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The Argus | Archive | 2004 | February

Stories for 10 February 2004

The Argus Albion

February 10: Jones raring to go

Nathan Jones is in contention for his first Albion appearance of the year at the ground where he launched his career in England. more...

The Argus Business

Original gay club sold for £1.5m

The legendary Revenge nightclub in Brighton has been sold for £1.5 million. more...

Recycling firm fined

The first privately-run waste recycling centre in Brighton and Hove has been fined £2,000 with £1,437 costs for opening without a licence. more...

Millionaire cashes in on city pubs

A self-made millionaire dubbed the Lion Man is selling three of Brighton and Hove's most distinctive pubs for £800,000. more...

How to network without canapes

A group of Sussex businesses have got together to launch a web site which could revolutionise the way people network. more...

Design firm in line for award

Interior design consultancy Blindspot has been selected as one of the top five interior design companies in the UK by Arena magazine. more...

Untapped potential of over-50s

Up to a million unemployed older people could be adding up to £30 billion to the UK's economic output, a new report claims. more...

Calling all enterprising women

The guest speakers at this year's Enterprising Woman event on March 4 have been announced. more...

Wedding fair is perfect timing

Lovers who agree to tie the knot on Valentine's night will have the perfect opportunity to meet wedding suppliers the following day. more...

The Argus Health

Tucking in is not an option

Hospitals are devoted to rest and recovery from illness, so I was shocked when I visited one recently to find its shop actively promoting ill health. more...

The land of milk and honey

Cleoptra used it as a beauty treatment, opera singers soothe their throats with it and it is the favourite food of Winnie the Pooh. more...

The Argus News

From rags to riches: Tony Chapman

He has a magnificent house in Hove, a successful hotel and one of the best-known nightclubs in Britain. more...

Millionaire cashes in on city pubs

A self-made millionaire dubbed the Lion Man is selling three of Brighton and Hove's most distinctive pubs for £800,000. more...

MPs join anti-porn drive

The family of a teacher strangled to satisfy her killer's macabre sexual fantasies has won MPs' backing to close down hardcore internet porn sites. more...

CJ killer's jail term to be cut

An illegal driver jailed for just eight months for mowing down a schoolboy will serve even less time behind bars following a judge's court blunder. more...

Drag queen dies on stage

A drag queen collapsed and died on stage while performing his grand finale. more...

eb4u wasted money, says sacked worker

Staff at a £50 million project created to revive one of the poorest parts of East Brighton preferred to hold meetings in trendy North Laine cafés, an employment tribunal heard. more...

Tax bill may be cut back

Council tax-payers in Brighton and Hove may be spared two per cent of a feared increase. more...

Recycling firm fined

The first privately-run waste recycling centre in Brighton and Hove has been fined £2,000 with £1,437 costs for opening without a licence. more...

Payout for man's same-sex TV snog

A man who claimed he was duped into kissing a transsexual for a reality TV show has won a payout from Brighter Pictures and Sky One. more...

Son faked kidnap to blackmail parents

A man looted his parents' home while they were on holiday, then tricked them into handing over ransom money by pretending he had been kidnapped. more...

Vandals take child on car-wrecking spree

A gang of vandals took a young child with them as they smashed up more than 30 cars overnight. more...

What are you going to do about this bloodbath?

To step out of your front door on a Sunday and be met by a dozen police officers combing the street for evidence of a crime may sound a little bizarre to some. more...

No council in history has ever done what Blair Parkin (Letters, February 6) suggests - ploughing large amounts of money into the West Pier, let alone the £25-40 million required to restore the building. more...

What a mess

I have written to West Sussex County Council and CityClean to complain about the amount of rubbish on the A27 verges between Falmer and Shoreham Airport. more...

Former bosses back Albion protest

Former Brighton and Hove Albion managers Steve Coppell, Peter Taylor and Micky Adams have joined the campaign to secure a new stadium for the club. more...

Short-changed

Further to the CityClean debate, they very thoughtfully picked up my rubbish just once in six weeks over the Christmas and New Year period, despite endless phone calls from me. more...

Eco campaigners back stadium ruling

Environmental campaigners have welcomed a planning inspector's ruling a community stadium should not be built at Falmer. more...

Thank you all

I would like to thank all the readers who were kind enough to respond to my request for a poem regarding the loss of a pet (Letters, January 20). more...

Let's boycott Brighton Pier

It's obvious - why don't we all boycott the Palace (sorry, Brighton) Pier, who have seen to it that the West Pier has never been restored. more...

We don't want peat plant

Adur District Council gave planning permission for a 1,000ft long peat processing plant at Shoreham Harbour in June and met last Monday only "to discuss changes to its layout" (The Argus, February 3). more...

Insult to Sussex

Whether or not you support Albion's stadium bid at Falmer, there is one section of Charles Hoile's bizarre and offensive Local Plan report that should be condemned by every mouth in Sussex and beyond. more...

I feel I'm being punished for being disabled

Jailed cannabis café owner Chris Baldwin was transferred to an open prison and then whisked back to a closed cell within hours with his privileges taken away. more...

That's the spirit!

Credit where credit's due. Friday's front page and supporting article were absolutely fantastic. more...

CJ killer's jail term to be cut

An illegal driver jailed for just eight months for mowing down a schoolboy will serve even less time behind bars following a judge's court blunder. more...

Sunday school turns to Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson may not be an obvious paragon of virtue but his animated antics are being used to educate Sunday school children this Easter. more...

Mums have leftist leanings

Mothers cradle babies on the left because it helps them get in tune with their child, psychologists have claimed. more...

Minority view

Claims that Falmer stadium enjoys widespread local support are unfounded - 75 per cent of the population either don't care about or are against it. more...

Look elsewhere

Momentum for a stadium should be redirected soon before the approaching disappointment completely engulfs Albion supporters (not necessarily the same as the Falmer stadium supporters). more...