Brighton and Hove News

Wednesday 2nd April 2025 – The Great Escape, the festival for new music, has unveiled a fresh wave of 175+ new and rising artists joining th...

The leisure group behind the 126-year-old Brighton Palace Pier has seen its shares slump as it became the latest firm to announce plans to d...

Reform UK has selected its candidate for the Westbourne and Poets’ Corner by-election for a seat on Brighton and Hove City Council. The part...

Collective Action Brighton and Hove has announced that it is supporting a candidate in the Westbourne and Poets’ Corner by-election. David M...

A Burger King franchisee wants to be able to serve food and drink for 24 hours a day. Leon Kennedy Limited has applied to Brighton and Hove...

A row has broken out between two villages over lines drawn on a map but it’s green land at stake rather than Greenland. The lines mark out f...

Deacon Blue dropped their brand new studio album ‘The Great Western Road’ on 21st March 2025 via Cooking Vinyl and they also announced some...

Following the 40th anniversary of his landmark album ‘Suddenly’ and special vinyl re-release, last September Billy Ocean announced a huge UK...

Voters and taxpayers quizzed government officials about the plan to have an elected mayor for Sussex at and event in Brighton last night (Mo...

When I first heard about the Sunday afternoon punk gigs series held at The Prince Albert in Brighton, I must say that I was a tad surprised...

ABC have announced the return of their iconic ‘Lexicon Of Love Orchestra’ tour for 2025 which sees them perform their timeless debut album ‘...

A Brighton man faces prison after a jury convicted him of strangling and raping a woman. Zaine Reid, 20, of Sussex Terrace, Brighton, was re...

A teenager has been arrested for murder after a 57-year-old man was killed and a woman and boy seriously injured in a home in Brighton this...

Drones styled as seagulls will be used to collect recycling in Brighton and Hove in a pilot scheme launching this month. The trials will sta...

A fish and chip shop owner has lodged an appeal to try to keep his shop signage after planning permission was refused. Abbanoub SamirGad Sal...

More than 1,400 people have signed a petition to try to protect Rottingdean library from closure. It was started because Brighton and Hove C...

SMALLTOWN TIGERS + TUPPENNY BUNTERS + PORCELAIN DOLL – THE PRINCE ALBERT, BRIGHTON 30.3.25 Rimini punks Smalltown Tigers made a welcome retu...

A Brighton neighbourhood has lost out on the chance to pause the sale of a “vandalised” pub after the council failed to advertise it. The Mo...

A city centre pub next to the Royal Pavilion has been bought by a learning disabilities charity which will turn it into a cafe bar. Team Dom...

The length of time people are waiting to find out if they have cancer and for treatment has improved and waiting lists are coming down, a ho...

An arsonist set light to a campervan late on Friday night (28 March), Sussex Police said. The force said: “Police are appealing for witnesse...

MELIN MELYN + MF TOMLINSON – DUST, BRIGHTON 26.3.25   I’ve been trying to see Melin Melyn for quite some time now, but they’ve been eluding...

SPELLLING (aka Chrystia Cabral) has just released her new album of direct, heart-on-sleeve avant-rock anthems, ‘Portrait of My Heart‘ via Sa...

NEEV – THE FOLKLORE ROOMS, BRIGHTON 29.3.25 The intimate space of Brighton’s magical Folklore Rooms was filled by quite the presence last ni...

Clearance work at the long-derelict Black Rock site is close to completion as the deadline nears for volunteers to apply for the chance to h...