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Train company promises to run longer trains

One of the main train operators out of Brighton Station has promised that it will run more 12-carriage trains by the end of the year. First Capital Connect gave the assurance in a meeting with Brighton Pavilion Green MP Caroline Lucas. She met senior managers at First Capital...
Posted On 16 Mar 2011 at 4:02 pm
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Axeman attacks Brighton party

A party at a Brighton squat descended into a mass brawl after a man reportedly broke in using an axe. Police were called to the disused shop in Vantage Point, New England Road, in the early hours of Saturday morning. When they arrived at about 3.30am, about 100 people were...
Posted On 07 Mar 2011 at 11:09 am
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Hove's Old Market Theatre reopens for Brighton Festival

Hove’s troubled Old Market Theatre is to reopen in May, in time for the Brighton Festival and Brighton Festival Fringe. The theatre was sold to theatre company Stomp last spring after its previous owners, the Old Market Trust, went into liquidation with tax debts o...
Posted On 04 Mar 2011 at 6:51 pm
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Rows over Brighton and Hove budget continue

The political fallout over last night’s heated Brighton and Hove City Council annual budget meeting has continued today online. Last night, Green and Labour councillors joined together to vote through amendments to the Conservative budget, most notably reversing a 1% cut in...
Posted On 04 Mar 2011 at 6:20 pm
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Brighton cabbies bring city centre to a standstill

Cab drivers furious about the temporary closure of the taxi rank at Brighton Station brought the streets around it to a standstill during yesterday afternoon’s rush hour. The Go Slow protest started at 5pm in Queen’s Road and lasted until about 6.30pm. Drivers are...
Posted On 04 Mar 2011 at 2:38 pm
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Brighton and Hove council tax cut and cycle lane plans thrown out

Plans to cut council tax in Brighton and Hove by 1 per cent and to scrap a controversial cycle lane have been voted out by opposition councillors at the annual budget meeting. The moves came amid persistent protests from anti-cuts campaigners. This afternoon councillors began...
Posted On 03 Mar 2011 at 9:19 pm
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Police remove squatter from Kemp Town Taj

Squatters hoping to stop Sainsbury’s open another store in the former Kemp Town Taj store have now left after the building was stormed  by police today. The protesters, who call themselves Sabotaj, were trying to stop Sainsbury’s open the fourth supermarket in just a...
Posted On 02 Mar 2011 at 12:45 pm
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Tobin detectives search for Brighton friends as part of rape investigation

Detectives investigating rapes committed by serial killer Peter Tobin are searching for three people he knew from his time in Brighton to come forward. Police have identified seven women who were raped by Tobin, who is serving three life sentences for the murders of schoolgirl...
Posted On 27 Jan 2011 at 8:08 am
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Pride announces 2011 theme

Pride’s theme this year will be Out of This World, organisers announced today. The theme was suggested by The Zone bar on St James’s Street. Rachel Midgley from the Zone said: “This is brilliant. It’s fantastic for all our customers and staff involved in the...
Posted On 25 Jan 2011 at 5:47 pm
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Your chance to buy a piece of Brighton's West Pier

Fans of the West Pier are being offered the chance to buy some of the cast iron which was collected during its steady decline in the 1990s. The West Pier Trust collected “a great deal” of cast iron material and has stored it to be used for the heritage elements of the...
Posted On 25 Jan 2011 at 3:21 pm
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