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Brighton Race for Life opens for entries
The broadcaster and former BBC Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts is urging people to kick start the new year by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. The charity’s much-loved events, which raise funds for life-saving research, are due to return to Stanmer Park this summer. And anyone who sig...
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Former Hove MP released on police bail
The former Hove MP and Labour defence minister Ivor Caplin has been released on bail after police arrested him on suspicion of engaging in sexual communication with a child. Mr Caplin, 66, was kept in custody overnight as Sussex Police began an investigation into the claim. He is due to answer polic...
Teen jailed for 29 years for murdering Brighton boy
A teenager has been jailed for 29 years the murder of a 17-year-old boy from Brighton. Jayden Gubetini, 18, was jailed by Judge Heather Norton at Reading Crown Court for the murder of Cameron Bailey in High Wycombe on Sunday 7 May 2023. Gubetini, of Coe Spur, Slough, was one of five people convicted...
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Brighton and Hove Albion to host Chelsea in FA Cup 4th round
Brighton and Hove Albion have been drawn against a resurgent Chelsea in the FA Cup 4th round. The Seagulls are scheduled to host the eight-time winners at the Amex in four weeks’ time – on the weekend of Saturday 8 February. Albion dispatched Norwich City 4-0 at Carrow Road yesterday (Saturday 1...
Weekend Feature -Squid Game’s second season is the latest revelation of Korean culture’s economic success story
The first season of Squid Game, the Netflix dystopian drama about the perils of capitalism and extreme wealth disparity in South Korea, was a huge hit. And now, the much-anticipated second series does not appear to have disappointed either. With 68 million views in its first week, it jumped to the t...
Police officer sacked over sex attack in Brighton Travelodge
A Metropolitan Police detective has been sacked over a sex attack in a Brighton Travelodge hotel room. Detective Constable Kamal Baldeo shared the room with a woman referred to as “Ms A” on Saturday 8 May 2021 – more than a week before hotels fully reopened from the third national coronavirus ...
GBH headline punk night
GBH + CRIMINAL DAMAGE + VIOLENT SOLUTION – THE CON CLUB, LEWES 10.1.25 Punk stalwarts GBH (aka Charged GBH) were back in town tonight, so how could we resist breaking in the new year’s gigging calendar with another trip to the Lewes Con Club (courtesy of ‘Fringe Theory’ promotions). The year...
March on – Seagulls see off Canaries as Brighton win FA Cup tie
Brighton and Albion go into the draw for the fourth round of the FA Cup tomorrow after dismantling Norwich City at Carrow Road. Albion went ahead with a goal from Georginio Rutter who scored a second on the stroke of half time. Julio Enciso, rumoured to want away, grabbed a third in the second half,...
Former Hove MP arrested
The former Labour MP for Hove, Ivor Caplin, was arrested today (Saturday 11 January) after a sting by paedophile hunters. The sting was live-streamed on Facebook and further footage of the arrest was shared online. Sussex Police said: “We are aware of footage circulating on social media showing a ...
Cannabis farm found after Brighton house fire that closed A23
A cannabis farm has been found at the scene of a house fire which led to the A23 being closed yesterday (Friday 10 January). Traffic was diverted away from Beaconsfield Road which carries southbound traffic into Brighton as firefighters tackled the blaze in a property between Stanford Avenue and Spr...
FA Cup 3rd round – Norwich City v Brighton and Hove Albion
Albion go to Carrow Road in the FA Cup 3rd round, with goalkeeper Janson Steele as captain. Surprisingly, despite transfer rumours, Julio Enciso also starts. Danny Welbeck makes a welcome return to the match-day squad. Neither Lewis Dunk nor Joao Pedro are in the squad today (Saturday 11 January).
Weekend Feaure – Trump gets an ‘unconditional discharge’ in hush money conviction- what it means
On Jan. 10, 2025, Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial in a New York state court, sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge for all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. In his statement to the court, Trump maintained the point he had made throughout t...
Weekend Feature- What Meta’s move to remove its fact checking programmes will mean for less decption
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programmes, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate speech activists have criticised the decision as an attempt to curry favour with the incoming US presi...
Sussex hospital trust incurs £78m bill for 16 cerebral palsy claims
A Sussex hospital trust has incurred a bill of almost £78 million over five years as lawyers settled claims for clinical negligence linked to 16 cases of cerebral palsy. The total amount paid in compensation and legal costs on behalf of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust was higher th...
Ombudsman urges council to say sorry for treatment of resident
After years of suffering with anti-social behaviour on an east Brighton housing estate, a resident is expecting a final ruling on council inaction. Lee Catt found that his “cards were marked” by Brighton and Hove City Council because he complained about drug dealers and anti-social behaviour on ...
Schools’ decision to drop academy plan delights campaigners
Campaigners are celebrating after two Hove schools decided scrapped their plan to join an academy trust. West Hove Infant School and Hove Junior School, which make up the Hove Learning Federation, reached the decision after a four-week consultation on a proposal to join the Aurora Academies Trust. T...
First Music Festival of 2025 takes place here in Sussex
‘VARIOUS ARTISTS’, ‘ROCKAWAY BEACH’ – BUTLINS, BOGNOR REGIS 3-5.1.25 The ‘Rockaway Beach‘ is the first music festival of 2025 and luckily for us, it takes place annually here in Sussex at Butlins Bognor Regis! This year marks the tenth anniversary of the ‘Rockaway Beach’ festival, ...
Brighton and Hove tennis star prepares for Australian Open
Brighton and Hove tennis star Sonay Kartal is preparing for the start of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday (12 January). The 23-year-old is in the main draw for the first time and faces the Spanish number 2 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. Kartal is ranked 85th in the world and Bouzas Maneiro is 54t...
Fire closes A23 in Brighton near Preston Circus
The A23 was closed to traffic coming into Brighton after fire crews were called to tackle a house which was ablaze a few hundred yards from Preston Circus Fire Station. Traffic was diverted away from Beaconsfield Road which carries southbound traffic into Brighton as firefighters tackled the blaze i...
Modern house too much for bungalow site, say planners
Councillors have turned down plans to demolish a bungalow and replace it with a modern two-storey house. Brighton and Hove City Council’s Planning Committee voted to refuse planning permission to redevelop 17B Meadow Close, Hove, on the advice of officials. Conservative councillor Ivan Lyons spoke...