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WIRE + GRAHAM DUFF – CHALK, BRIGHTON 01.02.20 OK I hold my hands up, tonight will be my first ever Wire live gig! I know, “What was I thinking!”, right? I mean, the two people that I was standing with (photographer Guy and friend Helen) at the very front of the CHALK venue...

Ofsted is to carry out a monitoring inspection of a school which the government says should be turned into an academy after it was rated inadequate. Moulsecoomb Primary School was given the lowest rating last May, and the academy order followed in June. Since then, two possible...

Hundreds of families face food poverty in Brighton and Hove, according to councillors. In a debate at Hove Town Hall they called for a commitment from the government to end hunger. Labour councillor Tracey Hill asked Brighton and Hove City Council chief executive Geoff Raw to...

Lauren Eva Ward is due to headline at the Brighton Acoustic Club tonight (Monday 3 February). The monthly acoustic is scheduled to start at 8pm at the Lord Nelson, in Trafalgar Street, Brighton. The club said: “Lauren Eva Ward is a flautist from Devon, now based in London. “From...

A significant percentage of the family doctors in Brighton and Hove are expected to retire in the next five to ten years, health chiefs were warned. The forecast comes after the number of doctors’ surgeries in Brighton and Hove dropped from 45 to 35 over the past five years. Some...

Southern is to scrap off-peak trains from Brighton to Victoria as part of a raft of changes on the Brighton mainline this summer. GTR, which operates Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services, says it needs to make the changes while major works to lengthen the platforms...

A Brighton thug who was the first person in the UK to be given a “booze Asbo” has been jailed for more than three years for repeatedly punching a strip club toilet attendant. Robert Sansford, now 66, was banned from every pub in the UK for six years after a vicious...

ĠENN + HOURGLVSS + RUN INTO THE NIGHT + YUR MUM + TOKYO TABOO – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 31.01.20 The Beating Hearts Agency must have certainly been dead chuffed with themselves tonight at The Hope & Ruin in Brighton, having pulled off no less than a handful of...

Tighter planning controls in the Queen’s Park area are being considered after concerns over HMO conversions leading to the loss of original features. Brighton and Hove City Council is launching a consultation on preventing the loss of sash windows, original doors and...

Glenn Murray who first signed for Brighton & Hove Albion in 2008 has extended his stay at the club until July 2021. It is exactly twelve years and one day since Murray made his  Albion debut against Crewe Alexandra at Withdean, in which he scored twice. He has since taken his...