Brighton and Hove City Council is urging beachgoers to use bins or take their rubbish home after more than 20 tonnes of waste was cleared from the seafront during the May bank holiday weekend.

Research shows domestic abuse rises significantly during major football tournaments. Brighton and Hove City Council is urging residents to be vigilant and offering support for those affected.

Brighton and Hove City Council is backing the Odds Are They Win campaign as gambling advertising surges during the 2026 World Cup. Free support available locally and nationally.

Virginia Woolf's Night and Day screens at Duke of York's Picturehouse Brighton on Thursday 11 June at 7.30pm in a special advance screening hosted in partnership with the Charleston Trust. Screenwriter Justine Waddell will take part in a Q&A following the film.

Brighton and Hove celebrates Refugee Week from 15 to 21 June 2026 for the first time as an accredited Council of Sanctuary. Here is the full programme including the Best Foot Music concert at Jubilee Library on World Refugee Day.

Three new School Streets are proposed for Brighton and Hove, camera enforcement arrives at three schools in September 2026, and the consultation is open until 21 July. Everything you need to know in one place including the full list of all 15 current School Streets and three years of school term dates.

Brighton and Hove City Council has published its seafront investment prospectus, setting out plans to transform 13 kilometres of coastline including a potential landmark art gallery at Black Rock, a revamped Brighton Centre and 1,000 new homes at the Marina.

Brighton and Hove Albion Women reached the Women's FA Cup final for the first time in the club's history last weekend, playing in front of 43,917 fans at Wembley. The council leader says the impact on girls across the city will last a generation.

Brighton has 340 pubs and eleven per square mile. This is the local's guide to the best pubs in Brighton and Hove in 2026, from BRAVO award winners to hidden neighbourhood gems and the city's oldest boozer.

Born in a Brighton slum in 1826, Thomas Sayers became the first heavyweight boxing champion of the world. On his 200th birthday in May 2026, a councillor cleaned his plaque. This is his story.

Every Sunday morning in the heart of Brighton's Lanes, Pathways of Being runs a three-hour breathwork, soundbath and ice bath reset. Here is everything you need to know.

Brighton and Hove City Council is reintroducing a patrol boat to the seafront before the end of June 2026, working alongside the RNLI as part of wider summer safety measures.

Carers Week 2026 runs from 8 to 14 June. Brighton and Hove has at least 21,000 unpaid carers. Here are the local events, support services and how to get help if you are a carer in the city.

Brighton Pride 2026 takes place on 1 and 2 August for its 35th anniversary, with RAYE and Diana Ross headlining. Here is everything you need to know about the parade, the lineup, tickets and getting there.

Emergency services were called to Brighton seafront at around 6.40am on Wednesday 3 June after a man was spotted in the water near Sea Lanes on Madeira Drive.

Almost 100 girls from eight Brighton primary schools took part in a rugby festival at Hove Rec in May 2026, part of the council's Sport Lifts Her Higher campaign to make Brighton the UK capital for women and girls in sport.

Brighton and Hove City Council has launched a new overnight deep cleaning team targeting the city centre, starting at Churchill Square and working up to Montpellier Road.

Brighton and Hove City Council has reduced its median ethnicity pay gap to zero and made significant progress on disability pay equality, according to new workforce data published in May 2026.

Brighton and Hove now has a shared electric cargo bike scheme run by OurBike, launched at three city venues with government funding. Here is everything residents and businesses need to know.

One in four children in Brighton and Hove is living in poverty. The city has the highest homelessness rate in Sussex. A new independent review is recruiting residents with lived experience of poverty to sit on a panel and help shape real solutions. Applications close 19 June 2026.