Stormy weather (#4)
Rescuing sheep and ducks and other stories.
News
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”. Here’s a good revenge story from the B&H Albion FC, in case you missed it: earlier this season the coach Graham Potter and his staff, including local legend Bruno of (recently removed) mural fame, moved from Albion to Chelsea in a £22 million exchange. Good for business, not so good for the fans. Italian Roberto De Zerbi was hired as new coach and was left with the difficult job of restoring confidence in the squad. Last week Albion played against Chelsea at Falmer and guess what? They won 4-1.
Brighton or Hove? An inconclusive analysis.
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is recommending a rearrangement of the current Brighton and Hove wards boundaries, and here’s the map of the proposal. Here’s the summary of the changes, and you can find more info about what lead to this recommendation on the LGBCE site, including an interesting report on population projections to 2030.
This week we only have sad planning permission updates: building a three-bedroom house over a pub garden, and turning a living room in a sixth bedroom.
Cinecity, a film festival promoting world cinema, is happening in November. See what’s on here in one of the many participating venues.
A group of University of Sussex students has been squatting a university building, protesting against raises in rent, development plans and cutting trees.
Brighton i360 launched their new sponsor-less brand with a slightly cringy but cute Instagram reel.
A thrilling video of the rescue of a duck stuck in a floating mesh.
Storm Claudio, which probably kept you awake during the night between Monday and Tuesday, caused another collapse of the West Pier and other damages. The week continued with a total of four yellow warnings for heavy rain announced by the Met Office. This caused severe flooding, a sheep rescue mission and the usual pumping of sewage into sea. Fireworks display at Preston Park on 4th November has be cancelled due to bad weather.
BikeShare scheme has been suspended. Apparently the system relies on Vodafone 3G network which is being decommissioned without the council being given notice. It will be back in 2023 with a “new look” and more electric bikes added to the fleet.
Some videos of Lewes Bonfire Night 2022 here and here, featuring effigies of recent PMs.
Brighton and Hove City Council has published its first annual report on climate action. See the video summary.
Tap Takeover happening on the weekend 11th - 13th November. 22 pubs around Brighton will feature a different independent brewery each. Tickets here if you plan to pub crawl and want to save a few quid.
Train strikes for the upcoming week have been called off. Safe travels.
Today is the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2022, the world’s oldest motoring event. You can find the entry list here and a handy route guide including also a list of pubs to view the Run.
The East Brighton Food Cooperative is campaigning to make Meals on Wheels a statutory service. You can sign a petition here if you want to support them.
History corner
Have you ever noticed the Shoreham Airfield dome trainer? “It was built in about 1942 and called a Dome Teacher, housing equipment to teach anti-aircraft gunners. Until then, realistic training required gunners to fire at a target towed behind a small plane, which removed pilots and aircraft from more important duties. The Dome Teacher provided an ingenious substitute by projecting pictures on the whole internal wall of the sphere using a modified 35mm cinema projector.” (from Peter Jones’ letter)
“A Sea Voyage on Wheels!” “[…] a unique electric seaside railway by Magnus Volk, the electrical engineer who designed and built Volk’s Electric Railway which opened on the seafront at Brighton in 1883 and is still in operation to this day. The Electric Railway ran eastwards as far as Paston Place, but the terrain made it impracticable to extend it to Rottingdean, so Volk decided to construct the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway which would run on rails under the sea close to the shoreline.” (from Railway Museum)
Music
“Brighton band Black Honey burst out of the ether in 2014 with their squalling guitars, vivid colours and cinematic vignettes, and are arguably one of the UK’s fastest rising bands. Three years in the making, they released their debut 12-track album on 21st September 2018 and haven’t really looked back. It’s the weird and wonderful mind of Izzy B Phillips with her lovable but villainous, Milky-Bar-kid-meets-Debbie Harry persona, that you find very much at the heart of ‘Black Honey’. An open sufferer of both dyslexia and ADHD, she’s a huge advocate for self-expression without limit and has relied hugely on her band – Tom Dewhurst (drums), Tom Taylor (bass) and Chris Ostler (guitar) – to complete her vision.”
