Community News Brighton Pride: Calabash brings diversity to Preston Park Brighton Pride is the sum of all its glorious parts and none is more fabulous or popular each year than the Calabash area. Calabash returns once more in 2014 to celebrate Freedom to live at The World’s a Disco extravaganza on Preston Park. Affy Go Bang one of the organisers of Calabash, said: “As th By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Moving on – the end of an era! The team behind one of Brighton’s best-loved bars, the Marine Tavern in Broad Street will be calling last orders there for the very last time towards the end of the summer. Steve Chillingworth and his partner Nat Robinson, who have been running the pub for the past 12 years, have decided to move on By Besi • 2 min read
News Labour’s Parliamentary candidates say put people’s lives first Labour’s parliamentary candidates for Brighton and Hove urge Green Party councillors on the Fire Authority to support Labour’s fight against the proposed fire service cuts. Nancy Platts (PPC Brighton Kemptown), Peter Kyle (PPC Hove & Portslade) and Purna Sen (PPC Pavilion) say the cuts will lead to By Besi • 2 min read
General News Benefits fraudsters found guilty in council prosecutions A man who fraudulently claimed over £29,000 in benefits whilst running a lettings agency was handed a 10 months prison sentence, suspended for one year, by Brighton magistrates last week. Stephen Winter Gill, 32, of Rotherfield Crescent, Brighton, pleaded guilty to five counts of falsely claiming be By Besi • 1 min read
Health Keep an open mind for Mental Health Awareness Week City Council is supporting Open Minds, a free event at the University of Sussex on Monday May 12. The event, part of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week runs nationally from May 12-18 and has been organised by Albion in the Community, will be hosted by the University of Sussex Students’ Union, By Besi • 2 min read
Health Rainbow Fund continues support to popular Lunch Positive, thanks to funding from Brighton Pride A grant by the Rainbow Fund has enabled Lunch Positive to continue its well-received work providing a popular weekly lunch club for people with HIV, serving healthy food and offering a community space for people to meet up and make new friends. The funding was made possible by Brighton Pride from th By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Away from home at the Marlborough In the UK in 2014, The Civil Partnership Act is ten years old, same sex marriage has passed into law and it is a criminal offence to stir up hatred against people on grounds of their sexual orientation. After years of struggle the final stigmas have been removed. It is okay to be gay and being out [ By Besi • 2 min read
LGBTQ+ News Republica headline new live Q Stage at Brighton Pride Brighton Pride will be welcoming one of the most iconic 90’s female fronted rock bands to the brand new Q Live Music Stage this August. Prepare for a set of gritty electronica as Republica aka. Saffron Sprackling, Tim Dorney, Johnny Male and Conor Lawrence perform their global chart smashers Ready T By Besi • 2 min read
Health GMFA helps young gay men to ‘Think Again’ about HIV In April this year, GMFA launched the Think Again campaign, encouraging young gay men to reconsider what they knew about HIV and sexual safety. In 2012: 5,250 UK based gay men were diagnosed with HIV. A third of these men were in their teens or twenties. In the two weeks since the campaign was launc By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Bletchley Park presents Andrew Hodges Alan Turing’s biographer Andrew Hodges, is to speak at Bletchley Park on Sunday, August 17. Andrew will talk about his biography of Alan Turing; the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life of a man now widely recognised as the founder of computer science. A gripping story of mathematics By Besi • 1 min read
News Labour calls for more supported employment in the South East Labour MEP candidate Anneliese Dodds has called for more employers in the South East to offer supported employment to people with disabilities. Anneliese made the appeal after visiting ableandwilling, a supported employer partly funded by Brighton and Hove City Council, which champions equal opportu By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Normal Heights: Brighton Fringe May 8-19 Raucous brother act from USA honours deceased uncle, while promoting inclusion and laughter. Normal Heights is the original one-and-a-half-man show that was a five-star audience favorite at the Boulder International Fringe Festival. Creator/performer Jim Walker and accompanist brother Adam bring the By Besi • 2 min read
