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  • SMALL FIRMS FEAR BILLING BAD PAYERS

    Small firms are not charging late payers interest despite legislation which now allows them to do so. Much hype surrounded the introduction of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act last November, with the Government claiming it would change the payment

  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA

    Saltdean Doug Streeter 01273 300283 ROTTINGDEAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY: The annual meeting was held at the Whiteway Centre under the chairmanship of John Cooper. The treasurer, Mike Browning, explained the financial position of the Society. He noted that

  • Gifford's guesting at Cheltenham

    Findon trainer Josh Gifford will be among the guests of sponsors Whitbread and Company at the £80,000 Murphy's Gold Cup Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow. The race was first run back in 1960 as the Mackeson Gold Cup and Whitbread's have invited connections

  • Lewes face a battle to survive

    LEWES are battling to stay in existence. The chairman, vice chairman and secretary have all resigned during a traumatic week at the Dripping Pan, leaving just two people running the club. The Rooks are currently without a manager, without a caretaker

  • Southgate plans a party

    GARETH Southgate is convinced England will give his daughter a birthday present to remember with victory over Scotland in the Euro 2000 play-offs. The England defender from Crawley is in the squad for the two-leg play-off against the Auld Enemy at Hampden

  • BOYS GO TO THE RESCUE

    Two teenage pals told today how they snatched to safety a woman threatening to jump from the top floor of a multi-storey car park. Shaun Gordon, 16, and Gavin Reynoldson, 17, were hailed as heroes after rescuing the woman after she climbed over railings

  • VETERAN FRED IS MOVED TO TEARS

    WAR veteran and French Convalescent Home resident Fred Win fought back tears on Armistice Day as he pleaded with the Argus to battle on for his future. Fred, 90, spent six horrifying years fighting for freedom all over Europe with the Royal Electrical

  • SOMETHING HISSING IS MISSING IN MY CR

    Sonic the snake is safely back in her tank today after spending three weeks hiding in her owner's car. The slippery customer had eluded all attempts to be caught and her owner had driven around expecting the 4ft creature to appear at any time. Sonic,

  • JOB LANDS FIREMEN RIGHT IN IT

    Fire crews rescued two horses which fell into a slurry pit and were trapped for almost three hours. Three horses had managed to get past a broken fence to the edge of the huge slurry pit at Broadreed Farm, near Mayfield, yesterday. One fell into the mire

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Why this killer deserves life The case of PC Jeff Tooley shows the law is an ass when it comes down to causing death by dangerous driving. As Judge Anthony Thorpe pointed out, you can get a longer sentence for robbing someone's house than you can for

  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA

    Saltdean Doug Streeter 01273 300283 ROTTINGDEAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY: The annual meeting was held at the Whiteway Centre under the chairmanship of John Cooper. The treasurer, Mike Browning, explained the financial position of the Society. He noted that

  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA

    Saltdean Doug Streeter 01273 300283 ROTTINGDEAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY: The annual meeting was held at the Whiteway Centre under the chairmanship of John Cooper. The treasurer, Mike Browning, explained the financial position of the Society. He noted that

  • FEEDBACK WITH CHRIS CHANDLER

    LORD Bassam, former leader of Brighton and Hove Council, was in Sussex this week to make his first visit to Lewes Prison as a Home Office minister. He praised the authorities for clamping down on the drugs problem at the jail with an initiative begun

  • Gifford's guesting at Cheltenham

    Findon trainer Josh Gifford will be among the guests of sponsors Whitbread and Company at the £80,000 Murphy's Gold Cup Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow. The race was first run back in 1960 as the Mackeson Gold Cup and Whitbread's have invited connections

  • Lewes face a battle to survive

    LEWES are battling to stay in existence. The chairman, vice chairman and secretary have all resigned during a traumatic week at the Dripping Pan, leaving just two people running the club. The Rooks are currently without a manager, without a caretaker

  • Southgate plans a party

    GARETH Southgate is convinced England will give his daughter a birthday present to remember with victory over Scotland in the Euro 2000 play-offs. The England defender from Crawley is in the squad for the two-leg play-off against the Auld Enemy at Hampden

  • New plea on TV in hunt for killer

    CRIMEWATCH crews were today filming a reconstruction of events surrounding the murder in Worthing of pensioner Jean Barnes, 87, in an effort to catch her killer. She was found battered to death in her home in Tennyson Road on July 26 and, more than three

  • IT'LL BE THE BIGGEST STREET PARTY OF ALL

    IT promises to be the biggest New Year party Sussex has ever seen. Details of a huge bash in Brighton centre were unveiled yesterday, with thousands expected to attend. The event, the first of The Place To Be's millennium celebrations, will feature bands

  • Thugs bunny gets solitary

    WHEN Harvey the rabbit started picking on his fellow school mates he was expelled by the head teacher. Staff refused to let the rabbit bully two other bunnies at Jarvis Brook School in Hadlow Down Road, Crowborough, and reported his behaviour to head

  • JOB LANDS FIREMEN RIGHT IN IT

    Fire crews rescued two horses which fell into a slurry pit and were trapped for almost three hours. Three horses had managed to get past a broken fence to the edge of the huge slurry pit at Broadreed Farm, near Mayfield, yesterday. One fell into the mire

  • FINAL SHAME OF PC'S KILLER

    THE killer of PC Jeff Tooley stopped his family donating the officer's organs for transplant when he fled the scene. Mum Veronica Tooley wanted to give someone else the chance of life, but because convicted robber John Heaton drove away without stopping

  • Cliff plunge victim climbs back to the top

    AN INJURED woman who plunged from cliffs at Beachy Head spent a night of agony climbing hundreds of feet back to the top. The woman, who suffered a suspected broken pelvis in the fall, spent hours climbing the precarious cliff face, near Eastbourne. She

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Why this killer deserves life The case of PC Jeff Tooley shows the law is an ass when it comes down to causing death by dangerous driving. As Judge Anthony Thorpe pointed out, you can get a longer sentence for robbing someone's house than you can for

  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA

    Saltdean Doug Streeter 01273 300283 ROTTINGDEAN PRESERVATION SOCIETY: The annual meeting was held at the Whiteway Centre under the chairmanship of John Cooper. The treasurer, Mike Browning, explained the financial position of the Society. He noted that

  • FEEDBACK WITH CHRIS CHANDLER

    LORD Bassam, former leader of Brighton and Hove Council, was in Sussex this week to make his first visit to Lewes Prison as a Home Office minister. He praised the authorities for clamping down on the drugs problem at the jail with an initiative begun

  • Hart: I'll repay your faith in me

    GARY Hart has pledged to repay Albion's faith in him by improving his goal tally. The Seagulls' boy wonder signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract yesterday, which keeps him at the club until the summer of 2003. Now he has his heart set on adding

  • New plea on TV in hunt for killer

    CRIMEWATCH crews were today filming a reconstruction of events surrounding the murder in Worthing of pensioner Jean Barnes, 87, in an effort to catch her killer. She was found battered to death in her home in Tennyson Road on July 26 and, more than three

  • IT'LL BE THE BIGGEST STREET PARTY OF ALL

    IT promises to be the biggest New Year party Sussex has ever seen. Details of a huge bash in Brighton centre were unveiled yesterday, with thousands expected to attend. The event, the first of The Place To Be's millennium celebrations, will feature bands

  • Thugs bunny gets solitary

    WHEN Harvey the rabbit started picking on his fellow school mates he was expelled by the head teacher. Staff refused to let the rabbit bully two other bunnies at Jarvis Brook School in Hadlow Down Road, Crowborough, and reported his behaviour to head

  • Alert cabbie led police to drink driver

    A worried taxi driver followed a motorist he suspected of drink driving, a court heard. The cabbie alerted the police and then tailed Steven Southwell, who had drunk more than three times the legal alcohol limit, as he drove through Brighton. Southwell

  • FATHER'S FURY AS PC'S KILLER GETS SEVEN YEARS

    PC Jeff Tooley's father today branded the seven-year sentence given to his killer an insult and said: "It should have been life." As convicted robber John Heaton, 48, was starting his jail term, Barry Tooley said even his 26-year-old son, a man committed

  • WHITEHOUSE DROPS APPEAL

    THE daughter of Sussex Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse has abandoned her appeal against her sentence and conviction for assaulting two of his officers. Frances Whitehouse, 18, of Brunswick Square, Hove, was due to appeal against her sentence and conviction

  • FINAL SHAME OF PC'S KILLER

    THE killer of PC Jeff Tooley stopped his family donating the officer's organs for transplant when he fled the scene. Mum Veronica Tooley wanted to give someone else the chance of life, but because convicted robber John Heaton drove away without stopping

  • Cliff plunge victim climbs back to the top

    AN INJURED woman who plunged from cliffs at Beachy Head spent a night of agony climbing hundreds of feet back to the top. The woman, who suffered a suspected broken pelvis in the fall, spent hours climbing the precarious cliff face, near Eastbourne. She

  • SMALL FIRMS FEAR BILLING BAD PAYERS

    Small firms are not charging late payers interest despite legislation which now allows them to do so. Much hype surrounded the introduction of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act last November, with the Government claiming it would change the payment

  • Hart: I'll repay your faith in me

    GARY Hart has pledged to repay Albion's faith in him by improving his goal tally. The Seagulls' boy wonder signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract yesterday, which keeps him at the club until the summer of 2003. Now he has his heart set on adding

  • BOYS GO TO THE RESCUE

    Two teenage pals told today how they snatched to safety a woman threatening to jump from the top floor of a multi-storey car park. Shaun Gordon, 16, and Gavin Reynoldson, 17, were hailed as heroes after rescuing the woman after she climbed over railings

  • VETERAN FRED IS MOVED TO TEARS

    WAR veteran and French Convalescent Home resident Fred Win fought back tears on Armistice Day as he pleaded with the Argus to battle on for his future. Fred, 90, spent six horrifying years fighting for freedom all over Europe with the Royal Electrical

  • Alert cabbie led police to drink driver

    A worried taxi driver followed a motorist he suspected of drink driving, a court heard. The cabbie alerted the police and then tailed Steven Southwell, who had drunk more than three times the legal alcohol limit, as he drove through Brighton. Southwell

  • SOMETHING HISSING IS MISSING IN MY CR

    Sonic the snake is safely back in her tank today after spending three weeks hiding in her owner's car. The slippery customer had eluded all attempts to be caught and her owner had driven around expecting the 4ft creature to appear at any time. Sonic,

  • FATHER'S FURY AS PC'S KILLER GETS SEVEN YEARS

    PC Jeff Tooley's father today branded the seven-year sentence given to his killer an insult and said: "It should have been life." As convicted robber John Heaton, 48, was starting his jail term, Barry Tooley said even his 26-year-old son, a man committed

  • WHITEHOUSE DROPS APPEAL

    THE daughter of Sussex Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse has abandoned her appeal against her sentence and conviction for assaulting two of his officers. Frances Whitehouse, 18, of Brunswick Square, Hove, was due to appeal against her sentence and conviction