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In 1978, the 17 year old punks Peter Bywaters (vocalist), Del ‘Strangefish’ Greening (guitarist), Mark ‘Ogs’ Hoggins (drummer) and Chris ‘Trapper’ Marchant (bass player and future employee of El Gringo Pine) founded Peter & The Test Tube...

A Southampton shop worker has been charged after being arrested at the American Express Community Stadium in Falmer before the Brighton and Hove Albion match on Sunday. Sussex Police said: “A man has been charged with committing a public order offence at the Amex Stadium in...

A Brighton road has been closed and a building evacuated after a bay window fell out this morning (Tuesday 31 October). The building, the King’s Arms pub, has scaffolding up, with renovations under way. The fire service said: “East Sussex Fire and Rescue were called...

About 25 people would have to be kicked out of bedsits to make way for a homeless hostel if plans to relocate a controversial council-run project go ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council is considering moving the West Pier Project from its current home in Regency Square to the...

A woman has been charged with racist and threatening abuse, assaulting a PCSO and child neglect following a fracas outside a city centre pub. At about 3.12pm on Friday (27 October), police were called to reports of a woman being verbally abusive and aggressive towards members of...

The man charged with the Fiveways murder and the victim were work colleagues at Brighton University. David Browning, 51, worked as a payroll officer at the university alongside 46-year-old Jillian Howell who was found dead in her Sandgate Road home on Thursday (October 26). She...

A man who went missing after walking out of a hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department has been found, Sussex Police said today (Monday 30 October). The force said: “Missing Brighton man Michael John James Wilder, 42, of no fixed address, who was reported to be...

The Green MP for Brighton Pavilion has called on Labour to support proportional representation to the House of Commons when MPs debate the subject this afternoon (Monday 30 October). With reference to Labour’s slogan – “For the many, not the few” – she said: “No party...

A Brighton man was subjected to a barrage of homophobic abuse after he said hello to his neighbour’s daughter and her boyfriend. Lacey Lee, 24, and her boyfriend Gary Corness, 32, shouted at the victim in communal gardens in Warbleton Close, Brighton, on April 8 this year,...

A man has appeared before Brighton magistrates charged with the Fiveways murder this morning (Monday 30 October). David Browning, 51, spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. He was charged with murder and having a lock knife which is believed to have been used in the...