Brighton and Hove City Council's Cabinet approved a £1.6m rise in the Royal Pavilion Garden restoration budget on 15 October, taking it to £8.038m. Work is due to start on 9 November 2026.

Brighton and Hove City Council's Cabinet approved a new advertising policy on 15 October that bans gambling and fossil fuel production adverts on council sites. It will also join the Coalition to End Gambling Ads.

Brighton and Hove City Council's Cabinet approved a preferred and a reserve bidder on 15 October to run a temporary attraction at Black Rock for up to five years. The lease is not signed yet.

On The Beach has announced its first 2027 shows: Pete Tong Ibiza Classics on 9 July and Sonny Fodera on 24 July. Pre-sales start 21 October.

The RNLI has announced its second phase of lifeboat changes for 2028 to 2030, plus a new Coastal Lifeboat. Hastings changes in 2027 and Eastbourne in 2028.

Work has started on a new £611,000 3G pitch at Moulsecoomb Community Leisure Centre in Brighton, backed by a £410,000 Football Foundation grant. The council says it opens next spring, with booking priority for women and girls' sessions.

A 47-year-old woman from Hove has been found guilty of stalking and harassment of a number of victims after a four-day trial at Brighton Magistrates' Court, according to Sussex News. She is due back in court on 18 December.

Richard Bennett, 46, of Lower Willingdon, Eastbourne, has been jailed for 18 years for rape, assault causing actual bodily harm, coercive controlling behaviour and strangulation against a woman known to him, Sussex Police has announced.

Brighton and Hove City Council will start removing around 200 elm trees in Withdean Park on Monday 19 October after outbreaks of elm disease, with the work expected to take around three weeks.

The King's Arms on George Street, Brighton, has had its licence suspended since 30 September. A council licensing panel meets online at 10am on 20 October, with Sussex Police asking for the licence to be revoked after violent disorder on 25 September. Read what police and neighbours told the council.

Sussex Police has released CCTV images and wants to identify a person after multiple bank cards were stolen from premises on Kings Road, Brighton, on 3 September and used at cash machines across the city.

Lewes Bonfire on 5 November, VegfestUK on 7 November, the Story Trail ending, Artist Open Houses and Burning the Clocks on 21 December. Dates, prices and what we could not confirm.

Westlife play the Brighton Centre on Tuesday 13 October, doors 6.30pm and Westlife on at 8pm. Here is how to get there, where to park, what bags are allowed and the other big shows at the venue this month.

Nine neighbours in Saltdean share a £1 million Postcode Lottery prize after BN2 8LT won on 10 October, and two Brighton charities, The Sussex Beacon and Justlife, receive £45,000 between them.

Mutations Festival returns to Brighton on 23 and 24 October with more than 90 acts across ten venues, Fat Dog on Friday and Beastie Boys member Mike D's band on Saturday.

East Sussex County Council has started a judicial review over the plan to move Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs and East Saltdean into Brighton and Hove, Brighton and Hove News reports. The government paused the plan on 7 September.

Sussex Police is appealing for witnesses after a man in his 40s was stabbed outside Portslade railway station on the evening of 8 October. He is in a stable condition in hospital and no arrests have been reported.

A free app and website called Where To Wee lists 117 public toilets in Brighton and shows opening hours, accessibility and baby changing details. Here is what it says it does and what we could not confirm.

A man who posed as a taxi driver to kidnap and rape a 19-year-old woman in Brighton city centre has been jailed for 20 years, with Sussex Police appealing for other women to come forward.

A man has died at Rottingdean beach, Sussex Police has said. Officers were called at around 9.40am on Sunday 11 October and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Enquiries continue.