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Brighton & Hove to celebrate NHS 65th birthday

BRIGHTON will play host to a free, public birthday party for the NHS with music, stalls, an exhibition, a giant birthday card for people to sign and birthday cake to share, on Friday July 5.

Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas and Pip Tindall, an NHS worker will address the event from 4pm onwards.

Caroline Lucas, MP will adress the audience
Caroline Lucas, MP will adress the audience

Caroline said:

“We are fighting for a fair deal for those needing health care, by opposing cuts, closures and privatisation and demanding a full programme of locally accessible services. It’s unfair that quality of care suffers when hospitals and surgeries are treated like profit-driven businesses rather than public services”.

There will be music from local bands Ska Toons, Maracatu, Momma Swift and Silver Sounds – as well as the Red Green Singers.

There will be a release of balloons to symbolise all the positive treatments Brighton and Hove residents receive from the NHS.

Health campaigner Sean de Podesta, who has helped organise the event, said

Mr de Podesta who helped organise the event, said:

“Growing numbers of us wish to ensure that the achievements of the NHS are properly recognized and the bad news appearing almost daily in the media is not used a pretext to dismantle it. We hope everyone joining the party will have fun and be heartened to continue the struggle to ensure a secure future for our NHS.”

Event: Free public ‘birthday party’ to mark 65th anniversary of NHS

Where: North Lawn, York Place, Brighton (by St Peter’s Church)

When: Friday, July 5

Time: 3-7pm

                                            

Hove MP backs the troops!

Mike Weatherley, MP
Mike Weatherley, MP

Today is the fifth annual Armed Forces Day and provides an opportunity to do two things.  First, it raises public awareness of the contribution made to Britain by those who serve and have served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces. Second, it gives the nation an opportunity to show support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community.

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has praised the British Armed Forces for their heroic and courageous sacrifices.

 He said:

“It is difficult to put into words just how grateful I am to all of our Armed Forces, who routinely put their lives at risk to ensure our continuing peace and freedom. I am sure I speak for all of the residents of Hove and Portslade when I say thank you for your amazing dedication. It is sometimes easy to forget, as we go about in our day-to-day lives, that the brave men and women of the Armed Forces are on watch, 24 hours a day, keeping us safe.”

For more information on Armed Forces Day and events that are taking place across the country, CLICK HERE

Conservative spokesperson on the Brighton & Hove Civil Military Partnership Board, Cllr. Ann Norman, has expressed her disappointment at the Green Administration’s lacklustre plans to celebrate Armed Forces Day in Brighton & Hove where Brighton’s efforts include information stalls at Jubilee Square during the morning and an exhibition about the Chattri Memorial at Brighton Town Hall.

By contrast, neighbours West Sussex took out a full page advertisement in the Argus to advertise their spectacular weekend of events at Steyne Gardens in Worthing, including military displays, military bands, marches and a flypast as well as an inspiring drumhead service.

Cllr Anne Norman
Cllr Anne Norman

 Cllr. Norman said:

“I welcome the flying of the Armed Forces Day flag from King’s House as an important symbol of support but I really do feel that more could have been done to celebrate the day itself. The signing of the Armed Forces Community Covenant in Brighton & Hove was an important moment for the city and one of its aims is to forge closer links between the armed forces and local civilian communities. Armed Forces Day is the ideal time to be doing this and so I feel that this is a missed opportunity. With the centenary of the Great War rapidly approaching, I will be doing all I can, through the Partnership Board to ensure that the city sees some fitting commemorations next year for one of the most important moments in this country’s history.”

 

Lloyd Webber and the ‘Profumo Affair’

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Love him or loathe him, a new musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber is big news. And today, therefore, is a big news day

 

John Ward
John Ward

Stephen Ward (yes, that’s it’s rather mundane name) will premiere at the Aldwych Theatre on December 3 this year, and tickets go on sale as of today.

With music by Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, who both worked on Sunset Boulevard with the good Lord, Stephen Ward tells the story of ‘the real victim of the Profumo Affair’, the society osteopath who introduced Profumo to Christine Keeler, was subsequently prosecuted for living off immoral earnings, and who killed himself with a drugs overdose on the last day of his trial.

To be directed by Richard Eyre, Stephen Ward is yet to be cast.

Event:  Stephen Ward

Where: The Aldwych Theatre, Aldwych, London

When: from December 3

Tickets: £15-£67.50

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