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Starmer may face plotters but Labour keeps faith with leader in Brighton and Hove
The Prime Minister may be fighting to hang on to his job but, in Brighton and Hove, his party has kept faith with council leader Bella Sankey. Councillor Sankey was re-elected unopposed as the leader of the Labour group last night (Monday 12 May) for the fourth year running. As a result, she is expe...
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Katie Kirby brings Lottie Brooks to life
REVIEW: Katie Kirby at the Dome Lottie Brooks. If you don’t know who Lottie Brooks is then chances are you don’t have a little girl aged 9-12 living in your home. Lottie is to young girls I suppose, what Adrian Mole was to my generation, but without the ruler (IYKYK). It’s like Bridget Jones...
Channel 4 to show drama based on Brighton medical student who lured man to his death
Channel 4 is to screen a drama based on a former Brighton medical student Mundill Mahil who lured a TV executive to his death 15 years ago. Mahil was a 19-year-old student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School when she lured 21-year-old Gagandip “Gagan” Singh to her home in Gladstone Place, off ...
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Peacehaven and Falmer edge closer to becoming part of Brighton and Hove
Peacehaven and Falmer look more likely to become part of Brighton and Hove after the government announced a new consultation today (Tuesday 12 May). The proposed changes are part of a wider shake up of councils that would take place alongside the election of a first executive mayor for Sussex and th...
Fevered Sleep brings eclectic Time Keeps The Drummer to Brighton
REVIEW: Time Keeps the Drummer at the Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome Time Keeps The Drummer was brave, engaging, funny and also thought-provoking all at the same time. It featured an adult percussionist and twelve children from Brighton. Entirely improvised and evolving over five hours, each performan...
Balaam And The Angel, Wasted Youth & Skeletal Family share triple billing
BALAAM AND THE ANGEL + WASTED YOUTH + SKELETAL FAMILY – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 10.5.26 The inaugural ‘Kindred Spirits’ Day Fest took place on Sunday 23rd November last year at Signature Brew in Walthamstow, London and featured a trio of alternative music acts plying their wares from 3pm to 7pm. ...
Parcel theft detectives release image of woman
An image of a woman has been released by detectives investigating a parcel theft in Brighton. The package was taken from Tarner Road at about 6.45pm on 29 April. Anyone who recognises her or with information can report it to Sussex Police online, quoting serial 1704 of 29/04.
Builder facing arrest over banned company name
An arrest warrant has been issued for a builder accused of setting up a company with a banned name. Shaun Peckham, 57, failed to turn up to Brighton Magistrates Court today to answer the charge of being the director of a company known by the prohibited name of BGC Sussex Ltd, without the leave of [...
Hove MP says ‘I wasn’t plotting to topple PM. I was watching the Devil Wears Prada’
Labour MP Peter Kyle said that Wes Streeting and he weren’t plotting to topple the Prime Minister, they were watching the Devil Wears Prada. The Hove and Portslade MP spoke about his cinema trip in a television interview when asked about the leadership ambitions said to be harboured by Mr Streetin...
Bus drivers boycott busy route over state of the roads
Urgent repairs were carried out on a road in Hangleton after Brighton and Hove Buses announced that it was restricting services. Over the weekend, the bus company said that the busy 5 and 5A and the 95 would not serve five streets at the top end of Hangleton because of “poor road conditions”. Th...
Food waste bins prove no match for cunning foxes
Cunning foxes have learnt how to break into food waste bins when they are locked. A video – from Philip Wells’s doorbell camera – caught foxes opening his food waste bin even though it was locked in the upright and also the front position. Mr Wells, of Shaftesbury Road, Brighton, had kept a br...
Cherry blossom and theatrical dining at The Ivy Asia Brighton as Sakura Season arrives in the city
Beneath the grand stone façade of Brighton’s former Post Office building, now home to The Ivy Asia Brighton, Sakura season has arrived in an explosion of blossom-pink cocktails, polished sushi platters and unapologetic theatricality. I visited this week with my pint-sized dining companion to expl...
Café applies for takeaway drinks licence but police and council object
A café has applied for a drinks licence so that it can sell beer and margaritas with takeaway food but police and council licensing officials have objected. Café Coho, in Queen’s Road, Brighton, already has a licence to serve alcohol to customers from 7am to 11pm daily. The business wants the li...
Sussex cruise to seven-wicket win over Leicestershire at Hove
Sussex 430 (113.4 overs) and 131-3 (15.3 overs) Leicestershire 328 (88.4 overs) and 232 (80.5 overs) Sussex (23 points) beat Leicestershire (5 points) by 7 wickets Sussex eased to a seven-wicket win to complete an early-season double over Leicestershire in the Rothesay County Championship at Hove. T...
Portslade shoplifting suspect banned from Lewes
A man from Portslade has been charged with shoplifting from Waitrose and banned from Lewes as part of his bail conditions. Sussex Police said: “A man has been charged following a reported shoplifting incident in Lewes. “Police were called at around 5.30pm on Tuesday 5 May, after staff at Waitros...
Former Rottingdean teacher accused of sexually assaulting boys
A man who taught at a former private boarding school has been charged with sexual offences against three boys in the 1990s. Jeffrey Nicholls, of Waterloo Road, in Cardiff, faces court after four men made allegations to the police. The four said that they were sexually assaulted by a teacher at the n...
Drugs, cash and suspected stolen caravans seized in police operation
Drugs, cash, suspected stolen e-bikes and caravans were seized by police during a warrant.
Man found drifting over a mile out to sea sparks rescue operation
A rescue was launched after a wingfoiler got into difficulty off Seaford in strong offshore winds
Arrest as emergency services descend on busy city junction
Police made an arrest amid an emergency response to an incident
The Secret Society
The Secret Society is a brand-new show from the team behind CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation and you are to be dropped into the most brilliant hour of immersive theatre. Step into the world of a very serious, very secret, very important secret society. As a member of the society, you will be privy to ...