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The city council is set to end its litter enforcement contract with controversial company 3GS and bring the service ‘in-house’ after the contractors demanded all the money from fines. Since the so-called litter cops hit the streets in February 2016, they have come under fire for...

Brighton health chiefs are preparing for a big push to tackle the high rate of HIV infections in the city. A report went before Brighton and Hove City Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board saying that Brighton and Hove had the seventh highest level of people with HIV out of all...

A new homeless support team is to be set up after a spate of deaths at at an emergency accommodation block. The move almost three years after warnings that scrapping a similar service could expose vulnerable people to harm. Brighton and Hove City Council made its six-strong...

A big rise in the amount of graffiti in Brighton and Hove has been blamed on social media. Graffiti artists are spraying their designs and taking pictures of their “tags” to post on the likes of Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook. And in a move that could prove...

A family’s plan for their dream home was dashed on the casting vote of the chair of the council’s Planning Committee. Mark Knight told the committee that his family were outgrowing their small bungalow in The Park, Rottingdean. He applied to Brighton and Hove City...

Plans for more than 200 low-cost homes in Whitehawk have been defended by the former leader of Brighton and Hove City Council. Councillor Warren Morgan, who represents the East Brighton ward, which includes Whitehawk, spoke out after the plans were criticised by fellow East...

A Brighton councillor has spoken out about plans to build truly affordable homes for the working poor in the ward that she represents. Councillor Nancy Platts said that the plans for 217 one and two-bedroom homes at the top end of Whitehawk would have an adverse impact on the...

Tory austerity policies are causing people to be made homeless around the country, and in our city as well. As fast as we help people off the streets, new people become homeless. So as a Labour council we are tackling this crisis head on – and with our new services we have...

Although my recent experience of renting in the private rented sector has been a good one, for too many, renting still means poor conditions, insecurity and rising rents. From the landlords who’ve refused to instal smoke alarms to the estate agents overcharging tenants for...

I’m on my way back to England after visiting Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where over a million innocent people were murdered during the Second World War. I was asked to join 220 students from the south east of England under the stewardship of the Holocaust Educational Trust....