International News New honeymoon destinations campaigns The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have launched a new travel advice campaign called Know Before You Go (KBYG). The campaign is aimed at reducing the number of preventable problems faced by British Nationals abroad, to help make sure they enjoy safe and trouble-free travel. As more weddings t By Besi • 2 min read
General News Greens seek local powers to support small shops Brighton & Hove Greens are seeking cross-party support for a national campaign to give Councils powers to introduce a levy upon bigger retailers, in order to rebalance the economy in favour smaller ones. The proposal is being considered at the Council’s Policy & Resources Committee meeting on June 1 By Besi • 2 min read
General News Brighton woman pleads guilty to £134k+ benefit fraud charge A Brighton woman has appeared at Lewes Crown Court today, Thursday 29 May 2014, for a preliminary hearing about benefit fraud she is said to have committed over a nine year period between 2004 and 2013. Janice Purdie of Shoreham Road, Hove, claimed £ 83,113.95 in housing benefit and £8,212.55 counci By Besi • 1 min read
Film Nipples, cocks and Dali! New film tells extraordinary story of the King of Brighton’s eccentrics. A new British independent documentary, The Man Whose Mind Exploded, which was played at the British Film Industry’s recent Flare Festival of LGBT cinema, explores the extraordinary past and never-ending now of Drako Oho Zarharz By Besi • 2 min read
General News New adoption agency launched in the North East A Newly launched independent adoption agency ARC Adoption North East, only one of three such agencies set up in the UK has put roots down in Sunderland as it starts work to match parents and children across the UK. ARC has been launched on the back of a successful application for Government funding By Besi • 2 min read
News Hove MP Weatherley calls for “Google to take lead in the fight against piracy” Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove & Portslade and Intellectual Property Adviser to the Prime Minister has published a report entitled Search Engines and Piracy. The report outlines the shortcomings of search engine providers in the fight against online piracy and recognises that although search engines c By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Are you a budding writer? Are you aged 16-19 and want to perform at Pride this year? Brighton and Hove City Libraries are looking for budding LGBT writers to perform at Pride on Saturday, August 2 in the Pride Literature & Spoken Word Tent. If you are new to writing you can go along to one of their FREE writing workshops […] By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Strictly Resounding Resound Male Voices will be presenting their next concert, Strictly Resound, on Saturday, July 5, at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) Hall in Seven Dials at 7.30pm The chorus will be paying tribute to the popular BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing. Resound Male Voices will pre By Besi • 1 min read
Film Free Community Conference: Austerity and Us at Brighthelm Centre Speakers from around the country are coming to Brighton on Saturday, May 31 to speak on the economic crisis, austerity and our local community. The free conference is supported by the University of Sussex’s Public Culture Research Hub, and the event will end with a screening of the award-winning doc By Besi • 2 min read
General News The future of UK energy – New dawn or same vested interests? Doug Parr, chief scientist and policy director at Greenpeace is to speak at Brighthem as part of Power to the People a series of talks on community energy. This follows the announcement last month that Brighthelm is in the process of removing all its investments from fossil fuel producers and suppl By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Law Commission report calls for overhaul of outdated hate crime laws An anti-homophobia and transphobia charity has welcomed a report calling for hate crime laws to be overhauled. Galop, which helps victims of hate crime have called the current legal system nonsensical and ripe for change. The Law Commission report calls for an end to courts using one system for anti By Besi • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Support your community and get a free ticket for Pride Brighton Pride is a non profit community interest company (CIC) with just two full time members of administration staff. Last year with the help of volunteers and supporters Pride smashed their fund-raising target and raised over £43,000 for the Rainbow Fund to distribute through their grants progra By Besi • 2 min read
