A budget breakthrough – but more would be welcome
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, presented her autumn budget to Parliament yesterday (Wednesday 26 November). Some of the...
Opinion
A fairer deal for tens of thousands of tenants in Brighton and Hove
I have rented flats for the vast majority of the last 15 years, from tiny rooms in a shared space...
Whitehawk GP procurement pause underlines urgent need for transparency and proper scrutiny
Whitehawk is one of Brighton and Hove’s most health-challenged communities. With some of the city’s highest levels of health inequality,...
Councils shake up provides distraction from more pressing problems
Sussex faces a local government reorganisation in the wake of devolution that will bring a directly elected mayor. I recognise...
By-election result shows Labour needs to change direction
Labour is done. If they stick with this morally bankrupt leader, who promised us Corbyn’s policies with a more sophisticated...
From Brighton to Epping Forest: the bitter battles between councils and the Home Office
When considering the subject matter, court battles from Brighton to Epping Forest may appear worlds apart but both highlight a...
Council must challenge national policies that worsen inequality
When it comes to inequality, poverty and scrutiny of national policies, our local administration seems content to let the engine...
Village people tell Brighton council: ‘Go West’
It could almost be an episode of Yes Minister. Brighton and Hove City Council, with 280,000 residents, is desperate to...
Housing plans offer a chance to ease burden on our biggest hospital
People can be very quick to run down the National Health Service and I don’t like that – not least...
Brighton actor’s breakthrough role shone vital light on plight of the homeless
Ray Brooks, actor and Brighton boy, who died this week, starred with Carol White in Cathy Come Home in 1966....
Welbeck and Rutter return as Brighton and Hove Albion host West Ham
Danny Welbeck and Georginio Rutter return to the starting line up as Brighton and Hove Albion take on West Ham...
Brighton and Hove Albion boss looks for ‘small margins’ against West Ham
Brighton and Hove Albion Fabian Hürzeler boss said that “small margins” would make the difference against West Ham United at...
Brighton and Hove Albion lose another player to long-term injury
Brighton and Hove Albion boss Fabian Hurzeler expects Stefanos Tzimas to be out for the “long term” with a knee...
Brighton and Hove Albion beaten in seven-goal Villa thriller
Brighton and Hove Albion 3 Aston Villa 4 Two goals from Jan Paul van Hecke, one of them in the...
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