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  • Strike at Sussex University begins

    Hundreds of staff at the University of Sussex are on strike today in protest at plans to cut about a hundred jobs.

    The action has been [...]

  • Residents parking for Hanover and Elm Grove on the cards

    Parking permits could be implemented in Hanover and Elm Grove by next summer – but only if enough residents and businesses give the go ahead.

    Last autumn, 70% [...]

  • Conman who targeted Brighton transvestite jailed

    A man who targeted a Brighton transvestite through a dating website using the name “Slick Nick” before stealing his property has been jailed for five years.
    Nicholas Rowell, [...]

  • Funeral for Elm Grove murder victim Gordon Stalker

    A funeral will be held next Friday for a popular man who was stabbed to death in Elm Grove, Brighton, last month.

    Gordon Stalker, 51, who [...]

  • Google snaps a Brighton seagull

    Since going live in Brighton and Hove last Thursday, some great images have been spotted on Google Street View.

    This chance snap of a seagull with [...]

  • In pictures: Brighton and Hove Spring Harvest Festival

    New Road was packed to the brim with colourful and mouth-watering produce for the Big Sussex Market, part of Brighton and Hove’s Spring Harvest Festival, [...]

  • Brighton benefit cheat landed with £2,400 bill

    A Brighton man has admitted four charges of fraudulently claiming housing benefit and council tax benefit.

    Patrick Stoney, 62, of Edward Street, Brighton, was fined £200 [...]

  • Sainsbury’s opens without planning permission

    The controversial new Sainsbury’s in Western Road has opened without planning permission for its shopfront and cashpoint.

    Councillor Paul Elgood has hit out at Brighton and [...]

  • Google Street View launched in Brighton and Hove

    Google Street View has lanched in Brighton and Hove.

    The internet giant’s cars, with cameras mounted on their roofs, were busy photographing all the city’s roads [...]

  • Estate agents’ board decision due next month

    Brighton and Hove estate agents will learn next month whether their for sale boards have been sucessfully banned by the city council.

    A hearing at Hove [...]

Estate agents' board decision due next month

Brighton and Hove estate agents will learn next month whether their for sale boards have been sucessfully banned by the city council.

A hearing at Hove [...]

Brighton soldier unlawfully killed after 'inadequate' training, coroner rules

A coroner has slammed the training given to a Brighton soldier who died in action in Afghanistan.

Special forces reservist Corporal Sean Robert Reeve died when [...]

Hundreds March for Jobs through Brighton and Hove

The Brighton and Hove Trade Union Council’s March for Jobs on Saturday saw hundreds of people march through the city centre in protest at job [...]

UKIP picks Hove candidate

UKIP has chosen a Brighton businessman Paul Perrin to stand for Parliament in Hove at the general election.

Mr Perrin, of Woodland Walk, Ovingdean, is financing [...]

Hove seafront being revamped at Brighton’s expense, Labour claim

Brighton’s seafront may be in line for a facelift – but Madeira Drive is being neglected, Labour councillors claim.

Last month, Brighton and Hove City Council [...]

Brighton and Hove apprentices used as ‘cheap labour’, union claims

A union activist is claiming Brighton and Hove City Council is using apprentices as “cheap labour” to replace the scores of staff it is laying [...]

Could plans to shorten council meetings stifle debate?

Brighton and Hove City Council meetings could come with a strict time limit in future under plans to make them more “efficient, streamlined and productive”.

Under [...]

Last chance for Brighton and Hove's rainbow alliance?

A last-ditch attempt to salvage the rainbow alliance’s hold over Brighton and Hove City Council has been proposed by the Labour Party.

Earlier this week, the [...]

Rainbow alliance collapses

A left-leaning political alliance heralded as the end of Tory rule of Brighton and Hove has seemingly collapsed after little more than two months.

Last December, [...]

Brighton and Hove cycle lane proposal to be scrapped

Brighton and Hove City Council is believed to have dropped plans for a cycle lane along Old Shoreham Road.

The council carried out a public consultation [...]