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Three Bridges stun Worthing to reach their first Sussex Senior Cup final
Three Bridges have reached the Sussex Senior Cup final for the first time in their history – and they got there by completing their second win over National South opposition in this season’s competition.
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Compelling new Chichester Cathedral exhibition Ashes To Fire
Artist Alice Carter set out to create work which, as she says, “teetered between abstraction and realism.”
Front garden shack must go, says council
A woman who has built a garish shack in her tiny front garden has been ordered to take it down – and is facing objections from neighbours who say she’s unlawfully letting out her garden shed. Bo Loffel, also known as Bo Wu, has had several run-ins with the planning department since buying her ho...
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Free city centre Easter Trail returns in Brighton
Hop to it - Brilliant Brighton's Easter Egg Hunt is back, and there's three Brighton Gift Cards up for grabs too!
Pizza takeaway boss awaits late licence verdict
A pizza takeaway owner was told that high levels of anti-social behaviour in the centre of Brighton are the reason why police and council officials do not want him to trade after 11pm. Mohammed Sufiyan Patni, 36, of Square Pizza, in Pool Valley, told a panel of three councillors that he saw nearby b...
Driver banned after picking up Maccy D’s from drive-through while four times the limit
A man picked up a driving ban with his Maccy D’s when he was found to be four times the limit at the drive-through. Tadhg Ryan, 36, had a three-year-old girl in the back seat of his Skoda when he drove to McDonald’s in Brighton Marina – about a hundred metres from his home in […]
Sussex car parks in limbo as NCP goes into administration
Parking operator National Car Parks (NCP) has gone into administration, with the company blaming a sharp and sustained fall in commuter numbers since the Covid pandemic.
Three asylum-seekers raped woman on Brighton beach, jury told
Three asylum-seekers raped a woman on Brighton beach, with one of them filming the attack, a jury was told at Hove Crown Court this morning (Tuesday 17 March). The woman had become separated from her friends after a girls’ night out and Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, said: “She was visibly...
Herstory V, Brighton's largest international Women's Day event, hailed a success
Over 140 business leaders, entrepreneurs and community members gathered at the iconic DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole for what became Brighton’s largest International Women’s Day event, Herstory V.
Portslade pupils celebrate first low carbon school heating system
The low carbon heating system at Peter Gladwin Primary School is now fully up and running, and children from the school’s pupil parliament have taken a tour of the works.
Another Brighton primary set to become an academy
Another Brighton primary school is set to become an academy. Governors at Coombe Road Primary School in Brighton have unanimously voted to join The Pioneer Academy trust, which runs two other schools in the city. The decision follows a formal consultation in which views of parents, staff, the local ...
Brighton Festival to include over 25 free events as organisers seek to ‘re-root the festival in the city’ on its 60th anniversary
Thousands have been raised to lay on free-to-attend events at this year’s landmark 60th Brighton Festival.
Brighton 5.30 returns - the city's best kept secret!
The Brighton 5.30, a unique and highly anticipated early-morning 5km event, is set to return to the city streets on Friday, 10th July at exactly 5:30 AM. Limited to just 500 participants, this beloved community walk and run raises vital funds and awareness for the local children's charity, Rockingho...
Ian Hart: Some football chants are horrific, but should the CPS be spending their time making them criminal offences?
It has been revealed that Leeds United, last winners of the Football League Championship before soccer was reinvented in 1992, have contacted the Crown Prosecution Service in attempt to make fans chanting about notorious serial sex offender Jimmy Savile a criminal offence.
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Eastbourne Choral Society offers spring concert
Eastbourne Choral Society offers its spring concert at All Saints’ Church, Grange Road at 7pm on Saturday, March 28.
Brighton runner’s message: cancer does not, and will never, define you or who you are
A man from Brighton who was diagnosed with cancer last year aged 20 is running the London Marathon next month. Just over a year since his diagnosis Charlie Livingstone-Wyre is undertaking the challenge to raise money for charity Teenage Cancer Trust - and wants others with cancer to know that ‘ca...
Brighton venue launches monthly free rave series
Brighton venue Quarters has launched a new monthly series of free raves in a bid to support clubbers feeling the impact of the rising cost of living across the South Coast.
£99 million flood defence investment to protect homes and businesses across the South East
Thousands of homes and businesses across the South East will be better protected from the devastating impacts of flooding thanks to £99 million in government investment in flood defences, the Environment Agency have announced.
Southern Water marks early progress in £1.5 billion storm overflow reduction plan in Sussex
Southern Water have delivered early, measurable progress in its £1.5 billion Clean Rivers and Seas Plan, preventing more than 700 storm overflow releases in the last 12 months, according to a Southern Water press release.
Man jailed for threatening to burn down family hub
A man who threatened to burn down two family hubs and left abusive messages for social workers has been jailed for almost three years. Jamie Wilkinson made the threats to his probation worker when a contact session with his child was cancelled because of an incident with an Aldi security guard. Afte...