An Eritrean man is set to be deported to France on Friday after losing a High Court bid to have his removal under the Government’s “one in, one out” scheme temporarily blocked..

Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas has teased some “exciting changes” and “twists and turns” ahead of the new series..

The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4% as it said the UK was “not out of the woods” on inflation, with taxes contributing to rising food costs..

The privately educated are “maintaining a vice-like grip” on the top jobs in Britain, a charity has said, and is calling for employers to be required to report on the economic backgrounds of their workforce..

The “power of peatlands” is to be embraced in a new strategy by Stormont to tackle the nature and climate crisis and improve water quality..

American investment worth £150 billion has been unveiled as part of US President Donald Trump’s historic second state visit..

American investment worth £150 billion has been unveiled as part of US President Donald Trump’s historic second state visit..

Irish police believe they have uncovered the skeletal remains of a child who had been missing for years following a search in the Donabate area of Co Dublin..

Great Britain’s Jake Wightman claimed a stunning world 1500 metres silver medal after defending champion Josh Kerr pulled up in a final won by Portugal’s Isaac Nader in Tokyo..

That's according to Coach Paul Rowley.

Unite has called for a furlough scheme to be introduced.

Claire’s appointed administrators for its UK and Ireland business last month.

However, the Old Trafford club reported a loss of 33 million pounds.

He's been welcomed at Windsor Castle by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

100 were seized during raids in London.

Total sales rose 3.5 percent in the 13 weeks to July 27.

He will play Jacob Marley at London's Alexandra Palace from 21st of November.

Former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey has pleaded not guilty to raping two women..

At least 1,147 people in the UK died from climate change-driven heatwaves over this summer, leading scientists and epidemiologists have found..

UK inflation remained unchanged last month but food and drink price rises have accelerated for the fifth month in a row, new official figures show..

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Maria Caulfield, a former Conservative MP for Lewes and shadow health minister, has joined Reform UK, GB News reports.

Two women and a man were arrested after a protest in Parliament Square, Westminster, on July 5.

Southern has advised that following high winds yesterday at Seaford, trains are unable to run to / from this station. As a result, trains have been be cancelled or revised.

The council leader has said the raising of St George’s flags and Union Jacks across the city has caused “fear and distress”.

By Sarah Booker-LewisLocal Democracy Reporter

A police officer who engaged in an inappropriate conversation with a member of the public has been dismissed without notice.

Parents, staff, and learning advisers have joined forces with determination and vision to create something extraordinary: OurPlace Learning Community (OPLC).

Stagecoach South East is inviting Eastbourne residents to come and talk with the team about upcoming changes to local bus services from September 21.

The legendary reggae band Misty In Roots will be celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of intimate shows.

At the meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party last week, Keir Starmer described the threat from Reform and the Greens as a dual threat from ‘plastic patriots’ on the one hand and ‘plastic progressives’ on the other. Nowhere is that clearer than in the battle in the Queen’s Park by-election this week.Reform are fielding a candidate and their Party locally, just as nationally, seeks to sew division, offering no solutions, just anger and outrage. By the same token the Green Party’s campaign makes almost no mention of local issues knowing, as they must do deep down, that they left this City in a mess when they left office in 2023 and locally your Labour council has made great strides in turning things around. There is the Greens incompetence of course - the millions of pounds of public money the Greens squandered on the i360, the closure and mothballing of public toilets, cuts to the City’s lifeguard service and more. But what I want undecided voters to be aware of, is that the so called progressive rhetoric of the Greens falls away as soon as they enter office. I like to call them Tories on bikes, because once you scratch the service you find good old fashioned conservatism rather than the radicalism they loudly proclaim on social media. Take the above three examples, their waste on the i360 has meant our Labour administration has had to find efficiency savings that impact public services, including to our most deprived communities. No truly Left wing Party could have taken such a gamble with public money given – as Labour warned at the time – that the financial projections did not add up and our residents would end up paying the bill. The closure and mothballing of toilets also reveals a Party with little awareness of the role public loos play in ensuring that all members of our community – including those that can’t pay to pop into a coffee shop – have access to the City and the outdoors. Again with lifeguard services, these are essential for a seaside City and especially so to ensure that families unable to afford foreign holidays or expensive summer holiday activities can safely enjoy our beaches. And there are so many more examples: the Greens care little about our council estates and they let council house repairs pile up to over 9000 by the time they left office in 2023. We’ve already cut that down to 2600 and our target is 0. The Greens let HMO licensing lapse and dragged their feet on landlord licensing – perhaps because so many of them are private landlords? By contrast we have reinstated HMO licensing, introduced landlord licensing to hold private landlords to account and we are unleashing a huge boost to social and council housebuilding. Where they equivocate and ultimately serve the interests of those with most in our society, the Labour Party rolls up its sleeves and protects the most vulnerable and those with the least.And this point, that in practice the Labour Party is to the Left of the Greens, doesn’t get made enough in our politics. The Labour Party is the most significant force for progressive change in our country’s history. What our Party has achieved – from the founding of the NHS, to the current uplift to workers rights and the minimum wage – in the comparatively short period of time we have held office, is extraordinary. That the Green Party openly wants to replace the Labour Party makes it one of the most dangerous forces in our politics today.The Greens are deeply cynical. In the byelection in Queens Park they are campaigning on the horrors being committed by Israel in Gaza. Our local Labour Party took an early stand, calling for a ceasefire in November 2023. And Brighton and Hove’s Planning Committee unanimously rejected a planning application from a firm, L3 Harris, which makes components in weapons used by Israel. There is nothing more that as local politicians we can do to influence the atrocities going in in the middle east because we are local politicians only legally able to effect change on local matters. And our Labour Government is working to get aid into Gaza and to secure a two state solution. Yet locally the Greens think it is appropriate to use the deaths of thousands of Palestinians to try and improve their electoral fortunes in a local election. There is nothing progressive about this: it is deeply cynical.At a time when the far right is quite literally on the march, backed by the wealthiest man on the planet, a Green Party that wants to destroy the Labour Party, the main vehicle for working class advancement in the UK’s history, needs to be challenged and voted against.Bella Sankey is the Labour Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council

The solar panels are part of the council’s largest rollout of solar PV on non-domestic public buildings to date.

People opposed to plans to build 3,000 homes West of Ifield have been given a crash course in how to let Horsham District Council know how they feel

More than 1,000 children in West Sussex went missing in 2024 and 2025, many of them more than once, councillors have been told

By Sarah Booker-LewisLocal Democracy Reporter

Progress is being made in the removal of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete from hospital sites across England

More than 14,000 people have had their say on plans to reorganise local government in an area of Sussex

A butcher’s in Hangleton, a suburb of Brighton and Hove, transformed into the site of a rave on Thursday evening.

A £10 million scheme to build two blocks of flats will have too few parking spaces, especially for people with disabilities, neighbours said

Horley nine-year-old Gwen Foster was named as a winner in the prestigious national 2025 WellChild Awards having been nominated by her parents