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People are being asked to have their say on proposed flats for homeless people at the former Hollingbury Library site. The scheme in Carden Hill is for 13 “move-on” flats for people who have been homeless and are ready to live independently. When the project went...

Two suffragettes will be remembered with a blue plaque if it is given permission. Octavia Wilberforce and Elizabeth Robins would be named on the plaque proposed for their former home at  24 Montpelier Crescent in Brighton. Both were important figures in the early 20th century...

A public consultation on plans to limit the number of shared houses across Brighton and Hove starts on Monday (3 June). Brighton and Hove City Council is looking at whether to require owners of even smaller shared houses to have to seek planning permission. At the moment, they...

The growing number of Brighton and Hove council tenants in receipt of universal credit owe an increasing amount of rent. The total outstanding sum has almost trebled in a year from £160,000 owed by 498 tenants to £470,000 owed by 1,005 tenants. At the end of March the money...

Burglars on bikes stole two cash registers and an unknown sum of money from a seafront restaurant in Hove yesterday (Thursday 30 May). The break-in – at Marrocco’s in King’s Esplanade – happened at about 3.15am when two people forced their way in. They caused damage estimated a...

DEATH AND VANILLA + HAMILTON YARNS – WESTGATE CHAPEL, LEWES 30.05.19 It’s fair to say that at times I’m rather enamoured with local concert promoters Melting Vinyl’s ‘out of the box’ thinking. This evening is one such example as they have carefully selected the perfect...

Hundreds of thousands of pounds in rent has been lost because council houses and flats were left without tenants. Brighton and Hove City Council has lost almost £1 million in two years when homes were empty between lets, according to a new report. But the figure fell fro...

A Brighton man has been charged with having child porn on his computer despite a previous court order aimed at preventing him from storing pictures of children being sexually abused. Terence George Coomber, 78, of Stanford Avenue, Brighton, appeared before Brighton magistrates...

Retired people are being asked to volunteer to help a charity for older people across Brighton and Hove. The request – from Age UK Brighton and Hove – comes just before the start of National Volunteers Week tomorrow (Saturday 1 June). The awareness-raising week runs until next...

With the European Election results still making the headlines, it is easy to be caught up with national politics and all that is going on in Westminster. With the Prime Minister announcing the date when she will be standing down as leader of the Conservative Party, this has...