Syrian firefighter wins volunteer award at food charity’s awards night

A former Syrian firefighter has won a national award for his volunteer work with the Brighton and Hove based branch of a food charity. Hasan Hazeema was recognised for hard work and dedication at FareShare Sussex where he started volunteering to meet new people and to practise...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 11:17 pm

Active living festival gets under way in Brighton and Hove

An annual “healthy lifestyle” and “active living” festival started today (Monday 20 September) in Brighton and Hove. TakePart is offering people the chance to try more than 100 free activity taster sessions as Brighton and Hove City Council aims to encourage people to get moving...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 8:31 pm

Noise and bad behaviour thwart pizza parlour’s hopes of later hours

A pizza parlour has been refused permission to offer late-night deliveries after noise complaints from neighbours. My Yummie Pizza, in Longridge Avenue, Saltdean, can stay open until 11pm each night and offer deliveries until midnight from Sunday to Thursday and until 1am on a...

‘Mercury Prize 2021 Winner’ Arlo Parks Brighton concert report

ARLO PARKS + FRANCES BAKER – CHALK, BRIGHTON 17.9.21 Almost exactly two years after supporting Jordan Rakei at Concorde 2, the 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize winner Arlo Parks returns to Brighton on her sold-out ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ UK tour. Having been rescheduled a couple...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 6:10 pm

Fraudsters scam £4k from elderly Hove woman

Fraudsters conned an elderly woman from Hove out of £4,000, one of a number of recent cases prompting a warning from Sussex Police. The force said: “On Wednesday 8 September a Hove resident in her nineties was rung by someone claiming to be from her bank, requiring her to give...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 5:45 pm

Yoga protest in last-ditch attempt to save Old Shoreham Road cycle lane

Environmental campaigners, including local parents, tried to block the removal of the Old Shoreham Road cycle lane last night – but it has now gone. Brighton and Hove City Council has spent £75,000 on removing the lane, after Labour and Conservative councillors voted to...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 4:25 pm

Elbow were ‘Magnificent She (Becky) Says’

ELBOW + PETER ALEXANDER JOBSON + JESCA HOOP – BRIGHTON CENTRE 18.9.21 Brighton is really buzzing again with so many decent concerts going ahead after being rescheduled and new ones cropping up all of the time, it has been really difficult which ones to select. Tonight was...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 3:03 pm

Swimming pool approved on Brighton industrial estate

A swimming school has been granted planning permission to set up on a Brighton industrial estate. The Blue Lagoon Centres planning application was approved by officials from Brighton and Hove City Council. The company applied for permission to instal four small learner pools and...

Two teens arrested after stabbing in Brighton

Police have arrested two teenagers after a man was stabbed in Brighton early yesterday (Sunday 19 September). The stabbing happened during a fight in Elm Grove, Brighton, shortly before 5.30am. The 24-year-old victim suffered a knife wound to his arm. Police said that they...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 1:42 pm

Restore historic fountain and repair broken lights to make the Steine safe and welcoming, say Tories

Two long-serving councillors have called for the grade II listed Victoria Fountain in the centre of Brighton to be restored and switched back on. Dee Simson and Carol Theobald, both Conservatives, spoke out after Green councillor Tom Druitt said that Brighton and Hove was “the...
Posted On 20 Sep 2021 at 1:22 pm
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