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Your top stories this year – August
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. A council tenant owed money by the council was threatened with eviction 72 hours after receiving notification that she was in rent arrears. A developer prosecuted by the council for failing to re...
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Your top stories this year – July
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. A Brighton councillor resigned to take up a new job in a move that triggered the sixth by-election since the May 2023 local elections. The owner of a pub who ripped off its […]
Road near Brighton closed until New Year’s Day for works by gas company
A road near Brighton is closed until New Year’s Day so work can be carried out by a gas company.
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Your top stories this year – June
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. Eight council-owned blocks of flats were earmarked for demolition, leaving more than a thousand tenants in three areas of Brighton in need of a new home Two independent businesses were finally ev...
Your top stories this year – May
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. Councillors spoke of their sadness as they agreed to a request by governors and the Roman Catholic church to close a primary school in Brighton. A busy bus lane coming into Brighton is […]
Hove snowsport charity featured on Radio 4
A Hove charity is being featured on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow. Snow Camp, a youth snowsports charity, is the subject of a three-minute broadcast presented by its patron, the four-time Winter Olympian Chemmy Alcott. It features two young people, Marcus, whose name has been changed to protect his identity,...
Firefighting recruits complete their training
Six new firefighters are joining colleagues in Brighton and Hove on the completion of their training just a few days before Christmas. The fire service said: “East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (ESFRS) proudly welcomed its newest wholetime firefighters at a formal Pass Out Parade held at the Serv...
Brighton and Hove Albion outgunned by Arsenal
Arsenal 2 Brighton and Hove Albion 1 Brighton and Hove Albion’s dismal December continued at the Emirates as Arsenal stretched the Seagulls’ winless run to five games. The result took Mikel Arteta’s side back to the top of the Premier League table despite a nervy performance, with an opener fr...
Dunk, Van Hecke and Gomez return as Brighton and Hove Albion face Arsenal
Brighton and Hove Albion captain Lewis Dunk returns to the heart of the defence alongside Jan Paul van Hecke as the Fabian Hürzeler’s side prepare to face title-chasing Arsenal. Van Hecke returns after illness while Dunk and Diego Gomez are back from a pone-match suspension. Gomez has also been n...
Your top stories this year – April
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. Proposals to operate direct train services between Newcastle and Brighton have been announced A teenager was arrested for murder after a 57-year-old man was killed and a woman and boy seriously i...
Your top stories this year – March
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. A hotel company’s plans to change a university-owned building into a 170-bed tourist hostel were up for approval (which they later got). Uni building could be turned into 170-bed hostel The Big...
Builder arrested in Brighton and banned for drink driving
Seven people have been convicted out of the 200 arrested during the annual Christmas crackdown on drink and drug driving, Sussex Police said. One of them was a builder who was caught in Brighton having had more than double the permitted amount of alcohol. SussexPolicesaid: “Linas Pikturna, 43, a b...
College plans new football pitch and games area
A Brighton college is planning to install a new football pitch and games area, which will be available for community use. Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) wants to put an artificial pitch and multi-use games area (MUGA) on a section of its grassed playing field. The new areas w...
Your top stories this year – February
As 2025 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. The i360 was bought out of administration by a premium bar chain which was founded by two Brightonians. Police and licensing officials said that they had no confidence in a restaurant owner after...
Your top stories this year – January
As 2024 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the stories that made the news month by month. The council took steps to write off a debt of more than £51 million owed by the i360 to enable the sale of the struggling seafront attraction. Brighton and Hove saw the beginning […]
Brighton-born boy, 13, stabbed to death in Portugal
A 13-year-old boy who has been stabbed to death in Portugal was born in Brighton, according to the Daily Mail. Alfie Hallett, who was brought up in Bognor, lost his life trying to protect his mother from her Portuguese ex-boyfriend, his grandmother told the Mail. The Mail website quoted Linda Hallet...
'The recovery of our lost sense of perspective' - Bishop of Chichester delivers Christmas message
We have seen his glory (Jn 1.14)
Traffic wardens donate toys to disadvantaged kids
The city’s traffic wardens have got friends and family to donate hundreds of toys and books to their appeal for disadvantaged children this year. Several hundred toys and books have been collected by civil enforcement officers from NSL, the council’s parking enforcement partner, in recent weeks....
1.5k Christmas parcels donated to Brighton refuge
A Brighton refuge was inundated with parcels this year thanks to a parenting influencer’s Christmas campaign. Daisy Upton, known as Five Minute Mum to her 300,000 followers on Instagram and Facebook, has supported Stonewater Housing’s refuge for the last five years. This year, after sharing the ...
Missing Uckfield man with links to Bexhill, Hastings and Brighton ‘potentially last seen’ in Little Common
A man reported missing from Uckfield who has links to Bexhill, Hastings and Brighton may have been ‘potentially last seen’ in Little Common, according to a Sussex Police press release.