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Simmer Down Scorches Brum HOMECOMING FOR PATO BANTON

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An Evening With Sir Bradley Wiggins

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ritain’s most decorated Olympian Sir Bradley Wiggins will be touring theatres throughout the UK with his insightful and at times hilarious live show, hitting Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on the 20th September ‘Bradley Wiggins: An Evening With’ provides a rare opportunity for fans to see the five-time Olympic Gold medallist and Tour De France winner share exclusive tales, prized memorabilia and career highlights in a unique and intimate live setting. A British household name and undeniable national treasure, Bradley Wiggins holds the iconic track hour record and is the only cyclist who has won World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road along with winning the Tour De France.

Sir Bradley said: “I am really excited to get back on the road again with Icons. Cycling has always been my passion so to share my experiences, my journey and my own collection of memorabilia is fantastic.”

His easy charm in front of the press is legendary and he won the 2012 BBC Sports Personal-

ity of the Year Award (voted for by the public), helping cycling smash its way into the mainstream. 2013 brought further success, including the Tour of Britain title, and in 2014 Wiggins added the rainbow jersey to his collection by winning the World Time Trial Championships.

The Summer of 2016 saw Wiggins win his 5th and final Gold medal at the Rio Olympics in the team pursuit

and his eighth Olympic medal overall, making him Britain’s most decorated Olympian ever and rounding off one of the most impressive sporting careers the nation has ever witnessed.

Sir Bradley Wiggins’ UKwide tour starts at the Lincoln Engine Shed, on September 6, before finishing at the Wimbledon New Theatre on October 6.

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Q&A With Ferris & Sylvester

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e met up with Ferris and Sylvester after their Glastonbury slots this year to find out what is next for the duo!

You played an amazing 5 sets at Glastonbury this year! How did you find it? What was your favourite moment?

We did Glastonbury!! It was the first time for both of us and that made it really special. Doing 5 sets over the weekend was exhausting and meant we were wheeling our gear around in a wagon most of the time, having people recognise us as we sweated up the hills!

But each show was worth it. A huge highlight was playing the BBC Introducing Stage. It was such an honour and the crowd was amazing.

There’s always so much going on at Glastonbury and we were terrified no one would show up to watch. But people came and sang along with us, which was the best feeling.

It really is like no other festival the site is huge and there’s always something to do or amazing bands to watch. The energy of the place was on another level.

How is the album coming along? Can we expect any new music soon?

We’re so excited about writing our album. It’s been our priority this year, whether that’s locking ourselves away for a week and writing constantly, or writing on

Musicians jazz-up Peaky Blinders launch The Town Hall Birmingham hosted the exclusive launch of the hotly anticipated fifth series of the BAFTA-award-winning ‘Peaky Blinders’, the epic gangster series set in 1920s’ Birmingham.

Home to many a historical drama in its near-200-year history, Town Hall Birmingham greeted the series’ stars and fans with a spectacular red carpet event organised by BBC Birmingham and BBC One, and music provided

by Jazzlines musicians playing their own jazz repertoire from the 1920s onwards.

Jasmine, a local 17-year-old musician who performed with the Jazzlines Ensemble at the launch said: “Jazzlines Ensembles is brilliant to be a part of, not only for this once in a lifetime experience at the Peaky Blinders premiere but for my long term musical education.”

Jazzlines’ unique programme of creative jazz and talent devel-

opment, based at Town Hall and Symphony Hall Birmingham, offers performance opportunities to new and established jazz musician at venues across the city, and commissions new work to support future performances and ensure a legacy for new projects.

Jazz Programme Manager, Mary Wakelam Sloan, said: “Alongside our year round talent development programme we are delighted to be able to offer unique performance opportunities like this for talented young musicians from Birmingham.”

Series five of Peaky Blinders finds the world thrown into turmoil by the financial crash of 1929.

Peaky Blinders’ fans watched the season premiere before anyone else, saw their show favourites, and put questions to the cast and creators during a special question and answer panel straight after the first episode.

the road in-between soundchecks and in hotel rooms.

There’s a lot of new music to be excited about and we can’t wait to lay it down. We’re taking it one day at a time, but we’re getting closer to getting it out in the world. New music is coming soon…

Your UK tour in February sold out! Did you ever expect you’d receive such a great response?

We did not expect it at all, we were blown away by the turn out.

It was our first ever headline tour and was such a big deal for us.

We’re an independent band and had worked so hard last year to generate a fanbase, but it wasn’t until the tour that we realised that fanbase truly existed.

Every show was a unique experience and we took something away from each one. If we had to pick a favourite, it would be The Cavern in Exeter, Archie’s home show.

We could have played for hours, it was magical in there. We can’t wait to play The Phoenix in Exeter this October.

You’ve now announced a massive UK tour for September/October. What’s the best bit about getting back out there?

We get to do it all over again!

This one is a lot bigger than the last - we’re doing over 20 dates in the UK & Ireland and we’re going with the band.

We’ll be touring a lot of the ma-

terial from the album we’re working on, which feels massive.

Since our last one, we’ve been writing and touring constantly, and to tour as headliners for the second time this year feels great.

We’re ready!

What do you think will be your biggest motivation whilst on tour?

Playing our new songs. We’ve really changed things up with our live set. This time, we’ll have our band which takes it up a notch.

Playing new songs in a new set up feels so fresh and will keep us on our toes every night.

Over the summer months, our set is short, punchy and loud in order to grab people’s attentions at busy festivals. But recently, we’ve stripped it back to just vocals and soft guitar or keys for a couple of numbers and let it just be about the song.

What is the one thing you want to achieve in 2019, and what can fans expect from Ferris & Sylvester this year?

We want to finish writing our album. This year’s been all about the writing. Whether we feel it’s right to release it or not this year, we want to create a full body of work that we’re proud of.

In the mean time, we’ve been touring pretty much non-stop. Our Autumn Tour will certainly be a major highlight.

It’s been a truly amazing year so far and we cannot wait to share our new music with you all.

5th Indian Film Festival proves a hit with audiences The 5th anniversary of Birmingham Indian Film Festival opened with Director Anubhav Sinha walking the red carpet at Cineworld, Broad Street for his hard-hitting thriller ‘Article 15’, with a sold-out screening of Ritesh Batra’s ‘Photograph’ at MAC Birmingham.

Eleven days of 16 screenings and events; at its partner venues; Cineworld, Birmingham, MAC Birmingham, The Mockingbird Cinema, Centrala and Medicine Bakery and Gallery, showcased a number of high profile and emerging women film-makers films, Q&A’s with Directors as well as a rarely seen documentary and special screenings of LGBTQ+ shorts attended by a diverse audience.

The Festival’s first ‘Screen Talk’ took place at The Mockingbird Cinema with India’s leading cult iconic Director Anurag Kashyap.

Other guests during the Festival included investigative journalist and activist, Anand Patwardhan, legendary Bengali director, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Kannada actress Anju Alva Naik and directors Praveen Morchhale and Gaurav Bakshi.

This year’s inaugural BIFF Audience Award went to the charming romance ‘Sir’, directed by Rohena Gera which took the Cannes film

festival by storm in 2018. The award, which has been running at the Bagri London Indian Film Festival for 7 years, marks the first time it has been presented to a female director.

Gera said “I am truly delighted that ‘Sir’ has won the Audience Award in Birmingham. It means a lot to me that the film connects with the audience at the heart of the UK. I am honoured to be their favourite.”

The Satyajit Ray Short Film Award went to Rohan Parashuram Kanawade for U Ushacha who was presented with £1000 from the Satyajit Ray Foundation at the closing night of the London festival.

Executive and Programming Director, Cary Rajinder Sawhney MBE, said: “I’m delighted that we have showcased our strongest film selection ever for the 5th anniversary of Birmingham Indian Film Festival, helmed by the Birmingham premiere of politically daring film ‘Article 15’.

Continuing to push boundaries of diversity, I’m pleased that our women protagonist led and LGBTQ+ themes have seen audiences flocking to them, redefining images of Indian and South Asian Culture in the media.”

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Simmer Dow

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by Steve Williams

he sun came out in its quenching glory as the annual Simmer Down Festival returned as revellers from all corners of the UK descended on one of Birmingham’s popular parks for another intense day of music, dance, food, drink culture, and incredible performances from some of the biggest reggae stars around - with the very best again provided a great day of free family fun and entertainment which provided

the perfect ‘window’ to highlight the very best of an area which is too often tarnished by negative media.

Bringing some of the biggest names in their fields to Handsworth Park, in Birmingham, the likes of legendary singers; Horace Andy, Earl 16 and the homecoming of city’s own Pato Banton and his Now Generation Band (Los Angeles-based Pato dedicating his performance to his mother – Mama Lilly) headlining the Crucial Mainstage as fans from near and far were treated to an-

other day-long feast of fun, frivolity and great music.

Despite the disappointing absence of No.1 headline act, and reggae legend, Johnny Clarke, with the likes of Birmingham’s own JK & The Goldmind Band, Afromanding, Amy G, A Doubles, Dub Asante Band, Rock N' Dhol and the Commonwealth Drum Orchestra blasting out their own individual blend of great music; plus the great array of exiting funfair rides in offer what was there not to love at this; the city’s biggest outdoor free music

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Opening The Cyrille Regis Hall and Celebration of A Successful School Year

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l Julia Regis talking at the Annual Praise Service elebrating the life and achievements of one of the regions greatest footballers alongside the success of both students and staff at the school, King Solomon International Business School held its Annual Praise Service in its new Sports Hall.

Named “The Cyrille Regis Hall” following the blessing of Cyrille’s family, including wife Julia and daughter Michelle, who were both present at the service, it is a tribute to the great footballer who inspired so many.

Speaking on the day, daughter Michelle said “It’s excellent, it really reflects what his character was about, what he achieved, even

though he didn’t achieve it on purpose.

“He didn’t go out on the pitch to break barriers and change people’s hearts, but to see a school do it with purpose from the beginning makes me really proud that my dad’s name is on this hall.”

Dr Cheron Byfield, Founder and Trust Member of King Solomon IBS honoured a number of volunteers during the service, highlighting the important work that they do throughout the school for free, just to help the students.

She also spoke about her joy at seeing the school grow, “It’s about a vision being unfolded that takes time for the vision to be completed, so this is another landmark occasion

Honouring A Role Model For All & Celebrating Student Success within the unfolding of the vision that we have the school the facilities and opportunities that we provided for the students.”

There were reports and praise on the Primary and Secondary schools, from Head of Primary Helen Kent and Head of Secondary David Dunkley respectively, as well as a PE Department presentation by Head of PE Kesia Nagle.

Following a tribute video about Cyrille Regis, his widow Julia took to the microphone to thank the school, and elaborate some more about the work that the Cyrille Regis Legacy Trust are doing.

“I thought it was beautiful and I remember coming to visit the school before it was as it is now, when

Sharon just moved in here, before the refurbishments and hearing her vision and hearing what she wanted to achieve in the school,” explained Julia.

“It’s a place where young people can really develop holistically and are allowed to be really open about their faith.

“Just before Cyrille passed away I came back and visited the school again, and I’ve come back couple of times since.

“It’s just wonderful to see the growth, and to see how young people are growing and developing and demonstrating passion and excellence, determination and all those values that are really important.”

Trust Member Professor Chris

l Julia Regis with daughter

Imafidon had come up specially from London for the event, he said “It’s fantastic for the children to know that there are a lot of role models and to get them inspired.

“They’re not just doing it because of the name of the person, but because of the documented achievements Cyrille.”

Hearing the achievements of the school in such a short period of time, and the plans that they have for the future, at least for the students at King Solomon International Business School, the future is very bright.

With this multifunctional space now added next to the impressive school building in the heart of the city, the only way is up.

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l Professor Martin Levermore, Wade Lyn and Suzanne Lynch

l Professor Chris Imafidon & Marcia McLaughlin

l Julia Regis with Marcia McLaughlin

l Professor Chris Imafidon & Steven Brooks

l Michelle Regis with Marcia McLaughlin

l Michelle Regis addresses

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l Bishop David Carr OBE

l Founder Dr Cheron Byfield

l Head of Primary Helen Kent

l Head of Secondary David Dunkley

l Head of PE Kesia Nagle

l Rev. David Illingworth

Michelle and students from both the Primary and Secondary after officially opening the hall.

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l The Official Cutting of the Ribbon to open the hall

l Watching the tribute to Cyrille Regis

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Recognising The Unsung Heroes

During the Annual Praise Service in the new Cyrille Regis Hall, the school paid tribute to the volunteers that offer their time every week.

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music festival proves to be best ever festival?

Now in its ninth year, this Simmer Down Festival - sponsors Crucial Sauce and supported by the Arts Council - provided the ultimate carnival atmosphere in an always friendly and relaxed surroundings and his contribution that was something to behold.

Simmer Down Festival director, Mukhtar Dar, said: “With Simmer Down adding to our rich reggae legacy and it being very much part of Birmingham City Council’s festival strategy in celebrating our rich cul-

tural diversity and unity - and with it now being, arguably, the largest free and diverse ‘flagship’ family outdoor festival in the UK, I am proud that it stands out at the head of its field and that with this, we continue its unique ability of total multicultural inclusion at its very best - the likes of which brings out the every-day united life of this part of our city”.

He went on to say: “I’d like to give a massive ‘Big Up’ to Pato (Banton) for his undying support throughout the built up of Simmer Down – and

on the day itself.

“His homecoming was massive for us. His contribution from the get-go we can’t thank him enough for.

All the artists who performed on the two stages (especially, of course, internationally-known reggae legend, Horace Andy) the volunteer workers on the day and, more importantly, the thousands who converged onto Handsworth Park, made Simmer Down Festival 2019 probably the most memorable yet”.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet make dreams come true

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fter twice m a k i n g D r e a m s a reality in Birmingham, Birmingham Royal Ballet is taking its inspirational Dreams project on the road.

This large-scale performance project offers a truly unique opportunity for ballet students of all ages to create life-long memories performing on stage alongside some of BRB’s Company dancers in a special public performance of a muchloved ballet.

This will be the third Dreams project run

by BRB’s Learning, Engagement, Access and Participation team.

This year’s Dreams takes on one of the bestloved ballet tales, Swan

Lake, inspired by the Company’s production of the classic ballet in the Spring of 2020.

In 2020 Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates its 30th anniversary and to mark this special occasion the Dreams project will for the first time take place outside Birmingham, with performances at the Mayflower Theatre Southampton and the Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Dreams will also return for a third year to Birmingham Hippodrome, where the dancers will be joined by the talented Undergraduate students of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Orchestra.

Swan Lake Dreams will be performed at three theatres in early 2020.

• Mayflower Theatre,

Southampton: Sunday 2 February 2020 • Birmingham Hippodrome: Sunday 23 February 2020 • Theatre Royal, Plymouth: Tuesday 31 March 2020 Dreams will be a truly unique experience giving students from local dance schools the opportunity to train, rehearse and perform the iconic ballet Swan Lake in costume within the Swan Lake set alongside dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet.

develop their technique and talent. Offering a fantastic opportunity that includes not only training with professional dancers but performing with them, it also enables the participants to work together, build trust and relationships and then showcase their achievements in a professional environment.

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The project aims to develop talent and raise aspiration, primarily aimed at aged nine - 18, but with applications also open to people of all ages with ballet experience, it will inspire the participants and

Joe Visits Birmingham Ahead of Bravery To The Bell Charity Event Joe McElderry made his way to Birmingham’s Symphony Hall with Suzanne Shaw ahead of his performance there on the 22nd September.

The wonderful event will see Fleur East, Joe McElderry, Flawless, Britain’s Got Talent illusionist ‘X’ -Marc Spelmann, West End’s Aladdin Matt Croke, X Factor’s Lauren Platt and many more come together to provide audiences with an evening of superb entertainment suitable for the whole family to celebrate the success of the charity Children with Cancer UK. Children with Cancer UK is a

leading national children’s charity dedicated to raising and investing money for vital specialist childhood cancer research and support services for families, with the aim of helping more children with cancer ring the end of treatment bell. To date, it has raised over £230 million and funded over 200 research projects.

With all proceeds going to Children with Cancer UK, this is your chance to support an incredible cause whilst enjoying some of the best talent the UK has to offer.

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Shakespears Sister are no longer history they are here to stay!

By Mandip Singh Taunque

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t has been 26 years since Shakespears Sister members Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit broke up but now they have buried the hatchet and are back together again to release a stunning new compilation album ‘Shakespears Sister Singles Party 1988-2019’.

But that’s not all the duo has also announced the ‘Ride Again’ tour which commences in Nottingham on Halloween night – an apt time considering their dark, gothic persona which became their image in the early 90s.

Famous for hits such as their massive 8-week number 1 hit ‘Stay’ which has been a widely covered song on the X-factor during their Halloween themed shows, ‘Your History’ and ‘I Don’t Care’, Siobhan and Marcella have recorded two new brand new songs

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August 02 The Primitives 05 Chapter 13 09 Catapult Club ft. Wakening The Hollow 10 Supercat 16 Catapult Club ft. Hit The Floor 18 Patent Pending 22 Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals 23 Catapult Club ft. Nova Bloom 31 Clarion

16-18 Magic Fest Birmingham 23-26 Insomnia65 - The UK’s Biggest Gaming Festival

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August 02 Lucinda Williams 08 Celeste Barber - Challenge Accepted 18 Got 2 Sing Choir proudly presents THIS IS US! 18 NCO: Dream, Fantasy, Nightmare 20-25 Tabby McTat

21 CBSO & Sheku KannehMason: Elgar’s Cello Concerto 23 THSH Reggae Choir Workshop 23 Pankaj Udhas Live 25 CBSO: Mirga conducts Mahler’s Fourth

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August 16 Black Angus (ACDC) and Sack Sabbath 17 Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club

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‘All the Queen’s Horses’ and ‘C U Next Tuesday’ for the new compilation album.

Also included are songs Siobhan recorded after Marcella was no longer in the band.

Fans at the time know that Shakespears sister was no ordinary girl band – Marcella was already well established.

In her career, she has opened for David Bowie, recorded with Eric Clapton, co-writing one of his biggest hits, ‘Lay Down Sally’, toured and done session work for some of the biggest artists of all-time including Elton John, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Belinda Carlisle and Bette Midler among many more.

Siobhan had already scored massive global hits whilst being one third of the original line up of Bananarama including ‘Cruel summer’, ‘Robert De Niro’s Waiting’ and ‘Venus’ – She is credited with being part of Britain’s most

successful girl group with Bananarama as recognised by the Guinness Book of Records whilst both Siobhan and Marcella still hold the record for the longest stint at number 1 in the UK singles chart with ‘Stay’.

Shakespears sister formed in 1988 and released their first album ‘Sacred Heart’ in 1989 which reached number 9 in the UK charts.

However, it wasn’t until 1992 when their second album ‘Hormonally Yours’ came out that they hit the big time.

The album went top 3 and stayed in the charts for a huge 55 weeks.

The album earned them an Ivor Novello award, a music video Brit award for ‘Stay’ and critical acclaim around the world.

They performed at Glastonbury the same year – a massive moment when so few women in pop or rock had ever headlined such an iconic music festival.

The amazing pitch of Marcella coupled with the dark husky sound of Siobhan make them a girl group that has no comparison. During their 26-year split both Marcella and Siobhan have released solo albums and whilst they clearly have bags of talent, they have a certain magic and energy when they perform together.

The band hit the road later this year but if you need a reminder why we need Shakespears Sister check out ‘Singles Party’ out now!

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Sell Out Success For DVLA 30th Anniversary DVLA Personalised Registrations’ 30th anniversary auction will go down in the Agency’s annals as being the first in its history of multi-day live auctions to record a 100 per cent sales success.

Shortly before the close of play on Friday evening, the personalised registration 34 YOL became the only one of the 1,250 lots on offer that remained unsold.

However, that was bought for its £1,200 reserve over the weekend, ensuring the complete sales success.

Last week’s three-day sale held at The Vale Resort near Cardiff lived up to all expectations and proved to be a headline-grabbing event when, on Thursday, retired businessman Ian Guest from Barnard Castle bought IG 1 for £222,000 which, with fees, ensured a £287,792 purchase.

His success ensured IG 1 became the DVLA’s third highestselling personalised registration of all time behind 25 O and 1 D which sold for £400,000 in 2014 and £285,000 in 2009 respectively.

Moments after his success, Mr Guest said: “That was incredible.

When the price went to £100,000 everything really became a haze.

My wife expected me to pay between £240,000 and £260,000 but in all honesty I never thought it would go so high. That said, I drove down with a limit of £400,000 in mind!”

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CONCOURS OF ELEGANCE Gain 2 New Jaguars

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he first production Jaguar D-Type, one of history’s most prominent race cars, is set to star at the 2019 Concours of Elegance.

Chassis XKD 509 is widely known as one of the most original D-Types in the world, with significant road and racing history, and will join the 15th E-Type FHC ever built in a lineup of the world’s rarest and most significant cars.

The 3.4-litre straight-six powered 1950s racer is possibly the most original D-Type in existence. It

has kept its matching-numbers engine, gearbox and chassis, including the front subframe and monocoque centre-section.

Its 1970s black body respray is still very much in its original condition, but was applied to the car to replace one of the most iconic in-period American racing liveries.

While under the ownership of Lu Brero Sr, Chassis XKD 509 sported a wonderful matte dark blue on white colour-scheme with five unique vertical stripes down the length of the car.

It was privately raced at tracks all over the globe, achieving podium spots and victories at a number of world-class motoring events.

The first production Jaguar D-Type will take pride-ofp l a c e in the

palace gardens alongside the 15th E-Type FHC ever built.

One of six E-Types displayed at the 1961 Scottish Motor Show, this particular example of the iconic British sportscar has played an incredibly significant role in the history of one of the country’s most renowned automotive manufacturers.

Having moved into private ownership in 1976, it was dismantled some twenty years ago with the intention of having it fully-restored, but E-Type #15 was left in pieces until it was purchased in 2013.

Škoda Develops Technology To Combat In-Car Hay Fever Suffering ŠKODA has revealed the latest technology in its new Scala that could spell the end of hay fever symptoms in cars and delight the 13 million people in the UK who are plagued by the condition every summer.

With hay fever season in full swing and pollen counts expected to reach ‘very high’ levels this week, drivers are being advised to avoid drowsiness inducing medication, keep windows closed and put the air conditioning on recycle air mode.

However, Scala’s state-ofthe-art dual zone Climatronic air-conditioning means drivers and passengers no longer need to take their own precautions as the technology defaults to an energy-saving recirculation mode and stops the pollen entering the inside of the car helping to reduce symptoms of sneezing, coughing and itchy eyes.

Unlike normal air-conditioning systems, the Scala uses a special cabin filter and air quality sensor to filter out the pollen. Once sneeze-inducing air particles are sensed, the system will automatically shut off the outside air inlet to stop the air particles from entering the car.

The sophisticated Climatronic system also acts to provide quick relief in sweltering temperatures.