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A teenager was attacked and robbed in a street in Hove early this morning. The 19-year-old local man was walking along Church Road at about 3.50am when he was attacked near the junction with Second Avenue. The attacker, described as black and aged about 20 to 25, with a shaven or...

A woman was mugged near Brighton Police Station when two thieves snatched her handbag and ran off. The 46-year-old Brighton woman was robbed outside Richmond Heights in Ashton Rise. She was walking along the path towards the block of flats between Ashton Rise and John Street when...

A young Spanish man was robbed at knifepoint on Brighton seafront. Muggers stole the 21-year-old’s iPhone and wallet as he was walking alone towards the Palace Pier along the lower promenade. As he was passing the stretch of promenade across the road from the Oceana night club...

Three men were arrested by Serendipity in Rottingdean this morning. They were held outside the Serendipity card and gift shop after a police chase ended in High Street in the village. The three men were in a car which was reported by the Metropolitan Police to have been involved...

Two brothers from Brighton have been convicted over the Lapland theme park scam. Victor Mears, 67, of Selsfield Drive, Moulsecoomb, and Henry Mears, 60, of Coombe Road, Brighton, were found guilty of conning thousands of customers. Many of their victims were families with young...

A woman has been arrested after two others had to rescued from a house fire in Bevendean. The 26-year-old suspected arsonist is thought to have started the fire at a flat in Widdicombe Way at about 8pm on Wednesday evening (16 February). Crews from East Sussex Fire and Rescue...

A Chinese restaurant has been ordered to take down an oversized black fascia board. Days, in East Street, Brighton, put up the fascia with some red formica cladding at the old ABC cinema building in East Street. Now, planning enforcement officers from Brighton and Hove City...

Two brothers from Brighton accused of using a Lapland-style theme park as a money-making scam are waiting for the jury in their trial to return. Victor Mears, 67, of Selsfield Drive, Moulsecoomb, and Henry Mears, 60, of Coombe Road, Brighton, are suspected of making amore than £1...