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Two teenagers have appeared before magistrates after a baseball attack in Portslade left a 15-year-old boy with serious head injuries. Joshua Tester, 18, from Flint Close, Portslade, was charged with assault causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent and having an offensive...

Nancy Platts has stood down as the chair of the Brighton and Hove Labour Party. Her resignation follows her appointment as part of new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s team. Ms Platts is to liaise with the trade unions on behalf of the Mr Corbyn. She has twice stood for Parliament...

By Natalie Heath A petition started by Brighton mother Annie Heath calls for schools to combine inset (in-service training) days so families can afford a holiday. The petition calls on Brighton and Hove City Council to ask schools to arrange consecutive training days so parents...

A Brighton street has been closed this lunchtime while emergency services respond to reports someone was trapped in a basement fire. Firefighters, paramedics and police officers are currently in Coleman Street, Hanover after 999 calls were made at 12.43pm today. Breathing...

A catalogue of strong objections have been made to a bid by the smartphone app Uber to operate cabs in Brighton and Hove, despite concerns the company could sue the city council if it is rejected. Established taxi firms say Uber’s record of employing uninsured drivers,...

A thug who broke a man’s eye socket in a vicious daytime attack provoked by nothing more than a minor exchange of words has been jailed for two years. Mohammed Abusetta has been sentenced to 21 months in prison at Lewes Crown Court on October 5 and told he faces deportation...

A Brighton bus driver was left shaken after a passenger spat in his face because he would not let him off the bus before it got to the next stop. CCTV is to be handed to police so they can try and track down the attacker after the incident on the 5A bus in Gloucester Place...

A Brighton vicar is due to go on trial at the Old Bailey today (Monday 12 October) charged with two counts of abusing a 15-year-old boy. Vickery House, the former vicar of St Bartholomew’s Church, in Brighton, is also accused of abusing five men ranging in age from 17 to 34 over...