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  • Albion rocks follow the same path

    Joel Lynch has highlighted the mentoring role played by his defensive sidekick in their season-opening cleansheets. Lynch has been superb alongside the equally rock solid Adam El-Abd as Albion began their League One campaign with two 1-0 wins. At the

  • Joy for Jake

    Could this be the big breakthrough for Jake Robinson, the season when all the promise is fulfilled? That is the intriguing question to be answered in the coming months after Robinson's well-taken winner against Gillingham at Withdean on Tuesday. It

  • Rayner in late charge for role at Lord's final

    Ollie Rayner has given Sussex something to think about with the C&G Trophy final less than three weeks away. The 20-year-old could force his way into the side for the Lord's showdown against Lancashire after his impressive performance in Sunday's dress

  • Basketball: Thunder coach fancies BBL

    Worthing Thunder coach Gary Smith today admitted he would love to lead his team into the British Basketball League. But the record-breaking former Bears player admits he is saddened to see his old club withdraw from the BBL for the coming season.

  • Speedway: Bridger relishes Swedish challenge

    Lewis Bridger heads to Sweden today convinced he can benefit from joining speedway's band of international commuters. The 16-year-old rising star gets his third outing for Getingarna tonight, then returns home in time to help Eastbourne Eagles tackle

  • Football: Hollins ready for action

    Crawley manager John Hollins says he is ready to start the season if the last ditch attempt to save the club is given the go ahead. Owners Chas and Azwar Majeed yesterday made a desperate bid to regain control on an extraordinary day at the Broadfield

  • Last-ditch bid to save football club

    The Majeed brothers have made a last-ditch attempt to buy back Crawley Town Football Club hours after administrators announced the club was to go into liquidation. At 10am yesterday morning administrators Begbies Traynor announced the club would be

  • Dealer stuffed heroin in his pants

    A drug dealer caught with more than £2,500 of heroin stuffed in his underpants has been jailed for eight years. Police stopped Mohammed Butt, 32, and found the stash in his boxer shorts. They then raided his Sussex home where they found another

  • Cash-crisis trust's £1m bill for consultants

    A debt-ridden hospital trust has admitted it expects to pay £1million to consultants brought in to turn around its finances. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has already spent

  • Health care is a postcode lottery

    New figures for spending on heart disease, cancer and mental health have revealed an alarming postcode lottery of care. Statistics compiled by health charity the King's Fund show that while the Horsham and Chanctonbury primary care trust spends an

  • Last-ditch bid to save football club

    The Majeed brothers have made a last-ditch attempt to buy back Crawley Town Football Club hours after administrators announced the club was to go into liquidation. At 10am yesterday morning administrators Begbies Traynor announced the club would be wound

  • Dealer stuffed heroin in his pants

    A drug dealer caught with more than £2,500 of heroin stuffed in his underpants has been jailed for eight years. Police stopped Mohammed Butt, 32, and found the stash in his boxer shorts. They then raided his Sussex home where they found another £1,500

  • Father finds son dead after crash

    A father who went to investigate a road crash near his home discovered his son had been killed in one of the cars. The man, who has not been named, rushed from his home to offer assistance after hearing the collision in Hastings Road, Battle, at 9pm on

  • Hollins ready for action

    Crawley manager John Hollins says he is ready to start the season if the last ditch attempt to save the club is given the go ahead. Owners Chas and Azwar Majeed yesterday made a desperate bid to regain control on an extraordinary day at the Broadfield

  • Albion reject transfer request

    Albion have rejected a written transfer request from Colin Kazim-Richards. Manager Mark McGhee says he is determined to turn his maverick striker into a player. Kazim-Richards, 19, handed in his request following Albion's opening League One victory at

  • Horrible Histories, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing

    It's not often in the theatre that you have to duck cannonballs and dodge flying splinters, as the ships of the Armada unleash a deadly volley into the audience. Terry Deary's Terrible Tudors does not just re-tell the blood-thirsty tales of the period

  • Major road project go-ahead

    A major road project has soared in cost by more than £10 million The scheme to build a fly-over across the Beddingham level crossing on the A27 between Lewes and Eastbourne was officially approved yesterday by transport minister Stephen Ladyman. Campaigners

  • Letter: Dripping waste

    Possible water shortages each year are not helped by the scandalous waste of water both by the water companies, with their lack of investment in their equipment, and domestically by the many households with dripping taps. Pensioners, in particular, cannot

  • Basketball: Thunder coach fancies BBL

    Worthing Thunder coach Gary Smith today admitted he would love to lead his team into the British Basketball League. But the record-breaking former Bears player admits he is saddened to see his old club withdraw from the BBL for the coming season. Thunder

  • Health care is a postcode lottery

    New figures for spending on heart disease, cancer and mental health have revealed an alarming postcode lottery of care. Statistics compiled by health charity the King's Fund show that while the Horsham and Chanctonbury primary care trust spends an average

  • Letter: Young footballers were booted out by travellers

    Completely agree: "Coldean is besieged by travellers" (Letters, August 5). I would like to know how they get away with the things they do. My son trains with a football team at Wild Park on Saturdays. There can be 50 to 60 children training at one time

  • Battle of the lunch hour

    Workers are being encouraged to claim back their lunch hours with free crisps, deck chairs and music. A special lunch-time event is being staged by crisp manufacturers Walkers in Churchill Square, Brighton, tomorrow from noon to 3pm. A survey has revealed

  • Fury over arson attack on nursery

    Parents have slammed the "mindless idiots" who destroyed a playground at a nursery. In the early hours of Sunday morning, arsonists set alight a recently renovated outdoor part of Pebbles Nursery in Newhaven, which caters for children in one of the most

  • More gipsy sites within three years

    More legal gipsy and traveller sites will be provided across Sussex within three years. The estimated 1,000 gipsies and travellers in East Sussex will be better catered for by 2009 under county council plans. The plan, which includes building more temporary

  • Row over £16,000 PR bill for gay weddings

    Council bosses paid a public relations firm more than £16,000 to drum up interest in gay weddings. Priory Partnership, in Frederick Terrace, Brighton, was hired early last year to draw up a "pink weddings waiting list" on which same-sex couples could

  • £10m hike shocks road campaigners

    A major road project has soared in cost by more than £10 million The scheme to build a flyover across the Beddingham level crossing on the A27 between Lewes and Eastbourne was officially approved yesterday by transport minister Stephen Ladyman. Campaigners

  • Rebuilt home to be in top magazine

    A house gutted by fire could be featured in a glossy magazine. Owner Mark Kingston and his fiancee Belinda Smith were devastated when a fire in their next door neighbour's garden spread to their home at The Ridings, Steyning, in April last year. It was

  • Horrible Histories, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing

    It's not often in the theatre that you have to duck cannonballs and dodge flying splinters, as the ships of the Armada unleash a deadly volley into the audience. Terry Deary's Terrible Tudors does not just re-tell the blood-thirsty tales of the period

  • Letter: We must cut the traffic risk

    You report members of the Worthing Society are threatening a judicial review because Worthing Borough Council had been "misled" by my highways officers on a number of issues (The Argus, August 4). To set the record straight, as far as West Sussex County

  • Letter: It's a farce

    Our son has spent the past three years at Balfour Infant School and, as we live less than a mile away, we hoped he would gain a place in the linked junior school. There are, however, four classes per year in the infants and only three per year in the

  • Anger at sudden closure of city IT training centre

    Students have told of their anger over the closure of a computer centre. City College Brighton and Hove shut its Flexible Learning Centre on Friday, bringing to a premature end the work of more than 130 adult learners. The college blamed the wider availability

  • Pete pines for friends next door

    Poor Pete Stephenson is finding the return of his favourite housemates, tucked away in a neighbouring house, too much of a tease to bear. The frontman for Brighton band Daddy Fantastic has been in the diary room explaining his feelings. He said: "I'm

  • More time granted for pier survey

    The future of Hastings Pier remains in the balance after the owner admitted it had not carried out a full structural survey. The pier will remain closed until September 12 while Ravenclaw Investments Inc tries to prove the council was wrong in closing

  • Last-ditch bid to save football club

    The Majeed brothers have made a last-ditch attempt to buy back Crawley Town Football Club hours after administrators announced the club was to go into liquidation. At 10am yesterday morning administrators Begbies Traynor announced the club would be wound

  • Letter: Metering profits

    When a Southern Water spokeswoman stated they were not in favour of widespread metering because of the expense involved in installing, maintaining and reading meters (The Argus, July 29), she failed to mention they would lose revenue if more of their

  • Letter: In the pipeline

    Perhaps Southern Water could tell us why two large, water-carrying pipes cannot be run around the coast on the seabed to bring water from north to south - two in case one leaks? This would surely be cheaper, easier and quicker than any overland transference

  • Dealer stuffed heroin in his pants

    A drug dealer caught with more than £2,500 of heroin stuffed in his underpants has been jailed for eight years. Police stopped Mohammed Butt, 32, and found the stash in his boxer shorts. They then raided his Sussex home where they found another £1,500

  • Father finds son dead after crash

    A father who went to investigate a road crash near his home discovered his son had been killed in one of the cars. The man, who has not been named, rushed from his home to offer assistance after hearing the collision in Hastings Road, Battle, at 9pm on

  • Letter: Fluoride is bad

    Mr Cornwall claims "fluoride does not have any effect on the health of the body other than reducing decay in teeth" (Letters, July 3). Clearly, anything ingested which affects teeth must also affect the bones. Excess fluoride attacks the bone structure

  • Cash-crisis trust's £1m bill for consultants

    A debt-ridden hospital trust has admitted it expects to pay £1million to consultants brought in to turn around its finances. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has already spent

  • Letter: Broadening our horizons

    When Councillor Roy Pennington criticises the author of a previous letter for writing from Hassocks about a Brighton issue. (Letters, July 31), how does this tally with Brighton's aspirations to be a "player" on "the world stage"? If Hassocks residents

  • Letter: It wasn't us

    Just a few Sundays ago, a friend and I visited Stanmer Park by car. There was a lovely atmosphere - the Lupus Association was having an awareness day and balloons hung from the trees. We had a walk and picnic and were delighted to see large groups of

  • Letter: More sites needed

    This year, travellers have certainly been more numerous than ever before. Brighton and Hove City Council must provide another permanent site as quickly as possible, given the vast numbers involved. In the meantime, areas such as Wild Park, Stanmer and

  • Letter: A matter of health

    With regard to your story about providing more sites for travellers (The Argus, August 8), you said there were about 100 situated illegally at sites across Brighton and Hove. Well, there were 51 in Wild Park and 77 in Stanmer Park last weekend and they

  • Speedway: Bridger relishes Swedish challenge

    Lewis Bridger heads to Sweden today convinced he can benefit from joining speedway's band of international commuters. The 16-year-old rising star gets his third outing for Getingarna tonight, then returns home in time to help Eastbourne Eagles tackle

  • Football: Hollins ready for action

    Crawley manager John Hollins says he is ready to start the season if the last ditch attempt to save the club is given the go ahead. Owners Chas and Azwar Majeed yesterday made a desperate bid to regain control on an extraordinary day at the Broadfield

  • Albion reject transfer request

    Albion have rejected a written transfer request from Colin Kazim-Richards. Manager Mark McGhee says he is determined to turn his maverick striker into a player. Kazim-Richards, 19, handed in his request following Albion's opening League One victory at

  • MPs' opposition to B&B tax grows

    Another Tory MP has come out fighting against a proposed "bed and breakfast tax". Last week Conservative shadow ministers Hugo Swire and Eric Pickles manned an ice cream van in Brighton to protest about the new tax. Now Bexhill and Battle MP Gregory Barker

  • Rolls bids to expand car making

    Luxury Sussex motor firm Rolls-Royce is hoping to expand and employ more staff. The company has enjoyed a hugely successful few years at its plant in Goodwood, near Chichester. It has produced and exported the Phantom model to the rich and famous across

  • Five harbour homes schemes are rejected

    Councillors have rejected plans to build hundreds of new homes at a harbour. Five separate planning applications to build flats, houses and shops on different parts of Sovereign Harbour were submitted by construction company Carillion. But Eastbourne

  • Spotlight on councils who think green

    Town hall bosses are celebrating being named among the country's best defenders of the countryside. Adur District Council built 96 per cent of its new homes between 2001 and 2004 on previously developed land making it the 23rd best performer out of 354

  • More time for pier survey

    The future of Hastings Pier remains in the balance after the owner admitted it had not carried out a full structural survey. The pier will remain closed until September 12 while Ravenclaw Investments Inc tries to prove the council was wrong in closing

  • More time granted for pier survey

    The future of Hastings Pier remains in the balance after the owner admitted it had not carried out a full structural survey. The pier will remain closed until September 12 while Ravenclaw Investments Inc tries to prove the council was wrong in closing

  • Major road project go-ahead

    A major road project has soared in cost by more than £10 million The scheme to build a fly-over across the Beddingham level crossing on the A27 between Lewes and Eastbourne was officially approved yesterday by transport minister Stephen Ladyman. Campaigners

  • Cash-crisis trust's £1m bill for consultants

    A debt-ridden hospital trust has admitted it expects to pay £1million to consultants brought in to turn around its finances. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has already spent

  • Thunder coach fancies BBL

    Worthing Thunder coach Gary Smith today admitted he would love to lead his team into the British Basketball League. But the record-breaking former Bears player admits he is saddened to see his old club withdraw from the BBL for the coming season. Thunder

  • Health care is a postcode lottery

    New figures for spending on heart disease, cancer and mental health have revealed an alarming postcode lottery of care. Statistics compiled by health charity the King's Fund show that while the Horsham and Chanctonbury primary care trust spends an average

  • Bridger relishes Swedish challenge

    Lewis Bridger heads to Sweden today convinced he can benefit from joining speedway's band of international commuters. The 16-year-old rising star gets his third outing for Getingarna tonight, then returns home in time to help Eastbourne Eagles tackle

  • Albion reject transfer request

    Albion have rejected a written transfer request from Colin Kazim-Richards. Manager Mark McGhee says he is determined to turn his maverick striker into a player. Kazim-Richards, 19, handed in his request following Albion's opening League One victory

  • August 9: Kazim-Richards' future in doubt

    The future of Colin Kazim-Richards is in doubt after he was omitted from the Albion squad for last night's win over Gillingham. Kazim-Richards could be about to drift further out of contention, with the Seagulls expecting an answer today to their interest

  • Young footballers were booted out by travellers

    Completely agree: "Coldean is besieged by travellers" (Letters, August 5). I would like to know how they get away with the things they do. My son trains with a football team at Wild Park on Saturdays. There can be 50 to 60 children training at one

  • A matter of health

    With regard to your story about providing more sites for travellers (The Argus, August 8), you said there were about 100 situated illegally at sites across Brighton and Hove. Well, there were 51 in Wild Park and 77 in Stanmer Park last weekend and

  • More sites needed

    This year, travellers have certainly been more numerous than ever before. Brighton and Hove City Council must provide another permanent site as quickly as possible, given the vast numbers involved. In the meantime, areas such as Wild Park, Stanmer

  • It wasn't us

    Just a few Sundays ago, a friend and I visited Stanmer Park by car. There was a lovely atmosphere - the Lupus Association was having an awareness day and balloons hung from the trees. We had a walk and picnic and were delighted to see large groups of

  • Broadening our horizons

    When Councillor Roy Pennington criticises the author of a previous letter for writing from Hassocks about a Brighton issue. (Letters, July 31), how does this tally with Brighton's aspirations to be a "player" on "the world stage"? If Hassocks residents

  • Fluoride is bad

    Mr Cornwall claims "fluoride does not have any effect on the health of the body other than reducing decay in teeth" (Letters, July 3). Clearly, anything ingested which affects teeth must also affect the bones. Excess fluoride attacks the bone structure

  • Dripping waste

    Possible water shortages each year are not helped by the scandalous waste of water both by the water companies, with their lack of investment in their equipment, and domestically by the many households with dripping taps. Pensioners, in particular,

  • In the pipeline

    Perhaps Southern Water could tell us why two large, water-carrying pipes cannot be run around the coast on the seabed to bring water from north to south - two in case one leaks? This would surely be cheaper, easier and quicker than any overland transference

  • Metering profits

    When a Southern Water spokeswoman stated they were not in favour of widespread metering because of the expense involved in installing, maintaining and reading meters (The Argus, July 29), she failed to mention they would lose revenue if more of their

  • It's a farce

    Our son has spent the past three years at Balfour Infant School and, as we live less than a mile away, we hoped he would gain a place in the linked junior school. There are, however, four classes per year in the infants and only three per year in the

  • We must cut the traffic risk

    You report members of the Worthing Society are threatening a judicial review because Worthing Borough Council had been "misled" by my highways officers on a number of issues (The Argus, August 4). To set the record straight, as far as West Sussex County

  • Anger at sudden closure of city IT training centre

    Students have told of their anger over the closure of a computer centre. City College Brighton and Hove shut its Flexible Learning Centre on Friday, bringing to a premature end the work of more than 130 adult learners. The college blamed the wider availability

  • Father finds son dead after crash

    A father who went to investigate a road crash near his home discovered his son had been killed in one of the cars. The man, who has not been named, rushed from his home to offer assistance after hearing the collision in Hastings Road, Battle, at 9pm