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A Brighton nursery has been rated outstanding after an inspection by the government’s official watchdog Ofsted. Cherry Tree Nursery, which is based at the Hollingdean Sure Start Centre, in Brentwood Road, Brighton, was awarded the highest possible grade after the inspection last...

By Tim Hodges from the Amex Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 (Agg 1-3) Albion will play Championship level football next season after they drew 1-1 with Sheffield Wednesday in their play-off semi-final second leg at the Amex, losing 1-3 on aggregate. But the...

UPDATE at 11.50pm: A siege has ended after Sussex Police officers brought a man out in handcuffs from a property in Evelyn Terrace, near Queen’s Park, in Brighton, 10 minutes before midnight this evening (Tom Rush writes). Neighbouring families who were evacuated have been...

Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Albion are level with the Owls at half time in an astonishing match played in an astonishing atmosphere. Albion had early chances through Anthony Knockaert who who hit the bar from a free kick. Then placed a header just wide. But...

Anthony Knockaert starts for Albion in tonight’s crucial play-off 2nd leg against Sheffield Wednesday at the Amex. The Frenchman went off injured on Friday night along with Connor Goldson, Steve Sidwell and Tomer Hemed. Steve Sidwell will also start for Albion. Albion...

A man was treated by paramedics after a fire broke out in the kitchen of a towerblock flat in Brighton yesterday. Six crews from across Sussex, including the aerial ladder platform and the incident command support unit from Lewes, were called the accidental blaze in a high rise...

The PTA of a Brighton junior school has resigned en masse following a row with the headteacher which followed months of discontent amongst parents and staff. Since Paul Davis became head of Stanford Junior School in September 2014, about half the school’s staff has quit,...

Planned engineering works between Lewes and Eastbourne have been postponed tonight to allow fans to get to and from the Amex for Brighton and Hove Albion’s crunch game against Sheffield Wednesday. The works were originally due to start at 10.15pm, with buses replacing...

Brighton is one of 40 UK cities named by the World Health Organisation as having breached safe air pollution levels today – but different measurements suggest the air is getting cleaner in the city’s worst spots. The Brighton figures used by the WHO show that in 2012,...