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Fire crews cut free a car crash victim on the A259 Brighton coast road at Roedean. East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said: “Firefighters were sent to a two-vehicle road traffic collision in Roedean yesterday (Sunday 1 March). “Two crews were mobilised to the incident along the...

The first Archdeacon of Brighton and Lewes has been licensed in a ceremony at Chichester Cathedral. The Reverend Martin Lloyd Williams has now formally taken up his role as fourth archdeacon in the Diocese of Chichester. The diocese said it was now “the first time in three years...

A 35-year-old man from Brighton has become the first to be arrested in Sussex under the new drug-driving legislation. Legislation that came into force today (Monday 2 March) sets legal limits for how much of a substance – both illegal drugs and prescription medication...

A van driver has written an apology after obstructing an ambulance on an emergency call in Brighton. At about 10.30am on Friday 13 February the ambulance was on a call to reports of a baby fitting and trying to get through traffic in Buckingham Road. A Mercedes Sprinter van was...

More children than last year in Brighton & Hove have been offered their first preference school in this year’s secondary schools application round – despite an increase of 77 in the number of applications received.   This year the number of on-time applications received...

Fifty Shades of Grey dominated a few of the exchanges during the fruitless attempt to set a budget and council tax for Brighton and Hove on Thursday evening (26 February). Film and book fan Christopher Hawtree, known for his love of literary quotations, said: “Here we have the...

An urgent appeal to help pay for a Kemp Town campaigner’s last-ditch legal battle against the new Brighton Marina development has been launched. Robert Powell has already taken his case to the High Court in a bid to stop high towers being built there, rising above the cliff...

The main trade union for council workers in Brighton and Hove said that it was preparing for industrial action. Unison said that it was taking the step because of arbitrary decisions during the Brighton and Hove City Council budget debate which had put members’ jobs at risk. The...