Return of Shakedown Festival to Brighton Park Causes Public Division
Brighton's Stanmer park is host the Shakedown music festival.
But not every one is happy at the news, as Latest TV's Holly Keogh found out...
Brighton Charity Calls For City To Become UK Capital Of Online Safety
We all know Brighton and Hove is a digital city - but could we all be safer when we go online?
That was the question discussed by dozens of industry experts yesterday, as Latest TV's Holly Keogh found out...
Brighton Centre Wins Prize For Disabled Accessibility
Getting from A to B in Brighton is far from easy - especially if you are disabled.
But one of the city's top venues has made that simple task a little easier, as Latest TV's Holly Keogh found out...
Lack of Bus Service Isolates Brighton Community
Hundreds of people have backed a campaign to restore a bus service to one of the city's most isolated communities.
Latest TV's Holly Keogh can tell us more....
Brighton Gallery- Can We Really Live Forever?
The prospect of immortality is one that has been pondered about for years - and a new exhibition at a Brighton gallery aims to explore the possibility of living forever.
Save Sebastian
A fundraising campaign has been launched to help a British doctor who was hit by a lorry in America.
Seb Kola-Bankole is in a critical condition in hospital but medical staff over there are treating under the assumption that he has no insurance.
Family of the NHS worker are now being faced with a 250 thousand pound bill to get him back home.
Latest TV's Holly Keogh reports.
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Brighton Chocolatiers Unveil £25,000 Easter Display
Easter is just around the corner which means for some of you a chance to eat a few chocolate eggs. And Latest TV's Holly Keogh reckons she's found the most egg-cellent display around....
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Brighton Charity Wants Volunteers Aged 50+
From playtime for kids to a group that supports men who are advancing in years...
One Brighton group has taken on the task of doing more for men aged over 50.
Here's Holly Keogh...
FairTrade Fashion | Latest7 Column
Last year’s Brighton Fashion Week was all about ethical fashion, so I met with Julia Hart of conciousrestyle.com last week to talk about ethical fashion and why she thinks we could all do more to help make the world of fashion fairer for workers.
She is trying to urge everybody to think about where their clothes are coming from before we buy them from high street shops as some of them treat their workers poorly.
Ethical fashion basically means clothes from retailers that prioritise the human rights of their workers.
England imports a lot of its high street clothing from countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh and India. In order to make clothes to sell so cheaply on the high street, workers are exposed to poor wages, excessive hours and hazardous working places amongst other things.
On April 24 2013, 1,113 garment makers in Bangladesh lost their lives producing clothes for the UK when their factory collapsed due to its unsafe structure. But there are many retailers in Brighton who make sure that their workers are treated fairly and are sweatshop free.
Julia said: “These shops are paving the way for other major fashion retailers by giving us a taste of how things could be, much as the early Fair Trade labels did with coffee and chocolate.”
She thinks that if everybody made more of an effort to shop from ethical retailers then, due to customer demand, the non-ethical high street retailers would start to become fairer too.
My friends and I then spent the day visiting various ethical fashion stores to try out the clothes ourselves.
Our first stop was The FAIR Shop on Queens Road. They use Fair Trade cotton in their clothing and sell things made by people certified by the World Fair Trade Organisation.
I was actually surprised with how nice the clothes were. I don’t know what I was expecting, but when you think of Fair Trade clothing you normally assume it’s not going to be fashionable, but all the clothes were lovely.
The prices were probably more than somebody on a student budget, like myself, could afford and perhaps the style is better suited to a more mature woman. But it definitely made me think about what, how, and where the clothes that I buy are made.
Our next stop was American Apparel in North Street. They are sweatshop-free and produce all of their clothes in one factory in Los Angeles. We were already very familiar with this store as its targeted clientele is younger people and their prices are slightly more student friendly.
The fabrics are all really soft and you can tell that the items will last longer than a lot of the cheaper stores, as they are better quality.
As we headed towards the Marina cinema we took our final ethical fashion stop at the Love That Stuff store.
All of their material is hand-dyed and hand-loomed and, again, the first thing we noticed is that the material was of a higher quality than some of the usual high street stores.
Julia had said to me earlier: “Whilst some of the eco or ethical stores may be a bit more expensive than that you might find on the high street, this is only because the workers are actually being paid a fair wage for the work they do and the quality is a lot better.”
And I must admit that the clothes in the ethical shops did seem a better quality, they seem to be made to last.
Whilst I can’t promise I’ll stop shopping in my regular high street stores all together, I definitely will consider buying from ethical stores when possible.
Storms Damage Parts of Brighton's West Pier
Some parts of Sussex woke to a blanket of snow this morning as temperatures dropped to below zero.
It will come as comfort to some though as it means the ending of a period of high winds - storms which damaged one of the city's most treasured landmarks.
Here's Holly Keogh
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Controversial 'Squirt' Ad is Not Removed From Brighton Bus Stops
Now a controversial advert for a dating website has been popping up all over the UK.
Other parts the country like Cardiff have removed the poster following complaints, but it still remains in bus stops across Brighton.
Latest TV's Holly Keogh reports
True Meaning of Lent
Now as the number of those taking part in Christian traditions continues to fall - Holly Keogh has been investigating whether celebrations like lent and Shrove Tuesday have become less about their original meaning.
Brighton School Children Take Over Latest TV News
Last week some very eager youngsters got the chance to try out Mike Mendoza's job - in reading Latest TV news.
And Holly Keogh caught it all on camera..
Brighton Cancer Patient On How She Has Stood Up To Cancer
A cancer patient has been using comical Facebook posts to show how she has Stood Up To Cancer - and to remind women to check regularly for breast cancer.
Latest TV's Holly Keogh reports.
Brighton Yoga Studio Renamed After Founding Father Sex Shame
A Brighton yoga studio was in hot water after some revealing revelations about it's founder.
But that's not stopping them from pushing on regardless, as Latest TV's Holly Keogh found out....
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