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L7 has been searching for a new local voice – and it’s provided a fascinating opportunity to find out what’s on your minds. Over the last two months we have been printing some of the submissions. Our final contender…
Ruby Grimshaw, 70, Brighton

On my way back the other evening from a meeting of the Southern Landlords’ Association, I was killing time at the bus stop by gazing into the windows of the Cowley Club in London Road. There are always useful self-help notices there, such as “How to find your Empty Property for a Successful Squat” or “What to Say to the Police when You are Arrested.” A youngish man standing at the bus stop saw my interest and came over. Soon we were chatting away, but when he suddenly smiled and asked me if I had time for a drink I almost spluttered.
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L7 is searching for a new local voice – and it’s providing a fascinating opportunity to find out what’s on your minds. Over the last two months we have been printing some of the submissions. First out of the post bag this week… Sarah Charsley, 34, Brighton

Though retired from the club scene for several years, it still came as a shock last weekend when I was refused entry to a Brighton nightclub for the seemingly innocuous action of ‘swaying’.
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L7 is searching for a new local voice – and it’s providing a fascinating opportunity to find out what’s on your minds. Over the next few weeks we’ll be printing some of the submissions. First out of the post bag this week…
Andrea Fox, 24, Brighton

Six happy years in Brighton and eight homes. Each move consisting of both packing up then unpacking my belongings. By my math that means I’ve moved my belongings in and out of a van 16 times. Parents, friends, friends of friends and van drivers have helped me move from pillar to pier. I have lived in most areas of our city. Studenty Lewes Road. Middle class Seven Dials. Vertically challenging Hanover. Lord knows how you would go about my credit history check.
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L7 is searching for a new local voice – and it’s providing a fascinating opportunity to find out what’s on your minds. Over the next few weeks we’ll be printing some of the submissions.
First out of the post bag this week…
Rosie Gifford, 39, Brighton

Two years ago, in the middle of the night, I had an epiphany. I needed to move to Brighton. After eight years in the middle of rural France, slipping further and further in chutney and waking up with black teeth from boozing red wine, I had to get out of the end of the road. There was a new restaurant sign in our village saying, in English, ‘we do French meals here’. That did it for me.
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