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Editor, reporter, chief cook and bottlewasher @bhcitynews . RTA language policing = instant ban. Tell me your Brighton and Hove news, and I'll tell you mine

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Jo Wadsworth
4 years
The former chair of Brighton and Hove Momentum, who oversaw the slate promoting three Labour councillors accused of alleged antisemitism, has been suspended.
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At Preston Park Station - have been looking to see if rumours the EDL would be assembling in the park were true, but there's a distinct lack of anyone so far
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3 years
I guess people don't hate cycle lanes that much after all . . .
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1 year
A notorious Brighton activist has been found guilty of planning to damage a drone factory he believed was supplying arms to Israel
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4 years
Brighton and Hove's bid for Government money to give more roadspace to cyclists and pedestrians has been rated so highly the city has been given even more cash to implement it
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4 years
A flock of sheep has appeared in Queen's Park this morning!
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6 years
And despite strict instructions not to - a couple of the kids couldn't resist a royal floss
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2 years
@KirstyBuchanan4 @sussex_police @YvetteCooperMP @GillianKeegan @TheVoiceNews This is too far out for us to cover if you want media coverage but @Chiobserver or @brightonargus may want to follow up. I hope you get to speak to him soon
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7 months
A Hove GP is using a loophole in NHS rules to give children cross-sex hormones after just a ten-minute appointment, a book claims
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3 years
It takes a fair bit to shock me. But this has done it this morning. You may remember some stories I wrote about the new owner of a Brighton pub who said he wanted to "donate" it to house refugees. But neighbours smelled a rat.
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5 years
Some pictures sent to me by a friend (Neil Hawkes) of deserted Brighton today
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1 year
It's been a long wait, but today the sentencing of Tony Greenstein for plotting to vandalise an Israel-linked arms factory is about to start. I'm the only reporter on the CVP link to Wolverhampton Crown Court (not sure if any reporters are actually in the court)
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3 years
Utterly baffled by that weird story which did the rounds over the weekend which claimed kids at some Brighton schools are told they can't say mum or dad. My kids go to one of the schools, and it's utter rubbish. They've never been told that.
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5 years
Before I leave my desk for the weekend, two GOOD coronavirus stories: First, Albion has donated food from the cancelled Arsenal match to the homeless
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Drivers at Brighton and Hove Buses's Lewes Road garage spent time yesterday getting buses in position to spell out NHS to thank the medics caring for coronavirus patients
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A police officer who knocked down a pedestrian while responding to what he thought was a terror attack has quit the force due to the stress of continuing disciplinary action - which may now be dropped altogether
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Jo Wadsworth
6 months
Today seems like a good day to remind people Brighton and Hove News is completely free, and has no plans to start charging for any of its content.
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Jo Wadsworth
5 years
Passengers on a Brighton bus ejected a man after he shouted racist abuse at a Muslim woman and her young children.
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
The millionaire owner of a Brighton pub who hacked large chunks of its distinctive green tiles off has been told to replace them
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3 years
Parents gutted at the removal of the Old Shoreham Road cycle lane have started up a bike train so their children can continue to ride safely to school
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6 years
Hove MP Peter Kyle has revealed police advised him to move his constituency office to a more secure location before its window was smashed today.
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4 years
One of the first Brighton Labour members to be expelled during Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis has lost his case for libel after being called a “notorious anti-Semite”
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Jo Wadsworth
4 years
Completely over the moon to find out @bhcitynews has been commended in the @ICNNUK community website of the year category at this year's @newsawards2020
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Jo Wadsworth
2 years
@BellaSankey @warrenmorgan I've seen the quote and he actually said he would rather smash his windows than put up a Keir Starmer attack ad poster. Context matters, don't you think?
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Labour to Greens during committee meeting: "Actually you make some good points, we'll take a look" Labour on socials after: "Labour is GREAT, the Greens are NASTY and trying to STOP us being GREAT. But we showed them!"
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Important update on the King Alfred Leisure Centre from Deputy Leader Cllr Jacob Taylor.
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1 year
Hey @StarbucksUK I don't think" * your lorries are allowed to block the bus stop outside your new cafe in London Road, Brighton. Can you have a word? *I've checked and it's a condition of your planning permission that servicing happens round the back. Cc @brightonhovecc
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3 years
This is NOT true. My kids go to one of the schools, I know parents with kids at some of the others, and it's just a big, fat lie. They haven't banned the words mum and dad
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3 years
The councillor slammed schools that have culled the words to avoid discriminating against "non-traditional" families
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4 years
The first vaccination was given at the Brighton Centre this morning as months of hard work behind the scenes finally came to fruition
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Jo Wadsworth
4 years
Homeschooling parents - it's now 3pm on Friday which means we have done two whole weeks - a third of the way to half term. We are pretty much halfway through winter. The sun is now rising before 8am and by Wednesday will be setting after 4.30pm. Hang on in there ...
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5 years
So The Times picked up one of my stories and they've very kindly given me a byline too My dad has read The Times every day since I can remember. Wondering whether he'll notice his daughter's name in it today
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Jo Wadsworth
2 years
I have just found reference to "South Lanes and North Laines" in a council report <shakes head slowly and tuts>
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
Progress update. Work does seem to have stopped as builders talk to aghast passers-by
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5 years
Brighton passengers will be able to travel on Gatwick Express services for same price as a Southern off peak fare while the latter services are temporarily scrapped
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Jo Wadsworth
2 months
Nope, no racists here
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4 years
Brighton and Hove primary schools have been told to move to online learning when term starts again on Monday, as covid cases continue to rise
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Jo Wadsworth
2 months
I'm now back home but @ZeeshanTirmizi is on the scene and has shot some incredible videos. The "legitimate concerns" protesters have turned up - from what I can see, there's FOUR of them. At least a hundred times as many counter-protesters now down there, probably more.
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9 months
A gender critical leaflet written by a survivor of sexual abuse was ripped out of the hands of delegates at a council event to discuss violence against women, campaigners say
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Jo Wadsworth
5 years
First Glastonbury, now Brighton and Hove? Six new public drinking water fountains are set to come to Brighton and Hove as part of a drive to cut down on single use plastic.
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
On Friday, the owner posted a video on Facebook announcing he was halting the project because of the "mean-spirited" actions of the community. Today, he's outside the pub while builders rip off it's locally listed green tiles.
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1 year
We've had 55,000 hits and counting on our liveblog today. For those of you who've been following along there, I hope it's been useful. Huge thanks to @bhdemocracynews , @felicesouthwell and Frank for helping me feed the beast.
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
You can see him there in the purple coat, handing out leaflets claiming they're beyond repair. He's refused to tell me what his plans are for the pub now, saying I'm harassing him. Very unclear why the tiles would be anyone's first priority in doing it up.
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Jo Wadsworth
5 years
And secondly, the two confirmed @SussexUni coronavirus patients have recovered or are recovering - and flatmates of the second have tested negative
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Jo Wadsworth
4 years
The suspension - his third - follows a series of tweets which seemed designed to provoke reports on Monday night, including stating that Israel has always been a racist endeavour and scatological abuse of Hove MP Peter Kyle and others
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
Narrator: there is no such thing as road tax
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7 years
@BBCSussex @sussex_police @BBCSussex are you actually asking if the cyclist was to blame for being rammed off the road?
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4 years
University of Brighton staff begin five days of strike action this Wednesday in protest at redundancies in its IT department
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13 years
In New Road where Nick Cave is helping a German unicyclist juggle with fire http://t.co/MInPu9JK
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3 years
Sat at a table outside Pizza Express spending more than a year's worth of Tesco vouchers and very much enjoying the parade of posh frocks, sky high heels and hen do sashes flowing through The Lanes. Glad rags are back!
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Jo Wadsworth
8 years
A new low when the Science Museum is pushing unscientific gender bollocks
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Jo Wadsworth
5 years
Limited service from me today as it's my son's birthday and we are trying to make it as fun as possible while stuck inside
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6 months
@HJoyceGender @MailOnline @ThePosieParker Hi Helen, I was also in court for this. The prosecutor read out your police statement, as well as your victim impact statement. I haven't gone through my notes closely, but the quotes in that piece are pretty much what I remember him quoting you saying. Unsure re pronouns
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5 years
More than 1,500 people have signed a petition protesting a Government order to turn Moulsecoomb Primary School into an academy
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Jo Wadsworth
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So today, we've had a bit more self-isolating reported from a handful of schools. BUT Steve Walsh discharged PACA pupil tests negative Health centres reopen Nursing home reopens Clearly still the potential for new cases, but things do seem to be calming down
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Gorgeous double rainbow above Brighton this morning. This pic by my son only captures one bow, but still stunning
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Jo Wadsworth
3 years
Make that four new standards complaints
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3 years
Just got sent a press release which refers to the "iconic South Lanes" Suitable punishments?
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4 years
Ping! It's only a NEGATIVE TEST result. Not sure I've ever been happier
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2 months
A peaceful anti-racist protest attended by thousands of Brightonians overwhelmed about half a dozen anti-immigrant protesters last night, leading to a total of zero arrests
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1 year
At Lewes Crown Court for the sentencing of SB Lets, which has admitted harassing students to leave HMOs so it could re-let them for about £30k a year. Judge Mooney has told the court the offences were vile, abhorrent and nasty, and he will be sentencing with deterrence in mind
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Bhav is an utter diamond
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6 years
Applicant Uber Brighton says it's separate to Uber London, so TfL issues not relevant. Mark Tyrell, B&H private hire ass: I've heard that Uber Brighton is a separate entity to Uber London. My thumb and forefinger are separate entities but they're both connected to the same hand.
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@erskine287 @bhcitynews The same way they cross the current four lanes of motorised traffic I expect?
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Jo Wadsworth
7 years
When the competiton likes your April Fools story so much they decide to do their own version Disappointed they didn't keep in the line about Simon Fanshawe and Katie Price selling Kitkats though
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7 years
The victorious @bhlabour team
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5 years
Someone has just threatened me with legal action over a story I haven't even published yet - and is now following that up with a threat of legal action if I tell anyone she's threatened me with legal action, sigh
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Jo Wadsworth
1 year
UPDATE: There are no reports of any injuries after the Royal Albion Hotel caught fire
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2 months
Anyone considering coming here to take part in race riots will have a prison cell waiting for them, a senior Sussex Police officer warned today
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Jo Wadsworth
2 months
This was Queens Road about 15 minutes ago - police presence, antifa already gathering ahead of 7.30 counter protest start, more boards up. A few people in first floor flats looking out. Rumoured riot was called for 8pm. Looking more likely now, thankfully, that might not happen
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3 years
oh dear . . . Particularly odd as the fifth tweet on the account is currently one of my stories.
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5 years
A giant model of the moon is rising over Queen's Park pond ahead of trio of Brighton Festival events in the park this weekend
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It's finally happened! I have just needed a cable WHICH I ACTUALLY HAVE in my box of cables-which-might-come-in-useful-one-day
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Comments like this make all the hard work pay off
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A University of Brighton designer who created a chair to help stop ‘manspreading’ in public spaces has won a national prize
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With the sad news about Choccywoccydoodah closing down, I'm hearing lots of people saying they made their wedding cakes. If anyone wanted to tweet me a picture, I'd love to put together a gallery. I think those cakes meant much more to Brighton than the celebrity ones
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An investigation has been launched into how a Brighton woman was being refused emergency contraception after she'd paid for it because of the pharmacist's "personal reasons"
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All of the Brighton and Hove Buses fleet is being fitted with air filters which the company says will remove 99/9% of viruses and bacteria
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A Good Samaritan was so horrified when he saw a picture of a swastika daubed on a Hove playground this morning that he went out and scrubbed it off himself
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Jo Wadsworth
4 years
This headline became a personal reality this morning - just got my vaccination. Didn't expect it to happen so quickly but I'm one of the £1.7m extra shielders. All went very smoothly, in and out in about 15 minutes. Barely felt a thing
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The NHS is in talks with Brighton and Hove City Council to use the Brighton Centre as a venue for a mass vaccination centre
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Five of the railway arches at the top of Trafalgar Street are set to be opened up with glazed shopfronts, with two new retail units and more light for Brighton Toy and Model Museum
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1 year
Seeing a lot of people posting a petition to "save" the Prince Albert pub Just to reassure music lovers, the flats element of the plans for the site next door have been dropped. Plans up for decision next week are just for retail and offices
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At Brighton Mags, defendant charged with assault. Says he's not a violent man, and objects to prosecutor describing alleged attack, warning her that if she says it again, he'll hurt her
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