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An advertising shroud is set to be put around the Royal Albion Hotel while refurbishment works are carried out. King Media Management has applied for permission from Brighton and Hove City Council to put the fine, recyclable PVC mesh around the hotel for six months. It will...

Police searching for a man responsible for a vicious attack on another man in St James’s Street, Brighton, have issued images of the suspect. The 43-year-old victim was approached by an unknown man at 12.15am on Sunday, April 26, as he crossed the junction at Chapel Street....

Two men have been arrested following a robbery and assault of a man at a cash machine in Brighton, but a third suspect is still at large. The men are alleged to have struck when the 24-year-old victim was withdrawing cash from Barclays in North Street around 3am on Friday, May 8....

A cyclist groped a teenage girl then rode off at speed a she shouted loudly after him. The attack happened in Dyke Road around 10.30am on Tuesday, May 12, when the 17-year-old victim was walking past the Co-op on the west side of the street. The man approached her, grabbed her...

More than a hundred heroes – and villains – raised £18,000 for charity as they made a run for it along Brighton and Hove seafront yesterday (Sunday 17 May). The costumes included Cruella de Vil, the Green Cross Man (remember him?) and the Grim Reaper as well as the usual...

A Brighton man has been landed with a £1,400 court bill for repeatedly walking his dog in Woodvale Cemetery. Carl Wild, of Melbourne Street, Brighton was caught walking his husky dog in Woodvale Cemetery 17 times since April 1 this year, despite several warnings from cemetery...

Brighton and Hove’s busiest hospital opened a new Medical Assessment and Treatment Unit today (Monday 18 May). The new unit, at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Eastern Road, Brighton, is part of a plan to ease the pressure on the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department....

Seven people have been convicted of blue badge fraud after being caught in a crackdown in the Brighton and Hove area. They include a building society manager, a rest home director and two bus drivers. All seven were prosecuted by Len Batten, of Brighton and Hove City Council, at...

The wet and windy weather is forecast to drop half an inch of rain on Brighton and Hove today (Monday 18 May) and tomorrow. And the wind speed should peak at about 30mph this lunchtime with gusts of up to 40mph predicted. Although there will be something of a lull later this...

Confirmation of a £1.3bn investment in the Rampion offshore wind farm means building work can now begin. Plans for between 100 and 175 turbines were approved by the Government last summer, in the face of opposition from the South Downs National Park Authority, as the underground...