As someone who watched the Albion before moving back to Scotland, I still follow the Seagulls through The Argus web site and am delighted by their recent progress. Much credit must go to a fellow Scot, Mark McGhee, but my friends in Sussex tell me there
Councillor Bodfish says increased parking charges are intended to reduce the number of cars in the city centre. How does he square that with allowing Sainsbury's and Tesco to have their superstores in the centres of Brighton and Hove respectively? The
A shop front facing on to Palmeira Square has just been beautifully restored and will house a new Michael Norman Antiques. The properties above and adjacent have also been carefully and appropriately restored as new living accommodation. Unfortunately
Two students with learning difficulties are still seriously ill in hospital more than a month after drinking a poisonous liquid during a college visit. The students are being treated at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath and are regularly visited
A popular musician was electrocuted and killed when a prank on a railway line ended in tragedy, an inquest heard. Fun-loving Julian Brooker, known as Joolz, was joking with a group of friends on the line near his home in Shaftesbury Place, Brighton, in
A muslim leader has accused England's chief education watchdog of Islamophobia and called on him to resign. Sussex-based Imam Abduljalil Sajid described comments on Muslim schools by David Bell, the chief inspector of schools as "irresponsible" and "ignorant
It was sad to see the beautiful leading Hollywood lady of the forties, Virginia Mayo, has died at the age of 84. Described as "peaches and cream" at the time, her movies included The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946), Backfire (1950), The Flame And The Arrow
Two fishermen have been fined more than £7,000 each for catching too much cod. Paul Joy, 55, of Ashburnham Road, Hastings, who is chairman of Hastings Fisherman Protection Society, and Graham Bossom, 41, of Edmund Road, Hastings, caught more than six
Louise Ramsay is quite right. Jailed mother Angela Canning should receive compensation for being wrongly imprisoned over the tragic deaths of her two sons (The Argus, January 13). Having served two years of a life sentence, which proved very traumatic
Gun crime and murder have decreased dramatically in Sussex, making the county one of the safest in England. The Home Office has revealed there were 82 incidents in Sussex involving firearms between September 2003 and September 2004, compared with 136
I was pleased to learn Brighton and Hove toilets have won a cleanliness award (The Argus, January 11). However, the word should be toilet, since there are so few. Brighton and Hove City Council claim there are now more toilets - which is odd, since multi-stand
A man has been arrested in connection with the seafront rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman. The suspect was being questioned last night at a custody centre but detectives were remaining tight lipped. Sussex Police would not confirm the arrest but
I recently moved away from Hove after living there for more than 24 years. Sad to say, my over-riding memory of the area is that it is overrun by Nimbys. I have seen three different plans for the King Alfred site and all schemes have been attacked by
It was ironic to read of the Green Party and the Tories exercising their "democratic" right to pass a motion of no confidence in Ken Bodfish and Labour at the full Brighton and Hove City Council meeting on the issue of the future of council housing. It
Bognor cruised into the quarter finals with a comfortable win away to County League side Arundel. Bognor were given a helping hand with the first goal after just ten minutes when David Piper's right wing cross was diverted past his own keeper by Arundel
Lewes completed a hat-trick of single goal victories over Eastbourne Borough in the space of a month at the Dripping Pan last night. Jon Nurse's first goal since signing on loan from Stevenage was enough for Steven King's side to book a place in the quarter
Albion manager Mark McGhee stepped up his search for a new keeper today after learning he is likely to be without Michel Kuipers for the rest of the season. The bleak bulletin on the shoulder damage sustained by the Seagulls' No.1 is expected to be confirmed
Gatwick employers will get the chance to pick the top talent as thousands of job seekers pour in for a careers fair. Major airlines, BAA, ground staff, retail, catering and hospitality firms will have stands at the one-day event organised by The Argus's
Streetwise Aaran Taylor took matters into his own hands when he thought he deserved an extra birthday cake after reaching the grand old age of five. Aaron managed to sneak out of school, take a bus to Tesco and get all the way to the checkout with a trolley
Police searching a home-made drugs factory failed to find thousands of doses of LSD worth up to £1 million hidden in a cupboard, a jury heard. A specialist team of detectives and scientists spent two days searching the detached house in The Vale, Ovingdean
Tomorrow will mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, 60th Army of the Ukranian Front, under Field Marshall Konev. Between 1940 and 1945, 1,198,000 people were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau
A pregnant insurance company worker suffered two miscarriages as a direct result of sexist treatment at work, a tribunal heard. Nicola O'Donnell, 36, said the stress of her 18-month sex discrimination row with employers Legal and General was a major factor
A man has been arrested in connection with the seafront rape and murder of a 35-year-old woman. The suspect was being questioned last night at a custody centre but detectives were remaining tight lipped. Sussex Police would not confirm the arrest but
The events of Brighton and Hove City Council meeting last Thursday show what a farce the so-called "stock option" for council housing in Brighton and Hove has become. To begin with, tenants were to be given four choices. Except there were really only
Brendan Montague says the fate of 13,000 council homes should have been sealed by today (The Argus, January 21). That is wrong. Tenants will have a vote on any proposal eventually put by the council. We will vote and we will vote "no". The council has
Worthing manager Alan Pook has taken a swipe at the standard of Isthmian division one, calling it no better than the County League, after seeing his side beat Horsham last night. The Rebels, who are 15th in the Isthmian premier, progressed into the Sussex
Yesterday (January 20), just before he resigned as chairman of Brighton and Hove City Council's housing management sub-committee, Councillor Kevin Allen said: "There's no doubt at all that, given the choice, most of our tenants would like to stay with
Charlie MacDonald came off the bench to score twice as Crawley came from behind to beat Hailsham 5-1. The Reds made eight changes to the side which beat Farnborough 3-2 on Saturday. Boss Francis Vines gave a debut to youth team keeper James Plumley while
Jake Robinson spearheads the Albion attack in the FA Youth Cup at Manchester City tonight. Robinson and his team-mates will have to beat 'Baby Schmeichel' to reach the fifth round. Kasper Schmeichel keeps goal for Manchester City in the fourth round tie
Food and drink producers celebrated the first anniversary of A Taste of Sussex - a business group aimed at putting them on the map. They gathered at the Hotel Alias Seattle at Brighton Marina for a lunch made entirely from local produce. The group, a
Property companies are going head to head in a £500 million battle to redevelop Crawley town centre. The centre is likely to feature a 220,000sqft John Lewis department store, 490,000sqft of mixed large and small shops, 400 homes, new office buildings
Albion manager Mark McGhee stepped up his search for a new keeper today after learning he is likely to be without Michel Kuipers for the rest of the season. The bleak bulletin on the shoulder damage sustained by the Seagulls' No.1 is expected to be confirmed
Jake Robinson spearheads the Albion attack in the FA Youth Cup at Manchester City tonight. Robinson and his team-mates will have to beat 'Baby Schmeichel' to reach the fifth round. Kasper Schmeichel keeps goal for Manchester City in the fourth round tie
