February 23, 2012 
Seagulls to wear ‘Champions’ sleeve badges
This season Brighton and Hove Albion’s shirts will carry specially crafted gold sleeve badges to mark the club’s promotion as champions to the npower Championship. Created by Sporting iD, an official licensee of the Football League, the ‘League One Champions’ badges will be worn by the Seagulls players throughout the 2011/12 campaign. These new sleeve [...]
Four arrested in Brighton seafront fight
Police were called to Lower Promenade opposite the bottom of West Street at 4.40am today, Thursday 28 July, after reports of a number of people fighting there. The group was dispersing as police arrived. Two people were injured and the police are investigating the incident. A 19-year old man from Crawley and a 17-year old [...]
Brighton Pride line up revealed – bigger and better for 2011
The line up for Brighton Pride has been announced, with just over two weeks to go until Pride in Brighton & Hove 2011. On the 13th August 2011, Preston Park will play host to a brand new Live Stage, which will feature X Factor and Popstar to Operastar winner Joe McElderry. The 2011 Dance Tent [...]
Oxfam East Africa Emergency Appeal Fundraiser at Brighton Coalition
Brighton Oxjam Present: East Africa Emergency Fundraiser. An afternoon and evening of music and fun down by the sea in aid of a very urgent cause Taking place at Coalition on Sunday 31st July, we have an afternoon of acoustic performers before opening up at 7.30pm for an evening of local music featuring… Dirty Leaves. [...]
Last Tango In Littlehampton
A seaside romp by award-winning playwright Claire Booker. Last Tango In Littlehampton centres on Richard a neurotic husband who convinces best friend and “babe-magnet” Dan to put his wife to the test. Throw in an eccentric aunt and a bunch of French mobsters and you have a good old carry-on, laugh out loud comedy. Fresh [...]
Weatherley supports Disability Hate Crime Campaign in Brighton
Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, expressed his support of Mencap’s Stand By Me campaign to draw attention to the way in which hate crimes against people with disabilities are dealt with. Mr. Weatherley recently attended a parliamentary reception which also marked the launch of Mencap’s Don’t Stand By report which looks [...]
Active at 60 – Read Aloud group at Hove Library – FREE activities
Active at 60 - Read Aloud group at Hove Library FREE activities from Thursday 28th July for the over 50s. All groups, or individuals welcome. · Do you love stories and books? · Do you like being read to? · Would you enjoy the support and social aspect of a Read Aloud book group? Then why not come along to [...]
Best Value Vintage Tea Party Caterers in Sussex
Vintage Tea Party Sussex Afternoon Tea and China Hire all for £8.99 per person – You Have to Be Joking!
Nominate your Local Hero to carry the Olympic Torch through Brighton & Hove
With less than one year to go until the official opening of the London 2012 Olympics, time is running out to nominate your Local Hero to carry the Olympic torch. Brighton & Hove will play host to the Olympic Torch Relay on Monday 16th July 2012, as it tours the country before the London 2012 [...]
40% increase in air pollution in Brighton and Hove
According to new figures there has been a serious deterioration in air quality over the four years of the previous Conservative administration, argues Green Councillor Ian Davey, the new Cabinet member for Transport & Public Realm in Brighton & Hove. Air quality figures for 2010 were released last week, revealing that parts of Lewes Road, [...]
Brighton MP Simon Kirby welcomes the new Coastal Communities Fund
Simon Kirby, the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven welcomed the announcement of a new Coastal Communities Fund and encouraged projects in Brighton Kemptown, Saltdean, Telscombe Cliffs and Peacehaven to bid. The Government has announced that it is launching a new fund to support the economic development of coastal communities. This fund aims to [...]
Patients not allowed to be accompanied in South East Coast ambulances?
Labour & Co-operative Councillor for Hollingdean and Stanmer, Jeane Lepper asked the council to look into a decision by the South East Coast Ambulance Service not to allow patients to be accompanied in the Ambulance by friends or relatives. Cllr. Lepper claims that she was contacted by an elderly constituent, who wishes to remain nameless, [...]
HIV campaigner awarded Honorary Masters degree by Brighton University
HIV and AIDS campaigner Jonathan Grimshaw MBE was awarded an honorary Master of Laws by the University of Brighton in its graduation ceremony at the Brighton Dome on Tuesday 26 July. The founder of Body Positive, a user-led support organisation for people living with HIV, described to the audience the fight against prejudice suffered by [...]
Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital memories brought to life
The memories and voices of hospital staff and volunteers, as gathered by University of Sussex researchers, will be brought to life in a new archive at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital. The ‘Our Hospital Our History’ project, a collaboration between the University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH), will be launched on [...]
Weatherley visits Hangleton where “travellers keep making local people’s lives a misery”
Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, visited distressed residents who live in the area surrounding Greenleas Park in Hangleton to witness the disruption that travellers are reportedly causing in the particular area. Mr. Weatherley said: “Residents have had enough. I have had enough and Cllr. Dawn Barnett and Cllr Tony Janio have [...]
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