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The number of student houses and flats – exempt from council tax – has risen for the third year in a row in Brighton and Hove. The figure has gone up from just under 6,700 to an estimate of just over 6,900 in the coming financial year, starting in April. The “student exemption”...

Fears that firework displays could be banned were raised as Brighton and Hove City Council reviewed its rules for outdoor events. The new “outdoor events strategy” approved by members of the council’s Tourism, Equalities, Communities and Culture Committee bans...

Plans for a bar in a former Brighton restaurant have been dashed after the owners were refused a licence to sell alcohol. A company – Nemabil Ltd – wanted to open a bar called the Toy Shop in place of Jamie’s Restaurant, in Black Lion Street, Brighton. The directors Michael Brkic...

The owner of a plastic-free organic greengrocer’s which opened this month in Whitehawk says he is bowled over by how much support he’s got from the community. Former chef Louis Dubleau, 29, opened Dubleau’s originally planned to sell just plants and flowers from...

A burglar broke into a £1 million house, took car keys and drove away the owner’s car because he was “sick of walking” after a day drinking on Brighton beach. Wayne Lavender, 44, was with his friend Adam Newton, 31, as the pair tried to get home to London on...

Restrictions on new shared houses across Brighton and Hove will come into force in the summer. A proposal to tighten the rules won unanimous support from a council committee which voted to bring in a citywide “article four direction”. The move will cover houses rented by three...

Campaigners calling for the rewilding of two council-owned golf courses in Brighton look likely to get their way with one course at least. Environmentalists greeted councillors with a samba band outside Hove Town Hall before a meeting when they called on Brighton and Hove City...

A new takeaway selling rotisserie chicken and roast dinners has applied for a licence to sell craft beers and wines with its food orders. But owners Glen Halsey and Michael Matthews said that they would only sell drinks to customers at their new business, Roasthost, in Dyke Road,...