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It's a sunny Sunday in a quiet suburban road. It's early evening, 6pm or thereabouts, and Richard Savage is walking down the road, towards his home.

He is cheered to see the "Re-elect Caroline Lucas" posters in so many of the windows in a relatively-prosperous neighbourhood in Preston Park ward.

Then he sees the small group of Labour Party apparatchiks tramping the streets, door-to-door, the sort who tweet about their heroics on

#LabourDoorstep. Mr Savage - an unassuming

secondary-school teacher, an Oxford-educated ex-professional cricketer - cannot help himself.

He is exasperated by the bile that has spewed for so long

from a tiny minority of Labour candidates and supporters. If his wife had been there, perhaps he would have restrained himself. (Note: his wife is Ms Lucas, seeking re-election on May 7.)

His words are disputed. The volume with which he delivered them are also disputed. Sussex Police, however, insist they did not receive a complaint - despite what the rumour-mill implied.

Mr Savage has told friends he definitely did not shout; he has insisted he was not abusive; nor he did call the four Labour activists - Julie Cattell, Warren

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Last week, Caroline Lucas's celebrity supporter was Dr Brian May, lead guitarist of Queen. This week, it is Dick Knight, life president of Brighton and Hove Albion and a freeman of the city. Mr Knight, who described himself as "always left-of-centre", said Ms Lucas was a "brave, principled, and intelligent" politician who deserved to be re-elected as Green MP for Brighton Pavilion. He rebutted suggestions that he shuold not support a Green candidate because of the party's opposition to the American Express Community Stadium at Falmer.

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The sun shone on the crowds at Brighton Racecourse, as the new racing season began on Tuesday. TIM HODGES, of Brighton and Hove News (www.brightonandhovenews,org) took the opportunity to look back at 10 things you may not know about this remarkable sporting venue.

1 Frankie Dettori rode at Brighton two days after his "magnificent seven" at Ascot in September 1996. With no Sunday racing, it was his first appearance since his brilliant feat.

2 The Queen owned the horse that won the Brighton Challenge Mile in 1992, Talent (USA). Alas, Her Majesty was not on hand to receive the trophy.

3 AP McCoy came in 2002 to win on Ian Baldings Thundergod in a six-furlong dash for jump jockeys.

4 Brighton is the only course in the UK to abandon racing due to a sea fret, in 2002. 5 Brighton Racecourse has only once held races on a Saturday in the past 30 years - an evening meeting on Saturday, August 16 1997.

6 The course has only ever had one race featured live on terrestrial television. Kilcullen Lad could be seen winning the Victor Chandler Dash on Wednesday, August 18 1999 live on Channel 4.

7 Alamo City at odds of 6-100 (around 1/16) was the shortest-priced loser in England for 49 years after losing at Brighton in 1966 - until Triple Dip was beaten into second at Lingfield last month at 1/20

8 Brighton held a prestigious Derby Trial in the 1950s and 1960s. The course is almost identical to the shape and undulations of Epsom.

9 A colourful character called Ras Prince Monolulu (real name Peter Mackay) sold tips outside the course in the 1940s. The tipster had a striking appearance, wearing colourful robes and shouting I gotta horse.

10 In the 1990s, a horse dumped his jockey, broke free of the course, and caused mayhem in Elm Grove before eventually being caught in Lewes Road. It was declared a non-runner.

School appeals after planners reject new classrooms projectBrighton College has lodged an appeal after its plans to put up a 6.5 million classroom block were turned down by Brighton and Hove City Council.

Officials recommended granting approval for the scheme - part of a bigger ten-year master plan for the expanding public school but the councils Planning Committee voted against the proposal.

The appeal will be heard by a government-appointed independent planning inspector who will weigh up the arguments for and against the scheme at an informal hearing.

It is expected to take place later this year or early next year

and follows an appeal by Sussex University after part of its master plan was rejected against official advice.

The Brighton College plans involve demolishing the old swimming pool and music school buildings and replacing them with a five-storey classroom block.

The new building would be linked to the Grade II listed Great Hall and the Skidelsky building.

As part of the scheme an elm tree would be felled and replaced with other elms elsewhere on the schools campus.

The loss of the elm was the reason for refusing permission

for the new classroom block.Among those to question the

proposal to fell the elm and to vote against the Brighton College scheme was Councillor Alex Phillips. Her husband and fellow Green candidate in the local elections Tom Druitt campaigned beforehand to preserve the tree.

When a council committee previously agreed a revamp of the Seven Dials, Councillor Phillips was one of those who voted for the scheme which involved felling an old elm. Mr Druitt then camped out in the tree to save it - successfully.

This time, he only blogged about the threatened elm before the planning committee meeting.

They're off! Season starts at Brighton Racecourse

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Were heading towards the big day - Thursday, May 7 - when we can cast our votes for councillors and MPs to serve for the next four or five years.

Our votes are incredibly important and Im delighted we saw a big surge in voter registrations just before the

deadline earlier in the week.Its right that there is a big focus

on the choices we face as we cast our votes on election day.

But its also important to remember that casting our vote, important as it is, is just one part of the democratic process.

Democracy isnt over once the votes are counted, the results are in, and the all-night broadcasts have wrapped up.

Once elected, our representatives

are only as good as the input and feedback they receive from active citizens.

Every charity, campaign group, union branch, and residents' association is vital to helping our city work well.

So even if you dont fancy taking part in a local political party, there are so many ways to take an active part in the wellbeing of our city.

In the last four years, Ive been incredibly fortunate to meet many of the wonderful groups in our city

that contribute to making it a great place to live and work.

Ive met groups that help the homeless, teach therapeutic singing, offer gardening in our parks,

teach cycling to youngsters, research local history, provide food banks and much, much more.

Even taking part for just one hour a week can make a huge difference to the people these groups serve - and help us to feel ever more connected with our city.

So dont forget to vote on May 7. But also remember that democracy is an activity that carries on year-round.

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The case against a protester accused of racially harassing a Jewish woman collapsed after last-minute video evidence showed his Nazi jibe was shouted at a crowd, not just her. Palestinian Yasser Samman, 64, who now lives in Brighton, was arrested on 17 May last year in Western Road at a demonstration outside Ecostream, whose parent company SodaStream has a factory in the contested Gaza territory. Mr Samman was accused by a counter protester of calling her a "f***ing Nazi". But the video showed he did not single her out and the case was dismissed.

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They say that sharing is caring. But, in the last few weeks and months, Ive been struggling to get to grips with it.

Not my own sharing that is - Im reasonably okay with that - passing the biscuits round and only being mildly peeved when people avail themselves of my generous offer.

No, its sharing for toddlers that is nagging away at me.

There seems to be an unwritten assumption built into parenting that states that your child must share all things at all costs. Toys, books, friends, games, is nothing sacred?

First off, Tibbons has a toy that is closer to his heart than anything else hes ever owned (literally, as shes carted around with him at all times, to all places).

So Im clear that she is not for sharing and I think thats okay. Other toys, I encourage Tibbons to share with friends coming round to play and mostly I think he does quite well.

But its difficult for young ones,

so how far do you go in enforcing the sharing rule?

At other people's houses, Im probably prone to thinking they dont go far enough and at our house I probably adopt a similar approach, but feel bad for Tibbons if he finds it tough.

You see, I feel like Im displaying contradictory behavior: at friends houses, trying to convince him that its okay for a child not to want to share their toys with him and then at our house doing the exact opposite and trying to convince him that, actually, sharing is great and should be done routinely, with the minimum of fuss.

If theres a happy medium, Im yet to find it.

Ideally, Id like to let him share on his terms, but given how widespread the unwritten parenting assumption about sharing is, Im not sure wed have many more playdate invitations.

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Our city shows its style

A succession of 15 models - wearing outfits from 12 city shops - were the stars of the third Brighton Thistle Fashion Show at the Thistle Hotel on Saturday (April 18)

Guy Lloyd from Juice 107.2 and Sophie Corbett hosted three shows, with Jonno Cox and Rich sorting the sound and music. Jane Busby, the Brighton & Hove Independent columnist, styled and staged the shows. More than 300 people came to see the spring and summer outfits.

Shops that appeared on the catwalk were Eyesite Opticians, Four Candles, Get Cutie, Jacu, Laundry Boutique, MatchBags, Mistral, Pretty Eccentric, Rock Lobster Boutique, Simon Carter Menswear, Tegen Accessories,and The Fair Shop.


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Council office fireA faulty solar panel has been blamed for setting fire to the roof of Hove Town Hall. A huge plume of thick black smoke billowing from the roof of the council offices in Norton Road could be seen for miles around. The building was evacuated while the blaze was put out and council workers were allowed back inside within a couple of hours. The council is now checking solar panels on all its buildings.

Homelessness

Homeless campA group of campaigners have set up camp in Valley Gardens to raise awareness about homelessness.The group first camped by the fountain in Brighton after last Wednesday's homelessness march, both to raise awareness and provide a safe space for rough sleepers. They scaled the Victoria fountain and put up banners to broadcast their message to the city. After being evicted from there by Brighton and Hove City Council, they have since moved to Victoria Gardens.

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I have a confession to make. Please dont hate me. I really, really dislike sport. All sport.

I dont watch Wimbledon and I have no idea about football, rugby or golf. And yet...I do quite often watch boxing. Not those tiny teeny lightweight boxers, but the great big heavyweights who dance around the ring landing heavy blows that make me wince. (I was also quite addicted to Thai boxing in Bangkok, going twice a week to Lumpini stadium getting caught up in the betting frenzy).

You can imagine how thrilled I was to get this book. Jack Munday has been fighting all

his life. His earliest memories are shaped by the thrill of the boxing ring, but hes grown numb.

Hes now a grafting boxing manager. His hopes and ambitions seem realised when he meets a talented young fighter, Frank, and a new girl, Georgie, who inspires him.

Jack is hungry for change and we follow his path with bated breath. The fights, the smells, and the thrills of boxing are very real in this book and the gritty, punchy prose is in keeping with post-war London.

I found myself desperately hoping that Frank wins every

fight. And I could feel every bruise and sprain that he endured. There is a ring of truth to this book and I wasnt at all surprised to discover that the authors grandfather was, in fact, a boxer. Great stuff.

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Frozen yogurt firm closes in on crowdfunding target

Frozen yogurt firm Lick is edging closer to the 200,000 crowdfunding target that values the company at 2.4 million. The money will enable the business to employ more staff, increase its marketing budget and start exporting its products.

More than 200 people have invested 135,000 in sums ranging from under 100 to 30,000 since the call for capital went live on the Crowdcube crowdfunding website last month. Licks founders, Ky Wright and Owain Williams, both 32, will find out whether they have hit their target when the fundraising deadline passes in a weeks time.

Licks pitch on Crowdcube said: Licks founders, Ky and Owain, started making and selling frozen yogurt together at school and now run an award-winning, nationally stocked frozen yogurt brand. Lick tubs are available in Sainsburys, Waitrose, Ocado, Yo! Sushi, Budgens and Wholefoods among many other places all over the UK.

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Brighton. The pair opened the shop in 2008 and closed it in 2013 so that they could focus on supplying other shops.

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REDUCING THE DEFICIT The Conservatives are reducing the deficit to secure a stronger economy and a better future for Brighton and for Britain. By taking difficult decisions weve halved the deficit since 2010. Were safeguarding our economy for the long term so future generations arent left to clear up the mess. Dealing with the deficit is essential to keep mortgage rates low for hardworking families - helping them become more financially secure.

MAKING WORK PAY, CUTTING INCOME TAX AND FREEZING FUEL DUTYWere cutting income tax for over 25 million people, saving the typical taxpayer at least 705 a year. Were taking the lowest paid out of income tax altogether by rasing the tax-free allowance from 10,500 to 12,500 by 2020. Weve cancelled Labours planned fuel duty rises, helping small business and saving you 11 every time you fill up your car.

THE NHS REMAINS SAFE IN CONSERVATIVE HANDSThe future of the NHS will be safeguarded with an extra 3bn being put into the frontline health services and GP funding. Were committed to providing an extra 5,000 doctors by 2020, with GP surgeries being allowed to open 7 days a week. The Conservatives are restoring the traditional family GP in a modern, reformed NHS.

SUPPORTING HOME OWNERSHIPHelp to buy has been a huge success helping 71,000 people nationally into new homes - with over 80% of them first-time buyers. 31 families have been helped onto the housing ladder in Brighton Pavilion. We will go further, 100,000 new Starter Homes will be built and sold to first time buyers at 20% discount. More affordable homes and better tenant protection will be my priorities. Selfishly, the Greens want to take away the right to buy your own home if you are a council tenant denying thousands of hardworking people the opportunity to get a start on the property ladder.

OUR PLAN FOR CONTROLLED IMMIGRATION The British people want controlled immigration - and thats what the Conservatives will deliver. Successive governments have lacked control over immigration and people are understandably frustrated. Thats why we plan to remove financial incentives that attact migrants to Britain, with changes to welfare an absolute requirement in the UKs renegotiated relationship with the EU.

Securing a better future for Britain

Dear Resident,With the 2015 General Election now just weeks away, I am writing as your Conservative

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion - the most vibrant, diverse, tolerant and economically important coastal seat in the UK - to set out how our wonderful city can live up to its true potential once again under the next Conservative government.

Already our successful long term economic plan is restoring the UKs public finances and bringing huge benefits to Brighton in the process. As the strong, effective, entirely Brighton-focused voice in Parliament that the city now so urgently needs, I will play my part in securing that prosperity further.

Nationally, we are on course to halve the deficit, unemployment is at a record low, employment at a record high and more than 71,000 families have been helped onto the property ladder over 80% of them first-time buyers. We are keeping inflation low, reducing taxes, reforming welfare and securing the future of the NHS with an extra 3bn.

Locally, within Brighton Pavilion, our fiscally responsible policies have delivered a huge 56% drop in unemployment and more than 2300 apprenticeships for the citys young people since 2010 .

As your MP, I would want to see more affordable homes being built, better protection for the citys many tenants, support for businesses and developers who have the confidence to invest in Brightons exciting future and greater help for the most vulnerable and needy on our streets.

As a resident of the city, I am also only too well aware of the challenges facing us on Brighton & Hove City Council: The failure of the Greens to deliver basic core services such as rubbish and recycling collection, their ideological anti car policies that strangle the local economy, an apparent tolerance of unauthorised traveller encampments and the obvious deterioration of our cityscape. For all this, they seek, with Labours support, substantial council tax rises.

With Ed Miliband in 10 Downing Street our national recovery would be jeopardised as a firmly left-wing Labour government would once again bring the country to its knees through instinctively high taxes, high spending and yet more borrowing.

My vision for our fantastic city is therefore simple: I want to see Brighton consign the Green experiment to history. No longer should Brighton be known as the city of protest, but, rather, it should become the city of prosperity, progress and pride. Conservative common sense change has to come to Brighton and soon: with your vote supporting me on May 7th it will.

Kind Regards

Clarence Mitchell

My Pledges to you:Conservative Common sense for Brighton Pavilion. A city of presperity, progress and pride.

1) The return of a beautiful central Brighton and seafront Our world famous seafront should be world class once again. The citys parks and gardens, too, must once more be beautiful. We will take swift and firm action against increasing unauthorised traveller encampments. Brighton will look its best once again under the Conservatives.

2) A reliable refuse and recycling service The Greens have failed to deliver even the most basic council services, the efficient and timely collection of your rubbish and recycling. Brighton has become nothing short of a mess while industrial disputes with union leaders drag on. By transforming Cityclean into an employee led and owned mutal organisation like John Lewis, the Conservatives would ensure an efficient rubbish and recycling service is restored as a priority.

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chargesThe citys motorists have suffered from sky-high parking charges, strangling local businesses and the wider economy. The BHCC parking charge surplus for 2013/14 was 18.1 million. Brighton will become a popular shopping and leisure destination once again through us ending the great parking rip-off and bringing in realistic, reasonable and imaginative parking schemes, not least a 10% cut in the price of residents, traders and business parking permits and a 4 year freeze on all parking charges.

4) A great place to do business and create jobsWe will support business and the citys entrepreneurs by encouraging them to suceed and create jobs and apprenticeships. The Conservatives will carry out a long overdue overhaul of the BHCC Planning Department, freezing developers from bureaucratic delays.

5) Your Council Tax will not go up under a Conservative administration The Greens have sought huge council tax rises for failing to deliver your core council services. Labour, too, have sustained the Greens in office by often voting with them or abstaining, whilst also pushing for council tax rises each year. The return of Conservative control to Brighton & Hove City Council will mean better, more efficient services and no increase in your Council Tax.

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The art gallery that driftsabove our heedless heads

I lay on the floor the other day, watching the evening clouds drift sedately in from the sea. Their undersides were pink or rosy, their upper parts grey or green, their shapes etiolated and fantastic. Below in the streets, people milled busily about, traffic streamed, yet up above, unregarded, all was calm, transcendent.

With what stealthy gradations the clouds transform themselves from shape to shape, from tint to tint. Some stay stationary, as if gazing down at us with incredulity; others skate urgently along.

Apparently, a Cloud Appreciation Society exists. And, apparently again, there are 10 genera of clouds, divided into 26 species and 31 varieties. (Luke Howard in 1803 first established the categories of cumulus, cirrus and nimbus.) It seems there is nothing on earth (or just above it) that scientists cannot categorise, quantify, and define. But as I lay watching the clouds, the last thing I wanted was to stick Latin names on them. I just wanted to merge with the great shifting spectacle, to let my imagination drift with these giant babyish apparitions.

There are days when it is worth watching the clouds, days when

it is not. There are days when they seem the most ethereal entities on earth, strayed from some world of dream, and days when they are just cloudmass, oppressive occluders of the light.

In Aristophaness play The Clouds, someone asks: In looking at the sky, have you never seen a cloud resemble a centaur, a leopard, a wolf or a bull?

Shakespeares Antony, before his suicide, compares himself to the evanescent clouds, noting sometimes we see a cloud thats dragonish, a vapour something like a bear or lion, a towered citadel, a pendent rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks of the ultimate art gallery above. Rupert Brooke in his sonnet Clouds speaks of their noiseless tumult and wise majestic melancholy train. John Constable liked to sketch clouds. The mystical painter Cecil Collins claimed looking at a cloud will heal me very often of melancholy.

Richard Jefferies, lying on Brighton beach in 1884, notes: I was always fond of watching clouds. In my pocket-book I have several notes about these peculiar sea-clouds. The value of these clouds lies in their slowness of movement and consequent effect in soothing the mind.

But no-one, I think, matches Gerard Manley Hopkins, in his notebooks and poems, for elaborate descriptions of

clouds. Eastward after sunset range of clouds rising in bulky heads moulded softly in tufts or bunches of snow, he records in May 1866, while a student at Oxford. In July he sees multitudinous up-and-down crispy sparkling chains with pearly shadows up to the edges.

By sunset, these have become level clouds naturally lead-coloured but the upper parts ruddled, some more, some less, rosy. Spits or beams braided or built in with pellet flakes made their way. Through such clouds anvil-shaped pink ones and up-blown fleece-of-wool flat-topped dangerous-looking pieces.

In 1868, standing on a Swiss glacier, he notes prismatic colours in the clouds, which are fine shapeless skins of fretted make, full of eyebrows or like linings of curled leaves. In 1871 he sees clouds stepping one behind the other, their edges tossed with bright ravelling, as if white napkins were thrown up in the sun but not quite at the same moment.

In Hurrahing in Harvest (1877) he exclaims: What lovely behaviour of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, wilful-wavier meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? In another poem he has: Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-built thoroughfare: heaven-roisterers, in gay-gangs they throng; they glitter in marches.

Graham Chainey

There are days when clouds seem the most ethereal entities on earth

Excerpts from the recently-published book

Albion general manager Nick Rowe appealed for local business people to help the club during a meeting at the Grand Hotel. Director Martin Perry said the club was confident it would get permission to play temporarily at Withdean Stadium and that a new ground elsewhere would be the envy of towns and cities throughout the country.

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There are 21 wards in Brighton and Hove, electing 54 councillors

Ward profile: Rottingdean Coastal

Sitting councillorsLynda Hyde (Conservative)

Mary Mears (Conservative)David Smith (Conservative)

Candidates Votes (%)

Lynda Hyde (Conservative - elected) 2,642 (19%)

Mary Mears (Conservative - elected) 2,433 (18%)

David Smith (Conservative - elected) 2,219 (16%)

Tony Frisby (Labour) 1,053 (8%)

Michael Robert Adams (Labour) 1,044 (8%)

Andrew Coleman (Green) 1,000 (7%)

Harris Fitch (Labour) 931 (7%)

Rebecca Duffy (Green) 692 (5%)

Stuart Hay (Green) 679 (5%)

Harry Dienes (Liberal Democrats) 483 (4%)

Barry Pinchen (UKIP) 310 (2%)

Paul William Perrin (UKIP) 283 (2%)

2011 election results

Source: Census 2011

Ward profile: Woodingdean

Declared candidates for two seatsSteve Bell (Conservative) @SKJBell

*Dee Simson (Conservative) @Woodingdean_Dee

Alexis Bear (Green, second choice)

Andrea Finch (Green, first choice)

Elizabeth McGinley (Labour)

Judith Milton (Labour) @judith4wood

Lawrence Eke (Liberal Democrats)

Timothy Halpin (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)

Sitting councillorsDee Simson (Conservative)Geoffrey Wells (Conservative)

Households: 6,359 Density (people per hectare): 21 Women: 51% (7,016) Men: 49% (6,635) Average age: 44 Higher managerial occupations: 14.9% (1,733) Unemployed: 5.4% (377) White: 90.2% (12,320) Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 1% (143) Asian/Asian British: 4.4% (604) Number who cannot speak English well: 77 Dependent children in household (% of all households): 21.1% Christians: 56% No religion: 30%

Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 217 Divorced: 10% Living as co-habiting couple: 14.1% Married: 42.5% One family - all aged 65 and over: 9.9% Lone parent - with dependent children: 5% No adults in employment, with dependent children: 2% Long-term unemployed: 1% Activities limited a lot by poor health: 7.7% No cars or vans in household: 22% No qualifications: 15% Full-time students aged 18 and over: 5.6% One person in household with long-term health problem/disability - with dependent children: 2.4%

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Source: Census 2011

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Declared candidates for three seats*Lynda Hyde (Conservative) @CllrLyndaHyde

*Mary Mears (Conservative)

Joe Miller (Conservative) @BrightonJoe

Andrew Coleman (Green, first choice)

Paul Shanks (Green, second choice)

Richard Williams (Green, third choice)

Pete Gillman (Labour)

Talullah Gunputh (Labour) @gunputhh

Mark Laverick (Labour) @marklaverick

Christine-Reba Edge (Liberal Democrats)

Ken Brown (UKIP)

Graham Townsend (UKIP)


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Declared candidates for two seatsRobert Nemeth (Conservative) @robert_nemeth

*Garry Peltzer Dunn (Conservative)

Sue Baumgardt (Green, first choice)

Anton Simanowitz (Green, second choice)

Mark Barnard (Independent) @working4wish

Angus Gow (Independent) @working4wish

Edward Crask (Labour) @edwardcrask

*Anne Pissaridou (Labour) @paulinemable

Al Emery (Liberal Democrats)

William Harden (UKIP)

Sitting councillorsGarry Peltzer Dunn (Conservative)

Anne Pissaridou (Labour)

Households: 4,125 Density (people per hectare): 78 Women: 53% (5,079) Men: 47% (4,569) Average age: 39 Dependent children in household (% of all households): 32.6% Christians: 49% No religion: 36% Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 62 Divorced: 10% Living as co-habiting couple: 13.6%

Married: 43.4% One family - all aged 65 and over: 5.1% Lone parent - with dependent children: 6% No adults in employment, with dependent children: 2.7% Long-term unemployed: 1.2% Activities limited a lot by poor health: 8.2% No cars or vans in household: 28% No qualifications: 16.3% Full-time students aged 18 and over: 3.1% One person in household with long-term health problem/disability - with dependent children: 3.5%


Anne Louise Pissaridou (Labour - elected) 1,348 (24%)

Garry Ian Michael Peltzer Dunn (Conservative - elected) 1,310 (23%)

Christine Sandra Robinson (Labour) 1,144 (21%)

Sue Baumgardt (Green) 540 (10%)

Jenny Barnard-Langston (Independent) 301 (5%)

Steve Watson (Green) 263 (5%)

Anton Simanowitz (Green) 299 (5%)

Mark Anthony Barnard (Independent) 244 (2%)

Bob Bailey (Liberal Democrats) 170 (3%)

Daniel Russell (Liberal Democrats) 119 (2%)

Richard Martin Allden (UKIP) 100 (2%)


Source: Census 2011

In Rottingdean Coastal, it should be a shoe-in for the two Conservative candidates. Which means we should see Joe Miller on the council - a young voice, with a lot to contribute.

In Wish, Anne Pissaridou has been a force for good as a councillor, true to her beliefs and not afraid of letting others - even party colleagues - know what they are. More power to her elbow. Robert Nemeth is an intelligent and experienced candidate, but there remains a question mark over whether he can convince voters on the doorstep. Edward Crask must have a chance of making this a Labour gain.

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Dee Simson (Conservative - elected) 1,619 (28%)

Geoffrey Wells (Conservative - elected) 1,565 (27%)

Susan Jane Burns (Labour) 853 (15%)

Julian Hayes (Labour) 756 (13%)

Andrea Mary Finch (Green) 403 (7%)

Karen James (Green) 259 (4%)

Graham John Townsend (UKIP) 159 (3%)

Christine-Reba Joy Edge (Liberal Democrats) 121 (2%)

Anthony Richard Henry Eke (Liberal Democrats) 89 (2%)


Households: 3,924 Density (people per hectare): 23 Women: 52% (5,083) Men: 48% (4,710) Average age: 41 Higher managerial occupations: 7.9% (615) Unemployed: 5.6% (269) White: 93.7% (9,174) Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 0.7% (68) Asian/Asian British: 2.3% (228) Number who cannot speak English well: 39 Dependent children in household (% of all households): 32.1% Christians: 56% No religion: 34% Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 50

Woodingdean is an interesting ward: a significant working-class population, but two Conservative councillors with sizeable majorities. It's difficult to see anything changing - without a seismic shift nationally. Which, in the circumstances, looks very unlikely. As a councillor, Steve Bell is a strong personality who will not go unnoticed.

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Source: Census 2011

* Councillor standing again


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The only moments in the current election that have produced any excitement or interest have been the debates between the party leaders. It was the one moment that the party campaign

managers couldnt finely control. What has been remarkable

about this election is how the major party leaders have avoided contact with the general public.

They have been determined to avoid Gordon Browns Gillian Duffy moment when Brown described a voter as a "bigot". Time was when Harold Wilson relished putting down hecklers.

Today a heckler wouldnt get within a mile of Cameron, Clegg or Miliband.

During the debates, the three anti-austerity candidates - Leanne Wood, of Plaid Cymru; Natalie Bennett, of the Green Party; and Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP - wiped the floor with the leaders of the establishment parties. By the end, a sizeable

proportion of English voters wanted to know if they could vote for the SNP.

We now have the absurd situation of those who proclaim their devotion to the United Kingdom doing their best to delegitimise one section of it. The SNP represent more than 40% of the Scottish population and to pretend they have no place in the UKs government is a recipe for independence.

Nicola Sturgeon was the clear winner of the debates as she promised to make an honest man of Miliband. Never was it truer that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Politics has been reduced to eliminating the deficit, even though taxes for the rich will be cut (Cameron, Clegg). Miliband has decided to blunt the Tory attack by getting his surrender in first. He accepts that everything should be costed first (as if government is simply a matter of a train with a fixed timetable).

I wonder what Clement Attlee, perhaps our least-charismatic prime minister would have done, if he had been expected to cost his proposals. Britain was bankrupt after the Second World War. It was forced to go cap in hand to the United States for a $3 billion loan and it had been forced to accept, in the days of the sterling pool, the convertability of sterling with other currencies (which, in 1947, led to a run on the pound before being withdrawn).

If Hugh Dalton, Labours then chancellor, had been forced to "cost" the new NHS and the welfare state, we would have had neither. What Labour did was to set out its goals and priorities and then find the money to pay for it. The timid bank-clerk mentality of Miliband and Balls stands in stark contrast to the steely determination of the 1945 Labour government.

Consider Labours reaction to the Tory promise to extend the right to buy to housing association properties. Instead of promising an end to the right to buy council houses and savaging Cameron for having nothing to say about homelessness, their cowardly response was that the

Tories hadnt costed it! Labour could have pointed out that a further decline in social housing will simply mean councils have to pay out even more for emergency accommodation for vulnerable groups. In the words of Oscar Wilde, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

If Cameron proposed to bring back hanging, Milibands reflex would be to attack him for not costing the building of gallows and the training of a new generation of hangmen.

Buy to let is the most profitable form of investment, creating absolutely nothing and subsidised by housing benefit. We have unprecedented levels of private renting, but on this Labour has nothing to say. Security of tenure, the right not to be evicted at the whim of a landlord and not having to pay disproportionate amounts of ones income for the right to a roof over ones head, that is controlled rents would be popular. So would the renationalisation of the railways.

There is an universal consensus that no party will gain an overall majority - although Camerons conservatives are likely to emerge as the biggest party. What are the options for radical and socialist voters?

Voters in Brighton Pavilion can vote for Caroline Lucas. In Hove, there is Dave Hill, a former Labour councillor who is standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. In Kemptown, I would be tempted to vote for Nancy Platts, a Labour candidate who is on the left in a marginal seat.

But the election overall heralds no change in a situation where nearly one-third of children live in poverty and the top 1% of society own as much as the poorest 55% of society.

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New busesOne of Brighton's new Coaster buses will be parked in New Road tomorrow morning (Saturday), giving out free ice cream and cupcakes to bus enthusiasts. The blue-and-green buses have all been named after notable locals following a public vote. They come with a host of new features including low-emission "Euro 6" engines, free Wi-Fi and USB charge points, softer seating, "talking buses" with next-stop information and real-time tracking of bus locations.

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Charity marketA new London Road charity shop has modelled itself on the Open Market - with vintage clothes, furniture and jewellery stalls. The Martlets Trading Co was formally opened on Monday afternoon (April 27) by Brighton and Hove mayor Brian Fitch. As well as secondhand items for sale, it also features a table tennis table to keep customers amused. It is now open seven days a week and hopes also to open late one night a week in the future.

Brighton Hippodrome is mothballed as its future still remains uncertainSteel door covers and fences are being put up around the Brighton Hippodrome to protect it from squatters as its future remains uncertain.

The former theatre, which once played host to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Laurel and Hardy, was due to be converted into a cinema, shops and restaurants.

The proposal won planning permission from Brighton and Hove City Council despite a campaign to reopen it for live performances.

But when one of the partners, Vue, pulled out the scheme was put on ice.

Now, leaseholder Live Nation is applying for part-retrospective permission to install higher security at the site after having started to install it late last year.

The application, written by chartered surveyors Michael Jackson Consulting, said: The reason behind these security measures are because of people attempting to gain access to the building, presumably to squat, as it is empty and seen as an easy target.

The installations would consist of a perimeter anti-climb fence

on top of an existing 7ft wall, similar anti-climb fences on top of low-level entrances preventing access to the roof levels, a 3m tall Betafence with gate to the rear of the Palm Tree Court area of the building further preventing access to the high-level roof areas, and another Betafence to the side of the rear car park separating an entrance to a nearby unrelated office.

As well as these fences, steel covers are to be installed over the doors and low level windows on the Middle Street elevation both internally and externally to prevent further break-ins.

Paul Zenon, of the Save Our Hippodrome, campaign said: Before the fences went up recently, theyd had round-the-clock security with dog patrols since Christmas time. Having a manned patrol is very expensive.

Theres a safety issue with the ceiling and if squatters get injured it would be their responsibility insurance-wise.

The worrying thing is that, with this planning application, it sounds like they just want to fall apart until its too late to do anything with it.

Plans to transform the Hippodrome into a multiplex cinema provoked protests (Photograph: Philippa Hammond)

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Body bag protestAmnesty supporters emerged from body bags on Brighton seafront to highlight the growing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. The human rights pressure group placed 200 body bags on the beach in rows in front of the Brighton Wheel to highlight its new report. They were placed next to a banner displaying the hashtag #DontLetThemDrown and a giant life ring and a wreath of funeral flowers was placed among the body bags.

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The remarkable resurgence of Old Boat Corner Community Centre took another leap forward with a family fun day on Saturday. Nearly 1,000 people attended the fun day at the centre, which faced closure only a few months ago.

Since then, an influx of volunteers - and support from Geoffrey Theobald, the Conservative councillor, and Caroline Lucas, the Green MP - has resulted in a much brighter future.

About 1,550 was raised - including a 550 contribution from Lloyd's Bank.

Needless to say, more fundraising events are already being planned; the first one will be an evening of disco, karaoke, and barbecue.

Our top photograph shows some of the many volunteers behind the relaunch: Carly Gunn, Donna Nerantzidis, Helen Clarke, Helen Lawrence, and Liz Clift (with her daughter, Josie).

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Morgan, Neil Schofield, and Frances Bill - "poisonous".

For the record, he did accuse `Labour of "spreading poison" about his wife on social media. He was right.

He asked why Labour was targeting the best MP in the country. A provocative question, but - in the circumstances - understandable.

So why is this news? Because of what happened next.

Immediately after the incident, Labour activists deliberately engineered a Twitter storm, exaggerating what had happened and self-righteously using social media to take the moral high ground (see right).

At the heart of Brighton and Hove Labour Party, there is a tiny minority of serial Tweeters, always ready to shower personal abuse as part of the pretence of political discourse. Not even fellow party members are exempt. One said: There are a handful of people who are cowards, who hide behind the keyboard but will never confront you in debate.

Brighton & Hove Independent can reveal that Ms Cattell - who is known by the Twitter handle of

"@CoolJool80" (aka JC4PP) - is one of them. Even as she asks voters in this marginal ward to support her as a Labour candidate. Even as one of her closest colleagues - a fellow council candidate - describes her as "insufferable".

Ms Cattell lives two roads away from Mr Savage and Ms Lucas.

A planning expert, with unhidden ambitions to be a member Brighton and Hove's planning committee, she has been responsible for more than 24,000 tweets. (How on earth does she find the time?)

Many of her tweets are vitriolic; many are aimed at Green Party supporters. She is little-known by the general public; she rarely engages in political debate in public meetings. Still she wants your vote.

We would have asked her for a comment, via Twitter. But she has blocked @BrightonIndy.

To look at the modestly-built, quietly-spoken Mr Savage, it is difficult to think how he could intimidate Mr Morgan, a political heavyweight, who claims he has been called a baby murder in the council chamber. (Journalists who regularly report meetings of the council have no memory of hearing such alleged abuse.)

A footnote: Neil Schofield (@SZeitblom) - a former Green

Party activist who is standing for Labour in Preston Park did not join in the Twitter storm. He was, Mr Savage has told friends, perfectly civilised during the Sunday-evening discussion.

So where does all this nonsense leave us?

Labour - it seems - now wants to move on, put all this behind it. Of course it does.

After polluting the well of city politics for longer than is decent.

Indeed, it is time to move on. From the twittery, to democracy. On Thursday, May 7.

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Supported by 12 local Will writers offering their services in return for a donation to the Hospice

For more information about our Will Writing Fortnight or about the Martlets and our need for gifts inWills contact Gary Moyle our Legacies Manager on 01273 718778 or email [email protected]

About Wills

Having a professionally written Will is the best way to ensure that you canprotect those you love and remember the causes you care about. Landmarklife events such as moving house, having children, marriage, civil partnership,divorce, and retirement are times to consider writing or reviewing your Will.Or perhaps you have just never got round to making your Will.

About the Scheme

Bookings can be made from 13th April to 8th May. Please ensure you quoteMartlets Hospice Will Writing Fortnight when making your appointment. Youmust be able to meet the Will writer during the period 11th to 22nd May.Places are limited so do make your appointment as soon as possible with anyof the firms listed. Payment must be made to the Will writer on the day of yourappointment by cheque to The Martlets Hospice. Please note that complexWills are excluded from this offer.

The Martlets Hospice is only one-third NHS funded. We care for people affectedby terminal illness living in Brighton & Hove. We rely on people making gifts tous in their Wills for around 15% of our income equivalent to funding 1 in every7 of our patients. We need more people to remember us in their Wills so thatwe can continue to help local people cope with terminal illness. The Will WritingFortnight is an ideal opportunity for you to remember us in your Will.

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Suggested minimumdonations are:

80 for anupdating codicil

120 for asingle Will

160 for ajoint Will

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In the view of Sussex Defend the NHS, the article entitled Charity chief spells out NHS pledge concerns (page 6, April 17) presented a biased and, on occasion, inaccurate view of the facts.

The Politicians Pledge referred to in the article was launched at a public meeting last September attended by over 200 people. The significant clause in the pledge referred to in the article reads: As a prospective candidate in the general or local elections in Brighton and Hove in 2015, I pledge to: campaign for all local commissioning bodies to keep NHS services in-house and to bring back those which have been tendered out.

Even though both Peter Kyle, who is quoted in the article, and Simon Kirby refused to support

the pledge, 60 local politicians and candidates opposed to NHS privatisation were sufficiently concerned about what is happening to do so. The clause addresses the hundreds of tendering processes which have taken place as a result of this governments Health and Social Care Act 2012. As we outline in our recent report on the involvement

of charities and voluntary organisations in the NHS Third Sector and the NHS the Trojan Horse? only 30% of these bidding processes have resulted in services remaining with NHS providers. At least 11 billion of NHS services have gone out to non-

NHS providers. The lions share of these contracts has gone to the private sector, but increasingly

significant inroads are being made by charities, voluntary organisations, social enterprises and mutual, etc.

In the report, we make a distinction between charities and voluntary organisations that historically have run crucial community-based services in co-operation with the NHS. We outline the benefits of these arrangements (and) those charitable and voluntary organisations who have adopted the corporate staffing and financial structures and business strategies of the private sector and are going into direct competition with NHS providers and private healthcare companies in tendering processes for NHS services. To suggest we have set out to undermine charities and voluntary organisations with any involvement with the NHS reflects a serious misunderstanding of the issues and our position.

Madeleine Dickens, Sussex Defend the NHS

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Defend the NHS pledge will not undermine the efforts of our charities and volunteers

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As a modern parent, Ive learned you have two main responsibilities: to ensure your childs physical and emotional wellbeing as best you can and to look after their personal child health record - the revered red book - with a similar level of care.Of the two, you might think the former would be the more challenging prospect.

But two-and-a-half years into my parenting journey, I feel far happier and more secure about Tibbonss wellbeing than that of his red book. Which again, you may not think is a big problem. But youd be wrong.

Let me level with you. Ive lost it. The book, I mean. I dont know

how, I dont know when, but its gone. And I dont think its coming back.

Unfortunately for me, the red book seems to have been designed to separate the parenting wheat from the parenting chaff.

Will you be the type to guard its pages closely, to nurture the books development as you do your own childs? To watch its pages fill and grow with a glow of pride, happy in the knowledge that, at any time, your child can discover how much they weighed at five days, or confirm that they had their first vaccinations on January 17, not January 18 as your faulty memory would testify.

Or, are you - like me - giving the red book short shrift and earmarking yourself as a lackadaisical parent at best, or a downright slovenly one at worst?

If youre keeping me company in this latter group, be warned: you will be found out. When you least suspect it, youll receive a call informing you that its time for another routine development review. And then, oh-so-casually, just as youre about to hang up the phone, youll be politely but firmly reminded that youll need to bring your childs red book with you (no mention of the child, strangely).

Then youll know youve been rumbled.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt met staff, volunteers and patients at the Sussex Beacon in Brighton yesterda

Charity chief spells outNHS pledge concernsThe chief executive of the Sussex Beacon has spoken about his concerns that parliamentary candidates are signing a pledge on the NHS that places hospices and health charities at risk.

Simon Dowe said that if politicians honoured the pledge then they would effectively be nationalising the services provided by the Beacon. He was speaking yesterday as Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited the charitys Brighton base.

Mr Hunt praised the Sussex Beacon and said: The success of this place was that it wasnt dreamt up by a minister in Whitehall. I want to work more with voluntary organisations and Im worried that some candidates in other parties take a very different line.

Mr Dowe said: The inference within the pledge is that they would nationalise the NHS.

As a third sector organisation, that would exclude us from that funding. It would directly endanger our future.

It would be a huge loss to the community in Brighton. The service that we provide is crucial to the community and probably couldnt be provided by the NHS. The only way I can see a future for the NHS is through working in partnership with the voluntary sector.

Simon Kirby, who is hoping to be re-elected as the MP for Brighton Kemptown, said: People at places like the Beacon, the Martlets and Macmillan nurses must be worried by candidates who have signed the pledge.

They all work hard to deliver brilliant care and they all have a part to play in delivering health services and we dont want that put at risk. You cant put ideology before the delivery of services.

Among the parliamentary

candidates to have signed the NHS pledge are all three Greens in Brighton and Hove Caroline Lucas, Davy Jones and Christopher Hawtree and two of the three Labour candidates Nancy Platts and Purna Sen.

Peter Kyle, who is standing for Labour in Hove, has refused to sign the pledge and explained his reasons at a hustings organised by Sussex Defend the NHS. He said: I agree with a lot of whats in the pledge but Im a champion of local and national charities. I cant sign a pledge that says it will bring all voluntary sector work in-house.

While visiting the Sussex Beacon, which offers specialist care and support for men, women and families affected by HIV, Mr Hunt also said: Im proud of our record working with the gay community. We introduced gay marriage despite a lot of opposition.

I was disappointed to see Brighton & Hove Independent (page 6, April 17) perpetuating, without question, Conservative claims that Sussex Defend the NHS and political candidates who have signed their pledge in some way places at risk partnerships with the voluntary sector. It doesnt.

The pledge states: I am committed to a universal National Health Service, free at the point of delivery, publicly funded and provided, and which delivers a publicly accountable, quality caring service.

Let me make myself absolutely

clear: my support for the independence of healthcare charities, and my admiration for the Sussex Beacons work, in particular, could not be stronger.

By signing the pledge, I was endorsing its true purpose: to ensure that large corporates such as Bupa and Virgin do not use charities in a Trojan-Horse-style grasp for more of the NHS cake.

I want to see peoples health care put before shareholder profits.

Nancy Platts, Labour Party parliamentary candidate for

Brighton Kemptown

My admiration for the Sussex Beacons work

Last week's article

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Can you offer Baloo a home? If you can, please call 01273 452576

On April 26, the staff of New Priory Vets Brighton will be doing a sponsored dog walk on the downs in aid of the Martlets Hospice.

This is in memory of two of our dear friends and colleagues veterinary nurse Katrina and veterinary receptionist Gloria.

Both Katrina and Gloria sadly passed away recently, but received excellent care at the hospice. The hospices support allowed them comfort

and dignity throughout their illnesses and we are hugely grateful to the Martlets for their wonderful care.

Any donations would be gratefully received. You can donate through the links on Facebook that can be accessed through the New Priory Vets Brighton website.

Many thanks.Donna Hilton VN and Vicky

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