Brighton and Hove News

Councillors have turned down plans to demolish a bungalow and replace it with a modern two-storey house. Brighton and Hove City Council’s Pl...

On Thursday 26 December at around 6pm, officers received a report of a teenager with a knife on a Brighton and Hove bus in the Elm Grove are...

A woman has been spared prison after making more than 300 hoax 999 calls in less than six months. Suzanne Forster was charged with making an...

A woman who made hundreds of abusive hoax 999 calls has been ordered to stop drinking for three months. Suzanne Forster, 51, was hauled befo...

Brighton’s popular grassroots music venue The Hope & Ruin have this morning announced two free entry 10th birthday celebration concerts. The...

A woman suffered serious injuries when she was trapped between two cars in a crash outside the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton yest...

Two Hove schools have dropped their plans to become academies after considerable opposition from parents, unions and the council. The school...

Brighton and Hove City Council’s cabinet has voted unanimously to ask formally to take part in the government’s “devolution priority program...

More people were arrested for drink and drug driving during the annual Christmas crackdown than the year before, Sussex Police said today (T...

Green councillors in Brighton and Hove are calling for an emergency full council meeting to discuss Labour’s proposal for a Sussex-wide mayo...

Plans to build an extra storey on top of a modern block of flats in Hove were approved by councillors this afternoon (Wednesday 8 January)....

Plans to turn a former restaurant with a staff flat into a shared house have been approved. The site is the former Artisa Café and Gallery,...

Snow has settled in Brighton and Hove this afternoon, sparking snowball fights and traffic chaos. Buses have been abandoned on hilly roads a...

Residents are being asked to stop dumping their Christmas trees at what has become an unofficial collection site in a Brighton park. A large...

Proposed changes to secondary school admissions are due to go before a scrutiny committee next week. The meeting comes as Brighton and Hove...

Police are now looking into more than 200 cases where people may have suffered death or serious injury resulting from criminal medical negli...

A restaurant owner is disappointed that he cannot keep the glazed extension to the front of his premises after a planning appeal was dismiss...

Bedbugs have returned to flats in a Brighton tower block weeks after council contractors sprayed them, according to tenants. Residents in Ki...

Two men have been arrested after a car chase at speeds of more than 60mph in Brighton at the weekend, Sussex Police said today (Tuesday 7 Ja...

Two men – one of them wielding a baseball bat – are wanted by police after a woman was attacked in the street in Brighton. She was treated i...

A Brighton supermarket worker helped a teenage motorcyclist moments after he was hit by a car on his way home from work. And when she learnt...

A spa company’s planning application to put up an electronic billboard in the centre of Brighton has failed on appeal. The Gel Bottle Inc wa...

A fish and chip shop owner will have to remove a “jaunty” tiled shopfront after losing a planning appeal. Moussa Salama, who owns Fish and C...

An architect has won an appeal to extend his Brighton home after councillors refused to grant planning permission for the scheme. Rory Aitke...

The Met Office has warned that snow could hit Sussex this week. A yellow be aware weather warning was issued this morning, in force from 9am...