Two Healthy eating projects from Whitehawk have been praised at a special event yesterday.

Whitehawk Primary School’s basketball and cooking sessions and a lunch club at the Robert Lodge flats in Whitehawk, were among 23 projects in East Brighton praised at Whitehawk’s Crew Club.

They were all funded through the East Brighton Healthy Living Centre’s Healthy Neighbourhood Fund.

Councillor Geoffrey Theobald said: “This is really what I call value for money. It’s remarkable how far relatively small sums of money can go when you harness the energies of groups who want to help themselves and others.”

Also speaking at yesterday’s event were speakers from Whitehawk Primary School and the East Brighton Substance Misuse Project. Afterwards, everyone was served a locally produced organic lunch.

Gareth Malone, star of the BBC’s “The Choir,” is looking for fresh talent to appear on stage at the world-famous Glyndebourne Opera House.

Malone will be coaching 14-19 year olds in music, singing and drama at Whitehawk’s Crew Club on Saturday 26th September, at the same time scouting for potential singers to take part in new youth opera ‘Knight Crew’.

The opera, created by Glyndebourne’s Julian Phillips, re-tells a King Arthur legend in a contemporary gangland setting.

For the first time young people from the whole of East Sussex will have the chance to audition and, if successful, perform alongside a professional orchestra.

This Sunday saw Mile Oak travel the short distance to Whitehawk, the boys were full of hope after their 2 opening wins of the season, with 2 clean sheets also. With Christian out, Skinner was in line to replace him; however he somehow dislocated both his shoulders the day before, which meant under 17’s Wedge-Bull would come in to replace him instead. Oak fielded Grimstone in goal, with the same back four from the previous 2 games, in Downs, Mills, Hall and Evans. With Stenning and Wedge-Bull the holding men in midfield, meaning the attacking threat would be down to Packham and Robbins on the wings, Pretlove through the middle and the big gay Seager upfront.