27th October 2014 by
Brighton & Hove has added its name to the ActionAid ‘Towns Against Tax-dodging’ campaign after a successful Green motion to a council meeting (23rd October). The anti-poverty charity has been asking councils to sign up and call on the government to do more to get large companies to pay their fair share towards quality public […]
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16th October 2014 by
Brighton and Hove Green Party members and councillors joined the march today Saturday 18 October in central London to demand that Britain needs a pay rise. in central London to demand that Britain needs a pay rise. The march highlighted that UK workers are approximately £2000 a year worse off than at the start of […]
15th October 2014 by
The Green Parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown Davy Jones has warned that lax planning controls are paving the way for the gradual disappearance of green spaces and wild life habitats, especially on the urban fringe. Mr Jones is calling for a tightening of national planning legislation. He made the call after he was contacted by […]
14th October 2014 by
School meals served in Brighton & Hove’s schools have been awarded Silver Status under the Soil Association’s Food for Life scheme. The upgrade will come into effect from November 2014, at no extra cost to the council. The award is the result of new standards introduced by the Green administration, which require caterers to provide […]
6th October 2014 by
Brighton & Hove City Council has been highly commended for two of its major transport schemes in this year’s National Transport Awards. The commendations were made in the ‘Improvements to Bus Services’ category for the Lewes Road Sustainable Transport Corridor and the ‘Road Safety, Traffic Management & Enforcement’ category for the Seven Dials road safety […]
27th September 2014 by
“Every vote I cast in Parliament weighs heavily on my mind, especially as, unlike most other MPs, I have no whip telling me what to do – I consider the evidence, reflect on the principles I was elected to stand up for, listen to my constituents in Brighton Pavilion. “Never more so than on a […]
23rd September 2014 by
Greens are delighted with the news that Hove Park School governors have voted against applying for academy status for the secondary school which takes children from across the city. Distinct from Labour and Conservatives, the Green Party has consistently opposed academy status for any school, believing it removes control from the local community and allows […]
22nd September 2014 by
40,000 people turned out in London yesterday to march in demand for urgent action on climate change, one of 2,000 events taking place in 150 countries around the world ahead of a United Nations climate summit on 23rd September, at the UN Headquarters in New York. The UN summit, head by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, […]
19th September 2014 by
Eco-campaigner and council candidate Tom Druitt has voiced his “relief” after another endangered healthy elm tree looks set for a reprieve. The good news came after the planning committee on Brighton and Hove City Council rejected a bid by private school Brighton College to build a five storey study block where a rare healthy elm […]
15th September 2014 by
On news that the some CityClean refuse workers will be taking strike action, Jason Kitcat, leader of Brighton & Hove City Council, said, “We are extremely disappointed that the GMB union is taking strike action in support of a demand by a small number of truck drivers that, if accepted, would undermine equal pay law. […]