Archive

  • April 13: Mayo set to return at Burnley

    Kerry Mayo is back in contention for Albion's trip to Burnley on Saturday. The long-serving defender came through a run-out in the reserves with flying colours. Mayo made his comeback from cartilage surgery in the opening 45 minutes of a goalless draw

  • April 13: Four point survival plan

    Albion manager Mark McGhee today unveiled a four-point plan for Championship survival. McGhee believes the Seagulls need a win and a draw from their remaining four matches to guarantee staying up. He is predicting a three-way fight with Watford and Crewe

  • Letter: Spiritual healing

    Glancing through a copy of Pike's Blue Book for Brighton and Hove for the year 1936, I saw listed among the Church of England Churches was St Stephen's (Faith Healing Church). It was in Montpelier Place and the priest-in-charge was Rev J Maillard. Can

  • Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, Theatre Royal, Brighton

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, taken from a novella by Oscar Wilde, is one amiable piece of nonsense given a sparkling outing by adapter Trevor Baxter, director Christopher Luscde and a talented ensemble cast. Lord Arthur (John Sackville) is to marry Cybil

  • Trust criticised for the way it cut waiting lists

    A hospital trust has been criticised for its handling of patients waiting for operations. An independent report for the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority said patients had been inappropriately suspended from waiting lists by Brighton and Sussex

  • Letter: We can find other uses for Churches

    It is sad The Argus has recently had to highlight the financial problems facing the various religious bodies responsible for managing and maintaining our churches. These are important buildings, created by man, that have continued to provide not only

  • Lawyer in toughest cases dies at 64

    The lawyer who defended paedophile Russell Bishop during the Babes in the Wood trial has died, aged 64. Bishop, who was cleared of murdering Karen Hadaway and Nichola Fellows in Wild Park, Brighton, in 1986, was one of several of the nation's most notorious

  • Letter: Zap them away

    What a great idea the TV-B-Gone device is (The Argus, April 12). We could also do with a device to zap in-car stereo systems that blast out moronic earth-shattering bass-lines and one to send a whistle into the mobile phones of drivers who still think

  • Bonfire society to go ahead with pope effigy

    A bonfire society has paid tribute to Pope John Paul II but is continuing with plans to torch a historical pontiff's effigy. The move has angered opponents, who called it offensive and insensitive and said it was "appalling bigotry". This November's Bonfire

  • Letter: These urban foxes are friends to our city

    Like all cities, Brighton and Hove has its fair share of vermin. Trevor Pateman lists rats, foxes, pigeons and seagulls that avoid the sea as wildlife which chooses Brighton and Hove as "the place to be" (Letters, March 31). Among the four creatures mentioned

  • Letter: Not good enough

    I thank Mr Collis, projects director at Onyx, for responding to my letter about the proposed transfer site at Hollingdean Lane. On paper it sounds too good to be true, as you would expect. I doubt his response will allay the fears of many, many hundreds

  • Letter: Quiet round here

    with reference to the plan to build a waste transfer station in Hollingdean, I am extremely concerned as I live close to the site, on Round Hill. I moved here two years ago because it is quiet, away from the bustle of the centre, yet it still has a lot

  • Letter: Brighton the best place to bring up children?

    An article published on the Brighton and Hove City NHS website on July 27, 2004, confirmed my decision that Brighton was the right place to bring up my children. "It's official -" the article reads. "Brighton and Hove can be a healthy city. The World

  • Mayo set to return at Burnley

    Kerry Mayo is back in contention for Albion's trip to Burnley on Saturday. The long-serving defender came through a run-out in the reserves with flying colours. Mayo made his comeback from cartilage surgery in the opening 45 minutes of a goalless draw

  • McGhee appeals for more quality

    ALBION manager Mark McGhee today called on his players to rediscover their dead ball expertise. McGhee was unhappy with the Seagulls' corners and free-kicks in last Saturday's home draw against Leicester. He wants a better delivery into the Burnley box

  • Monorail's energy is in the team behind it

    The team behind plans for a £10 million seafront monorail announced today it would run on the same amount of electricity needed for a simple phone call. The ultra-efficient Brighton Bullet, the UK's first city monorail, which would link the marina and

  • Greens' chief cleared in airport leak storm

    Green councillor Keith Taylor has been cleared of giving confidential information about the expansion of Shoreham airport to the press. The Brighton and Hove City councillor, who holds one of the few hopes of the Greens' first seat in the Commons at the

  • Cigs sale operation is a total success

    Every shop targeted in a trading standards operation refused to sell cigarettes to an underage person. A 13-year-old volunteer tried to buy cigarettes at 18 different shops on behalf of East Sussex Trading Standards. Officers were pleased when all traders

  • Organiser of brutal cockfight is jailed

    A 54-year-old man has been jailed for 90 days for organising a brutal and bloody cockfight. Joseph Keet showed barbaric behaviour by pitting one animal against another for the sole purpose of enjoying cruelty, Haywards Heath magistrates court heard yesterday

  • School's out but can be yours for £3.75m

    A magnificent former country school once attended by the great and good of Sussex society is for sale at almost £4 million. War hero Sir Douglas Bader and record-breaking polar explorer Pen Hadow were among the luminaries who went to Temple Grove School

  • Education chief loses out on union post

    The man in charge of children's education in Brighton and Hove will stay on in his post after he lost an election to head a teachers' union. Director of children, families and schools, David Hawker, announced he would leave Brighton and Hove City Council

  • Testing time for taxi drivers

    Taxi drivers will be brushing up on their motoring skills when a tough new testing system is introduced. From August, anyone applying for a cab licence in Brighton and Hove may have to take an extra 40-minute test to ensure new drivers give passengers

  • Lord takes helm in historic role to guard ports

    Former Armed Forces chief Admiral Lord Boyce has been installed as the new Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The mainly ceremonial post, last held by the Queen Mother, is believed to be the oldest continuous office in the country. Thought to have been

  • Boy of 15 accused of £3 million school fire

    A boy of 15 has appeared in court accused in connection with a £3 million arson attack at a secondary school. The youth, who cannot be named but lives in Newhaven, was at Eastbourne Youth Court yesterday remanded to secure accommodation . Police first

  • Letter: It's in the post

    I sympathise with Jo Chipchase (The Argus Rant, April 9). On Saturday, April 2, I posted two birthday cards to my daughter from the main postbox at the corner of Union Place, Worthing, at about 2.30pm. She received only one of them (from my sister) on

  • Monorail's energy is all in team behind it

    The team behind plans for a £10 million seafront monorail announced today it would run on the same amount of electricity needed for a simple phone call. The ultra-efficient Brighton Bullet, the UK's first city monorail which would link the marina and

  • Letter: Bad medicine

    Secondary legislation on water fluoridation became law on April 1, defining the "public consultations" required of Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) prior to ordering water companies to fluoridate public water supplies and indemnifying them against

  • Dangerous toy guns are banned from market stalls

    Traders selling ball bearing guns are being banned from a Bank Holiday market. The weapons, which injured a nine-year-old boy in Whitehawk, Brighton, last year, are outlawed at the Brighton Racecourse market. But visitors discovered them being sold under

  • Police concern at fall in special constables

    The number of special constables serving with Sussex Police has more than halved in eight years. Despite Government efforts to boost recruitment to the force's special constabulary, its membership has not risen for a decade. Figures released to Parliament

  • Home price rises spread

    House prices across the county are rocketing because home buyers have been forced into the countryside by Brighton and Hove's overheated property market. One of the most detailed analyses to come from a leading mortgage lender shows the population is

  • Letter: Little innocents

    Along with other children, parents and teachers, we are not ready for a waste depot to be built so close to our schools. Why do something like this in the middle of a community if hardly anyone wants to go ahead with it? Put yourselves in the position

  • Injured Butcher misses opener

    Surrey are without new captain Mark Butcher for their opening Frizzell County Championship Division One match against Sussex at the Brit Oval. The England batsman has taken over from Jonathan Batty as skipper but is still recovering from the wrist injury

  • Yardy digs in for Sussex

    CHRIS Adams believes Mike Yardy could one day become Sussex's equivalent to Darren Lehmann. But he was grateful yesterday that Yardy wasn't ready just yet to shake off his image as, well, a bit of a blocker. There was evidence that the left-hander has

  • Anniversary salon takes to the road

    Hairdressers Dean and Kevin Colburn wanted to come up with something a bit different to celebrate 25 years in business. Instead of just having a party at their shop, DnK Hairdressers in Church Road, Hove, the brothers hired a limousine and arranged for

  • Community projects told funding will continue

    Directors from a £47 million project to revitalise deprived housing estates have reassured residents much of their work would continue after the money runs out. Fears have been expressed that, when eb4u's ten-year tenure is over in 2010, all the community

  • Polar explorer struggling to beat record

    Polar explorer Tom Avery is facing brutal conditions as he treks towards the North Pole. The 29-year-old from Ticehurst, near Robertsbridge, began his bid to become the fastest man to make the journey three weeks ago. He is retracing the route American

  • Cathedral Mass to remember the Pope

    A congregation gathered for a Solemn Requiem Mass to pay homage to Pope John Paul II at Arundel Cathedral on Monday night. The homily was delivered by Monsignor John Hull and visiting clergy. The cathedral, the seat of the Catholic church in Sussex, was

  • Curb on seabed dredging is urged

    Concerns are growing among environmentalists about the dredging of seabeds on the south coast which could devastate eco-systems. Marine industry firms are applying for licences to extract millions of tonnes of gravel from the seabed, which is a rich environment

  • Drugs link in crash which killed eight

    A driver was speeding and swerving moments before he and seven others died in a crash on the A23, an inquest heard today. Witnesses said the BMW driven by Mitch Treliving, a 19-year-old glazier, was overtaking cars that were travelling at more than 75mph