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Labour set out ten key pledges for council elections in 2015

Labour set out ten key pledges for council elections in 2015

Labour leader Cllr Warren Morgan set out 10 key pledges on which Labour will fight the local elections between now and polling day in May 2015, at an event on Brighton seafront last night (September 25) attended by candidates and Party members. Calling the pledges a “Contract With Brighton and Hove”

Labour parliamentary candidate holds coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer

Labour parliamentary candidate holds coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer

Nancy Platts, the Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, is hosting a public coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Every day in Brighton and Hove 23 people find out the devastating news that they have cancer. By 2030, there will be 121,400 people living wit

Cashman appointed as Labour’s LGBT rights envoy

Cashman appointed as Labour’s LGBT rights envoy

During his speech to the Labour Party conference (September 23), the Labour Leader, Ed Miliband MP, announced that the former soap star and Labour MEP Lord Cashman would serve as the Labour party’s LGBT rights envoy. Mr Miliband said that, at a time when spectacular progress had been made regarding

Council clampdown will improve children’s safety

Council clampdown will improve children’s safety

Motorists who persist in driving and parking on pavements and verges around schools, putting children’s safety at risk, could receive on-the-spot fines. Brighton and Hove City Council is launching the second phase of its multi-agency initiative to target inconsiderate driving in areas around four ci

Saunders Park needs more ‘Friends’

Saunders Park needs more ‘Friends’

A local park needs volunteers to help with improvements to ensure it continues to be a great place to visit. Saunders Park, on the Lewes Road between the gyratory and the B and Q retail park, is a popular park with recently refurbished facilities including a paddling pool and play area. A team of vo

Local unemployment falls

Local unemployment falls

Employment continues to fall in Brighton and Hove. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that the number of unemployed claimants in Hove and Portslade in August 2014 was 1,256. This figure is 617 lower than that of August 2013 and 76 lower than in July 2014. Overall, figures sh

Tories urge Labour Party to intervene in bin strike

Tories urge Labour Party to intervene in bin strike

Conservative Group Leader, Cllr. Geoffrey Theobald, has called on Cllr. Warren Morgan, leader of the Labour group on the City Council, to urge the GMB Trade Union to call off strike action by refuse truck drivers. The present strike action has been running for a week and includes a ‘work to rule’ wh

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