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Boris bikes are coming to Brighton and Hove after a funding agency agreed to put £1.2 million towards the start-up costs of the scheme. More than 400 bikes will be available for hire from 50 docking stations in an area stretching from Hove Station to Brighton Marina and up to the...

The fate of the Rose Hill Tavern will hang in the balance next week when councillors consider an application to turn it into flats. Campaigners were celebrating today after they were told an appeal against the 130-year-old pub being listed as an asset of community value (ACV) had...

The new owner of the Horse and Groom says he would like to turn the locally listed pub into a cafe or restaurant. The pub closed in January, and a campaign was launched to get it designated as an asset of community value, which would hold up any sale to allow the public to bid...

Brighton detectives have led a series of drugs raids resulting in 16 arrests and the seizure of £50,000 cash, together with six kilos of heroin mixed with cutting agent, with an estimated potential street value of £600.000. Yesterday afternoon, officers from the Brighton-based...

A Brighton charity is offering businesses training in dealing with suicide as a survey suggests as many as one in three city companies have been affected in some way. Grassroots Suicide Prevention charity wants to give city staff the skills to prevent suicide and talk about its...

Brighton Kemptown MP Simon Kirby and Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas both put questions to David Cameron at the final Prime Minister’s Questions today (Wednesday 25 March). Mr Kirby was down to ask question 8 on the order paper – the daily agenda for the Commons – and Dr...

The felling of scores of trees on a strip of woodland between Ovingdean and Rottingdean has prompted a campaign to protect it from development. People living in Longhill Close, Ovingdean, and Elvin Crescent, Rottingdean, were aghast when loggers moved onto the woods between the...

The vision for an ever-changing art display along Hove seafront has moved one step closer with a call for scupltors to submit proposals for the Hove Plinth. The Hove Civic Society has been given money by the Arts Council and National Lottery to install a stone plinth on...

A self-service bargain shoe shop has opened in the old Top Shop store in Brighton’s Western Road today. Deichmann shoes, Europe’s biggest cobbler, has spent £440,000 doing up the shop, which has all the stock available on the shop floor. It has created 18 permanent...

A house that partially collapsed in Brighton’s North Laine is set to be rebuilt in its original style after being stabilised. A large part of the three-storey house’s wall collapsed a month ago, leading to the evacuation of several neighbouring houses in Over Street....