American singer, songwriter and pianist, Aretha Franklin, known as the queen of soul, passed away yesterday at her home in the US city of Detroit, aged 76. She had cancer and had been seriously ill for a few days.
Brighton Journal looks back at the life of one of the greatest...
Sussex Police yesterday (16 August) released CCTV images of a man who mocked and shouted abuse at a profoundly disabled man, aboard a bus in Brighton at the end of July.
In identifying the man (pictured above), Sussex Police are now appealing for the publics help.
The incident occurred on a number 5a double-decker bus in Ditching Road,...
Brighton & Hove A-level students have this year once again outperformed the national average, with the city’s A-level grades ‘way ahead’ of the national average.
Provisional results from the city’s seven education centres offering A-levels show that in Brighton & Hove overall:
34.3% of grades were A*-A which is almost eight percentage points...
Thirty-four new homes will be built in Buckingham Road, central Brighton, having been approved by Brighton & Hove’s planning committee yesterday (15 August).
Brighton is consistently regarded as being one of the least affordable UK Cities for housing.
This new development will see 44% affordable housing provision on the site, which is more than the local planning requirement.
Former Victorian townhouses...
YMCA DownsLink Group's WiSE project has received a grant of £77,043 from the Police & Crime Commissioner's Safe Space Sussex Funding Network.
YMCA DownsLink Group is a registered charity that works across Sussex and Surrey providing a range of services and projects to children, young people and families in the...
The summer holiday season is in full swing, the sun continues to shine, and, as the city welcomes thousands of visitors, a new campaign is being launched to help keep pedestrians and cyclists safe.
The national campaign “Share the space, drop your pace”, aims to raise awareness of how pedestrians and cyclists...
Sussex Police in Horsham and Brighton are searching for a man who is wanted for recall to prison, and who is also suspected of being involved in a series of assaults that occurred in Brighton city centre at the end of June.
19 year-old Joshua Rutigliano, who Police state, "has lived at...
The Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter, Rescue 175, was sent to Brighton seafront last night (14 August) to assist in a life-saving rescue operation, after two people became entrapped under the Brighton Palace Pier.
The two people, a women and a man, became trapped in the water beneath the structure, and its reported...
A man who Sussex Police have named as Sergio Lemori, has appeared in court charged with the murder of 54 year old Andrew O'Connell from Kent.
It follows a serious assault that occurred close to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery located in the Royal Pavilion gardens, 12A Pavilion Parade, Brighton,...
Sussex Police are appealing for help in tracing a local woman who they believe may have valuable information regarding an attack on a young girl, that occurred in a Brighton street at the end of July.
At about 8pm on Tuesday 31 July, the 13-year-old girl who was walking north up Portfield Avenue (pictured above), Hollingbury,...
