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Former Wimbledon tennis player Julie Hobbs coached children from two local primary schools under the Brighton i360. Ms Hobbs laid on the coaching session at the seafront attraction as the annual Wimbledon tennis championships got under way. She played there nine times. Since...

Auditors are being asked to look into the process of awarding contracts to transport some of the most vulnerable children in Brighton and Hove from home to school and back. The contracts, worth £2.5 million, have come under intense scrutiny after officials appear not to have...

Former chief executive Martin Perry is to step down from the board of Brighton and Hove Albion in September next year, the club said today (Tuesday 23 July). He will become the club’s honorary vice president while remaining as chairman of its charity arm Albion in the Community....

A notorious fraudster who conned well-meaning members of the public by pretending to need money to visit a sick child has been spared jail after magistrates heard she was addressing her drug problem. Andrea Thorne was given four concurrent 16 week prison sentences by Brighton...

Brighton and Hove’s lead education councillor is set to step down following days of criticism that he sends his child to a private school. Momentum-backed Councillor Nick Childs told Labour colleagues last night he intends to resign as chair of the children, young people...

The mayor of Brighton and Hove is to drop the tradition of prayers being said before council meetings, replacing them with poems read by children. Councillor Alex Phillips has invited two pupils from Patcham High School to read poetry as she prepares to open a meeting of Brighton...

The Brighton and Hove Local Safeguarding Children Board is to be scrapped within three months as a result of national reforms. Its duties will be passed to a triumvirate made up of Brighton and Hove City Council, Sussex Police and the Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning...

Police are trying to trace two people who were pictured on security camera footage with stolen bicycles. The force said: “Sussex Police would like to speak with this man and woman in connection with the theft of pedal bikes in Brighton. “Police received a report of two high-value...

Health chiefs have been urged to change their minds and restore funding for an advice line for the disabled. Two senior members of the Brighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) sat through a succession of angry and passionate pleas and questions from councillors. The...

Up-to-date social media advice for councillors warns them to be alert to fake news and “bots”. Social media protocols were last agreed in 2017, a long time in the ever-changing online world. The new protocol takes out outdated terms and also includes guidelines for...