By Rosie Murphy
Brighton residents opposing the proposed Bedroom Tax marched in the town centre today in solidarity with 57 protests across the country.
They gathered at North Street’s Clock Tower at 12pm to hear speeches and then slowed traffic by walking in Western Road.
Nation-wide people are protesting the new tax affecting the poor by cutting housing benefit by up to £14 a week for those deemed to have a spare room. Read the rest of this entry »
By Liam Dawes
Visitors to Brighton seafront will have to pay a staggering £20 per day for parking after new charges were introduced by Brighton & Hove City Council.
By Poppy Bragg
Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas has given NCTJ journalism students at City College Brighton and Hove an insight into her first year in Parliament.
Speaking to the group on Friday (May 13), Green Party Leader, Dr. Lucas, said her first few months in Westminster were “really difficult”.
As the first ever Green MP and the sole representative of her party, there was no one to explain to her the workings of Parliament.
While most MPs were helpful, she said there were exceptions – most notably the MP who, when she went to shake his hand after meeting him for a second time, almost recoiled in horror declaring: “In this House we only shake hands once.”
