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Campaigner criticises council over treatment of homeless woman. by Sarah Booker-Lewis - local democracy reporter. 12 November 2024. 0. An anti-homelessness campaigner has criticised Brighton and Hove City Council for failing to support a woman who faced being left...
City centre businesses board up amid race riot reports
Aug 7, 2024 · Businesses in the centre of Brighton are boarding up today amid fears far-right race rioters are set to come to Brighton this evening. A firm of solicitors is one of several locations across the country identified – usually wrongly – as “immigration centres” on a far-right chat group on the private messaging app Telegram.
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2 days ago · Campaigner criticises council over treatment of homeless woman. An anti-homelessness campaigner has criticised Brighton and Hove City Council for failing to support a woman who faced being left...
It’s time to clean up Cityclean, vows Brighton council leader
Oct 12, 2023 · Brighton and Hove City Council’s rubbish and recycling service is mired in violence and racist, sexist and homophobic abuse, according to an independent report.
Extra police in Queen’s Road this evening, force says – Brighton …
Aug 7, 2024 · Officers will be in the centre of Brighton today and this evening after a location in Queen’s Road was named on a purported hit list by far-right activists.
School catchment areas and admission cuts go before councillors
Oct 10, 2024 · Brighton and Hove ranks 53rd out of 144 local authorities for school segregation. “In Whitehawk, only 34 per cent of children achieved English and maths GCSE compared with 75 per cent in the highest-performing ward.”
City-wide parking review due before council cabinet
Aug 27, 2024 · A long-promised city-wide parking review is due to go before Brighton and Hove City Council cabinet members next month. Senior councillors will consider a report following a review of parking undertaken by an external consultant, according to the council’s “forward plan”.
Review of secondary school places and catchment areas to start
Oct 2, 2024 · But, with funding based mainly on pupil numbers, Councillor Jacob Taylor said that Brighton and Hove City Council had to work with schools to reduce spare places. A key aim of the review is to cut 345 year 7 classroom places – from 2,560 to 2,215 – by September 2030.
Contractor chosen to start work on Madeira Terraces restoration
Oct 8, 2024 · A contractor has been chosen for the first phase of the restoration of the Madeira Terraces although no date has been given for work to start. Brighton and Hove City Council has picked Shoreham firm JT Mackley and Co, the principal contractor for the building of the i360.
Boy, 16, arrested for murder after city centre stabbing
Oct 5, 2023 · A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for murder after another teenager was fatally stabbed in Brighton this afternoon. Emergency services were called to Queens Road at around 5pm to reports of a 17-year-old boy having been stabbed.