Brighton and Hove City Council Leader Warren Morgan calls for a new body to give residents and commuters a say in who runs their rail services. This new body, Rail South would hold those service providers to account, ensuring central government gives our region the infrastructure and operators fit for the rail service commuters and businesses need.
Brighton based HIV charity The Sussex Beacon face the prospect of closing services, including its ten bed inpatient unit, following a reduction in the funding it receives from the NHS.
Local Labour politicians express disappointment as Gatwick expansion plans turned down in favour of third runway at Heathrow. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP announced this morning that the government had decided on a third runway at Heathrow to increase the country’s airport capacity rather than a second runway at Gatwick in Sussex.
Brighton & Hove councillors from all political parties unite to condemn racism, xenophobia, and hate crimes at a meeting of the full council last night (Thursday, July 21).
Brighton & Hove Fairness Commission publish their findings and recommendations for the city. The report is the culmination of nine months’ work by the Commission to find out how Brighton & Hove can be a fairer and more equal place to live and work.
Brighton & Hove City Council will fly the flag for Brighton and Hove Albion as the team battles for promotion to the Premier League. The Club flag will fly from the council’s main offices, Kings House, on Hove seafront and at the two town halls of Brighton and Portslade until the promotion race is won; except for three dates when other flags are scheduled to be raised, including St Georges Day on April 23.
Following todays announcement that the Brighton Pier has been sold, The Leader of the City Council asks the new owners of the Pier to restore it to the name under which it was known for many years, the Palace Pier.
As Brighton & Hove City Council gears up today to vote on Labour’s plans to redesign libraries in the city, Green Councillors call on residents to contact Conservative and Labour councillors to push for the plans to go back to the drawing board, describing them as “an exercise in spin”.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle a member of LGBT Labour was overwhelming elected as Labour’s new District chair at a meeting at City College attended by more than 250 people. He replaces Nancy Platts, Labour’s candidate for Kemptown & Peacehaven at the last general election who has been appointed as the Labour Party’s Trade Union Liaison officer in Westminster.
A funding package has been agreed between British Cycling and Brighton and Hove City Council which will allow safety improvement works to take place at the historic Preston Park Cycling Track.
