Jo Wadsworth

Brighton

Editor and Reporter at Brighton and Hove News

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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Articles

Ikea pop-up launches tomorrow ahead of main store’s summer opening

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

Ikea is opening a Brighton pop up store tomorrow ahead of a summer opening of its main Churchill Square store. The temporary shop, between Mango and Schuh, will be showcasing kitchen ranges and Pax wardrobes and selling a range of 150 home furnishing accessories. The retail giant is also advertising 120 jobs for the main store from next week, including sales, interior design and furniture building roles.
Brighton and Hove News

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A Hove cafe owner who took £150,000 in covid support funds for two companies which were not trading at the start of the pandemic has narrowly avoided jail. Mehmet Akyuz, 36, fraudulently obtained three maximum-value Bounce Back Loans worth £50,000 each in 2020 for his Green and Hove Limited and Leathers Wear Limited companies. Both Green and Hove, trading as Organic Earth Cafe, and Leathers Wear, were dormant at the time of Akyuz’s applications.
Boy, 15, taken to hospital after 3am e-bike crash

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A teenage boy was taken to hospital in the early hours of this morning after the e-bike he was riding was hit by a car. The 15-year-old was riding through Preston Circus when the crash happened at about 3.20am. The driver of the car was not injured. Police have launched an investigation into the crash. Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to report it to Sussex Police online or call 101 and quote serial 134 of 17/04.
Car event turned away from seafront over safety concerns

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A popular car event was told it could not return to Brighton seafront after failing to meet safety standards, a council boss said this week. InCarNation was held on Madeira Drive for more than a decade, attracting hundreds of performance and modified cars from across the country.
Wildnerness group plans new wildflower meadow

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A group of wildlife volunteers wants to create a new wildflower meadow in Woodingdean. The Woodingdean Wildnernss Group is working with Brighton and Hove City Council on plans for a strip along Warren Road, north of the lawn memorial cemetery. The space has historically been a mowed green technically classified as a verge, but the group believe it has the potential for a drastic increase in wildlife if managed differently.
First-time paddleboarders blown a mile out to sea

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

Brighton RNLI volunteers rescued two paddleboarders who had been blown about a mile out to sea by strong northerly winds last week. The pair – first-time paddleboarders from Hove – had ventured out west of the West Pier before breakfast, without lifejackets or prior experience. The man and woman found themselves rapidly drifting out to sea on a single paddleboard and were unable to return to shore. Brighton’s inshore lifeboat launched swiftly and reached the casualties with urgency.
Gym ordered to stop the neighbours hearing any noise

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth
Woman dies in the sea off Brighton

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A young woman who was resued from the sea off Brighton has died, police say. The woman, in her 20s and from Lewes, was spotted in the water in the early hours of the morning, sparking a huge operation. A police spokeswoman said: “Police were called following concerns for a woman in the sea off the coast of Brighton just before 3am on Wednesday, April 16.
Beachside bike rack moved after becoming theft magnet

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A beachside bike rack is being moved to stop thieves driving alongside and loading up with stolen cycles. Sea Lanes in Madeira Drive wants to move the existing bike racks onto the pebbles where they would be overlooked by by reception. And they’ve asked for permission to put a small retail unit next to the pavement where the racks now stand.
New anti-terror law behind Pride party move

1 week ago | brightonandhovenews.org | Jo Wadsworth

A new anti-terror law which puts stringent safety requirements on the organisers of ticketed events is one of the main reasons the village party is being moved, a Pride organiser said last night. Paul Kemp, managing director of Brighton and Hove Pride, told a packed meeting at St Mary’s Church Hall that Martyn’s Law, which came into force this month, would put unworkable legal obligations on anyone closing off St James’s Street.