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Brighton and Hove got a taste of rubbish chaos to come as the first phase of the binmen’s strike started yesterday. Hundreds of bins were left uncollected after street cleaners working for Brighton and Hove City Council’s CityClean service began working to rule. This is due to...

A Brighton referee was left with an eye injury after an object was thrown at him during a football match. The game had to be abandoned after the object struck him in the second half of the match between Ardingly and Ashurst Wood at Ardingly Recreation Ground on Saturday. He was...

More than 2,000 people have joined a Facebook group set up by firefighters to save Preston Circus fire station. The campaign, which was only launched this week, is fighting plans by East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service to sell the site and move operations to another, unspecified...

A Whitehawk trader has been fined for selling pirate DVDs of classic films. Barry Lee, 53, sold copies of The Italian Job, White Christmas, Gran Torino and The Widow Maker for £1 each at his shop, Barry the Hat, in The Broadway, Brighton. On Tuesday, he was fined £575 and ordered...

Brighton and Hove Greens convenor Bill Randall has called for all dogs to be microchipped. Councillor Randall, who represents Hanover and Elm Grove ward on Brighton and Hove City Council, explains why he wants the policy in his new blog, the Muse of Muesli Mountain. He cites an...