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Quality casual wear from established lifestyle brands at the newly opened Oak Clothing

Brighton has recently welcomed a new independent retailer, Oak Clothing, to The Lanes. Located at 16 Brighton Place, Oak brings an exciting range of ladies and children’s lifestyle brands to the city.
Established and trusted fashions from Joules, Mistral, Crew, Toggi and Frugi make Oak the perfect place to find top quality casual clothing at affordable prices.
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Holiday On Ice brings together the masterful music of Barry Manilow and the ice dance excellence of Robin Cousins MBE

Regular readers of Latest 7 will already know that we all love Holiday On Ice. For years now we have been privileged enough to get an early view of the forthcoming production and this year is no different. We have already been out to Berlin to catch Tropicana before it arrives at the Brighton Centre in January 2012.

Holiday On Ice is a much-loved international institution, over the years entertaining millions of fans worldwide and, in doing so, becoming one of the largest entertainment organisations in the world.

HOI, as they are known, not only attracts massive audiences, it also attracts the cream of the ice dance world. Every competing skating star is aware of the company and, as a consequence, when casting their massive productions, the company are able to cast the very best ice dance stars.
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A seasonal treat and fantastic savings with Spamalot at Theatre Royal Brighton
The international smash hit musical comedy Spamalot gallops into Theatre Royal Brighton from Thursday 15 December 2011 to Saturday 14 January 2012. If you are looking for a feel-good family outing this Christmas, then look no further. Spamalot is harmlessly funny, very silly and has dancing, audience participation and great songs. It is truly a pantomime for all seasons. ‘Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life’, voted the nation’s favourite song, is guaranteed to have children (aged 8+), parents, teenagers and grandparents singing along.
Written by original Python Eric Idle and John Du Prez, Spamalot is based on the story of King Arthur and his Knights – think Horrible Histories crossed with Merlin. The cast includes Marcus Brigstocke (CBBC’s Sorry I’ve Got No Head, BBC’s Have I Got News For You, QI etc) who plays King Arthur; Todd Carty (Tucker in Grange Hill and Tucker’s Luck, Mark in EastEnders) who plays his hapless sidekick Patsy, and Jodie Prenger (Winner of BBC’s I’d Do Anything, playing Nancy in the West End’s Oliver!) plays Lady of the Lake. All three won rave reviews when the show visited Brighton last year. Read the rest of this article »

What a long way we have come in the last 40 years or so. Back in the early ’70s, documentary photography was still mainly taken in black and white, and the preserve of a very small number of practitioners who had to use film, and then process and develop it either themselves or via a specialist lab, usually at great expense and not a little time… Now, the digital medium has almost completely taken over and almost everyone who has a mobile phone also has a camera. As a visual record and oral history of the early ’70s, the images taken by photographers such as Meadows are priceless, a rare documentation of people and places.

Born in 1952 Daniel Meadows was one of a group of photographers trained at Manchester Polytechnic in the early 1970s (including the internationally renowned photographer Martin Parr), who spearheaded the independent photography movement in Britain, breaking with tradition and infusing the medium with new energies and ways of seeing. In 1973 and 1974 he toured the country in a double decker bus, establishing free studios in towns and cities across the country. Much of the work that ended up in his 1975 book, Living Like This, has been included in Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs From The ’70s and ’80s, and published by Photoworks. Written by Val Williams (the curator of the current ways of Looking exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford and Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of the Arts London), the early images were taken when the ‘common man’ had became a preoccupation with artists and writers, adding a visual record and recording a oral history in the process.

Together with recently discovered unpublished work from Meadows’ own archive, this book presents his five best known projects: The Shop on Greame Street, 1972, Butlin’s by the Sea, 1972, June Street, Salford, 1973, Nattering in Paradise, 1984 and The Free Photographic Omnibus 1973-74, which was produced while traversing the country in the makeshift bus, up to the far North of England (Northumberland, Cumbria) and down to the far South (Sussex, Hampshire).

In partnership with the University of Brighton MA Photography, Daniel Meadows will be giving a talk at the Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Thursday 8 December, 6.30pm. Tickets can be booked online: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/2545371274 or bought on the door, £7/£3.50

Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs is published by Photoworks

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