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Government funding for local authorities is biased towards fellow Conservatives, according to the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council. Warren Morgan spoke out after the final detail of the government’s support for councils was spelt out earlier this week. Councillor...

Another section of the West Pier has fallen into the sea this morning (Thursday 11 February). A central piece of the remains of Brighton’s – and Britain’s – only grade I listed pier collapsed shortly after the skeletal structure took a battering from Storm Imogen. The West Pier...

The council’s blueprint for the future of Brighton and Hove has won official backing from a government planning inspector. The independent inspector Laura Graham said that the city’s long-term plan to provide homes and jobs was legally sound and compliant. She has published her...

A Brighton man has been found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman who lived near his Woodingdean home. Michael Doos, 52, unemployed, of Netherfield Green, Woodingdean, raped the teenager, who was feeling ill, shortly after she got off a bus. The day after the attack last summer...

The Older People’s Council has criticised proposed changes to bus pass conditions as Brighton and Hove City Council prepares to set its budget for the year ahead. It said: “The speculative saving of £40,000 is a drop in the ocean compared to the money the council is gaining from...

A Brighton and Hove commercial property agent has written about the “huge challenges” facing the city. Phil Graves, managing director of Graves Jenkins, told colleagues “we are sometimes victims of our own success” in a report to colleagues in the property sector. He prepared the...

St Andrew’s CE Primary School won Brighton and Hove’s first Primary Schools Table Tennis Championship. The other schools taking part were St Luke’s, who finished a close second, and Elm Grove who took third place. St Andrew’s won the mixed doubles and the boys’ and girls’...

Sussex Police is trying to tackle the challenges that it faces in recruiting black and ethnic minority officers. Its efforts include working with schools, according to a report published today (Thursday 11 February). But one adviser to the force pointed out that its efforts had...

Sussex Police has been rated good in an official inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). The inspection was part of a national programme of inspections known as the Peel (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy) programme. The HMIC report sai...