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New anti-UKIP campaign group

New anti-UKIP campaign group

Stand Up To UKIP is an umbrella campaigning organisation which believes women, trade unions, anti- racists, black people and Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Sikh and other faith communities, LGBT, young people, students and all good people must unite and stand up to UKIP, racism and bigotry. Organ

Kemptown MP calls for City Council to turn down proposed Meadow Vale development

Kemptown MP calls for City Council to turn down proposed Meadow Vale development

Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven has sent a formal objections to Brighton and Hove City Council regarding proposals to build new housing in the Meadow Vale area of Ovingdean. He cites, inappropriate development, the loss of the village feel in Ovingdean, Rottingdean and Woodingde

Hove MP highlights local anti-Semitism to Prime Minister

Hove MP highlights local anti-Semitism to Prime Minister

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, has written to his colleague the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, to highlight the problem of anti-Semitism in Hove, including graffiti on a Hove synagogue. In his letter to the Prime Minister, Mike wrote: “It is deeply saddening that a synagogue

Kemptown MP Kirby welcomes new HIV report

Kemptown MP Kirby welcomes new HIV report

Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Vice Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for HIV/AIDS, has today welcomed the report from 2020health entitled Growing Older Positively, which reviews the difficulties that are faced by those who are ageing with HIV. The Growing older positively report

Labour candidate calls for stats on fire response times

Labour candidate calls for stats on fire response times

Nancy Platts is pressing the East Sussex Fire Authority to reveal what impact fire service cuts will have on response times in East Sussex. Nancy, the Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has written to the Fire Authority to ask if response times to road traffic accid

Council officials block proposed boycott of Israeli goods and services

Council officials block proposed boycott of Israeli goods and services

Senior Conservatives have welcomed the decision by Brighton & Hove Council officials to block former Green Councillor, Ben Duncan’s, attempts to introduce a Council boycott of Israeli goods and services. Cllr. Duncan had announced his intention to move a motion at the next Full Council meeting calli

Kemptown MP welcomes ‘Ten Minute Rule’ Bill on wild animals in circuses

Kemptown MP welcomes ‘Ten Minute Rule’ Bill on wild animals in circuses

Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, has welcomed the passing of the first stage of a Ten Minute Rule Bill on ending the use of wild animals in circuses. Simon has been a strong supporter of this issue which he feels very strongly about, and has raised the matter regularly with Mini

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