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English punk rock band 999 were formed in London at the very tail end of 1976, December to be precise, when brothers Nick and Guy placed an advertisement in weekly music paper Melody Maker for band members. They were looking for the right personnel to join their band and famously...

Plans for flats at Preston Park Hotel in Brighton may not go ahead. After 18-months of inaction, officers are recommending that Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee refuses permission when it meets at Hove Town Hall this afternoon (Wednesday 6 June). When the plans...

Permission for new flats and offices on a site in Hove may be withdrawn by planners. The scheme to demolish Portslade Panel Works and build a five-story block on the corner of Orchard Gardens, Hove, is under threat as the owner has not completed its legal requirements. Plans...

A four-storey block of classrooms is proposed to replace a temporary block at BHASVIC (Brighton, Hove and Sussex VI Form College). Neighbours sent 60 letters of support and 18 objecting to the proposals which are due to go before Brighton and Hove City Council Planning Committee...

Brownton Abbey, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 25 May 2018. Last week I went to Tarik Elmoutawakil and Rob Jones’ Brownton Abbey at Brighton Dome: a night that promised to be a “performance party [where] celestial beings from queer dimensions… transform Brighton Dome into a...

A former chair of Brighton and Hove Conservatives has been suspended over tweets she made which appeared to say deporting Muslims would be “the right thing to do”. Linda Freedman, who also stood for election in Hove’s Goldsmid ward in 2015, is now a councillor...

The String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety is a strange and bewildering piece. Part concert, part dramatic reading, it blurs the lines of what you expect ‘theatre’ to deliver. Set amongst hundreds of music stands and a back wall made up to stacked chairs, it feels as though we...

Having followed up her hugely acclaimed album ‘Impossible Dream’ with an exclusive Record Store Day 7” release ‘Bratt’, HALEY (FKA Haley Bonar) returns to the UK for a series of intimate shows including one at the wonderful Rialto Theatre in Brighton on 11th November...

Six parks are to have new play equipment installed in the coming weeks, Brighton and Hove City Council said today (Wednesday 6 June). Work is due to start in the play areas at Farm Green, in Bevendean, Hangleton Park, Mile Oak Recreation Ground, Preston Park, Queen’s Park and...

Two years ago Rick Astley returned with an album that surprised everyone, even himself. His No.1 album ‘50’ sold over 300,000 copies and was one of the biggest selling albums of 2016. What was even more incredible was that Rick wrote, produced and played every instrument on that...