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Oxford United 0 Brighton & Hove Albion 4 Albion beat Oxford United as the teams met for the first time in over 20 years in a pre-season friendly. Anthony Knockaert opened the scoring for the Seagulls as he converted Jiri Skalak’s cross on 18 minutes. Glenn Murray missed...

Two student houses in the Lewes Road area have been ordered to close, Brighton and Hove City Council said today (Tuesday 26 July). The decisions were challenged but have been backed by government planning inspectors. The council said: “There have now been four such cases in the...

Train services between London and Brighton and Hove will be disrupted for the rest of the day after a trackside fire outside Gatwick Airport this morning (Tuesday 26 July). Southern said: “A fire broke out this morning on a section of track outside Gatwick Airport. The emergency...

Council chiefs are to look again at how drivers pay for parking after Conservative and Green councillors joined forces in response to a petition. The petition called for scratchcard parking vouchers to be brought back after complaints about the switch to pay-by-phone parking...

A specialist residential home in Hove has been told that it “requires improvement” after an unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Cloverdale House, in Vallance Gardens, was rated as good when it came to being caring, effective and responsive but it requires...

The BHS shop in Churchill Square, Brighton, will close on or before Saturday 20 August, the administrator Duff and Phelps said yesterday (Monday 25 July). Dozens of jobs will go as a result of the financial collapse of the department store chain three months ago. Yesterday MPs...