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Council tax in Brighton and Hove is to rise by almost 4 per cent from April after the council voted through its £900 million budget this evening (Thursday 25 February). Members of Brighton and Hove City Council agreed a 1.99 per cent general rise in council tax and an extra 2 per...

The leader of Brighton and Hove City Council set out the Labour administration’s first budget since being returned to power at the local elections last May. Councillor Warren Morgan spoke after a singing protest from the public gallery interrupted the meeting at the County Ground...

The annual Brighton and Hove City Council budget meeting – at which the council tax for the coming year is set – was suspended after a tuneful protest in a packed public gallery this afternoon (Thursday 25 February). A couple of dozen protesters sang “Solidarity...

One of Brighton’s swankiest hotels and restaurants has been told to make improvements after achieving just two stars in a hygiene report. Hotel du Vin was inspected last month and rated poor for food hygiene and safety, fair for structural compliance and the inspector said...

More people are sleeping rough in Brighton and Hove than almost anywhere else in the UK, with the headcount in the city almost doubling since the previous year. The 92% rise to 78 in the autumn 2015 rough sleeper count from 41 people in 2014 is three times the national rise of...

The Bilingual Primary School Brighton and Hove opened for lessons in its new premises next to Hove Park this morning (Thursday 25 February). Head teacher Wendy King said welcome – and bienvenido – to 250 children who were being taught in English and Spanish in borrowed classrooms...

The Royal Sussex Hospital is currently on black alert as it does not have enough beds to meet a surge in demand on its A&E department. The hospital is now working to increase the number of patients being discharged to free up beds for people in more urgent need – and...

Firefighters were called to another blaze in a residential towerblock yesterday – but fortunately, it had been put out by a quick-thinking resident. The fire started in the lobby of the ninth floor of the block in Grove Hill, Brighton. Crews from Preston Circus and Roedean...

Police are investigating an incident in Portslade on Saturday, 20 February, in which a 17-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint. It happened some 40 minutes after midnight when the victim, walking north along Trafalgar Road, was crossing the roundabout. He noticed a man running...

A Brighton police officer has been sacked for using the force’s computer systems to stalk his ex-wife and girlfriend, even telling one of the women where she had been. PC Forrest Knight, who had worked in the Operations Team at the now disused Sussex House, in Crowhurst Road,...