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Targets are being missed as patients in Brighton & Hove are waiting longer than they should to be admitted to A&E departments. Ambulance crews aim to hand over patients to hospital staff within 15 minutes, however recent figures show that the number of patients at Sussex’s A&E waiting are left...
Following hot on the heels of last year's successful electronics recycling scheme, tech-takeback returns to Brighton this Saturday for another week of free data-wiping and device recycling. The Tech-Takeback project is a partnership between four organisations, Brighton & Hove City council, Erase MyData, Freegle and SOENECS. The device recycling scheme will...
Police are appealing for witnesses to a crash between a white Ford Transit van and a black Yamaha 125cc motorcycle which occurred on the A259 South Coast Road, Saltdean, at around 4pm on Friday 5th. The collision happened 45 metres east of the road's junction with Bannings Vale and led...
Police were called to Shooting Field, Steyning, just after 11pm on Saturday night (6 January) after reports of a fight outside a local club involving some 20 people. Charlie Bartholomew, 23, a fence erector, of Priory Field, Upper Beeding, was later arrested and charged with threatening behaviour, obstructing police, and assaulting...
An ex-teacher has been sentenced to a total of four years imprisonment for a series of sex offences against pupils at a West Sussex public school. Peter Burr, 72, retired, of The Square, Kingswear, Dartmouth, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Friday (5 January) after admitting nine offences of indecent...
Police are investigating an incident involving a pupil being approached by a unknown man on a footpath close to a Brighton school on Wednesday (3 January). This was reported to have happened at around at 9.30am on a path close to Stringer Way near to Dorothy Stringer School. Police are treating...
Plans to raise the transfer and licence fees on the city’s 459 beach huts on Hove seafront are to be considered by councillors. At present, owners of the privately owned huts pay an annual licence fee of £367.20 for having the hut on council land. If owners sell their hut they...
Brighton locals have expressed their outrage at the Prime Minister's defence inflation busting increases in train fares. Over the weekend Theresa May claimed that rises in regulated fares were justified due to the need for investment into the country’s railways. This means that Sussex rail passengers, who saw their tickets prices...
A drink-driver crashed into a car and fled the scene across fields in freezing temperatures in Brighton. Henry McKeever was later located at the BP petrol station in Mill Road covered in mud, cuts and grazes. He had made his way across country without any shoes, and had a large tear...
Brighton's Council Tax team has had reports of people claiming to be council enforcement agents from the county court calling residents asking them to make an immediate payments to a bank account they provide. This is a scam. Council Enforcement Agents (formerly known as Bailiffs) do not make phone calls directly to customers...