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Safety checks are being made to a bridge after a bus crashed into it this morning. The empty bus collided with the bridge In North South Road on the Falmer campus at about 9am today. A spokeswoman for the University of Sussex said: “We can confirm that a bus number 50 hit a...

A Brighton man has been sent to prison for 12 years and six months after admitting a vicious assault on his six-week old baby boy. Benjamin Reeve, 22, of Dorset Gardens, Brighton, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court today, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to causing...

Trains to and from Brighton and Hove were delayed after a man in a wheelchair was dragged on to the railway tracks by his dog. The 40-year-old Littlehampton man was taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack during the ordeal. He fell on to the line at West Worthing Station...

A man from Brighton has been banned from the road after being caught drink driving during a crackdown by Sussex Police. Seun Alliu was arrested after police stopped him in his Mercedes C220 at 2.30am on Saturday 27 June in Brighton Road, Worthing. Alliu, 34, of Dyke Road Avenue,...

Thousands of new homes on the Sussex University campus at Falmer have been given the go ahead by a planning inspector. The inspector, Ken Barton, gave his backing to the university’s campus masterplan after it was originally rejected by Brighton and Hove City Council. He heard...

A Brighton nursing home has been told that it requires improvement after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Hazelgrove Nursing Home, in Heath Hill Avenue, Bevendean, was inspected last month The CQC said that its overall rating for the home was “requires...

Gillingham 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 2 The Albion came back from behind to beat the club’s former landlords Gillingham at the Priestfield Stadium. The hosts went ahead just after half-time, with Bradley Dack firing past Niki Maenpaa. Dack had a chance to double the Gills...

A lorry trying to make its way through The Lanes has got stuck in Black Lion Street this lunchtime. Joe Ifill-Hosier took this picture of the Polish HGV which has got itself jammed while trying to turn out of Black Lion Street into Prince Albert Street. Rob Newman-Williams,...

A Brighton man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Samuel James Day, 32, of no fixed address, was convicted following a seven-day trial at Hove Crown Court, which ended on Tuesday (28 July). He has been remanded in custody to await sentencing on...

Social workers in Brighton and Hove will learn the lessons from an adoption case described as “tragic” in the High Court. The judge, Alison Russell, criticised Brighton and Hove City Council and four social workers involved in the case. They sought to finalise the adoption of a...