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Tue 27 Mar `18
Looking At The Stars: How Incurable Illness Led One Boy To Help Others With Childhood Medical Disorders

Seventeen-year-old Lewis Hine has become a global phenomenon. Diagnosed with a brain tumour when he was just seventeen months old, he wasn't expected to survive. 
Mon 22 Jan `18
Interview: Brighton's Best 40 Shillings On The Drum Set To Tour UK and Release Live Album

There will be no unwelcome re-entry as the promised meteoric rise of Brighton five-piece, 40 Shillings on the Drum, shows no sign of abating. In fact, 2018 is gearing up to be the year of the 'Shillings', as the next twelve months will see them unleash a live album, début studio album and a plethora of live dates.
Mon 15 Jan `18
40 Shillings On The Drum Join Stella Line-Up For UK's Largest Mardi Gras Celebration
40 Shillings On The Drum Credit Andy Sturmey

Brighton's raucous punk-folk five-piece 40 Shillings on the Drum have joined sextet Skinny Lister, emerging rapper Chiedu Oraka, singer-songwriter Sean McGowan, Brighton punk pop outfit Jetstream Pony, and Hastings' indie rockers Kid Kapichi on the bill of Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival 2018, the UK's largest Mardi Gras celebration.
Mon 11 Dec `17
Interview: Actor Ian Kelsey On His Dramatic Recent Coronation Street Return and New Focus On Photography
Pic by Toby Smedley

Veteran Brighton-based actor Ian Kelsey has enjoyed an almost three-decade long career on both stage and screen, Kelsey is now turning his focus on photography; a hobby from his teens that is now consuming his working life.
Sun 05 Nov `17
The English Coast: Five Musicians, A Multi-Award Winning Charity and A Life Changing Campaign
Pic by Ian Kelsey

It's not often a group of young men pool their creative resources to benefit the health and wellbeing of others. It's even rarer when those young men are musicians. But that's exactly what the Brighton-based collective, 40 Shillings On the Drum, have done with the release of their new single. The English Coast.
Mon 30 Oct `17
Charity Launches Connect 4 Campaign To Combat Brighton's Loneliness Epidemic
Pic by Ian Kelsey

Loneliness affects people of every race, age, and gender at any time of the year, and not having anyone to connect with can have a devastating impact on people's health & well-being. 
Mon 14 Aug `17
My Life In Football: Ex-Brighton Manager Micky Adams' Footballing CV Is As Long As Your Arm

Having spent almost four decades in English football – playing and managing in every professional division – Brighton & Hove Albion's ex-manager Micky Adams' experience of our national game is almost unrivalled.
Tue 01 Aug `17
An Actor's Life For Me: Zoe Cunningham Spills The Secrets Of A Life In Front Of The Lens

Having achieved critical acclaim and been nominated for numerous awards, Zoe Cunningham knows how fulfilling it is to achieve one's dream of finding success as an actor.
Tue 01 Aug `17
A Hard Day's Month: Brighton Beatles Connection Explored Via Gripping Tale Of Two Teens

A Hard Day's Month is a book as much about teendom as it is about The Beatles. It's about growing up, generation gaps, mortality, friendships, experimentation, change, independence, love and loss. It's very much the Absolute Beginners of its generation.
Mon 29 May `17
For The Love Of Books: UK Childrens Laureate Chris Riddell Appointed Patron of Brighton's Young City Reads

Author, illustrator and children's laureate Chris Riddell will be the first patron of Brighton-based reader development project, Young City Reads, a scheme run by Collected Works CIC and delivered as part of Brighton Festival. 
Wed 03 May `17
Brighton Festival Welcomes Bernie Sanders For A Special Festival Extra Event

Former Democratic candidate for President of the United States Bernie Sanders will speak about his new book Our Revolution at a special Brighton Festival Extra event on Thursday 1st June 2017.
Mon 01 May `17
Now Open: Short Story Competition On The Theme Of Everyday Epic @ Brighton Festival 2017

Lulu.com, sponsor of Brighton Festival commission Storytelling Army, has launched a short story writing competition inspired by Guest Director Kate Tempest's theme Everyday Epic.
Thu 20 Apr `17
Review: Chris Wade's Comprehensive Woody Allen On Screen Overview

Woody Allen is seemingly fixated on the end. He has little truck for the long haul that leads up to his inevitable demise. Life to him, like film making, is ‘'a different kind of pain.’
Tue 11 Apr `17
Snake River Press: Three New Titles From Sussex's Favourite Small Publishing House

Snake River Press may be a business, but first and foremost, for one man at least, it is a labour of love.

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