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The number of young children in Brighton and Hove is growing. It could soon outstrip the number of primary schools places available. So you’d think that when a group of parents volunteered to set up a new school from scratch that everyone would be pleased. But you’d be wrong....

The Labour Party has booked the Brighton Centre for its annual conference for a second time in a matter of weeks. The party will hold its conference in Brighton in 2015, having announced less than a fortnight ago that it would be here in 2013. It had been due to meet in...

A 20-year-old motorcyclist died in a crash in Brighton this afternoon (Tuesday 7 February). His pillion passenger, a woman from Newhaven, also 20, was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital with serious injuries and remains in a critical condition. The accident happened in...

Charles Dickens’s great-great-grandson is due to unveil a blue plaque in Brighton tomorrow (Wednesday 8 February) to commemorate the author. Ian Dickens will unveil the plaque at noon on the site where the Bedford Hotel once stood. Dickens wrote a large part of the novel Dombey...

Brighton and Hove is in the running to become the home of the Green Investment Bank. The government intends to commit £3 billion to the proposed bank to speed up private sector investment as Britain tries to become a low carbon economy. Brighton and Hove City Council was one of...

Firefighters rescued a man from a property in Hove early yesterday after a blaze started in the kitchen. They led the occupant to safety in the early hours of the morning (Monday 6 February) from the building in Church Road, Hove. He did not suffer any serious injuries. East...