• Thinking about a Diamond Jubilee street party?

  By GeorgeHA at 19:11 on 20/01/12

  

  It doesn't seem long since we had a knees up to celebrate Will and Kate's wedding, and here comes another chance to get together and party – the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Are you thinking of a street party? The one we went to last April in Osborne Villas was fantastic – but it looked like it needed more than a bit of organising. So it's not too early to think about something for your street. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee...

• Hove legend Fatboy gives students inside info

  By GeorgeHA at 15:34 on 17/01/12

  

  Hove's one and only superstar DJ Fatboy Slim, gave the students of Brighton and Hove City College some priceless music biz insider tips on Monday. Fatboy, also known as Norman Cook, hosted an exclusive 'Ask Norman' session which covered a range of topics such as recording technology, the current state of the music industry, his forthcoming Amex stadium gig and his beloved Brighton & Hove Albion. The visit was to help promote the...

• Hove streaker pays for his nude gesture

  By GeorgeHA at 12:28 on 06/01/12

  

  The price of running around naked at a football ground is pretty steep, it seems. Craig Smith, of Goldstone Villas, Hove, who sauntered about as nature intended at the Amex Stadium, has just been banned from all football grounds for three years, from the Amex until 2021 – after which he may not have the physique to want to show it off so much – and sentenced to 12 months probation and 100 hours of unpaid work. Craig bared...

• £20,000 needed to save the LGBT Switchboard

  By GeorgeHA at 20:47 on 15/11/11

  

  Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard is facing closure. The Switchboard provides an important telephone help-line service and a counselling service to more than 1000 people per year. It costs the charity £250 per day to operate and now need £20,000 is needed by April 2012 to avoid closure. It was founded in 1975 and has been providing services to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender  community in Brighton &...

• Into the Valley of Death rode the Hove solicitor

  By GeorgeHA at 15:51 on 10/11/11

  

  It may currently be a little damp down here on the South Coast, and not a little chilly too. But spare a thought for Rich Bates, a solicitor from Hove, who's now struggling through Death Valley, one of the most unfriendly places on Earth. The chances are that Rich wouldn't mind a bit of damp and chilly right now. Death Valley, in the Mojave Desert, features the lowest and driest locations in North America …and the hottest. At...

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