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A jury has convicted a man of raping a 14-year-old girl in Brighton on a number of occasions over the course of two years. Mark Rowley, 52, raped the schoolgirl in East Brighton Park, a jury found, and sexually abused her in the cemetery in Woodingdean as well as elsewhere. Rowley, 52, of Anna Sewell […]
A young girl has died in hospital after she was pulled from the sea in Shoreham alongside her sister and parents who also died. Her death was announced this evening (Friday 21 August) three days after the six-year-old was pulled from the water. Saja El-Khawas, 6, died today. Her sister Sara El-Khawas, 14, and her […]
Sussex 156 (47.4 overs) and 84-3 (23 overs) Warwickshire 161 (47.3 overs) Sussex (3 points) lead Warwickshire (3 points) by 79 runs with 7 wickets remaining Sean Hunt, Michael Booth and Chris Woakes led a collective display of top-drawer seam-bowling as title-chasers Warwickshire and Sussex delivered a gripping second day of their Rothesay County Championship […]
A former Sussex Police officer would have been sacked for dishonesty had he not resigned, the force said today (Friday 21 August). PC Chris Fursdon, who was based in Brighton and Hove, “has been found to have committed multiple breaches of the force’s professional standards,” Sussex Police said. The force said: “Chris Fursdon, who was […]
Firefighters have issued a plea, urging people not to take part in a dangerous social media trend involving setting fire to aerosol cans. The warning came after West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service crews attended a fire at Horsham Skate Park yesterday (Wednesday 20 August). They responded to a 999 call from a member of […]
Brighton and Hove is to get the second-biggest injection of cash in the country under Andy Burnham’s scheme to end rough sleeping. The city council is being given £1,350,803 this financial year – second only to Liverpool among English local authorities. It does not yet know how it will spend the money, which is intended […]
A man who ran a drugs line in Brighton has been jailed for seven and a half years Patrick Kargbo, 23, ran the line by sending hundreds of messages marketing heroin and cocaine to a group of contacts from a single mobile phone. Between Monday 14 July and Friday 12 December last year, Kargbo sent […]
Private companies are being asked to come forward for plans to run the seafront paddling pool – and other ideas for leisure businesses on the land to the west. The Kings Road paddling pool has been closed since ***, when work to reinforce the arches underneath the road began. Now leisure operators, investors and developers […]
Labour has selected the party’s candidate for the Queen’s Park by-election which is due to take place on Thursday 24 September. Steve Gladwin, 61, a former NHS worker and journalist, was chosen at a meeting last night (Thursday 20 September) to run for the vacant seat on Brighton and Hove City Council. Mr Gladwin said […]
Tromso 0 Brighton and Hove Albion 0 Brighton and Hove Albion had to settle for a goalless draw from the first leg of their Conference League play-off away to Tromso in Norway this evening (Thursday 20 August). The Seagulls, who finished eighth in the Premier League last season and open the new domestic campaign against […]
Two local charities, BHT Sussex and Off The Fence, have been awarded government funding to help tackle homelessness in Brighton and Hove The money comes from the Ending Homelessness in Communities Fund, administered by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. It will support a partnership between Antifreeze Day Centre and First Base Day […]
Sussex 99-3 (30.3 overs) Warwickshire yet to bat Title-chasers Warwickshire and Sussex fought out a fascinating sliver of play on a heavily weather-affected opening day of their Rothesay County Championship match at Edgbaston. Sussex, put in, were 99-3 from 30.3 overs when rain returned to wipe out the last session. They negotiated the new ball […]
An activist charged with inviting support for Hamas was told by a judge her courtroom is “not a political forum” after he repeatedly answered questions by talking about the history of Israel and Palestine. Tony Greenstein, 72, of Brighton, is on trial for one count of inviting support for a proscribed terrorist organisation at Kingston […]
Students at Roedean achieved more GCSE grade 9s – the top grade – than any other mark, the school said today (Thursday 20 August). More than a third of all grades were a 9 and three-quarters were a 9, 8 or 7 while one in five students achieved all 9s or 8s. Three students achieving […]
The railway line between Haywards Heath and Lewes will reopen on Tuesday, 1 September, rail bosses announced today. A train derailed at Lewes on Thursday, 13 August, seriously injuring two people. The line has been closed since so the train can be moved and the full extent of the damage to the track and embankment […]
Students at Portslade Aldridge Community Academy (PACA) have been celebrating their GCSE results today (Thursday 20 August). The school performed well in science and modern foreign languages and said that 76 per cent of students achieving a grade 4 or higher in English. The same percentage achieved a grade 4 or higher in maths while […]
Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in Brighton and Rottingdean this morning following weeks of drought. Together with Wednesday’s showers, this morning’s downpours saw almost 5mm of rain in just two hours, sparking callouts for the fire service from 4am onward. Rottingdean High Street was underwater during the morning rush hour. These pictures were taken by […]
Firefighters put out a blaze on a boat at Brighton Marina yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 19 August). The fire service said: “At 1.05pm, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service were called to a boat fire at Brighton Marina. “Three fire appliances are on scene. “Two breathing apparatus wearers are using a main jet to extinguish the […]
A decade ago, Los Angeles based The Black Queen burst onto the electronic music scene after releasing their debut ‘Fever Daydream’ album on 29th January 2016, which was met with critical acclaim. This 10 track slab of pure synthwave certainly pleased those folk that were seriously into the genre. The outfit flew over to the UK […]
