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  • 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, [...]

  • In pictures: the Pioneer Motorcycle Run

    The annual Pioneer Motorcycle run took place in bright spring sunshine yesterday.

    Hundreds of vintage motorbikes started their journey in Tattenham Corner by the Epsom Downs, [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Demo targets Brighton University course closures

    Brighton University faces a demonstration against its proposed closure of seven vocational courses.

    The classes – in silversmithing, bookbinding, woodwork, photography, printmaking, ceramics and plastics – [...]

  • Swindled

    By Tim Hodges
    Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Swindon Town 1

    Albion will think themselves unlucky and rightly so. The Seagulls dominated long periods of this match, [...]

  • 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 [...]

Efit of Portslade knifepoint robbery suspect released

Police have released this efit of a man they would like to speak to in connection with an armed robbery at Ladbrokes betting shop in [...]

Teenage girl seriously hurt after Portslade motorbike crash

A 17-year-old Shoreham girl was badly hurt after the motorbike she was riding pillion on crashed with a van in Portslade yesterday morning.

The Suzuki bike was travelling [...]

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 [...]

Number 7 bus given a touch of Bond glamour for City Reads festival

Portslade and Brighton Marina don’t usually conjure up images of espionage, action and glamour – but all this is set to change when the number [...]

Portslade paramedic jailed for lying about dying Brighton patient

Paramedic Karl Harris has been jailed for a year for lying about why he did not try to treat a dying patient.

Harris, 45, of Tophill [...]

Bogus callers target Brighton’s elderly

Conmen have stolen £4,000 while posing as police officers in a series of distraction burglaries and attempts in Brighton, Portslade, Lancing and Hurstpierpoint this week.

The conmen struck as [...]

Application to turn Portslade Community College into academy submitted

Brighton and Hove City Council has formally asked the Government for permission to turn Portslade Community College into an academy.

Two weeks after Brighton and Hove [...]

Portslade Community College to become academy

Portslade Community College looks likely to become an academy school.

One of the sponsors is expected to be the businessman Rod Aldridge, who went to school [...]

Portslade bookmakers robbed

A knife-wielding robber forced a terrified member of staff to hand over hundreds of pounds in a raid at a Portslade bookmaker’s yesterday.

The man came [...]

Fishersgate burglars steal plasma TVs

Burglars have stolen two plasma TV screens from a flat in Fishersgate.

Detective are appealing for information after the break-in, which happened either late afternoon or [...]

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