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The Argus | Archive | 2003 | August

Stories for 25 August 2003

The Argus Albion

Cullip out for Albion

Albion try to resume winning ways against Luton at Withdean today without Danny Cullip. more...

August 23: Barnsley 1 Albion 0

Anyone misguided enough to think Albion were going to romp away with the Second Division after their flying start received a reality check via this first defeat of the season. more...

The Argus Leisure

The Seagull, Chichester Festival Theatre, until October 4

I am not too sure the English are truly at home with Chekhov - the Russians are much more emotional and subtle than we are. more...

The Argus News

City bids to be first in Fairtrade

Brighton and Hove will formally launch its bid to become a Fairtrade city on Thursday. more...

Stadium bid hits new setback

Supporters of a new multi-million pound football stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion are bracing themselves for another planning battle. more...

Bomb hoax halts wedding

A bride and groom who had waited 17 years to get married were almost thwarted by a bomb scare just moments before they tied the knot. more...

Former councillor's kangaroo court claim

A former councillor cleared of unethical behaviour has branded the body which heard the complaint a "kangaroo court". more...

Councillor arrested in beach hut fracas

A former mayor and current serving councillor has been arrested after a beach hut fracas. more...

Ministers slam council over tax hike

Ministers say Brighton and Hove City Council has no justification for hiking council tax bills by five times the inflation rate. more...

Level crossing crash driver 'blinded by sun'

An invesigation has been launched after a train and a Land Rover collided on an unmanned level crossing. more...

Superflops make big splash

Not even Batman, Superman and Buzz Lightyear could defy gravity at a mad-flap birdman competition. more...

The great fluoride debate

Fluoride in drinking water is either a golden bullet that will produce better teeth or a poison that will be forced on people every time they run a tap. more...

Council should have Pride in our work

Oh dear, Ken Bodfish has done it yet again with his ill-chosen words (Letters, August 21). more...

Money is key

I was surprised to read the points made by Dave Clark of Amnesty International (Letters, August 19). more...

It's all your own doing

The Government has shown brazen cheek in the way it has dealt with council tax in Brighton and Hove. more...

Rising heat

My colleagues and I read with envy - yes, envy - the conditions the staff at Amex were suffering during the recent hot spell (The Argus, August 10). more...

Exclusion zone set up around airshow

Organisers of the Shoreham Air Show are enforcing an exclusion zone around the event to minimise casualties in the event of an accident. more...

Vital service

Furniture Now! is a charity and training centre that solves two problems at the same time. more...

My crime

Last week I dared to put my rubbish outside my garage for collection before the due date because I was going on holiday. more...

Guest book

Sue Moseley started a bed and breakfast business in the old post office in the West Sussex village of Fittleworth. more...

Healthy diet

I can keep silent no longer about the Atkins diet. Despite all the press that it has received, scant attention has been given to similar, just as successful but healthier diets. more...

End of an era

MY wife and sister-in-law wanted their two yearly test for ovarian cancer at the Jan De Winter Clinic in New Road but I rang to find the clinic closed down. more...

Poor show

Having been to every Airbourne airshow, I must write a few comments. more...

Perfect replacement

Leon Knight signing a two-year contract is a great for Brighton (The Argus, August 21). more...

Traders hit by PO closure

Traders and residents have been left in the lurch by the sudden closure of a post office. more...

Voice of the Third Age: Lis Solkhon

There it was in black and white - well, black and sludge brown to be precise. more...

Family Life, with Bini McCall

'Oh My God, you've turned into a Stepford wife' said him indoors. more...

£300k cycling route to go ahead

More than £300,000 is likely to be spent on a controversial seafront cycle lane. more...

Import/export

I read Adam Trimingham's views on ideas which Brian Oxley thinks should be imported from New York (The Argus, August 14). more...

Feed the birds

Surely the answer to hungry seagulls is for all our waste food to be collected in containers and taken out to sea every morning. more...

Kids' charity faces axe after theft

A charity which organises activities for youngsters is threatened with closure after thieves stole almost £2,000 of its takings. more...

Landlady's past comes knocking

When Sue Moseley returned to England after years in South Africa, she opened a new business and was looking to the future. more...

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