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  1. A woman and a man in a blue t-shirt sitting inside a car.

  2. A young couple smiles while taking a selfie.

  3. Five black and blue handguns lie flat on a cream table. One has an evidence tag tied to it.

  4. A building site with mounds of dirt and red and green fences

  5. Lucian Sorenau wearing a black tracksuit top and scratching his head. He is looking at the camera.

  6. Close up of a Secamb ambulance

  7. Empty three-lane road on Brighton seafront with fire damaged hotel fenced off in the background.

  8. Brighton v Fulham: Did you know?

    Fulham's Rodrigo Muniz heads the ball during the Premier League match between Fulham FC and Brighton & Hove Albion FCGetty Images

    Brighton have won none of their nine Premier League games against Fulham but have instead drawn four and lost five.

    It makes Fulham the opponent they have faced the most without winning and conversely Brighton are the opponent Fulham have faced the most without losing.

    However, Brighton have won each of their past three Premier League games – only once have they ever won four consecutive top-flight matches, doing so in April/May 1981.

    Fulham have scored in each of their past 12 Premier League away games, netting exactly twice in each of their past six. It is their longest run of scoring multiple goals on the road in top-flight history, and have only once had a longer overall scoring streak (14 between September 1959 and April 1960).

  9. Parkland on a sunny day with blue skies and trees and an architect's image of the new three storey, red brick college building.

  10. A man with grey hair in a suit and tie looks stern and is walking outside a stone building.

  11. Brighton use Forest hammering as wake-up call

    Simon Stone
    Chief football news reporter

    Former Brighton forward Glenn Murray (left), with Joel Veltman, Ferdi Kadioglu and Bart Verbruggen on a virtual fans' question and answer session

    Former Brighton forward Glenn Murray (left), with Joel Veltman, Ferdi Kadioglu and Bart Verbruggen

    On Wednesday, Brighton held a virtual fans' question-and-answer session, set against a digital backdrop of the Amex Stadium, complete with seagulls.

    Joel Veltman, Ferdi Kadioglu and Bart Verbruggen spoke to former striker Glenn Murray about their careers and the season so far.

    When asked for his two favourite games - one for Brighton, one across his whole career - Veltman picked Ajax's Champions League quarter-final away win against Juventus in 2019 and Brighton's 4-0 win against Manchester United, where he came up against Cristiano Ronaldo in both.

    I asked about the mentality that was required to bounce back from the 7-0 hammering at Nottingham Forest on 1 February - which they all said was the heaviest of their career - to record five straight wins, Brighton's best run since April 2017 when they were promoted from the Championship.

    "Sometimes you need a big defeat to wake you up," said Veltman.

    "When you lose a game like that, the feeling in the dressing room is something you do not want to feel again. It makes you fight even more."

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  13. Six people standing outside a red building. The Salvation Army is inscribed into stonework in huge lettering on the front of the building.

  14. A large building with people sitting outside and a grey van.

  15. A woman in a green jumper holding a large tray in front of a fridge.

  16. Hamish (on the left wearing a dark blue sports top and shorts with his prosthetic legs) and Craig Mackinlay (on the right wearing a short, tie and blazer with his prosthetic legs) stand in a hospital room

  17. Several corporate vans are parked, bunched up on a road, as workmen work in the distance. There is a red road closure sign and a number of orange road cones.

  18. A map showing roadworks and repairs.

  19. Brighton penalty

  20. Veltman confirms new one-year Brighton deal

    Simon Stone
    Chief football news reporter

    Joel Veltman (second left) has made 139 Premier League appearances and scored four goals since his £900,000 move from Ajax in 2020

    Former Brighton forward Glenn Murray (left), with Joel Veltman, Ferdi Kadioglu and Bart Verbruggen

    I have to admit, I was not expecting a news line to come out of a Brighton fans' virtual question-and-answer session this afternoon.

    Former striker Glenn Murray was asking the questions against digitally created backdrops of both Amex Stadium and the home dressing room.

    Veltman, 33, was asked if he thought he would spend the rest of his career at Brighton.

    "My contract was expiring in the summer but I have extended it by another year," he said. "Beyond that, I will leave my options open.

    "I have been here for five years and still love it but you never know in football."

  21. 'If I was the manager I would be having a word with him'

    Yankuba MintehGetty Images

    Former Brighton striker Warren Aspinall has criticised Yankuba Minteh's attitude in their FA Cup victory at Newcastle on Sunday.

    Speaking on the Albion Unlimited podcast, he said: "It's all about attitude of the players now [for the rest of the season]. Look at Tariq Lamptey - he has waited and waited and he has been playing out of his skin in the past three games.

    "I didn't like the way that [Yankuba] Minteh came off, when he was shaking his head. Just get yourself off, hug your team-mate and sit down.

    "If you have got any problems, go and knock on the manager's door on Monday morning. Don't show disrespect to the manager because he has made those decisions. The substitutions who came on won us the game.

    "If I was the manager, I would be having a word with him and asking what his problem was."

    BBC Radio Sussex's Johnny Cantor added: "You could say that his challenge gave away the penalty and I thought that if his shot hadn't been deflected, he probably wouldn't have scored. To be shaking your head in front of the manager, it's frustration there.

    "It should be the norm [to support your team-mates coming on as a substitute]."

    Listen to the full discussion here

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  23. Barber's 'wow' moment with Brighton's finances

    Brighton's Paul BarberGetty Images

    Brighton and Hove Albion deputy chairman Paul Barber says "everyone can be proud" of Brighton's financial accounts for the 2023-24 season.

    Speaking on BBC Radio Sussex's Albion Unlimited podcast, Barber said: "It is the highest turnover in the club's history, the third consecutive year of profit and the fourth year of profit in eight seasons in the Premier League.

    "We have been advised by Kieran Maguire [a football finance expert] that these results make us the fourth most profitable club in the Premier League history. That is a 'wow'.

    "We have been able to deliver these results while maintaining a degree of consistency on the pitch. We have been able to replace the players that have been sold - those players have been able to adapt very quickly to life in the Premier League.

    "These results are the culmination of the hard work of people all across the club on and off the pitch - every department plays a part. The staff and the fans can be really proud.

    "We cannot afford to stand still and pat ourselves on the back. It is nice to receive compliments, but at the same time there is a lot more work we have to do to maintain this position we have created."

    Listen to the full discussion here

  24. Thousands of runners set off in the 2025 Brighton Half-Marathon.