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Eight people have been arrested during May Day protests in Brighton and Hove today (Saturday 30 April). Two of the arrests were for assault while most of the rest were for public order offences. About 200 protesters are estimated to have taken part from a variety of protest...

Brighton and Hove Albion fans were praised by police after a noisy but trouble-free end to the club’s 12 years at the Withdean Stadium. A crowd of 8,300 watched Albion’s final game of football there against Huddersfield Town, with the Yorkshire side snatching a late goal to win...

LV County Championship Division One, Hove Sussex 290 & 459-9dec. drew with Lancashire 590 By Jack Bradshaw Sussex salvaged a draw against Lancashire thanks largely to an unbeaten century by Naveed Arif. Resuming on 147-0, still 153 runs behind Lancashire’s first innings...

Police chiefs are urging those planning a May Day protest in Brighton tomorrow (Saturday 30 April) to liaise with officers. Sussex Police said that there have been calls through social networks for anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-cuts protesters to join in the protest call...

A 21-year-old man from Hove was treated in hospital for a burst blood vessel after being attacked in Brighton. The attack happened outside Revolution in West Street, Brighton, in the early hours of Wednesday (27 April). Another man who had also come form inside Revolution grabbed...

Plans to build four flats above a children’s nursery in Hove have been rejected by councillors. The scheme would have meant the closure of Poppies Childcare in West Way, Hangleton. Members of Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee turned down the scheme. They overruled...

Brighton Pavilion Green MP Caroline Lucas urged television viewers to back voting reform in the referendum next week. And she claimed that Brighton and Hove City Council could be about to go Green. She appeared on the BBC TV programme The Daily Politics, presented by Andrew Neil,...

The main train operator from Brighton, Hove and Portslade to London said that it was laying on extra trains and carriages for the royal wedding tomorrow (Friday 29 April). Southern said that it expected many more people to head to London by train than on a normal bank holiday....

A Brighton landlord has been served with an enforcement notice for letting a building in a conservation area fall into disrepair. Harwood Properties has been ordered to carry out extensive repairs at 16 York Place, Brighton. The work includes removing what Brighton and Hove City...

It would be a crime to miss it – Brighton author Peter James and academic expert Professor Peter Squires are going head to head for a debate during the Brighton Fringe Festival. The pair of Peters will discuss criminals and justice at the Sallis Benney Theatre, part of Brighton...