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Portslade News, in Station Road, Portslade The new owner of a shop in Portslade has been granted an alcohol licence provided that the former owners are banned from the premises when it’s open for business. The former owners of Portslade News, in Station Road, Portslade, were under investigation after claims that people were found working for them in conditions amounting to “modern slavery”. The new owner, LMYP Limited, run by Marissa Patel and her father Yogesh, has agreed to abide ...

AN online supermarket that promises to deliver groceries in 15 minutes can’t offer alcohol from its central Brighton depot.

Libation in Hove will be able to serve alcohol to customers at tables on the pavement A BAR in Hove can serve drinks to customers seated at tables on the pavement despite objections from neighbours. Libation, in Victoria Grove, in Second Avenue, Hove, already has a pavement licence until September, allowing it to put seats in the street. But it was not allowed to serve alcohol to customers at the pavement tables until a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel gave permission. The...

The legal threat is understood to have come from a Rise service user. The committee also received a report which said that a cross-party working group should have been set up in 2018 to oversee the commissioning process – but this never happened. Even if it had been set up, councillors would not have been involved in evaluating the contract bids and, the committee was told, procurement law required councils to select the best tender. The report said: “Awarding public contracts is ti...

Illegal immigrants found in raids as part of slavery investigation A CONVENIENCE store at the centre of a modern slavery investigation is accused of paying immigrant workers “a pittance” and putting them up in unsafe conditions. Councillors heard that Sussex Police raided Saltdean News and found a worker with no right to be in the UK on 16 December, after receiving a Home Office crime report. Officers also found another illegal immigrant at a premises in Portslade owned by the license...

.Photograph posed by modePhotograph taken by Simon Dack MORE money has been earmarked to support victims of domestic abuse after councillors approved the extra funding during their annual budget. Members of Brighton and Hove City Council agreed to spend £95,000 in the coming year on support for mothers, children and young people affected by domestic abuse. The money is to be given out as grant funding to community and voluntary sector organisations, with a recurring £50,000 a year budge...

Portos Grill was refused a drinks licence A NEW Brighton takeaway offering Nando’s style peri-peri chicken has been told that it must close by 11pm and cannot sell alcohol. KL Direct, the owner of Portos Grill, in Arundel Road, Brighton, applied to Brighton and Hove City Council for a drinks licence and a late-night refreshment licence. Sussex Police opposed the application to sell beer and peri peri chicken until midnight from the old Fabric Warehouse premises. Police licensing offic...

Police do not want peri peri chicken sold at the old Fabric Warehouse POLICE have opposed an application for a drinks and late-night refreshment licence by the people running a new takeaway in Whitehawk. The owners of Portos Grill, in Arundel Road, Brighton, want to be able to sell beer and peri peri chicken until midnight from the old Fabric Warehouse premises. Sussex Police licensing officer Hannah Staplehurst was concerned about the adverse effects on levels of crime and anti-social be...

"Her work supporting the business community and our communities as a whole will never be forgotten. "My love and deepest condolences to the whole family and all of her friends and colleagues." Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas added her tribute. She said: "I’m so shocked and saddened by this terrible news.   "Sue was an amazing figure, a really successful business woman who also did brilliant work with local charities like the Extra Time Project for children struggling in secondar...