Brighton, England News

An e-petition has been launched on the Brighton and Hove City Council website to name the roundabout on the A259 at Greenways the Blind Veterans UK roundabout to mark the site in Ovingdean previously known as St Dunstan's. A petition of 100 signatures has already been presented to the council, but this new e-petition will be presented to the ... (more)

Iggy Azalea performs on stage for VEVO at The Warren pop up venue on Day 2 of The Great Escape Festival on May 17, 2013 in Brighton, England.

Development plans for an empty Grade II listed cinema have stalled, as the owners cannot find a business to fill it.

A pensioner accused of driving despite his poor eyesight is alleged to have killed a 34-year-old council worker in a car crash.

The British Film Institute is to open a "talent centre" in the city as part of a A 5million plan to boost the industry across the country, The Argus has learnt.

But superstar DJ Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim is eyeing up a tasty new morsel, a vegan cafe belonging to former model Heather Mills .

It costs us billions of pounds a year in subsidies and even more in "red tape". But are the decades of stability, the rights to work and trade and strict environmental laws created by the European Union worth it? As the debate on Britain's membership intensifies, TIM RIDGWAY, JOHN KEENAN PETER TRUMAN AND CHARLOTTE IKONEN ask what has the EU done ... (more)

As part of A 5.8 million plans to boost bus use, Brighton and Hove City Council has revealed changes it wants to make to the Edward Street and Eastern Road corridor.

Richard Cairns, the head teacher of Brighton College, said the growth of the independent sector was a huge positive for the city At secondary level, the proportion is even higher at more than 20%. Department of Education figures for 2011 reveal 3,060 secondary school students are educated independently compared to 12,196 in state schools.

Friends of a playwright who died at the weekend have promised they will turn his dream of an open-air theatre into a reality.

Brighton and Hove City Council 's bereavement services department devised the two-acre Woodland Valley cemetery in response to increased demand for woodland burials.

Surgeons performed operations on the wrong limbs and left equipment inside wounds as they sewed up patients, new figures for Sussex reveal.

Richard Clothier, aka Lady James, is due to appear at Southwark Crown Court on May 31 charged with facilitating the commission of a child sex offence A drag artist who is a regular on the Brighton cabaret scene is to appear in court accused of helping a child abuser to find a victim.

Last week, Cityclean staff at Brighton and Hove City Council refused to work for two days because of a row with officials over plans to revamp its system of allowances.

A total of six arrests were made by Sussex Police both before and after the play off semi final defeat by Crystal Palace last night .

Last week The Argus reported how Stanmer Park in Brighton was shut after hundreds of people attended an event on the lawn outside Stammer House.

Brighton and Hove City Council said people in the unauthorised encampment voluntarily vacated 39 Acres, off Ditchling Road, Brighton, last week.

Council bosses have been left mystified after reports of a wormhole to another portal has opened in a residential street in Brighton.

Three hundred bin men , street cleaners, recycling staff and more, backed by their GMB union reps, refused to leave their depot today after a meeting with management in which the final details of Brighton and Hove City Council's 'pay modernisation' scheme were outlined.

It is "perfectly possible" for a free school to be built on a playing field and still have plenty of green space, according to the education secretary.