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RESEARCH shows a fifth of smokers in Brighton are making it a New Year's resolution to quit - but half are not.

PARENTS have hit out at the "unfair" uniform policy at a Brighton secondary school.

The actions of schoolkids in March 2003 throughout the world were perhaps the most interesting aspect of the opposition to the Iraqi war.

TWO of Brighton and Hove’s biggest secondary schools have no space for more children for the next two years, concerned parents were told today (Monday 8 March). The parents were told that Varndean School and Dorothy Stringer both lacked the space in their classrooms, corridors, toilets and canteen for a bulge class of 30 pupils each. Instead, parents said that 62 children faced travelling miles every day to and from their new secondary school on starting year 7 in September – a situation likely to be repeated next year. Four parents from the Dorothy Stringer and Varndean catchment...

A MOTHER has spoken of her daughter’s pain after she missed out on her secondary school place. Freya Elliott, ten, is one of 62 Brighton children in the Varndean and Stringer catchment areas who have been “scattered” across the city amid a shortage in school places. Freya’s mother, Lucy Elliott, 31, says her young daughter now faces “commuting like an adult” after being told she must attend Longhill School, more than three miles away from her home. Her journey to school will now see her having to take three buses from 7am every morning. “She cries and I cry,” said Lu...