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By Tim Hodges from the Amex Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Birmingham City 1 The Albion lost a league game at the Amex for the first time this season to a win-hungry Birmingham City. The Blues’ winner was a superb half-volley from Chris Burke, who lashed the ball past the...

Mayor Bill Randall officially opened the Brighton and Hove Bilingual Primary School today (Friday 28 September). Councillor Randall said: “Generally we don’t teach languages well in this country. We generally start language teaching late on in school life.” He said that it was a...

Two unwanted taxi ranks could finally go after a year-long campaign by people in Bevendean. A decision about their future is due to be made on Tuesday (2 October) by the Brighton and Hove City Council Transport Committee. Councillor Mo Marsh, who represents Moulsecoomb and...

Sussex Police said that an appeal on Crimewatch last night for the whereabouts of murder suspect Ricardo Pisano had led to a number of interesting leads. The appeal on the BBC TV programme included a £5,000 reward for the arrest of Pisano in relation to the murder of Michael...

A missing man’s cash card has been used to withdraw money in Brighton. Sussex Police said that Stephen Jones, 52, vanished four weeks ago. Several personal possessions belonging to Mr Jones were found on a beach in Southend at lunchtime on Friday 30 August. Since then his cash...

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visited two Brighton schools yesterday (Tuesday 25 September). He was accompanied by his wife Miriam González Durántez on the trip to Falmer to see the newly opened Brighton and Hove Bilingual Primary School. Mr Clegg, the Liberal Democrat...

By Rosy Matheson It’s easy to forget the man on the street when the Westminster bigwigs roll into town during conference season. But thanks to a BBC Radio 5 Live debate, people from Brighton have been given a chance to have their say. And they gave their reaction to government...

A Brighton musician was so inspired by music he heard in a shanty town in Romania, he is asking for unwanted instruments to be donated for the community’s “street children”. Tim Bennett, 45, of Aberdeen Road, Brighton, has had a love of East European gypsy music for many years,...

The Deputy Prime Minister is expected to visit two Brighton schools tomorrow (Tuesday 25 September). Nick Clegg is believed to have arranged a visit to the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy, the first academy school in Brighton and Hove. The Liberal Democrat leader will be met...

Brighton’s biggest hospital looks increasingly unlikely to have a new chief executive this year. Interviews to replace Duncan Selbie at the Royal Sussex County Hospital are due to be held in late November or early December. Mr Selbie left the trust in the early summer to...