As a professional beekeeper – a full-time environmentalist as it were – I am one of the millions of individuals who have chosen voluntarily to take responsibility for tackling the environmental problems that we face. I have planted trees, formed gardening groups with fellow residents, insulated my home; and cut down on plastic use. I regularly buy local; I religiously recycle; I rarely fly, and I usually walk. Few Green Party supporters can claim such credentials. I am also one …
Month: November 2019
From local candidates to today’s world leaders, it would appear that the civility once taken for granted in politics is fading. In the past year alone, there have been countless incidents involving harassment and even assault of elected officials in the UK, and the constant background hum of petty bickering and name-calling. …
The past few months have seen a number of high profile shop break-ins but now a different worrying criminal trend has reared its head in the West Hove area. …
A Brighton homelessness charity will be hosting a ‘sleep out’ event as part of The World’s Biggest Sleep Out. Brighton’s Sleep Out will take place on Saturday December 7 at Hove Lagoon and Sussex Homeless Support are aiming to encourage 500 people to sleep out. The ‘Sleep Out’ aims to raise funds and awareness for homelessness charities and is supported by celebrities such as Will Smith, Dame Helen Mirren, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin. For one night, sponsored volunteers will sleep …
Hove MP Peter Kyle and his Labour Party colleagues learnt his fate last night after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson succeeded in calling a general election for Thursday 12 December. …
BUSINESSES will close and the city centre will have nothing to attract tourists if the third phase of a project to redesign the road layout goes ahead in its current form, says a leading councillor. This was the stark warning from Conservative leader Steve Bell, who described the project to replace Brighton’s Palace Pier roundabout with a traffic light junction and move all traffic to the eastern site of Old Steine as having been “railroaded through”. …
Businesses will close and the city centre will have nothing to attract tourists if the third phase of a project to redesign the road layout in central Brighton goes ahead in its current form, according to a leading councillor. This was the stark warning of Conservative leader Steve Bell, who described the project to replace the Palace Pier roundabout with a traffic light junction and move all traffic to the eastern site of Old Steine as having been “railroaded through”. …