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Fewer tenants are being evicted from emergency and temporary homes in Brighton and Hove even though more people have been housed in this way. And concerns that tenants were suffering revenge evictions – losing their home for making a complaint – were unjustified,...

Elderly residents were given a formal apology over a problematic refit of the water heating system in their block in Brighton last year. They were double charged, with Brighton and Hove City Council billing them for both the new heaters and the old communal heater after it was...

Brighton and Hove Albion have sold a second player to Glasgow Rangers within weeks. Connor Goldson is joining the Scottish Premiership side on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee reported to be about £3 million. The 25-year-old central defender follows Jamie Murphy to...

A tent in a Brighton square has been sealed off by police as officers question a man about a sexual assault there yesterday afternoon. Crime scene tape has been put around the tent and surrounding bushes in Bedford Square and a policeman posted while scene of crime officers work...

A man has died after falling from a top floor flat at in Hove yesterday evening. Western Street was closed off for some time as paramedics and police worked to save the man’s life – but sadly, he was pronounced dead at the scene. It’s believed the man fell from...

Brighton and Hove Buses is testing a new emissions-free double decker as the company looks to operate an even cleaner and greener fleet. The company said that the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), which can drive in full electric mode, would help in the race towards an...

Missed opportunities. It’s been the theme of quite a few of Jason Gillespie’s post-match debriefs in recent weeks. But the Sussex head coach is confident that his side will learn their lessons from a disappointing Royal London One-Day Cup campaign as they prepare to switch to...

Services for rough sleepers in Brighton and Hove have been given a funding boost of nearly half a million pounds. The money will be used to help move people off the streets in the coming months before winter sets in. The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government has...

Health chiefs in Brighton and Hove have been told to cut £14 million from their £425 million budget – or 3.3 per cent – in the current financial year. The cuts are expected to be made by the end of next March after the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the...

Death threats and personal abuse have prompted a Brighton councillor to quit local politics. Karen Barford, 47, one of the Labour councillors for Queen’s Park ward on Brighton and Hove City Council, will stand down next May. She said: “It will not be a surprise to some that one...