Edition No. 22

Thursday, 29 October 2026

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Winter

Gritters on 24-hour standby from Sunday, and 400 grit bins are yours to use

Three gritters and around 300 tonnes of salt are ready until the end of March. Residents can take salt from public grit bins for their own pavements.

The council’s winter gritting service starts on Sunday 1 November. Crews and three gritters will be on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the end of March 2027.

Road temperature sensors around the city and detailed forecasts let the teams plan treatments before frost and ice arrive. Around 300 tonnes of grit are in store, with more available in a long cold spell. In a typical winter the council uses around 200 tonnes.

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Housing

Councillors approve 20 council flats in place of Oakley House on Edward Street

The Planning Committee voted unanimously for the £5.3m block, which replaces six council flats and a shop with 20 flats at affordable rent.

Kemp TownThe council can now knock down Oakley House, on the corner of Edward Street and Tillstone Street, and build a block of 20 council flats. Its Planning Committee voted unanimously for the £5.3m scheme at Hove Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon, as first reported by Brighton and Hove News.

We covered the plans before the vote. The council applied to…

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History

Hove photographer wants LGBTQ+ people who remember 1967 to sit for portraits

Proud Studios' In Private project marks 60 years since partial decriminalisation. Sessions run in November and December, and the work shows next February.

Proud Studios, a community interest company with a studio in Hove, is looking for LGBTQ+ people who were alive in 1967 to sit for a portrait and talk about what the law change of that year meant to them. The project, In Private, was first reported by the Argus.

2027 marks 60 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 partly decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales. The Act covered men over 21 in private, which is where the title comes from. It left a great deal of criminal law and…

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Film

UK Jewish Film Festival comes back to Brighton, where it began, for its 30th year

Two screenings at Duke's at Komedia in November, both introduced by founder Judy Ironside: new British-Jewish short films, and the wartime drama The Soundman.

North LaineThe UK Jewish Film Festival is coming back to Brighton for its 30th anniversary, with two screenings at Duke’s at Komedia in November. The festival started in the city in 1997, founded by Judy Ironside, and she will introduce both evenings. The Argus first reported the news.

On Sunday 22 November at 6pm, British-Jewish Life on Film is an evening of new mini-documentaries and short dramas commissioned this year by UK Jewish Film’s Film Factory. All of them are world premieres. Oslo Court is about the 1970s-style London restaurant and…

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