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  • October 26: Duo battle to partner Leon

    Maheta Molango and Jake Robinson are going head-to-head for a chance to partner Leon Knight in Albion's attack at Sunderland on Saturday. The pair play together up front in the Reserves at MK Dons tomorrow afternoon as manager Mark McGhee wrestles with

  • October 26: Duo battle to partner Leon

    Maheta Molango and Jake Robinson are going head-to-head for a chance to partner Leon Knight in Albion's attack at Sunderland on Saturday. The pair play together up front in the Reserves at MK Dons tomorrow afternoon as manager Mark McGhee wrestles with

  • Letter: Royal treatment

    I would like to thank the staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital accident and emergency department. I had to go there last week and every single person I came in contact with was extremely kind and helpful. Mrs Patricia Smith -Patcham

  • Letter: Raise the pension

    Sussex MPs alone raked in £1.8m last year for expenses. So what about increasing the basic state pension to £150 a week, just for starters. Starting now. Ridiculous? Ask the needy OAPs. Denis Earl -Hove

  • Cancer victim's family launch a trust tribute

    The family of a woman killed by brain cancer have set up a charitable trust in her memory to support people with the disease. One year after 57-year-old Kate Hackett died, her family is launching Kate's Trust to work with cancer patients, their relatives

  • Letter: Follow my leader

    Well done, Ivor Caplin. I see that with your staff of four, you manage to reply to 50 per cent of the questions in letters you receive. This is a 100 per cent improvement on Tony Blair's response to those asked in Prime Minister's Questions. He is obviously

  • School uses lottery to select pupils

    A school is to draw lots to select some of next year's intake of pupils. The decision, by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator, applies to admissions at St Bernadette's Primary, in Preston Road, Brighton, from September 2005. Normally two children competing

  • Welcome to Snogwarts!

    Actress and dancer Lucinda Kennard has a part in the next Harry Potter blockbuster, playing a role which might make many young women blush - kissing a fellow Hogwarts student. But although it will be the 20-year-old's first screen smooch it will not be

  • Girl, 6, dies in house blaze

    A six-year-old girl died after becoming trapped in a house fire. Two adults managed to escape the blaze in Banks Road, Crawley, before fire crews arrived but the girl was still inside. Firefighters found her in a first-floor bedroom at the rear of the

  • Letter: All women should look out for breast cancer

    Being Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in response to the article on regular checks in Body & Soul (The Argus, October 19), I feel my experience of breast cancer could be of interest. I did everything possible as outlined in the article - always

  • 30 ways to beat the blues

    The clocks go back on Sunday and, while we look forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning, we will also start despairing at the longer, darker evenings it will bring. For at least half a million people, the gloomy winter months mark the start of

  • Letter: Give these shelters a lease of life

    The three historic bus shelters in the Old Steine are now in a shabby state of neglect, covered in graffiti with the majority of the windowpanes damaged or broken. They are the last survivors of shelters built in the Twenties, designed by the Borough

  • Fans will not forgive Santini

    Mel Hopkins has blasted Spurs boss Jacques Santini for showing Bill Nicholson a lack of respect. Hopkins, who joined Albion from Tottenham, was part of Nicholson's famous Double-winning set-up and was at White Hart Lane on Saturday to honour the great

  • Duo battle to partner Leon

    Maheta Molango and Jake Robinson are going head-to-head for a chance to partner Leon Knight in Albion's attack at Sunderland on Saturday. The pair play together up front in the Reserves at MK Dons tomorrow afternoon as manager Mark McGhee wrestles with

  • Exiled traders settle down in new location

    Traders forced out of their premises by the £150 million redevelopment of Brighton and Hove's biggest brownfield site are back in business. Johns Camping International, which was turfed out of its New England Street home four months ago, has reopened

  • Test story for the argus appeal

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  • Letter: Albion fans should be thanful for the board

    On Saturday the Albion team, including many players developed through the club's youth policy, once again showed team spirit and skill as they defeated the recently mighty Leeds United. Guided by Dick Knight, Martin Perry and the board, we have risen

  • Girl with no legs to enter marathon

    A girl who had both her legs amputated has vowed to complete the London Marathon. Clare Forbes, 21, of Flamsteed Heights, Crawley, lost her legs after she contracted the potentially fatal disease meningitis, three years ago. She woke up from a six-month

  • Letter:It's a mug's game

    Thank you for disclosing just how much our MPs are racking up in the way of high salaries, allowances and expenses. We have pensioners begging for a decent pension, we have hospitals going to ruin, we have crime at an all-time high and many more problems

  • Letter: It's a mug's game

    Thank you for disclosing just how much our MPs are racking up in the way of high salaries, allowances and expenses. We have pensioners begging for a decent pension, we have hospitals going to ruin, we have crime at an all-time high and many more problems

  • Letter: Ivor has lost my vote

    I was interested to read that Ivor Caplin, MP for Hove, had the highest expenses claim of the 16 Sussex MPs and yet only bothers to reply to half the people who write to him (The Argus, October 22). I have lived in five constituencies besides Hove and

  • Letter: Let Gehry be the judge

    Adam Trimingham writes that nothing annoys council taxpayers more than the notion some of their money is being squandered on fripperies by profligate councillors or officers - in this case to visit the US to see plans for the King Alfred site (The Argus

  • Blast victim's defiant message to terrorists

    A survivor of a deadly suicide bomb attack in Istanbul has told how he is still haunted by the screams of victims almost a year later. Tom Burke, 53, from Crowborough, spoke of his horrific ordeal as the Prince of Wales visited Turkey to reopen the British

  • Letter: Listen to us

    We couldn't agree more with Brian Cheshire (Letters, October 22) about the proposed traffic calming measures for Woodingdean. He described the situation accurately in saying that due to parked cars and narrow roads, speeding is not a problem in most roads

  • Letter: Street clutter

    So Lewes has been praised for fighting against street clutter and keeping its natural, historic look (The Argus, October 15). What about all the new metres and signs which have been installed as part of the new parking regime? That's not to mention the

  • Basketball: Bears face Euro fine

    Fiba are likely to fine Brighton Bears for their late withdrawal from the Europe League. And that could harm their chances of entering the competition next season, should they qualify. A FIBA spokesperson said: "The case of Brighton Bears is now with

  • BPO: The Dvorak Concerts, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton

    What happened to the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra during parts of the concert on Sunday? Unusually, there was a certain lacklustre feel to the playing. Even the famous "BPO buzz" seemed to be lacking as one entered the auditorium and there was none

  • Traders warn of job cuts over wage rise

    Retailers say another rise in the national minimum wage could lead to more than 20,000 job cuts and a bill for an extra £2.7 billion. The recent wage rise from £4.50 to £4.85 an hour is estimated by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to have cost the

  • A family affair

    Sarsh Clayman, co-director of the Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM), was introduced to the intoxicating world of fame, fortune and glamour from an early age. She grew up studying the gold discs on the walls of her childhood home in north London

  • Jon rides high on a boom in surfing

    The man who helped make Shoreham beach the No.1 kite-surfing location in the South-East has opened a second shop to capitalise on the sport's popularity. Jonathan Ellman-Brown, 30, launched the Sussex Kite and Surf Centre (SKSC) in a large, disused bus

  • Training company reaches £2m horizon

    Recovery in the business training sector has helped Star Consulting almost double its turnover in the past year. Projected results show takings for 12 months ending October 31 up 85 per cent to about £1.5 million. The company, based in Queen's Road, Brighton

  • A parting of the ways

    When the £50 million Holmbush Centre in Shoreham opened in a blaze of publicity on December 1, 1992, it seemed a marriage made in commercial heaven Since then, Tesco and Marks & Spencer (M&S) have gone their separate ways. Tesco tills have rung

  • Mushroom grower to search for new site

    Hundreds of workers faced an uncertain future today after a mushroom grower announced plans to move its production plant. Heveco Mushrooms said it intended to switch production from Thakeham, near Storrington, to a purpose-built site within the next 18

  • Traders face huge business rates rise

    Traders in Brighton and Hove will have to fork out thousands of pounds more every year after their business rates increased by up to 98 per cent. On average the uniform business rate has increased by about 50 per cent across the city - but for some shops

  • 30 ways to beat the blues

    The clocks go back on Sunday and, while we look forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning, we will also start despairing at the longer, darker evenings it will bring. For at least half a million people, the gloomy winter months mark the start of