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The funding is available to support eligible employers to take on new apprentices and develop existing employees.

While the main Brighton & Hove Pride events are cancelled this year, we’re expecting a busy weekend. If you are planning to mark the weekend, please do your bit to help keep the city open for everyone. 

Around 50 elm trees in Coldean woods need to be removed after the discovery of a large outbreak of elm disease in the area. The work will begin on Wednesday 4 August and is expected to take three to five days.

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in our city came down this week for the first time this summer. But almost one in two adults in Brighton & Hove are not yet fully vaccinated with two doses.

Cllr Phélim Mac Cafferty, Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council speaks out about his concerns on the lack of consultation and poor planning by the Home Office in its placement in the city of vulnerable unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Health minister Jo Churchill has replied to a letter proposing Brighton & Hove could be a pilot to normalise HIV testing across health services which could make it available when people attend A&E, register for a new GP and in local pharmacies.

We are delighted to announce an opportunity for two new artists’ commissions as part of the regeneration of the Black Rock site.

Councillor Martin Osborne has been appointed chair of The Aquifer Partnership, established to protect groundwater in the Brighton Chalk Block from pollution and increase resilience to climate change and extreme weather.

A new Gender Diverse Recreational six-a-side football festival will be running in Preston Park this August.

We are proposing to add a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to the list of documents submitted with some larger planning applications and would like your views.