Latest People: Latest TV Wins Regional Licence

Latest TV celebrates win, Food & Drink Festival launches, plus World Suicide Prevention Day & Juice FM’s Ryan Heal

Latest TV celebrates TV licence win
Latest TV held a party at the latest Musicbar last Thursday 13 September, to celebrate winning a TV licence for Brighton & Hove. Last week Ofcom announced Brighton and Grimsby as the first two areas to win licences for a local TV channel.
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www.thelatest.tv
Photos: Diana Frangi


Brighton & Hove Food & Drink Festival launch
The Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival launched with a celebration of its 10th anniversary. The first event of the Autumn Harvest was Make Your Case, hosted by Latest’s Andrew Kay. It was a total sellout and in a moment of spontaneous striptease (not him), Andrew managed to raise £338 from guests towards Rockinghorse, the festival’s chosen charity for 2012.
Photos: courtesy of B&H Food & Drink Festival

World Suicide Prevention Day
On Monday 10 September the local charity Grassroots Suicide Prevention launched ‘Suicide Safer Brighton’ at the Latest Musicbar. The event was a collaborative campaign to designate Brighton and Hove as a suicide safer community. Some of the evening’s guest speakers included Irish singer/songwriter Sinead O’Connor and Brighton’s very own Marathon Man Kevin Betts.
www.grassrootstraining.org.uk
Words & Photos: Diana Frangi

Ryan Heal leaves Juice FM
On Friday 31 August, businesses, friends and local celebrities joined Ryan Heal at the Hilton Metropole for his leaving do. Ryan left his job as managing director of Juice 107.2 on 1 September to embark on a new job as chief executive of Rockinghorse, the Brighton children’s charity.
Word & photos: Diana Frangi