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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 by the unusual condition on its licence. The condition was proposed by Sussex Police because the f...

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 panel said that objectors and Labour councillor Clare Moonan, who represents Central Hove ward, had...

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 tightly regulated to ensure all bidders are treated equally and to ensure the process is non-discrimin...

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 licensees, Krunal Chandrakant Patel and Kirma Krunal Patel. Sussex Police asked Brighton and Hove City ...