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The spring season at Theatre Royal Brighton lives up to their promise of a West End by the sea

When the Ambassadors Theatre Group took over Brighton’s historic Theatre Royal they promised us a West End by the sea and with the release of a spring season glittering with stage and screen stars, they are setting out to prove it.
The highlights include: Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, both renowned separately for their film and TV work, and together in the X-Men films; Richard E Grant, the star of more than sixty films including the cult classic Withnail and I; Edward Fox, best loved for TV’s Edward and Mrs Simpson; Read the rest of this article »

The RSPB has appealed for artistic impressions of starlings flocking round the pier.
Every year thousands of starlings take part in the aerial dance known as murmuration. At its peak in December, the flock has 40,000 birds. Images, comments, drawings, poems and songs about the phenomonen will be exhibited on Palace Pier.
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Jade Jagger is to bring her designer jewellery brand to Brighton. Pieces created by the artist, designer and daughter of Mick will go on sale at Madame Geisha, East Street, on Saturday, 29 November from 1 to 8pm.
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Children’s laureate Michael Rosen talks about making his job work and bedtime stories with his son

Michael Rosen by Laurence Cendrowicz

Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen – creator of such phantasmagoria as Centrally-Heated Knickers and Super Boring Man, cheerfully describes himself as an egomaniac.

Should I curtsy, you being the children’s laureate?
No, just say hi! There’s no protocol.

How did you get the job – a phone call from the Queen?
A phone call, yes; not from The Queen, though: Shami Chakrabarti (Liberty director). I was on a train – I thought she was ringing me about a benefit gig and the signal kept cutting out. I could hardly hear her at all – it took me a while to realise what she was offering me.
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