Politics

The cross party Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) has today, December 10, called for a review of drug policy, saying that government action is needed “now, more than ever” to consider all of the alternatives to the UK’s failing drug laws. Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas, has been campaigning

Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb MP, has outlined the steps the Government is taking to encourage firms to employ older people in response to a Parliamentary Question tabled by Kemptown MP Simon Kirby. The Minister highlighted the Department for Work and Pensions ‘Age Positive Initiative’

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, finally delivered his speech to a group of Sussex University Conservative Society students, last week after he was prevented from speaking by a group of violent squatters at the campus in November.

Simon Kirby MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven has marked National HIV Testing Week by taking a public HIV test at the Houses of Parliament this week. Simon took the test to encourage more people in his constituency to test for the virus. He was given a rapid finger-prick blood test by a nurse from HIV an

Both local Conservative MPs, Mike Weatherley, the MP for Hove and Portslade and Simon Kirby, MP for Portslade & Peacehaven are calling on all residents in Brighton & Hove to get tested during England’s first National HIV Testing Week.

Brighton & Hove City Council has announced its programme of grants to voluntary sector and arts organisations for the next three years. The 2013-16 programme sees investment in community groups and voluntary organisations which work across many different areas and age groups in the city including th