Rachel Clark, of the West Pier Trust, said the fires and storms had stripped it of its Victorian grandeur but left it with a strange kind of beauty - a blessing in disguise, she said. Ms Clark said: ...

A COUPLE of days after Brighton's West Pier collapsed so spectacularly into the sea, I visited Saltburn. The tide was in, forcing hordes of people to stumble along the stoneline while what looked like ...

Brighton's two piers have long been rivals - the older, elegant Victorian West Pier and her younger, brasher sister, the Palace Pier. In recent years, wrangling between the two has become bitter. But ...

Brighton, England’s 1,115-foot-long West Pier has had a tough run lately. Built in 1866, it closed in 1975 and was burned to a crisp by a series of fires in 2003 (arson, say the experts). Plans to ...

Brighton’s West Pier, a once-celebrated Victorian attraction, has stood derelict for 50 years and could cost up to £50 million to rebuild, according to engineers and experts on the site’s history.

In the past year many people have stood on Brighton beach, gazing at the storm-shattered, arson-ravaged hulk of the West Pier, and concluded there was nothing left to salvage of what was once the most ...

Brighton's historic West Pier has remained largely unchanged for 80 years and is England's only Grade I listed pier. Designed by Eugenius Birch in 1866, it was built using dozens of cast iron-threaded ...