Guy Butters could wreck an old friend's job prospects - by improving Albion's iffy away record. The veteran centre half returns today to Gillingham, where he played for six years. Butters, Gillingham's joint caretaker Iffy Onuora and Seagulls coach
Fans are being given the chance to guarantee a seat for Albion's glamour clash against Leeds at Withdean next month. Tickets are not on sale yet for the visit of Dennis Wise's side on October 20 but supporters can make sure of a place by buying into
Burgess Hill have swooped to bring popular striker Steve Harper back to Leylands Park. The Ryman division one south outfit are completing the paperwork with Tonbridge Angels which will see Harper return to the club he left in the summer of 2005 when
Trevor Geer today insisted his Eastbourne Eagles will give it one last go to salvage something from their League and Cup season. But the campaign looks to be fizzling out after a Knockout Cup thrashing at arch rivals Lakeside Hammers. Eagles went down
Worthing Thunder have signed their second American for the new season by bringing in 6ft 9in Cleve Woodfork. The 24-year-old American front court man started all 31 games in his senior year at top-flight college outfit UTM last season, averaging 10.5
Coach Mark Robinson believes Sussex can claim runners-up spot in the Pro40 League, even with half a team missing. Victory over Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Hove on Sunday (12.45), and defeat for Hampshire against Lancashire at Old Trafford, would secure
Sussex star James Kirtley admitted simply wearing the England jersey again helped ease the pain of being on the wrong end of an Australian thrashing in the Twenty20 World Cup. After a three-year absence from the England fold, Kirtley was selected ahead
Co-op bosses have been fined £250,000 for flouting fire safety regulations. The lives of staff and customers were put at risk because of breaches at six stores, a court heard yesterday. A catalogue of faults was uncovered at the chain's outlets in Brighton
Police cordoned off a busy shopping street after a man threatened to throw himself off a three storey building. Officers closed Lewes High Street yesterday not allowing staff or shoppers into or out of buildings near School Hill House. The 24-year-old
A doctor who once saved a man's life while travelling was remembered by friends and family in a humanist ceremony today. Dr Alan Barker, 54, died when he was hit by a train as he crossed the track at Southease railway station, near Lewes, on August 24
A dramatic swoop to evict frail pensioners from their care home followed allegations of abuse from a former resident and member of staff, The Argus can reveal. Residents of Trevine House, Southey Road, Worthing, were given just one hour to pack their
A sportsman bounced his way into the record books today on a human-powered hydrofoil. Dave Cornthwaite sprinted 100m on an Aquaskipper at Hove Lagoon. Dave, 27, powered the strange craft, a cross between a tricycle and a hydrofoil, over the distance
A former porn star who was jailed for two-and-a-half years for stabbing her boyfriend after an argument over missing cocaine wept in the dock as she watched top judges almost double her sentence. Melissa Walker, 26, was a middle class university
A festival-goer who killed three friends in a horrific crash after necking up to three ecstasy tablets and falling asleep at the wheel was jailed for four years today. Theresa Clarke, 28, of Nevill Road, Uckfield, was driving home from the V Festival
After a three-year break Shoreham's open mic night with a difference, The Airport Club, is touching down in a new venue. Duncan Hall visited its host Richard Durrant to talk about its return and the twists and turns of his eclectic music career. Not
Sensitive documents that could have been used by a fraudster to clone the owner's identity have been found lying in the street. Bank statements, payslips and mobile phone bills for a Hove woman were among the bits of paper discovered lying on the pavement
Eliza Carthy, the daughter of English folk legends Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, created a stir when she first hit the music scene a decade ago. Here was a folk singer with a punky attitude to music and style. The coloured hair has gone and
TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats, published in 1939 as a book of poetry intended for children, has reached a worldwide audience over the past 26 years as a result of the musical adaptation of the poems by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Together
Burgess Hill have swooped to bring popular striker Steve Harper back to Leylands Park. The Ryman division one south outfit are completing the paperwork with Tonbridge Angels which will see Harper return to the club he left in the summer of 2005 when
Public support is growing for a memorial honouring Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, The Argus can reveal. Plans are already underway to erect a blue heritage plaque at 22 Kensington Gardens, Brighton, the spot where the cosmetics entrepreneur opened
Police have cordoned off a street after a man threatened to throw himself off a three storey building. Officers have closed Lewes High Street, not allowing staff or shoppers into or out of buildings near School Hill House. It is believed the man climbed
A committee set up to scrutinise local health proposals has called for more options to be put on the table. The Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee looking into hospital plans for West Sussex has said it is unhappy with the three options put
The organisers of Brighton's Gay Pride March are warning people that a counterfeit DVD is being sold in the city of the event. A spokeswoman said: "This DVD has not been produced by Pride in Brighton and Hove, and none of the proceeds from its sale are
Gatwick airport does not need a second runway, according to a Conservative Party policy group. The Government has refused to rule out expanding the airport after 2019 to meet rising demand. But the Tories' Quality of Life group, one of six review bodies
Two "vicious" thugs who punched a passenger senseless on a late night train have been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Home Office computer engineer David Couch, 50, who was attacked after he dozed and missed his stop, never stood a chance as he was
Traders have been warned not to stack rubbish outside their shops after several bin bags were set on fire. Fire officers were called to C & H Weston in East Street, Brighton, just before 4am today after a passer-by reported flames coming from the doorway
A music-lover who fell asleep and left loud heavy metal playing has been ordered to pay more than £3,000 in court costs and fines. Luke Nash, of Chichester Road, Bognor, was convicted of breaching a noise abatement order which banned him from playing
Brighton's newest seafront venue is giving city clubbers a glimpse of what it has in store, with big name special guests helping open three of its regular nights. Stone Love is set to be a night of 100 per cent rock 'n' roll attitude, and to kick it
After five years of spreading the girl group gospel at the Sussex Arts Centre, ' Da Doo Ron Ron is set to be the last club event at the venue. The Grade II-listed building has been sold and is set to stop hosting events from next week, so the Da Doo
While I almost totally agree with Marianne Burkitt's letter (The Argus, September 10), the only point I would contest is that the "Gehry nightmare" will be, as she puts it, in "Hove's back yard". The alien towers, the Legoland toy town surrounding
As well as stunt planes, vintage aircraft and wingwalkers, Shoreham Airport will be welcoming the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight for its annual air show. The flight, which is marking its 50th anniversary, is the main theme of this year's show, which
Robert Lockie (The Argus, September 11) comments on the cycle lanes in Dyke Road. I agree that they are unsatisfactory and dangerous. I understand that broken white lines adjacent to cycle lanes, such as in Dyke Road and Dyke Road Avenue, indicate
Kitesurfing, the West Sussex Xtreme Youth Games and the annual VW Camper Van rally are all descending on Littlehampton's newly-opened East Beach Cafe this weekend. The British Kite Surfing Association will be hoping for stronger winds than last year
I had objects thrown at my car and children spitting at me through my open window while alongside the school bus from Falmer school, at the junction of Elm Grove and Queen's Park Road. The children on the top deck were laughing and egging each
The lead letter in The Argus (September 11) has compelled me to write after months of thinking about it but being overwhelmed by inertia. I travel down upper Dyke Road, by car and bus, regularly and am always upset at the way cars are always parked
With Nelson safely up his column and, beneath, a couple of huge lions too big to budge, it would take a master thief, the likes of a bloke able to part the Red Sea, to remove those artefacts. But the now limping Steve Ovett, well, his life-size
I feel sure many of your older readers would be interested to know that on Sunday, at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Brighton, at 6.30pm, a celebratory service will be held to commemorate 100 years since the first Dome Mission Service on September
There are two traditional reasons for the disappearance of the statues in Victoria Gardens. The first is that the nudity of the figures offended the more prudish - remember the removal of Rodin's Kiss from Lewes Town Hall. The other is that they
It appears that Brighton and Hove City Council has a policy of waiting for five years after a person's death "to allow a period where the person's legacy can be properly assessed". The Queen obviously made a judgement on Dame Anita's legacy when
The UK's only short story festival returns for its fourth year next week with readings from the country's best short story writers. The winners of the National Short Story Prize, which launched in 2006, are being brought together on Saturday with James
When gay college student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die in October 1998, America was forced to address hate crime and homophobia on its doorstep. The 21-year-old died five days after being found lashed to a fence in the hills of
History need not just be long lists of Kings and Queens, as Terry Deary and Martin Brown proved with their Horrible Histories books. Now Birmingham Stage Company is bringing two of the best-selling books to life, the Ruthless Romans and the Awful Egyptians
There's Latin spirit in every one of these young students as their school launches its Spanish club. They had the chance to strut their stuff as flamenco dancers or tuck into some tasty tapas at the first after-school session this week. Patcham
Ever find yourself in the supermarket trying to hide from your neighbours before they spot you? That's a situation Stockport-born mother of five Mrs Barbara Nice is trying to reverse with her show extolling the virtue of saying, "Hiya!" This celebration
Brighton and Hove's bus services have won universal praise. Transport Minister Rosie Winterton has hailed it as a model for other councils. But with fares due to rise on September 23, not everyone is happy. Roger French, managing director of Brighton
When the Irish Eurovision committee approved a seven-minute intermission piece for the 1994 contest they had no idea what a phenomenon they were going to release on the world. Riverdance became more popular than all the singing finalists in the competition
Australia's Architecture In Helsinki have managed to combine samplers, tambourines, trombones, piano, drum machines and cowbells on three albums now. They are making a rare visit to the UK in support of their third album Places Like This, which features
Author Max Telligan's wife and secretary are shocked when they read in the paper that he has been found dead in Munich. But that shock turns to amazement as moments later he walks in his living room very much alive. Before long the CID, CIA, the security
There is an old adage that you can never go back, and Michael Frayn's comedy Donkeys' Years is set to prove it. Set at a 25-year Oxbridge college reunion, the play, which was revived recently at the West End, follows six former students as they return
How wonderful to travel from Paris to London in two hours 15 minutes while the rest of the rail service in this country still seems to be in the 19th century. I travelled back from Swansea and it took me five hours 45 minutes. Due to industrial
In response to Lorraine Forbes' letter (September 11) "It's time to all belt up about Diana". I say: "Hear, hear." Whatever is said or done, it won't bring her back. Too much time and money has been spent investigating the cause of the accident
Herring gulls are excellent parents. Humans should watch and learn. It takes them from May until August to rear their chicks to the point of flying, during which time they nurture them, shelter them, feed them and defend them. I wonder then just
I read with great interest the article "Patients at risk as staff flout NHS dress code" (The Argus, September 5) and it occurred to me that there is perhaps a very prominent and apparently untargeted source of cross infection. The stethoscope.
There is much food for thought in Jean Calder's article on Gordon Brown needing to listen more to the British public, especially with regard to the war in Iraq and in distancing himself from US policy (The Argus, September 8). Am I alone in being
This week saw the grandmother of Ellie Lawrenson found not guilty of manslaughter after the five-year-old girl was savaged to death by an illegally-kept pitbull terrier. It was during a raft of similar cases that Steven Berkoff wrote his one-man play
Sporting a Hassidic beard, a smart suit, two watches and a baseball cap, Scroobius Pip makes an unlikely hero, but that's what he's become thanks to the pumelling, polemical beat poem Thou Shalt Always Kill. "Thou shalt not put musicians and recording
Remember, remember the fifth of November when a cult Arkansas band came to play at the Concorde 2? Beth Ditto, Hannah Blilie and guitarist Nathan Howdeshell (aka Brace Paine) had been releasing records for seven years on the cult label Kill Rock Stars
"There aren't any rock 'n' roll bands. It's all post-punk, art-rock electro, new rave whatever. We just like rock 'n' roll bands and that's what we're trying to aspire to be." That's how Fortune Drive's frontman Bobby Anderson sums up his band's ethos
An unkempt city centre street is to be cleaned up and made more presentable to visitors. Brighton and Hove City Council is to coordinate a £30,000 makeover for Trafalgar Street, which leads from Brighton Station towards the North Laine area. The council
In Britain, traffic pollution accounts for a quarter of carbon dioxide and 44 per cent of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere and the figure is much higher in urban areas. But going green and convenient travel does not have to cost the earth as
A nine-year-old girl's campaign to have her school cook's home-made flapjacks returned to the lunchtime menu has already scored a partial success. Mathilda Hutchinson from Lewes led a demonstration outside Wallands Primary in Lewes on Wednesday
New homes will be powered by sun, wind and water under radical proposals to turn Brighton and Hove into the greenest city in the country. Under new building guidelines, any development of three or more homes must be carbon neutral or offset emissions
A heart patient is the first man in Europe to have a revolutionary gadget fitted which could save his life. Peter Dicker, 73, had the implant at Eastbourne District General Hospital so doctors could work out why he suffers from black-outs. The
Council bosses have unveiled the latest tactic to rid its streets of unsightly chewing gum. Brighton and Hove City Council has produced posters and vinyl pavement adverts to warn gum chewers that dropping their litter could result in a £75 fixed penalty
Albion boss Dean Wilkins today backed his strikers to be inspired by the Gillingham boo boys. Guy Butters is still popular but Nicky Forster and Bas Savage can both expect a hostile reception when the Seagulls' trio of former Gills return to face their
Frail pensioners were last night evicted under a police guard amid chaotic and shocking scenes at a care home. Residents as old as 103 along with staff at the private £400-a-week Trevine Court home in Worthing were given less than an hour to bag up their
A council is rethinking plans to force communal wheelie bins on every neighbourhood. Brighton and Hove City Council wanted to install up to 575 car-sized bins from May next year to cut down on rubbish strewn across the streets. But it has delayed its
Sussex are facing a huge selection headache ahead of the Championship finale. They will definitely be without five first-choice players while there are injury concerns over several others. Murray Goodwin is the latest absentee. He flies back to Australia
A care home could be axed unless £2 million is released from public funds to pay for its upkeep. Vernon Gardens Resource Centre, a care home near Seven Dials, Brighton, is unsafe according to a Brighton and Hove City Council report and only
