Couple charged over death of missing baby

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after the remains of a baby were found in a wooded area. The Crown Prosecution Service said the aristocrat and her partner were also accused of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 7:39 pm

Dry Cleaning: back fresh as Brighton’s hot ticket

DRY CLEANING + DEHD + THUS LOVE – CHALK, BRIGHTON 1.3.23 South London’s Dry Cleaning stand out from the current wave of bands broadly described as ‘post-punk’, mainly through Florence Shaw’s strikingly distinctive vocals. Her lyrics, a poetic collage of overheard snippets...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 5:44 pm

CCTV of bike theft suspects released

Police investigating the theft of three bikes in Brighton just over a month ago are looking to identify these two men in connection with the incident. Officers were alerted to the theft at Belle View Court in Belle View Gardens, Brighton, at just before 9.30pm on 31 January....
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 3:52 pm

New youth centre planned for Knoll Pavilion

Hangleton is set to get a new youth centre as part of a pilot to help tackle antisocial behaviour in the area. The Hangleton and Knoll Project wants to build the centre in Knoll Park between the Hangleton Bowling Club and Knoll Pavilion, facing homes along Stapley Road. It has...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 3:49 pm

Council claims no ‘displaced’ pupils this year as secondary applications continue to drop

No pupils were sent to a school outside their catchment area unless they wanted a place there this year, the council says. Although the percentage of pupils getting their first place school dropped slightly from 83.7 per cent to 81.4 per cent, this year did not see any children...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 3:48 pm

Trio of storming live music sets at Komedia Brighton

LYNKS + VLURE + CIEL – KOMEDIA, BRIGHTON 28.2.23 The folks at DIY Magazine and Kilipresents have got together to put on a select 6-date UK tour featuring the rather wonderful LYNKS and very exciting VLURE, plus the addition of another support act. The first two dates of the...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 3:35 pm

Missing baby died “some time ago”, police believe

A baby discovered yesterday in the search for the missing child of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon may have been dead “for some time”, police said this afternoon. The couple is still being questioned on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. The child’s...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 2:49 pm

Bus driver rescues sheep from A27

A bus driver had a woolier than usual passenger on Sunday after she picked up a sheep which had got onto the A27. Martine Patey was driving a rail replacement bus from Brighton to Eastbourne when she saw a coach stopped with its hazards on near the Braypool Lane junction. Then, a...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 1:51 pm

Brighton and Hove health watchdog retires

A watchdog has retired after six years at the helm of Healthwatch Brighton and Hove and after 50 years working in health and social care. David Liley, 66, started his working life as a hospital porter in the early 1970s – and bowed out as the statutory watchdog’s chief officer....
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 12:52 pm

Brighton restaurant boss murder trial jury retires

A jury has retired to consider whether Brighton restaurant boss Sue Addis was murdered by her grandson Pietro Addis when he stabbed her in the bath at her home in January 2021. Pietro Addis, 19, has admitted killing Mrs Addis but denied murder, pleading guilty to manslaughter on...
Posted On 02 Mar 2023 at 11:11 am
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