ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organisation for Reform Now and it began with a fight for justice within one community. They had 100 people supporting their campaign when they started but now have over 1000 tenants and community members in nine cities across the country fighting for...
In the last few years there has been a reform in the way that people talk, consider and approach gender. There is still a very long way to go in terms of rights and awareness but in an effort to encourage acceptance, Brighton & Hove City Council have introduced...
In our city of 507,000 people, one in 69 is homeless. Galvanise Brighton & Hove is on an ambitious campaign aiming to end street homelessness by 2020, in accordance to the Council's own plan. Chronic homelessness is a cycle that starts and ends with access to the necessary support...
Andy Hill, the pilot of the vintage Hawker Hunter jet that crashed onto the A27 in 2015, has pleaded not guilty to all manslaughter charges made against him. The charges of causing manslaughter by gross negligence, and a lesser charge of endangering an aircraft come three years after the tragic...
Craig Savage has been charged with the murders of Heather Whitbread, 53 and her daughter Michelle, 32 who were murdered on Friday in St Leonards, East Sussex. The man, who is of no fixed address, appeared before Brighton Magistrates Court via video link earlier on today. According to sources,...
A British woman from Lewes, Sussex has died fighting alongside the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG). Anna Campbell is the first British woman to have been killed in Syria, with seven other Britons dying whilst fighting alongside the YPG and other respective groups. The YPJ, an off-shoot of YPG...
Police are questioning a 35 year old man on suspicion of murder after a mother and daughter were fatally shot in their home on Friday night. The victims have been named as Heather and Michelle Whitbread and have been described by family members as 'beautiful people that filled our...
Two attempts to defraud people in Bexhill-on-Sea have been stopped by police and alert counter staff who assisted them.
In the first incident on Thursday 8th March a 95-year-old woman asked to withdraw over £5,000 cash from her account at the town's branch of Lloyds bank, a very uncharacteristic request....
Today is national No Smoking Day, so explore what services are available to you and make a change now. Quitting will improve your health (and faster than most people think) as well as making you significant savings.
Smoking causes the most preventable deaths in the whole of England, it is...
A man living in Newhaven who committed a series of sexual offence against two young boys at his previous address in Norfolk Road, Brighton, has been given a 13-year prison sentence.
68-year-old Keith Freeman, retired, of Brighton Road, Newhaven, was given his sentence on Wednesday 7th March, at Lewes Crown...
