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The “dippy hippy” Green candidate in the East Brighton by-election tomorrow (Thursday 4 August) said that running her old business while ill with leukaemia highlighted her fight and strength. Mitch Alexander said: “Upon seeing photos of me on the election leaflet, I have heard...

Sussex University has welcomed the approval given for 2,100 new student homes at its Falmer campus along with a new student union building. Brighton Kemptown MP Simon Kirby also praised the decision – made this afternoon (Wednesday 3 August) by Brighton and Hove City...

Brighton and Hove Albion have signed Northern Ireland international Oliver Norwood for a so far undisclosed fee from Championship rivals Reading. The Burnley-born former Huddersfield Town and Coventry City midfielder started his career at Manchester United. Earlier in the day the...

Four more family homes are to be built on the site of an old playing field in Hove. The two pairs of four-bedroom semi-detached houses are to be built in the grounds of the long-closed Alliance and Leicester Sports and Social Club, off Rowan Avenue, in Hangleton. The Lions Gate...

Roads around Brighton Station are set to be closed off as special arrangements are made to deal with the large crowds expected as tens of thousands of people leave Pride on a struggling Southern service. When thousands of people tried to leave Brighton as the trains were delayed...

Planners agreed to the building of homes for 2,100 students on the Sussex University campus in Falmer this afternoon (Wednesday 3 August). The principle of allowing so many homes had already been settled by a planning inspector at a public inquiry last year. The university had...

Strike misery for Brighton and Hove commuters looks set to spread from the trains to the buses as Brighton and Hove Buses and Metrobus drivers vote to walk out in protest at “draconian” management. Trouble on the buses has been rumbling for several months, with a...

Despite huge crowds appearing at last night’s Jeremy Corbyn rally, his support amongst local party members may be waning, Labour sources say. About 1,500 people from Brighton and across the south east came to see Mr Corbyn in the latest of a chain of planned rallies around...

As the i360 is due to open tomorrow (Thursday 4 August), here is a round-up of some of the videos to have found their way on to YouTube marking – and even mocking – the £46 million project. They include a glimpse of the sort of view you can expect from Brighton’s latest tourist...

Brighton’s latest tourist attraction – the i360 – is due to open to the paying public tomorrow (Thursday 4 August). A series of “test flights” – it is sponsored by British Airways, after all – and a number of “soft launches” have taken place as the crew behind the project prepare...