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 million into the local economy. The news is a big boost to the city’s conference trade and comes on the back of news from Brighton 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...
Labour councillor warns against ‘Tory Death Tax’
Labour’s lead councillor for Brighton and Hove Gill Mitchell has spoken out against the potential ‘death tax’ imposed on families after a relative passes away. The plan from the Coalition Government More...
Call for Bike Boxes in Brighton and Hove
Bike boxes should be introduced in Brighton and Hove to help reduce bicycle thefts and to improve the look of city centre pavements, according to the city’s Labour leader Gill Mitchell. Cllr Mitchell believes More...
Brighton MP blasts Labour’s ‘chaotic and incoherent’ education policy
Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has ridiculed Labour’s announcement that it would cap university fees at £6,000 should it return to power at the next election. Labour campaigned last year against the More...
Labour concern ahead of mysterious housing meeting
Labour leader in Brighton and Hove, Councillor Gill Mitchell, has expressed her party’s concerns ahead of a meeting tomorrow (Friday) when the council’s cabinet are to meet in relation to a huge housing More...
Labour repeat call for return to committee decision-making system
Brighton and Hove Labour has repeated its call for the council to return to a committee system of decision making which would replace the current Leader-Cabinet system that is place. The current system was adopted More...
Council’s education equality service praised by Stonewall
Brighton and Hove City Council has come second in the inaugural Education Equality Index devised by Stonewall, the lesbian, gay and bisexual charity. Stonewall report that homophobic bullying is endemic in Britain’s More...
Primary school places a ticking time bomb, say new Labour councillors
The shortage of primary school places in Hove and Portslade has been described as a ‘ticking time bomb’ by two new Labour councillors in the area. Alan Robins and Anne Pissaridou, who were elected to More...
Tory MPs challenged after electric car pledge is dropped
Brighton and Hove’s Conservative MPs have been urged to challenge their party on the decision to scrap a pledge to install a network of electric vehicle charging points. There are currently just two electric More...