News Green Euro candidates vow to prioritise Europe-wide fracking ban Following todays European elections, Green MEPs will be stepping up the pressure on shale extraction and calling for a Europe-wide ban on fracking. The move comes following the UK government’s blocking of European Commission proposals – in January – that would have introduced a degree of regulation By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Kemptown Gay Village Street Party – a proposed way forward! Proposals have been tabled to make this years St James’s Street Village Party a ticketed event, managed and delivered by Pride CIC. The post Preston Park event started out as a small grassroots celebration supported by both the LGBT and business community organised independently of Pride by a group By Besi • 6 min read
LGBTQ+ News Manchester Pride feels the love Parade application are now open for the Manchester Pride Parade whose theme this year is LOVE. The annual Manchester Pride Parade, which will take place at 1pm on Saturday, August 23 2014. The Parade will weave its way through the city centre, following a 1.3mile route, as thousands of visitors line By Besi • 1 min read
Health Brighton half marathon to feature in new ‘National Vitality Run Series’ launched by Jessica Ennis Olympic Champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has launched a major new series of eight events called the Vitality Run Series, which will include the Brighton Half Marathon. Featuring seven of the UK’s most prestigious half marathons and one 10k event during 2014/15, the Vitality Run Series will help to reinfo By Besi • 3 min read
General News Two YMCAs merge to create a stronger organisation The merger of two YMCAs will create a stronger charitable organisation delivering services across Sussex and Surrey to over 10,000 young people. Sussex Central YMCA merged with Guildford YMCA in April to create YMCA DownsLink Group. The merger of these two YMCAs has created a stronger and more robus By Besi • 2 min read
Food & Drink Indian Summer to host masquerade charity ball EIPC Cancer and HIV related diseases are the leading cause of death in India. Brighton’s renowned and award winning Indian Summer restaurant is to host a Masquerade Charity Ball in aid of Eastern Indian Palliative Care (EIPC), an organisation which supports patients and families with these life thre By Besi • 2 min read
General News Hundreds to cycle naked through Brighton Throughout June, thousands of people in over 60 cities around the world will be stripping off and cycling to celebrate bikes, bodies and low impact living for the annual World Naked Bike Ride. For ten years, these mass protest rides have saluted the bike and the raw power of the human body as a key By Besi • 2 min read
News Green MEP says: “UKIP shouldn’t be trusted to represent people” “UKIP candidate’s outburst shows their fear of the Greens” says Keith Taylor MEP. The Green Party’s MEP for South East England has hit out at UKIP after a member of his party was subjected to an expletive outburst from MEP candidate Janice Atkinson. Ms Atkinson told Maria Pizzey, a Green Party activ By Besi • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Luke Frost debuts ‘Chroma Volts’ art exhibit at Zimmer Stewart Minimalist artist luke Frost will debut his first exhibition for the Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Chroma Volts from May 30 to June 21. His paintings explore the relationship of colours in precise compositions containing areas of layered colour interrupted by stripes of contrasting, resonating and oscilla By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Cocktail competition is the toast of Manchester Manchester Pride challenges city bars to mix things up for Pride! The organisers of Manchester Pride, have challenged bars across the city to create their Pride Cocktail and raise funds for Manchester Pride’s Community Fund. Manchester Pride approached bars and restaurants across the city to get inv By Besi • 2 min read
News City business leader says Britain leaving the EU is ‘a nonsense’ Tony Mernagh, Executive Director of the Brighton and Hove Economic Partnership and Managing Director of Brighton and Hove Business Forum, has issued an unequivocal statement in favour of Britain’s membership of the European Union. In a statement to Tracey Hill, a Labour MEP candidate for the south e By Besi • 2 min read
General News Brighthelm Church says “No more fossil fuels!” Brighthelm Church and Community Centre, in North Road, Brighton, is pulling out of supporting fossil fuels. Like many charities, Brighthelm has investments across a portfolio of businesses, including oil companies. None of these shares would normally be considered unethical, but Brighthelm’s trustee By Besi • 1 min read
