Stories for 13 February 2004

The Argus Albion

February 13: Benjamin to extend stay

Trevor Benjamin is staying on loan with Albion for a second month.   more...

The Argus Business

Workers held in forged IDs clampdown

Immigration officers and police raided a bakery in a clamp-down on overseas workers using forged ID.  more...

Budget airlines in price war

A flight to Prague from Gatwick now costs less than a train journey from Brighton to London thanks to a fares war.  more...

Advice comes at a price

More than half a million pounds has been earmarked by Brighton and Hove city council to pay for specialist advice on major projects.  more...

Park plan threatens bypass

A council has objected to the decision to extend the boundaries of the proposed South Downs National Park because it wants to build a bypass.  more...

Hoteliers urged to ditch Fawlty image

Hoteliers are being urged to bury lingering comparisons with Basil Fawlty by paying more attention to food hygiene and fire regulations.  more...

Investors shun creatives

Investors are undermining entrepreneurs in creative industries by failing to support them, a survey has shown.  more...

Director accepts five-year ban

The director of a hotel refurbishment business which failed with almost £5 million of debts has promised to stay away from company management for five years.  more...

Duo look forward to new cultural role

David Smith has been chosen to take a leading role in a Government campaign to promote culture across the South-East.  more...

The Argus News

Advice comes at a price

More than half a million pounds has been earmarked by Brighton and Hove city council to pay for specialist advice on major projects.   more...

£4m drugs bust at luxury home

United States enforcement agents today said the streets were safer after tracing an international drugs ring to a luxury Brighton bungalow.   more...

Behind the curtains of drug factory

Frightened neighbours thought they had been caught up in a terror alert.   more...

School faced with shutdown

Hundreds of school children face an uncertain future as their college is threatened with closure.   more...

Webcast to show politics in action

Pop bands do it to promote new releases, Jordan said she would do it when she gave birth and one US television network wanted to do it when Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed.   more...

University strike threat looms

Universities will have to close if lecturers go on strike in protest at Government pay reforms.   more...

Original gay club sold for £1.5m

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

17 held in forged IDs clampdown

Immigration officers and police raided a bakery in a clamp-down on overseas workers using forged ID.   more...

CJ judge calls for tougher laws on drivers

A judge called for tougher laws governing illegal motorists after being forced to reduce the sentence of an uninsured illegal immigrant who ran over a nine-year-old boy.   more...

Dear John, give us our stadium

Football supporter Lord Bassam has written to John Prescott calling on him to be bold and brave over a crucial planning decision.   more...

Budget airlines in price war

A flight to Prague from Gatwick now costs less than a train journey from Brighton to London thanks to a fares war.   more...

Divorce threat drove my dad to despair

The son of a businessman found dead five days after wrecking his mansion home with a JCB said his father had been devastated by the prospect of divorce.   more...

Private school was best choice for my kids

Regrettably, or perhaps deliberately, those interviewed for The Argus Analysis on February 9 seem to have missed the point of Dr Anthony Seldon's remarks.  more...

It's their loss

I was sad to read your article describing how middle-class parents see the primary schools in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, February 9).  more...

Best education

The governors of Carden Primary School are concerned about comments on the relative desirability of Patcham and Carden Schools several years ago made in the article on the views of Dr Anthony Seldon.  more...

Dictionary opens world on coarse England

Author Lynne Truss found literary fame and fortune with her best-seller on the use of correct English.   more...

School for all

The Argus on February 4 contained an article about high-performing schools. One of these was St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School in Preston Road, Brighton - a predominantly white, middle-class area.  more...

Cutting red tape

Your article, "No help through the legal jungle" (The Argus, February 9), presented a less than balanced picture of the provision of publicly-funded legal services.  more...

Same old spin

How apt that Mr Edwards (Letters, February 10 ) should be blessed with the initials PR when claiming that "Blair is the best leader we have had in decades".  more...

Our war heroes died in vain

In 1940 when invasion was imminent, this country abandoned the slanging of party politics and formed a national government under the leadership of Winston Churchill, whose rhetoric inspired the nation to win the war.  more...

Get untaxed cars off our roads now

Further to the death of nine-year-old Callum "CJ" Oakford and the article about Vicki Crowther (The Argus, February 10), it is all very well passing legislation about untaxed cars but if no one is going to enforce it, what on earth is the point?  more...

Expensive but always value for money

Your columnist Audrey Simpson is spot on (The Argus, February 6). Mark and Nicole Emmerson's One Paston Place was the outstanding restaurant of Brighton and Hove.  more...

CJ judge calls for tougher laws on drivers

A judge called for tougher laws governing illegal motorists after being forced to reduce the sentence of an uninsured illegal immigrant who ran over a nine-year-old boy.   more...

17 held in forged IDs clampdown

Immigration officers and police raided a bakery in a clamp-down on overseas workers using forged ID.   more...

Park plan threatens bypass

A council has objected to the decision to extend the boundaries of the proposed South Downs National Park because it wants to build a bypass.   more...

Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw

Our report on Thursday last week following the conviction of teacher Jane Longhurst's killer Graham Coutts is attacked by Jolyon Western, from Brighton.   more...

Jordan told to remove giant globes

Glamour model Jordan is at the centre of a legal row because her frontage is too big and needs planning permission.   more...

Police slower on the draw

Police were sent on to the streets of Sussex with guns 204 times in the past year, new figures reveal.   more...

Church tightens its belt

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Sussex is to move out of his stately residence in an attempt to ease the Church's financial difficulties.   more...

Webcast to show politics in action

Pop bands do it to promote new releases, Jordan said she would do it when she gave birth and one US television network wanted to do it when Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed.   more...

The Argus Sport

Benjamin to extend stay

Trevor Benjamin is staying on loan with Albion for a second month.   more...

Rugby: England set to rule

It is less than nine years since John Mallett won his one England cap.   more...

Football: Hardings light up Hassocks

Pat and Joel Harding are following in the footsteps of father Matthew and making a name for themselves in football.   more...

Dr Martens: Wilson baclks Crawley to go up

Eastbourne Borough manager Garry Wilson hopes Saturday's derby against Crawley Town is the last, for a few years at least.   more...

Non-League: Round-Up

Haywards Heath have axed player-manager Rob Hughes after just two games.   more...

Hockey: Lewes unveil new strike force

Lewes are hoping for big things from their new strike partnership.   more...

Athletics: Brighton's future is under threat

Dick Knight is not the only club chairman who will be sending John Prescott flowers on Valentine's Day.   more...

Racing: Patience pays off for Fowler

Several Sussex trainers have had to be patient over the last few months in their search for winners.   more...

Golf: Plant has shot at pro tour

Dean Plant is leaving the security of an assistant's job at Willingdon to play the minor tours full time.   more...

  
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