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Stories for 23 August 2006

Albion News

Lowe blow for Albion

Loan defender Keith Lowe could return to Wolverhampton Wanderers without kicking a ball in Albion's first team. more...

Do not take this cup tie for granted

Teams usually tighten up straight after a tonking, which suggests Albion can take nothing for granted against Boston tonight. more...

Brighton To Paris Bike Ride

Finished

Bike riders in Paris after completing the Brighton to Paris ride more...

Duke's mound

The cyclists head off from Duke's Mound, Brighton to Newhaven ferry port. Picture: Terry Applin, ref: TA19706F-3 more...

Group

Picture: Terry Applin, ref: TA19706F-5 more...

Starting off

Picture: Terry Applin, ref: TA19706F-1 more...

Business News

Sainsbury's plan upsets traders

Traders have reacted angrily to plans for a new supermarket in a shopping street struggling to keep its individuality. more...

Design for the future

Businesses and community groups are being asked how far a city should insist on sustainable building design. more...

TGWU claims safety checks are rushed through at Gatwick

Union leaders claim safety is being compromised at Gatwick because of companies trying to cut the time aircraft spend on the ground. more...

Cricket News

Pietersen's brother plays for Sussex

Sussex are giving a trial to Brian Pietersen, brother of England star Kevin, in their current 2nd XI match against Surrey at Wimbledon Cricket Club. more...

Crossword

Crossword solutions for Wednesday, August 23

CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Biped; 4 Beseech; 8 Tacking; 9 Owing; 10 Easy; 11 Withdraw; 13 Bass; 14 Drum; 16 Nicholas; 17 Slur; 20 Erupt; 21 High tea; 22 Slender; 23 Greek. more...

Latest Appeal News

Charity’s day at the races

A charity racing event attracted huge crowds and plenty of generosity. more...

Letters

I won't park there again - can I have a refund?

I read with interest the article in last week's Life about the car clampers from Elite Management Parking. more...

Letters To The Editor

Nice to know

It is heartening to know there is Christian support for the Jewish people of Israel and the UK. Thank you. more...

Support Christians

Your report of the rally for peace (The Argus, August 21) mentions a small contingent of Christians demonstrating in defence of Israel. more...

Cartography rules

Gerald Oberman distorts the historical roots of the current Middle East conflict (Letters, August 15). more...

Call me a dreamer

Perhaps someone at Sussex Action for Peace could devote some protest time to stopping Shia Muslims from killing Sunnis and vice versa, or both sects killing Kurds? more...

Joan Ruddock MP, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on compassion in dying, is asking all of us who want to see a change in the law to urge our MPs to sign Early Day Motion No 1494 on assisted dying. more...

Big Brother must be brought to book

The right to protest is a hard-earned fundamental human right. more...

Open as usual

Anyone travelling within a mile of Portslade old village will have seen the yellow diversion signs. more...

Tickets are legal

It is totally incorrect for The Argus to claim on its front page (August 22) that Brighton and Hove City Council has admitted all the parking penalty charge notices it has issued since 2001 are "invalid", "flawed" or "illegal". more...

Building at Falmer may open a Pandora's box

By arranging for her photographer to be 1,000 feet in the air, V Lenihan (Letters, August 17) manages to make the concreted and litterstrewn A27 through Falmer look almost attractive. more...

Expenses are quite legitimate

The article "Councillors claim more than £780,000" (The Argus, July 28) was misleading. As chair of the Independent Remuneration Panel (IRP), I would like to set the record straight. more...

It is not anti-Semitic to oppose Israeli war crime

At the peace demonstration in Brighton last Saturday, Public Order restrictions were imposed and hundreds of police drafted in from Sussex and Surrey. more...

Local News

Brave girl begins cell treatment in China

A five-year-old girl with a rare brain disorder has started a pioneering stem cell treatment in China which her family hope will save her life. more...

Women win cancer drug fight

The potentially life-saving breast cancer drug herceptin must be given to early stage cancer patients, the Government health watchdog has ruled. more...

Death crash PC's drive ban cut

A policeman who drove through red lights and killed a mother-of-two has had his driving ban reduced. more...

Car thieves' trail of damage

Thieves woke up residents as they crashed their stolen car into five parked vehicles. more...

Majeeds could be club's lifeline

Supporters of troubled Crawley Town Football Club have accepted that the Majeed brothers running the club may be the only alternative to extinction. more...

Surgeon to pay family £500,000

A surgeon has agreed to pay more than £500,000 compensation to the family of a woman who died during a routine operation. more...

City is home to the world

A wave of foreign workers has turned Brighton and Hove into one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Britain. more...

Eubank voted third silly celeb

Eccentric Chris Eubank has been voted Britain's third favourite figure of fun. more...

Eubank voted third silly celeb

Eccentric Chris Eubank has been voted Britain's third favourite figure of fun. more...

Eubank voted third silly celeb

Eccentric Chris Eubank has been voted Britain's third favourite figure of fun. more...

Council crackdown in illegal child workers

Results of employment checks aimed at protecting schoolchildren from illegal working during the summer holidays have been revealed. more...

A good year for fungi leads to hunt for the black diamond

To the untrained eye it looks like an ugly fungus, or worse, dog dirt. more...

Memorial to Indian soldiers to be repaired

Work to repair and conserve a memorial to Indian soldiers who died in Brighton during the First World War will begin in September. more...

MPs step up battle to save hospital services

Thousands of people are being urged to back a campaign to save hospital services. more...

Women win fight to use cancer drug treatment

Women suffering from breast cancer in Sussex will now have access to a potentially lifesaving drug if they need it. more...

Lottery scam beaten by post office workers

Post office workers prevented an 85-year-old man from losing £2,000 in a lottery scam. more...

Hunt for missing man

Police are appealing for information about a missing man. more...

Roof-top protest at weapons system factory

Two anti-war campaigners were staging a roof-top protest at a weapons factory today. more...

Death crash PC’s drive ban cut

A policeman who shot through red lights and killed a mother-of-two has had his driving ban reduced. more...

Death crash PC’s drive ban cut

A policeman who shot through red lights and killed a mother-of-two has had his driving ban reduced. more...

Train loos must work say MPs

A campaign group, including two MPs, wants a law to make sure rail passengers have the right to spend a penny. more...

Residents ‘in the dark’ over parking charges

Parking protesters say people have been left in the dark over planned new parking zones in Brighton and Hove. more...

Conquerers of Everest take on polar challenge

Record-breaking teenage adventurers Rob Gauntlett and James Hooper have announced their latest epic expedition. more...

TV couple’s Eye on Brighton

Television golden couple Richard and Judy discussed plans to build a "London Eye" more...

TV couple’s Eye on Brighton

Television golden couple Richard and Judy discussed plans to build a "London Eye" in Brighton. more...

First glimpse of film about Falconio murder

The first image from a film depicting the ordeal of the girlfriend of a British backpacker murdered in the Australian Outback more than five years ago was released today. more...

Rise in number of patients with NHS dentists

The number of patients registered with NHS dentists in Sussex has risen by more than two per cent. more...

Mailbox

Less speed, fewer deaths

As residents of Old Town, Eastbourne, we have noticed a serious increase in the amount of traffic and its speed around our residential streets. more...

Not another Holocaust

Dan Gillerman (a Brighton boy!), now Israel's Ambassador to the UN, was asked by an interviewer: "Why is Israel causing such mayhem?" Gillerman replied that modern Israel arose from the ashes of the Holocaust in which six million Jews were brutally slaughtered. more...

Vet bills

On behalf of Brighton and Hove Older People's Council (OPC), I wonder if anyone can tell me if there is any financial help available to older people to meet the cost of veterinary care for their pets? more...

Please fill our pond

My neighbours and I are concerned about the waterlevel in Queens Park pond and are desperate not to lose our wildlife. more...

Music Previews

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, various venues, September 24- March 25, 2007

The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's new season, which begins on September 24, is themed around music inspired by stories, pictures, people and places. more...

Music Reviews

!!! at the Concorde 2, Brighton

Led by The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, a new wave of dance-oriented bands has emerged from New York's stale garage-rock scene and with them comes eight-piece funk-punk act !!!, arriving at the Concorde on the last date of their two-month UK/European tour. more...

!!!, Concorde 2, Brighton

Spiral

Word spiral solutions for Wednesday, August 23

CLUES 1. Chunk 2. Splash 3. Laugh 4. Skulk 5. Jail 6. Fortified wine 7. Vault 8. Fowl 9. Fall 10. Jump 11. Boy's name 12. Cultivate 13. Comic brothers 14. Noel 15. Protruding peg 16. Raised platform Key word clue: British city more...

Sport

Yardy picked for England

MIKE Yardy was in dreamland today after he was called up by England for the first time. more...

Yardy picked for England

MIKE Yardy was in dreamland today after he was called up by England for the first time. more...

Yardy picked for England

MIKE Yardy was in dreamland today after he was called up by England for the first time. more...

Yardy picked for England

MIKE Yardy was in dreamland today after he was called up by England for the first time. more...

Sussex Scene

Lowe blow for Albion in Carling Cup

Loan defender Keith Lowe could return to Wolverhampton Wanderers without kicking a ball in Albion's first team. Lowe is unlikely to feature in the squad for tonight's Carling Cup first round clash at home to League Two strugglers Boston United. more...

Sussex Today

Impaled boy out of hospital

A ten-year-old boy who was impaled on a railing has been discharged from hospital. more...

Abusers hunted

Police are hunting two men who shouted homophobic abuse outside a Brighton take-away. more...

Shopkeeper sues

A shopkeeper is suing her landlord after an electric shock threw her across a room and left her needing surgery for a dislocated shoulder. more...

Moving street theatre planned

Quirky characters dressed as human emotions will be pushing shopping trolleys outside a library on Saturday for the premiere of a street theatre show. more...

Joyride mayhem

Joyriders woke up residents as they crashed their stolen car into five parked vehicles. more...

Parking 'farce'

Parking protesters say people are being kept in the dark over plans to draw up parking zones in Brighton and Hove. more...

Fears over bus station’s future

Passengers have been assured alternative arrangements will be made if a bus station closes. more...

Passenger 'critical' after crash

A man remains critically ill in hospital following a crash between a minibus and a van. more...

Club on brink

Supporters of troubled Crawley Town football club have accepted the Majeed brothers running the club may be the only alternative to extinction. more...

Fire ruins house

A 15th century home worth more than £500,000 was ruined by fire despite the efforts of 70 firefighters to save it. more...

Campaign over hospital threat

Thousands of people are being urged to back a campaign to save hospital services. more...

Train loos must work say MPs

A campaign group, including two MPs, wants a law to make sure rail passengers have the right to spend a penny. more...

The Argus Business

Sainsbury's plan upsets traders

Traders have reacted angrily to plans for a new supermarket in a shopping street struggling to keep its individuality. more...

TGWU claims safety checks are rushed through at Gatwick

Union leaders claim safety is being compromised at Gatwick because of companies trying to cut the time aircraft spend on the ground. more...

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