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  • Brighton graffiti vandals jailed for massive tagging spree

    Two graffiti taggers were jailed today for risking their lives to spray graffiti on the railways for four years, causing £30k of damage.

    Matthew Fowler

    Matthew [...]

  • Fire at Legends Hotel on Brighton seafront

    Staff have been evacuated following a blaze at Legends Hotel on Marine Parade this afternoon.

    The fire broke out some time after 4.30pm, and at least [...]

  • Sussex University students in fresh protest

    Sussex University students said that they had occupied the refectory at the Falmer campus in a fresh protest.

    They were calling for six students who were [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Preston Park vegetable garden launched

    The Preston Park demonstration vegetable garden, designed by Harvest Brighton and Hove to inspire people to grow their own, has been launched.

    The garden will take [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Portslade man killed by unlicensed van driver

    An unlicensed van driver has admitted causing the death of a 44-year-old moped rider from Portslade.

    Delshad Ajeeb Aziz, 26, pleaded guilty at Hove Crown Court [...]

  • Hove couple fined £18k for illegal extension

    A couple who erected an extension at the front of their property without planning permission were fined nearly £18,000 yesterday at Brighton Magistrates Court 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 [...]

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