News has reached me, via FB, that the Whistle Stop in Boundary Road - repeat nominated on this very board as worst / scariest pub in the city of Brighton and Hove - has been taken over by the people who run The George Payne - probably nominated somewhere as expensive middle class family local of the year. Will Portslade finally get the gastro pub to go with its (ridiculous) new house prices? Where will the street drinkers go when they've got some cash? Will the Vic get a dedicated horse racing television. Will staff at the railway station go in to MOURNING? And will the newly affluent of Portslade eat their posh burgers and join a Port and Cheese club next to Portslade's least regarded TOILETS. Interesting times ahead, at least if you like people watching and general car crashes.