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Two Brighton takeaways have been fined more than £1,000 each for dumping their waste on the street and in resident’s bins. Brighton Magistrates fined Ahmet Yumusak, owner of the AA Charcoal Grill, 41 Lewes Rd, a total of £1,330 after rubbish from his kebab shop was fly-tipped on...

An abusive boyfriend has been found guilty of strangling his sexual partners for kicks. Neil Scott-O’Connor’s Brighton girlfriend and a 17-year-old one-night-stand both made separate complaints to the police – both of which he denied. Today, a jury found him guilty...

A thug with a face tattoo who was banned from the centre of Brighton for two years was caught by police breaching it within days. Tobias Denyer, was given the ban by district Judge Tessa Szagun on Monday 21 October. Police released his mugshot on 31 October – and the same...

Christmas is on the way and the season of goodwill kicks off in Trafalgar Street next week. We have learned that all the door money for the Thursday 5th December Spearmint concert at the Prince Albert in Brighton will be donated to the charity Meningitis Now. Learn more about the...

The incredible news that the country is currently enjoying its highest ever employment rate is often tainted by some negative voice or other suggesting that the situation is somehow invalid because of zero-hour contracts. Zero-hour contracts are regularly projected as a means by...

Parents fearing for their children’s safety have asked for a ban on cars outside their school. Mum Sarah Kingdom spoke on behalf of parents at Westdene Primary School in Bankside, Brighton, who want to see timed “School Street” closures as pioneered by Hackney...

Officers investigating the cold-case murder of a woman nearly 40 years ago have arrested a man and woman in Brighton. Carol Morgan’s body was found at Morgan’s Store in Finch Crescent, Linslade, Bedfordshire on 13 August 1981. She was 36 years old at the time. Yesterday, a man...

A paedophile has admitting grooming a 13-year-old girl online before meeting up with her in Brighton where he had sex with her on the beach. Kieren Rudland, 24, also pleaded guilty to inciting the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in a toilet on board a train to London...