton Householder Planning Consent – Erection of single storey rear extension and associated alterations (part-retrospective). Amended plans.

You can view the application on the Council website www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/planning applications. Any representations should be made in writing to the Planning and Building Control Applications Manager, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ, or via the website, within 21 days of this notice, quoting the application number. Please note that all representations received will be open for public inspection and late representations may not be considered.

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Phoenix captain Jon leads the way to win Worthing 10k PICTURE BY KATE SHEMILT KS16000733-13

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Brighton Phoenix captain Jon Pepper was delighted to win the Worthing 10k on Sunday morning – after several second-placed finishes in 10k events.

The 28-year-old got home in 32min 28sec to win by six seconds from Brighton & Hove Athletics Club’s Kevin Rojas.

The race started with 2,057 runners along Worthing promenade on a hot and sunny morning and it is thought around £50,000 will be raised for various charities.

There was the incentive of a £500 cash prize for the first male and first female to go under 30 and 34 minutes respectively but Pepper admitted he was not targeting the sub-30 minute time this year.

He said: “It’s pleasing to win. I just wanted to sit in and see how it went rather than race against the clock. I sat in behind Kevin, who ended up second, and was feeling quite good at 5k and got a bit of a gap straight after the turn.

“I was going to try to push it and increase the gap but I wasn’t chasing a time and thought I’d hold the gap as it was quite hard with the heat.

I wasn’t going to get anywhere near 30.

“At my best form ever, I’ve run under 30 a few times but it has to be ideal conditions

Jon Pepper crosses the finishing line to win the Worthing 10k on Sunday morning

and it wasn’t really about that today.

“It was just about enjoying the race and I was really impressed with the course.

I hadn’t won a 10k for ages, I always seem to come second. I’ve been second in Chichester twice and second in Brighton, so maybe Worthing is my seaside town and I should come back and try to defend my title.”

Pepper added he is really enjoying his running at the moment and said: “In some ways, I’m making it up as I go

along because I’ve been doing it over half my life now.

“For the first ten years, I really involved my life around it and was really serious. I captain the team at Phoenix and enjoy that aspect and, with work, I enjoy just running when I can now, as opposed to letting the running dictate everything that I do.

“When I was trying to get to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, it was a case of putting everything on hold and I missed the time for

that but not by much. It was a close call but you just start to lose a bit of the enjoyment then.

“You have to back off and rediscover why you love it and I do love racing, so will always race, even if I’m not fully fit.”

The first lady home was Havering’s Faye Fullerton in 35-38, ahead of Worthing & District Harriers’ Helen Buller (37-36) and Arena 80’s Caroline Hoyte (37-47).

Co-race director Gavin Stephens was delighted with

Plate success for Pyecombe’s Aileen Golf

Pyecombe’s Aileen Greenfield won the plate event at the Sussex Women’s County Championships last week.

The event was held at West Sussex Golf Club, with a record field of 62 players.

On the qualifying day, despite the unseasonable weather and challenges the course presented, there were some fantastic scores posted and the two lowest rounds of the day were by Highwoods’ Chelsea Masters and Dyke’s Sophie Kennard, both shooting 71, two under par.

Greenfield and youngsters Lizzie Price (Nevill) and Brandy Rook (Royal Eastbourne) were just two

over par for 36 holes. A total of eight eagles were posted on the first day, demonstrating the skill of the powerful long hitters.

The top 16 then went through to a match play knock-out, with some thrilling head-to-head matches, many going to extra holes.

The final on Sunday afternoon saw defending champion Masters beat Worthing’s Penny Brown as she closed out the match on the 17th hole.

Greenfield, who also won the Langridge Salver for best scratch score by a player aged 50-plus, beat Ham Manor’s Elodie Yates in the plate final.

how the event went and said: “We were blessed with the warm weather again like last year, which was fantastic.

“Everyone felt it, even at the front end, and they were probably 30 seconds to a minute down on their normal times because it was so hot and tough.”

Runbase – who organised the Worthing 10k with Worthing Harriers – are hosting the Bright10, a tenmile race, on October 16. For more information, visit www. bright10.co.uk

Palmers to hold open day at Hove Rec Cricket

Palmers Cricket Club are hosting a club open day at Hove Recreation Ground on Sunday.

The day is supported

by Waitrose as part of a national ECB campaign to help boost grassroots cricket participation.

Palmers are inviting all local cricket fans and people who are interested in finding out more about the club, to head along to the ground for the day to watch some cricket, get involved in a range of taster sessions and enjoy some food and drink, in a bid to entice new members to sign-up.

Palmers is one of hundreds of cricket clubs that will host an ECB Club open day this season and it is anticipated that thousands of events will be held at clubs across the country to coincide with England’s international cricket weekends throughout the summer.

Building on the successful launch of the initiative last year, clubs that host an official ECB Club open day this summer will be taking advantage of an exclusive £100 food and drink offer from new England cricket team sponsor Waitrose to help deliver their event.

A Youth match is at 10.30am and a senior T20 cup match between Palmers 2nd XI and Palmers 1st XI will be in the afternoon.

Palmers run two adult league teams every Saturday and a friendly team each Sunday. Theclubalsohasthree junior sections (under-10, under-12 and under-15) that play on Saturday mornings and Monday evenings.

Albion add Oxford date Football

Pyecombe’s Aileen Greenfield (right) pictured with Elodie Yates

Brighton & Hove Albion have added an additional fixture to their pre-season programme.

They will now also travel to Oxford United, who were promoted from League Two last season, on Tuesday, July 26.

The Seagulls begin their pre-season friendlies with a trip to Crawley Town on July 16, before they meet fellow Championship side Fulham, at Aldershot, on July 19.

A double-header then takes place on July 23, when Albion travel to Luton Town (2pm) and then Stevenage (5.30pm).

A home game is also set to take place on the weekend of July 29-31.

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George Garton is relishing the unexpected opportunities he is having to make his name at Sussex.

The 19-year-old left-armer, who is in his first year on the professional staff at Hove, has already taken seven wickets in three games in the Specsavers County Championship and now finds himself in the Royal London One-Day Cup team.

Garton has acquitted himself well with the white ball too. He took two wickets against Essex on his List A debut in front of the Sky cameras on Monday and another on Wednesday at Glamorgan.

“I’m playing more than I thought,” he admitted. “As long as you are in and around the squad and learning that’s a bonus and I did think I’d get a game or two this season, but to be put in straight away in the Championship was a boost for my confidence. “(Captain) Luke Wright said at the start of the season that he wanted to give youngsters

a go so that they keep pushing the more experienced players.

But we have to earn it with good performances in the second team, and that’s happened when you think of me and guys like Stuart Whittingham and even Lewis Hatchett.”

Garton seemed unfazed at making his one-day debut live on TV. He is quicker than his slender frame might suggest and he swings the ball too.

“I played a lot of 50over cricket at school and the Under-19 World Cup in the winter so I have an understanding of how I want to bowl, how I can get wickets and defend runs in that format,” he added. “I have enjoyed the opportunity but I know there are things I can improve and that I have to do – otherwise someone will come and take my place.”

Sussex host Kent at Hove in the T20 Blast tonight, before they entertain Middlesex in the Royal London OneDay Cup on Sunday. A trip to Surrey follows in the 50over competition on Tuesday, before they visit Middlesex in the T20 Blast on Thursday.

PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE

George Garton takes a catch off his own bowling in Sussex’s defeat to Essex on Monday

County squad named Sophie and Aileen get Sussex call

Albion appoint Nevin new first-team coach Brighton & Hove Albion have named former Premier League head of coaching Paul Nevin their new first-team coach.

Nevin, who worked alongside Chris Hughton and Colin Calderwood during their time at Norwich City, replaces Nathan Jones, who left to become Luton Town manager in January.

Albion manager Hughton said: “Paul is an excellent coach and a good appointment for the club. I’m delighted he is on board and looking forward to working with him again.

“He has top-level experience from eight years with Fulham, his time in New Zealand and with Norwich; he has also worked for the Football Association and Premier League. Alongside Colin, Ben and myself he will bring a fresh perspective and different voice to the coaching mix.”

Londoner Nevin, 46, played for Shrewsbury Town, Carlisle United and Yeovil Town, and also had a four-year spell playing in America. He began his coaching career with Fulham, where he worked as an academy coach and reserve-team manager and managed New Zealand Knights, before returning to the UK with Norwich in 2013. He has most recently been head of academy coaching at the Premier League, a role he began in 2014.

Simon Rusk, who covered as first-team coach during the season run-in, reverts to the position of under-21 coach, a role he combined with first-team duties during the second half of the season.

Hughton said: “Simon stepped up and did an excellent job. He is an exceptional young coach with a very bright future ahead, and I’m delighted we have him in charge of our under-21 group.

“The importance of the under-21 group increases this season, with no option of emergency loans, and therefore it will be of huge benefit to have such a strong lead coach, but also one who’s had that time with the first-team group.”

Albion women to compete in Premier League Charity Trophy PIICTURE BY GEOFF PENN

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Dyke’s Sophie Kennard and Pyecombe’s Aileen Greenfield have both been named in the Sussex county ladies’ golf team for 2016. They will compete against Surrey, Hampshire, Kent and Middlesex later this month. Last year, Sussex emerged victorious and represented the south region in the national finals, finishing runners-up to Nottinghamshire.

Brighton & Hove Albion’s women’s team will compete for the FA Women’s Premier League Charity Trophy on Sunday as winners of the WPL Championship play-offfinal.

Albion will play a team made up of pioneers, heroes and role models from women’s football at Leamington, with a 2pm kick-off. The match will raise funds and awareness for Breast Cancer Care.

Brighton will come up against current England assistant coach Marieanne

Albion in action in their play-off final win against Sporting Albion

Spacey, along with Pauline Cope-Boanas, Rachel Brown, Rachel Unitt and Lindsay Johnson, who all have multiple England caps.

FA WPL chairman Carol West said: “While there is an obvious serious side to the event, I’m sure the characters involved will make it a hugely-enjoyable day for all involved.”

Brighton’s promotion to the FA Women’s Super League was confirmed last week, after they beat Sporting Albion 4-2 in the play-off final.

The club successfully met on and off-field licencing criteria, including finance and business management, facilities, playing and support staff, and marketing requirements.

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Johnny Cantor Straight from the commentary box

Which obscure individuals will shine in France?

K

arel Poborský. Remember the name? Well, some younger readers may not but he was one of several footballers over the years who have made their mark for their country at a European Championships.

The Czech international’s lob at Euro 1996 is a vivid memory from that competition for me. The man who could have featured in the hair bear bunch for his distinctive ‘barnet’ secured contracts at Manchester United, Benfica and Lazio. Not a bad career. As this year’s tournament approaches, only those who have diligently collected their Panini stickers may have an inkling of the more obscure individuals who may well shine in France, and possibly beyond into leagues this side of the channel.

In this year’s Czech squad is Albion’s Jiri Skalak. Another outstanding hair cut but will

he have an impact? His game time may be limited but he will take heart from those in years gone by who have taken advantage of the spotlight thrown onto them.

If you examine the Championship for next season we can already see the quality of the managers (well, who start the season, anyway). What about the standard of players?

With budgets at an all-time high, it would not surprise me to see a few relatively unknown names head to England’s second division this year, as well as the Premier League.

The path to English football may become more difficult as the political backdrop may alter in the coming months and years and I think it would be fair to say many ex Albion players would not have featured in the blue and white stripes if the Brexit points system had been adopted over recent years.

I still think the quality of players in the Championship will continue to improve

and it still would not surprise me if a few current unknowns are given a chance, having impressed at the Euros and with the appropriate points from international appearances under current regulations to move here.

There may be no Ballotelli, no Costa, no Reus, no Kompany but that may not matter, we may be able to celebrate Shkelzen Gashi or Igor Smolnikov. The youngsters padding their pictures into their sticker books right now may be gutted at the moment as the Austrian or Hungarian players aren’t famous but they all go some way to ‘completing the set’.

For every Van Basten or Hazard, you need a Poborský or Skalak. Those youngsters and even Championship managers may be glad they’ve got them by the time 2017 comes around. If they don’t, well it makes me feel better about getting Albania in the sweepstake at the office!

Sussex pay for dropped catches at Glamorgan PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE

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Ryder hits a ton to guide Essex to impressive win Royal London One-Day Cup

Jesse Ryder scored his ninth List A hundred as Essex pulled off a successful run chase to beat Sussex on Monday evening.

Havingoverhauledatarget of 310 to beat Hampshire on Sunday when Ryder made 71, they beat South Group rivals Sussex by five wickets with six balls to spare under the Hove floodlights after being set 272 to win.

Three Sussex batsmen made half-centuries but neither Ed Joyce (73), Luke Wright (50) or Ross Taylor (50) were able to go on and play the sort of innings Ryder would produce on a pitch which played well despite being used for the third time in five days.

Ryder accelerated after

Royal London One-Day Cup

By Graham Clutton

Sussex were made to pay for four dropped catches as they lost by 84 runs away to Glamorgan on Wednesday evening.

Glamorgan posted 302 for six from their 50 overs, before Sussex were bowled out for 218 and visiting captain Luke Wright said: “Catches win matches and tonight we didn’t take ours and they did. That was the difference.

“Had we have taken those catches, they would not have built so many big partnerships and it would have been a different game.

“That’s frustrating although nobody does it on purpose.

“I was also frustrated with the fact that we didn’t chase as well as I thought we might.

300 was a good score, but I felt we could chase it down.

However, we have to put that behind us now and move on.”

Glamorgan chose to bat first on a wicket that provided precious little assistance to the visiting bowlers, from start to finish.

The hosts took a while to get going but having come to terms with the pace of the wicket, Will Bragg (42) and Colin Ingram (13) put on 68 for the third wicket, before 19-year-old Aneurin Donald and wicketkeeper batsman

PICTURE BY ANGELA BRINKHURST

scoring his first 50 off a relatively sedate 71 balls, reaching his hundred from a further 38 deliveries with six fours and three sixes.

With nine overs left and 80 needed the odds favoured Sussex, but Ryder and Ryan Ten Doeschate plundered 83 in 9.3 overs.

When Ryder was yorked

by Chris Jordan for 100, Ten Doeschate, who finished unbeaten on 48, got the job done, hitting Ajmal Shahzad for four and six at the start of the penultimate over before former Sussex player Ashar Zaidi struck successive boundaries to seal an impressive victory.

Sussex captain Wright said: “We fought hard but it needed one of our batsmen to do what Ryder did and go on and get a hundred.”

PICTURE BY PHIL WESTLAKE

Luke Wright top-scored with 65 for Sussex in their defeat to Glamorgan on Wednesday

Chris Cooke added 69 for the fourth. Donald, who came into the game with three 50s in his previous five innings, helped himself to another half century, off 55 balls.

Graham Wagg changed the game in Glamorgan’s favour in a 112-run stand for the fifth wicket with Cooke. Wagg struck52off37ballsandCooke fell for 80 from 67 deliveries as Glamorgan finished on 302-6.

In reply, Sussex lost Chris Nash for 12, run out by Dean Cosker, before Ed Joyce pulled

a short delivery from Craig Meschede to Wagg, at deep square leg with the score on 64.

With the wicket becoming slower, Sussex found runs hard to come by. After falling to 90-4, Wright and Ben Brown (31) provided some resistance, with 68 for the fifth wicket, but when the latter pulled a short ball from Wagg to Ingram at mid-on, Glamorgan must have felt they were home and dry.

In the end, they were.

Wright and Chris Jordan struck one or two lusty blows beforetheSussexcaptain,who helped himself to six fours and two sixes in a 48-ball innings of 65, top edged Michael Hogan to mid on, where Ingram took a magnificent, tumbling, onehanded catch.

Donald took an equally spectacular catch to dismiss Jordan (22), before Hogan sent back George Garton, Ajmal Shahzad and Steve Magoffin as Sussex were bowled out for 218 in the 43rd over.

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