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Hundreds expected to defy threat of race riot in Brighton tomorrow
Aug 6, 2024 · Hundreds of anti-racist protesters are expected to assemble in Brighton tomorrow amid online reports of a planned riot targeting a firm of immigration lawyers. Businesses close to the firm, at a central location which Brighton and Hove News is not naming, are planning to close early to avoid trouble. The University of Sussex has also emailed ...
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2 days ago · Cabinet expected to agree £600k outdoor events programme. by Sarah Booker-Lewis - local democracy reporter. 11 November 2024. 2. Outdoor events are expected to raise more than £600,000 for Brighton and Hove City Council this year.
City centre businesses board up amid race riot reports
Aug 7, 2024 · A A. 13. Businesses in the centre of Brighton are boarding up today amid fears far-right race rioters are set to come to Brighton this evening. A firm of solicitors is one of several locations across the country identified – usually wrongly – as “immigration centres” on a far-right chat group on the private messaging app Telegram.
Extra police in Queen’s Road this evening, force says – Brighton …
Aug 7, 2024 · Extra police in Queen’s Road this evening, force says. A shop - not the location listed by the far right- boards up amid fears of race riots tonight. Picture by Brett Mendoza. Officers will be in the centre of Brighton today and this evening after a location in Queen’s Road was named on a purported hit list by far-right activists.
Cub scout leader and first aid trainer sexually abused 19 boys, …
Wednesday 23 Oct, 2024 at 9:57AM. A A. 2. Ian Silvester arrives for court - Picture by Brighton Pictures. A former cub scout leader, swimming coach and first aid instructor sexually abused 19 boys over about 30 years, a jury was told. Ian Silvester, 60, used his position to take advantage of children – some as young as seven or eight years ...
Contractor chosen to start work on Madeira Terraces restoration
Oct 8, 2024 · A contractor has been chosen for the first phase of the restoration of the Madeira Terraces although no date has been given for work to start. Brighton and Hove City Council has picked Shoreham firm JT Mackley and Co, the principal contractor for the building of the i360. The council said this evening: “Civil engineering contractor JT Mackley ...
Did you see man making threats in Hove? – Brighton and Hove …
Oct 22, 2024 · 4. Police are appealing for witnesses to a man making threats and behaving aggressively in Goldstone Villas, Hove earlier this month. A 36-year-old man from Brighton was arrested on October 8 at around 4.10pm on suspicion of using threatening/ abusive language/ behaviour to cause alarm or distress and also for assaulting two emergency workers.
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Pride charity trustee apologises over loan to his struggling …
Friday 18 Oct, 2024 at 6:35PM. A A. 54. Pride raises thousands for charity, much of which it gives to The Brighton Rainbow Fund to distribute each year. A trustee of one of the charities which distributes money raised by Brighton Pride has apologised over unpaid grants and an unsecured loan to a company he runs.