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Friday, September 18, 2026
Brighton & Hove Labour will propose a Notice of Motion at next week’s Full Council meeting, calling for an officer report which explores options to advance health equity, and for Brighton & Hove to follow others in becoming a ‘Marmot City.’ The 2010 Marmot review: Fair Society, Healthy Lives, Chaired by...
The South East woke up on Friday to a political map almost unrecognisable from the one Brighton has lived inside for the past two decades. The Conservatives have lost control of West Sussex County Council. Reform UK is now the largest party on East Sussex County Council, though short...
The Liberal Democrats will be hoping they will gain their first seats on Brighton and Hove City Council since 2011. What would Liberal Democrat councillors do if elected in the city? The Liberal Democrats manifesto for Brighton and Hove is split into five key areas; ‘tackling housing and homelessness’, ‘getting...
  With COVID-19 cases rising rapidly and 83% of beds in intensive care currently occupied, things have not been going well in Northern Ireland. Therefore, after a long meeting on Tuesday October 13, First Minister Arlene Foster announced that the government would be introducing a set of “circuit breaker” restrictions to...
Green Councillors have announced their support for the Local Government Association's call to ‘keep planning local,’ joining a host of wildlife organisations and the Labour group in resisting proposed changes to planning law. New plans for house-building and planning being proposed by the Conservative government could see Brighton required to...
Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convict the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, though...
Tanushka Marah, an independent parliamentary candidate, was uninvited from the Jewish community hustings and has faced online harassment from pro-Israel activists. The Sussex Jewish Representative Council (SJRC) withdrew Marah’s invitation to the event, which took place in Hove on Sunday. The SJRC claims they uninvited the Hove and Portslade candidate because...
Voters go to the polls in Brighton and Hove on Thursday and one of the parties vying for their vote and hoping to make a return to the council is the Liberal Democrats. The party lost their last seat on Brighton and Hove City Council in 2011, amid a backlash...
Channel 4 are holding the world’s first TV climate and nature election debate this Thursday (28th November) at 7pm. Featured image: © Greta Thunberg at European Parliament Three weeks ago Green Peace launched a petition, signed by over 200,000 people, calling for party leaders to hold a debate on the climate and...
The local elections are just one day away and the Labour Party, who currently run the council, are hoping to win another four years in office and obtain a majority on the city council. At the last election, the party was only five seats short of this and Daniel Yates,...