Hot Snakes – bringing their noise to Brighton

San Diego’s finest noise merchants, Hot Snakes, will be appearing in Brighton this weekend, when they will be performing live at Patterns on Saturday. The doors are at 7pm and it kicks off half an hour later. The band’s last Brighton show sold out in advance, so it’s a good idea...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 7:47 pm

Black Water County heading to Hove next year

Through a fusion of folk instruments, punk energy and catchy pop melodies, Black Water County’s sing along choruses rile up audiences all over the UK and across Europe since their first headline tour in 2018. The five piece, 20 something group of friends from Bournemouth came...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 6:05 pm

Wife Swap USA – debut gig report!

WIFE SWAP USA – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 06.12.19 Wife Swap USA is a new name that we are certain that you will be hearing a lot more about over the next year! This relatively new Brighton ‘vibecore’ sextet got it together this summer and have just performed their...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 4:48 pm

Schools contingency fund will not cover Moulsecoomb Primary’s six-figure debt

A contingency fund for schools will not be used to bail out Moulsecoomb Primary’s six-figure debts if it becomes an academy as expected. The reassurance was given by Labour councillor John Allcock, who chairs Brighton and Hove City Council’s Children, Young People and Skills...

Minhee Jones wraps up record-breaking tour in Brighton

Singer songwriter Minhee Jones is due to wrap up an exhausting-sounding whirlwind tour in Brighton on Thursday (12 December). Jones – formerly known as Dregas – has taken in 50 cities in seven days in a gruelling attempt to break three world records. Her final gig is scheduled...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 3:05 pm

Cash machine scandal of the poor paying £1k a year to withdraw money from their own bank accounts

Some of the poorest people in Brighton and Hove are being charged more than £1,000 a year to take money out of their own bank accounts using cash machines. The cash machine charges amounted to a fine for being poor and living in an area without banks and with few shops, according...

Man wanted for recall to prison

Sussex Police is appealing for information on Peter Marsh, 40, who is wanted on recall to prison after breaching his license conditions. He is white, of a slim build, bald and 6ft. Marsh has links to the Worthing and Brighton areas. ​Anyone with information on his whereabouts is...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 1:12 pm

Teenager held up at knifepoint on Brighton train

A teenager was held up at knifepoint on a late night train to Preston Park. Detectives investigating a knife-point robbery on a train East Sussex would like to identify these men in connection with the offence. On 18 November at around 11pm, the victim, a 17-year-old young man,...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 12:08 pm

Have you seen missing teen?

Sussex Police is concerned for the welfare of 15-year-old Stephanie McGuinness. Stephanie was last seen in Brighton on Friday, December 6 and is believed to have travelled by train to the Stratford area of London. She is white, of a slim build, 5ft4in and has very long dark brown...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 10:39 am

Four rescued from house blaze in Hove

Three adults and a child have been taken to hospital after being rescued from a fire in a house in Hove. The fire broke out shortly before 3am in Leicester Villas, Hove and at its height, 50 firefighters from across Sussex were at the scene. The four people rescued were taken to...
Posted On 10 Dec 2019 at 8:49 am
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