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.

ImJustBrighton is gay-owned. Here is our guide to every Brighton bar closing this year, why each one went, what people said, and which LGBTQ+ venues are still open.

Connie's Pizza, the London pizzeria known for thin, crispy pizza, opens its first site outside London at 44-47 Gardner Street in Brighton's North Laine on Friday 9 October.

Sussex Police says a 58-year-old Brighton man has been charged with failing to comply with a Terrorist Notification Order and was remanded in custody after appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Sussex Police wants to identify a person after a Preston Street burglary in Brighton, where stolen bank cards were later used fraudulently at shops in Western Road, Hove.

Dozens of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered outside the Brighton Centre on 3 October, with a counter-protest nearby, during the Green Party conference. Here is what was reported, how the Zionism is racism vote went, and who said what.

A report in The Sun says Jennifer Lopez is in talks to headline Brighton Pride next summer. It rests on one unnamed source, and nothing has been confirmed.

Who is Heidi Bachram? A look at the Brighton-based writer and campaigner on antisemitism and extremism, her words on the 7 October memorial in Brighton, and what we have not yet verified.

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service was called at 6.52pm on 8 October to a residential building fire in York Place, Brighton. Six fire engines attended, and the service said the fire was out by 7.45pm with everyone evacuated and accounted for.

Brighton & Hove is switching over 500 EV chargepoints from Blink to Char.gy and Believ from 15 October, with cheaper charging rates and hundreds more chargepoints on the way

A burst water main has disrupted Western Road for a fourth day, leaving businesses between Holland Road and Montpelier Road hit by repeated water cutoffs and furious at the disruption.

A coroner has ruled that sisters Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters took their own lives after their bodies were found in the sea off Brighton in May 2026.

Mark Grindon, of Mannings Heath near Horsham, has been jailed for five years and four months after being found guilty of multiple breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and making indecent images of children at Hove Crown Court.

Two 19-year-old men have been charged with sexual offences, including rape and human trafficking, after two girls were sexually assaulted in a car park in Parkside, Crawley.

Three people have been charged after a firearm was discharged into a pub on Montgomery Street, Hove. Carlos Cassidy and Memis Kalmis have been remanded in custody, with a third person, Sade Ward, released on bail.