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A youth robbed a bus driver in Hove after being told that he couldn’t board because he didn’t have money for a fare. The Brighton and Hove Buses driver – on the number 5 route – was robbed in Palmeira Square on his way towards Hangleton. Sussex Police said: “Police are seeking...

A man needed 15 stitches to a deep cut in his face after being glassed in a bar in Brighton in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday 16 August). Sussex Police said: “During the early hours of Sunday (16 August), shortly after midnight, a 24-year-old Seaford man who was...

Volunteers from an insurance company picked up paint brushes and tins to help out a deaf school in Brighton. The team from Allianz Insurance gave their time for a day of decorating at Hamilton Lodge Deaf School, in Walpole Road, Kemp Town. Ashley Moon, from Allianz, said: “We...

Police are appealing for witnesses to a burglary at Graces Place café in Madeira Drive, Brighton, at 12.47am on Monday (17 August). CCTV shows three men taking a safe containing £45,000 from the café before loading it into a white Ford Transit van and driving away east on Madeira...

A public meeting is being held about the threatened closure of the Western Road Post Office in Hove this evening (Monday 17 August). The meeting is taking place at the Cornerstone Community Centre in St John’s Church, Palmeira Square, Hove, from 7pm to 8pm. It will be chaired by...

Cricket boss Zac Toumazi has agreed to lead a task force set up to tackle youth unemployment in Brighton and Hove. Mr Toumazi, chief executive of Sussex County Cricket Club, will chair the new Employer Skills Task Force. It has been set up jointly by Brighton and Hove City...

A Brighton researcher has co-authored a damning report on the House of Lords, published yesterday (Sunday 16 August). Jess Garland, who was a doctoral researcher at Sussex University, wrote House of Lords: Fact vs Fiction. Ms Garland, who completed a PhD in politics at Sussex...

A tree expert from Brighton and Hove has spoken about the threat to rare elms from people buying diseased logs. Brighton and Hove City Council said that its arboriculture team was asking residents to be vigilant when buying logs for burning as it continued its fight against elm...

Police in Brighton are seeking witnesses to an incident in the city’s Pool Valley area in which a 27-year-old local man was stabbed in the face. He was injured between 4pm and 4.30pm on Sunday (9 August) when he was accosted by two black men and struck in the face. It was...

Chris Hughton told Brighton and Hove News this morning (Monday 17 August) that Albion have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the match at Huddersfield Town tomorrow (Tuesday 18 August). Bobby Zamora has a slight groin strain and will now not get a run-out in the under-21 match at...