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A Brighton ice cream seller has been fined for trading illegally in his Mr Whippy van. Abraham Khan was warned by members of  the Brighton and Hove City Council licensing team. But he kept turning up in the city centre in his van and ended up being prosecuted. Brighton...

A man trading illegally on Brighton seafront has been fined mor than £500 by magistrates. Anthony Harnwell invited members of the public to use his bike to try to cycle in a straight line. Harnwell of Bayliss Road, London, was offering cash incentives on the seafront for people...

A fire engine has been reported as having been abandoned in a quiet Brighton street. A resident reported the “rotting” vehicle on the Fix My Street website which is monitored by a number of councils, including Brighton and Hove City Council. Fix My Street’s Brighton and...

A former Brighton girls’ school is to be converted into flats for doctors and nurses working at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. St Mary’s Hall in Eastern Road, Brighton, will also house offices for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex....

A man has been arrested after an armed robbery in Hove this morning. It is not known whether he was the knifeman who held up the Co-op in Church Road, Hove, or whether he is suspecting of committing a related offence. News of his arrest comes shortly after Sussex Police issued a...

Brighton detectives hunting a flasher have charged a 39-year-old man who was arrested after an appeal on the BBC TV programme Crimewatch. Sussex Police said that Paul Goodenough, 39, of Sandes Place in Leatherhead, Surrey, faces three charges. He faces two counts of knowingly or...

Two armed robbers held up a bank in Hove and escaped with a sum of cash. The robbery happened as staff were delivering cash to the Santander branch in George Street, Hove, at around 11.30pm last night. The robbers threatened the staff with what is believed to have been a gun,...

Robbers are believed to have struck at the Co-op in Church Road, Hove, at about 5.30am today. Sussex Police issued a statement saying: “Officers are currently on scene investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.” The robbery was reported just after 7am. Last night...