The Level's much loved playground is being completely rebuilt with a new £300,000 inclusive adventure playground. Work starts the week of 7 September and will take around 10 weeks, with the rest of the park staying open throughout.

The Met Office is warning of heavy, potentially thundery showers across Brighton and Hove today, with surface water flooding a risk after weeks of dry weather.

Provisional GCSE results for Brighton and Hove show 69% of students achieving combined English and Maths at grades 4 and above, up from 67% last year, as results nationally stay broadly static.

Brighton and Hove City Council is consulting on new camera enforcement at five junctions where drivers regularly ignore existing restrictions, alongside a School Streets camera pilot starting in September.

Brighton and Hove City Council is consulting on an updated Local Flood Risk Management Strategy, with more than 46,000 residents living in areas at risk of surface water flooding. The consultation closes 30 September.

Western Road faces 45 days of major reconstruction from 28 September, with a Red Route to follow if Cabinet approves it in September. Traders have handed in two petitions against the parking crackdown, totalling thousands of signatures, and a community campaign is now threatening a High Court challenge.

A three-year programme has fitted solar panels to more than 1,400 council homes across the city, with residents saving up to £300 a year on bills. A Moulsecoomb community hall has also benefited.

The much-loved Brighton Wheel, taken down in 2016, could turn again on Madeira Drive by summer 2027. Councillors decide on a 25-year lease for the operators next month.

Provisional 2026 results show 98.3% of the city's A-level students achieved A* to E, with a 97.4% pass rate for vocational and technical qualifications.

A new council pilot offers landlords up to £7,500 to bring rented homes up to EPC C, in return for a three-year lease as temporary accommodation.

A second recycled multi-use games area is being installed at Knoll Park in Hove, reusing surfacing and fencing from the Moulsecoomb Hub for around £47,000. Together with Hangleton Park, the recycling projects save the council close to £200,000.

Brighton and Hove City Council has begun restoring 300 metres of Hove's historic cast iron seafront railings, revealing the original Victorian Martlet emblems, following the recent volunteer restoration of the cucumber benches.

Brighton-born circular economy expert Professor David Greenfield has been appointed chair of the Brighton and Hove Business Growth Board, a role that now carries the city's business voice into the new Sussex-wide Strategic Authority.

Brighton and Hove's first legal e-scooter hire trial is now live, run by Beryl. Here is how it works, what it costs, where you can ride, the safety rules, and what people are saying, plus a little ImJustBrighton exclusive.

A new council campaign brings together 18 walks across Brighton and Hove, every one reachable by bus. Leave the car at home, catch a bus, and let it drop you at the start of a beautiful walk.

Under-16s can travel free on all the city's buses throughout August, thanks to new Government funding under the Great British Summer Savings scheme. Here is how it works and what else is cheaper this summer.

Brighton and Hove's Planning Committee has voted 8 to 1 to back a £65 million replacement for the ageing King Alfred, with an 8-lane pool, 150-station gym, four-level soft play and a sea-view cafe. Here is what is planned and what happens next.

The Colonnade public toilets on Brighton seafront have reopened for the summer after structural work, though the Changing Places facility stays closed until winter and a wider refurbishment is being planned.

Thousands of tonnes of shingle are being pumped ashore at Hove to widen the beach by around 25 metres, as part of the long-term scheme protecting Brighton & Hove's coast from flooding and erosion.

Brighton & Hove City Council is helping recruit a community trustee for Gorham's Gift, the legacy charity that has protected the rural character of Telscombe Village since 1933.