Brighton & Hove Independent - 28 November 2014

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City councillors have been briefed about a hugely-ambitious blueprint to transform the seafront, from the Brighton Centre to Black Rock.

The confidential proposals are expected to cost at least £450 million and generate up to 2,000

jobs.Plans envisage the demolition

of the Brighton Centre and the Kingswest complex - widely regarded as two of the ugliest buildings in the city - to allow the expansion of Churchill Square Shopping Centre down to Kings Road.

Crucial to the viability of the plans - drawn up by council officers, in consultation with Standard Life Investments, which owns Churchill Square - could be

a 20-storey apartment block at the bottom of West Street.

A new conference and entertainment centre, with seating for up to 10,000 people - twice the capacity of the Brighton Centre - is being proposed for the long-derelict, council-owned Black Rock site near Brighton Marina.

One well-informed source said: “The Brighton Centre is long past its sell-by date. And, despite some initial reservations about the

distance, I think Black Rock could be a solution."

The new venue, which would be capable of attracting global conferences and world-class performers, would be linked to the city centre by a rapid-transit system. Although nothing has been ruled in or out, the possibility of a high-speed monorail is not thought likely, according to one source.

The grand design would also provide opportunities to enhance

Madeira Drive, including The Terraces, while also giving a welcome boost to Brighton Marina.

Standard Life is understood to have been the catalyst for outline proposals that have been discussed in private by a three-person working party of councillors, headed by Councillor Geoffrey Bowden, the Green chair of the council's economic development

THE £450m PLAN FOR BRIGHTON SEAFRONT■ New 10,000-seat 'Brighton Centre'■ Extension of Churchill Square■ High-speed transit scheme■ 20-storey apartment block■ 2,000 jobs for the city

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and culture committee, and including Councillor Alan Robins, for Labour, and Councillor Vanessa Brown, for the Conservatives.

A special meeting of the city council's powerful policy and resources committee has been fixed for 10am on Tuesday, December 16.

Green councillors and Conservative councillors were

briefed on Monday; the Labour Group was briefed on Tuesday evening. All were urged to keep the commercially-confidential information under wraps.

Standard Life Investments, one of Europe's most successful asset managers, has been keen to secure a degree of cross-party support for the project before investing millions of pounds – possibly £10 million – just to develop the plans further.

It does not want a once-

in-a-generation development opportunity to be mired in the sort of political bickering and heel-dragging that delayed the go-ahead for the i360.

Proponents accept that the draft plans require much more work before funding can be considered and before possible development partners can be sought.

But they have been heartened by about 50 applications from developers who might be interested in coming forward

with plans to build 400 homes and a new leisure centre on the site of the King Alfred Leisure Centre on Hove seafront. It is estimated such a development could cost £40 million.

Brighton and Hove City Council placed advertisements in Estates Gazette, the property trade publication, and in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) last month, with a November 10 deadline for submissions.

£450m blueprint for a world-class seafront> Continued from page 1

The Brighton Centre is not the easiest building to love, writes Frank le Duc.

Its style is regarded as brutalist by some. And a consensus grew that it had passed its sell-by date. Plans to replace it have come and gone for years. In the absence of a major redevelopment, linking it to Churchill Square, it was given a makeover a few years ago

to extend its useful life.The council has been in

painfully-slow talks with Standard Life Investments. The latter owns Churchill Square and the Kingswest complex, which have similar architectural merits. The aim is to unify all three sites to create a major retail centre. There are a number of sticking points. They include car-parking capacity, whether

the conference trade could be kept close to key hotels and what level of competition would be permitted nearby.

The credit crunch prolonged the wait for viable plans. And those plans were always likely to involve building up in places as well as joining up the parts. Even modest plans take time. No matter how many storeys, this plot will run for some years yet.

A city has to have ambition. It has to embrace and cherish change. Or at least the possibility of it.

It is early days for the inspiring and imaginative vision - plan and blueprint are headline words - that really could mean a brighter future for Brighton and Hove, for its citizens, and for its visitors.

At last, we have an opportunity to come together to share such a vision for our city and its seafront. Joyfully and collaboratively

- not in a niggardly manner that champions yesterday at the expense of the today - and tomorrow.

Councillor Geoffrey Bowden - and all concerned - are to be congratulated for a brave attempt to take at least the first tentative steps towards creating a legacy that lasts beyond this generation.

We should wish them well and join them on the journey. We owe it to future generations.

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Black Rock has what estate agents would describe as potential, writes Frank le Duc.

Ambitious schemes for ice-skating or a concert venue have vied with the desire for better coach parking. A hotel, a spa,

and a health centre have all been proposed.

Some will remember a swimming pool there. The dynamic has certainly changed since the Brighton Marina was built in the 1970s, a few years before the pool closed.

The site presents many challenges to any potential developer, not least those related to transport.

There are several people with vision who have seen their dreams crash against this distant shore.

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Government spending on local services has more than halved since 2009, according to the Financial Times.

Councils have been worst hit of all by government cuts, seeing their funding slashed by 55% in the last five years.

Other councils aren’t coping as well as we have to date; many across the country have long closed essential services such as libraries and children’s centres. Some are rumoured to be on the brink of financial collapse, squeezed between the coalition’s axe and growing demand for services.

So far in Brighton and Hove, we’ve absorbed the reductions in funding with minor increases

in council tax - and through finding new sources of income for frontline services and making genuine efficiencies like halving

the number of buildings we use, and reducing the costs of senior management.

We’ve managed to bring in more than £64 million to the city from outside funding pots - a third of that for transport schemes - and have greened council buildings to cut energy bills.

This coming year, however, will be different. The government cuts are the biggest yet, and the city faces with some awful decisions

about what local services can afford to run in the future.

A council tax rise is one of the very few ways in which

we will be able to protect services now and into the future. Under our proposals for a referendum on a 5.9% council tax increase, the majority of the city’s households would pay an additional

£1.32 a week or less to safeguard services they value, and protect the city's most vulnerable from the worst of the government’s cuts.

We utterly disagree with the Conservative-Labour-LibDem consensus that Brighton and Hove residents’ services should be cut to pay for the bankers’ economic crash. We call on the other parties to let residents decide on giving our services the lifeline they desperately need.

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Job losses at Brighton and Hove City Council are certain - even with a 5.9% increase in council tax, Brighton & Hove Independent can reveal.

A significant number of redundancies - some of them could be compulsory - might be required, with "service redesigns" in three key areas: CityClean, housing, and learning disability services.

Some services that have been free in the past may have to be charged for under budget proposals to be published today (Friday) by the minority Green administration.

Fears about the harsh choices facing councillors were spelled out by Councillor Ollie Sykes, the Green lead member for finance, who warned about "cliff-edge cuts" as government grants fall next year by £18 milllion.

“Sadly, this time it will hurt," Cllr Sykes said.

“The government cuts are so huge and there's nothing left to squeeze. It means that business will no longer be as usual. Unlike the past, some council services will have to shrink or go. There will be redundancies and there will be protests against those redundancies.”

Even a 5.9% council tax rise would protect only £4 million of services.

Green councillors have already announced that they will seek the increase in council tax to help bridge a £26 million funding gap. They have, however, insisted that they will not support any moves to nearly triple the amount of council tax paid by some of the 16,000 poorest households in the city who benefit from the council's Council Tax Reduction scheme (CTR).

In an exclusive interview, Cllr Sykes said: “We won’t tax the poorest in the city to benefit the better. We will look for alternative ways of positioning our services.”

He said cuts of £70 million had been made by the city council in the last four years and argued local authorities had been forced to make a disproportionate contribution to national deficit reduction. "We think that has gone

far enough and we can’t take any more cuts and basic services are going to start to be affected,” he said.

“The reduction in funding next year is the equivalent of total spending on child disability services, child protection, community safety, parks, planning, highways maintenance and libraries put together. That gives you the idea of the scale.”

He challenged Labour - which is expected to favour a 1.99% council tax increase, the most allowed without a referendum - to come up with their own proposals: “They’re going to have to come up with some pretty swingeing cuts to local services.

“The difference between a freeze budget of the Conservatives and a 'threshold' budget from Labour is about £0.9m - out of £26m.”

■ In a statement, Warren Morgan, leader of the 14 members of the Labour and Co-operative Group - the smallest group on the council - said: “The Greens’ unworkable scheme will only happen if residents voted for a £100-a-year council tax increase in a doomed referendum costing almost a million pounds, one that would hit the very people they claim to be trying to help.

“Instead of calling on the Conservative government to reverse this cut to support local people on low incomes, they are playing political games to try and make Labour look bad ahead of the local elections. Residents have had enough of the Greens and their games, and are now looking to Labour to take the fight to the Tories in May.”

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Council tax, business rates, rents & charges

Government grants

Funding gap

£84m

£26m

£282m

£102m

£39m

£298m

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2015/16£392m

2019/20£439m

£103m

£278m

The funding gap

We expect that these rising costs and reduced funding will result in a budget gap of £102.4m by 2019/20 assuming there is no increase in council tax. In 2015/16 alone we are losing £18 million of grant funding, which together with increased costs, leaves a gap of £26.3 million.

Out of our budget, 51% is ring-fenced for education, housing benefit and council housing.

Our biggest challenge in 2015/16 is the remaining 49%, or £392million, which is funded by council tax, business rates, government grants and fees and charges. This is spent on services like social care for vulnerable children and adults, libraries and transport.

The funding gap will get only worse as government grants shrink to almost nothing

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Imagine there was a “language-sensitivity spectrum” drawn as a line from cool blue to red hot. At the blue end sit those of us who think it doesn’t really matter how a disability or a condition is described. And at the reactive red end sit those of us who are often very uncomfortable with the words and terms used by professionals, friends, family, or passers-by.

My son has Down’s syndrome; he was born with an extra chromosome.

The medical term for this is Trisomy 21. He is not a “Down’s Boy” or a “Special Needs Kid”. And he is definitely not a retard.

First and foremost, he is Leo. I think you can already sense which end of the language spectrum you’ll find me.

Language shifts like fashion. Whatever terms we decide to own for ourselves and for our young people get hijacked. Before you know it, you’re hearing them being bandied disrespectfully around the playground or office in pursuit of a cheap laugh or to cause humiliation.

Even friends will sometimes speak without thinking. For me, once is forgiveable - but repeated ignorance has me heading towards the "exit friendship" door.

I have also had several conversations with friendly people from older generations where the common terms were different and where “truisms” around certain

conditions were the norm: “Downs children are such happy souls” or “Poor boy, wheelchair-bound”, and so on.

On these occasions, I’ve chatted and gently explained that the language is a bit different these days. And that since “community” is really important, I’d hate their friendliness to be rebuffed because of a language misfit.

I think this is a key point. It’s all about the intent behind the words. If the intent is genuine and the words have just “missed”, then you can take a calm breath, step in, and offer your perspective.

It’s helpful to repeat the phrase that works best for you. I might say, for example, “We went to a great picnic with local families who all have a child with Trisomy 21”.

Hearing a phrase to imitate can be a great relief to people who might worry they are being offensive, but who don’t know how to ask for guidance without being more offensive still.

Some parent carers print up simple cards that explain their child’s condition and give an internet source for further info and quietly hand that out. Whatever works for you.

I’d like to stress that I’m not trying to start a revolution here. None of us have had enough sleep for that.

And, of course, there are times when I let comments go by because I’m too tired or too wobbly to engage or because the moment isn’t right.

But I see no reason why we can’t help tweak the language and terms of reference used toward and

around our children.For example, in the phrase

"a young boy who has Down's syndrome", the person comes first, followed by the condition.

By using such "person-centred" language, we can help create a positive sense of identity for our child and their siblings, family, and friends.

This article first appeared in the current edition of Out of Amaze, the newsletter published by Amaze, the Brighton and Hove charity and support group.

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Amaze is changing its language tooAmaze has been debating the use of the term “special needs” for a while now. Although it might have been considered the most cherishing, empowering term a decade ago, meanings have a tricky habit of changing and these days you are just as likely to hear “special” used in an ironic or downright derogatory way in relation to disability.We want to make sure that the language we use reflects both the prevailing terminology used by government and services and the terms parents are happiest with.For this reason, Amaze has changed its “byline” to “Working with parents of children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND)”.It will also gradually replace the use of “special needs” with “additional needs” throughout its literature to reflect a growing desire for recognition that Amaze kids are kids like any other - they just need extra support.

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I am looking at a picture of a hat. A 214-year-old hat. It is a natty black bicorne, made of felt, lined with satin, and it once sat on Napoleon Bonaparte’s big little head. Even more impressive than this relic of war, autocracy, hubris and defeat, is its price tag. It was sold last week for £1.5 million. Yes, someone - a Korean poultry mogul - was willing to shell out a mill and a half for a hat.

Napoleon values remain buoyant, it seems. Back in the 1990s, you could have bought a lock of his hair for a mere £5,700, or a pair of his socks, as worn on St Helena, for a mere £2,990. At the Fontainebleau sale, a couple of his hair clippings went for nearly £10,000 each, bought by a watchmaker who intends installing a hair each in special Napoleonic timepieces, while his socks now fetch similar sums.

If Adolf Hitler is more your thing, then you would naturally wish to own a couple of pistols with which he may (or may not) have committed suicide. They were offered for sale, back in 1998, for $3 million. I’m not sure if anyone bought them, but a pair of the Führer’s binoculars went for £28,125 in 1999, and the following year his hair was being sold at £700 per hair. A snip at the price.

President Kennedy is another world figure whose relics command eye-popping amounts. His bag of golf clubs sold for $772,500 in 1996, a pair of his boxer shorts for $5,000 in 2003, and his old bomber jacket for $570,000 in 2013. A 26-second home movie that showed his assassination was bought by the US government for $16 million

(the owner had demanded $30 million). Meanwhile, the revolver used by Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald fetched $220,000, with the new owner selling bullets fired from the gun at $1,400 a time. Yes, there are people out there willing to pay more than a thousand bucks for a spent bullet.

Winston Churchill’s half-smoked cigars usually fetch at least £1,000 (there are plenty of them around); one dating from 1941 sold in 2010 for £4,500. A homburg hat of his sold for £6,600 in 1991. But a top hat once worn by Franklin D Roosevelt sold in Boston just a couple of months ago for £23,000, while Abraham Lincoln’s glasses made £14,000. The Duke of Windsor’s hankies made $1,000 each in 1998; one of Lady Thatcher’s cast-off handbags fetched £100,000 in 2000.

Dead pop stars command equally stratospheric sums. A lock of John Lennon’s hair fetched £24,000 in 2007 at an auction in Worthing, while a pair of his tinted “granny” specs were valued the same year at £1 million, even though their lenses were missing. The following year, a guitar that had been incinerated on stage by Jimi Hendrix, and which had languished for 40 years in a Hove garage, sold for £280,000. Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” jacket sold in 2011 for $1.8 million, one of his encrusted gloves for $330,000, and his fedora hat (these hats!) for $16,250. A pair of Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes (size 10) sold in 2013 for £53,000.

All this merely goes to show how in our celebrity-obsessed world anything formerly touched by a star becomes itself galactically super-valued.

And incidentally, that Napoleonic hat was far from

unique - which is why it went to Mr Kim Hong-Kuk rather than a French museum. All the museums already have his hats, thank you. There are about 20 of Napoleon’s hats still around (out of 120 he originally owned). That amounts to a small fortune’s worth of old hats.

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Running 2.93 miles from the terminus of his other electric railway at the Banjo Groyne, the brainchild of Magnus Volk, the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway – the ‘Daddy Long Legs’ – was officially opened. The twin tracks were laid to an overall gauge of 18 feet on concrete blocks built into the chalk foreshore about 60 to 100 yards from the cliffs. Just a week after opening, the railway was severely damaged by the storm that wrecked the Chain Pier. The single car was seven metres off the ground and slowed considerably at high tide. In 1900, the council decided to build a beach protection barrier, which required the line to divert around it. Without finances to do so, Volk closed the railway a year later.

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Brighton Fashion Week will open its first pop-up store in The Lanes from November 28 to January 6, showcasing undiscovered talent and helping shoppers find the perfect unique Christmas gift. The boutique will offer clothing, accessories, homeware and greetings cards.

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Fashion Week said: “After the success of Brighton Fashion Week 2014, the next logical step in helping to support the immense talent at the catwalk shows was to provide a space where people can try and buy the outfits. We’re also often asked where to get hold of the products on show after the fashion week, so this store will help bring unique national designers to more Brighton shoppers. “I’m so privileged to have the opportunity to work with the up-and-coming design talent at Brighton Fashion Week and today’s shop opening is just the first of many new ideas we have for the future!”

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Police in Brighton are trying to trace the owner of a chalice that has been recovered.Officers believe that it may have been taken from a church or similar establishment.Sussex Police said: “The yellow metal chalice, which has purple beaded jewels on it in a cross shape, was found in a car when officers stopped it in Dyke Road, Brighton, on (Saturday) September 13” Sussex Police have asked anyone with information to contact them on 101 or email [email protected].


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Bent joins on loan

Darren Bent has signed for Brighton and Hove Albion until the end of the year.The club said that it had “completed the signing of 30-year-old striker Darren Bent from Aston Villa on an initial month’s loan until the end of December”.He will start training with his new teammates to prepare for the match tomorrow (Saturday) against one of his former clubs Fulham.

Saltdean Lido

Campaigners win fund

The Saltdean Lido has been given £49,500 after a public vote run by the television company ITV.The Lido won the money on the People’s Millions, an ITV programme produced in conjunction with the Big Lottery Fund. The Saltdean Lido Community Interest Company (CIC) said: “The £49,500 will enable us to get the children’s paddling pool open for next summer.”The paddling pool has been filled with stones for the past 17 years.

Council

20mph plans on holdPlans to bring in 20mph speed limits in Hangleton, Mile Oak, Ovingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean, Woodingdean and the Medina Terrace area of Hove have been put on hold. Some councillors said before a meeting of the council’s Environment, Transport and Sustainability Committee that a report on the proposed new 20mph zones was flawed. The 20mph proposals are now due to be discussed when the committee next meets on Tuesday, January 20.

Nightlife

Students drinking lessBrighton students are drinking less than expected, according to a bar company, Eclectic, as it published a disappointing trading statement. Eclectic owns Dirty Blonde and Lola Lo in East Street, and the Coalition night club on the seafront. The company said: “During the company’s first quarter, trading was in line with expectations.“However, the second quarter, which includes the important October period when students return to university, is proving more difficult.”

Media

Digital media academyTwo schools in the city have teamed up with Latest TV to create a digital media academy. The new venture will allow students from the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA) and Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) to develop their media skills. The Brighton Digital Media Academy includes a TV studio based at BACA in Falmer where Latest TV staff will film programmes and students will have lessons and gain hands-on experience.

Entertainment

Rialto Theatre openingBrighton’s newest theatre, the Rialto, is to open with a performance of the Treason Show.The satire and topical comedy show, directed by Mark Brailsford, will be staged at the Rialto on Thursday, December 4, with two other acts booked for the next day and the day after.Marilyn Monroe tribute act Alive and Swinging is due to perform at the venue, in Dyke Road, Brighton, on Friday 5 December.It is hoped that the Rialto Theatre will become a home for new writing.

Roadworks

Busy junction to close

The Vogue Gyratory, one of Brighton’s busiest junctions, is to be closed overnight for five nights running so the southbound side of the road can be resurfaced. Work will run between 8pm and 6am from Monday 1 December to Friday 5 December inclusive.Brighton and Hove City Council said that the closures were necessary to enable workers to put the “finishing touches to the current safety improvements”.

Development

New homes for locals

Councillors have approved a plan to build 15 new homes for local people who are on Brighton and Hove’s housing waiting list. The new flats, to be let at affordable rents, will be at Robert Lodge, Manor Place in Whitehawk. Accommodation would be in two three-storey blocks at either end of a quadrant. Two existing blocks will remain, forming a square with 12 one-bed flats, two two-bed flats and a one-bed wheelchair-accessible flat.


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Greg Luer, a former City College Brighton and Hove sports student who played in the college’s County Cup winning teams of 2012/13 and 2013/14, has been signed by Premier League club Hull City.

The 19-year-old striker, currently at Burgess Hill, the Ryman South side, will complete his move when the transfer window reopens on January 1 and go straight into Hull’s development squad.

Jude MacDonald, the head of City College’s Football Development Academy, said: “Greg is definitely one of the most talented players we’ve ever had at the college and an undoubted star performer in our cup-winning teams of recent seasons. He genuinely loves the game and I can really see him succeeding at the top level. It’s every young player’s dream to get spotted by a top club so everyone at the college is absolutely delighted for Greg.”

For more information about sports courses at City College, call 01273 667759 or email [email protected]. Or visit: www.ccb.ac.uk

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Greg Luer will make the move to Hull City from Burgess Hill

Police

Trio jailedThree men have been jailed after being found guilty of a homophobic assault and a racially-motivated attack in Brighton. Andrew Wilson, a painter from Brighton, Bradley Brachman, 19, and Rhys Pryer, 19, both unemployed and from Hove, were all found guilty of wounding with intent and assault causing actual bodily harm (ABH). They each received four years’ imprisonment for wounding and one year to run consecutively for ABH.

Education

Project wins prizeThe Whitehawk After-School Project (WASP) has won praise for the valuable work that takes place while children are playing. The project enables dozens of children to spend a few hours playing after school. At another level, a small team - funded by a Brighton charity - is providing targeted help and support. The project is run by a local charity, Impact Initiatives. Chief executive Caroline Ridley said that WASP had worked with 151 different children since January.

Dogs

Bookish SupperFor a nation of animal lovers, we certainly don’t treat our four-legged friends well in Brighton. “No dogs” is a common sign that dog-owners get used to. That’s why Laura Lockington decided to have a dog-friendly event. It helps that the book by Mark B Mills is based on the most delightful dog ever to grace the pages of a book. Waiting for Doggo is pure joy. The Bookish Supper Society is on Wednesday, December 10t at Naked Eye Gallery. Tickets are available from www.tabl.com

Top hair-stylist raises more than £6,000Mark Woolley, the multi-award-winning hair stylist, owner and creative director of the Electric Hair salon chain, turned his creativity in a new artistic direction at a live auction to support the Rockinghorse children’s charity, raising more than £6,000. Inspired mostly by his travels, the prize possession up for auction was an artwork Mark created over a two-year period that comprised 587 photographs entitled “587 Shops”. The artwork included many iconic storefronts from the House of Givenchy, Tom Ford, the Apple store, and Joe’s Ginger.

Held at the Electric Salon and Studio in Brighton, after a champagne reception, the auction kicked off with a host of fabulous prizes, from a

Christopher Raeburn silk two-piece to a luxury spa experience.

It was, however, Mark’s masterpiece that was the centre of attention - selling for £1,000.

Mark said: “I had never done anything like this before and found myself getting totally absorbed in the project.

"When you are used to only have a window of a few hours at most to create a hairstyle, it’s a real luxury to have two years to work on something.

“I’m so pleased the hard work and time I’ve put into it has been appreciated and reflected in the sum raised for Rockinghorse.”

Mark Woolley (centre), with his son and James Phillips, the buyer of “587 Shops”


Premier League dream comes true for former City College footballer

Sacked council housing bossboycotted discipline hearing

Jugal Sharma, the former head of housing for Brighton and Hove City Council, did not attend the disciplinary hearing that resulted in his dismissal for "gross misconduct".

Mr Sharma, 54, refused to take part in the hearing conducted over two days by a three-man all-party panel: Councillor Leo Littman, for the Greens; Les Hamilton, for Labour; and Andrew Wealls, for the Conservatives.

He was angered by the way a lengthy internal disciplinary investigation was conducted, following his suspension more than a year ago. Today (Friday) he plans to lodge a formal appeal, while also preparing for the possibility of an industrial tribunal.

Mr Sharma, who earned £85,000 a year and denies any wrongdoing, has told friends he was refused permission to be represented by his lawyer, from the top London firm of Bindmans. Instead, he discussed the possibility of joining a union for representation, but was told this was not practicable.

He has also told friends that former housing colleagues were "bullied and harassed", in an effort to secure evidence against him.

Mr Sharma, who was born in India and moved to England when he was four, has alleged two former colleagues - both of them black women - were victimised. One was reportedly moved from the housing department and then suspended; another failed to have her contract renewed.

In addition, Mr Sharma has indicated that summaries of witness statements - delivered to his legal team only weeks before the hearing - were "incomplete and inaccurate". His lawyers were still trying to verify the statements only days before the hearing was convened - in a basement room in Hove Town Hall - on November 19 and 21.

Mr Sharma, who has been interviewed under caution by fraud detectives on suspicion of misconduct in public office and corruption, has not been arrested and is not on police bail.

In August, police raided homes in Sussex, Essex and London and seized computers and files as part of their investigation into alleged £18 million fraud of council contracts over almost a decade.

Mr Sharma's home in Holland Road, Hove, was vistetd by detectives - where they were greeted only by a language

student who was staying there. Mr Sharma and his family were on a camping holiday near Paris.

As Brighton & Hove Independent revealed in a series of exclusive articles, the police investigation centres on payments made to KEM Property Ltd, run by Mr Sharma’s brother, Ashley Parker, 51, of Balfour Road, Essex, who has subsequently been arrested and bailed until January.

Edward Charles Parker-Bancroft, another KEM director, of Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, was also arrested and bailed until January, as was a 67-year-old - reported to be Alan Fisher, of Ashvale Drive, Upminster - and a 53-year-old man arrested in Elms Road, London.

In a statement on Tuesday, Penny Thompson, the city council's chief executive, said: “Following a thorough and robust investigation Jugal Sharma has been dismissed by the council from his post as head of housing and his employment with the council has been terminated.

“The dismissal from employment was made by the unanimous decision of a panel of elected members on grounds of gross misconduct linked to short-term leasing arrangements.

“We will be making arrangements for the future leadership of the housing service.

“The council has put in place measures to ensure that tenants continue to be accommodated in accordance with their existing arrangements.

“We also continue to fully support the ongoing police investigation.

“The council’s investigations were initiated immediately after an anonymous ‘whistleblowing’ allegation.

“I strongly encourage anyone who has further information to contact the police.”

Police visited Mr Sharma's home in Holland Road, Hove

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I am delighted to be contributing a column for Brighton & Hove Independent, which has been such a welcome addition to the local media scene.

It is a real privilege to be the Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown. Brighton is a great place and is special for so many reasons. I take the job of representing nearly 90,000 people in the constituency very seriously and was pleased to be voted the most responsive MP in the county.

I try to be a hardworking MP who keeps in regular contact with residents all year round, not just showing up at election time and aim to be as accessible as possible to constituents.

As well as holding my regular constituency advice surgeries, I have responded to more than 45,000 letters, emails and

telephone calls since 2010 - as well as occasionally making home visits, if a constituent is unable to come to see me.

I have taken up important issues such as the campaign for £420 million funding for the new Royal Sussex County Hospital, a range of animal welfare issues - I remain completely opposed to a return of hunting with dogs - as well as championing Brighton as a tourist destination.

Brighton is a great place, but it could be improved. My priorities going forward are to see council tax kept down for residents and to see a rethink on the parking and transport schemes we have seen implemented recently, which

have made the situation in the city much worse for residents, businesses and visitors alike.

Much more needs to be done to prevent unauthorised traveller encampments causing so much nuisance and disturbance for local residents and the council should protect precious green spaces from development.

Some 90% of what I do as an MP is completely apolitical and I am here to help everybody in the constituency, regardless of how they vote. So if anybody in Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven needs some help, please do get in touch.

Simon Kirby is Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown

I am here to help everybody,regardless of how they vote

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This is a fast-paced, gripping bit of crime fiction, written by a TV scriptwriter. And it shows. I could almost see this as a TV drama series, and damn fine viewing it would be, too.

Our heroine is Kaz Phelps, straight out of a six-year jail sentence. She took the rap for her little brother, the charismatic but total psychopath, Joey.

It was a bungled armed robbery and Kaz paid the price for it. She cleaned up in prison and wants nothing more now than to go straight and maybe pursue her talents as an artist. But family calls.

Like all the best crime fiction, this book is rooted in reality and the torn loyalties of family versus justice are well played.

There is, of course, the added complication that the police, who have been after her brother for years, want her to turn informer. They set out to try and turn her with the bait of a good-looking undercover policeman. But Kaz sees through him straightaway. Besides, she has her sights on someone else. Someone unattainable. Maybe.

If you need some escapist fiction on a cold and grey day, then this is for you.

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For successful treatment of the most sensitive animals - and their families - it is important that treatment can take place in the safest and most comfortable surroundings possible and on their own terms – such is their own home.

Now Kono, the Native American Indian Dog, part dog - part wolf, was definitely a more than average sensitive patient. He had suddenly become even more lame after two weeks of pain relief, so the owners and I discussed our options: Would it be worth putting Kono, the shy wolf-dog, through the immense stress to have X-rays at a clinic to find out once and for all what was causing his lameness and pain?

When Kono was only six-months-old he had coped ok with being transported all the way across the Atlantic when he moved to Brighton with his owners seven years prior, so after “buying decision time” for another week on stronger pain relief, the owners

finally decided they could not bear the unknown.

I referred Kono to The New Priory Vets, where they somehow managed to knock out Kono out and take X-rays. However, Kono was so stressed when waking up in confinement after his anaesthetic that he completely savaged his cage while the nursing staff tried their best to try and calm him from the outside. But only the owner could calmly woo him out of his cage to take him home after his frustrating “meal” of metal mesh and bars.

However, with high-stress levels, Kono finally had a diagnosis: the X-rays revealed very obvious osteosarcoma – bone cancer – of his femur. And the owners were beyond devastated – as was I. Once again life had proven to be unfair to the gentile, as Kono was only eight-years-old and likely to not have long before his quality of life was just too poor.

Before the pain got too unmanageable, the rest of Kono’s loving family flew in from both Spain and America to be with Kono on that last evening, where they celebrated his special life, and his

wolf-dog antics, with glasses of champagne. I then arrived to gently sedate and send him off on his very last journey. Already having built trust, this time he just let me give him the quick injection as he seemed to know I was only there to help him not suffer.

That night Kono peacefully snored his way into eternity, surrounded by all his loved ones while resting in his favourite spot. Kono R.I.P.

Susan Gregersen DVM, MBA, MRCVS is a mobile emergency and hospice vet; she is also founder of Vets2Home, helping families say goodbye to their pet in the comfort of home 24/7 and offering home visits for emergencies out-of-hours. More info on www.vets2home.co.uk or follow Vets2Home on Facebook.

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Brighton and Hove’s freelance community gathered to socialise and network at the annual National Freelancers Day party, hosted by Crunch Accounting. The celebration at Merkabar attracted more than 100 local freelancers from industries as diverse as design, copywriting, IT contractors, consultants, and public relations.

National Freelancers Day recognises the huge contribution

that self-employed people make to the economy; it has been celebrated up and down the United Kingdom in November for the last six years.

With the proportion of freelancers in the city about twice the national average, it is fitting that it hosts one of the biggest national events, with Crunch's annual party regularly attracting more than 100 guests.

Darren Fell, founder and

managing director of Crunch, said: "Freelancers very rarely get their own Christmas party, so it's great to be able to bring so many of them together and buy them a few drinks to kick off the festive season. We've seen huge growth in self-employment over the last few years, and we try to do everything we can to support this vital but under-represented section of the business community."

Brighton Fringe offering over £7,000 for young peopleBrighton Fringe has announced three funding streams - worth more than £7,000 - available to young people taking part in next year's festival.

For the second successive year, The Pebble Trust is offering three awards of £300 - plus mentoring from CiCi Blumstein, a performance artist, choreographer and filmmaker, as well as from Craig Whiteley, the West End actor and drama tutor.

The awards are available to Brighton and Hove residents aged 25 or under, putting on a show or event in any category of the Brighton Fringe programme. Applications must be completed by Monday (December 1),

Tommy Sissons, one of last year’s winners, said: "Being presented with a Pebble Trust Brighton Fringe award last year made it possible for me to accomplish an aim of mine: to produce and perform my own one-man poetry play. Without the generous funding of the Pebble Trust and the invaluable mentoring of Craig Whiteley, I would not have been able to put on this show.”

Brighton Fringe continues to work with O2 Think Big, its

official youth partner, to offer 13- to 25-year-olds the chance to apply for £300 towards the cost of their event or project, and receive marketing support, advice and entry into Brighton Fringe Workshops.Some applicants may be given the chance to apply for the O2 Think Bigger fund of £2,500.

A funding opportunity is also available through Zequs, the festival's official crowdfunding partner. Zequs has pledged to give £500 to five Brighton Fringe participants who successfully raise £1,000 through Zequs.com and £250 to 10 Brighton Fringe participants who successfully raise £500.

Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, said: “There is no shortage of creative ideas, but the biggest barrier for young people taking part in Brighton Fringe is always the cost.

“Our role is to do our best to provide as many opportunities as we can and to lower the barriers to entry wherever possible.”

For more information about all funding, visit: www.brightonfringe.org

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Freedom Leisure smashing Sussex Volleyball League Not-for-profit trust Freedom Leisure - which operates the King Alfred Leisure Centre, Prince Regent Swimming Complex, Stanley Deason Leisure Centre, Moulsecoomb Community Leisure Centre, St Luke's Swimming Pool and Withdean Sports Complex in partnership with Brighton & Hove City Council - entered two teams of members into the Sussex Volleyball League for the first time this season.

The men's team - which debuted and competed last year - has performed exceptionally, playing and winning four matches thus far. The squad is hopeful it will place within the top three at the end of the season.

The newly formed women's team has shown vast improvement since its first match on 14th September thanks to regular training with coach Yair Palafox-Rubinstein.

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Don’t lag behind this winter Southern Water is advising customers to take a few simple steps to protect their homes and businesses against the cold this winter.

Before we all get swept up in the festivities of Christmas, the water company is urging customers to wrap up their homes by lagging water tanks and exposed pipes to stop them from freezing and bursting.

Water pipes in homes are the property owner’s responsibility and burst pipes can cause costly water damage. Bursts also waste water and, if the property has a meter, will increase its water bill.

Phil Tapping, Regional Leakage Manager at Southern Water, said: “When water freezes inside pipes it expands and can cause cracks. Then, when the blockage thaws, water can escape from the cracks and cause leaks.

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Young people aged 24 to 35 are most at risk of not being properly prepared, while one in five water customers have no idea what to do if a pipe freezes in their home.

Southern Water is advising customers to take these steps to prepare their homes for winter:■ Inspect water tanks and pipes in unheated areas like lofts and garages, and also garden taps. When insulating them, make sure there are no gaps in the lagging.■ Fix dripping taps. In winter even a small trickle can result in a frozen pipe.■ Find the internal stop tap for your property and make sure you can turn it off. You should also tell a family member or friend where your stop tap is. Most stop taps are fitted under the kitchen sink or stairs and close by turning clockwise. ■ Having your boiler serviced regularly will help prevent pipes becoming cold and freezing if your boiler breaks down in winter.

■ Minimise draughts and shut doors and windows to unheated parts of the home. If your property is going to be empty for long periods, turn off the water at the stop tap and consider draining down the system so there is no water left in the pipes. Keep a separate supply of drinking water for emergencies.If a pipes bursts in your home:■ Turn off the stoptap. ■ Open all taps to drain the system quickly.■ Soak up/block off escaping water with thick towels.■ Call a qualified plumber.■ Turn off taps until pipework is repaired to avoid further flooding.

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The 2014 Christmas Artists' Open Houses


Cat-arzyna11 St Keyna Avenue, Hove BN3 4PNwww.cat-arzyna.blogspot.co.uk

Surf and Turf38 Braemore Road, Hove BN3 4HBwww.emmastantonjewellery.co.uk

Villa LVI56 Payne Avenue, Hove BN3 [email protected]

Studio 106Studio 106, 106 Coleridge Street, Hove BN3 5AAwww.photoandre.com

Bluebell Would45 Westbourne Gardens, Hove BN3 5PNwww.bluebellwouldopenhouse.blogspot.co.uk

TonyB @ fab4 Westbourne Place, Hove BN3 4GNwww.tonybowallphotography.com

Sunshine Books Art & Coffee4 Hove Manor, Hove Street, Hove BN3 2DFwww.sunshine-arts.co.uk

Silvia K & Friends ‘One Room’3A Hove Place, Hove BN3 2RGwww.silviakceramics.co.uk/open-house

9A Hove Place9A Hove Place, Hove BN3 2RGwww.hovearts.co.uk

Penny Bailey and Friends123A Church Road, Hove BN3 2AFwww.flickr.com/photos/penny-bailey/

Albert Mews Studios11 Albert Mews, Third Avenue, Hove BN3 2PPwww.facebook.com/albertmewsstudio

The ClaremontThe Claremont, 13 Second Avenue, Hove BN3 2LLwww.theclaremont.eu

City Retreat1 Salisbury Court, 36 Salisbury Road, Hove BN3 3AZwww.valfawbertcityretreat.com

Tessa Wolfe Murray & Guests38 Lorna Road, Hove BN3 3ENwww.wolfemurrayceramics.co.uk

Polish & Pin Studio Sale23 Wilbury Gardens, Hove BN3 6HQwww.polishandpin.co.uk

Salon des Sources4 Chanctonbury Road, Hove BN3 6EL [email protected]

Art Across The Line13 Addison Road, Hove BN3 [email protected]

Cecil Rice14 Granville Road, Hove BN3 1TGwww.ceilrice.com

Art at Wick Hall90 Wick Hall, Furze Hill, Hove BN3 [email protected]

Brighton Health and Wellbeing Centre18-19 Western Road, Brighton BN3 1AEwww.thewellbeinggallery.com

Christmas BoutiqueCross Street Workshop, 14B Cross Street, Hove BN3 1AJwww.crossstreetworkshop.co.uk

antfox galleryantfox gallery, 9A Little Western Street, Hove BN3 1AGwww.antfox.com

Mews Art Studio(formerly known as Borderline Studios)Chapel Mews (off Waterloo Street), Hove BN3 1ARwww.facebook.com/BorderlineStudios

Bailey Alexander Gallery46-47 King’s Road Arches, Brighton BN1 2LNwww.baileyalexander.co.uk

229 Ceramics229 Kings Road Arches, Brighton Artists’ Quarter, Brighton BN1 1NBwww.notonthehighstreet.com/229ceramics

Kellie Miller Arts Gallery20 Market Street, Brighton BN1 1HHwww.kelliemillerarts.com

University of BrightonUniversity of Brighton Gallery and Sallis Benney Theatre, College of Arts and Humanities, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JYarts.brighton.ac.uk

JAG GalleryArch 283A, Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1PTwww.jagartgallery.co.uk

Nash Watson81 St George’s Road, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1EFnashwatson.tumblr.com

Copper Wire Place25 Eastern Place, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1GJwww.oscarrakovsky.com

At The Coach House22 Walpole Road, Brighton BN2 0EAwww.atthecoachhouse.co.uk

Hamilton Lodge Deaf School & College7-9 Walpole Road, Brighton BN2 0LSwww.hamiltonls.co.uk

ArtForty747 Sutherland Road, Brighton BN2 [email protected]

13 Whichelo Place3 Whichelo Place, Brighton BN2 [email protected]

Brighton Open MarketMarshall’s Row, off London Road, Brighton BN1 4JUwww.brightonopenmarket.co.uk

99 99 Ditchling Rise, Brighton BN1 4QPwww.barbarajonesretro.co.uk

The Dragonfly House48 Ditchling Rise, Brighton BN1 4QNwww.48dr.co.uk

Glass in FusionUnit 9 Beaconsfield Studios, 25 Ditchling Rise, Brighton BN1 4QLwww.glassinfusion.co.uk

New England House Open StudiosNew England House, New England Street, Brighton BN1 4GHwww.nehopenstudios.co.uk

Juliet Costumes StudioBasement, 38 Sydney Street, Brighton BN1 [email protected]

29 Compton AvenueGround Floor Flat, 29 Compton Avenue, Brighton BN1 3PTwww.linescapes.co.uk

Milton House4 Park View Terrace (Stanford Road), Brighton BN1 5PWwww.sarahjonesprints.co.uk

FortyTwo42 Hampstead Road, Brighton BN1 5NG www.fortytwobrighton.co.uk

2 Knoyle2 Knoyle Road, Brighton BN1 [email protected]

41 HPA41 Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton BN1 [email protected]

Chevalier House20 Stanmer Park Road, Brighton BN1 7JJwww.facebook.com/chevalierhouse

The Cicada HouseChristmas Cracker!30 Stanmer Villas, Brighton BN1 7HPwww.nickorsborn.com

Gifts For You at 112112 Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 [email protected]

11 Rugby Road11 Rugby Road, Brighton BN1 6EBwww.11RugbyRoad.co.uk

Christmasmix@one2six26 Norwich Drive, Brighton BN2 4LLwww.one2six.me.uk

The BridgeLucraft Road, Brighton BN2 4PNwww.thebridgebrighton.com

Rottingdean Smugglers and the ExplodingToy TheatreWilliam Nicholson Gallery, The Grange, The Green, Rottingdean, BN2 7HAwww.rottingdeanpreservationsociety.org.uk

No 7575 Bannings Vale, Saltdean, Brighton BN2 8DFwww.75banningsvale.co.uk

Pruden and SmithThe Crossroads, 2 South Street, Ditchling, East Sussex BN6 8UQwww.prudenandsmith.com

Art @ Mister Magnolia1 High Street, Ditchling BN6 8SYwww.mistermagnolia.co.uk

The Handmade HouseBeards Place Farm, 98 Lewes Road, Ditchling BN6 8TZwww.handmadehouse.co.uk

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The 2014 Artists' Open Houses Christmas Festival begins tomorrow (Saturday) in Brighton and Hove. Over three weekends to December 14, artists all over the city - and beyond - will be opening the doors to their homes and studios, showcasing a diverse selection of artworks and possible Christmas gifts.

Across 56 venues, there will be a remarkable array of paintings, prints, sculpture, jewellery,

homewares, photography, ceramics, crafts, toys, and textiles. There will also be a big selection of Christmas cards, wreaths, tree decorations, and food as well as workshops, readings, live music, mulled wine, and mince pies.

Judy Stevens, the festival Director, said: “This Christmas, the Artists Open Houses Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever. Alongside the many

respected, established and professional artists and makers, the festival will include work from new young, emerging artists from the University of Brighton.

"Now is the chance to pick up a unique and original Christmas gift for friends, family - or yourself - from the artists and makers of the future."

For full details, visit: www.aoh.org.uk

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Entertainment Sponsored by Sea Life Brighton

This week’s must-seeAn Evening with Noel FieldingThe Brighton CentreNovember 29, 7pmNoel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Luxury Comedy) is

embarking on his first live tour in five years: An Evening With Noel Fielding.

Expect a magical mix of Noel's unique brand of stand-up comedy, live animation, music and some of Fielding's best known TV characters.

Fielding's comedy has seenhim perform in venues all over the world, win numerous awards, and appear on TV shows such as Michael Mcintyre's Roadshow, Big Fat Quiz Of The Year and QI.

There will also be muscular support from the loose stylings of Mike Fielding (Naboo/ Smooth) and the physical lunacy of Tom Meeten (The Mighty Boosh/ Oram & Meeten).

Fancy dress is optional.

For tickets: call 0844 847 1515, see www.brightoncentre.co.uk, or visit the Box Office.Age restriction 12yrs+

Win a family ticket to skate at the Royal Pavilion Ice Rink

Competition

With the former Royal pleasure palace as backdrop, huge rinkside bar and restaurant and 40m terrace, this hidden gem of a rink is beautifully lit at night and is a great choice for those wanting to skate in a beautiful setting and sit down to eat rinkside apres ice. The 840 square metre rink has space for 260 skaters per session, with a beginners’ area, penguin skate aids and skate sizes from ‘just walking’ to adult.

To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question:

Q Which King created the Royal Pavilion? A King George III B King George IVC King William IV

To enter, visit: www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/competition

Alternatively, email your answer, and include your full name, address and a contact phone number to: [email protected]. Two lucky winners will be selected at random. A family permits two adults & two children or one adult and 3 children under-12. Dates subject to availability. Competition closing date is Friday, December 5, at noon. Brighton & Hove Independent competition terms and conditions apply. See: www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/tandcs.

Fahrenheit 451Pop Up @ Brighton Museum & Art Gallery4 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton BN1 1EEFriday – Sunday: 8pmThe empty shelves of the old Reference Library make a poignant setting for this classic dystopian tale of a society where books and the reading of them are banned.

Truffaut’s only English-language film is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s highly acclaimed Sci-Fi novel, which took its title from the temperature at which books and

paper burn.In an oppressive society of the

near future, Oskar Werner is the book-burning fireman who falls in love with Linda (Julie Christie) and slowly discovers his own

love of literature, beginning with David Copperfield. With cinematography from Nicolas Roeg before he went on to direct features including Walkabout,

Don’t Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth and a score from Bernard Herrmann at his very best.

For tickets: call 0871 902 5728, or see: www.cine-city.co.uk

CineCity: Brighton Film Festival 2014

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them”

Ray Bradbury Cinecity – The Brighton Film Festival runs from November 20 - December 7 2014.

For more information, and for full listings, visit: www.cine-city.co.uk


FRIDAY

Dub Pistols LIVE@Concorde_2Enjoy a riotous blend of ska, dub, hip-hop, electro, breakbeat, punk and drum & bass from one of the busiest bands on the circuit. 7pm - 10pm, £10 Concorde 2Madeira Drive, BN2 1EN Santa at Churchill Square@ChurchillSquareA magical expedition for children on a quest to meet Father Christmas.5pm - 9pm, £4.50Churchill Square Shopping CentreBN1 2RG James Blunt Moon Landing Tour@BrightonCentreThe world-famous James Blunt performs from his fourth album, about dreams, longing and love. 7pm, £37.50 / £50Brighton CentreKings Road, BN1 2GR

SATURDAY

The Annual Christmas Giving Tree Appeal@ChurchillSquareSelect a label from the tree and purchase a gift for a child this Christmas in aid of Chestnut Tree House hospice.Churchill Square Shopping CentreBN1 2RG Noel Fielding@BrightonCentreExpect a magical mix of Noel's unique brand of stand up comedy, live animation, music and some of Fielding's best known TV characters on his first live tour in 5 years.8pm, £25Brighton CentreKings Road, BN1 2GR Father Christmas' Grotto at The Llama Park@LlamaTomBring your children to meet Father Christmas at the Llama Park’s Christmas Wonderland and receive a Christmas present from him.10am - 5pm, £15 for a child and adult including free park entryThe Llama Park Wych Cross, RH18 5JN

Brighton Nights@KomediaBrightonFunny Women return to the Komedia with another fantastic comedy night showcasing the best in female comedy talent.7:30pm, £10Komedia Brighton44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN

SUNDAY

Wallis Bird@KomediaBrightonWallis Bird performs wildly and unpredictably, capable of both delicate ballads and defiant anthems.7:30pm, £12Komedia Brighton44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN Putting on the Glitz@TheatreRoyalBTNA dazzling and fun-filled show showcasing a variety of music from various genres, brought to you by Brighton Gay Men's Chorus.7:30pm, £11.90 - £26.90Theatre Royal BrightonNew Rd, BN1 1SD Winter Festival@brightdomeExpect a performance that change perceptions, challenge expectations and champions the art form of contemporary dance.4pm, £5Brighton DomeChurch Street, BN1 1UE

MONDAY

Miracle on 34th Street@TheatreRoyalBTNOne of the most popular films of all time comes to the stage in this dazzling new production of Miracle on 34th Street The Musical.7:30pm, £21.40 - £25.40Theatre Royal BrightonNew Rd, BN1 1SD Beardyman@Concorde_2Enjoy Beardyman's beatboxing skills live - virtually all of his music is created using only his vocal cords to produce sounds, and incorporating music technology.7:30pm - 11pm, £12.50Concorde 2Madeira Drive, BN2 1EN

TUESDAY

Curtis Harding@KomediaBrightonFind out why Curtis Harding has been declared the future of soul music with the driving sound of his electrified Stratocaster, the foot-stomping backbeat and the lyrics swimming in reverb.7:30pm, £8Komedia Brighton44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN

WEDNESDAY

Comedy Rocks Komedia@KomediaBrightonWe are delighted to present Comedy Rocks, an extravaganza of stand-up comedy, featuring unique sets from fantastic comedians.6:30pm, £10Komedia Brighton44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN

THURSDAY

The Treason Show@Rialto_BrightonBrighton’s notorious Treason Show wielding its satirical sword in its new permanent home. Expect savage sketchery and salacious songs. 8pm, £12.50Rialto Theatre,Dyke Road, BN1 3FE

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Wallis Bird will be performing delicate ballads and defiant anthems at Komedia Brighton on Sunday, November 30

November 28 - December 4


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Brain Gym No.198

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deep, deeper, deer, depress, dress, drupe, dupe, duper, dupes, duress, peered, perused, pressed, prude, pseud, pureed, pursed, reed, reused, rude, rued, seed, seeder, seeped, sped, speed, speeder, speeds, spud, sued, suede, supersede, surd, used.

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Three bedroom property, conveniently located in the prestigious Martlets development close to the junction of Dyke Road and The Upper Drive. Within easy access are both Hove and Preston Park train stations.

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Broad Street, Brighton, New Price £249,950 Bright first floor, split level, two double bedroom balcony flat close to the seafront with great views towards the sea and Brighton Pier. Between Marine Parade and St James Street within short walking distance of central Brighton, with numerous shops and restaurants in the immediate vicinity. Within approximately one mile of Brighton mainline railway station.

The School House, Chesham Road, Kemp Town £1,495,000 Unique and fascinating family home created from a flint and brick Victorian school house close to the sea in Kemp Town. The heart of the home is the magnificent living room with mezzanine gallery which was originally the school hall. There is also a separate self contained one bedroom flat

St Marks Mews, Kemp Town £350,000 A stylish and light two double bedroom first floor flat forming part of this gated Mews development adjacent to the Sussex Square garage and workshops. With good sized accommodation and main bedroom with vaulted and beamed ceiling, tucked away and yet still close to Kemp Town village

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OnTheMarket, a new property website due to launch on January 26th, is aiming to challenge the market-leading position of the two biggest portals, Rightmove and Zoopla. Some 4,000 offices have already registered their interest in OnTheMarket, with a large proportion of these having formally committed themselves to advertising their clients’ properties on it.

The background to this move is all to do with industry politics. In recent years, many agents have become increasingly resentful of the two main portals, who are seen as having exploited their near-monopoly of the online property market to increase their charges exponentially.

This resentment was based on the not-unreasonable view that neither Rightmove nor Zoopla could exist without the properties that agents chose to advertise on them.

Eventually, a group of high-street agents decided that enough was enough, and hit on the idea of creating a property portal which would enable them to control their own online marketing costs. This concept has now been rolled out to the entire high-street

estate agency community – with the exception of purely online agents, who do not offer the full estate agency service as expected by the majority of clients. As one of the conditions of joining OnTheMarket, members must commit to dropping at least one of the existing market leaders - many agents would probably wish to drop both.

What, if anything, does this mean for you, the general public?

Not necessarily a great deal - other than the obvious fact that from January, house-hunters wanting to research the entire market will have to look on three portals rather than the current two main ones.

For sellers, meanwhile, the move has perhaps even more significance, as if they are not working with their local high-street agent, their property cannot be launched onto onthemarket.com which will carry all properties marketed by agents who have joined.

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A lovely pub in The Lanes lets itself down with food

Positives first: this lovely-looking Young’s pub is one I’d happily visit again for a drink, being bang in the heart of the The Lanes with a nice buzz, welcoming staff, and great music. Following a refurb at the end of August, the spacious interior is functional yet cosy, with a fabulous well-stocked mahogany bar.

The menu features the usual suspects, or variations of them: smoked haddock Scotch egg, fish and chips, lamb and venison pie, a burger. Lighter dishes include harissa sardines with candied-lemon bulghar, and broad bean, orzo and sea beet salad. Some have been given a slightly fancier touch: potted crab with grapefruit mayo, and pan-seared Scottish scallops with a beetroot and ginger purée. Some stuff on there is downright odd: DIY pot noodles are served with griddled sourdough (noodles and toast?), while I can’t imagine anyone ordering green gazpacho in a pub at wintertime.

The waitress was keen to recommend dishes to us, suggesting baked Camembert, then bangers and mash, but I was interested to try something a little more ambitious. I went for

the scallops (£7.50), followed by slow-roasted pork belly roulade with fondant potato, crackling and Aspall’s wholegrain sauce (£11.25). My friend started with smoked duck with cherry purée (£6.95), then the 21-day aged rump steak with triple-cooked beef dripping chips (£15.50, plus an extra £1.50 for Brighton Blue sauce).

From the outset, pretty much everything we ate was flawed. My plump scallops were excellent quality, but arrived at room temperature, completely raw and barely seared. I sent them back, and they returned nuclear hot yet still undercooked and with hardly any colour from the pan. The smoked duck looked a bit sad on the plate and didn’t really taste of much at all. A lacklustre start. We drank deep into our Malbec.

Pork belly is one of my favourite

things to eat – that melting flesh and crispy crackling. This example was wrong in every way, being tough, dry and inedibly fatty. Crackling was chewy, and the fondant potatoes weren’t buttery and soft, but floury and dry. We both declared the cider sauce very strange indeed. Give me a great gravy, sharp apple or creamy mustard sauce with my pork; this was gloopy and confused.

The steak was cooked exactly as requested, though it was criminally underseasoned and came with a mouth-puckering salty sauce. The triple-cooked beef dripping chips - actually enormous potato wedges - didn’t look or taste a thing like we expected. When done properly, these are one of life’s greatest pleasures (see Seven Dials hamburger place Coggings & Co). My friend frowned as she dug

around them. “I’m just looking for a crunchy bit,” she said hopefully.

We ordered dessert, as I was still hungry (I hadn’t been able to eat my main and I always clear my plate): banana crème brulée with ginger thins (£4.95) and a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout brownie with ice cream (£5.25). They were both a disgrace. My brulée should not have been allowed to leave the kitchen, with a too-thick topping that gave way to a completely unset, watery, grainy custard. The brownie was dry and claggy - unfortunately, its quick blast in the microwave hadn’t revived it. “Do you want my strawberry?” asked Flo. “They can’t mess up a strawberry.”

We threw on our coats and headed off in search of a strong cocktail.

I can deal with disappointment when I eat out, and realise that harshly critiquing food served somewhere owned by a chain operating over 200 pubs is a little unfair, but I was insulted to be served food I simply couldn’t eat. The Seven Stars is a nice boozer but food-wise is definitely punching above its weight.

To read more by Suzanne Rose and the Places I Eat Brighton team, visit: www.placesieatbrighton.com

Now that we've all stopped talking about heatwaves and how "close" it is, and we're instead predicting snow and calling the weather "fresh", coffee shops are leaning towards more comforting foods for the new season.

For some, that means soup

that sits in a heated contraption all day before being dished out by the salty ladle-full, for the handsome price of a fiver, perhaps into a hollowed-out crusty roll.

For others, the answer to the colder weather is "toasties" that

conjure up the image of a Breville out back - and warm up nothing other than our memories of childhood in the 1990s.

The most-widely-accepted winter offering is a "panini". The plural of "bread roll" in Italian has become the chains' name for a single toasted ciabatta. Perhaps it'll be filled with "salami" - another incorrect yet apparently acceptable misuse of an Italian locution.

Back in the day, traditional coffee shops didn't offer hot lunches, lest the aroma of melting foods destroyed the flavour of the coffee. All bar a few have since sold their souls in favour of a shop full of coach-trippers enjoying a Tuna Melt.

Some coffee shops make fresh sandwiches every day, full of natural ingredients designed to boost your immune system for winter, without the use of

an industrial grill to taint the delicate aroma of their freshly-roasted beans.

This ensures that, as a coffee shop, our primary offering, our star attraction, our bread and butter, if you will, is "perfecto" in all weathers. "Perfecti" would just sound wrong there, and that's because it is.

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ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

BRIGHTON & HOVE VARIOUS CONTROLLED PARKING ZONES CONSOLIDATION ORDER 2008

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ORDER 2013 AMENDMENT NO.* 201* (REF. TRO-35B-2014)

NOTICE is hereby given that Brighton & Hove City Council (“the Council”) proposes to make the Orders named above under the relevant sections of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended, which if they come into force would amend descriptions of various parking places in the traffic order to reflect correct on-site measurements and locations in Bute Street, Hendon Street, Livingstone Street, Rochester Street.

In addition to the above, in Livingstone Street the stretch of permit parking and motorcycle bay proposed to go on the east side has now been located to the west side.

The Outer Areas order will also be amended to introduce no waiting at any time (double yellow lines) in parts of Chelston Avenue (the existing single yellow line will be replaced), Freshfield Road, Madehurst Close, Olive Road, Queensway, Southwater Close and Tilgate Close.

A copy of this Notice, the proposed Orders, a plan showing the lengths of road affected and a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Orders, may be seen online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/tro-proposals. These documents together with a copy of the existing Orders to be amended may also be examined at the Customer Service Centres at Bartholomew House, Bartholomew Square, Brighton (Monday to Friday 8.45am-4.30pm) and Hove Town Hall, Ground Floor, Norton Road, Hove, (Monday to Friday 8.45am-5.00pm).

All objections and other representations relating to the proposed Orders must be made in writing and all objections must specify the grounds on which they are made and should be sent to the Executive Director Environment, Development & Housing, Brighton & Hove City Council, c/o Parking Infrastructure, Kings House, 2nd Floor, Hove, BN3 2LS (quoting the above references) or by e-mail to [email protected] or online (see details above) no later than 19th December 2014.

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Language has so many forms, so many rules. There’s a lot for a young person to learn.

T’s speech is coming on leaps and bounds - but given the complexity of the spoken word, he doesn’t always get it spot on first time.

No matter. He’s having fun with it, and so are we. From shouting loudly in the park “Mummy, Stick!” (worth noting here that T replaces the “st” with a “d”) to some interesting takes on the word “clock”, I like to think he’s spreading merriment with such slip-ups wherever we go. Unless the people of Brighton and Hove have a more sophisticated sense of humour than I do.

Recently, we asked T if he wanted to go swimming the next day. The answer turned out to be yes, immediately. Which is how we came to be “swimming” on the bedroom floor. T was having a whale of a time and soon requested “more swimming” - only it came out

as “more women”. Yes, we laughed.And just yesterday, we were in

a supermarket car park when, unsurprisingly perhaps, a car drove past. What did surprise me were the words that came out of T’s mouth. Unfortunately, they were delivered with the sort of vehemence usually associated with such an expression, and a finger-point, which rather added to the impression that he hadn’t made a rookie error, but did in fact mean just what he said. The words in question? “One car!” With a slight mispronunciation of one. I kid you not.

These examples aside, I often find T’s versions an improvement on the textbook English and have been known to adopt them myself, adjusting my pronunciation to mimic his.

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Antipodes has a new ultra-nourishing hand and body cream on the market to keep skin soft, healthy, and protected throughout winter. I’m liking the festive green metallic of this tube on my shelf.

It contains naturally-extracted avocados from the sub-tropical north of New Zealand, which is some of the world's most potent; packed with Omega 3 and 9 as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, and D - and the antioxidant vitamin E and chlorophyll. The high-performance moisturiser is enriched with pure plant fragrances of feijoa,

fig and wild blackcurrant, delivering a spa-like, unisex sub-tropical scent to the skin that truly lingers (£26.99 for 120ml at www.antipodesnature.com).

Last but not least is a premium favourite, Jurlique. Their "glow" gift sets soon had me swooning - and not just for the roses. I have now tried the lavender and calendula products, and am equally impressed. These customised collections of potent herbs and flower blends deliver healthy, radiant skin. I’ll mention the "Ultimate Face and Body Collection" to show their hero lines in case anyone has a Christmas bonus.

This star collection includes everything you need for revitalised, glowing, luminous skin from head to toe. Herbal Recovery Advanced Serum, Herbal Recovery Eye Cream, Replenishing Cleansing Lotion, Daily Exfoliating Cream, Herbal Recovery Antioxidant Gel Mask, Balancing Day Care Cream, Rosewater Balancing Mist, Rose Hand Cream, Skin Balancing Face Oil, Rose Body Oil.

If you are on a budget, the Petit Rose Duo for hands gives an entry-level taster of how the lovely Jurlique products deliver intense skin nourishment and sensory delight for £9. Most selections are under £50 at www.jurlique.co.uk.

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2 Bournemouth 18 17 32

3 Middlesborough 18 14 32

4 Ipswich 18 8 31

5 Brentford 17 11 29

7 Blackburn 18 4 30

8 Watford 18 10 29

9 Nottm Forest 18 6 28

10 Charlton 18 2 28

10 Norwich 18 6 27

11 Wolves 18 -3 27

20 Brighton 18 -3 18

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Next up at the Amex… Millwall in the Championship on Friday,

December 12. Kick-off 7.45pm.

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Albion Team News

Likely line-up: Stockdale, Bruno, Dunk, Greer, J.Bennett, Ince, Forster-Caskey, Lua Lua, Colunga, E.Bennett, Bent.

Likely subs: Walton, Hughes, Calderon, Gardner, Holla, McCourt, Baldock.

Latest match oddsHome 11/10Away 23/10Draw 5/2Worth a fiver...Brighton to win and both teams to score 11/4

Brighton and Hove Albion have signalled their intent at climbing up the Championship table by securing the services of Darren Bent on loan and the former England striker should go straight into the starting line-up for the visit of Fulham tomorrow (Saturday).

The Albion’s recruitment team, led by David Burke, clinched the deal for the experienced Premier League goal-getter on Wednesday much to the delight of the club’s supporters.

Bent has struggled for form at Aston Villa this season but the feeling on the south coast is that his loan deal – initially running for one month – could be just what the player and the Albion need.

He will certainly get more first team football at the Amex, with the Seagulls desperate for a talismanic forward since the departure of Leo Ulloa in the summer.

Speaking upon his arrival in Sussex, Bent said: “It was no secret I wasn't getting much game time at Villa. I wanted to go and play football. I spoke to Sami and it was the right place for me.

“I love playing football and I'm happy to be here. Given opportunities and playing time I've always managed to score goals and hopefully it can continue.

“Brighton has got the feeling of a Premier League team. It's

great to be here and I can't wait to get going.”

He presumably won’t have to wait too much longer. Bent will surely feature against Fulham despite the Seagulls plundering three goals in their last outing.

A player of his caliber is unlikely to drop down a division for a place on the bench, meaning Sam Baldock could have to make do as a substitute.

Adrian Colunga, who enjoyed his best game in an Albion shirt at Carrow Road, should start behind Bent, with Kazenga Lua Lua and Elliott Bennett deployed on either flank.

Lua Lua was among the best performers against Norwich and is certainly benefiting from the more regular starting roles afforded to him by Sami Hyypiä. Lua Lua thrived in the fluid three played behind Baldock and with

Bennett returning after being forced to sit out the Norwich game due to the conditions of his loan deal, the Seagulls boast increasingly creative options in attacking areas.

In the two deeper midfield roles, Jake Forster-Caskey and Rohan Ince will be hugely unfortunate if they don’t make the starting team after impressing against Norwich. Ince in particular adds a welcome shield in front of the back four which allows the attacking players to concentrate more on their creative responsibilities.

Fulham’s chief threat will come, unsurprisingly, from Hugo Rodallega and Ross McCormack who have 11 goals and 12 assists between them. The return from suspension of Lewis Dunk, then, will be most-welcome.

Richard Morris@BHIndyAlbion

Darren Bent should start against Fulham (Photo: Paul Hazlewood)

Seagulls hell Bent on moving up the league

Match preview: Brighton and Hove Albion v Fulham

We are delighted to welcome Darren to the club, and I hope he will score plenty of goals for us during his time with us.

“His record speaks for itself. He is a top-class striker with a more than 100 Premier League goals with Charlton, Spurs, Sunderland and Aston Villa.

“Three years ago he was a regular in the England squad under Fabio Capello; there is no doubting his ability to score goals.

“He also wants to play regular games and that is evident in his willingness to step down from the Premier League to the Championship.”

Sami Hyypiä Albion’s manager

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Seagulls fans are expected to pack the Amex tomorrow (Saturday) for the visit of Fulham, with the Albion anticipating the highest gate of the season so far.

More than 28,000 tickets have been sold so far for the Championship fixture – a figure likely to be boosted further by the prospect of seeing new loan signing Darren Bent’s Albion debut.

Tickets are still available and fans with a purchasing record with the Albion will be able to buy them on the day, although the club is urging fans to buy them in advance.

And the Seagulls are hopeful that the bumper crowd will provide a pre-Christmas boost to one of their charity partners.

Earlier this year the Albion announced an official link with Off the Fence, a charity

which helps homeless people in Brighton and Hove.

Volunteers from the charity will be at the Amex on Saturday collecting donations and Albion fans are being asked to bring along any unwanted clothing as part of the club and Off the Fence’s Don’t Dump It, Donate It campaign.

With winter rapidly approaching, the charity is drawing attention to the hundreds of homeless people in Brighton and Hove who spend night after night in freezing temperatures.

And there will be collection bins outside the Amex tomorrow for fans to drop off unwanted clothes which can then be handed to local homeless people.

Sam Baldock, Brighton’s centre forward, is among those at the Albion to show their support for the campaign.

He said: “The majority of us will come to the game on Saturday, be it playing or watching, and then

afterwards go back to our warm homes with the comfort of our family and loved ones, but there are plenty of people who don’t have that option.

“It must be awful to be sleeping on the streets with nowhere to go for refuge, but to make matters even worse, the falling temperatures during the winter months must be unbearable.

“An extra layer or two could really make a difference to someone who has no shelter, and can not only help keep them warmer but could potentially save their lives, so I urge all Albion fans coming to the Fulham match to give whatever they can for this really important cause.”

Albion fans can also show their support for Off the Fence by sponsoring former defender Guy Butters, after he spent a night sleeping rough to raise funds and awareness of Off the Fence’s work. Donate online at: www.justgiving.com/Guysbigsleepout.

Richard Morris@BHIndyAlbion

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Most minutes of league football

■ Gordon Greer (1,620)■ Jake Forster-Caskey (1,358) ■ David Stockdale (1,350)■ Lewis Dunk (1,306)■ Joe Bennett (1,245)

Highest pass completion ■ Andrew Crofts (87.5%)■ Aaron Hughes (87.4%)■ Danny Holla (85.3%)■ Lewis Dunk (85%)■ Joe Bennett (84.5%)

Total shots

■ Kazenga Lua Lua (39)■ Gary Gardner (29)■ Jake Forster-Caskey (20)■ Craig Mackail-Smith (19)■ Chris O'Grady (18)

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Four weeks to go and most of us will be tucking into the turkey. In fact, last weekend’s 3-3 draw at Norwich had everything and, in a fit of excitement, I said the match was like a Christmas dinner with everything on the plate: six goals, a penalty, and a red card.

This weekend the Albion take on another side relegated from the Premier League, Fulham. In essence, the game has all the ingredients for another cracker.

The Amex is expecting its biggest crowd of the season. Nearly 30,000 will head to the game tomorrow (Saturday). A new set of fans will taste their first mouthful of Amex action, which should make for a good atmosphere.

The Seagulls are three games unbeaten and some supporters

feel Sami Hyypia’s side have turned a corner. There’s a new signing on show, with former England forward Darren Bent set for his debut. And it just happens to be against the club where he spent last season on loan.

Little by little, the club has benched the majority of summer signings who appear to fall short of the mark. They may now be heavily reliant on loanees, but the Albion hierarchy have finally assembled a side that can hurt teams.

In this column a few weeks ago, I said I was hopeful about the rest of the season, especially if they strengthen - and that is what they’ve done.

Injuries have not helped their cause this season, but it’s great to see Solly March on the

road back to action.Sadly, there are always

players who have to make way. At the time of writing, it seems Craig Mackail-Smith is set for a return to his spiritual home of Peterborough - where he scored nearly 100 goals. A lovely genuine guy, but a change of scene will probably help both him and Bent as they try to re-ignite their careers.

I think everyone is looking forward to tomorrow's game...so that’ll be a 0-0 draw then.

Finally on a sad note, I think everyone who is involved in cricket - and those who aren’t - feel numb after the news of the death of Phil Hughes. He was a huge talent, positive at the crease and will be missed - 63 Not Out.

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