Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) passed two motions put forward by Conservative and Green councillors calling for a ban on the use of single-use plastics in Brighton's council buildings at a council meeting last week by a unanimous decision.
Steve Bell (Conservative Councillor) put forward a motion last week...
The council was facing a move of around a thousand staff from their primacies on Fourth Avenue to a much smaller location at Kings road.
Those responsible for organising the logistics of the move knew that they were going to be left with a lot of office equipment like fling cabinets and...
Local direct action collective Brighton Homelessness Action Group have started a crowd-funding campaign in an aim to raise funds to buy the kinds of useful equipment needed for those living on our streets this winter.
The group are encouraging people to make donations of equipment which may be useful too, if...
Love Activists Brighton, the local offshoot of the original Love Activists direct action group in London, and the group behind the Clock Tower's Love Kitchen, a direct action campaign to redistribute hot drinks, food donations and surplus food to those left hungry and without housing, have teamed up with Brighton Homelessness Action...
Two minute silences will be observed and attended by the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Dee Simson at the Hove War Memorial, and by the Mayor and Councillor Mo Marsh in Old Steine.
Remembrance events are held in October and November each year, and services will be held throughout Brighton, Hove and Portslade to mark National Remembrance.
Alongside...
Back for its 15th year, organisers are thrilled to announce the latest iteration of the film festival which includes two weeks of previews, exhibitions, live scores, Q&As, workshops and special events.
Taking the 70th anniversary of Brighton Rock as inspiration, this year CINECITY celebrates Brighton in all its glory. Attendees will enjoy a...
Following two sell-out writing conferences in both 2016 and 2017, the much loved writing workshop will be back in 2018.
The event will consist of workshops with top authors including the Sunday Times bestseller of psychological thrillers ERIN KELLY - lauded as “a master at drip-feeding us the details, keeping us guessing about the truth”...
At a council meeting in January, a Green Party proposal was unanimously passed. It called for empty buildings owned by Brighton and Hove City Council to be made available for use as homeless shelters, with the aim of having a new night shelter open ahead of this winter.
The proposal gave voluntary...
Residents and tourists who use the city’s toilets will find they are the cleanest ever.
An annual audit by the national, independent ‘Loo of the Year Awards’ (LOYA) organisation has graded the toilets the highest ever, with four sites receiving an improved grading on last year.
The LOYA, which aims to...
The 122-year-old Dyke Tavern has been granted Grade II listed building status by Historic England.
The much-loved pub, which was built by local architect Charles Henry Buckman in 1895, is now protected under the planning system after being deemed to have ‘special architectural and historic interest’.
The move comes after Brighton...
