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Council tax bill are to rise by 3.99 per cent from April as Brighton and Hove City Council agreed a £935 million budget for 2020-21. The total includes £13.4 million for the restoration of the Madeira Terraces as politicians from all parties reached a broad agreement. This is...

Lessons were learnt from the waste station fire in Hollingdean – but residents want the depot moved. At a public meeting last night (Wednesday 26 February) for people living near the Veolia waste transfer station, in Upper Hollingdean Road, residents raised their concerns...

Conservative councillors said that the proposed Brighton and Hove City Council budget needed to be more ambitious – and caring – during a debate today (Thursday 27 February). Councillor Joe Miller, the finance lead, spoke at the annual budget meeting at Hove Town Hall as...

Green councillors set out their priorities during the Brighton and Hove City Council budget debate today (Thursday 27 February). Councillor David Gibson, the finance lead, spoke at the annual budget meeting at Hove Town Hall as councillors prepared to set the council tax and...

Council leader Nancy Platts today formally proposed her first Brighton and Hove City Council budget since taking charge. Councillor Platts spoke at the annual budget meeting at Hove Town Hall as councillors prepared to set the council tax and spending levels for the coming...

A Watford fan who punched an Albion fan in the back of the head after he threw chips has been given a three year football banning order Nicholas Wheeler, 45, had drunk ten pints and shots by the time Stephen Byrne saw him and his friends hurling insults at Albion fans at the...

A Brighton man has been landed with an £1,100 bill for swearing and shouting abuse at a parking warden. Daniel Cotton, 26, was convicted of a public order offence by Brighton magistrates and fined £440. Cotton, of Pullman Hall, New England Street, Brighton, was also ordered to...

Diversions will be in place throughout Valley Gardens from next week as work begins to resurface and repair the roads. The work will take place from 6.30pm to 6am each night, starting on resurfacing the west side and then laying a new road surface and markings from St...

A Brighton man has been charged with breaking into a cafe staffroom and rifling through a handbag to steal £45 in cash. Simon Hornby, 49, went into Wafflemeister in West Street, Brighton, on 20 September last year. He’s accused of going into the staffroom and looking...

A man has been charged with murder and attempted murder after a young man died after being hit by a car which ploughed into a crowd on Brighton seafront. Iftekhar Khondaker, 33, will appear at Brighton Magistrates Court tomorrow morning charged with the murder of Suel Delgado and...