Tim Ridgway’s Latest News

This week’s headlines from across the city

JIHADI ANGER
The mother of a jihadist believed to have been killed in Syria during US air strikes has spoken of her anger that her son rallied to the cause.

Ibraham Kamara, 19, is thought to have been fighting for al Nusra, an affiliate group of al Qaida, in the war-torn country.

Mr Kamara’s mother, Khadijah Kamara, 35, who lives in Brighton, told Latest TV News that she was angry that her son chose to go to fight in Syria.

PARKING PREMIUM
Parking issues in Hanover are once again simmering on the community’s agenda.

Twice now, locals in the area known as Muesli Mountain have rejected council plans to install a controlled parking zone.

But with the area and its narrow streets regularly used by commuters as a free place to leave their cars as they go to work, the issue has never really died down.

Now the local action team is picking up the baton again, and carrying out surveys across the area. Expect to hear a lot more about this in the coming weeks.

GOLDEN OLDIES
Brighton and Hove is getting older by the day. But with more and more people now living into their 90s, health chiefs admit they must do more to support the growing aged population.

It isn’t all bad news though, as the number of people over 80 deemed to be in good health is set to rise from 40% to 45% in the next 10 years.

ACADEMY VOTE
Will it or wont it? Hove Park school as been the centre of an academy debate since before the summer.
After months of debate and protests, a decision was finally made by governors last week.

And it was anti-academy campaigners outside who were celebrating after a U-turn by headteacher Derek Trimmer, who said he did not feel it would be right for the school at this time.

CURTAINS FOR HIPPODROME?
It was once one of the most-loved venues on the south coast. But plans to keep the Brighton Hippodrome as a theatre appear to have hit a wall.

This was after the government said it would not intervene in a dispute over planning permission.

The decision means that developers can now push ahead with plans to turn it into a multi-screen cinema and restaurant complex.

But Latest TV understands campaigners are not giving up the fight yet.

PICTURE THIS

After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Tim Andrews, decided it was the perfect time for a career change.

The former solicitor has turned himself into an art project, modelling for some 300 photographers.
More than 50 of the photographs and several films will be exhibited as part of the 2014 Brighton Photo Fringe at Create Gallery, New England House, New England Street, Brighton for the first time. The exhibition will run from October 4 to 17.

ICE, ICE, BABY
The Royal Pavilion ice Rink will return to Brighton for a fifth year. And to mark the occasion – as well as the launch of its ticket sales – organisers have come up with a wintry challenge.

People are being asked to knit woolly hats, which marshals at the attraction can wear as they help people around the ice.

Latest TV’s Mhairi Beveridge got her skates on to find out more.

WILL LOLLIES GET A LICKING?
Finally, a storm is circling above a small sweet shop on Brighton seafront. That’s because owners have been stocking a selection of lollies moulded in the shape of male genitalia. Some people see treats as a bit of harmless fun, but not everyone agrees.

What do you think? Why not watch our report and decide for yourself.