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2 days ago · Cabinet expected to agree £600k outdoor events programme. by Sarah Booker-Lewis - local democracy reporter. 11 November 2024. 2. Outdoor events are expected to raise more than £600,000 for Brighton and Hove City Council this year.
Hundreds expected to defy threat of race riot in Brighton tomorrow
Aug 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. The University of Sussex has also emailed ...
Extra police in Queen’s Road this evening, force says – Brighton …
Aug 7, 2024 · Extra police in Queen’s Road this evening, force says. A shop - not the location listed by the far right- boards up amid fears of race riots tonight. Picture by Brett Mendoza. Officers will be in the centre of Brighton today and this evening after a location in Queen’s Road was named on a purported hit list by far-right activists.
City centre businesses board up amid race riot reports
Aug 7, 2024 · A A. 13. 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.
Counter-protesters outnumber would-be rioters by a hundred to …
Aug 7, 2024 · 20. Counter protesters are outnumbering anti-immigration protesters in Brighton tonight by about a hundred to one. Rumours of riots in Queens Road have flooded social media over the last couple of days after a legal firm based there was named in a list of targets for far-right troublemakers, alongside fire emojis and shared arson handbooks.
Cub scout leader and first aid trainer sexually abused 19 boys, …
Wednesday 23 Oct, 2024 at 9:57AM. A A. 2. Ian Silvester arrives for court - Picture by Brighton Pictures. A former cub scout leader, swimming coach and first aid instructor sexually abused 19 boys over about 30 years, a jury was told. Ian Silvester, 60, used his position to take advantage of children – some as young as seven or eight years ...
Contractor chosen to start work on Madeira Terraces restoration
Oct 8, 2024 · A contractor has been chosen for the first phase of the restoration of the Madeira Terraces although no date has been given for work to start. Brighton and Hove City Council has picked Shoreham firm JT Mackley and Co, the principal contractor for the building of the i360. The council said this evening: “Civil engineering contractor JT Mackley ...
E-bikes and e-scooters banned at eight Brighton tower blocks
Jul 19, 2024 · 12. E-bikes and e-scooters have been banned from eight council-owned blocks of flats in Brighton after a series of fire safety inspections. Parking has been suspended under the flats, meaning the closure of car parks under two of the tower blocks, after all eight were found to fall short of current safety standards.
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