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HAPPY MONDAYS – BRIGHTON DOME CONCERT HALL 07.11.19 It’s a cold Thursday evening and the Happy Mondays are in Brighton tonight at The Dome as part of a 30 date ‘Greatest Hits Tour’. The Mondays were a key part of the iconic ‘Madchester’ music scene and...

Council chiefs hope to cut the number of families living in short-term and emergency housing from more than 400 to fewer than 150 over the next few years. The move is partly aimed at cutting the use of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and helping people to live in better-quality...

Rogue landlords face being fined by the council if they fail to keep the properties that they rent out safe, secure and warm. Officials already handle hundreds of complaints about private rented properties every year although the vast majority of cases are resolved informally....

Brighton and Hove’s senior housing schemes are set to get a facelift in a bid to encourage older people to downsize from council homes. Almost one in ten of the city’s council tenants are over the age of 55 and live alone in general stock council dwellings with...

MICHAEL MONROE + ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK + SAINTS OF SIN – THE ENGINE ROOMS, SOUTHAMPTON 03.11.19 Michael Monroe‘s former band Hanoi Rocks, for me, single-handed kicked off the whole glam/rock scene in the mid-eighties and nineties. While influencing not only the sound but...

A Brighton fish and chip shop worker who helped run a cannabis factory was given a last chance by a judge yesterday (Thursday 7 November). Harry Imbimbo, 28, was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years, having pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to...

  A Brighton museum exhibit has landed a starring role as Lee Scoresby’s daemon Hester in the hit new BBC1 drama His Dark Materials. The Booth, Brighton’s natural history museum, loaned a stuffed hare to the production company – who used the animal as a starting...

Police are searching for Dean Jackson, who is wanted in connection with multiple offences. The 32-year-old is being sought for burglary, theft, failing to attend court and failing to comply with his sexual offences registration. Jackson is believed to be in the Brighton area....

In five weeks the country goes to the polls. But the way in which our votes are counted in that election urgently needs changing. Our “winner takes all” system of “first past the post” has preserved an artificial two-party state despite politics becoming more diverse than ever....

This Sunday is a day for reflection, a day to thank the brave service men and women who gave their lives for our freedom, a day to remember them. I will be humbled and honoured to lay a wreath at the Old Steine War Memorial on Sunday, along with other city representatives....