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  • Struggling too long

    For too long this country has treated its pensioners like second-class citizens. They get one of the smallest state pensions in Europe and life is an endless struggle to buy food, pay the bills and heat their homes. As for luxuries, forget it. Many of

  • LIZ SOLKHON, VOICE OF THE THIRD AGE

    People alive when Kennedy was shot always maintain that they can remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. For me that is certainly true. I was on my way to London to do an after-dinner cabaret in one of the major hotels and I can clearly

  • JOBS ARE SAFE AFTER INSURANCE TAKEOVER

    WORKERS have been told their insurance jobs are safe for the time being following takeover talks. Life assurance and pensions firm Legal and General, which employs 850 at its Hove and Burgess Hill offices, is likely to be taken over by the NatWest bank

  • Fishermen

    haul in live bomb SHOCKED fishermen Alan Hylands and Gary Smart sparked a major sea alert after netting a 500lb unexploded German bomb. The pair, fishing off Seaford, were stunned when they hauled up their nets to find the metre-long aeroplane bomb among

  • BACKING FOR SURGEON BANNED OVER DEATHS

    PATIENTS today gave their support to a top heart surgeon who has been banned from operating. Brighton Health Care NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital, said people who had been saved or helped by surgeon Andrew Forsyth had contacted

  • HOSPITAL AXE TO COST £2m

    BRIGHTON General Hospital could be demolished to make way for housing. South Downs Health NHS Trust says the building is no longer suitable for modern day health care and plans to transfer its services to other centres around the town. It promises patients

  • LIZ SOLKHON, VOICE OF THE THIRD AGE

    People alive when Kennedy was shot always maintain that they can remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. For me that is certainly true. I was on my way to London to do an after-dinner cabaret in one of the major hotels and I can clearly

  • WRANGLE OVER OUTDATED POOL

    URGENT talks about what to do with the only swimming pool in Worthing were due to take place tonight amid fears of a crisis in leisure services. Swimmers and councillors have criticised the council after a last-minute report into the future of the dilapidated

  • Stately home tour that has a hidden agendA

    On Friday we reported how the UK base of the Church of Scientology was being advertised in a tourist leaflet published by West Sussex County Council. The church was quick to deny the free tours on offer were being used to recruit members into the controversial

  • Fishermen

    haul in live bomb SHOCKED fishermen Alan Hylands and Gary Smart sparked a major sea alert after netting a 500lb unexploded German bomb. The pair, fishing off Seaford, were stunned when they hauled up their nets to find the metre-long aeroplane bomb among

  • HOSPITAL AXE TO COST £2m

    BRIGHTON General Hospital could be demolished to make way for housing. South Downs Health NHS Trust says the building is no longer suitable for modern day health care and plans to transfer its services to other centres around the town. It promises patients

  • RECORD COST OF RESCUES

    THOUGHTLESS boat owners and bathers have been blamed for a record number of lifeboat rescues which have already cost more than a quarter of a million pounds so far this year. Eastbourne's lifeboat service has become known as one of the busiest in the

  • 600 MARCH TO SAVE HOSPITAL

    MORE THAN 600 protesters took the Save Crawley Hospital campaign to the streets. Hundreds of shoppers cheered and clapped as the placard-carrying procession arrived at a packed Queens Square from West Green Park, passing the hospital on its way. At its

  • WRANGLE OVER OUTDATED POOL

    URGENT talks about what to do with the only swimming pool in Worthing were due to take place tonight amid fears of a crisis in leisure services. Swimmers and councillors have criticised the council after a last-minute report into the future of the dilapidated

  • Families sue over jabs

    MORE than 20 Sussex families plan to sue five pharmaceutical companies for hundreds of thousands of pounds claiming their children were left with a form of autism after being given measles, mumps and rubella jabs. A total of 570 families from across Britain

  • Stately home tour that has a hidden agendA

    On Friday we reported how the UK base of the Church of Scientology was being advertised in a tourist leaflet published by West Sussex County Council. The church was quick to deny the free tours on offer were being used to recruit members into the controversial

  • RECORD COST OF RESCUES

    THOUGHTLESS boat owners and bathers have been blamed for a record number of lifeboat rescues which have already cost more than a quarter of a million pounds so far this year. Eastbourne's lifeboat service has become known as one of the busiest in the

  • Struggling too long

    For too long this country has treated its pensioners like second-class citizens. They get one of the smallest state pensions in Europe and life is an endless struggle to buy food, pay the bills and heat their homes. As for luxuries, forget it. Many of

  • 600 MARCH TO SAVE HOSPITAL

    MORE THAN 600 protesters took the Save Crawley Hospital campaign to the streets. Hundreds of shoppers cheered and clapped as the placard-carrying procession arrived at a packed Queens Square from West Green Park, passing the hospital on its way. At its

  • JOBS ARE SAFE AFTER INSURANCE TAKEOVER

    WORKERS have been told their insurance jobs are safe for the time being following takeover talks. Life assurance and pensions firm Legal and General, which employs 850 at its Hove and Burgess Hill offices, is likely to be taken over by the NatWest bank

  • Families sue over jabs

    MORE than 20 Sussex families plan to sue five pharmaceutical companies for hundreds of thousands of pounds claiming their children were left with a form of autism after being given measles, mumps and rubella jabs. A total of 570 families from across Britain

  • BACKING FOR SURGEON BANNED OVER DEATHS

    PATIENTS today gave their support to a top heart surgeon who has been banned from operating. Brighton Health Care NHS Trust, which runs the Royal Sussex County Hospital, said people who had been saved or helped by surgeon Andrew Forsyth had contacted