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The Brighton O application has been withdrawn just hours before it was due to be discussed by Brighton and Hove City Council’s planning committee. Officers had recommended that Paramount Attractions’s plans for a huge ferris wheel should be refused as it would...

Two hotly-tipped young women singer songwriters are to appear at May’s Great Escape festival. Ellie Goulding, a folk artist who has embraced electronic music, topped the BBC’s Sound of 2010 poll, voted for by critics and industry insiders. Welsh singer songwriter...

More than 25,000 bras have been placed in Brighton and Hove bra banks to raise money for a local breast cancer charity. The Pink Dolphin Appeal is now £1,680 better off thanks to Brighton and Hove City Council’s decision to put the bright pink banks at different locations...

It was already flying the flag for feminism with its trio of woman candidates – now the contest to become the next MP for Brighton Pavilion has been joined by another. After a brief spell of speculation that the former Liberal Democrat Chairman of Lewes District Council...

The go-ahead has been given for a new late-night karaoke bar in Middle Street despite vocal opposition from residents. Nine Rooms Karaoke’s application for a licence was yesterday granted by Brighton and Hove City Council’s licencing committee. It can open from 3.30am...