Stories for 6 February 2004

The Argus Albion

February 6: DIY match days will net Albion £1m

Brighton and Hove Albion have struck a deal to run the match day operation at Withdean which could save the club £1 million during the next two years.   more...

February 6: Seagulls ask for fans' help

Albion today appealed to their most loyal supporters to help them through a mounting financial crisis while they are still playing at Withdean.   more...

February 6: Albion must take burden off Knight

Guy Butters has called on the rest of the Albion team to take some of the goalscoring burden off Leon Knight.   more...

February 6: Albion snap up new keeper

Albion today turned to former Sheffield Wednesday and Torquay United goalkeeper Stuart Jones to solve a problem between the posts.   more...

The Argus Business

Insurance giant to axe 1,200 jobs

Insurance broker Hill House Hammond (HHH) is to close with the loss of more than 1,000 jobs, owner Norwich Union has announced.  more...

Seeda's off target

The South-East England Development Agency (Seeda) is falling dangerously behind its headline targets to create new jobs and reclaim land, it has been claimed.  more...

Coogan teams up with Virgin

Sharing a transatlantic flight with boozy Paul Calf would make most people squirm.  more...

Mortgage rates rise

Homeowners faced rises in the cost of their mortgages today after the Bank of England lifted interest rates to four per cent.  more...

Council's homes policy is `not practical'

Brighton and Hove's ground-breaking policy to tackle the city's crippling housing crisis has been torpedoed by a Government planning inspector.  more...

eb4u in trendy office row

A community project given almost £50 million of taxpayers' money to revive the poorest parts of east Brighton has been criticised for setting up an office in trendy North Laine.  more...

More rain needed despite flooding

Despite the wettest January for three years more rain is still needed to fill the county's reservoirs.  more...

The Argus News

Valley site is safe for now

A downland site which developers would like to use for business or housing will remain untouched - for now.   more...

Council cutbacks really take the biscuit

The cookie has finally crumbled for hungry politicians who were munching their way through biscuits at meetings.   more...

Prescott holds key to Albion's future

The Argus today calls on the people of Sussex to save Brighton and Hove Albion.   more...

Albion survival teeters on the brink

Brighton and Hove Albion have issued a desperate plea to football fans everywhere - help save our club.   more...

DIY match days will net Albion £1m

Brighton and Hove Albion have struck a deal to run the match day operation at Withdean which could save the club £1 million during the next two years.   more...

Sex killer could appeal

Sex strangler Graham Coutts may launch an appeal against his conviction for murdering Jane Longhurst.   more...

Call to ban porn web sites

MPs are to consider banning porn web sites in the aftermath of the Jane Longhurst murder trial .   more...

Jilted husband goes on rampage

A jilted husband is on the run after locking his wife in an outside toilet and trying to flatten it with a JCB.   more...

Family's anger as CJ's killer jailed

An illegal driver has been jailed for eight months for mowing down a schoolboy, leaving him to die.   more...

Man jailed over pistol in luggage

An airline passenger caught with a gun and ammunition in his luggage said his father's servants had packed the bags and he did not know they were there.   more...

Two more bodies found at Beachy Head

Two bodies have been recovered from the base of the cliff at Beachy Head, just weeks after three others were found at the notorious suicide spot.   more...

Council's homes policy is 'not practical'

Brighton and Hove's ground-breaking policy to tackle the city's crippling housing crisis has been torpedoed by a Government planning inspector.   more...

State schools should be the future of education

I am puzzled by Dr Anthony Seldon's criticism of parents who move home and take on a larger mortgage in order to get their children enrolled in good state schools (The Argus, February 4).  more...

Leave parents be

Dr Anthony Seldon's branding of parents who move house to live near good state schools as "the worst moral hypocrites" is an unjustified slur on the many parents who would never be able to afford the fees at schools like his (Brighton College) but who simply want a good state education for their children.  more...

Lead by example

With reference to Dr Seldon's attack on parents who move house in order to find a better school for their children, I would suggest the real hypocrites are politicians (including the Prime Minister) and educationists who publicly advocate state education while sending their own children to fee-paying private schools.  more...

eb4u in trendy office row

A community project given almost £50 million of taxpayers' money to revive the poorest parts of east Brighton has been criticised for setting up an office in trendy North Laine.   more...

Hideous plans

I attended a packed meeting in Church of the Good Shepherd hall on Tuesday night along with an estimated 200 other residents concerned about the proposed demolition of three family-sized houses in Dyke Road, Hove, and the building of 42 flats in their place.  more...

Kick it out

Leaving aside for the moment the manifest shortcomings of the application to demolish three family homes in Dyke Road, I would like to focus on some more general points.  more...

Money-grabbers

If granted planning permission, the 42 flats in Dyke Road, Hove, would be grossly out of keeping with the surrounding properties. They would also cause a traffic hazard for all those using Dyke Road Avenue.  more...

Allow the swan sanctuary to expand

Regarding Bentley Wildfowl and its possible closure (The Argus, January 29), I know the National Swan Sanctuary, based at Egham in Surrey, is currently looking for a new home to include a visitor centre and tourist attraction.  more...

Council should look after pier

After the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund had decided it was not brave enough to save one the British seaside's great temples of culture, I opened my curtains to see this view of the sad old lady decaying gently into the sea.  more...

More rain needed despite flooding

Despite the wettest January for three years more rain is still needed to fill the county's reservoirs.   more...

Jilted husband goes on rampage

A jilted husband is on the run after locking his wife in an outside toilet and trying to flatten it with a JCB.   more...

Snoring nearly wrecked my marriage

Carlo Zappulo once snored so loudly it almost wrecked his marriage.   more...

Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw

David Kenny, from Hove, says he likes the layout of the new Argus except the television pages, which he "knew" we would "mess up".   more...

Copter crash cause still a mystery

Accident investigators still do not know why a helicopter crash-landed into trees at the back of a garden after a mid-air stall.   more...

Warm for the time of year

Sussex has had one of the warmest starts to February in 50 years.   more...

Italian job for the lost lanes

Designers plan to create an Italian-style quarter with covered walkways, fashionable apartments and chic shopping arcades in the heart of Brighton and Hove.   more...

The Argus Sport

Albion snap up new keeper

Albion today turned to former Sheffield Wednesday and Torquay United goalkeeper Stuart Jones to solve a problem between the posts.   more...

Albion must take burden off Knight

Guy Butters has called on the rest of the Albion team to take some of the goalscoring burden off Leon Knight.   more...

Seagulls ask for fans' help

Albion today appealed to their most loyal supporters to help them through a mounting financial crisis while they are still playing at Withdean.   more...

Cricket: Skipper waits on new deal

Chris Adams' Sussex future is unlikely to be decided until the end of the season after he turned down a new contract for the second time.   more...

Dr Martens: Vines wants new striker

Crawley boss Francis Vines says he might have to break the bank to keep up with big-spending Weymouth as the race for the premier division title hots up.   more...

Non-League: Gatting mourns Saints' demise

Former Albion star Steve Gatting believes the rapid rise of St Leonards was the cause of their downfall.   more...

Ryman: Pook warns his Rebels

Alan Pook has warned his Worthing players to shape up or miss one of the biggest games in the club's history.   more...

Rugby: Sussex top two in trophy stalemate

County rugby chiefs have told their top two clubs to sort out a Greene King Sussex Trophy fixture clash.   more...

Hockey: Male back for crunch match

Dominick Male returns from suspension for East Grinstead's crunch game at home to Old Georgians on Sunday.   more...

Athletics: Illness rules out baldock

Sean Baldock will be watching the AAA Indoor Championships in Sheffield this weekend with interest - from his sick bed.   more...

Racing: Luck changes for Sussex trainer

The long hot summer of 2003 has been the cause of many trainers falling short of their targets for the jumping season.   more...

Golf: New delay to franchise decision

Whoever gets the franchise to run Hollingbury Park and Waterhall must wait another year.   more...

  
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