When it is time for a police conference what better to do than take ten top officers to the £250-a-head Grand Hotel, all at the taxpayers’ expense of course, rather than the police conference centre …

The group of squatters who had taken over historic Fife House in Lewes Crescent have departed, leaving only a few beer cans to show that they were ever there.

Now this is an interesting one. Council chief executive Alan McCarthy is set to take early retirement, but that’s not quite how the story went originally. Initial reports on the Argus website stated that Mr. …

Unique international collaboration for Brighton’s Lanes A unique international collaboration between a team of development researchers and the Lanes Business Network is exploring the future of the business community in the Lanes this month. 
“The Lanes …

A disciplinary panel consisting of two independent members and one councillor found that Councillor Geoffrey Theobald, who last month parked his Jag in a disabled bay as he was late for a meeting, had breached …

A large section of Madeira Drive is set to get a heritage-style facelift and the road widened. Work has already commenced on the stretch of road, which is too weak to support heavy vehicles. The …

St. Mary Magdalen’s Church in Upper North Street received a shock from Southern Water – a bill for £4,600. This is said to have been “going on for months” according to the church’s priest, Father …

The i360 is still on course for its opening in Spring 2011, despite erm …. very little work having taken place. Architects Marks Barfield have had meetings with the West Pier Trust, and have told …

A court has heard how the Kemptown ‘Gay Oscars’ turned into a heated skirmish between two rival bar owners. Guests who gathered at the Metropole hotel for the “Golden Handbag” awards were said to have …

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs are warning people to beware of bargain Nintendo DS and DS Lite machines this Christmas. HMRC have confiscated hundreds of such counterfeit machines at entry points around the country, and …