Elizabeth Price News Elizabeth Price wins the Turner Prize 2012 The Turner Prize 2012 has been awarded to Elizabeth Price, it was announced at Tate Britain this evening. The £25,000 prize was presented by Jude Law. This year’s prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. By Besi • 1 min read
News Hampshire Police force to improve service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities Around fifty Lesbian and Gay Liaison Officers (LAGLOs) from across Hampshire Constabulary attended a recent development day to help improve the force’s service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT). The aim of the event was for the force’s LAGLOs to share ideas and best practice an By Besi • 2 min read
News Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival highly commended at awards ceremony The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival was Highly Commended at the prestigious Beautiful South Awards 2012/13 held on last week at Denbies Vineyard in Surrey. The awards, organised by Tourism South East and presented by TV presenter, Toby Anstis, recognise the best in tourism across the home co By Besi • 1 min read
Peter Tatchell News Routledge Publishing House apologise to Peter Tatchell The UK publisher Routledge has issued a public apology to Peter Tatchell for 20 “misrepresentations and distortions” and “inaccurate allegations” made by the former Human Rights Watch programme director, Scott Long. The full and unreserved apology to Peter Tatchell and the LGBT human rights group Ou By Besi • 3 min read
News NUS campaigns to make equal marriage happen NUS LGBT are urging people to send a Christmas card to David Cameron that can be filled out online, with a clear message – make equal marriage happen. The NUS is concerned that the Government has dragged its heels and kept quiet about the plans for the proposed bill to make marriage accessible to sa By Besi • 2 min read
News New airline starts twice daily flights to Paris A new airline, Brighton City Airways has been launched to fly twice-daily scheduled flights to Paris from Shoreham in Sussex. Shoreham Airpot has been renamed Brighton (Shoreham) Airport to celebrate the new service. Tickets went on sales from December 1, with the first flights departing on March 6, By Besi • 4 min read
News Hundreds attend candlelit vigil at Aids Memorial Hundreds of people attended this year World Aids Day Candlelit Vigil on Saturday, December 1 at ‘Tay’ the Aids Memorial in New Steine Gardens. The event was organised by the Brighton & Hove World AIDS Day Partnership which includes: Bear Patrol Social Group, BHCC Partnership Community Safety Team, C By Besi • 1 min read
Tom French News Equality Network wins Herald Society ‘Campaigner of the year’ award In a ceremony at Glasgow’s Crowne Plaza Hotel last month, Equality Network won the Herald Society Campaigner of the Year award for their Equal Marriage campaign. The Equality Network, a leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality charity in Scotland, competed in a strong field alo By Besi • 2 min read
Arts The B.Right.On Festival – February 2013 So here’s how it happened. I went into a cafe in Brighton where I used to clean the floors and asked to stage an art exhibition. The owner liked my work but said it was too political for his business. A friend knew someone who knew someone at the Jubilee Library – I got offered an exhibition there n By Besi • 3 min read
Chris Gull chairs the public meeting at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church News St James’ Street residents have their say Over 100 people packed into the Dorset Garden’s Methodist Church on Friday evening (November 30) to attend the St.James’s area community meeting ‘Reclaiming the Neighbourhood’, called to discuss issues affecting the local community following a recent violent attack in the area. By Besi • 3 min read
A general view of the Church of England General Synod on the day they were voting on the ordination of women priests. Features & Longread A triumph from disaster? Tuesday 20th November 2012 is a date which will go down as a fateful day in the history of Christianity in this country. The media headlines were all about the Church of England voting against women being allowed to become bishops. But actually the ramifications of the no vote go far wider. I sat t By Besi • 4 min read
News Brighton & Hove, World AIDS Day events The Brighton & Hove World AIDS Day Partnership are organising a series of events in Brighton & Hove to mark World AIDS Day on December 1. The partnership includes: Bear Patrol Social Group, BHCC Partnership Community Safety Team, CDO Sussex, Lunch Positive, The Sussex Beacon, Sussex Community NHS Tr By Besi • 3 min read
