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Recent rainfall and the downpours forecast for the coming week will not be enough for Southern Water to lift the hosepipe ban. Brighton and Hove has had one of its wettest months in recent memory since the government formally declared a drought at the start of April. And tomorrow...

A Brighton estate agent has been ordered to repaint its grade II listed premises. Bonett’s painted the outside of its offices purple and has been told to turn them back to white or pale cream by Friday 1 June. Brighton and Hove City Council has served an enforcement notice on the...

A busy road into Brighton was closed after more than a dozen horses escaped from a field. Sussex Police said that the southbound side of Ditchling Road was closed as the horses made their way along the road. Officers also received reports that some of the horses were on...

A man has stolen a £9,000 Breitling watch from a Brighton jewellers. He stole the watch from Ernest Jones in Churchill Square at about 4pm on Friday (20 April) and made off towards Cannon Place. Sussex Police said that the man had been looking at the high-value brand name watches...

The council has restored a house in Brighton after it was allowed to become unsafe through neglect. It said that the full cost of the work would be reclaimed from the owner of the property in Dale Crescent, Patcham. The house was found to have structural problems after...