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Tickets for the X Factor Live Tour go on sale this week, with the final date of the show’s run scheduled for the Brighton Centre. The promoters said: “For the first time ever the audience will choose their own winner – each and every night. “The X Factor digital host, Becca...

Police are concerned for Hove boy Zen Daniels who has gone missing. Zen, 14, left his school at 12 noon on 4 October and was seen with friends on Hove Lawns. However he failed to return home that evening. He is likely to be in the Brighton or Hove area. He is of mixed race with...

A Portslade man has been charged with burgling a jeweller’s shop and stealing gems worth £25,000. Richard Sutton, 42, who calls himself Mr Beefy, appeared at Crawley Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Monday 9 October) to answer the charge. Sutton, of Lincoln Road, Portslade, was...

Brighton and Hove has enough secondary school places, according to a senior executive, who cited figures supplied to the government by the council. Rob Reed, executive principal at Aldridge Education, which runs two schools in Brighton and Hove, said: “We don’t need more school...

A man stole cigarettes in a knifepoint robbery at a newsagents in Brighton this morning (Tuesday 10 October). It was the second armed robbery in Brighton in less than 24 hours although the incidents do not appear to be linked despite being less than a mile apart. Sussex Police...

Armed robbers held up a Brighton post office and made off with about £10,000, Sussex Police said this morning (Tuesday 10 October). The force issued a public appeal for witnesses to the robbery which happened in St George’s Road, in Kemp Town, just after 3pm yesterday afternoon....

Rising crime in Brighton and Hove has spurred councillors to call on the government for extra funding for policing. The call comes after it was revealed that crime went up just over 9 per cent in the year to the end of March compared with the year before. And first quarter...