Brighton and Hove News

Fast-food giant Burger King has applied to stay open 24 hours a day in Hove but dozens of neighbours have objected. Twenty-eight objections...

A specialist Romanian shop has been granted a licence to sell alcohol after agreeing to accept a number of conditions at a hearing. Brighton...

A former editor charged with sending an obscene tweet to a Jewish campaigner will now stand trial in November. Greg Hadfield appeared at Bri...

Plans to put electric car chargers in a private garden next to a listed building are recommended for approval by councillors next week. Resi...

Family fun is on offer from this deeply silly show as soon as the doors are open. The Giant Balloon Show has come to town, and Dizzy O’Dare...

MICHAEL MONROE + CJ WILDHEART – CONCORDE 2, BRIGHTON 27.5.25 We’re halfway through Michael Monroe, ex Hanoi Rocks frontman’s UK tour and wha...

The council has launched a prosecution of a pub owner who has failed to replace the distinctive green tiles he ripped off its exterior. Char...

A court has fined a woman and given her a football banning order after she directed drunken abuse at a Jewish couple at a Brighton and Hove...

Plans to turn an old Homebase store into an Aldi supermarket are due to be decided by councillors next week. Aldi has applied for planning p...

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, 25 May 2025 After the luminous grace of Anoushka Shankar’s Chapter III: We Return to Light, Brighton Festival 2...

Brighton Dome, Sunday 25 May 2025 The closing night of Brighton Festival 2025 under the new auspices of Lucy Davies as Chief Executive of Br...

A cramped car park is to be revamped with bigger bays but fewer of them, Brighton and Hove City Council said today (Wednesday 28 May). The s...

A cramped car park is to be revamped with bigger bays but fewer of them, Brighton and Hove City Council said today (Wednesday 28 May). The s...

A freelance designer from Brighton is one of four people to have been jailed after trying to bring flights to a halt at Manchester airport l...

Brighton Dome, Monday 26th May – Brighton Festival 2025 There was a buzz inside Brighton Dome earlier this week as attendees packed into the...

The government has awarded Brighton and Hove City Council up to £3.6 million to train more home-grown builders, carers and engineers. The De...

PRIMA QUEEN + LILO – PATTERNS, BRIGHTON 24.5.25  This is my fifth time seeing Prima Queen, a band I’ve been actively following and consuming...

More trees are to be felled this week after succumbing to elm disease – this time in East Brighton Park. The 15 young and five mature trees...

HEAVEN 17 – CHALK, BRIGHTON 25.525 Tonight was the first time I saw the 1980-formed New Wave/Synth-Pop band, Heaven 17, perform. They’ve pla...

The council’s bin depot needs to upgrade its power supply before more electric vehicles can be charged on the site in Hollingdean. And the l...

Brighton and Hove Albion owner Tony Bloom has won the overwhelming backing of Hearts fans to take a stake in the Scottish football club. Blo...

Lightning Seeds Announced as First Headliners in New ‘My Music NHS’ Concert Series to Raise Funds for Vital Patient Care and NHS Innovation....

The partner of wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten assaulted two female police officers at a maternity ward hours after she had given birth,...

A drug dealer with more than 400 points on his driving licence has been jailed after being caught behind the wheel while banned – and with d...

Mancunian electronic pioneers 808 State, known best for genre defining records including: ‘Ninety’, ‘Gorgeous’, ‘ex:el’ and ‘Don Solaris’, a...