Armed police swooped on Lewes Road this morning after reports of a man with what could be a weapon.
A section of the main road by the junction with Elm Grove was closed from about 7am for a couple of hours.
No weapon or suspects were found.
A spokesman for Sussex Police said: “Police responded to a report of a man in possession of a possible weapon in Lewes Road, Brighton, shortly before 7am on Monday 16 March.
“The incident was contained to a private address and a section of the road was temporarily closed to the public as a precaution.
“There was no trace of any suspects and the incident has since been stood down, however officers will remain in the area for community reassurance.”
Just another day in Brighton now days.
Omg a bus information board that appears to be working!
Strange definition of “working”…….
Bus to Lingbury in 5 minutes.
Ever since Lewes Road became a “student area” it’s gone downhill faster than a speeding bullet.
When exactly are you suggesting that happened? It was already a well-established student area when I moved there in the late 1990s: take-aways, low-cost flatpack furniture shops, student-focussed letting agents, off-licenses, a 24-hour petrol station selling fags and king-sized rizlas…
Where has this wors “swooped” come from? Did the police descend in hang-gliders? Did they parachute in? Did they abseil from helicopters? Even the laziest journalist must surely find it problematic to equate getting out of a car with swooping. Its a bit like telling us that several fire engines have “descended” on a street where there’s a fire. I know it’s all jolly trendy, etc etc to use unconnected metaphors as an excuse for accurate journalism, but maybe the B&H News could try just a little bit harder? Just because the Argus & the Daily mail do it, you don’t have to follow … honestly.
Linguistically, that’s closer to figurative extension or idiomatic usage, not a metaphor, Jim. 🙃
Maybe so, but it still isn’t swooping
Well…the Cambridge dictionary uses the following example for swoop, which is pretty much the smoking gun to this particular semantic wordplay, if you pardon the pun.
“Undercover police swooped on three houses in the city at 5.00 this morning.”
In that light, a swift, precautionary containment operation fits the term’s pragmatic usage, even if it lacks the literal wind in its wings! 🙃
Sadly there are “some locals” that report things and jump to conclusions very quickly. We have had false reports of people hanging around outside schools and now false reports of people with weapons. Think the Hanover Facebook pages should be shut down or monitored for a while to stop this happening again soon. Or people should stop believing everything they read.
You mean apart from this one from earlier today. The patch is at the back of Elm Grove School. Parents are right to be careful. https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/03/16/man-behaving-suspiciously-arrested-near-brighton-childrens-park/ ‘He was detained and searched which led to his arrest on suspicion of possessing a class B drug and an offensive weapon in a public place.’
Moaned in by the locals!! Bet the description was the same as every one given by the middle class muesli mountain. Baggy jeans. Hat backwards. Not white.