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Day: January 11, 2015

WEAR IT! BEAT IT! Fundraiser for British Heart Foundation

Posted on by Besi

Grosvenor Bar in Hove, will play host to a WEAR IT! BEAT IT! fundraiser for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) on Friday, February 6.

British Heart Foundation

THE EVENT will coincide with the BHF’s latest campaign in which they are encouraging people to wear red and raise funds for them on February 7.

Mysterry
Mysterry

Your host and organiser will be Mysterry Drag-Queen, who will be joined during the evening by David Raven, Krissie Ducann, Jennie Castell, Pooh La May, David Hamlin and Miss Jason, straight from her role in the Adult Panto.

There will be a charity raffle to help raise funds, so go along to support this great cause and wear something red if you can.

To make a donation to BHF, click here:

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Event: WEAR IT! BEAT! Fundraise for British Heart Foundation

Where: Grovenor Bar, 16 Western Street, Hove, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 2PG

When: Friday, February 6

Time: 7pm

 

PREVIEW: Strictly favourites bring touch of Hollywood to Eastbourne

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Fresh from wowing audiences in the West End, TV’s Strictly Come Dancing favourites Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace open their 2015 tour of Dance Til Dawn at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne at the end of January.

Dance 'Til Dawn

FORMER World Champions, Vincent and Flavia have been dancing together for twenty years and wom the hearts of the British public with their breath-taking Argentine Tango on TV’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Since the duo launched Midnight Tango in 2010, they have thrilled over half a million people across the UK both on tour and in London’s West End.

Dance ‘Til Dawn is directed by Olivier Award winning choreographer and director Karen Bruce who directed Vincent and Flavia’s Olivier Award nominated show, Midnight Tango.

Fusing musical theatre, dance, romance and comedy into a smash hit spectacle, Dance ‘Til Dawn transports you to Los Angeles in the 1940s. In the midst of a Hollywood film shoot leading man Bobby Burns is murdered and a romance develops between beautiful starlet Sadie Strauss (Flavia Cacace) and her handsome lover Tony DeLuca (Vincent Simone). As a plot to frame Tony DeLuca unfolds, the duo use their flawless footwork and spellbinding choreography to Tango and Quickstep their way out of trouble and into each other’s arms.

Dance ‘Til Dawn is an evening of timeless sophistication, breath-taking world class dance with stunning sets, glamorous costumes and a full live band performing iconic numbers including  Feeling Good, Moon River and Stand By Me.

Joining Vincent and Flavia are Oliver Darley as The Voice, Teddy Kempner as Tommy Dubrowski, Abbie Osmon as Lana Clemenza, Faye Best, Tyman Boatwright, Callum Clack, Ivan De Freitas, Ben Harris, Rebecca Lisewski, Jemima Loddy, Ian Oswald, Giovanni Spano, Danny Stowell, Lindsey Tierney and Gemma Whitelam.

 

Event: Dance ‘Til Dawn with Vincente Simone and Flavia Cacace

Where: Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne BN21 4BP

When: Wednesday 28 – Saturday, January 31, 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday, 2.30pm

Time: Wednesday 28 – Saturday 31 January, 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday, 2.30pm

Tickets: Tickets from £22.50 – £35

To book tickets online, click here:

Telephone: 01323 412000

Planning Minister visits City

Posted on by Sarah Green

Planning Minister Brandon Lewis MP visited the Saltdean Lido on Friday, January 9 to discuss planning issues affecting local residents.

SImon Kirby MP

WELCOMING the Minister to the City, Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven, said: “Planning is an important issue in my constituency, particularly at sensitive sites like Meadow Vale, Falmer Avenue and Brighton Marina. It was great to get the Minister down to set out how the government is prioritising building on brownfield sites and the extensive protections in place for valuable green spaces on our urban fringe.”

Planning Minister Brandon Lewis added: “I was delighted to come down to Brighton yesterday, Simon is a very assiduous constituency MP who regularly raises constituency issues with myself and ministerial colleagues. The meeting came on the day I announced the shortlist of areas in the running to receive Government funding to build on brownfield sites.”

“It is baffling that Brighton and Hove City Council did not even bid for any of this funding which would help protect green spaces that I know are so important to local communities.”

Since 2010 the Government has taken a number of steps to ensure brownfield land is prioritised for new housing development – including abolishing top-down regional strategies which had earmarked Green Belt land for new development, and selling enough publicly-owned, surplus brownfield sites for 100,000 homes.

Simon continued: “The Minister also spoke about the importance of local plans and how the Government has devolved real power and control to local people.

“In my view, if the City Council produces a robust plan to meet the housing need that it identified itself by building on brownfield sites, by considering city centre developments where the existing infrastructure is able to support development, then these vital green lungs on the urban fringe can be protected. It is the Council’s decision where housing goes and it is important they make the right decision, and protect our urban fringe. If they do not do so then I will be asking the Government to “call in” the decision.”

 

Sussex M.E. Society update

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Colin Barton, Chairman of the Sussex M.E. Society, shares his thoughts on the improvements in the care on offer to people with M.E. over the last few years.

Colin Barton
Colin Barton: Chairman of the Sussex M.E. Society

THE SUSSEX ME society has been involved in the medical field of Myalgic encephalopathy (ME) or Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) for 28 years and has seen many positive changes in the recognition and treatment of the illness(s). Amazingly though we still hear of a few professionals that have problems recognising ME and giving appropriate advice to patients.

Recently I took a call from a chap that had actually been told by a doctor to run as fast as he could between 20 lamp posts “to break the cycle”. This he tried to do and had to spend the following 4 days in bed when he could not even raise his head or arms off the bed. This chap has still to recover from the irresponsible advice he was given!

More than 100 GPs attended refresher sessions on ME/CFS recently, organised by the Medical Education Department at Royal Sussex County Hospital working with our organisation.

Our charity works closely with doctors and helped set up the NHS Sussex-wide CFS/ME Service that has dealt with nearly 4,000 referrals since 2005.

The NHS team that has helped many towards improved health includes a specialist doctor, physiotherapists, occupational therapists along with a psychologist and administrator. There is also now a service helping children and young people with ME/CFS in Brighton.

ME can sometimes follow a viral infection or trauma and last for years and affects over 6,000 people across Sussex including a good number of the LGBT community, some of whom are virtually housebound and in need of care. ME/CFS is is now classified as a neurological disorder and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have issued guidelines.

Although things in the field are far from perfect much has been achieved for ME patients in general over the last 28 years. Our work continues to ensure that incidence like the one described never happen again. People with ME do not ask for special treatment only equal to that afforded to others with chronic neurological conditions.

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