30/11/2014 – Page 2 – Scene Magazine – From the heart of LGBTQ+ Life

Simon Kirby, MP is to welcome Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, to Eastbourne tomorrow (Monday, December 1).

SImon Kirby MP

She is coming to discuss plans for the A27 in East Sussex and potential funding for improvements which are being announced by the Government today.

Simon is the MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven and Chair of the A27 Reference Group.

He said: “I have been lobbying the Government repeatedly on behalf of my colleagues in East Sussex as chairman of the A27 Reference Group. With an announcement on funding due shortly I am looking forward to putting the case to the Minister and I hope she will come bearing good news.”

“Improving the A27 is predicted to make a huge positive difference to the economy in East Sussex, boosting inward investment as well as easing pressure on other roads in the Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven constituency like the A259.

“I will continue to make the case right up until a decision is made one way or the other and it is great to have the opportunity tomorrow to show the Minister at first hand just how beneficial improving the A27 could be for the local economy.”

World Aids Day Partnership organisers have arranged a free screening of the award winning documentary How to Survive a Plague in the Jubilee on Sunday, November 30 as part of the World AIDS Day series of events.

How to Survive a Plague is an American documentary film made in 2012 about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of ACT UP and TAG.

It is directed by David France, a journalist who covered AIDS from its beginnings. For France it was his first film and he dedicated it to his partner, who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992.

The documentary was produced using more than 700 hours of archived footage which included news coverage, interviews as well as film of demonstrations, meetings and conferences taken by ACT UP members themselves and includes footage of a demonstration during mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989.[2]

Event: Screening of How to Survive a Plague directed by David France

Where: Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton

Time: 1.30pm

Cost: Free

World AIDS Day events in Brighton and Hove are organised by a local partnership of Lunch Positive, THT South, The Sussex Beacon, BHCC Community Safety Team, Peer Action. South Downs Health Trust, Gscene Magazine and Sussex Ecumenical HIV Chaplaincy.