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Pensioners in Brighton and Hove could soon be able to use purpose built garages for their mobility scooters. Brighton and Hove City Council has set out plans for a series of secure parking blocks complete with electric charging points. It wants to start a pilot scheme by building...

Managers of the McDonald’s restaurant in Western Road, Brighton, want to open all night at weekends. They have applied for a licence to extend their opening times, which currently require them to close from midnight to 6.30am on Saturdays and Sundays. They have also asked...

Plans for a new Sainsbury’s convenience store at the disused Caffyn’s garage at Preston Park are set to be rejected. Planning officials at Brighton and Hove City Council have recommended the supermarket giant should be refused permission for the scheme in Preston Road. Members of...

The final decision on whether popular Brighton schools Balfour Infant and Balfour Junior will be merged to form a new primary will be made next week. Brighton and Hove City Council wants to amalgamate the two schools as part of an ongoing process of creating all-through primaries...

Scores of Brighton residents have signed a petition asking the council to deal with the eyesore Anston House tower block by Preston Park. More than 120 names have been adding to the plea for Brighton and Hove City Council to issue a compulsory purchase order for the long-derelict...

An elderly paedophile has been jailed for four years for abusing boys as young as nine. Seventy-year-old David Lyn Jenkins, from Brighton, was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court yesterday after admitting four counts of sexual abuse. He will be added to the sex offenders’ register and...

Armed robbers have raided the Seven Dials post office for the second time in a fortnight. A man wearing a balaclava and dressed all in black threatened a customer with a pistol as he walked into the branch in Melville Road, Hove, at 11.30am today and demanded money from staff. He...

A controversial parking permit scheme for Hanover and Elm Grove could be revived. The decision to scrap plans for controlled parking in the area has been “called-in” for review by four members of Brighton and Hove City Council. The quartet of Green Party councillors, led by Pete...

A Hove nightclub’s owners want to extend their opening hours until 4am. Laden Eshgi-Nikkhah and Mehrdad Eshgi-Nikkhah have applied to extend the licence for Caps and Sarasota in Western Road, Hove, which currently has to close at 2am. They had originally applied to stay open...

The defeated Conservative election candidate for Brighton Pavilion has become a key figure in the campaign against the coalition’s voting reform plans. Charlotte Vere, who polled third in the general election in May in the seat won by Green Caroline Lucas, has taken up a...