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  • SPORTS CENTRE WILL BE BULLDOZED AFTER ALL

    A REDUNDANT sports centre is to be demolished after all. Campaigners hoped to save the Sidney West sports centre in Burgess Hill, which closed after the town's Triangle leisure centre opened in March. They were offered new hope when the Tories took control

  • POLICE ARE BANG TO RIGHTS

    EMBARRASSED Sussex Police issued an apology today after the launch of their new telephone number went off with a bigger bang than they expected. Deafening blasts from the celebration fireworks at force HQ in Lewes even caught coppers on the hop. Even

  • McPherson staying put

    KEITH McPherson has agreed a new one-year contract with Albion, just eight weeks after joining them. Manager Micky Adams has clinched the signature of the former Reading stalwart brought to the club by his predecessor Jeff Wood. Adams said: "Keith is

  • MY JACK DIDN'T TRY TO MURDER ME

    A WOMAN whose husband is accused of trying to murder her broke down in tears as she told a jury she was sure he did not carry out the brutal attack. Valerie Tully was left for dead at her home in Findon Valley, Worthing. It is alleged her husband Derek

  • GET IN SHAPE TO TAKE PART IN CANCER FIGHT

    THE race is on to fight cancer in women. People across Sussex are being urged to raise vital cash for research by running in the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Race For Life at Preston Park, Brighton, on July 4. The Argus is backing a campaign to find

  • WARTIME SWEETHEARTS REUNITED AFTER 50 YEARS

    WHEN the young English WAAF officer met her Czech lieutenant during the Second World War it was love at first sight. They married, had a son and believed they were destined to be together forever. But politics and prison ripped Jean and Antony Spacek's

  • SPORTS CENTRE WILL BE BULLDOZED AFTER ALL

    A REDUNDANT sports centre is to be demolished after all. Campaigners hoped to save the Sidney West sports centre in Burgess Hill, which closed after the town's Triangle leisure centre opened in March. They were offered new hope when the Tories took control

  • MY JACK DIDN'T TRY TO MURDER ME

    A WOMAN whose husband is accused of trying to murder her broke down in tears as she told a jury she was sure he did not carry out the brutal attack. Valerie Tully was left for dead at her home in Findon Valley, Worthing. It is alleged her husband Derek

  • GET IN SHAPE TO TAKE PART IN CANCER FIGHT

    THE race is on to fight cancer in women. People across Sussex are being urged to raise vital cash for research by running in the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Race For Life at Preston Park, Brighton, on July 4. The Argus is backing a campaign to find

  • WARTIME SWEETHEARTS REUNITED AFTER 50 YEARS

    WHEN the young English WAAF officer met her Czech lieutenant during the Second World War it was love at first sight. They married, had a son and believed they were destined to be together forever. But politics and prison ripped Jean and Antony Spacek's

  • ROBIN COUSINS HANGS UP HIS ICE SKATES

    IT is one of Britain's most cherished sporting memories. When figure skater Robin Cousins won Olympic Gold in 1980, he joined an elite group whose achievements earned them a permanent place in the nation's hearts. To many it was a moment to equal the

  • OAP KILLER'S HARD LABOUR

    A KILLER was today beginning 36 years' hard labour for the murder of a Good Samaritan from Sussex. Hakan Thomas Yagiz was sentenced in Turkey yesterday for killing former nurse Gill Montgomery, from St Leonards, in April, 1995. The sentencing marks the

  • THE SAGE OF SUSSEX

    ADAM TRIMINGHAM FROM compiling the Remember When feature which appears weekly in the Argus, I know what a huge amount of sentiment there is for the Fifties. The funny thing is that despite being there, I don't feel it myself. To me, the Fifties were a

  • ROBIN COUSINS HANGS UP HIS ICE SKATES

    IT is one of Britain's most cherished sporting memories. When figure skater Robin Cousins won Olympic Gold in 1980, he joined an elite group whose achievements earned them a permanent place in the nation's hearts. To many it was a moment to equal the

  • GARDEN-LOVER SUES OVER JETS THAT DROWN OUT BIRDS

    GRAHAM Farley told London's High Court how the "intensely annoying" din of jet engines competed with sweet birdsong in his ten-acre garden. Mr Farley, 51, bought Riverside House, Blackboys, near Uckfield, for £420,000 in 1991, hoping to escape the madding

  • OAP KILLER'S HARD LABOUR

    A KILLER was today beginning 36 years' hard labour for the murder of a Good Samaritan from Sussex. Hakan Thomas Yagiz was sentenced in Turkey yesterday for killing former nurse Gill Montgomery, from St Leonards, in April, 1995. The sentencing marks the

  • BOSS FINED AFTER GARAGE EXPLOSION KILLS WORKER

    A BUSINESSMAN has been fined £10,000 after one of his employees died in an explosion at a petrol station. Douglas Feakins, 40, admitted two charges of failing to comply with health and safety regulations. His workmen wrongly used a blowtorch to remove

  • POLICE ARE BANG TO RIGHTS

    EMBARRASSED Sussex Police issued an apology today after the launch of their new telephone number went off with a bigger bang than they expected. Deafening blasts from the celebration fireworks at force HQ in Lewes even caught coppers on the hop. Even

  • THE SAGE OF SUSSEX

    ADAM TRIMINGHAM FROM compiling the Remember When feature which appears weekly in the Argus, I know what a huge amount of sentiment there is for the Fifties. The funny thing is that despite being there, I don't feel it myself. To me, the Fifties were a

  • McPherson staying put

    KEITH McPherson has agreed a new one-year contract with Albion, just eight weeks after joining them. Manager Micky Adams has clinched the signature of the former Reading stalwart brought to the club by his predecessor Jeff Wood. Adams said: "Keith is

  • GARDEN-LOVER SUES OVER JETS THAT DROWN OUT BIRDS

    GRAHAM Farley told London's High Court how the "intensely annoying" din of jet engines competed with sweet birdsong in his ten-acre garden. Mr Farley, 51, bought Riverside House, Blackboys, near Uckfield, for £420,000 in 1991, hoping to escape the madding

  • BOSS FINED AFTER GARAGE EXPLOSION KILLS WORKER

    A BUSINESSMAN has been fined £10,000 after one of his employees died in an explosion at a petrol station. Douglas Feakins, 40, admitted two charges of failing to comply with health and safety regulations. His workmen wrongly used a blowtorch to remove