May 18, 2012 Politics
Brighton & Hove City Council gets new leader, Mayor and structure
Brighton & Hove City Council have announced their new leader and their new structure. Councillor Jason Kitcat will take over as the current leader and Cllr Bill Randall becomes Brighton and Hove’s first Green Mayor. Cllr Bill Randall said; “It is a great honour to have been selected as the first Green mayor of Brighton [...]
Wildlife habitats set to be enhanced after Green Ridge grant awarded
Local wildlife group, Keep the Ridge Green (KTRG) and Brighton & Hove City Council’s countryside team will carry out some fantastic improvements to Green Ridge and Coney Woods. Contractors working in partnership with the two groups will carry out the work which is being funded by a grant of £27,269 from Community Spaces, Big Lottery [...]
Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas to step down as Green Party leader
Brighton Pavilion and leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, has announced that she will step down as Green Party leader at the end of her current term. In September 2012, Caroline Lucas will reach the end of her second term as the national Green Party Leader. Yesterday (Sunday 14 May 2012), Caroline Lucas announced [...]
Caroline Lucas MP launches innovative ‘City Skills & Jobs’ shop
Caroline Lucas MP was the guest of honour recently at the official launch of an innovative new ‘skills shop’ in Brighton, City Skills & Jobs. The shop has been established by City College Brighton and Hove to be a vibrant and welcoming ‘one stop shop’ to facilitate connections between employers and their potential employees while providing information and support [...]
Brighton opinion: Will Brighton and Hove children be saying “Hola!” to a new bilingual primary school?
Plans to open the UK’s first bilingual Free School in Brighton and Hove have divided opinion across the city and complicated the process for primary school admissions. Here, Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes takes a look. Plans to open the UK’s first bilingual Free School in Brighton and Hove will be making [...]
Brighton opinion: Restoration of the Uckfield to Lewes train line
In this article, Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor James Stilgoe takes a look at the campaign for the re-opening of the Uckfield to Lewes train line, the implications it has for Brighton and other commuters in the surrounding area, plus the obstacles the campaign has faced. In 1969 the Lewes to Uckfield railway link [...]
Brighton and Hove City Council sign up to WWF pledge
Brighton and Hove City Council have pledged to make sure that all of the timber products they buy come from entirely legal sources. The WWF pledge that the authority signed up to has three levels – gold, silver and bronze, and the council has signed the gold WWF badge for wood procurement. The WWF initiative, [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi, Honorary Freewoman of Brighton and Hove, congratulated by Council Leader
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Laureate and Honorary Freewoman of Brighton and Hove, has been warmly congratulated by Brighton and Hove City Council Leader Bill Randall after her historic victory in the Burmese Parliament elections. The National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party, claimed 43 of 44 seats in Sunday’s by-election [...]
Is Brighton about to become internationally famous? Major European summit April 2012
Next month, Brighton will be hosting a conference of The Council of Europe to decide whether to accept changes to the European Convention on Human Rights to give national courts more powers. Major European summits, such as the one coming to Brighton on 18 – 20 April 2012, have helped cement otherwise relatively unknown resorts [...]
Brighton council wants to make city fit for cycling
Brighton and Hove City Council has pledged its support for a national newspaper campaign which wants to make cities ‘fit for cycling’. At a council meeting last night (22 March) councillors voted unanimously in support of The Times’ cycling campaign and they also invited government ministers to visit the city and see first hand the [...]
Caroline Lucas MP: “This Budget is a regressive document from a regressive Government”
The leader of the Green Party and MP for Brighton Pavillion, Caroline Lucas, commenting on the 2012 Budget stressed that it will do nothing to deliver a greener or more prosperous economy – and shows the Coalition completely failing the fairness test. According to Mrs. Lucas: “This true blue Budget is the nail in the [...]
Budget 2012: £50m broadband investment could benefit Brighton and Hove
£50m has been allocated to allow smaller cities, such as Brighton and Hove, to become ‘super-connected’ with ultra fast broadband. The announcement came yesterday (Wednesday 21 March 2012) as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s 2012 Budget. The announcement comes after a campaign in Brighton and Hove to ‘Let Brighton Bid’ to be one of 14 [...]
Brighton opinion: The Budget by David Pegler, Divisional Director of Brewin Dolphin Brighton
In the article below, Divisional Director of Brewin Dolphin, Brighton, David Pegler, offers his opinion on the Budget 2012, as announced by Chancellor George Osborne yesterday (21 March 2012), and how people in Brighton and Hove and other parts of Sussex will be affected. The good news for people and businesses in Sussex is that [...]
Caroline Lucas attends BHT fundraising appeal launch
Caroline Lucas MP has attended the launch of a new fundraising appeal which hopes to raise £15,000 for Threshold, Brighton Housing Trust’s (BHT) Women’s Counselling and Crèche Service. Ms Lucas, the Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, was shown around Threshold’s facilities, which include the art therapy room and crèche. She then heard from a [...]
Simon Kirby MP welcomes new cancer care building at Royal Sussex County Hospital
Simon Kirby, the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has welcomed the building of a new cancer care facility at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Mr. Kirby said: “This is a welcome investment in the Royal Sussex, and promising news for future patients.” He also stressed: “Cancer care is a crucial part of the [...]
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