The Department for Education has approved Brighton and Hove City Council's three-year Local SEND Reform Plan for children and young people aged 0 to 25. See the targets, new specialist school places, ...

What's on in Brighton and Hove from 28 October to Christmas 2026: Lewes Bonfire travel advice, VegfestUK at the Hilton Metropole, Story Trail BookBenches, Regency Town House, Artist Open Houses and Bu...

The history of Volk's Electric Railway on Brighton seafront, opened in 1883 by Magnus Volk. Timeline, the Daddy Long Legs sea car, 2026 fares and when the railway is back.

Dozens of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the Brighton Centre on 3 October during the Green Party conference, with a counter-protest nearby. Read what was reported, how members voted 1,022 t...

Lucky Voice Brighton at 8 Black Lion Street has closed with immediate effect after the karaoke chain entered administration. Three venues closed, 53 redundancies, and what happens to Brighton bookings...

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service was called at 6.52pm on 8 October 2026 to a residential building fire in York Place, Brighton. Six fire engines attended, crews used breathing apparatus and one mai...

Sussex Police is appealing to identify a man after a woman in her 20s was sexually assaulted in Cheapside, Brighton, on 9 October. Quote Operation Toronto.

Sussex Police warns of scam calls from fraudsters posing as its Cyber Crime Unit and asking for passwords. Read the alert and what to do if you get a call.

Sussex women's head coach Alexia Walker, named one of the ECB's 53 women changing the game, backs Brighton and Hove's Sport Lifts Her Higher campaign. Local participation figures, free women's T20 mat...

Brighton and Hove City Council and Active Sussex launch the We Are Undefeatable campaign for people with long-term health conditions. Read Eugene's story and find local classes, osteoporosis support, ...

Every Black History Month 2026 event in Brighton and Hove, week by week: STATUS FLO, the BARCO Brighton Centre takeover, Soul to Soul films at The Rose Hill, museum storytimes and Family Day Take Part...

The Jeanne Saunders Centre, a specialist SEND nursery in Hove, has been rated Exceptional in all six areas by Ofsted after four Outstanding inspections since 2006. Read what inspector Natalie Moir fou...

Coroner Penelope Schofield has concluded that Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters took their own lives, after their bodies were recovered from the sea near Black Rock, Brighton, in May...

Brighton & Hove City Council is issuing Initial Demolition Notices this month to secure tenants of its 8 large panel system buildings in Whitehawk, Hollingdean and Kemp Town. What the notices do, reho...

LGBTQ+ veterans have until 23:59 on 12 December 2026 to apply to the Ministry of Defence Financial Recognition Scheme. Who can apply, the £50,000 and £1,000 to £20,000 payments, how to register on the...

Brighton & Hove City Council is inviting residents to complete the Inequality and Life Chances Review survey. What the review is, who chairs it, the 10 questions asked, how groups can run a discussion...

Brighton & Hove City Council has paused selective licensing in Regency and Central Hove, planned for 20 October 2026, after a legal challenge. What the council says, what was planned and what it has n...

The £1 Whitehawk Link bus fare on routes 1 and 21 has been extended to 31 March 2027 after almost 16,000 journeys. See how the zone works, what the council's research found and where Whitehawk's Pride...

ImJustBrighton investigates the closure of Little Jack Fuller's at 102 St James's Street Kemptown. Two managers fired by WhatsApp are owed £10,529.88. ACAS cases R283302/26 and R283305/26 filed. Full ...

Charles Saddler, known to all as Pirate, has died after a battle with lung cancer. His funeral is on Friday 4 September, with a procession up St James's Street and mourners asked to wear bright colour...

The Brighton Wheel could return to Madeira Drive by summer 2027. Brighton & Hove City Council will decide on 17 September whether to grant the Brighton Zip operators a 25-year lease to rebuild the whe...

Brighton and Hove City Council is forecasting a £19.882 million overspend risk for 2026/27, driven by rising adult social care and children's care costs, and has approved a request for up to £30 milli...

Work is under way on 222 new council homes for rent and a community hub in Moulsecoomb, delivered by Wates Residential for Brighton and Hove City Council. The scheme includes a GP surgery, pharmacy, l...

Brighton and Hove Streamline Taxis has served the city since 1936. A local, driver-owned cooperative with a modern app, fair pricing, no surge charges and a 24-hour local call centre. Here is why more...

Cult burger and steak restaurant Burger and Beyond opens its first site outside London at 56 Ship Street in Brighton's Lanes on 14 July. A citywide scavenger hunt from 9 July puts 56 free meals up for...

Researchers at the University of Sussex are recruiting Brighton and Hove participants for the Mind Meets Body study on how the body and mind connect. Paid, ethics-approved, one lab session.

South City Events returns to Brighton on 5 September with Movers Mansion, a two-venue Ibiza tribute across Horizon and Tide Nightclub. Tech house duo Beyond Chicago headline, with a second name reveal...

The Birdcage opened on Marine Parade in Kemptown in May 2026, running cabaret, drag, bingo, quiz and comedy seven nights a week. Thirty-two performers, eight regular series booked to December, cocktai...

Brighton and Hove City Council is expanding its selective licensing scheme to the Regency and Central Hove wards from 20 October 2026. Up to 7,274 private rented homes will need a licence, with landlo...

Brighton and Hove City Council has launched a Civic Leadership Programme with Operation Black Vote, aimed at increasing Black and Asian representation in civic roles such as councillors, magistrates, ...

Abdulla Ahmadi and Ibrahim Alshafe were each jailed for 21 years and Karin Al-Danasurt for 18 years and six months for the rape of a woman on Brighton beach. Sussex Police statement and case details.

Brighton and Hove City Council has announced new pilot funding for local charity Pelican Parcels, helping deliver 100 additional baby parcels to families across the city. Council Leader Bella Sankey a...

Brighton and Hove Streamline Taxis has served the city since 1936. A local, driver-owned cooperative with a modern app, fair pricing, no surge charges and a 24-hour local call centre. Here is why more...

Southern Fried Records, the label founded by Fatboy Slim, returns to Brighton for two Big Beach Boutique afterparties at Patterns. Luca Lozano b2b Mr. Ho on Friday 17 July and SHEE and DJ Streaks on S...

The Old Market in Hove presents Feel Good, its first ever wellbeing music season, running 2 to 8 September 2026. Eight days of immersive live music, 360-degree audiovisual shows, folk, sound baths and...

Love Supreme Jazz Festival returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex from 3 to 5 July 2026, just 20 minutes from Brighton. Headliners Loyle Carner, Ezra Collective and De La Soul lead a huge lineup of ja...

Rob Lamberti presents a summer celebration of George Michael at Central Park on Brighton Seafront on Sunday 5 July 2026, 7pm till 10.30pm. The UK's number one George Michael tribute performs Wham! and...

A man has been charged after two men were injured in a knife attack on Sillwood Street in Brighton on 27 June 2026. Members of the public tackled and detained the suspect until Sussex Police arrived. ...

A double-decker bus collided with a shop on Trafalgar Street in Brighton on 1 July 2026. East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and Sussex Police confirmed a damage-only collision with no injuries, and t...

Brighton and Hove has launched Re:Frame, a new report setting out how to protect and grow the city's visual arts scene. The council says creative industries contribute more than £1.5 billion and suppo...

Brighton and Hove Comic Con lands at the Brighton Dome on 5 and 6 September 2026, a full weekend of film, TV, gaming, comics and cosplay from family-run Screentear Events. Here is everything you need ...