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Petition to rename Brighton landmark to be discussed by council today

8:00am Thursday 20th October 2011 in News

Put The Palace Back In Our Pier campaign Put The Palace Back In Our Pier campaign

A petition to put the Palace back into Brighton Pier will be received by the city council today.

A petition set up by the city's Labour and Co-Op group in July has now received almost 250 signatures, while The Argus' own campaign has been backed by almost 1,300 people.

Both urge the council to work with any new owner to ensure the pier's original name is restored.

To sign The Argus petition visit www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/palacepier

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Comments(14)

ShorehamBeachcomber says...
8:28am Thu 20 Oct 11

Glasshouses, next campaign will be to revert back to the legendary 'Evening Argus' (Evening Standard anyone?) starting with an night candlelit vigil on Brighton,er, Palace Pier tomorrow night, see you there...

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Horsham63 says...
8:40am Thu 20 Oct 11

1,550 signatures from a popoulation of approx 250,000. Not really concentrating the minds of local residents I feel. My mate Kent Pocknall was recalls the re-naming of it back in 2000 to The Brighton Pier, however, he claims that it is apparently still not recognised by the National Piers Society and is still affectionately known by locals as the Palace Pier.

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Servalan says...
9:29am Thu 20 Oct 11

I didn't realise it no longer called the Palace Pier in the first place! But yeah, bring back the EVENING Argus, instead of this current sub-Daily Fail churnalist advertising rag....

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ArundelTerrazzo says...
9:32am Thu 20 Oct 11

A petition to put the Palace back into Brighton Pier will be recieved by the city council today.

Remember, 'i' before 'e', except after 'c'.

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Sarah Booker says...
9:42am Thu 20 Oct 11

The Argus was renamed when it became a morning rather than an evening paper.

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kkj says...
9:46am Thu 20 Oct 11

Remember, 'i' before 'e', except after 'c'.

That's what my neighbour said. I told him he was weird.

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Uncle_Meat says...
9:50am Thu 20 Oct 11

Where's the petition to make Nobles repair the damage they've done to the listed structure? They've 'lost' the theatre and other parts they were supposedly storing safely. Take the repair money they owe from the profit they make selling the pier.
I'd sign that petition!

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localboy78 says...
9:52am Thu 20 Oct 11

Erm, can we also start a petition to outlaw the use of the name 'Brighton' to all references to the 'city' when it should always be referred to as 'Brighton & Hove'? (for example - 'visitBrighton.com' that constantly talks about how wonderful the 'city' of 'Brighton' is!!

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kkj says...
10:59am Thu 20 Oct 11

localboy78 wrote:
Erm, can we also start a petition to outlaw the use of the name 'Brighton' to all references to the 'city' when it should always be referred to as 'Brighton & Hove'? (for example - 'visitBrighton.com' that constantly talks about how wonderful the 'city' of 'Brighton' is!!
As far as I'm aware, anyone can start a petition, so go ahead.

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Phani Tikkala says...
11:20am Thu 20 Oct 11

Nice to see that the Labour and Coop group have their priorities right. Yes let's rename the pier, and forget about providing alternative ideas and costings for how to cut the deficit, feed the poor, house the homeless, etc.etc.... surely it can only be a matter of time before one of their usual councillors writes to the Ragus to pat themselves on the back for their great leadership at a time of enormous crisis?

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Servalan says...
11:43am Thu 20 Oct 11

Oh strangely the Argus deleted my post pointing out that after the destruction of the West Pier, there's now only ONE pier in Brighton, so it makes good advertising sense to call it the BRIGHTON PIER, rather than confusing tourists.

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AJ_Rustington says...
12:45pm Thu 20 Oct 11

As the Pier is in the city of Brighton & Hove I think it should be renamed "Brighton & Hove (actually) Pier"

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notaconspiracy says...
1:27pm Thu 20 Oct 11

These days, we say 'the pier', since we only have one...

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Joshiman says...
9:31am Sat 22 Oct 11

nothing more important to do in B&H.
This is what we voted for was it?

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