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An unprovoked attack left a 50-year-old man with a fractured eye socket. The victim was walking in St James’s Street, Brighton, at about 2am on Friday (8 August) when he was approached by a man who asked him for a cigarette. Without warning, the attacker then punched the...

A family of biscuits sitting around the tea table were a show-stopping challenge for Brighton mum Kate Pritchard as she spent her second week on the Great British Bake Off

Police are trying to trace a man with a guitar who they believe could be a key witness to a fight that left a 22-year-old critically injured. The victim was assaulted in Castle Square, Brighton, shortly before 5am on Sunday (10 August) and left fighting for his life. The suspect...

A man who racially abused his Asian victim in the street has been given a 12-month conditional discharge. Unemployed Darren Arnold, 30, of York Road, Woking, hurled abuse at the 29-year-old man in Blatchington Road, Hove, at about 5pm on 2 April. Arnold, also known as Steven...

Police are growing more concerned for a woman from Brighton who they think may have gone on a trip to her former haunts yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 12 August). Margaret Humphrey, 69, of Victoria Place, has Alzheimer’s and left her home around 4pm and has not been seen...

Work will start next Monday on permanent improvements to the public space in front of St Bartholomew’s Church in Brighton. A package of measures being carried out by Brighton & Hove City Council will include opening up Providence Place Gardens for people to sit and relax, a...

Labour members in Moulsecoomb and Bevendean are being urged to attend a ward party meeting this evening (Wednesday 13 August) to discuss the suspension of a local councillor. An email from ward party chairman Robert Brown to the three ward councillors and Labour’s...

A woman has been arrested after a 22-year-old man was attacked with a knife in Trafalgar Street, Brighton, on Saturday 2 August. The victim was with friends near the corner of Trafalgar Court when he was attacked at about 8pm. Sussex Police said: “He was slashed with a...

A Brighton taxi driver picked up a man who is believed to have left another man bleeding seriously after a fight in the town centre. Sussex Police said that detectives were now trying to trace the cabbie who is thought to have taken the suspect to Worthing. The 22-year-old victim...