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Two in three people who responded to a £96,000 consultation agreed with now-defunct plans for a cycle lane along Old Shoreham Road, new figures reveal. In February, Brighton and Hove News revealed that the Tories were considering scrapping the plans before the consultation...

Almost £1m is to be spent training umemployed youngsters in the cultural, creative and digital media field. Brighton and Hove City Council has been given £975,000 to create 150 six-month placements, which if matched by employer funding could go on to become year-long...

Whitehawk’s Wellsbourne Health Centre officially opens today. The centre in Whitehawk Way will be the new home for doctors from Broadway Surgery and Whitehawk Medical Practice. Other NHS services currently based at Whitehawk Clinic will move into its top floor, and there is...

Roof gardens, bird boxes and wildlife ponds are set to become more common in Brighton and Hove if new planning guidelines come into force. The city council’s Nature Conservation and Development Supplementary Planning document aims to show developers how to prevent damage to...

A masked man attempted to rob a bookmakers in Brighton but fled empty handed when he couldn’t open a locked door. The man tried to get into the staff area of Ladbrokes in Elm Grove via a side door at about 9pm on Wednesday, March 10. But when he couldn’t get in, he...

Strike action and protests at the University of Sussex could be drawing to a close after the union said it had its “most positive meeting” so far with university management on Saturday morning. The University and College Union met with outgoing deputy vice chancellor...

A quaint square opposite St Peter’s Church has been given a facelift with new plants and benches. Pelham Square was redesigned approximately 25 years ago, but the planting had become tired and uninteresting. Now the council’s Cityparks have completely cleared out all the...