The gay community has welcomed a decision to halt the lease of an arts venue to an evangelical church. St Mary in the Castle at Pelham Arcade, Hastings, was leased to the Sonrise Church by Hastings Borough Council's cabinet last year on a five-year contract
Crawley are losing patience in their quest to land a League One striker. Reds have given his club a Thursday deadline to complete the transfer after talks with the 19-year-old stalled last week due to problems with his agent. Reds are also trying to
Alex Revell could be fit for Cardiff - if Albion make it all the way to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final. The ten-goal striker saw a specialist yesterday about the right ankle ligament damage he suffered in a training accident last week. Revell, much
Having watched Moira Buffini's intriguing black comedy I think I will be declining invitations to dinner parties for a little while. For her work depicts the dinner party from hell, with a hostess who goes to great pains to ensure success -
A man was taken to hospital after jumping out of the window of his burning home. The man, who has not been named, leapt from the first-floor bedroom window of his terraced home in Benchfield Close, East Grinstead, during the blaze. Firefighters said
Eco-activist Dan Glass says he doesn't believe in apathy. He doesn't need to say it, though, because his work speaks for itself. In his short time as president of the University of Sussex Student Union (USSU), the 23-year-old has instigated the
My husband and I both have brown eyes. Our little toddler is adorable - but his eyes are blue. This is making me worry about his paternity. You see, the year before he was born I had a foolish fling with a handsome young man at the office. Yes,
My partner and I have been together for seven years. He is quite a bit older than me. When we first got together, we had a rampaging sex life. But in the past month, something has gone wrong. Every night when we get into bed, he turns his back on
I'm really concerned about my very thin teenage daughter. She has been looking furtively at various websites, which I fear may be pornographic. I managed to look over her shoulder yesterday and the site she was inspecting seemed to be called something
Do you think it's possible my female GP is hitting on me? She always seems to be terribly friendly and makes a big fuss of me whenever I see her. Also, I know she's not married, though she's now in her late-30s. I would actually feel quite flattered
Can women get gout? I thought it was just a male thing but my GP says the pain in the toe which I've had since Christmas is "probably gouty". Yes, women can get gout - though not nearly as often as blokes do. It often hits people in January, after
In the autumn, I went on a round-the-world cruise and I'm afraid I had sex in several of the countries we visited. Now I have a raw place on the opening of my vagina. Could this be serious? Yes, it may be an unusual form of VD. Please go to your
Most women of 60 expect to see their husband relaxing in a comfy pair of slippers or indulging in the odd game of golf. Few expect their other half to emerge covered in fake tan, flexing his muscles in nothing less than a posing pouch. Meet Lynda
Whitehawk are left to fly the Sussex flag in the FA Vase. But Ian Chapman's side will need to beat Spartan League Edgware Town in a replay tomorrow after a 1-1 draw at East Brighton Park on Saturday. Eastbourne Town, the other County League side
Crawley 2 Southport 1 MATCH-winning hero Ronnie Bull reckons a strong team spirit at Crawley has helped the club's new signings to settle straight in. The left-back believes Reds will soon be clear of the relegation battle and pushing up the table
Success at Saltergate was always going to hinge on one thing - whether Albion could shackle striker Caleb Folan. When the highly rated frontman fails to perform, more often than not, Chesterfield fail as well. Albion had learnt that lesson back
An elderly driver went more than 80 miles out of his way while going to visit relatives. Fears had grown for George Chapman, 82, after he left his home at 9am yesterdayin the Little Common area of Bexhill to drive the 34 miles to Crowborough but never
A 39-year-old cyclist was injured after an accident involving a car. The collision happened at 10.22pm yesterday on the A2021, King's Drive, Eastbourne. The cyclist collided with a Subaru Forester being driven by a 53-year-old woman from Tunbridge Wells
I'm writing in response to the almost-daily wave of letters published in your paper criticising the New Year's Days celebrations hosted by our very own Fatboy Slim. I am a professional Brightonian in my 30s and find it hard to believe local people
When Randy Hickey from Texas describes his experience of walking through a Frank Gehry-designed space in Ohio (Letters, January 16), he does us a great favour. We need to be aware of Gehry's good work to demonstrate the extent to which Karis
"Could this turn out to be the ugliest building in England?" asks the headline (The Argus, December 21) about West Sussex County Council's proposed library for Crawley. Not if Frank Gehry has anything to do with it. If built, the abomination proposed
Regarding recent letters about Gehry's King Alfred plans, I fail to see how St Aubyn's could be enhanced if it was to be constantly overshadowed and thus receive very little sunshine. I also believe most residents and visitors to Brighton are
John Stanaway's notion of putting Gehry's Towers in central Brighton (Letters, January 10) has great potential and should be given serious consideration. In Hove, they would stick out like a sore thumb but, as part of the Kingwest seafront, they
I have just returned from Victoria, Canada, and feel compelled to write with regard to the lack of sport facilities in Brighton and Hove. I would say Victoria is about the size of Brighton and Hove and suburbs so I was shocked to discover it
I read with astonishment, then incredulity and finally anger, the article on Daphne Cutten (The Argus, January 15). Here is an exceptional lady, with, until his death, an equally exceptional husband, who, together, over 43 years, have made
It must be worrying for Mr Chris Cordell and disappointing for his sons that they cannot find work experience (Letters, January 8), especially with all the bull we keep hearing about the so-called skills shortage. Finding work is also very difficult
My lovely wife has been job hunting now for more than a year and is finding it increasingly depressing to be overlooked time and time again in her quest to find work. Her only problem is she is quite hard of hearing (though a very good lip reader
I traded for many years in Southwick Square and now live here and I appeal to Adur Council to show some common sense and stop their intended draconian increases in rent. With the advent of superstores with free parking, several shops in Adur
With reference to your article on Thomas Read Kemp (Weekend, January 13-14), you said you did not know where his grave is. It is in Le Père Laclaire cemetery in Paris where many celebrities are buried, including Edith Piaf. We saw it when visiting
Personal impressions are not always reliable, so one must await the figures, but I have been struck by the apparent decline in the number of people using Hove Library since the renovations. Before the extended closure, one got accustomed to the
Here's a helpful tip. Having been plagued by graffiti in The Lanes for months now, I have found a way to clean it up. Lynx deodorant spray will get rid of the offending graffiti. It really does work, although heaven knows what the Lynx effect
Seeing as Mr Blair is so keen on wars, why isn't he in the front line, trying to fight with inadequate equipment, the wrong clothing and so on. Perhaps seeing death and injuries first hand would make him realise he isn't always right and perhaps
I am appalled, as I am sure many people in this city will be, that warnings and cautions are being handed out to people who should really be sent to jail. The excuse that this is a means of reducing bureaucracy and increasing police visibility
I would like to thank everyone who donated to our collection on December 20, 2006, at the Holmbush Centre, Shoreham. We raised £315.80 for the Trevor Mann Baby Unit at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. I would also like to thank the
Brighton is to get extra funding to tackle the menace of yob behaviour, Prime Minister Tony Blair this morning revealed. The city council will be given Government grants to crack down on anti-social problems in Brighton's most crime-ridden areas. The
The construction of a £6 million state-of-the-art office development is complete - the most significant project to be built in Worthing for 20 years. The business park in east Worthing will officially open next month. Nine of its 13 units have
Fears are growing for the safety of an elderly man who disappeared while going to visit relatives. George Chapman left his home around 9am yesterday (sun) in the Little Common area of Bexhill to drive to Crowborough but never arrived. He was driving
Everyone is familiar with the search for the American dream, although seemingly somewhat contrived, this true story is an inspirational piece of cinema if nothing else. Will Smith and his son Jaden suit the roles well and their chemistry as father
Residents are taking the law into their own hands by using their own speed detectors. Volunteers in Lower Beeding are the latest to take over traditional policing duties in monitoring the speeds of vehicles on their roads. They have been trained
Consumer watchdogs have urged customers to fight their banks for a full refund of unfair charges. They said powerful tools were available to challenge banks, as highlighted in The Argus's two-part series on reclaiming charges, and consumers must make
Wide-ranging cuts to policing in Sussex are needed to fill a multi-million pound "black hole" in funding caused by government cuts. MPs and the Police Federation reacted with fury to news that up to £9.4 million savings must be made by 2010. Accountants
A woman has spoken of her terror at seeing flames pour out of the window above her flat. Lisa Mills said she had never been as frightened as the moment she realised the block where she lived in Worthing town centre was on fire. Up to 80 firefighters
Hospital staff are preparing a ballot to strike after a union representative was "frogmarched" out of a building and given the sack. Members of the GMB union have issued an official mandate to allow them to strike after Mark Thomas was thrown out of
MPs have defended the Government's refusal to stand up for Omar Deghayes and eight other British residents detained in Guantanamo Bay. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, in a report published yesterday, said: "The Government is right to
If you look away at the wrong moment, you'll miss it. But for five proud Sussex families, one ten-second clip from new feature film Miss Potter is the highlight of the movie. Producers plucked five schoolchildren from obscurity to appear in the
Drought-hit Sussex faces even greater water shortages as a result of an EU directive aimed at protecting natural habitats. The warning was made by Southern Water in a report to the South East Regional Assembly, which is discussing the blueprint
Counicl tenants who have waited up to 40 years to have their communal windows cleaned may have to hang on for decades longer after plans to introduce abseiling cleaners were scrapped. Brighton and Hove City Council has shelved plans to employ contractors
Labour councillors in Brighton and Hove have pledged to punish drivers of gas guzzling cars by making them pay double for their residents' parking permits. The scheme would make Brighton and Hove the first city outside London to hit motorists
Hospital staff are preparing a ballot to strike after a union representative was "frogmarched" out of a building and given the sack. Members of the GMB union have issued an official mandate to allow them to strike after Mark Thomas was thrown
Maureen Byrd has been cooking up a storm for years. But now the grandmother has been crowned amateur pudding maker of the year by celebrity chef Phil Vickery. The Ready Steady Cook star declared the 64-year-old's Ruby Fool the winner in a national competition
Council bosses look set to continue pumping hundreds of thousands of pounds into a theatre's coffers despite pleading poverty to taxpayers. West Sussex County Council has all but put the seal on a 4.9 per cent council tax increase this year - a
A council has been branded "bonkers" for scrapping a website heralded as the solution to empowering 35,000 disabled residents and encouraging 8.7 million tourists. Just three years ago, Brighton and Hove city councillors posed for pictures at
A prisoner convicted of attacking a policeman has absconded from an open prison, police said last night. Joe Butler, 29, who has links to West Sussex, was last seen between 6pm and 8pm on Saturday at Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire. He
A blaze destroyed a cricket club pavilion. The fire broke out at Balcombe Cricket Club, near Cuckfield, at about 2pm on Saturday. A man walking past the ground called the fire brigade and crews were sent from Haywards Heath, Hurstpierpoint,
