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  • Stadium plan delayed a year

    Brighton and Hove Albion have been forced to put plans for Falmer stadium on hold for one year in the wake of Lewes District Council's legal challenge. The agonising delay to the forecasted building schedule is expected to cost the club more than £50,000

  • Letter: What a slip-up

    Re your lead story (The Argus, March 7) regarding the huge compensation claims on Brighton and Hove City Council. This should not surprise anyone who has to walk in Brighton nearly every street needs a repair to the pavement or footpath. I wrote to the

  • Letter: The price of injustice

    I am totally in favour of recycling, having carried it out for more than 35 years. So long as I had a car, I took it all (including plenty of green garden waste) down to the depot off Shoreham Road. Since moving into this retirement flat three years ago

  • Letter: Waterhall won't work as a football stadium

    I wonder if some of the people who write letters to The Argus ever actually bother to read your publication. I refer to the letter from P Sayers (The Argus, February 28). He clearly has no idea about what conclusions both inquiries about the proposed

  • Squash: Angry Elriani is left out of doubles team

    Elriani will create Commonwealth Games history when she becomes the first squash player to represent England three times. The Eastbourne ace is aiming for a medal in the singles in Melbourne But she is angry she is not being allowed to compete in the

  • Council says No to 'Poohaven'

    Campaigners fighting plans for a £200 million sewage works were given a boost after councillors unanimously voted against the scheme. Last night every member of Lewes District Council planning committee voted against plans for a wastewater treatment works

  • Sex abuse conviction quashed

    A businessman jailed for three years for sexually abusing a child was granted permission to appeal against his conviction. Howard Kruger, jailed for three years for sexually abusing a child, had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in

  • Letter: Drought? Let's pull together

    Following on from recent letters about water bills and hosepipe bans, my question is: Why on Earth doesn't the Government get involved by insisting the manufacturers of toilet cisterns offer us a twoflush system? You know what I mean, a small flush and

  • Stadium plan delayed a year

    Brighton and Hove Albion have been forced to put plans for Falmer stadium on hold for one year in the wake of Lewes District Council's legal challenge. The agonising delay to the forecasted building schedule is expected to cost the club more than £50,000

  • Letter; My World Cup 2006 dream team

    As this is a World Cup year and interest in the "beautiful game" is higher than for some time, I would like to suggest for your consideration a debate on England's finest-ever side taken, as I am in my 50s, from the past 50 years. Perhaps from readers

  • Hockey: Sussex hockey star has added incentive to succeed>

    Ben Hawes has an extra special reason for wanting to do well in Melbourne. Four years ago Hawes missed the final cut for England hockey's squad to compete at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The former Lewes player desperately wanted to be part of

  • Football: Clare set to quit Reds

    Top scorer Daryl Clare is poised to leave Crawley, just days after chairman Chas Majeed promised fans he was staying. Clare's representatives are in talks with other clubs following Majeed's decision to put all the players up for sale and cut wages in

  • Knight insists even relegation would not break Albion

    Chairman Dick Knight insisted today the future is bright, even if Albion are relegated. Knight has taken great heart from the club record-breaking performance of the under-18s in the FA Youth Cup. He was at St James' Park last week to watch the fledgling

  • McGhee's future "not up for debate"

    Albion chairman Dick Knight today revealed the future of manager Mark McGhee is not on the agenda. Knight is not about to bow to pressure from a vocal minority of fans who think McGhee should lose his job with the Seagulls on course for relegation from

  • MP in call to curb Sunday shop hours

    Brighton Pavilion MP David Lepper has signed a Parliamentary motion to prevent shops opening for longer hours on Sundays. Out-of-town shopping centres and large retailers are pressing the Government to allow for Sunday openings beyond the six hours currently

  • Teen boozers in punch-ups

    Police urged parents to keep tighter control of their children after a weekend of punch-ups and binge drinking. Officers in Brighton and Hove were deluged with calls to deal with drunken teenagers and fights. No serious injuries were caused but officers

  • Hearing aids delay blasted

    A hospital has been criticised after figures showed patients needing hearing aids were having to wait almost two years to be seen. Worthing MPs Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley said the waits were unacceptable and the service at Worthing Hospital needed

  • Second vote for mayor wins a cool reception

    Fewer than 10,000 signatures are required to trigger a fresh poll on whether Brighton and Hove should have a directly elected mayor. The figure was revealed by the city council as part of its legal obligation to re-open the question every five years.

  • Council in court over hearing loop

    A partially deaf pensioner has won a legal victory to force Brighton and Hove City Council to install hearing equipment in its town halls. Colin Bennett, 65, sued the city council under the Disability Discrimination Act. He took legal action following

  • Nuru Kane, Komedia, Brighton, Thursday, March 9

    Hotly tipped to be the next big African artist, the charismatic Nuru Kane is a tall, commanding presence with a golden voice. Born and raised in Medina, Dakar, his distinctive take on Senegalese music explores the connections between the music of North

  • Joan Baez, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton

    While there's injustice in the world to challenge, there'll be Joan Baez. Listening to the queen of folk on Monday night, it was incredible to think it's almost half a century since she picked up her guitar and became the heroine of the Sixties protest

  • Letter: Waterhall is more suitable

    Writing with regard to the letter from Peter Sayers of Polegate (The Argus, February 28), I was so pleased to read his remarks about Waterhall for Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. I have long thought this would be a much more suitable site more

  • Suicide bid by biting himself

    Multiple killer Daniel Gonzalez tried to bite himself to death while in Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital, a court heard. Broadmoor psychiatric consultant Dr Edward Petch told jurors: "I have never seen anyone bite themself with that ferocity

  • Jury sees scene of baseball bat death

    A murder trial jury has been shown the spot where the victim was attacked by a gang wielding baseball bats. Gary Rae, a 40-year-old divorcee, was allegedly battered, kicked and punched to death by six teenagers. He suffered horrific injuries during the

  • Family's escape in lorry crash drama

    This family woke up to a bread roll with a difference when a Hovis lorry crashed into their garden. The Charmans were sleeping at home in Amberley, near Arundel, when the delivery vehicle left the road, careered towards their house and came to rest on

  • Inferno changed our life

    A blind woman and her partially-sighted husband said today they lost virtually everything they owned when a removal van went up in flames. Bernice and Dennis Houghton's dream move to Eastbourne turned into a nightmare when the 7.5-tonne lorry carrying

  • Pool row tycoon accuses council

    A property tycoon who may have to tear down an opulent Roman-style swimming pool built in his back garden has accused council bosses of double standards. David Martin, 42, has been hauled over the coals by Brighton and Hove City Council in connection

  • Letter: A good mix

    If, like Mark Bannister, I were living in Redhill Drive, rather than having to live in a rented flat in a large housing estate, no doubt I also would be in favour of proximity schooling. Firm evidence, however, is now accumulating that it is the social

  • End of an era for aviation

    Shoreham airport is due to pass into private ownership for the first time in its history on April 1. The airport, one of Britain's oldest, has been sold to property specialists The Erinaceous Group on a 150-year lease. The sale marks a milestone in the

  • Letter: Silent parents

    I don't know how many times this needs repeating but I will say it yet again. It was not, I repeat not, parents from Queen's Park, Hanover or anywhere else for that matter who suggested the nodal system for Blatchington Mill and Dorothy Stringer schools

  • Letter: Two-tier city

    In yesterday's letters' page (The Argus, February 28), there were no less than three letters voicing opposition to the nodal system and yet at the same time couching their letters in a "we all want a fair system" manner. So surely they are supporting

  • Letter: Special thanks

    Regarding an accident on February 25 in Coldean Lane, I would like to thank all the emergency services for their kind attention and all the local residents for their concern about our wellbeing. -G Brooker, Coldean

  • Letter: Energy costs

    Pat Thomas (Letters, March 6) asks why proposals for a £200,000 Renewable Energy Fund from the Green Party were rejected during Brighton and Hove's City Council's budget-setting process. The Greens proposed this sum was to be raised by borrowing, which

  • Sussex: Kirtley confident for big test

    James Kirtley is confident he will get the go-ahead to resume his Sussex career. The county's vice-captain heads to Loughborough tomorrow to have his re-modelled bowling action tested. Kirtley, 31, is currently suspended after he was reported for a suspect

  • Letter: Parking policy is killing the heart of our city

    I read your article, North Laine shops are shutting up (The Argus, March 3), with great interest and relief that at last this is being publicised. I own a shop in North Laine and have been there nearly ten years. While your story was not news to me, my

  • Crowstarver, Gardner Arts Centre, Flamer, March 9-11

    "One of the things we really relish is the impossible," says Nikki Sved, "and that's why staging this book has been such a pleasure. When you read it you think, 'Goodness me, how are they ever going to do that in the theatre?'" Following the West End

  • 230 Gatwick jobs face axe

    Airports operator BAA is cutting 230 managerial jobs at Gatwick. It says the move will streamline the operation, cutting bureaucracy and encouraging front-line staff to make their own decisions. Senior managers to line supervisors across the customer

  • UK's last publicly owned airport goes commercial

    Shoreham airport is due to pass into private ownership for the first time in its history on April 1. The airport, one of Britain's oldest, has been sold to property specialists The Erinaceous Group on a 150-year lease. The sale marks a milestone in the

  • Are doors being shut on disabled shoppers

    Just how tough is the great outdoors for wheelchair users? Figures supplied to the Audit Commission reveal that only 75 per cent of Worthing's local authority buildings - including offices, leisure centres, swimming pools and concert halls - offered full

  • Caught in council tax nightmare

    A man has been made bankrupt over council tax bills on properties that do not exist. Billy Boyle, 64, of Upper Gardner Street, Brighton, is unable to earn any money and is facing huge legal bills after a catalogue of administrative errors by Brighton

  • The Buzzcocks, Concorde 2, Brighton

    The Concorde 2 felt like a bit of a time warp on Tuesday night, as the original rebellious punk rocksters came on stage. Looking a bit withered but still up for it, much like when you see Mick Jagger these days, the Buzzcocks can still spin out a tune