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After lying empty for two years an office block on Manchester Street is to become a language school. Change of use from offices was granted by Brighton and Hove Council’s planning committee today (Wednesday, June 9), subject to a management plan. Conditions in place before EC...

A new nightbus is to start running on weekend nights between Brighton and Broadwater. The N700 will operate on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights running along Western Road through Hove, then Hove Street, Kingsway, Shoreham, South Lancing, Worthing and Durrington. It will be...

Dozens of people are given pauper’s funerals each year by Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust, new figures reveal. In 2009/10, the trust held public health funerals for 26 people, with 40 the previous year and 37 the year before that. Of these, 68 were men and...

An off licence is applying to serve booze in Kemp Town until 4am – with just a two hour break before opening again at 6am. Tipple, which hopes to open at 30 St James’s Street, is facing stiff opposition from residents, who fear it will worsen existing street drinking...

Brighton artist Fred Pipes has created Art Deco paintings of local landmarks to spruce up the former Astoria cinema site in Gloucester Place. The artworks feature local landmarks in the retro-style of 1930s posters and include an image of the Astoria cinema, specially drawn for...

Brighton charity Assert has been given a prestigious Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – the equivalent of an MBE for volunteer groups. The charity supports adults with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism in the city since 2002, and it won The...