Suzie Imber is a sustainability and environment expert, award-winning planetary scientist, high-altitude mountaineer, and inspirational speaker with The Sustainability Speakers Agency. Her career has taken her from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to remote peaks in the Andes, uniting innovative science with a passion for exploration.
Currently Professor of Planetary...
Greens slam Labour for “refusing to listen” to council housing tenants and “betraying renters”The party claims Labour have “gutted” their Notice of Motion, which calls for better housing conditions for all renters in the city.
The Greens’ motion calls on the council to explore what powers it has to expand...
A report to councillors will outline proposed changes to the city’s libraries aiming to help Brighton & Hove City Council deliver a sustainable and affordable library service.
The proposals to be discussed at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday 11 December include:
reducing opening hours at Jubilee Library by 5 hours...
The government has launched an 8-week statutory consultation on different proposals to change how local government is structured across Sussex.
Local government reorganisation is a national process used by national government to consider simplifying council structures.
At present, Brighton & Hove City Council is a single, unitary authority responsible for all local...
Brighton & Hove City Council has formally approved the next stage in advancing devolution for the region, giving its consent to the creation of a new Mayoral Combined County Authority (MCCA) for Sussex and Brighton. The decision, agreed at this week’s Cabinet meeting, marks a decisive moment in the...
A total of £400,000 is being awarded in grants to local community groups and voluntary organisations from our Community Catalyst Fund. Across the city, 45 groups are to benefit from grants ranging from £1,000 to £20,000.
They include residents’ groups, projects working with young people, an anti-racism organisation, a homeless charity...
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...
The debate over former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner’s tax arrangements demonstrated that there are few topics more complex than the law of trusts. It was politically awkward, to say the least, when a deputy PM and housing secretary had to admit getting it wrong, and underpaying £40,000 in...
A by-election will take place to elect a new ward councillor for Queen’s Park on Thursday 18 September 2025 between 7am and 10pm.
The by-election will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Tristram Burden.
The candidates for the Queen’s Park by-election have now been confirmed:
Simon Charleton – Labour...
Hours before meeting Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump said he wanted to see a ceasefire in Ukraine and was “not going to be happy” if it wasn’t agreed today. The US president appears to have left Alaska with no such agreement in place.
“We didn’t get there”,...
