News Council wins funding to make cycling safer Brighton & Hove has won government funding to improve the design and layout of roads which will benefit road users and cyclists in particular. The city council have secured £300,000 which will be spent on improvements to the Seven Dials area of Brighton. With council match-funding, it will mean that By Besi • 2 min read
News New Mayor plans a record breaking year for local charities Homeless charity Off the Fence, The Martlets Hospice, The Rockinghorse Children’s Charity, Age Concern and The Argus Appeal have been chosen by the incoming Mayor of Brighton & Hove, Councillor Denise Cobb, as her charities for her mayoral year. Councillor Denise Cobb, 59, has been a Conservative me By Besi • 1 min read
News Hove MP nominates Hove bands to Parliamentary competition Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, and founder of Rock the House, a music competition which draws attention to the importance of Intellectual Property, has put forward his nominations for Hove’s entry into the parliamentary competition. Following a fierce battle of the band By Besi • 1 min read
Community News Local performers raise money for Eastbourne charity Last month, Musical Director Josh Mills took his production of We Are What We Are (not just men in tights) to a delighted sell out show at the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne, with the help of some friends. Their aim was to raise funds and awareness for the life limiting condition Duchenne Muscular By Besi • 1 min read
News Hampshire Youth Project Breakout, the LGBT Hampshire wide youth project are currently looking for a full time and a 3.5 hour a week part time Breakout Youth LGBT project worker to join their Hampshire wide young people’s project. Breakout Youth is a project for young people aged 11 to 25 who identify as lesbian, gay, bisex By Besi • 2 min read
News Are the city’s taxis accessible? Brighton and Hove City Council’s Licensing Committee is seeking the public’s views to help develop an accessibility policy for hackney carriage drivers, vehicles and operators in the city. Interested parties can join in the consultation process by completing a questionnaire on the council’s website By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Stonewall Equality Dinner raises record amount Over 500 guests, including celebrities and politicians, attended Stonewall’s annual Equality Dinner at London’s Dorchester Hotel this week. The Dinner, hosted by Stella Duffy, raised a record-breaking £394,000 to support Stonewall’s campaigns against homophobia in Britain and worldwide. Metropolitan By Besi • 2 min read
Community News Open Gardens ‘early bird’ tickets available The Sussex Beacon, the HIV charity, are offering a 20% early bird discount for weekend tickets bought in April to the Brighton & Hove Open Gardens event taking place on Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 30 from 11am. From small city centre courtyards to expansive open spaces, the event sees over 70 By Besi • 1 min read
Health Have you written your will? Martlets Hospice, the Hove-based charity providing end of life care services to adults with terminal diseases, is now taking bookings for its 2013 Will Writing Fortnight, which runs from May 6 till May 17. Fifteen local Will writers will be donating their services in return for a suggested donation By Besi • 1 min read
News Funding awarded to stage Candlelit Vigil Lunch Positive, the Brighton & Hove charity which provides a weekly lunch club for people with HIV has been awarded £1985.00 to help toward the costs of staging the annual World AIDS Day Candlelight Vigil & Reading Of Names. The event which is held on World AIDS Day December 1, is a public remembran By Besi • 1 min read
News Scottish man prosecuted for not revealing his trans status Chris Wilson a trans man has been sentenced to 3 years probation and 240 hours community service for “obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud” by failing to disclose his birth sex. Scottish Transgender Alliance (STA) says fraud prosecution “threatens trans people’s right to privacy” and was “the wrong ch By Besi • 3 min read
News Public meeting against racists tonight In the build-up to the far-right march through Brighton, which takes place at the end of April, speakers from Unite Against Fascism (UAF), the Green Party, the Labour Party and the trades union movement will address a meeting called ‘Standing together: why the far-right mustn’t divide us’ from 7pm o By Besi • 2 min read
