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Police have doubled the reward being offered to catch a Hove man who fled a hospital in handcuffs. A £1,000 reward is on offer as officers aim to recapture Jessie Burbridge who escaped from police even though he was awaiting treatment for a broken arm. The 22-year-old escaped...

We suspect that (almost) everyone would have overlooked reporting on the bands performing at the delegates Beach Launch Party prior to the commencement of the official Great Escape. So we are in part aiming to address that imbalance. We hot-footed it from the Rialto, near the...

Nine people were rescued from broken down lifts in Brighton over the weekend, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said today (Monday 21 May). The first lift breakdown happened at lunchtime on Saturday when five people were stuck in a lift in Windsor Street, Brighton. The second...

Almost to the second. It was around 5.24pm on Saturday 21 May 1983 with the world watching on that Gordon Smith missed that glorious chance to win the FA Cup for Brighton and Hove Albion. Until last year´s fantastic promotion to the Premier League it was what Albion were best...

Another city school’s plans to make support staff redundant has been met with protests. The GMB union says that Moulsecoomb Primary School has informed staff and trade unions of proposals to make around 11 compulsory redundancies in their support staff – affecting...

1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines c/o Hannah Layton Management; The Blockhouse, The Warren, 20th May This was a one-woman show which promised to explore the multitudinous lost women of science by actor, writer and TV performer Samantha Baines. I’d not heard...

Circus-Sission. The Show that Made the Cut. 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th May and 1st, 2nd June 2018. Brighton Spiegeltent-Bosco. A great smack in the face of circus diversity! Hosted by Ozzie’s Head First acrobats, in all their sexuality-fluid glory, with their own Game of...

Cabaret Boheme: Cinematic Spectacular By Veronica Blacklace. Spiegeltent, May 18th. This show certainly puts the tits in titillation. The opening gambit from compere, performer and singer was ‘There’s going to be a lot of vaginas out’! So, with a bang, Veronica Blacklace (an...

Last Night at the Circus 19th and 20th May 2018. The Theatre Box, the Warren. It’s rare treat when my worlds collide and Jane Postlethwaite’s ‘Last Night at the Circus’ was one of these occasions. Not only does Jane herald from the North (Cumbria to be...

‘The Impossible, Improbable & Unlikely Adventure Of…’ – SharkhelpingFish Multiple Performances 25th and 26th May, the Danehurst, 3 Broad Street, Brighton This was a perambulatory journey through a hotel in development with story linked encounters in...