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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 city's taxi drivers have died during the pandemic with others struggling financially and some using food banks. Drivers will be able to apply for up to £400 as part of the scheme, intended to cover the c...

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 grants were promised by the government after ministers ordered all pubs to close again even though many h...

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. Councillor Druitt said: “This does not mean we all have to go and live in caves. It does mean we are ...

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