Petition puts spotlight on period poverty in Brighton and Hove

Parents are making a choice between putting food on the table and paying for sanitary products. Discovering this problem prompted a mother of two teenage girls, Sam Whittaker, to start a petition along with Denise Friend and other members of Labour Women, calling for free...

Cold snap in April added to pressure on A&E, Brighton and Hove health chiefs told

Cold weather in April may have caused a spike in the number of patients turning up at accident and emergency (A&E) departments, health chiefs were told. This may have contributed to A&E targets to see patients within four hours being missed at Brighton and Sussex...

Albion sign World Cup winger for club record fee

After weeks of speculation the Seagulls have signed Alireza Jahanbakhsh from the top-flight Dutch side AZ Alkmaar for what is thought to be a club record fee of £17 million. The 24-year-old Iranian international has signed a five-year contract with Brighton and Hove Albion until...
Posted On 25 Jul 2018 at 7:51 pm

Brighton passengers receive better compensation than those from Hove

Brighton passengers are receiving better compensation than those from Hove, Parliament was told yesterday (Tuesday 24 July). Hove MP Peter Kyle raised the disparity in a House of Commons debate in Westminster Hall. The Labour MP called on the Transport Minister Jo Johnson to...
Posted On 25 Jul 2018 at 12:14 pm

Brighton and Hove council may sue directors and auditors over £3m parking cash losses

Legal action may be taken against a company that left the council more than £3 million out of pocket. Brighton and Hove City Council members urged officials to consider bringing a claim against Coin Co International (CCI), its directors and possibly even its auditors....

Brighton and Hove councillors attract 17 complaints in 18 months

Formal complaints against members of Brighton and Hove City Council are being made at the rate of roughly one a month. In all, a total of 17 complaints have been received by the council’s monitoring officer since 1 January 2017. The figure was disclosed at the council’s Audit and...

Third Brighton Labour councillor deselected

A third Labour member of Brighton and Hove City Council has been deselected as the party chooses its slate for the local elections in May next year. Councillor Dan Chapman, who chairs the council’s Children, Young People and Skills Committee, became the second Queen’s Park ward...
Posted On 25 Jul 2018 at 12:16 am