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Council leader Phelim Mac Cafferty said there would be an emergency meeting to hear the concerns of cabbies TAXI drivers in Brighton and Hove look set to get £500,000 to help them get through the Covid crisis. The money would be shared between 1,300 cabbies in the city, after Brighton and Hove City Council backed the idea at a meeting yesterday. It follows the news that three of the citys taxi drivers have died during the pandemic with others struggling financially and some using food ba...

PUBS “face going to the wall” if they have to wait much longer to receive grants that they were promised. Philip Rees, who runs the Queen Victoria, in Rottingdean, told councillors that delays in paying the grants could have a “catastrophic impact on Brighton’s economy and its ability to sell itself as a tourist destination”. Mr Rees asked Brighton and Hove City Council what it was doing to prioritise urgently needed payments at a virtual meeting of the full council. The grant...

DOES Phelim Mac Cafferty realise his arrogance is bringing the Green Party into disrepute and ridicule?

Councillors were told not to "chicken out" of making big decisions COUNCILLORS have been told not to "chicken out" of making big transport decisions - including introducing a ban on cars in Brighton. Green councillor Tom Druitt urged colleagues and political rivals make potentially unpopular decisions as part of the fight against climate change. He said they should be brave when discussing the new measures recommended by Brighton and Hove Climate Assembly and Youth Climate Assembly. Cou...

Many playgrounds now face closure as Covid cases rise, but campaigners say their benefits to children’s wellbeing are crucial

Colchester BC has decided to go a step further than current government guidelines by closing a large town centre playground, after recording 110 people using the play equipment at one time. Unlike during the first national lockdown last spring, government guidelines under the current lockdown say that playgrounds can remain open. However, the council decided to act amid “ongoing concerns”. It comes days after the council also closed the towns two skateparks due to fears that social distanci...

PARENTS and carers are being urged to use playgrounds "sensibly" amid fears that groups are gathering at the sites. Brighton and Hove City Council leader Phelim Mac Cafferty warned that playgrounds in the city could be closed if people do not use them more responsibly during lockdown. "We really don’t want to close our playgrounds, but our concern is that as the new strain of the pandemic is spreading at a worrying speed, they’re becoming unsafe," Cllr Mac Cafferty said. "This is beca...

A HOMEOWNER is “absolutely livid” after a group of more than 20 people held an indoor rave next door. Furious Trevor Roberts said the partygoers had DJ turntables and strobe lighting which kept his family awake until the early hours. The party happened before the city went into Tier 4 but police were called over the then Tier 2 restrictions. The 49-year-old called police at 10pm, who arrived in St Leonards Road, Hove, along with the homeowner, to disperse the crowd from the building, ...

PICTURES show hundreds of residents flocking to the seafront just hours after Storm Bella battered the coast. On Sunday, people awoke to flooded roads and downed trees, after the storm hit the south coast through the night. An amber weather warning remained in place until 9am, when the strong winds and heavy rain stopped. But by the afternoon, hundreds of residents made their way to Hove seafront to enjoy the break in the weather. Pictures show crowds walking along the path on the sec...