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  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM AROUND SUSSEX

    EASTBOURNE Mary Barlow 01323 725754 Marie Curie Cancer Care: A sponsored walk for Hope is being held on Sunday from 10am. Meet at Langney Point, walk to Holywell Drive and back again. Sponsor forms available from 01798 815456. Police/Community Forum:

  • NUNS WILL GIVE £26m TO CHARITY

    NUNS who have taken a vow of poverty are to give away £26 million. The reclusive Community of the Holy Cross are in line for a bumper windfall after deciding to sell land surrounding their former convent near Haywards Heath for housing. The sale could

  • Seven-wicket Munton shatters Sussex

    CHRIS ADAMS' decision to bat first backfired as Sussex were shot out for 99 at Edgbaston, their lowest total for over two years. Memories of the dark days of 1997, when the county finished rock-bottom of the Championship and were regularly rolled over

  • GROWING SUSPICION OF ALLOTMENTS PLOT

    IT'S a War of the Roses over bees, beans and all-night parties. On one side, a forward-thinking co-operative living off the land on a Brighton housing estate is calling on the council to back its commune-style allotment plot, which every year produces

  • COMMUNITY NEWS FROM AROUND SUSSEX

    EASTBOURNE Mary Barlow 01323 725754 Marie Curie Cancer Care: A sponsored walk for Hope is being held on Sunday from 10am. Meet at Langney Point, walk to Holywell Drive and back again. Sponsor forms available from 01798 815456. Police/Community Forum:

  • NUNS WILL GIVE £26m TO CHARITY

    NUNS who have taken a vow of poverty are to give away £26 million. The reclusive Community of the Holy Cross are in line for a bumper windfall after deciding to sell land surrounding their former convent near Haywards Heath for housing. The sale could

  • ADAM TRIMINGHAM - the sage of sussex

    Wanted. Strong candidate for challenging post to lead 7,000 employees and control a budget of £200 million. Long hours and low pay. No benefits. Ability to deal with criticism and backbiting essential. That could have been the advertisement put out by

  • Seven-wicket Munton shatters Sussex

    CHRIS ADAMS' decision to bat first backfired as Sussex were shot out for 99 at Edgbaston, their lowest total for over two years. Memories of the dark days of 1997, when the county finished rock-bottom of the Championship and were regularly rolled over

  • NOW LEADER LYNNETTE IS IN THE FIRING LINE

    Lynette Gwyn-Jones now faces the reality of power after the exultation of being elected leader of Brighton and Hove Council. What are the pressures she will face and how will she cope? Adam Trimingham reports. The new leader of Brighton and Hove Council

  • STRAIN OF GOING BY TRAIN IS GETTING WORSE

    MORE passengers are being kept waiting as serious rail delays increase and train punctuality falls to its worst level for at least two years. Official figures out today show commuters are waiting around on station platforms more often despite Government

  • CABBIES BOYCOTT NEW YEAR

    Cabbies in Brighton and Hove will boycott New Year's Eve because they say it is not worth their while to work. They applied to Brighton and Hove Council to double normal fares for the night and impose a £10 flat-fare surcharge on all journeys. But the

  • HIGH COST OF TAKING RISKS

    TAXPAYERS are footing the bill for rescuing dozens of people who are needlessly putting their lives at risk. Rescuers today issued a stern warning to the public after the second expensive clifftop incident in less than 24 hours on the same stretch of

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    It's slower by train! Travellers on trains in Sussex are finding that their journeys take longer than ever. The latest figure for rail travellers show more and more trains are way behind time. Critics will say it's the privatised railways causing the

  • ADAM TRIMINGHAM - the sage of sussex

    Wanted. Strong candidate for challenging post to lead 7,000 employees and control a budget of £200 million. Long hours and low pay. No benefits. Ability to deal with criticism and backbiting essential. That could have been the advertisement put out by

  • Hilton on course for tour card

    Towering Englishman Mark Hilton took a giant step towards picking up a card for the 2000 European Tour when he led stage one of the Qualifying School at the Woodbury Park Course near Exeter in Devon. The East Sussex National member, who lost to Sergio

  • Moores: we were right to bat first

    COACH Peter Moores defended Sussex's decision to bat first after they were shot out for just 99 at Edgbaston yesterday. Tim Munton took 7-36 as the county were dismissed for their lowest score for two years in their make-or-break final Championship match

  • MAN STUNG 400 TIMES BY WASPS

    SECURITY officer Melvyn Harrison was stung 400 times when he accidentally disturbed a giant wasps' nest on his allotment. Mr Harrison put his spade into a compost heap where the nest was hidden. Within seconds he was engulfed in a cloud of the angry insects

  • NOW LEADER LYNNETTE IS IN THE FIRING LINE

    Lynette Gwyn-Jones now faces the reality of power after the exultation of being elected leader of Brighton and Hove Council. What are the pressures she will face and how will she cope? Adam Trimingham reports. The new leader of Brighton and Hove Council

  • Tourists flee fury of Floyd

    SUSSEX holidaymakers caught in the terrifying path of Hurricane Floyd spoke today of their horror as the century's most powerful storm headed straight for them. Hurricane Floyd closed in on the North Carolina coast early today, hitting the shore with

  • STRAIN OF GOING BY TRAIN IS GETTING WORSE

    MORE passengers are being kept waiting as serious rail delays increase and train punctuality falls to its worst level for at least two years. Official figures out today show commuters are waiting around on station platforms more often despite Government

  • CABBIES BOYCOTT NEW YEAR

    Cabbies in Brighton and Hove will boycott New Year's Eve because they say it is not worth their while to work. They applied to Brighton and Hove Council to double normal fares for the night and impose a £10 flat-fare surcharge on all journeys. But the

  • HIGH COST OF TAKING RISKS

    TAXPAYERS are footing the bill for rescuing dozens of people who are needlessly putting their lives at risk. Rescuers today issued a stern warning to the public after the second expensive clifftop incident in less than 24 hours on the same stretch of

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    It's slower by train! Travellers on trains in Sussex are finding that their journeys take longer than ever. The latest figure for rail travellers show more and more trains are way behind time. Critics will say it's the privatised railways causing the

  • Hilton on course for tour card

    Towering Englishman Mark Hilton took a giant step towards picking up a card for the 2000 European Tour when he led stage one of the Qualifying School at the Woodbury Park Course near Exeter in Devon. The East Sussex National member, who lost to Sergio

  • Moores: we were right to bat first

    COACH Peter Moores defended Sussex's decision to bat first after they were shot out for just 99 at Edgbaston yesterday. Tim Munton took 7-36 as the county were dismissed for their lowest score for two years in their make-or-break final Championship match

  • MAN STUNG 400 TIMES BY WASPS

    SECURITY officer Melvyn Harrison was stung 400 times when he accidentally disturbed a giant wasps' nest on his allotment. Mr Harrison put his spade into a compost heap where the nest was hidden. Within seconds he was engulfed in a cloud of the angry insects

  • GROWING SUSPICION OF ALLOTMENTS PLOT

    IT'S a War of the Roses over bees, beans and all-night parties. On one side, a forward-thinking co-operative living off the land on a Brighton housing estate is calling on the council to back its commune-style allotment plot, which every year produces

  • Tourists flee fury of Floyd

    SUSSEX holidaymakers caught in the terrifying path of Hurricane Floyd spoke today of their horror as the century's most powerful storm headed straight for them. Hurricane Floyd closed in on the North Carolina coast early today, hitting the shore with