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WEB2 days ago — Stay updated with the latest news and events in Brighton and Hove, including crime reports, community updates, and local developments.
Extra police in Queens Road this evening, force says – Brighton …
WEBAug 7, 2024 — Officers will be in the centre of Brighton today and this evening after a location in Queens Road was named on a purported hit list by far-right activists. Businesses in the area have been boarding up and closing early, some on police advice, after a law firm there was listed on a racist group on the private messaging app Telegram.
Manhunt launched after city centre stabbing - Brighton and Hove …
WEBOct 5, 2023 — A manhunt is under way after a teenager was stabbed in the middle of Brighton during the evening rush hour. The incident happened in Queen’s Road at about 5pm today. The road has been cordoned off since, and the teenager taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital with serious injuries.
Plan for £6m swimming pool in Brighton advances - Brighton and …
WEBJan 18, 2024 — A plan to build a swimming pool at a sports complex in Brighton won the backing of a committee of councillors today (Thursday 18 January). The £6 million scheme still needs the approval of a second committee made up of senior councillors whose role includes signing off big spending decisions.
Brighton MP makes maiden speech in House of Commons
WEBJul 17, 2024 — “Brighton Pavilion has a history of dedicated, long-serving MPs. From its first election as a single-member constituency in 1950, it was represented until 1969 by Sir William Burke Teeling, an Irish writer and self-described ‘amateur tramp’ who walked from London to Newcastle to explore how councils were tackling unemployment.
City centre businesses board up amid race riot reports
WEBAug 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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Hundreds expected to defy threat of race riot in Brighton tomorrow
WEBAug 6, 2024 — Hundreds of anti-racist protesters are expected to assemble in Brighton tomorrow amid online reports of a planned riot targeting a firm of immigration lawyers. Businesses close to the firm, at a central location which Brighton and Hove News is not naming, are planning to close early to avoid trouble.
Counter-protesters outnumber would-be rioters by a hundred to …
WEBAug 7, 2024 — — Brighton&Hove Police (@BtonHovePolice) August 7, 2024. There had been even sketchier rumours circulating earlier today that the English Defence League (a racist organisation responsible for riots in Brighton in 2013 and 2014 which has since officially disbanded) were planning on assembling in Preston Park at 5pm.