TRADERS are celebrating with business booming thanks to the recent sunny spells. Numerous families have been visiting seafront and the city centre during half-term with businesses seeing a significant increase in customers. Staff at Loading, a retro gaming bar, said: “With it being half term this week, we’ve seen a lot more people coming in. […]
FRUSTRATED commuters say they are fed up with rail replacement buses. The alternative transport arrangements have been laid on while Brighton Main Line is shut for repairs this week. It means there are no direct trains between Three Bridges and Brighton or Lewes until Sunday. Simon Copeland, from Hove, said the buses were adding four […]
ORGANISERS of Brighton’s climate change march have hailed it as an “absolutely fantastic” success. An estimated 15,000 people in more than 60 towns and cities campaigned for action on climate change and in Brighton hundreds of students took to the streets last Friday, urging the Government to take urgent action on climate change. Jake Woodier, […]
Brighton and Hove Buses was encouraging people to talk to others and connect with people on its ‘Chatty Bus’ at Churchill Square yesterday (January 30). The company has partnered with Brighton community group Impetus to connect more people and help reduce loneliness as part of the Campaign to End Loneliness. Impetus volunteer Sean said: “This […]
Councillor steps in as thief makes off with elderly woman’s purse An eagle-eyed councillor attempted to apprehend a thief on Tuesday (December 4) after he took an elderly lady’s purse from her bag. Conservative councillor Mary Mears, who represents Rottingdean Coastal ward, was meeting a friend for coffee at 11.45am on London Road, Brighton, when […]
BN1 chats to… Childcare | BN1 Starting an interview at Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar after the final gig of a twelve-date tour while half the band are carrying their gear out to the van and the other half are packing up merch and untangling a hanger/string/sunglasses combination sounds a litle bit chaotic, but I think […]
Campaign to create care packages for homeless women A magazine founder is raising money to distribute care packages to homeless women in Brighton this winter. Caitlin-Finn Ballard, 22, who works at a music agency in London and co-runs King Mob Magazine, got the idea after watching BBC documentary Girls Living on the Streets of Brighton, […]
BN1 chats to… Wild Front | BN1 While standing in the doorway of a closed noodle bar next door to The Hope & Ruin, I caught up with Southampton-based Wild Front who took some time out of their post-festival UK tour to talk local venues and upcoming releases. […]
Brighton people hang hot water bottles on trees for homeless Volunteers in Brighton are tying hot water bottles to trees to help homeless people trying to stay warm this winter. The Hot Water Bottle Network is made possible by community volunteers who donate hot water bottles. Notes are attached with directions to local businesses which […]