LGBTQ+ News Commission launches new project to help tackle LGBT hate crime The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a 16-month-long project to tackle significant under-reporting of hate crime against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Great Britain. Recent figures in England and Wales show less than 4,500 homophobic and transphobic inciden By Besi • 2 min read
Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven General News Council awarded £183,000 to fight blue badge fraud Brighton & Hove City Council has been awarded £183,000 from the Government to help enforce laws aimed at ensuring there are enough disabled parking spaces in the city for those for genuinely need them. Recent reports highlighted the prevalence of blue badge fraud across Brighton and Hove with 79 peo By Sarah Green • 2 min read
Cllr Warren Morgan Features & Longread A review of Brighton & Hove Labour in 2014 A lot has happened since I wrote my review of 2013. Every year has its ups and downs, and if you are an Albion season ticket holder like me you’ll know what I mean. Yet every time I walk on the Downs, in view of the sea and the city centre, I’m reminded of how lucky we are to live here. By Besi • 3 min read
General News Kemptown MP secures protection for HIV prevention funding Following an outcry over Government plans to cut HIV Prevention funding by 50% in the year commencing April 2015, Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV/AIDS has lobbied Ministers at the Department of Health on the issue of funding for HIV pr By Besi • 2 min read
News Ashcroft Poll shows Lucas 10 points ahead in Brighton Pavilion In his final poll of marginals for 2014 the Tory Peer Lord Ashcroft has included the Brighton Pavilion constituency held presently by Caroline Lucas MP for the Greens. THE POLL shows the Green Party ten points ahead with a four point swing from Labour and interestingly reveals that a higher proporti By Besi • 2 min read
Health Kemptown MP keeps up pressure for a solution to Eaton Place surgery closure Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven travelled yesterday afternoon (December 11) to the Headquarters of NHS Surrey and Sussex in Horley to discuss the future of the Eaton Place surgery and GP provision in Kemp Town. He met with the Sussex area director and other members of NHS England, By Besi • 1 min read
General News Brighton & Hove Labour councillor defects to UKIP Leigh Farrow, Labour Councillor for Moulsecoomb and Bevendean will announce at full council today that he has joined UKIP. Cllr Farrow a member of the Labour Party for 30 years was banned from standing as a councillor for the Labour and Coopeerative at next years local elections at a branch meeting By Besi • 3 min read
Nancy Platts: Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven General News Labour candidate calls on Kemptown MP to vote to save firefighters pensions Nancy Platts, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven has written to Simon Kirby MP asking him if he will vote to save firefighters’ pensions in the Parliamentary debate on Monday. Nancy issued her challenge after the Conservative MP met with the Fire Minister, Penny Mo By Besi • 3 min read
Simon Kirby MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven News Kemptown MP presses Fire Minister on firefighter pensions Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven met in parliament today with Communities Minister, Penny Mordaunt MP, to discuss the firefighters and their pensions. He sought the meeting with the Minister in order to press again the concerns of firefighters and to ask the Minister to look agai By Sarah Green • 1 min read
General News ‘Replace Eaton Place’ campaigners demand action ‘Replace Eaton Place’ campaigners, led by Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown, Nancy Platts, went to the Health and Wellbeing Board on Thursday, December 9 to call for GP services in East Brighton to continue when the current doctors retire on February 28, 2015 . By Besi • 2 min read
General News “Our Human Rights must be protected”, says Labour ahead of Human Rights Day To mark the occasion, Purna Sen, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion has joined with Labour’s South East Member of the European Parliament, Anneliese Dodds MEP and the Labour Campaign for Human Rights to warn that basic rights are under attack by the Conservatives. By Besi • 3 min read
News Employment Minister visits Brighton Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven welcomed Employment Minister Esther McVey to Brighton today. The Minister visited the Brighton Swimming Centre to meet with Swim UK, an organisation that offers free accredited coursed for unemployed people in areas like life guarding, customer se By Sarah Green • 2 min read
