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Support Breast Cancer Awareness month with these products in aid of Breast Cancer Campaign

1. OPI Pink Positively nail lacquer. £9.75 with a £2 donation to campaign. Available from salons stocking OPI nationwide.
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3. Totes pink umbrella sold at Debenhams. £1 donation to Campaign.
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Alison Swann is out on the road and not exactly feeling wanted

Cycling in Brighton is great. Well, it is if you like going around in circles (The Level); swerving out in front of huge lorries (Lewes Road); or if you like taking a huge leap of faith attempting to use two wheels to navigate your way from Churchill Square to the bottom of North Street. And as for Trafalgar Street…

Okay, there are positive sides to this story. The new cycle path up to The Downs is brilliant, the open-to-all space of New Road is a pleasure, as are the nippy little paths around the New England Quarter.

“I’m no dyed-in-the-wool, hemp-wearing, hippydippy cliché who wants to ban all cars, but why is it such a challenge to cycle across town?”

And I love zipping along the seafront on the great go-faster tarmac even if I do get RSI from ringing my bell to get wanderers out of the way. Sadly, it would take me rather a long time to get to work if I only used the cycle paths that I felt safe on and which were a pleasure to use.

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Dani considers getting older and entering the grown-up world

I didn’t believe people when they would tell me that time seems to go quicker the older you get. I believe them now. Because it is true.

“I have started writing a book, but I have the view: ‘Who would ever want to read it?’”

I can’t believe it is already October. The shops are now starting to add Christmas cards to their stock and the nights are drawing in. I am not sad to see the summer go. It has never been my favourite season. The only reason I could feel sad is because it has passed in a blink.

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Victoria Nangle talks to ‘the mindreader who doesn’t read minds’ and rising star Chris Cox about his appeal and footrests

Radio 1’s official magician, possibly the youngest performer at the Magner’s Paramount Comedy Festival to have his own show at only 24, and a massive fan of Brighton from his home in Horsham. Chris Cox is all these, but most of all he’s a really, really lovely guy. Even with man flu.

“I think it’s partly because I look twelve. I like to think I’ve got a bit of geek chic going on”

Initially he misses my call, but eventually communications are established. “Sorry, I’ve just got a new phone and I hit the wrong button. I do apologise.

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