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  • Five year match ban for violent Seagulls supporter

    A Brighton and Hove Albion fan was today banned from going to any of his beloved team’s matches after being found guilty of violent behaviour.

    Joshua [...]

  • Brighton pensioner jailed for 19 years for abusing five young girls

    A pensioner has been jailed for 19 years today for abusing five young girls over a 20 year period.

    Gordon Brian Redmond, who lived in Brighton [...]

  • Rainbow coalition rises again to combat car use

    The alliance of Brighton and Hove’s opposition parties came together once more last night to safeguard a commitment to get people out of their cars.

    The [...]

  • Create your own celebrity potato

    Brighton Garden Centre is giving youngsters the chance to carve a humble spud into their favourite rock, film or sports star.

    Staff at Brighton Garden Centre [...]

  • Elderly Brighton and Hove befriending scheme hailed as national beacon

    A scheme to befriend lonely elderly people in Brighton and Hove has been such a success it should be rolled out nationally, a charity said [...]

  • Rainbow coalition rises again to combat car use

    The alliance of Brighton and Hove’s opposition parties came together once more last night to safeguard a commitment to get people out of their cars.

    The [...]

  • Hove man’s death from mephedrone furthers call to ban deadly legal high

    A Hove man was confirmed as the fifth known victim of the deadly legal high mephedrone today.

    John Sterling Smith, 46, collapsed at a party in [...]

  • 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Another woman lines up to contest Brighton Pavilion

It was already flying the flag for feminism with its trio of woman candidates – now the contest to become the next MP for Brighton [...]

MP says scrimping on grit has cost us all

A local MP took the Government to task yesterday for scrimping on salt and grit.

Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat MP whose Lewes constituency includes Falmer [...]

Snow joke! Brighton and Hove councillor clears away urban myth

A Brighton and Hove councillor has reassured conscientious residents that it is legally safe to clear snow from outside their homes.

Paul Elgood, the Liberal Democrat [...]

Whistleblowers in Brighton and Hove need clearer rules

Brighton and Hove City Council’s approach to whistleblowers has been criticised by an independent report.

The Audit Commission report says: “The council’s whistleblowing policy is not [...]

Cold snap spells broken bones for 100 Brighton patients

For dozens of people in Brighton and Hove the cold snap was literally just that.
A hundred patients are awaiting surgery for broken bones after falling [...]

Sainsbury's targets Hove Tesco

Sainsbury’s looks likely to open a second shop in Western Road on a site that sits opposite a busy Tesco.
The supermarket company has started fitting [...]

Brighton MPs claim £25,000 second home expenses

Two Brighton MPs claimed £25,000 towards the cost of their second homes in just over a year, according to the latest expenses to be published [...]