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POLIÇA + WARM DIGITS – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 12.02.20 It’s usually tour time when a band releases a new album and Minneapolis synth-pop group Poliça are no exception. Released on 31st January, this album has hit BBC6 and other good music stations disc rotation hard! This new...

Plans to spend more money on services – paid for by a 4% council tax increase – have passed the first hurdle tonight with a raft of Green amendments. The Greens proposed a range of tweaks to Labour’s budget, including spend more on buying properties to use for...

Almost four in five European Union residents in Brighton and Hove has applied for “settled status” under post-Brexit rules. The move has become necessary with Britain’s exit from the EU – known as Brexit – and also applies to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland....

Brighton and Hove is open for business despite heightened concern about coronavirus, council leader Nancy Platts said this afternoon (Thursday 13 February). Councillor Platts set out the latest position at a meeting of the council’s Policy and Resources Committee at Hove Town...

A taxi driver told to self-isolate as a precaution after contact with a coronavirus patient twice drove a child to a special needs school before he was informed. The driver, from Brighton, does work for the home to school transport service and as part of this he takes the child...

Investment in the high street has been identified as a potential risk for Brighton and Hove City Council as it looks to maximise the money it makes from property. In a budget report before the Policy and Resources Committee on Thursday 13 February, the portfolio is described as...

Everyone who came into close and sustained contact with anyone diagnosed with coronavirus has now been approached by health officials and advised to go into self-isolation. Those in isolation or self-isolation are believed to include almost a dozen family doctors, with some...

Binmen who have been locked in dispute with the council over alleged anti-union activities have today said they are withdrawing the threat of industrial action. Both council chiefs and the GMB union, which represents Cityclean workers, said today that talks had taken a positive...

Two burglars spotted carrying a stolen till away from a Brighton chippy fled before police could arrive. A member of the public flagged down a police car in West Street after seeing the pair carrying their loot along South Street. But by the time officers got to where they had...

Tributes have been paid to a Hove hospice’s beloved cat who has passed away after reaching a grand old age. Misty the Martlets cat brought comfort to patients and families – especially children – since she chose the hospice as her home 15 years ago. She passed...