Finishing in single figures is better in some tables than others. Dean Hammond was Albion's top League One goalscorer last season with eight, a respectable total from midfield for the skipper but an indication that his colleagues were not prolific enough
Matt Groves has revealed he turned down an 11th-hour rival offer to join Lewes. The 27-year-old Dorchester striker signed for the Rooks on Wednesday evening and goes straight into the squad for tomorrow's game at St Albans. But Havant and Waterlooville
Sussex won the 2nd XI Championship for the third time in their history by drawing their final match of the season against Somerset at Hove. Sussex denied the visitors any hope of snatching the crown themselves by batting all day to make 390, an overall
Davey Watt's latest sensational show saw Eastbourne Eagles finish within five points of the Elite League table-toppers at Brandon last night. Watt won five of his six rides in highly impressive fashion and was only headed in heat ten when he lost ground
Striker Scott Rendell admits it will be "weird" playing against Crawley. But that will not stop the Cambridge United frontman going all out to continue his hot-scoring form against his old club. Rendell will be lining up against Reds tomorrow for the
Sussex will need to show the mental and physical resolve of champions if their bid for back-to-back titles is not to end in disappointment. It was a pretty beleaguered squad which headed back down the A1 last night after they lost control of their own
A drink driver who crashed his car and killed his two friends has been jailed for five years. Frenchman Olivier Glomet, 22, was more than twice the legal drink-drive limit when his Renault Clio careered into a signpost and tree. The impact killed rear-seat
Vandals left a trail of destruction costing thousands of pounds as they trashed a public park. The culprits drove onto a football pitch and performed handbrake turns, leaving tyremarks in the turf at Easthill Park in Portslade. They covered walls with
An Aladdin's cave of sex toys has been raided by thieves. Some £5,000 worth of vibrators and other kinky accessories have been swiped from sex shop Taboo's storage unit, off Dyke Road in Brighton. But bosses believe the crooks were probably unaware
Police are putting up wanted posters in a bid to track down a suspected serial burglar. Barry Gordon Williamson, 44, is wanted in connection with fourteen burglaries which have taken place in Brighton and Hove, Bexhill, Goring, Worthing and Eastbourne
A drugs gang tried to smuggle more than £600,000 of cocaine through the post, a court heard. More than 70 "Jiffy" envelopes were posted from Lima, Peru, to addresses in Crawley. Detectives used an undercover officer posing as a postman to find out who
Two men charged with helping to beat a homeless man to within an inch of his life during a "happy slapping" attack have appeared in court. Terence Bryan, 18, from Quest Close, Chichester, and another youth, aged 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons
A campaign to build a lasting tribute to Anita Roddick has received overwhelming support since it was launched. The Argus is championing the move to get a blue plaque put up at 22 Kensington Gardens, Brighton, the spot where Dame Anita opened her first
Putting your hands inside the mouth of a tiger is not recommended at the best of times. But when Chichester-based dentist Paul Cassar met two Royal Bengal tigers suffering excruciating toothache he did not turn pale. Instead, the father of three pulled
The tea trolley. A much loved British institution that has sadly fallen upon hard times in offices and workplaces up and down the country. In a recent survey of 1,000 office staff about their workplace environment the Great British tea trolley came
I am always wary of watching the film version of a well written novel. Having read Ian McEwan’s book which is considered somewhat of a masterpiece, I was a tad afraid to remove my hands from my eyes during the opening credits. Sometimes the effort of
I am always wary of watching the film version of a well written novel. Having read Ian McEwan’s book which is considered somewhat of a masterpiece, I was a tad afraid to remove my hands from my eyes during the opening credits. Sometimes the effort of
When they first formed in 2000, Black Lips managed to get banned from a string of venues in their home state of Georgia. Seeing them seven years later, it is not hard to imagine why. This is a band who throw themselves into their live show, to
A father who was jailed for fighting a gang of youths with a baseball bat after they attacked his son has been released just a quarter of the way into his sentence. Raymond Allison, 46, of The Dewpond, Peacehaven, was sent to prison for two years in
A Conservative policy group today recommended higher taxes on gas-guzzling 4X4s and short-haul flights, restrictions on airport expansions and water metering in all homes to help fight climate change. The proposals were contained in a report by the party's
A mystery buyer has stepped forward to make an offer on a Grade 2-listed lighthouse overlooking the English Channel on an East Sussex cliff-top. A preservation society hoped to buy the 175-year-old Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne
A blessing for bird lovers but worrying news for walkers - is that the best way to describe the Environment Agency's dramatic plans for the beloved Cuckmere Estuary? Rachel Pegg finds out what local people, politicians and regular visitors think
A daughter's plan to care for her elderly and frail mother is being hampered by council bureaucracy. Maureen Bell spends several hours each day cooking, cleaning and washing for her 83-year-old mother Jean Hider, who is confined to the ground floor
Two nurses who left a disabled patient writhing in agony after she suffered severe burns from a scalding bath have been kicked out of the profession. The 59-year-old woman, who has Down's Syndrome and uses a wheelchair, was left with huge blisters on
Consultants have accused a primary care trust of lying when it said doctors support its plans to downgrade hospitals. Consultants at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals have challenged West Sussex Primary Care Trust to produce some of the clinicians it
Fly-tippers are turning a street famed for its brightlypainted houses into an eyesore. Every summer, crowds of tourists visit Blaker Street in Brighton to look at the rainbow coloured Victorian terraces. The street is even included in an open-top
A non-stop cycle route could be created from the South Downs to the seafront. Plans were drawn up after Brighton and Hove was named a "cycling demonstration city" by the Government last year and given £550,000 to improve cycle paths. Work on the
During the past few weeks, I have been made aware of the concerns of residents living in the vicinity of the old Royal Alexandra children's hospital, who are pleading with Brighton and Hove City Council and the developer to retain the elegant
Celebrated author and president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, CPRE, Bill Bryson has backed protests against cutting almost a quarter of the proposed South Downs National Park. Emma Marrington, the rural policy campaigner for the CPRE,
Your article ("Young warned over MP3 hearing threat", The Argus, September 7) rightly highlights the risk of permanently damaging one's hearing by playing music too loud. The RNID is correct to state that "hearing damage is irreversible". On
I don't know what your reviewer of the Bugsy Malone show at The Barn was talking about (The Argus, September 7). Either the person you got to watch the show was looking down at their feet the whole time or is deaf or perhaps even both. Every performance
Give Keith Riley a pat on the back (Letters, September 4). In his letter about the controversy over new ME guidelines he has said what a lot of us have been saying but no one has been listening. Also The Argus should take a bow for publishing this
Welcome to "civilised" 21st-century Britain where the Great British Circus is hosting shows by forcing wild animals, including tigers and lions, to perform silly, degrading tricks. Plenty of undercover evidence has shown that the training itself
I have spent many years trying to get the authorities interested in reversing modern trends such as covering the pavements of Brighton with tables and chairs. Another disturbing scenario is the habit of drivers lowering their windows and playing
The government is conducting a consultation on whether Britain should have new nuclear power stations. Eastbourne Green Party believes there is ample evidence that energy conservation and renewables can meet all our energy needs for the foreseeable
Hundreds of people attended a protest against proposed hospital cuts. Parents, children, pensioners and health workers were among those who turned out for the demonstration in Bognor last night. The march left London Road car park and travelled
Several years ago, the Liberal Democrat Lewes District Council requested that East Sussex County Council declare the decriminalisation of on-street car parking in the Lewes District. This was because they wanted controlled on-street parking schemes
For years my family has gone on the Palace Pier when visiting Brighton. They look forward to it and it is part of Brighton. The story about the girl banned from a ride for being too tall (The Argus, August 28) would have been completely different
My son was born in April and after planning a home birth and receiving the support of three separate midwives at home, complications meant I had to go into the Royal Sussex County Hospital by ambulance. From the moment I arrived their attentive
I'd like to thank all my friends for coming to my 101st birthday party on September 7. Also thanks for the lovely flowers and gifts, and for the help and support in setting out the food I had prepared. It was a great surprise for me to find myself
The recent tragic suicide of Margaret Moorhouse and Sue Baumgardt's poignant experience of her son's death (Letters, August 31) highlight the urgent need to reform mental health care. In 2002 John Hutton, former Labour health minister stated that
I was born in Durrington in January 1936, joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and moved to Portsmouth in 1968. Recently I decided to visit the area of my birth. To say I was shocked and saddened by what I saw is an understatement. Worthing now resembles
Inmates at an open prison threatened to beat up a prisoner unless he got booze and tobacco for them. Thomas Taylor was sent to a nearby Tesco store to buy supplies for inmates at Ford, near Arundel. But instead of going back Taylor kept on walking all
A policeman has been suspended after he attacked his wife with a crutch. Kevin Garman jabbed estranged partner Trudi Garman in the buttock during a row, a court heard yesterday. The Bognor PC was convicted of assaulting his former wife and ordered
A paedophile who stalked schoolgirls on the internet was caught after his victims snapped him on their mobile phone. Ian Hunter became obsessed with a pair of Brighton and Hove schoolgirls and tracked them down on a school trip. But the 51-year-old
Hundreds of families in expensive new homes face severe flooding just months after the Environment Agency said they were on safe ground. Residents living on the coast from Littlehampton to Shoreham could be hit with devastating storm damage unless millions
Parents have been left out of pocket after buying tickets for a school bus company which has shut overnight. Up to 300 youngsters in Horsham have had to find alternative transport to get to school after Goring-based Palaeobus ceased trading. There is
Developers behind a £70million Olympic ice rink have been handed yet more time to submit a planning bid for the seafront site after failing to meet their original deadline. Brighton and Hove City Council had set July 2007 as a cut-off point for a planning
A blacksmith has opened his doors to the public to celebrate the centenary of his forge. Terry Tyhurst, 55, gave demonstrations to hundreds of visitors to Glynde Forge, near Lewes, at the weekend. He said: "It exceeded all our expectations because
In our Streetlife Series we visit roads across Sussex and meet the characters behind the front doors. This week Argus reporter Samuel Underwood visits Norfolk Gardens East in Littlehampton.The prize-winning communal gardens of Norfolk Gardens
Chris Adams today urged his team-mates to win the Championship for stricken team-mate Rana Naved. The 29-year-old fast bowler is facing a lengthy lay-off and has definitely played his last game for Sussex after badly dislocating his right shoulder on
