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Police have warned Brighton and Hove’s gay community to be on their guard against a thief who befriends men in the pub, and then steals from their homes. The man is believed to have struck twice last month, each time meeting a man in the pub, drinking with them and then...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a colourful troupe of gay superheroes – and they’re on the loose in Brighton. Spandex is a new comic book featuring seven gay and lesbian superheroes, led by glamourous transvestite Liberty. Its first issue sees the team defending their...

Dog walkers are to be licensed by Brighton and Hove City Council in a crackdown on ‘cowboy dog walkers’. From today, dog walkers are being invited to undergo an inspection and sign up to a Code of Conduct in return for a licence – the first such scheme in the country. Animal...

A Hove secondary school has sent all its pupils home after telling them that a popular teacher has died. Blatchington Mill staff sent pupils home at midday after telling them that English and drama teacher Mike Fawcett, 41, had died. His Year 10 form group were given the news...

Twitter is often described as a place to tell people what you had for lunch – but a new Brighton twitterer’s grisly tweets are more likely to put you off your dinner. @dinner_guest started tweeting last week, and already he’s dragged a victim back to his...