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Street cleaner Rob Teagle has been recognised for his work in keeping the streets of Kemp Town spick and span. Rob, from the council’s Cityclean service, was identified as an ‘unsung hero’ by a new local independent family run estate agency Paul Bott an...

Plane spotters were alarmed this afternoon when an aeroplane flew low over Brighton after declaring an emergency. Gatwick Airport’s runway was closed to allow the Air China flight CA852 perform an emergency landing after running into trouble en route from Gatwick to...

Brighton Hunt Saboteurs are preparing to start disrupting the badger cull when its starts in Somerset again next week.  The anti-bloodsports group is calling for donations to allow it to join hundreds of other hunt saboteurs who believe the cull is ineffective as well as...

A teenager from Brighton has been arrested after a foreign student suffered serious head injuries when he was attacked close to the seafront this morning (Sunday 7 September). Sussex Police said: “A 20-year-old Czech national visiting Brighton received a serious head injury after...

Brighton and Hove Albion boss Sami Hyypia has the stature for success, according to an old fans’ favourite Jimmy Case. The legendary hard man also played for Liverpool before managing Brighton – and in Jimmy’s case he spent two playing spells at the Goldstone in the top flight...

Britain’s only Green MP rallied her party at its annual autumn conference in Birmingham. Here is an edited version of the Brighton Pavilion MP’s speech yesterday. To read it in full click here. She said: “We meet in exciting times. Over 1.2 million people voted Green in the...

Rail fares for Brighton and Hove commuters will be frozen in real terms, the Chancellor George Osborne said today (Sunday 7 September). Mr Osborne said that the government as freezing fares in real terms for the second year running. In previous years – under the Conservative and...

An arsonist is suspected of starting two fires in The Lanes in Brighton in the early hours of this morning (Sunday 7 September). The first fire was started in Duke Street shortly before 3am when someone set light to cardboard boxes left out for the rubbish collection. East Sussex...

The former Hove Police Station site in Holland Road is now open for business again – as junior school classrooms. The site is now being run as a satellite campus of Hove Junior School (formerly West Hove Junior School), whose ‘parent’ site is a mile away in School Road. Three...

A new branch of Bill’s is to open at the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent next month. While some fans of the restaurant and shop in North Road, Brighton, may like to think of it as a local success story, Bill’s earthy roots are – as many know – in Lewes....