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Councillors expected to back closure of school site
The closure of a school site is expected to be approved at a meeting of senior councillors next week, paving the way for the land to be sold, almost certainly for housing. If councillors agree, Hove Park School could move ahead with the formal process of closing its Valley Campus, in Hangleton Way, ...
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Love Supreme Festival 2026: Day Two Report
‘VARIOUS ARTISTS’ – ‘LOVE SUPREME’, GLYNDE PLACE, GLYNDE 4.7.26 Europe’s biggest outdoor jazz festival, ‘Love Supreme’, returned to the beautiful Sussex countryside setting of Glynde Place in the heart of South Downs from 3rd to 5th July. The annual three-day festival highlights the ...
Councillors grill hospital bosses about A&E ‘bedlam’
The Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital was described as “bedlam” by a councillor who needed to go there last week. Hospital bosses were given other first-hand accounts of long waits, safety fears and people being treated in corridors at a council meet...
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Police officer sacked over treatment of women and dishonesty
An anonymous police officer has been sacked for the way he spoke to and treated women and for a dishonest overtime claim. Sussex Police said that the officer had been dismissed without notice for inappropriate behaviour towards female colleagues. The force said: “Officer A, who has been granted an...
Brighton brickie wins £1m lottery prize
A Brighton bricklayer has won £1 million playing the National Lottery, the operator Allwyn said today (Thursday 9 July). The man, in his fifties, has decided to stay anonymous but told Allwyn that he would pay off his mortgage, add to his savings and donate some of his winnings to charity. Allwyn, ...
Four teens arrested over beach mugging
Four teenagers have been arrested following a robbery in Saltdean. Police were called to Saltdean Beach on Wednesday 8 July at around 9.40pm after it was reported that two 17-year-old boys were approached by a group of four boys who threatened them with violence before taking their bags and leaving ...
Love Pugs? Love CuppaPug
CuppaPug has been in business for four years although Brighton has only been open for 3 months. The cafes started in London then expanded to Manchester, California, Texas and Edinburgh. The founders are Aaron and Matthew Pierterse who are pug lovers who now own 10 dogs of their own and, currently, 5...
Love Supreme Festival 2026: Day One Report
‘VARIOUS ARTISTS’ – ‘LOVE SUPREME’, GLYNDE PLACE, GLYNDE 3.7.26 Europe’s biggest outdoor jazz festival, ‘Love Supreme’, returned to the beautiful Sussex countryside setting of Glynde Place in the heart of South Downs from 3rd to 5th July. The annual three-day festival highlights the ...
Report by Royal Sussex expert casts doubt on Lucy Letby verdicts
A report co-authored by an expert on newborn children has cast further doubt on the safety of the convictions for murder that led to nurse Lucy Letby being jailed for life. The report was written by Neil Aiton, a consultant neonatologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, in Brighton, and Hilde Wi...
Focus sharpens on nightmare neighbours and anti-social behaviour
High-rise blocks of council flats could have live-in caretakers as part of a drive to tackle the scourge of nightmare neighbours. The proposal is one of 16 ideas aimed at dealing with anti-social behaviour, along with better communication, improved information sharing with the police and more use of...
Switch from weekly to fortnightly bin collections edges closer
Rubbish collections could switch from weekly to fortnightly by next July in Brighton and Hove if all goes to plan for the council. Brighton and Hove City Council’s cabinet members are being asked to approve spending £1.3 million to prepare the environmental services team for the shift to fortnigh...
Teen describes seeing his friend stabbed to death at station
A friend of 16-year-old Joshua Ingram told police how he saw his friend fatally stabbed in front of him at Seaford Railway Station last September – with no hesitation. The friend said: “He just lunged at him. No words. No hesitation. He just did it.” The 16-year-old friend, whose identity is p...
Anti-Israel activist expelled from Greens
An anti-Israel activist previously expelled from the Labour Party has now been chucked out of the Green Party too. Tony Greenstein is one of a number of pro-Palestine activists who joined the Green Party since the October 7 attacks. He was suspended in April – and yesterday confirmed he had since ...
New England House will no longer be creative hub, council says
The future of New England House will not include space for the creative businesses which have previously flourished there, the council has announced. In a press release published this morning strewn with opaque management-speak, the council announced it was “unlocking creative workspace” by rent...
Girl In The Year Above announce tour including Brighton date
Girl In The Year Above are an Irish–Cornish band forging a sound that merges Celtic storytelling with a fierce, emotionally charged edge. Thus far they only have two singles to their name ‘Mama, My Heart is Achin’’ and ‘Ode To The Glory Days’. These were combined and self-released as ...
Motorway closed after crash death
The M23 motorway is closed after a fatal crash in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday 8 July). The road is likely to remain closed on the southbound side for the rest of the morning, Sussex Police said. The crash happened at Junction 9, the Gatwick turn-off, between midnight and 1am, with div...
Micro school can open second site – in Brighton
A specialist school with small classes has been granted planning permission to open in Brighton. Hove Micro School has been given planning permission to convert a large shared house – or house in multiple occupation (HMO) – at 10 Carden Avenue, Brighton, into a small-scale independent school. Th...
Sea search under way tonight – but stood down after just over an hour
Search crews were called out to reports of someone in the water shortly before 10pm this evening (Tuesday 7 July). A coastguard helicopter joined local coastguard volunteers and the RNLI lifeboat crew based at Brighton Marina. They were scouring an area of the sea between the Palace Pier and Hove se...
Violet Grohl adds Brighton date to UK tour
Violet Grohl has announced today more good news for UK fans for her sold out debut run of shows in the country. Due to overwhelming demand, her 25th August show in Manchester has now been upgraded to Band on the Wall. All tickets for the original venue The Deaf Institute will be honoured. Additi...
Café granted drinks licence with later hours on the cards
A Brighton café has been granted a drinks licence, enabling it to operate as a restaurant in the evenings. Billies Café, in Hampton Place, will be able to serve alcohol until 10.30pm after its application for a licence was heard by a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel hearing. The caf...