News Labour anger at Fire Authority spending plans to implement cuts to fire service East Sussex Fire Authority have voted through a proposal to “approve the drawdown of up to £200,000” to establish a ‘Service Transformation Team’. The team will be responsible for implementing savings plans which include cutting one of only five fire engines and 24 firefighters in Brighton and Hove. By Besi • 1 min read
News Free childcare extended to 900 two-years olds in Brighton & Hove The Government announced this week that it is extending the entitlement of 15 hours of free early education to the 40 per cent of most disadvantaged two-year-olds, to help them fulfil their potential in life. 116,000 two-year-olds already benefit from this free childcare and this week’s announcement By Sarah Green • 1 min read
News 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 By Besi • 1 min read
News 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 By Sarah Green • 1 min read
News 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 By Sarah Green • 2 min read
Health 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 By Sarah Green • 1 min read
News 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 By Besi • 1 min read
News 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 By Sarah Green • 2 min read
News 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 By Sarah Green • 1 min read
News Kemptown MP to call for end to puppy farming Simon Kirby, Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, will call for an end to puppy farming during an upcoming Parliamentary debate. Mr Kirby will be putting his further support behind the Pup Aid campaign to end the cruel practice of puppy farming in the UK. Having previously called fo By Sarah Green • 2 min read
News Kirby’s re-election campaign steps up a gear Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven will be welcoming several hundred volunteers to Brighton this weekend. The volunteers are coming to support Simon’s campaign for re-election as MP for the Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven constituency and to see what Brighton has to offer to visit By Sarah Green • 1 min read
LGBTQ+ News Equal age of consent pioneer to march at Manchester Pride Edwina Currie, the former MP who campaigned for an equal age of consent at 16, will lead the Conservative Party’s LGBT group in this Saturday’s Manchester Pride parade. This year, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Criminal Justice Act, the first successful attempt to improve the law on homosexu By Besi • 2 min read
