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Brighton & Hove Labour propose to bring women’s football home to Brighton & Hove

Graham Robson October 16, 2023

Lead Pic: Leader of Brighton & Hove Council and Labour Group, Bella Sankey Brighton & Hove’s Labour administration is wanting to work with Brighton & Hove Albion to find a home within the city’s boundaries for a purpose-built women’s football stadium. The Albion’s top-flight women’s team currently play their games over 20 miles away from […]

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Community News

Jon Pike, secretary of the Wish and Westbourne Labour Party, “dismayed” by treatment of Cllr Alison Thomson after she engages with transphobic posts on social media

Graham Robson September 21, 2023

Jon Pike, unelected secretary of the Wish and Westbourne Labour Party, has said he is “dismayed” by the treatment of Brighton & Hove Labour Councillor Alison Thomson after she engaged with transphobic posts on social media, and said she “should not have been disciplined or forced to apologise”.

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Transgender News

Brighton & Hove City Council Labour councillor Alison Thomson slammed for engaging with transphobic tweets

Graham Robson September 11, 2023

Brighton community groups, including Brighton Dyke Collective and Trans Liberation Front Brighton, have called out Brighton & Hove City Council councillor Alison Thomson for engaging with transphobic content on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter.

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Brighton & Hove Labour Council announces it will not support Gatwick expansion

Graham Robson September 6, 2023

The announcement comes after the airport submitted a Development Consent Order in July proposing to convert its emergency standby runway into regular use. Gatwick states that doing so will increase capacity of 382,000 flights per year and 75 million passengers per year by 2038 (up from 46 million in 2019).

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Sprucing up the city! Big Clean Up takes place across Brighton & Hove

Graham Robson July 19, 2023

Events took place across the city on Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16 as part of Brighton & Hove City Council’s Big Clean Up, which took place ahead of the city’s busy summer months. 

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Politics

Greens slam Labour’s plans to scrap seafront cycle lane as “uncosted, unconsulted and undemocratic”  

Graham Robson June 21, 2023

Green Party councillors on Brighton & Hove City Council have called Labour plans to scrap the city’s seafront cycle lane, which the Greens argue was “debated and supported in council committees, consulted on with the public, fully funded and ready to launch”, as “uncosted, unconsulted and undemocratic”. 

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Politics

Labour in Brighton & Hove to be “listening council” with regular leader’s surgeries

Graham Robson May 13, 2023

Cllr Bella Sankey, the new Labour leader, wants to run regular ‘leader’s surgeries’ to give residents right across the city the opportunity to raise issues of concern with her directly, as well as partake in monthly walkabouts in different communities to see residents’ issues first-hand.

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Politics

Sandwell in West Midlands to appoint second gay mayor in successive years

Catherine Muxworthy May 8, 2023

The outgoing mayor, Richard Jones – who used his term to raise awareness and money for LGBTQ+ issues – was deselected by Labour before the election, and stood unsuccessfully for the Liberal Democrats in Old Warley. The controlling Labour group has now chosen Councillor Gavan to be the borough’s mayor.

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