BBC News

Note: Anchors are listed by their main and most regular job only. The fictional seaside town of Watermouth—the setting of Malcolm Bradbury's campus novel The History Man—bears a lot of resemblance to Brighton. While doubtless a traumatic experience for the corporation, an ICM poll in April 2003 indicated that it had sustained its position as the best and most trusted provider of news. First the Aldrington Tramway (1884-1912), then Brighton Corporation Tramways (1901-1939) ran routes from the Aquarium to Brighton Station (Route S), London Road (Route B), Ditchling Road (route D) and Elm Grove (route E), Lewes Road (Route L), Queens Park (Route Q), New England Hill/Dyke Road (Route N). Davies was followed by Director General Greg Dyke the following day and Gilligan on January 30. The building of Brighton Marina in 1970s caused the line to terminate at Black Rock, rather than Rottingdean. BBC News faced an important test, reporting on itself with the publication of the report, but by common consent managed this both independently and impartially. Volk's Electric Railway, which runs along the beach, is claimed to be the world's oldest operating electric railway and was the electrification model adopted by London Underground.

Due to the level of criticism of the corporation in the Hutton report, Davies resigned on the day of publication. The council and bus company run a city-wide realtime bus information service. The Board of Governors, under BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies' guidance, accepted that further investigation of the Government's complaints were unnecessary. It was bought by Brighton and Hove, who then merged into the Go-Ahead Group in1993. Davies had then told the BBC Board of Governors that he was happy with the story and told the Prime Minister that a satisfactory internal inquiry had taken place. The former Brighton "Blue Buses" company dates back to the 1880s. The BBC Director of News, Richard Sambrook, the report said, had accepted Gilligan's word that his story was accurate rather than checking Gilligan's records more thoroughly. Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company operates the local bus service with over 250 buses.

In particular, it specifically criticised the chain of management that caused the BBC to defend its story. The express London Victoria service takes 51 minutes today, compared with 60 minutes in 1910, 80 minutes in 1859 and up to two hours in 1841. In his report on January 28, 2004, Lord Hutton concluded that Gilligan's original accusation was "unfounded" and the BBC's editorial and management processes were "defective". Regular servies also operate to Birmingham New Street and on to Glasgow, Scotland, and via Bristol to Tenby, Wales. Kelly took his own life.". The station provides fast and frequent connections to London Gatwick Airport, London Victoria, London Bridge, and via the Thameslink line, King's Cross, London Luton Airport and Bedford. An inquiry led by Lord Hutton was announced by the British government the following day to investigate the circumstances leading to Kelly's death, concluding that "Dr. Brighton railway station was built by the London & Brighton Railway in 1840, and in 1970 was saved from redevelopment.

Kelly was found dead, apparently by suicide, in a field close to his home early on 18 July. On 28th October 2005 fans rejoiced when the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, granted Brighton & Hove Albion permission to build the stadium they had been waiting for since 1995. Following intense media speculation, David Kelly was finally named in the press as the source for Gilligan's story on 9 July 2003. Plans for a new 23,000 seater stadium had been in place since 1998, and Falmer, just north of the city, was chosen as the best location in 1999. In subsequent weeks the corporation stood by the report, saying that it had a reliable source. Despite fans not having to make the 140 mile round trip to Kent, the 6000 seater stadium is not suitable for Championship games. The Government angrily denounced the reports and accused the corporation of poor journalism. Two years of sharing Gillingham's stadium in Kent ended when the team was granted permission to play their home games at the Withdean Sports Complex in Brighton.

Three BBC News reports (Andrew Gilligan's on Today, Gavin Hewitt's on The Ten O'Clock News and another on Newsnight) quoted an anonymous source that stated the British government (particularly the Prime Minister's office) had embellished the September Dossier with misleading exaggerations of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities. Near relegation from Division 3 in 1997, having played their last game at the Goldstone Stadium, saw a new board of directors installed. BBC News was at the centre of one the largest political controversies in recent years. In 1995 Brighton & Hove Albion's Goldstone Stadium, in central Hove, was sold without viable plans for an alternative. Most notable examples have been in Uzbekistan [2], China [3] [4], Sri Lanka [5], Zimbabwe [6] and Pakistan in 2005 [7], . and the Hove ground of Sussex County Cricket Club, which is used for international one day matches, and the Brighton Bears. BBC News has been banned in several countries primarily for unbiased reporting which has been unfavourable to the ruling government. Brighton is the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Notable examples have been Stop castrating the language, published in The Observer, and The Disgrace of the BBC, published in The Weekly Standard. Additionally, Brighton has a lively gay and lesbian scene centred in the Kemptown area of the city. Alternative views are also expressed in print from time to time. Some of the most important clubs in the UK dance music scene are based in Brighton, such as The Honey Club and The Ocean Rooms, and the famous but now rebranded Escape and Zap clubs, which have become Audio and The Union respectively. The BBC is frequently complimented in the public arena, both in the United Kingdom and globally. There are a large number of bars and nightclubs in Brighton, though due to problems with binge-drinking and vagrancy, alcohol consumption on the street is now banned in some areas. Certain radio broadcasts are available for download as podcasts as part of the BBC's download trial. There is also a significant array of local listings and review publications, which serve as a useful showcase for the many local graphic designers.

The same is available with BBC News television bulletins and radio programmes. There is a healthy free party scene, which has been in action since the early 90s. Certain BBC current affairs programmes such as Newsnight and Question Time are available to view on the site after they have been broadcast. Brighton is renowned for its lively music scene, having spawned a number of successful artists, such as The Levellers and Fatboy Slim, and record labels including Skint Records. Many reports are accompanied by audio and video from the BBC's television and radio news services. This has been demonstrated by the Green Party taking 22% of the vote of the Brighton Pavilion constituency in the 2005 general election, versus just 1% nationally. The website contains exhaustive international news coverage as well as entertainment, sport, science, and political news. Brighton is considered a fairly progressive town due to the large numbers of political movements and activities, for instance SchNEWS, a local newsletter.

Launched in November 1997, it is one of the most popular news websites in the UK with around 15 million visitors every month. However, the site of the pool itself remains empty except for a skate park and graffiti wall, and further development is planned for the area including a high-rise hotel which has aroused considerable local controversy, mirroring the situation with proposals for the site of the King Alfred leisure centre in neighbouring Hove. BBC News Online is the BBC's news website. Since the 1978 demolition of the Art Deco open-air swimming lido at Black Rock, the most easterly part of Brighton's seafront, the area has been developed considerably and now features one of Europe's largest marinas. The BBC World Service broadcasts to some 150 million people in 40 languages across the globe. Part of the beach has been designated an official nudist area — one of very few naturist beaches in the United Kingdom to be located adjacent to an urban area. BBC News does not produce the BBC's regional news bulletins, which are produced by the BBC nations and regions. In the summer, thousands of young students from all over Europe gather in the city to attend language courses.

BBC Radio News produces bulletins for the BBC's national radio stations and provides content for local BBC radio stations via the General News Service (GNS). It is sometimes known as 'London by the Sea' because of its lively atmosphere and cosmopolitan nature and also because of the large number of visitors from London. The full directory of all the BBC's regional news programmes can be found here. Brighton is home to two universities, the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton, as well as a public school, Brighton College. The position of editor of the Ten O'Clock News is currently being advertised. The biggest arts festival in England—the Brighton Festival—takes place in May each year. On the 16th of December 2005, the News 24 editor was named as Kevin Bakhurst, whilst Amanda Farnsworth became editor of the One and Six O'Clock bulletins. Every August sees a large annual LGBT Pride event which has now become one of the most popular such events in the UK calendar.

On the 8th of November 2005, it was announced that a controller of BBC News 24 would be appointed and that a single editor for the One O'Clock and Six O'Clock news programmes would be used rather than two individuals. Some indicators suggest a gay population approaching 25%. In 2003, following another relaunch of the corporation's output, all title music and graphics were altered with Lowe remaining as composer. The city has a large Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, mainly based in the Kemptown area of the city. Lowe was also responsible for the music on Radio One's "Newsbeat". named for the Hanoverian monarchy of the day. The general theme was used not only on bulletins on BBC One but News 24, BBC World and local news programmes in the BBC's Nations and Regions. Hilly Laine, on the east slope facing North Laine is now generally known as 'Hanover', such name coming from the early nineteenth century terraces at the base of the hill: Hanover Crescent, Hanover Terrace et al.

It was part of the extensive rebranding which commenced in 1999. The North Laine area still keeps the original spelling. The distinctive music on all BBC television news programmes was introduced in 1999 and composed by David Lowe. That name was derived from 'Laine', which was apparently an old unit of Anglo-Saxon field measurement. BBC News provides 22 hours of programming each day for the international news and current affairs channel BBC World. In Brighton, the area occupied by the original fishing village has become The Lanes — a collection of narrow alleyways now filled with a mixture of antique shops, restaurants, bistros and pubs. It also provides news on Ceefax and the BBC News Website. However, no member of the cabinet was killed.

The Television News section of BBC News is responsible for the main news bulletins on BBC One and BBC Two, news output on BBC Three and BBC Four and the news networks BBC News 24 and BBC Parliament. The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, narrowly escaped injury, although members of her Government were injured — most notably Norman Tebbit. The building is planned to have the largest live newsroom in the world. Four people were killed in the blast (including Sir Anthony Berry), and Norman Tebbit's wife subsequently died of her injuries. In 2008 all BBC News, national radio and BBC World Service broadcasts will be moved to Broadcasting House in central London. In the early hours of October 12th 1984 an IRA bomb exploded in the Grand Hotel where leading members of the governing Conservative Party were staying. In 1998 most of BBC Radio News joined BBC Television News at TVC in the new "News Centre" complex at the front of the building. The stubby remains of some of the pier's iron piles, sunk ten feet into bedrock, can still be seen at the most extreme low tides.

Regional headlines were also added to the one o'clock news, and the main evening news, when it moved from nine o'clock to ten o'clock. They were saved this task by a storm which destroyed the already closed and rather decrepit pier on December 4, 1896. Over the next few years the regional news programmes began adopting a unified look in line with the national news. The Chain Pier survived the construction of the West Pier, but a condition for permission to build the Palace Pier was that the builders would dismantle the oldest pier. The English regions lost some time, however, as these regions now rejoined London for a national round-up at 6.55. An esplanade with an entrance toll-booth controlled access to the pier which was roughly in line with today's New Steine. Regional stories were incorporated into the six o'clock news headlines. The pier was primarily intended as a landing stage, Brighton having no natural harbour, but it also featured a small number of attractions including initially a camera obscura.

It also caused changes to regional news. Brighton had one further major pier, the Brighton Chain Suspension Pier ("Chain Pier") of 1823. Most significantly BBC regional news programmes adopted the new corporate image for the first time, giving a common style across local, national and international BBC television news. However, in September 2005 the Trust revealed in their newsletter that they are forming further plans to rebuild the original structure with help from private funding. In 1997 the programme titles were altered slighlty to incorporate the new corporate logo and in 1999 the biggest relaunch occurred, with BBC One bulletins, BBC World and BBC News 24 adopting a common style. Finally, in December 2004, the Trust admitted defeat, after their plans were rejected by the Heritage Lottery Fund and subsequent less ambitious plans to restore only the oldest, structural parts of the pier were also rejected by English Heritage. Likewise the style of the theme changed, from a bright and driving theme for Breakfast News to an authoritative and more sombre version for the Nine O'Clock News. Despite all these setbacks, the owner of the site West Pier Trust remained adamant they would soon begin full restoration work.

The colour of the sets varied, getting progressively darker throughout the day. On June 23, 2004 high winds caused the middle of the pier to completely collapse. The titles commenced with the BBC News logo imposed on a spinning globe, widening to reveal a glass sculpture of the BBC coat of arms (again computer generated) in front of a panoramic view of the studio. The West Pier Trust refers to the fires as the work of 'professional arsonists', (notwithstanding that there is no evidence linking the fires to the owners of the Palace Pier). The new set was a small one which took advantage of Silicon Graphics systems to create a virtual studio which appeared to be huge. Arson was suspected. The times of the main bulletins —one o'clock, six o'clock and nine o'clock, were, however unchanged, and the music, whilst consistent in style, was based on the previous theme adopted by each programme. On May 12, 2003, another fire broke out, consuming most of what was left of the concert hall.

A major relaunch of BBC television news output in 1993 included abolition of variation in sets and titles in favour of a single set with a common theme. The cause of the fire remains unknown. Several variations in how the main news programmes were named and shown occurred with programmes such as Nationwide coming and going. Firefighters were unable to save the building from destruction because they could not reach the end of the pier - the previous collapse had destroyed the walkway. These were adapted as Television Newsreel programmes. On March 28, 2003 the pavilion at the end of the pier caught fire. Newsreels had been in use for some time, shown at cinemas and other places of public gathering. On January 20, 2003 a further collapse saw the destruction of the concert hall in the middle of the pier.

The BBC television service originally carried news in the form of images with a newsreader narrating but off camera, having decided that a newsreader on screen would distract viewers from the stories. The West Pier partially collapsed on December 29, 2002 when a walkway connecting the concert hall and pavilion fell into the sea after being battered by storms. The BBC celebrated 50 years of Television News on July 5, 2004. The restoration was also opposed by the owners of the Brighton Pier, who reportedly saw its subsidised rebuilding, were it to happen, as unfair competition. On July 5, 1954, the first television news bulletin was broadcast. Plans by The West Pier Trust to renovate the pier with help from Heritage Lottery Fund have been opposed by some local residents who claimed that the proposed new onshore structures — which the renovators needed to pay for the work on the pier — would obstruct their view of the sea. The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin on November 14, 1922. The West Pier is one of only two Grade 1 listed piers in the UK, the other being Clevedon Pier.

. The older West Pier, built in 1866 by Eugenius Birch, has been closed and deteriorating since 1975, awaiting renovation. In 2005, it was announced that the Six O'Clock News was the most popular daily news programme whilst the corporation's 24 hour rolling news channel, BBC News 24, was the most popular 24 hour news channel in Britain [1]. It suffered a large fire on 4 February 2003 but the damage was limited and most of the pier was able to reopen the next day. However, research has shown that for coverage of major events such as the Iraq war and September 11th attacks viewers turn to the BBC. The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier, generally known as the Palace Pier before being unofficially renamed by its current owners as Brighton Pier in 2000, opened in May 1899 and is still popular. Within the United Kingdom, BBC News faces stiff competition from Sky News and ITN. Luckily this proved not to be the case - a consortium formed by residents and owners were able to wrestle the freehold of the building from the previous inneffectual management company, and restoration commenced in 2004.

It is, however, not free from controversies, the most recent being the Hutton Report which led to a shakeup of the corporation's operations. The building made the local press after chunks of render and windows fell from the building onto the street below, and it appeared until recently that it may suffer the same ignomious fate met by the West Pier sat opposite it, which finally succumbed to the elements (and arsonists) in early 2004. BBC News output has won critical acclaim worldwide and praise for its unbiased and balanced reporting. When built in 1935, designed by architect Welles Coates, the building contrasted sharply with the more sedate and ornamental architecture of King's Road; but by the 1990s, the structure drew comment because of its terribly run down nature. The annual budget of BBC News is £350 million. Embassy Court is one of the most striking buildings on the seafront at Brighton and Hove, although the reasons for this have differed over the years. The News department consists of 3,500 staff of which 2,000 are journalists. Brighton, with its cutting edge scene, is hard to imagine without the 20,000+ students of the now two Universities.

Due to the non-central location of TVC, however, in 2008 the News Centre is due to move to BBC Radio's headquarters, BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place in Central London. The University has aquired a strong academic reputation, not least in left-leaning humanities subjects. Political coverage is based at the Millbank Studios in Westminster. The single most important postwar development was the opening in the mid sixties of Sussex University, designed by Sir Basil Spence. Of these bureaux, 41 are based overseas. Pubs and restaurants are abundant. BBC News is based at the News Centre at Television Centre (TVC), Wood Lane, W12 and operates regional centres across the United Kingdom as well as 44 newsgathering bureaux around the world. The growth in mass tourism stimulated numerous Brighton businesses to serve the insatiable appetites of the holidaying masses.

BBC News carries out a key objective of the BBC's Royal Charter: to "collect news and information in any part of the world and in any manner that may be thought fit". In many ways, Brighton's postwar growth has been a continuation of the 'fashionable Brighton' that drew the Georgian upper classes at the beginning of its recent history. The current director is Helen Boaden. Brighton's character evolved over the course of the twentieth century but not so as to leave it unrecognisable. It claims to be the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world and produces almost 100 hours of output daily. Visitors were further encouraged by the arrival of the London and Brighton Railway in 1840, which also established one of the first railway-owned locomotive works. BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporation's newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. The Kemp Town estate (at the heart of the Kemptown district) was constructed between 1823 and 1855, and is a good example of Regency architecture.

Maxine Mawhinney. Eventually he spent much of his leisure time in the town and constructed the exotic-looking Royal Pavilion, which is the town's best-known landmark. Matthew Amroliwala. The growth of the town was further encouraged when, in 1786, the young Prince Regent later King George IV, rented a farmhouse in order to escape from public life. Fiona Bruce. By 1780, development of the Regency terraces had started and the town quickly became the fashionable resort of Brighton. Huw Edwards. Currently approaching the conclusion of its ambitious restoration, Marlborough House on the Steine was built by Robert Adam in 1765 and purchased shortly afterwards by the eponymous Duke.

Sophie Raworth, on long-term leave. He set up house there and before long, the rich and the sick had started to make their way to the seaside. Natasha Kaplinsky. Brighthelmstone began to change in 1753 when Dr Richard Russell of Lewes published his thesis on sea bathing, which proclaimed the benefit to health of the salt water of Brighton. George Alagiah. Brighton remained a small fishing village up until the 18th century. Jane Hill. A display copy of the map can be seen in Hove Museum.

Darren Jordan. Part of their 'pitch' was an illustrated map (1545) showing the French raid of 1511. Anna Ford. Later on in Henry's reign, the residents of the town petitioned the monarch for defensive cannon. Moira Stuart. In June 1514, the fishing village then known as Brighthelmstone was burnt to the ground by the French as part of a war between the two which began as a result of the Treaty of Westminster (1511). Simon McCoy. It is now a pub.

Mishal Hussein. A medieval priory on the site of the present Town Hall has left no visible trace, though Hangleton Manor to the north of the suburb of Portslade is a sixteenth century flint manor building, very well preserved, juxtaposed in amongst a twentieth century housing estate. Bill Turnbull. The church contracted through ruin down to just this part, before nineteenth century restoration returned it to the comparably mighty edifice visible today. Sian Williams. While other ecclesiastical buildings in Brighton date from the post-Russell period, St Andrew's Church on Church Road, Hove has a dramatic thirteenth century nave. Dermot Murnaghan. As such, it is among the oldest art in Brighton.

Home Affairs Editor: Mark Easton. A medieval fresco depicting the murder of Thomas a Beckett was discovered under paint following a fire in the early part of the twentieth century. Middle East Editor: Jeremy Bowen. Although the present day manor house is relatively recent in construction, the church — St Peters, currently under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust — is fourteenth century. Europe Editor: Mark Mardell. From the manorial system, Preston manor lingers on today as a museum. Business Editor: Robert Peston. In the Domesday Book, Brighton was called Bristemestune and a rent of 4000 herring was established.

Economics Editor: Evan Davis. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains the first mention of a settlement in the area at Beorthelm's-tun (the town of Beorthelm). World Affairs Editor: John Simpson. In the thirties, the garage owner had a small display of Roman statues and broaches in the forecourt shop. Political Editor: Nick Robinson. Numerous artefacts were found as well as the foundations of the building. The villa was excavated in the 1930s prior to the building of a (now gone) garage on the site.

The villa was sited more or less at the water's edge, immediately south of Preston Park — which area itself would perhaps have been part of the outer grounds. At the time of its construction in the late first or second century AD there was a river running along what is now the tarmac of London Road. Having conquered Britannica (43AD), and after brutally surpressing the Boudicaen counter-invasion (61AD), the Romans built villas throughout Sussex and indeed there was a villa in Brighton. Cissbury Ring, at a distance of about ten miles from Hollingbury and quite awesome in its construction, is reckoned by some to have been the tribal 'capital'.

Hollingbury is one of numerous 'hillforts' found across southern Britain. As a 'ball park figure', its diameter is about 300 metres. Commanding panoramic views over Brighton, this Celtic Iron Age encampment is circumscribed by substantial earthwork outer walls. Undoubtedly the single most impressive pre-Roman site in Brighton is Hollingbury Camp.

Made of translucent red Baltic Amber and approximately the same size as a regular china teacup, the impressive artefact can be seen in Hove Museum. A defining point on the landscape since at least 1500BC, this 20 foot high tomb yielded, amongst other treasures, the Hove Amber Cup. During nineteenth century building work near Palmeira Square, workmen tasked with removing an earth mound 'excavated' a significant burial mound. Of considerable interest from the middle Bronze Age is the Hove Amber Cup.

After a scholarly review, Paul Harwood of Birmingham's Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity noted that "there are a concentration of Beaker burials on the fringes of the central chalklands around Brighton, and a later cluster of Early and Middle Bronze Age ‘rich graves' in the same area.". A standing stone circle nearby (today's Hove Park) is documented up to 1820, when the farmer had had one too many "antiquarians" traipsing over his crop and buried the stones. There is a plaque telling us it was believed to be in use (ceremonial? geomantic?) around 2000BC. More of prehistoric Brighton and Hove can be observed just north of the small retail park on Old Shoreham Road, built over the site of the town's football ground in the late 1990s, where you can visit The Goldstone.

The building of a new housing estate in the early nineties over the South Eastern portion of the enclosure resulted in damage to the archeology, the loss of the ancient panoramic view and a diminishment in atmosphere of the historical site. Significant vestiges of the mounds remain and you can trace their arc with the eye. There are four concentric circles of ditches and mounds, broken or 'causewayed' in many places. The centre of this early Neolithic causewayed enclosure c.3500BC is someway toward the aerial mast on the south side of Manor Road, opposite the grandstand.

Whitehawk Camp — a natural viewpoint — is bisected by Manor Road. While any British history predating the first mentions by literate Romans is, by definition, consigned to an obscured landscape known intimidatingly as 'prehistory', a few things are known about the area. . The two boroughs were joined together to form the unitary authority of Brighton & Hove in 1997, which in 2000 was granted city status by the Queen as part of the millennial celebrations, following competition from other large towns which coveted city status.

Brighton's lively atmosphere is a direct contrast to its near neighbour, Hove which has quieter and more refined character. Brighton and Hove form a single conurbation. Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. MirrorMask (2005).

Wimbledon (2004). The Chalk Garden (1963). Carry On At Your Convenience (1971). Carry On Girls (1973).

Circus (2000). Mona Lisa (1986). Me Without You. The End Of The Affair.

Dirty Weekend (1993). Oh! What A Lovely War (1969). Quadrophenia (1979) Franc Roddam. Genevieve (1953) Henry Cornelius.

Brighton Rock (1947) John Boulting. Helen Zahavi. William Makepeace Thackeray. Nigel Richardson.

Louise Rennison. Phillip Reeve. Robert Rankin:. Henry James.

Patrick Hamilton. Graham Greene. George Gissing:. Jane Austen:.

Mark Williams, star of The Fast Show and the Harry Potter films. Rachel Whiteread, artist and Turner Prize winner. Keith Tyson, artist and Turner Prize winner. Dusty Springfield, lived at Wilbury Road, Hove & formed band The Springfields there.

Jimmy Somerville, 1990s pop star formerly of band The Communards. Captain Sensible. Dame Flora Robson, 1960 until her death in 1984. Robert Rankin, Fiction author.

Katie Price, model (also known as Jordan). Patsy Palmer, ex-EastEnders television actress. Lord Lawrence Olivier & Joan Plowright, lived at Royal Crescent, Kemptown 1960 to 1978. Dame Anna Neagle, lived at Lewes Crescent, Kemptown.

Bob Meek, journalist. Paul McCartney, musician, and his wife Heather Mills McCartney, designer (Hove). Ida Lupino, C1914 to C1949. Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London.

Vivien Leigh. Prince Peter Alexeevich Kropotkin, 1912 to 1917. Rudyard Kipling, 1897 to 1903. James Herbert, author.

Phil Hartnoll, of band Orbital. Graham Greene. Michael Fabricant MP, born in Brighton in 1950 and educated at the Brighton and Hove Grammar School. Chris Eubank, ex-boxer.

Roger Dean. Ashes scattered at Devil's Dyke. Aleister Crowley, died in a nursing home in Brighton in December 1947. Gaz Coombes, lead singer of Supergrass.

Formerly of band The Housemartins (Hove). Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, musician & DJ. Steve Coogan. Julian Clary, comedian.

Sir Winston Churchill, attended school. Nick Cave. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1880 to 1898. Julie Burchill, journalist.

Dora Bryan. Cate Blanchett. Steve Cornflower, Björk's new german boyfriend. Björk.

Patrick Bergin, star of films including Sleeping with the Enemy and Patriot Games. Aubrey Beardsley, born in Brighton 1872, and for some time lived at Lower Rock Gardens, Kemptown. Michael "Atters" Attree, satirist. Richard Attenborough.