Stories for 9 March 2004

The Argus Albion

McGhee has striking plan

Albion manager Mark McGhee today revealed plans to keep Trevor Benjamin and sign another striker.   more...

The Argus Business

No compensation for Equitable Life losers

The Government has rejected calls to compensate people who lost millions of pounds in troubled mutual Equitable Life.   more...

Farmers get taste of sales bonanza

An initiative to promote the Sussex food and drink industry and support the county's farmers has been launched.   more...

Company proves it has star quality

Some of Britain's leading actors are being paid through a Brighton accountancy firm.   more...

Firm favourite

A Crawley-based internet travel agency has been ranked 69th in a Top 100 Businesses to Work For list compiled by The Sunday Times.   more...

Steak in shop

A 16th Century butcher's shop is changing hands for the first time in 68 years.   more...

Travel choice

Holidaymakers should head to Gatwick for the best shops according to the Consumers' Association (CA).   more...

High St sales on a steady increase

High street sales showed steady if unspectacular progress during February, the British Retail Consortium said in a monthly survey yesterday.   more...

Boom, boom: Basil ready for brush with new generation

Basil Brush owner Entertainment Rights has secured a pan-European broadcast distribution contract with a subsidiary of Time Warner for the Duel Masters animated series.   more...

The Argus News

Judge cages racist thug

A eracist tearaway who attacked his former teacher and abused a black teenager has been locked up for 33 months.   more...

DJ jailed for childporn

A mobile DJ caught with more than 15,000 pornographic pictures of children on his computer has been jailed for 12 months.   more...

School term changes

School terms in Brighton and Hove are likely to change from autumn next year.   more...

Drinkers think my street is a toilet

I am writing to draw attention to the problem of people relieving themselves in public, with particular reference to Norfolk Square, Brighton.  more...

Falmer in 2008 - my dream and nightmare

In reply to David Pritchard (Letters, March 6) I would like to give readers two stark choices.  more...

Not feasible

A lot of people would like to see Brighton and Hove City Council solve the problem of a new stadium for the Albion by building an entry development to the city on the Waterhall site.  more...

Waterhall perfect

Despite all the excuses for not using Waterhall, it is the only suitable site for a stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion.  more...

Fatboy wants third beach party

Fatboy Slim's rave in Rio could pave the way for the return of the Big Beach Boutique to Brighton.   more...

Cash or safety

Tory spokesman David Gold (Letters, March 6) again seeks to promote the dangerous belief that many safety cameras have been put on our roads as an easy way to raise cash from "law abiding" motorists for the Treasury.  more...

Rubbish piles up as dispute continues

Plastic bags full of rubbish will continue to blight the streets of Brighton and Hove for the foreseeable future.   more...

Look at the facts

Much has been said recently about the proposals to build a new Worthing College, funded by the sale of part of its site to Asda.  more...

Why women can feel safe with an iPod

They are already changing the way we listen to music but a Sussex academic says the iPod could soon change the world.   more...

No subsidy needed

Reading The Argus last Thursday, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming.  more...

Cut-price bus stranded us in the middle of nowhere

The war between two cut-price bus companies escalated today after one stopped to rescue passengers stranded on its broken-down rival.   more...

Personal care

As a member of the Alzheimer's Society and a trustee of ARDIS, a local charity that supports people with dementia in Bevendean and the Towner Club, Kemp Town, I agree with Jane Launchbury (Letters, March 4) about the personal care needs of those with dementia.  more...

There's no escaping the Viper

There was no escape for one attacker as police applied the full force of one of their most effective weapons.   more...

Got well soon

How about this for a two-inch-high, front page headline - "Woman admitted to Royal Sussex County Hospital as emergency, gets fantastic treatment, gets better" (Me, last week).  more...

Police identify body in barrel

A man stabbed to death and pushed from the top of a 450ft cliff in a plastic barrel has been named by police.   more...

Fatboy rocks Rio!

He once said he would never do it again but on Sunday night Norman Cook stepped up to the decks for the third Big Beach Boutique, not in Brighton this time but in Rio.   more...

The school run obstacle course

The school run is notoriously busy but for pupils at Brighton's Elm Grove Primary School it has become like Wacky Races.   more...

Passion for Africa sparked a colourful new enterprise

Businessman Oliver Dearing is treating art-lovers to paintings   more...

No good to me

I read with interest your article (The Argus, March 2) about cheap trips to London on either National Express Coaches or Stagecoach's Megabus.  more...

Thanks a lot

I am overwhelmed by the response to your article about donating my bone marrow for my brother David.  more...

Nothing mystical about Sean's prize

It was wonderful to see actor Sean Penn (perhaps the best actor of his generation) pick up the best actor Oscar for his role in Mystic River.  more...

The Argus Sport

McGhee has striking plan

Albion manager Mark McGhee today revealed plans to keep Trevor Benjamin and sign another striker.   more...