Sussex Police is establishing a Stop and Search public scrutiny panel, to enable independent assessment in their use of this police power.
Sussex residents are being invited to participate in this new initiative; you do not need any prior knowledge or experience of police powers, just a desire to help improve the quality of the service the Police provide.
The first meeting is scheduled for 6pm-7.30pm, on Tuesday, January 23, at Sussex Police HQ, Malling House, Church Lane, Lewes, BN7 2DZ.
If you are driving, there is parking on site and you will be directed where to go on arrival at the main security gate.
The purpose of the first meeting will be to outline the objective of the panel, introduce an assessment framework for scrutiny and then conduct assessments on a sample of actual Stop and Search submissions.
A new approach to helping people in the city maintain a healthy weight will launch in April.
Following a robust tendering process, Brighton & Hove City Council has signed a three-year community weight management contract with BeeZee Bodies.
BeeZee Bodies runs a wide range of programmes tailor-made both for individuals and families to help people make small changes to their lives, that make a big difference. Their holistic approach emphasises an understanding of the links between diet, exercise and physical and mental health.
Their Gutless programme, for example, is specifically aimed at men. It’s about achieving health and weight loss goals on your own terms. There’s plenty of expert advice and data available, but no nagging, public weigh-ins or being told what to do.
BeeZee Bodies encourages all men attending to be as engaged in the Gutless programme as possible.
To read one fathers story as he encourage all men attending to feel more comfortable about getting involved and understand how the programme can also be of benefit to them, click here:
Their families programme goes beyond offering help and support with lifestyle changes. You can also get advice on how to speak to your children about going along to family sessions. Families assessed as being at particularly high risk of having health problems due to weight issues receive targeted support.
Cllr Dan Yates
The chair of the city’s health and wellbeing board, Councillor Dan Yates, said: “Overweight and obesity can lead to increased risk of chronic illness and early death from a range of health conditions.
“Lifestyle risk factors, such as poor diet and lack of physical activity, operating together explain a massive 40% of all ill-health in England.
“So our work in helping people to manage their weight is vital. BeeZee Bodies have an excellent track record, and I’m very excited about the programmes they offer.
“The panel awarding the contract included a senior representative of the local NHS and a patient representative as well as council public health and procurement specialists.
“They took into account a wide range of factors, including projected weight management outcomes, costs per participant / family, and social value. BeeZee Bodies scored most highly at all stages of the process.
“The city’s Food Partnership and their partners Albion in the Community have done a lot of great work with us on weight management in recent years. We value the Partnership very highly, and we look forward to continuing the excellent work we do jointly with them on a broad range of issues.
“These include food poverty, food growing, community cookery, older people’s health, volunteering, food waste and the city-wide food strategy.”
For one night only, comedian and raconteur Steve Lee reprises his Fringe debut show, Sit down – stand up! with musical accompaniment by Peter Martin.
Steve talks about his 47 years in showbiz, his two unpublished novels and his two TV scripts, one which has been filmed in five languages.
With appearances at festivals in Japan, Italy, and Hong Kong in Sit down – stand up!, Steve with a glass of brandy in hand and accompanied by live pianist recounts the tales of a well lived raconteur.
Sit down – stand up! plays for one night only at Sweet Dukebox at The Southern Belle, Waterloo Street (formerly Iron Duke) on Saturday, March 3 at 8pm.
Sex, drugs and a large brandy are NOT included in the five-pound ticket price!
Probably unsuitable for the under 18s, so kids – lie about your age and get an education!
Event:Sit down – stand up – for one night only with musical accompaniment by Peter Martin
Where: Sweet Dukebox, The Southern Belle, Waterloo Street
With its eye catching cover artwork from Sheri Halal this is one of those books that breaths ‘good reading’.
In this lovely debut book we follow the romantic adventures of Eve Eddison before she travels to the Scottish Highlands. There she falls, hard, for an enigmatic Forestry officer, Moira Burns.
Eve and Moria have loads of baggage, they hug it close, both reluctant to give it up, face their daemons and move on, Moria more than Eva, and the book examines, with warmth and humour if either of them can get past pain for present pleasure. From the breath-taking Highlands of Scotland to the buzz of a Leicester gay bar, family and friendship are tested to breaking point as the narrative pressure builds in this wonderful engaging Lesbian romance by novelist Anna Larner.
The author Larner has the perfect ear for a certain type of LGBT space, and weaves a convincing queer & lesbian psychogeography into the narrative, and her own experiences and previous work with archiving and creating space for LGBT history to be shared gives this book an authentic feel, not just in tone, geography and accent but also the emotional honesty that marks this book out as such a charming read.
Not a new book, but new to me and without doubt this is an underappreactited British Gay classic, hugely enjoyable with all the subtleties of a delightful comedy of manners set in a small and apparently quiet village in England. It’s Armistead Maupin crossed with Mapp and Lucia in a uproarious gay comedy of rural life. And -for once- that’s actually how this book it, seriously funny, viciously on point about the machinations and subtle point scoring of English village life and skewers plenty of recognisable types from British daily life.
Two gay men, recently in love, move in and set up home together and these offers up a serious challenge to the various larger than life county living styles that needs to adjust to the fact of this coupling getting on with their daily lives. One of their neighbour loaths them, but he’s got a shady secret of his own, the rest of the village make space, embrace or find some kind of chivying along to make it work, not that the protagonists are having any of that.
It’s a brilliant examination of clash, culture, class, urban and country, gay and straight, progressive and intolerant and made me laugh out loud constantly. Corlett’s humour is gentle but relentless, ravaging personal prejudices and giving us more than a few delightful revelations as the story unfolds. This is the perfect gift for the reader in your life who may not have heard of this classic 20 year old book and is looking to expand their book shelves with quality writing they may have missed first time round. My copy was given to me by a french friend who ‘couldn’t believe’ that I’d never read it, as everyone in France has read it at some point, British Barbarians!
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