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Rising Covid cases and normal winter sickness could have an affect on our collection services in the coming weeks and months. We're doing all we can to minimise any disruption, and have plans in place to recruit more staff.

Brighton & Hove’s lead councillors for children and young people have challenged government about its lack of consideration for early years providers in the midst of the global pandemic.

From Monday 18 January, we will again be extending the hours elderly people can use their concessionary bus passes to support travel to and from Covid-19 vaccination appointments.

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Brighton & Hove has more than doubled since the current national lockdown started on 26 December. The city now has more confirmed cases per 100,000 than England and the rest of the South East.

In the seven days up to 8 January, based on data published on 13 January, there were 2244 confirmed new Covid-19 cases in Brighton & Hove which is an 18% increase per 100,000 residents from the previous week.

We want to keep our children's playgrounds open during lockdown, so we're asking people to limit the time they spend in the play areas and not to congregate in order to help prevent the possibility of Covid transmission.

Trading standards officers are warning people to be on the alert for unscrupulous builders following numerous complaints about builders who have failed to carry out work or done a poor job.

A suite of ten measures, designed to tackle transport related carbon emissions in the city and increase active travel, have been published by Brighton & Hove's first Climate Assembly.

Applications for the city’s primary, infant and junior schools for this September must be submitted by the end of Friday 15 January.

Please ignore anyone asking for payments for vaccinations. It's a scam. The national vaccination programme is being run by the NHS. Nobody else. And it is free.

We've begun planting 500 new trees in Stanmer Park. The young trees, a selection of different species, have been funded by the Stanmer Park Restoration Project and PayByPhone's 'Green Christmas' campaign.