Brighton and Hove City Council is expanding its selective licensing scheme to the Regency and Central Hove wards from October 2026, meaning up to 7,274 more private rented homes will need a licence. Landlords who fail to comply face fines and enforcement.

Meet Copito, a tattoo artist from the Costa Blanca spending her summer inking Brighton. Five years in, custom only, and here until the end of September.

A new Brighton social run club is swapping the desk for a gentle 5k that ends at the pub, on a mission to build community and find the city's best pint of Guinness.

Cult London burger and steak restaurant Burger and Beyond opens its first site outside the capital at 56 Ship Street in the Lanes, with a citywide scavenger hunt and 56 free meals up for grabs.

Researchers at the University of Sussex are looking for Brighton and Hove volunteers for a new study called Mind Meets Body, exploring how the body and mind connect. Participants receive a gift card for one lab session.

Brighton's biggest house music takeover is back on 5 September. Two headliners, two venues and one wristband across Horizon and Tide, with Beyond Chicago leading the line up.

Furry Adventures started as favours around a pram and a course at Plumpton. Now it is a registered family business walking dogs across Brighton, Hove and Worthing six days a week, turning down the two extra dogs their policy would allow.

The government has confirmed Brighton and Hove will absorb Peacehaven, Telscombe Cliffs and East Saltdean from April 2028, creating a council of 308,000 people. Lewes District Council is considering a legal challenge.

Abdulla Ahmadi, Ibrahim Alshafe and Karin Al-Danasurt have been jailed for a total of more than 60 years for the rape of a woman on Brighton beach. Sussex Police described the men as dangerous and predatory.

Sussex's first football tech arena has landed at Brighton Marina. Inside Ball Park: 11 pro-standard football activities, a free-to-enter sports bar, the VAR party room and family-friendly SEND sessions.

A hidden former clay pit near East Grinstead becomes a natural woodland amphitheatre for three intimate headline shows this August. Meet the venue, the line-up and the man behind it, 40 minutes from Brighton.

Brighton and Hove City Council has launched a Civic Leadership Programme with Operation Black Vote, aimed at getting more Black and Asian residents into roles as councillors, magistrates, school governors and trustees. The programme launched at Afrori Books on 9 July.

Brighton and Hove City Council is backing local charity Pelican Parcels with new pilot funding to help more families access essential items for babies and young children, following a warehouse visit from Council Leader Bella Sankey and Councillor Mitchie Alexander.

Care leavers in Brighton and Hove aged 18 to 24 can apply for a free monthly bus pass from September, as the city council launches a new pilot to help young people leaving care reach education, work and support.

Brighton and Hove Streamline Taxis has served the city since 1936. Meet the local, driver-owned firm with a brand new app, fair pricing and no surge charges, and why more Brighton locals are switching from Uber.

Southern Fried Records, the label founded by Fatboy Slim, returns to Brighton for two Big Beach Boutique afterparties at Patterns on 17 and 18 July, with Luca Lozano b2b Mr. Ho and SHEE and DJ Streaks.

The Old Market in Hove presents Feel Good this September, an eight-day season of immersive music, 360-degree audiovisual shows, folk, sound baths and deep listening running from 2 to 8 September 2026.

Brighton and Hove City Council has secured over £22 million from the Department for Transport, plus £3.9 million of its own funding, to rebuild the Victorian era arches under King's Road, after surveys found they were at risk of collapse.

Brighton and Hove City Council has installed new CCTV on the seafront's lower promenade, with lighting technology to assist searches, as part of a joint push with Sussex Police to improve safety.

Sully's opened at 88 Valley Road in January 2026 and has already become Mile Oak's cake addiction fix and hangover cure. We spoke to Graham and Ami, the couple behind it, about Monsters Inc nicknames, stormtrooper mishaps, cookie pies and why nobody should have a life without good cake.