Edition No. 14

Monday, 19 October 2026

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Football

Albion 5 Crystal Palace 0: Gomez scores from the halfway line

Three goals inside 10 minutes, a sixth win in a row, and the first time Albion have scored five against Palace since 1956.

Brighton & Hove Albion beat Crystal Palace 5-0 at the Amex on Sunday. It was their sixth successive win and the first time since 1956 that Albion have scored five against Palace.

Albion scored three times in the first 10 minutes. After five, a Pascal Gross free-kick from the left was headed past his own keeper, Walter Benitez, by Palace defender Jaydee Canvot.

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Tennis

Brighton's Sonay Kartal reaches the Wuhan Open final after six months out

Ranked No. 170 after a back injury, Kartal beat Elina Svitolina, Jasmine Paolini and Jelena Ostapenko before losing the final in three sets. She is expected to rise to No. 50.

Sonay Kartal, the British player who lives in Brighton, reached the final of the Wuhan Open, a WTA 1000 event, in only her second tour-level tournament after six months out with a back injury. She lost Sunday’s final to Poland’s Maja Chwalinska 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Kartal came to Wuhan ranked No. 170. On the way to the final she beat…

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Charity

Sixteen fire recruits will pull a fire engine 5km along Hove seafront

The East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service recruits start at the Peace Statue at 11am on Tuesday, raising money for The Fire Fighters Charity.

HoveSixteen recruits from East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service will pull a fire engine 5km along Hove Promenade on Tuesday. They set off from the Peace Statue at 11am, and the money goes to The Fire Fighters Charity.

The recruits are on the service’s 43rd Recruits Course. They will follow the Hove Lawns parkrun route. The Peace Statue start was…

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Music

Interpol and Bloc Party play two nights at the Brighton Centre next month

The two bands co-headline on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November, playing songs from Silent Alarm and Antics among others.

Interpol and Bloc Party play the Brighton Centre on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November. Ticketmaster’s Brighton Centre page lists both shows at 6.30pm.

The shows are part of an 18-date co-headline tour of the UK and Europe. The tour announcement says they will play songs from across their 20 years of records, including Bloc Party’s debut Silent Alarm and…

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