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Oscar Garcia has been appointed to the newly created role of head coach of Brighton and Hove Albion. Garcia’s immediate task will be to oversee pre-season training. The 40-year-old will take up his new post tomorrow morning (Thursday 27 June). He said: “I am delighted to have the...

Assistant manager Mauricio Taricco has left Brighton and Hove Albion, the club said this evening (Wednesday 26 June). And Dick Knight has stepped down as chairman of Albion in the Community. Meanwhile speculation has been growing that former Barcelona midfielder Oscar Garcia is...

A drug dealer from Brighton has had more than £30,000 confiscated at a court hearing. Paul Bulford, 45, of Bannings Vale, Saltdean, was ordered to pay £31,308 while his partner Kerry Worms, 39, of the same address, was ordered to pay £1,500. The confiscation orders were made at...

A builder has been given planning permission to put up five houses on a site in Hove. Birch Restorations, run by John Regan, has been granted permission to build the four-bedroom homes in The Hyde, off Rowan Avenue, in Hangleton. The Hyde currently contains a builder’s yard,...

Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas spoke out during a debate on lobbying in the House of Commons yesterday (Tuesday 25 June). The Green MP spoke as a Labour MP, Jon Trickett, called for the government to bring in a statutory register of lobbyists. Mr Trickett said that lobbying...