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The All New Year 2006 Edition.

TOP “ TV that changes peoples lives”.
My neighbour’s friend says her life has been changed by watching reality TV programmes. Which proves they really do work, because that is the actual mission statement of the Dials latest media darlings Ricochet TV. Ricochet are newly camped in the “Soho-Plush” offices of Pacific House next to our ever spacious Co-op. Top dollar outfit Ricochet are responsible for Terribly Tasty Telly like “Footballers Wives” “Living in the sun” ”Me or the dog” “How not to Decorate” “Risking it All” “Watching Paint Dry” and the international best sellers Supernanny and 100 Best Pet Circumcisions.
With 77 super savvy staff no wonder Forfars are selling out of pork pies before 11 am. An acquaintance of a spokesperson from the Dials Tanning shop e-mailed me. “Ricochet moving here is the best thing to happen on the Dials since the Chippy turned into a Tapas bar and the Dials Cafe went Sushi Mushy” she continued “ Fake tanning demand is so high we are now open 22 / 6 and we have had to replace two tubes.” Berry's the second-hand furniture and brand new mirror shop has also seen a boost with “celebrity” designers Selling House’s Justin and Colin buying everything as soon as the van is unloaded. Apparently “They love a bit of G Plan”. They also l like a touch of Thai, the Ricochet team are often to be seen noshing on a Red Snapper £3.85 “greeny” for lunch. Brighton and Hove Council commented “We are delighted to welcome RickO’Shea and we would love to take credit for his success because we installed a bus lane between Patcham and Preston Park that gets used once every fifteen minutes. Is there any chance of me getting on any thing? Can you put in a word for me?” panted a press officer.


Top Do.
Thanks to Austin Grey ( “We advertise on the back cover every time”.) for a fantastic night at their Christmas party at their Dials HQ. Adrian Pizza my third husband and I danced and dined ‘till dawn mixing with the Brighton real estate Glitterati. How nice it was to see the likes of Greasham "Suits you sir" Blake, Carol "Newsy" Barnes, David " Bottom Dollar" Day, Chris “Billy “Ellinson, and Brian "Wicked" Capron all together at a social event for a change, I even had my picture taken with Jo Brooks the publicist’s publicist, which was worth every penny.

Co-op Schmo-op.


Feb 9 sees the grand re-opening of the all singing all dancing new state of the Art Co-op.

Planning news.

Developers, altruistic architects and entrepreneurs if at first your applications don’t succeed try and try again. Ignore the NIMBY’s not in my back yard, the DINKY’s Double income no children yet and the COTSY’s children of the sixties yeah man.
Just Resubmit, resubmit and resubmit.

Local Resubmissions.
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COMPTON AVENUE
Consruct housing estate on derelict ground behind block of flats and adjacent to West Hill community Centre.


COMPTON AVENUE

Construct new floor to make 4 x 2 bedroom flats on top of existing block of flats.
CLIFTON ROAD OPPOSITE HARMLESS HOUSE.
Small residential tower and new shop front to replace Art Deco building trading as Hardware store.

Newbys.

DYKE ROAD DALLS TAPAS
Replace garden with restaurant .

DYKE ROAD TINGLY
Fun Advertising Sign.

49 BUCKINGHAM Lodge?
Add 8 studio flats on roof.

CO-OP DYKE ROAD
Reposition of entrance way.



An open letter to B & Hove Council Planning Department .
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Hi, I hope you are well and had a good Xmas. As much as everybody enjoys going to Hove town Hall for a day out to look at planning applications, when are you going to catch up with the rest of the country and put all applications on line (W.W.Web)? Thank you.
ps. Please pass on best wishes to your colleagues the parking ticket people.
Close open letter here please.

Three Million Squid.
According to the Green Party newspaper the Council has won £3 million in funding to Make Brighton a “Demonstration Town” for improvements in cycle safety and cycle routes. We (at Gossips and Grumbles) have long championed the campaign to widen cycle lanes from the measly 5” between yellow lines and the curb. This pot of cash will mean thousands can now be thrown at comissioning consultants and putting red tarmac bike lanes all over our streets. Any remaining cash will be used to to buy 178 copies of the highway code and 43 bicycle bells .
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Celeb Watch.
Top draw journalist Adam “The Lad” Trimmingham was seen twice in one day on Buckingham Palace, once in person and once as a bus (They named one after him) . Other recent sitings of the man himself included breakfasting in Cafe One Ten and cycling in Clifton Road. Me thinks Adam has moved to our manor, a big welcome. Adam I must say you are looking very well, and you still tick all my boxes.....Talk about hot flushes......

Hebden Bridge?
It’s official West Hill is top of the City Buy to Let league according to the Sunday Mirror C.I. (Cuppachino Index ) published this morning. An incredible 7 out of 8 new West Hill house and flat sales are now buy to let. This lines up with targets for the Londonalisation of the City Central area .The statistics suprisingly reveal most recent purchasers were from the Leeds and Bradford areas. One buy to let speculator told this office “ Being from Yorkshire where the people are the salt of the earth and there is no crime or owt we have no intention of moving to your area, but simply see it as a good investment and nice for our London web designer couple who are the tenants there .
West Hill beat North Laines into second place. Shoreham was promoted whilst Fiveways were relegated.
A passing local said “I don’t really understand any this.”

Wired Pizza Blogger.
Thanks to A. Reader who has put all Pizza Girl material from the last three years on the
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Happy New Year



A selection from the Pizza Girl Awards 2005,

The PG Awards Ceremony for 2005 was held at the Church hall in West Hill Road. This year due to the mild weather attendences were down, even though most people were there. Unfortunately owing to a prior engagement I couldn’t make it. Amongst the winners (although wer’e all winners really) were in reverse order:

Best retail grocers with a licence to perform same sex ceremonys Bright News

Best shop front re-fit Ashtons Chemist

Best shops for front with re-fits Austin Grey and Mishon Makay.

Best Passive smoking venue

Bank Bar
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