Roy Pennington

The BBC documentary Parking Mad featured a bus-lane penalty appeal heard at the White Horse Hotel in Rottingdean. The appellant successfully challenged a penalty notice issued near North Street and Castle Square in Brighton because of faulty signage, although costs were denied. The case highlighted how motorists may pay discounted fines rather than risk a higher charge after an unsuccessful appeal, while the council had collected more than £500,000 in bus-lane penalties.

Councillor Lynda Hyde was cleared by a Standards Panel of breaching the councillors’ code of conduct after the Saltdean Community Association complained that she had accused its executive committee of acting only in its own interests. Hyde said her remark had been misunderstood amid noise and was actually a reference to what residents had told her. The panel concluded that the comment was neither intended nor directed at the committee, but advised Hyde to be more discreet when speaking in public.

Candidates are listed for the East Brighton by-election in Whitehawk. Labour's Chaun Wilson is defending an existing majority of more than 800 votes against Conservative candidate Joe Miller and Green candidate Carlie Goldsmith, while the Liberal Democrats, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts, and UPIK have also nominated candidates. The article suggests that the smaller parties' approximately 250 combined votes from the previous election could affect the result mainly by splitting the vote.