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BBC News
2 days ago
- Automotive
- BBC News
Brighton and Hove park and ride service to begin on Sunday
A new park and ride service will launch in Brighton this weekend, the city council has & Hove City Council (BHCC) approved plans for a long-discussed park and ride scheme in January, and now says that it will launch on scheme, which will take passengers from the University of Sussex campus in Falmer to Church Street in the city centre, will run every weekend in August, as well as on the Bank Holiday Monday on 25 will run every 15 minutes from 09:00 to 21:00 BST, the council added. The park and ride service will cost £7 per car, which includes all passengers in the vehicle, the council buses from Brighton returning to Falmer would leave Church Street at 20: Muten, cabinet member for transport, parking and public realm, previously said: "This initiative will operate alongside our efforts to make parking simpler and fairer, our expansion in electric vehicle charging, and our improvements to the city's walking and cycling infrastructure."It all adds up to a comprehensive, city-wide strategy to give our residents and visitors more options to travel sustainably."BHCC also said it would look to introduce further locations around the city following the opening of the first added that the service was currently only for people parking their cars at the university, but it would be "considering wider options in the future".
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Owner speaks as dozens of guns stolen from shooting ground in 'major' break-in
Around £30,000 worth of stock including air rifles and a chainsaw were stolen from a shooting ground. Polowood Shooting Ground, which is located on St Mary's Farm near Falmer, was victim to a break in, during which 25 air rifles, air rifle pellets, an extendable pole saw, a chain saw, a strimmer, a leaf blower and £1000 of food and drink from the tea hut were stolen. Owner Gary Coomber, 61, met his staff at the farm on Friday morning (July 25) as usual, but when he approached the shooting ground, he saw the gate was wide open and 'knew someone had been in straight away'. According to Gary, someone had accessed the shooting ground by crossing farm ground from Plumpton and had driven through a hedgerow and cut down two barbed wire fences in the process. Read more: Rockwater Hove smashed in 'senseless act of vandalism' Without CCTV, Gary is unable to ascertain the exact time of the break in, but it is believed to have been sometime between 4pm on Thursday and 8am on Friday. 'It's pretty major – the air rifles alone are £600 each so I reckon about £30,000 worth was taken', Gary said. The ground has been victim to break-ins on three occasions in the past, but 'not for about seven years", he said. The ground offers a selection of outdoor activities ranging from clay pigeon shooting to axe throwing and is popular with stag and hen dos, as well as hosting 'experience shooters'. 'We had 40 people booked in for tomorrow, so now we're having to dance around trying to beg and borrow some air rifles from elsewhere to make it work', Gary said. Gary suspects the thief will be looking to sell the stolen goods, so is spreading news of the theft far and wide, in the hope it will make the loot 'too hot to handle'. 'I have let gun shop owners know so it seems like the jungle drums are working to some degree.'
BBC News
7 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Brighton football charity marks 35 years with family event
An event has taken place to mark the 35th anniversary of Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation, the football club's official family fun day at the Amex Stadium in Falmer on Wednesday was attended by hundreds of local residents, community groups and club officials. The free community event involved activities including football drills, penalty shoot outs and face painting.A spokesperson for the charity said the event was about "giving back" to the community. It is estimated that Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation has helped more than 600,000 children and young people and their families since it was founded in delivers educational and outreach programmes aimed at "improving wellbeing and supporting learning".Matt Dorn, the charity's chief executive, said: "It's a really important year for us and we want to continue the trend of supporting as many children in Sussex as we can."Everything that we do is about trying to deliver as many different unique sessions and trying to support as many different people as we can. "Days like this are really important to allow us to amplify and talk about all the different opportunities that we have."The team which looks after the kit for Brighton and Hove Albion's players completed a 35-mile (56km) walk in June, raising thousands of pounds for the club's charity.
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Science
- BBC News
University of Brighton launches campus hedgehog survey
A university is rolling out new plans to help provide more safe spaces for hedgehogs across its University of Brighton said it wanted to help protect hedgehogs across its sites to try to combat rapidly falling population numbers across the and students from the institution began a survey on Monday to track the number of hedgehogs across the university's three campuses ahead of plans to turn green spaces into hedgehog White, sustainability projects officer at the university, said the survey would "provide us with a real insight" into local population numbers and shape further conservation work. Survey works see students placing "tracking tunnels", which use ink pads and paper to log paw prints, across the university's campuses in Falmer, Moulsecoomb and the city results will then be used to decide where to target support based on where the hedgehogs are living on the university's White added: "It's about making practical changes like creating safe spaces and removing hazards to reduce the impact campus life has on local wildlife."We're proud to take an active role in protecting local biodiversity and equipping our students with the tools to make a difference."Experts from The British Hedgehog Preservation Society said in October that population numbers across the UK had halved over the space of the last people can take to help hedgehogs in their own back gardens include leaving small holes in the bottom of fences to help them get around and giving them leaves and foliage to hide under.
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Brighton news: Opinion - Fan writer on transport problems at Amex Stadium
Attendance at Amex Stadium is a hot topic. There were at least 2,000 season ticket seats that went unsold on exchange for the Newcastle game. Looking around the stadium, there were many thousands more empty seats. Those who do show up are leaving early in increasing numbers. The ground is now often half empty by the time the final whistle blows. Even Fabian Hurzeler spoke about it following the 3-2 win over West Ham. On that occasion, those who left early missed Albion goals in the 89th and 93rd minutes. Brighton are still in the race for European football next season - so why are so many season ticket-holders staying away or leaving early? The answer lies in transport. The Amex relies on public transport. For Saturday games, the train service tends to be good. But on a Sunday or midweek, it turns into carnage. This is obviously an issue when TV demands butcher the fixture list. Many people are evidently deciding the chaos is not worth the bother. I live 12 miles from Amex Stadium. I have made it home from watching England at Wembley this season - 88 miles away - faster than getting back from some Albion games. Roadworks currently taking place on the A27 just before Falmer are admittedly not helping. Some fans reported getting on a Park & Ride bus in Portslade at 1pm and only making it into their seat at 2.37pm on Sunday. A 7.7 mile journey taking 97 minutes and meaning they missed the opening half hour of the game. Yet even when the A27 is fully open again, the problems with public transport will remain. It feels at times like the club are unaware of quite how bad it can be. Maybe if Hurzeler and the Albion decision-makers who seem perplexed by the early leavers and no-shows tried the time-consuming and arduous journey themselves after a home game, they would better understand why people find it off-putting enough to dictate whether they attend games or not. Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton, external
