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Stories for 27 March 2006

The Argus Business

Shoppers are warned to beware of rogue traders

Shoppers are being urged to be on the alert for rogue traders. more...

Councillor wants owner to be forced to demolish empty block

The owner of "the worst eyesore in Brighton" should be made to knock it down, the incoming mayor has said. David Smith called for the city council to force a compulsory purchase of Anston House, pictured above. more...

Holidaymakers choose Europe

Holidaymakers are looking across the Channel for their summer escape from work. more...

B&B business wins top award

A bed and breakfast business has won an environmental award. more...

House prices still rising

House prices in East Sussex have risen higher than in most other areas of Britain over the past month. more...

The Argus News

Football club chairman given the red card in fans' protest

Supporters of a football club mired in off-the-pitch controversy have given its owners the red card. more...

We are not allowed to foster because we are vegetarians

A couple have been turned down as foster parents - because they are vegetarians. more...

Home Zone project back on track

Plans to spend £900,000 turning a busy neighbourhood into a haven for pedestrians and cyclists have been salvaged. more...

School club given a reprieve till Easter

Parents are celebrating a small reprieve after a school agreed to continue providing holiday care this Easter. more...

Scheme delayed by gobbledegook

A consultation document on a multi-million pound redevelopment has been criticised because it is full of jargon. more...

Death of theatre hunger striker, 77

A man who went on hunger strike to save an historic theatre from closure has died aged 77. more...

Overarm oranges, lobbed lemons

Scores of fruit flingers tossed oranges and lemons along Worthing beach to commemorate a famous shipwreck. more...

Supporters await court decision on Omar

High Court judges will deliberate for up to two weeks on whether Foreign Secretary Jack Straw should be ordered to seek the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes. more...

Coward robs shopworker, 93

The oldest shopkeeper in Brighton and Hove has spoken of his anger at being robbed for the first time in 80 years. more...

Man killed in knife horror

A man has been found stabbed to death in his home. more...

U-turn on cycle parking spaces

A victory has been won by cyclists who were told they were not welcome at Brighton's £14 million eco-friendly Jubilee Library. more...

Strike disruption to hit working parents

Thousands of parents will be forced to organise emergency childcare tomorrow when strike action causes a string of school closures. more...

Cabbies battle it out to find who is the best of the bunch

It is too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis - or so goes the joke. more...

Fares go down on the buses

Bus fares are being rolled back six years to encourage more shoppers to use public transport. more...

Cash crisis halts work on new £8m hospital

Work on a multimillion pound hospital has been delayed because of a shortage of cash. more...

Kosovan family fight to stay

A Kosovan couple fighting deportation have won the backing of the president of the Liberal Democrats. more...

Garden shuts gate to public

For 11 years Sylvia and Brian Jackson have invited people to take a look at their lovingly tended garden. more...

Star's pain for lost brother

Pop star Chico Slimani has revealed the trauma he suffered as a teenager when he lost his younger brother to leukaemia. more...

The Argus News Extra

Letter: Assumed guilty unless I can prove innocence

Parking in Brighton is difficult enough for residents. For persons conducting business, it is even more difficult. more...

Letter: What a rip-off

Your report about free travel for the over-60s in April stated that a ticket will be issued for each journey made (The Argus of March 16). more...

Letter: Buses not fare

Oh, what a horrible dilemma - pay the extortionate bus fare or line the pockets of the NCP. more...

Letter: Watch big brother

Of course it is pointless to spend vast sums of our money on bus lanes then allow motorists to block them. more...

Letter: Use the lanes

The proposal to monitor and fine motorists who enter bus lanes prompts me to ask why Brighton and Hove City Council cannot make a goodwill gesture to the visitors who drive into Brighton on Sundays during the summer season. more...

Letter: Too much jam

Can somebody please sort out the traffic lights at the junction of Viaduct Road and Ditchling Road? more...

Letter: Crash and run

I hope the person who drove into my car at Sainsbury's car park on March 7 about 10-30-11am can sleep at night. more...

Letter: Consultation before regeneration

Adam Pride of Portslade likes the new bus shelters in Palmeira Square (Letters, March 18). more...

Letter: Dresden House can be saved

I was very pleased to read Hove MP Celia Barlow has supported the decision of The Charities Commission to halt the sale of Dresden House care home (The Argus, March 20). more...

Letter: We want slammers

In Adam Trimingham's article "What we need is a railway revolution" (The Argus, March 22) he argues for additional and reopened track. more...

Letter: Mid Sussex suffers

In her article on the new Health Trust free bus service, Siobhan Ryan says "a common complaint of patients travelling from Brighton is difficulty using public transport to get to the Princess Royal" (The Argus, March 23). more...

Letter: Don't get caught

Regarding "Mobile Menace" (The Argus, March 23), stand on any street corner and you will soon count dozens of drivers using hand-held mobile phones, not wearing seatbelts or with faulty lights or excessively loud exhausts. more...

Letter: A life is worth it

In response to John Geall's comments suggesting it is not worth hounding motorists driving at 35mph in a 30mph zone (Letters, March 23), I'd ask whether Mr Geall is aware that, in the event of a collision with a vehicle, a child is 80 per cent more likely to be fatally injured by a car travelling at 40mph than a car travelling at 30mph. more...

Letter: What should I do?

In this year's budget, the Chancellor is sending confusing mixed messages. more...

Letter: It's not junk to me

I read with interest a recent correspondent's letter whose answer to junk mail was to re-address and then post it. more...

Letter: Brighton's cinemas are much missed

The interesting article about the 110th anniversary of the start of the silver screen in Brighton (The Argus, March 7) would have jogged filmgoers' memories of those halcyon days. more...

Letter: A balloon is not the new bloom

Twenty years ago the Victoria Gardens and Steine were admired for their blooms. more...

The Argus Sport

Albion need miracle run

Albion manager Mark McGhee admitted today it will "take something astonishing" to save his side from the drop. more...

Crawley win vital game

Chris Giles gave Crawley's relegation hopes a massive boost, then revealed being back on full wages increased the pressure to win. more...

Match report: Albion 1 Luton 1

Albion ought to have sought advice from Mike Tyson while he was in town. more...

Match report: Crawley 1 Cambridge United 0

Chris Giles gave Crawley's relegation hopes a massive boost, then revealed being back on full wages increased the pressure to win. more...

Basketball: Sheffield Arrows 89 Worthing Thunder 93

Gary Smith today set his sights on play-off glory as Worthing Thunder celebrated the greatest triumph in their short history. more...

Basketball: Bears keep believing to snatch victory

Steve Parillon today told his Genesis Brighton Bears colleagues to never stop believing after his buzzer-beater helped revive their faltering play-off challenge with a 124-122 win at Milton Keynes. more...

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