New council leader to be named in March
The new leader of Brighton and Hove City Council will be named on 4th March, but the replacement to Councillor Bill Randall remains anyones guess. The Green Party, who ran the authority with a minority administration, have asked their sitting councillors to put forward their nominations by 18th February. The Green Party councillors and members of the More...
Labour Party Conference returning to Brighton
The Labour Party will be returning to Brighton in 2013 to hold its annual conference after a four year absence. It is estimated the party will bring 8,000 delegates and visitors to the city, which will inject £20 More...
Hove MP to make the case for high speed broadband
Hove MP Mike Weatherley is to meet culture secretary Jeremy Hunt to make the case for Brighton and Hove to be included in the government’s plans to invest £100m on the country’s broadband infrastructure. At More...
Brighton & Hove not alone in planning to reject council tax freeze
Brighton and Hove City Council do not appear to be alone in planning to reject the Coalition Government’s incentive to freeze council tax in the next financial year. A study has identified that as many as More...
Lucas urges government to acknowledge scale of child poverty
Brighton MP Caroline Lucas has urged the Coalition Government to ‘acknowledge the scale of child poverty in Sussex’ and ‘reverse its draconian austerity programme’. The Green Party leader More...
Greens and Tories clash on Library plans
A war of words has broken out between the Green Party and Conservatives in Brighton over reported plans to cut library services in the city. Hove MP Mike Weatherley has accused Green Party councillor Christopher More...
Local Labour campaigners fume as rail fares rise
Local MEP Peter Skinner has slammed the Tory-led government following the increase in rail fares that came in to force this week. Thousands of commuters in Brighton and Hove have been hit by the controversial 6% More...
Council strongly rejects government’s unlicensed venue proposal
The Government’s proposal to allow venues with a capacity of under 5,000 people to operate without a licence has been slammed by Brighton and Hove City Council. The local authority says the plan is ‘not More...
Tory MP critical of union leaders over strike action
Simon Kirby, Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown, criticised the union leaders ahead of Wednesday’s large scale strike action. At least two million public sector works went on strike over proposed pension More...
Leading Brighton Greens reaffirm support for striking workers
Brighton and Hove City Council’s leader and Brighton Pavilion’s MP have reaffirmed their support for public sector workers ahead of Wednesday’s large-scale nationwide strike. Hundreds of thousands More...