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The fire brigade is taking to steps to cut the number of false alarms attended by its crews. East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, which covers Brighton and Hove, said that last year it attended 12,607 emergency callouts. About half of these turned out to be false alarms, with...

A video of a Brighton and Hove bus stuck in last week’s heavy snow has been viewed by thousands of people. The footage of the bus sliding to a halt in Eaton Place, Kemp Town, has been watched by almost 4,000 people on YouTube. The rescue crew from Brighton and Hove Buses...

A gang of nine teenagers attacked a woman in her fifties in Brighton and left her with a broken arm. They pushed her to the floor and one of them indecently exposed himself before stamping on her arm, breaking it. The attack happened behind Aldi in St Peter’s Street, off...

A former Sussex Police officer and his boyfriend have been ordered to pay more than £100,000 under a confiscation order. Darren Graysmark, 44, a former special branch officer, and Darren Simpson, 43, a former manager at Brighton and Hove City Council, must pay the money under the...

More people are complaining about claims by pubs, cafés and restaurants in Brighton and Hove that they serve locally sourced food. But when trading standards officers carried out spot checks on 35 premises, only one could not prove its claims. Brighton and Hove City Council said...

Journalists at The Argus have started their second two-day strike within a month. The strike is over the loss of six sub-editors’ jobs at Hollingbury and a three-year pay freeze. Those on strike belong to the National Union of Journalists and have set up a blog about their...