Brighton and Hove News

Cabinet members are expected to agree to close a troubled special school at a meeting next week. Brighton and Hove City Council has already...

A Brighton firm’s controversial plans to build an 18-storey block of flats in Newhaven have been deferred for a third time. Yesterday (Wedne...

A 17-year-old boy was given a seven-year sentence for attacking a university student with a knife, described as a machete or a meat cleaver,...

BIBI CLUB + WINTER GARDENS + MOON IDLE – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 6.11.24 Right from the very start I must congratulate the Montreal-based...

An electric bike rider injured an elderly woman in a collision in Brighton. Sussex Police said: “Police are appealing for witnesses and info...

Education watchdog Ofsted has rated the biggest secondary school in Brighton and Hove outstanding after a full inspection. Five inspectors s...

A tennis club has been granted planning permission to out up 10 floodlights despite objections from neighbours after a unanimous vote by cou...

DAME AREA + FROG CHILD – THE HOPE & RUIN, BRIGHTON 5.11.24  Dame Area are Silvia Kostance and Viktor L. Crux and they operate out of Barcelo...

The council is preparing to push ahead with plans to sell Patcham Court Farm to the Royal Mail on a 250-year lease for a new delivery office...

Last week, our Labour government proposed one of the more significant budgets in post-war British history. It is a budget that decisively ch...

Vigilantes went to a house after a girl was “wrongly named” on social media as responsible for leaving four girls with serious burn injuries...

People in Brighton are sometimes said to be so easy-going that they tolerate pretty much anything and everything – except wheat and lactose....

A company has lodged appeals after plans to site three “smart hubs” in Brighton were refused planning permission. Urban Innovation Company (...

A Brighton school has been rated good by education watchdog Ofsted five years after inspectors said that it was “inadequate”. Moulsecoomb Pr...

More than 16,000 households in Brighton and Hove are living in fuel poverty, according to a report going before councillors next week. Figur...

Rimini punks Smalltown Tigers have announced a return to Brighton next Spring care of  ‘An Alternative Gathering’ who are purveyors of the p...

The joint governing body of two Hove schools is proposing that they join an academy trust and is preparing to start a consultation with pare...

In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack. Joining Kirk on vocals were notable punk musicia...

SQUEEZE + BADLY DRAWN BOY – BRIGHTON CENTRE 2.11.24 Legend has it that what was once described as the best songwriting duo since Lennon and...

Sussex Police and other local authorities have reiterated their plea to people from outside Lewes to stay away from the town’s annual Bonfir...

A shop owner who sought to stay open until 2am over two weekends was told that she had to stick to her existing midnight closing time. Amira...

A Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise can stay open until 3am for deliveries and takeaway customers after councillors agreed a new licence. The...

Panic Shack are most certainly on the Brighton & Hove News Music Team’s radar, having witnessed them live on a number of previous occasions...

A new branch of Tesco has been granted a drinks licence despite its location in an area where the council tends to turn down proposed off-li...

Neighbours have objected to a tennis club’s plans to put up floodlights covering three courts but they are outnumbered by those supporting t...