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  • You cannot be serious

    THEY are dark, smelly and frequently blocked with unmentionables. In fact anyone who uses the toilets at Brighton Station will probably tell you they are among the most grubby latrines in Sussex. Often, the first smell rail-users arriving in the town

  • The place to be

    Simon Fanshawe, chairman of The Place To Be executive, which is spearheading our bid for city status, updates you on the campaign Like Myrtle the fertile turtle - about whom my mother used to recite me a mildly rude rhyme - The Place To Be seems to give

  • England inspired by golden girls

    IDENTICAL twins Frances and Christina Houslop helped England lift the European Under-18s Trophy. The 17-year-old Horsted Keynes sisters guided their country to a gold medal with a series of impressive displays in Lyon, France. Sweeper Frances captained

  • Money makes the wheels go round

    PEACEHAVEN bike racer Richard Freshwater is counting the cost of his attempt to reach the top. Freshwater, 25, reckons it will cost him £7,000 to compete in this year's MRO Championship and the BEMSEE club's Supersport 600 series. He admits every spare

  • Moores: We can win this League

    SUSSEX coach Peter Moores believes his side are capable of challenging for a second successive National League title. The county, promoted as second division winners last season, play their opening games in the top flight against Gloucestershire and Leicestershire

  • Lizzie Enfield - Signal Failure

    Have arrived at work exhausted every day, after trying to impress blond, athletic man from Hassocks with reading matter which, have to admit, is beyond comprehension and gives me headaches. After Hassocks caught me sneaking home from work early last week

  • kidnapper who can walk free

    THE victim of a brutal kidnapper who threatened her at knifepoint spoke of her shock last night after he walked free from court. Landlady Trudi Burns said she was appalled after her former tenant, Joseph Bonwick, was released on two years' probation at

  • Derek Jameson - Little fun in being young

    What are we doing to our children in this so-called age of enlightenment? You don't find them playing in the street any longer. All the fun seems to have gone out of being young. What dreadful demons must have persuaded a bright, likeable lad named Daniel

  • Vanora Leigh - Between you and me

    What I really like about Easter is the fact that, with luck, everyone I know goes away and leaves me in peace for four days. Four lovely, uninterrupted days when there'll be no phone calls, no one ringing the front doorbell and I can get my life in order

  • You cannot be serious

    THEY are dark, smelly and frequently blocked with unmentionables. In fact anyone who uses the toilets at Brighton Station will probably tell you they are among the most grubby latrines in Sussex. Often, the first smell rail-users arriving in the town

  • Brighton festival opens May 6

    This year's festival runs until May 28 and the line-up is the most impressive so far. Lasting over three weeks, this year's festival will benefit from online exposure as well as in the Evening Argus. Every day our web reporters and Argus journalists will

  • England inspired by golden girls

    IDENTICAL twins Frances and Christina Houslop helped England lift the European Under-18s Trophy. The 17-year-old Horsted Keynes sisters guided their country to a gold medal with a series of impressive displays in Lyon, France. Sweeper Frances captained

  • Money makes the wheels go round

    PEACEHAVEN bike racer Richard Freshwater is counting the cost of his attempt to reach the top. Freshwater, 25, reckons it will cost him £7,000 to compete in this year's MRO Championship and the BEMSEE club's Supersport 600 series. He admits every spare

  • Killick aims to Cook up victory

    SUSSEX are ready to Cook up more County Champ-ionship woe for derby rivals Kent this afternoon. Nick Killick and his men meet their cross-border neighbours at Worthing (3pm) aiming to build on a promising 23-16 defeat of Dorset & Wilts in last week's

  • Moores: We can win this League

    SUSSEX coach Peter Moores believes his side are capable of challenging for a second successive National League title. The county, promoted as second division winners last season, play their opening games in the top flight against Gloucestershire and Leicestershire

  • Lizzie Enfield - Signal Failure

    Have arrived at work exhausted every day, after trying to impress blond, athletic man from Hassocks with reading matter which, have to admit, is beyond comprehension and gives me headaches. After Hassocks caught me sneaking home from work early last week

  • kidnapper who can walk free

    THE victim of a brutal kidnapper who threatened her at knifepoint spoke of her shock last night after he walked free from court. Landlady Trudi Burns said she was appalled after her former tenant, Joseph Bonwick, was released on two years' probation at

  • The place to be

    Simon Fanshawe, chairman of The Place To Be executive, which is spearheading our bid for city status, updates you on the campaign Like Myrtle the fertile turtle - about whom my mother used to recite me a mildly rude rhyme - The Place To Be seems to give

  • Awards to figure out the best in town Ju-C

    When sculptor Sebastian Pedley was asked to create works of art which would symbolise the streetwise spirit of the town he knew what would fit the bill. He created tiny figures made of pewter that carry miniature mobile phones. They will be handed to

  • Smith strikes to sink Sussex

    Mike Smith claimed three cheap wickets to give Gloucestershire the better of a rain-affected third day of the match with Sussex at Bristol. The 32-year-old left-arm seamer dismissed openers Richard Montgomerie and Toby Peirce and Sussex captain Chris

  • traders fearful of closures if rents increase

    TRADERS fear they could be forced to close because of plans to more than double their rent. And they say the move would leave Southwick Square a "ghost town" with up to 20 businesses going under. They believe Adur District Council is poised to put up

  • the loveliest loos? pull the other one

    THE announcement that run-down toilets at Brighton Station were in line for the Loveliest Loos Award was greeted with amazement and laughter by people using the ladies and gents yesterday. The downstairs toilets in the basement of the Victorian station

  • the dancing doctor

    BY day Joanna Kingman teaches university students about the finer points of biomechanics. But when night falls the 26-year-old pulls on a devil outfit and transforms into a gyrating podium dancer. She said: "They are both so different that they complement

  • coroner: vital clues were lost

    A CORONER has told how hospital staff made a "vital" error in disturbing a potential murder scene following the suspicious death of a patient. Speaking at the inquest into the death of Kevin Winchester yesterday, East Sussex coroner Alan Craze said he

  • Derek Jameson - Little fun in being young

    What are we doing to our children in this so-called age of enlightenment? You don't find them playing in the street any longer. All the fun seems to have gone out of being young. What dreadful demons must have persuaded a bright, likeable lad named Daniel

  • Vanora Leigh - Between you and me

    What I really like about Easter is the fact that, with luck, everyone I know goes away and leaves me in peace for four days. Four lovely, uninterrupted days when there'll be no phone calls, no one ringing the front doorbell and I can get my life in order

  • Brighton festival opens May 6

    This year's festival runs until May 28 and the line-up is the most impressive so far. Lasting over three weeks, this year's festival will benefit from online exposure as well as in the Evening Argus. Every day our web reporters and Argus journalists will

  • Awards to figure out the best in town Ju-C

    When sculptor Sebastian Pedley was asked to create works of art which would symbolise the streetwise spirit of the town he knew what would fit the bill. He created tiny figures made of pewter that carry miniature mobile phones. They will be handed to

  • Killick aims to Cook up victory

    SUSSEX are ready to Cook up more County Champ-ionship woe for derby rivals Kent this afternoon. Nick Killick and his men meet their cross-border neighbours at Worthing (3pm) aiming to build on a promising 23-16 defeat of Dorset & Wilts in last week's

  • Smith strikes to sink Sussex

    Mike Smith claimed three cheap wickets to give Gloucestershire the better of a rain-affected third day of the match with Sussex at Bristol. The 32-year-old left-arm seamer dismissed openers Richard Montgomerie and Toby Peirce and Sussex captain Chris

  • traders fearful of closures if rents increase

    TRADERS fear they could be forced to close because of plans to more than double their rent. And they say the move would leave Southwick Square a "ghost town" with up to 20 businesses going under. They believe Adur District Council is poised to put up

  • the loveliest loos? pull the other one

    THE announcement that run-down toilets at Brighton Station were in line for the Loveliest Loos Award was greeted with amazement and laughter by people using the ladies and gents yesterday. The downstairs toilets in the basement of the Victorian station

  • the dancing doctor

    BY day Joanna Kingman teaches university students about the finer points of biomechanics. But when night falls the 26-year-old pulls on a devil outfit and transforms into a gyrating podium dancer. She said: "They are both so different that they complement

  • coroner: vital clues were lost

    A CORONER has told how hospital staff made a "vital" error in disturbing a potential murder scene following the suspicious death of a patient. Speaking at the inquest into the death of Kevin Winchester yesterday, East Sussex coroner Alan Craze said he