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  • What a mess!

    As a regular visitor to the recreation ground in Fort Road, Newhaven, I must comment on the disgusting state it has been allowed to get into. It is amazing children are expected to play where dogs are running loose and persistently fouling the footpaths

  • Nasty SM

    The correspondent SM (Letters, December 20) appears to be ashamed to sign his full name to his letter, which is hardly surprising. He is "astonished by the number of alleged illegal immigrants" in Brighton and Hove. Alleged by whom? Or could it be these

  • Feature: Building hope for city's future

    Jason Woodward reports on the latest problems besetting efforts to provide more cheap housing in Brighton and Hove. THE CRITICAL shortage of affordable housing in Brighton and Hove has prompted desperate measures. A policy was introduced this year, which

  • Red route

    Christmas is traditionally a time for giving. Unless, that is, you happen to be one of Brighton and Hove's Labour councillors. Then it's a time for taking. This week, Hove Citizens' Advice Bureau closed as a five-days-a-week service. Brighton and Hove

  • Homes hope in new policy

    Housing is the biggest single problem facing Brighton and Hove. There are people sleeping rough on the streets and thousands more on the waiting list. Yet the city is trapped between the sea and the Downs. There is no big greenfield site left where new

  • Youth in Action: Penny's Olympic ambition

    Penny Clapcott is a 13-year-old dreaming of competing at the Paralympics at Athens in 2004. She is only two feet tall and weighs two-and-a half-stone and suffers from a brittle bone condition called osteogenesis. The Rustington youngster has suffered

  • Dome is symbol of councils bungling

    High Cliff Castle, a considerable structure, was superbly restored from a derelict state for a modest £2.5 million. The cost of the desecration of the Dome and Corn Exchange complex has exceeded the £50 million already squandered by another £500,000 -

  • Station can cope with football fans

    A village rail station should be able to cope with extra passengers even if a community stadium is built nearby. Falmer station will be the focus for thousands of fans if the go-ahead is given to the stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion at Village Way

  • Terror police swoop on cargo ship

    Anti-terrorist officers were continuing their search of a cargo ship intercepted in the Channel. Security sources said they were acting on intelligence the vessel was carrying "terrorist material". It was intercepted at 8am yesterday in international

  • Sophie is the perfect gift

    Battling baby Sophie Chappell is the best Christmas present her parents could have wished for. Four-month-old Sophie's life hung in the balance as she fought a rare, potentially-fatal form of meningitis. Mum and dad Claire and Shaun were not planning

  • Legal service in staff crisis

    The Probation Service is suffering from a shortage of staff despite having more money to attract recruits. The number of qualified probation officers in Sussex is almost ten per cent below its optimum. Although the service has been given a large increase

  • Residents force mound climbdown

    An earth bank built to deter travellers from a park has been flattened only weeks later - at a total cost of £5,000. Brighton and Hove City Council built the mound in Wild Park, off the Lewes Road in Moulsecoomb, Brighton, to stop travellers setting up

  • Want to party with the Queen?

    The hunt is on for people who qualify for a party at Buckingham Palace, sipping tea with the Queen. West Sussex is to be allocated tickets for a garden party on July 9 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee. Many of the guests will be chosen because they were

  • Commendable courage

    Yet again, we have an anonymous letter, this time maligning the parents of Sarah Payne. The bravery of this couple, who stood up in their obvious grief and took on the lawyers and law-makers, while keeping their family from the worst excesses of journalists

  • Standing down

    How pleased I was to hear the threat of the Third World War had passed and our beautiful Wild Park was being restored to its former glory and the trenches were being filled in. Must dash - I am off to the army surplus store to get a refund on my tin hat

  • Albion 2, chesterfield 2

    Albion's Friday night hoodoo continued as they threw away a two-goal lead. Bobby Zamora took just five minutes to score for his tenth game in succession with a sweetly struck volley. The points seemed to be in the bag for Peter Taylor's Seagulls when

  • Honour our nurses

    If you have ever been ill and had to go to hospital, you will have noticed how unselfish and enduring the nurses are, working day and night to make your illness disappear. Would it not be a nice idea to honour these nurses and doctors, who are desperately

  • Fire footwear gets boot in sfaety row

    Boots supplied to firefighters are to be replaced for the second time in 12 months at a cost of about £36,000. West Sussex County Council is changing the boots issued to about 600 firefighters in the county because of safety fears. The most recent boots

  • Leak drains swimming pool

    Staff at a public swimming pool arrived at work to find the water had gone missing. Leisure centre staff at Aquarena, in Brighton Road, Worthing, turned up to discover a million litres of water had leaked away overnight. On opening the door to the boiler

  • Feature: Building hope for city's future

    Jason Woodward reports on the latest problems besetting efforts to provide more cheap housing in Brighton and Hove. THE CRITICAL shortage of affordable housing in Brighton and Hove has prompted desperate measures. A policy was introduced this year, which

  • Slender Spice

    Yoga teacher Katy Appleton has helped to create of one of the best-known bodies in Britain. The Peacehaven woman has made the former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell sleek, well sculpted and happy. Were she still with the group, she wouldn't be Ginger Spice

  • Red route

    Christmas is traditionally a time for giving. Unless, that is, you happen to be one of Brighton and Hove's Labour councillors. Then it's a time for taking. This week, Hove Citizens' Advice Bureau closed as a five-days-a-week service. Brighton and Hove

  • Homes hope in new policy

    Housing is the biggest single problem facing Brighton and Hove. There are people sleeping rough on the streets and thousands more on the waiting list. Yet the city is trapped between the sea and the Downs. There is no big greenfield site left where new

  • Mash 'em up

    May I thank R G Jenkins and Ivor Caplin MP for their support of my campaign to keep open the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Hove (Letters, December 3 and 13). I would urge Mr Jenkins and others to lobby councillors and MPs and keep signing our petition. Mr

  • Mayhem on the streets

    Drunken fights broke out all over Brighton city centre as Christmas spirits turned sour. At least 16 people were arrested throughout the night as crowds of pre-Christmas revellers started brawling on the streets. Inspector Nathan Evans of Sussex Police

  • Terror police swoop on cargo ship

    Anti-terrorist officers were continuing their search of a cargo ship intercepted in the Channel. Security sources said they were acting on intelligence the vessel was carrying "terrorist material". It was intercepted at 8am yesterday in international

  • Residents force mound climbdown

    An earth bank built to deter travellers from a park has been flattened only weeks later - at a total cost of £5,000. Brighton and Hove City Council built the mound in Wild Park, off the Lewes Road in Moulsecoomb, Brighton, to stop travellers setting up

  • 'Vicious' attack on cabbie

    A taxi driver needed hospital treatment after being attacked and robbed. He took a fare into Bushby Close, Lancing, when the male passenger assaulted him with an unknown instrument, causing serious facial injuries. The attacker made off with the taxi

  • Want to party with the Queen?

    The hunt is on for people who qualify for a party at Buckingham Palace, sipping tea with the Queen. West Sussex is to be allocated tickets for a garden party on July 9 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee. Many of the guests will be chosen because they were

  • Family sells home over parking strain

    A mother given a parking ticket on double-yellow lines which are no longer in use says parking restrictions are driving her out of town. Lenka Goodman believed she had parked her car legally overnight around the corner from her home in Hove. However,

  • Standing down

    How pleased I was to hear the threat of the Third World War had passed and our beautiful Wild Park was being restored to its former glory and the trenches were being filled in. Must dash - I am off to the army surplus store to get a refund on my tin hat

  • Albion 2, chesterfield 2

    Albion's Friday night hoodoo continued as they threw away a two-goal lead. Bobby Zamora took just five minutes to score for his tenth game in succession with a sweetly struck volley. The points seemed to be in the bag for Peter Taylor's Seagulls when

  • Honour our nurses

    If you have ever been ill and had to go to hospital, you will have noticed how unselfish and enduring the nurses are, working day and night to make your illness disappear. Would it not be a nice idea to honour these nurses and doctors, who are desperately

  • Home Truths, by Jacqui Bealing

    The 23-year-old man sitting next to me at our office Christmas do didn't mean to be insulting, I'm sure. But I still didn't take too kindly to him when he told me I looked just like his Aunt Jane. "That's hardly a compliment," I snorted. "No, no, she's

  • Fire footwear gets boot in sfaety row

    Boots supplied to firefighters are to be replaced for the second time in 12 months at a cost of about £36,000. West Sussex County Council is changing the boots issued to about 600 firefighters in the county because of safety fears. The most recent boots

  • F-f-fade away

    It cannot be right to describe facilities for Sinn Fein MPs at Westminster as "perks" (Letters, December 21). Until now, those democratically elected MPs - elected because they are republicans - have been debarred from Westminster for refusing allegiance

  • Let her rest

    I felt sad for Sarah Payne and her family that the front-page story "So sick", about an obviously offensive adult game, had to be accompanied by a picture of Sarah. As Sarah's mother said in her emotional statement after the sentencing of Roy Whiting:

  • Slender Spice

    Yoga teacher Katy Appleton has helped to create of one of the best-known bodies in Britain. The Peacehaven woman has made the former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell sleek, well sculpted and happy. Were she still with the group, she wouldn't be Ginger Spice

  • We're so appealing

    Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Lara Croft were among the cast of characters who took to the streets to collect money for The Argus Christmas Appeal. The Argus staff spent yesterday afternoon walking around Brighton and Hove, dressed in a variety of costumes

  • Easy target

    The front-page article about the "So sick" tongue-in-cheek game Dibbles And Dollars smacks of easy journalistic sensationalism to bring up a picture of poor Sarah Payne and target everything remotely connected (The Argus, December 20). Nowhere in the

  • Child ballerina became Geri's guru

    She is the woman who has helped create one of the most talked-about physiques in Britain. Yoga teacher Katy Appleton is credited as the person who put the spice back into pop star Geri Halliwell's physical and spiritual health. But Katy's fame as a yoga

  • Mash 'em up

    May I thank R G Jenkins and Ivor Caplin MP for their support of my campaign to keep open the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Hove (Letters, December 3 and 13). I would urge Mr Jenkins and others to lobby councillors and MPs and keep signing our petition. Mr

  • Alldis may go to court

    CRAWLEY'S Michael Alldis is taking legal action in his bid to win back his British super-bantamweight title. Alldis announced the decision on the day his British and Commonwealth title fight against Scotland's Brian Carr was confirmed. The 32-year-old

  • Police probe Albion brawl

    Police have launched an investigation into ugly scenes during and after Albion's match against Chesterfield at Withdean on Friday night. They had to escort Chesterfield manager Nicky Law off the pitch and onto the team coach following a stormy 2-2 draw

  • Man killed in road crash

    Police are investigating a road accident which resulted in the death of a pedestrian. One man died and another was seriously injured after a Ford Ranger pick-up truck was involved in a smash-up with two pedestrians. The vehicle was travelling south-west

  • Mayhem on the streets

    Drunken fights broke out all over Brighton city centre as Christmas spirits turned sour. At least 16 people were arrested throughout the night as crowds of pre-Christmas revellers started brawling on the streets. Inspector Nathan Evans of Sussex Police

  • 'Vicious' attack on cabbie

    A taxi driver needed hospital treatment after being attacked and robbed. He took a fare into Bushby Close, Lancing, when the male passenger assaulted him with an unknown instrument, causing serious facial injuries. The attacker made off with the taxi

  • Nasty SM

    The correspondent SM (Letters, December 20) appears to be ashamed to sign his full name to his letter, which is hardly surprising. He is "astonished by the number of alleged illegal immigrants" in Brighton and Hove. Alleged by whom? Or could it be these

  • Low ebb

    The Argus really has sunk to the gutter this time, making the most feeble, tenuous and frankly irrelevant link on its front page in order to print the photograph of Sarah Payne once again in a blatant, bare-faced attempt to sell more copies of this tawdry

  • Let her rest

    I felt sad for Sarah Payne and her family that the front-page story "So sick", about an obviously offensive adult game, had to be accompanied by a picture of Sarah. As Sarah's mother said in her emotional statement after the sentencing of Roy Whiting:

  • We're so appealing

    Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and Lara Croft were among the cast of characters who took to the streets to collect money for The Argus Christmas Appeal. The Argus staff spent yesterday afternoon walking around Brighton and Hove, dressed in a variety of costumes

  • Easy target

    The front-page article about the "So sick" tongue-in-cheek game Dibbles And Dollars smacks of easy journalistic sensationalism to bring up a picture of poor Sarah Payne and target everything remotely connected (The Argus, December 20). Nowhere in the

  • Best gift of all

    There aren't any Christmas decorations in the home of Claire and Shaun Chappell in Carden Avenue, Brighton, this year. That's because they were concerned their battling baby Sophie might not even live to see the day. Sophie contracted a rare form of meningitis

  • Child ballerina became Geri's guru

    She is the woman who has helped create one of the most talked-about physiques in Britain. Yoga teacher Katy Appleton is credited as the person who put the spice back into pop star Geri Halliwell's physical and spiritual health. But Katy's fame as a yoga

  • Youth in Action: Penny's Olympic ambition

    Penny Clapcott is a 13-year-old dreaming of competing at the Paralympics at Athens in 2004. She is only two feet tall and weighs two-and-a half-stone and suffers from a brittle bone condition called osteogenesis. The Rustington youngster has suffered

  • Dome is symbol of councils bungling

    High Cliff Castle, a considerable structure, was superbly restored from a derelict state for a modest £2.5 million. The cost of the desecration of the Dome and Corn Exchange complex has exceeded the £50 million already squandered by another £500,000 -

  • Alldis may go to court

    CRAWLEY'S Michael Alldis is taking legal action in his bid to win back his British super-bantamweight title. Alldis announced the decision on the day his British and Commonwealth title fight against Scotland's Brian Carr was confirmed. The 32-year-old

  • Albion 2, Chesterfield 2

    Albion's Friday night hoodoo continued as they threw away a two-goal lead. Bobby Zamora took just five minutes to score for his tenth game in succession with a sweetly struck volley. The points seemed to be in the bag for Peter Taylor's Seagulls when

  • Police probe Albion brawl

    Police have launched an investigation into ugly scenes during and after Albion's match against Chesterfield at Withdean on Friday night. They had to escort Chesterfield manager Nicky Law off the pitch and onto the team coach following a stormy 2-2 draw

  • Station can cope with football fans

    A village rail station should be able to cope with extra passengers even if a community stadium is built nearby. Falmer station will be the focus for thousands of fans if the go-ahead is given to the stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion at Village Way

  • Man killed in road crash

    Police are investigating a road accident which resulted in the death of a pedestrian. One man died and another was seriously injured after a Ford Ranger pick-up truck was involved in a smash-up with two pedestrians. The vehicle was travelling south-west

  • Sophie is the perfect gift

    Battling baby Sophie Chappell is the best Christmas present her parents could have wished for. Four-month-old Sophie's life hung in the balance as she fought a rare, potentially-fatal form of meningitis. Mum and dad Claire and Shaun were not planning

  • Legal service in staff crisis

    The Probation Service is suffering from a shortage of staff despite having more money to attract recruits. The number of qualified probation officers in Sussex is almost ten per cent below its optimum. Although the service has been given a large increase

  • Family sells home over parking strain

    A mother given a parking ticket on double-yellow lines which are no longer in use says parking restrictions are driving her out of town. Lenka Goodman believed she had parked her car legally overnight around the corner from her home in Hove. However,

  • What a mess!

    As a regular visitor to the recreation ground in Fort Road, Newhaven, I must comment on the disgusting state it has been allowed to get into. It is amazing children are expected to play where dogs are running loose and persistently fouling the footpaths

  • Brilliant ideas

    Every year, Alan Anscombe decks his house with lights, Father Christmases and trees - you name it. He has decorated the inside as well. He makes so many people happy to see such a lovely array of lights. The main topic in our shop before December is:

  • Home Truths, by Jacqui Bealing

    The 23-year-old man sitting next to me at our office Christmas do didn't mean to be insulting, I'm sure. But I still didn't take too kindly to him when he told me I looked just like his Aunt Jane. "That's hardly a compliment," I snorted. "No, no, she's

  • F-f-fade away

    It cannot be right to describe facilities for Sinn Fein MPs at Westminster as "perks" (Letters, December 21). Until now, those democratically elected MPs - elected because they are republicans - have been debarred from Westminster for refusing allegiance