Crawley manager John Hollins has ruled out signing new players ahead of tonight's transfer deadline after the club was saved from liquidation. The Conference club was given a second reprieve from yesterday when creditors voted to accept 50 per cent
A campaign backed by The Argus has persuaded the Government to make viewing vile images of rape and sexual torture a criminal offence for the first time. Possession of so-called "violent and extreme pornography" will carry up to three years imprisonment
From Friday, August 25, to Wednesday, August 30 we asked you, the Argus website readers, the above question. After five days of voting, in which 331 votes were cast, the results were: Yes. 273 votes, 82.5% No. 47 votes, 14.2% Don't know. 11
Back in the late Seventies, popular music was stale and ready for the explosion of punk. Equally, after the bluebeat and ska waves of the Sixties, Bob Marley created a tsunami of reggae and became a superstar. Meanwhile, reggae carried on at the
Parents with children returning to school face extra costs after grants for uniforms were axed. West Sussex County Council said it had to make savings of £14 million across all services, £3 million of which would come from the budget for children and
A beauty spot is under threat from developers because of an "assault on the rules", countryside campaigners have claimed. A plan to build a new stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club at Falmer, within the Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding
A guide book is being published to highlight business opportunities in a seaside town. Eastbourne Borough Council is producing the Business Handbook for new and existing companies in partnership with the Eastbourne and District Chamber of Commerce. The
Residents of a Sussex town are among the highest spending mailorder shoppers in the country. Consumers have made Uckfield the home-shopping capital of the South, placing it just behind Barnes in London and Henley in Oxfordshire in the UK list. Shoppers
Traders are urging a council to do more to support them after the closure of a landmark business. Live music venue Namaskar in Seaside Road, Eastbourne, opened in September 2004 as the new business centrepiece to usher in a fresh start for the area. The
Commuters struggled with crippled rail routes yesterday after hundreds of train drivers went on strike. Thousands of workers returning from the August Bank Holiday break discovered that services between Brighton and Reading and along the route to London
Every day, we see new examples of the horrible carnage military aircraft have caused in Lebanon, Iraq and other recent conflicts. I find their use as a form of entertainment in an event such as Airbourne obscene. It is strange people in the 21st
Had I been without a prior commitment on August 19, I would have joined the peace march, in the belief that the - pre-demonstration publicity, mainly in your correspondence columns, reflected my feelings about the Israeli/Hezbollah war. Those
As Jewish residents of Brighton and Hove, we are insulted by Superintendent Kevin Moore's assumption that - because of our religion - we would be provoked by an anti-war demonstration taking place near where we live (Letters, August 26). Along
I, and I am sure the Jewish community as a whole, appreciate the sentiments expressed in the last paragraph of Chief Superintendent Moore's letters which, in its evenhandedness, accurately describes what good policing is all about. Doris Levinson
I attended the peace protest on August 19. It was a wonderful mixture of people of all different ages, creeds and religions and the aim of the march was to make our voice heard against the continuing atrocities being perpetrated by Israel in Lebanon
Is it anti-Semitic to criticise Israel? While two wrongs don't make a right, I have long been puzzled as to why Israel is criticised for doing things which, when other countries do them, hardly raise a squeak of protest. Where were the demonstrations
I read with interest managing director Matt Bashford saying Brighton's local radio station Juice 107.2 has been turned around (The Argus, August 22). Which yardstick is he using? RAJAR - an independent body which meaures the performance of every
Several people, particularly Henry Law (Letters, June 1), have pointed out our city does not make enough use of its main resource, the sea. In an old guide book of Brighton and District, The Capital By-The- Sea by Harold Clunn, dated 1953, I recently
It would appear from N McDonald's comment "Brighton's beauty is its unparalleled Regency architecture which the i360 will destroy" (Letters, August 11) that he doesn't get out much. Looking north from the site, from right to left, the most prominent
Valerie Paynter (Letters, August 7) completely misses the point of my letter. Modern architecture, by its very nature, is bound to cause effect by some of the outlandish shapes proposed. In Brighton and Hove, we have no such modern, state-of-theart
I feel I must take issue with the editorial Comment, "How about fees?" (The Argus, August 21). As I understand it, the University of Sussex students' union arrived at the decision to boycott Coca-Cola products democratically because the company
The Hove and Portslade Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution raised £743.85 in a Flag Day collection on August 5, 2006, May I thank the public for their support AJ Adams, Rigden Road, Hove
More than £300,000 of taxpayers' money has been spent paying the wages of police officers suspended during investigations into their conduct. Sussex Police admitted yesterday 27 officers had been suspended on full pay at times between April 2003 and
Sewage water flooded a couple's home when drains overflowed during torrential rain. Marnie Filby, 29, and her husband Paul, 33, of Warmdene Road, Brighton, woke to find their home swamped by a deluge of water and sewage. They discovered their downstairs
Treetop protesters fighting to save ancient woodland were last night facing eviction after losing a legal bid to stay in their camp. Bailiffs were given leave to move in to remove the campaigners from Titnore Woods, in Durrington, Worthing, after the
Traders are urging a council to do more to support them after the closure of a landmark business. Live music venue Namaskar in Seaside Road, Eastbourne, opened in September 2004 as the new business centrepiece to usher in a fresh start for the area.
Residents of a Sussex town are among the highest spending mailorder shoppers in the country. Consumers have made Uckfield the home-shopping capital of the South, placing it just behind Barnes in London and Henley in Oxfordshire in the UK list. Shoppers
Commuters struggled with crippled rail routes yesterday after hundreds of train drivers went on strike. Thousands of workers returning from the August Bank Holiday break discovered that services between Brighton and Reading and along the route to London
A guide book is being published to highlight business opportunities in a seaside town. Eastbourne Borough Council is producing the Business Handbook for new and existing companies in partnership with the Eastbourne and District Chamber of Commerce.
A man who bought a car on eBay was robbed at gunpoint when he went to hand over the cash. Shahzad Ali Shah, 23, from Crawley, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would secure him his dream car. Mr Ali Shah
Key creditors owed thousands of pounds by a town football club predict it will fall back into the hands of its controversial owners. The future of Crawley Town Football Club will be decided today when all creditors will decide if they will accept a payment
A village shop saved by £20,000 of donations from its customers is celebrating the first anniversary of its relaunch. Richard Walters and his wife Ann were on the verge of closing The Village Store, in Pound Lane, Mannings Heath, Horsham, as it
The proposed Falmer football stadium has been included in a list of nine projects accused of "assaulting the rules" for protecting beauty spots. The Campaign to Protect Rural England, which compiled the list, said that if the new Brighton and Hove Albion
