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Brighton children have started measuring exhaust emissions in and around their school as part of a two-year experiment. Part of the project will help teach children about the science of air quality. It will also provide data for the council. The whole scheme has been developed...

Conservative candidate Paul Evans won the East Saltdean by-election for a seat on Telscombe Town Council yesterday by just four votes. Mr Evans polled 268 votes, with Liberal Democrat Simon Doyle polling 264. The only other candidate, John Carden, standing for the Labour Party,...

The owners of two eyesore seafront properties in Hove have been served with enforcement notices. And a third site is being targeted by planning officials. Brighton and Hove City Council said that officers had repeatedly been in touch with Stranmede, the company that owns 149-151...

A Hove Labour councillor has been chosen to sit on a new fisheries watchdog. Melanie Davis, who represents Goldsmid on Brighton and Hove City Council, has been chosen by her colleagues to represent the city on the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. Councillor...

A suspected Brighton large-scale drug dealer has been arrested after a four-year search. Anton Duchesne, 37, has been charged with two offences of having cocaine and cannabis with a view to selling the drugs. The offences are alleged to have taken place in January 2006. Sussex...

A Saltdean teenager has been charged with two robberies and an attempted robbery in Brighton and Hove. He has also been charged with an attempted burglary. Sussex Police said that all four offences were alleged to have taken place in the past three weeks. Dan Johnson, 18, of...

Two protesters have been arrested after they glued themselves to the doors of a bank in the centre of Brighton. The pair carried out their protest at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) branch in Castle Square at the bottom of North Street, Brighton. It happened on the same day as...