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  • Fishing four business

    Now Sussex companies can reach millions of potential customers using a free web directory. Fish4 It was launched in October 1999 and operates a national database of 1.9 million businesses accessible to web users around the world. A tailored Sussex version

  • Fish4 launches new advertising campaign

    A national poster and online advertising campaign for Fish4, the family of online consumer services, broke on 8 May. The £1.3 million campaign, phase two of the £20 million marketing spend for 2000, will run until 18 June. "The Fish", the friendly character

  • Group engaged on expensive agenda

    Telecoms group Kingston Communications reported its profits were sharply down after a year of major investment in its business. But the company hailed its success at growing its business while still staying in the black. It unveiled a deal with fellow

  • Dossier of a red tape nightmare

    A dossier detailing damaging red tape that is holding back small firms has been presented to the Government. Compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses, it focuses on individual pieces of legislation which entrepreneurs say are stifling business growth

  • Lis Solkhon - Voice of the third age

    It seemed like a good idea at the time. The fact that it all went pear-shaped is nothing to do with being a member of the Third Age. It's just that I'm the sort of person to whom such things seem to happen. "Let's go for a trip on the London Eye," said

  • Have a ball

    I have an idea to stop hooliganism at football matches when the British play away in Europe - that is to call the United States to send a posse of police from their country. Do you ever hear about yobs breaking up baseball matches in the States? No fear

  • Shut up, Simon

    I was born and bred in Brighton and I think the Place to Be promotion by Simon Fanshawe is bringing many people down from London, pushing up house prices to silly amounts. -A. Todd, Rugby Road, Brighton

  • Where were the police when we needed them?

    After seeing a car dumped in Hollingbury Rise West, Brighton, on Monday, May 15, in a precarious position, near woods and houses, I immediately reported it to the police in case it was torched. As the days went by the car was slowly smashed up by vandals

  • Voice of the Argus

    Daily opinion (again) - Boss should know better; Model council?; Royal painter Tony Antoniades knows what racism is like, having experienced taunts and beatings half a century ago when he arrived in Brighton as the young son of Greek Cypriots. So it's

  • Voice of the Argus

    Daily opinion - Boss should know better; Model council?; Royal painter Tony Antoniades knows what racism is like, having experienced taunts and beatings half a century ago when he arrived in Brighton as the young son of Greek Cypriots. So it's astonishing

  • Anaesthetists are cool

    I was surprised to read that two out of five Britons were unaware that anaesthetists were doctors, according to a recent survey by MORI (Argus May 16). Anaesthetists do an excellent job, I was fortunate to work in theatre for a while during my student

  • Can anyone help?

    I am trying to gather information regarding the evacuation of children from Brighton during the war. I was one of those children, along with my brother, who were evacuated to Woolley, near Wakefield. If any readers can help I would be very grateful for

  • Reviews

    It seems like a long time since you were able to pick up a new PlayStation game and be completely blown away. Fear Effect is quite simply the best game I've played on the machine since Driver. Remember the awe of playing Tomb Raider for the first time

  • Byte-sized

    The vast majority of people do not want to be part of the dot com industry. A MORI survey for FT.Com revealed 93 per cent of people are put off by the new economy. Michael Foster, managing director of FT.com, said: "They don't want to be part of the dot

  • Carrying a life in your pocket

    It's high time people looked at how they carry mission-critical personal information. The chances are you have files on your home or office computer containing your most important addresses, phone numbers, diary events, notes and lists of things that

  • Cricket - Kirtley sees the light

    Chris Adams had every reason to smile at the end of a rain-ruined first day against Essex yesterday. In the 18 overs which were possible before the weather closed in during lunch, Sussex reduced their hosts to 59-3 thanks to a superb new ball spell from

  • Youth in action - Weekly round-up

    Local football, rugby, athletics, duathlon, cricket and hockey are all featured this week Football - Kids on glory trail Two school teams have tasted football glory for the first time against the odds. East Brighton College of Media Arts and Peter Gladwin

  • Cricket - Eastbourne show goes on

    Eastbourne cricket week looks to have earned a reprieve after talks with Sussex representatives. Sussex were threatening to switch the Championship and National League versus Northamptonshire in August to Hove because they were unhappy with the attitude

  • Hi-tech fashion is firm's only high

    You can turn it into ice cream, clothing, cosmetic oil and bread. The only thing you cannot do is get high on it. A new strain of hemp is being grown in fields near Lewes and a website based at the farm has had huge success selling hemp products. But

  • Fish site shares its success

    Web site Fish4Homes plans to offer estate agents shares in the company. Fish4Homes.co.uk, launched in October last year, is already one of the UK's leading homes websites offering details of properties for sale and rent. It boasts more than 180,000 visits

  • Water complaints flood in

    The Argus has been inundated with letters from Southern Water customers after this week's relevations. We revealed how the firm has been charging thousands of people for a service they never needed. A total of 88 letters and e-mails have been sent which

  • The language of the future

    The computer speech and language technology marketplace is still a very confusing place for the ordinary person to go shopping. Software developers are trying to make the technology easy to understand but people still seem frightened to take the plunge

  • Good net neighbours

    You could soon find your next-door neighbour on the web thanks to a website launched by Brighton's Virtual Festival Cybercafe. Organisers are encouraging community workers to send pictures and descriptions of themselves to the Get Active! website featuring

  • Bereaved father speaks out

    The father of Simon Jones is sceptical about plans for new laws aimed at bringing corporate killers to account. Prosecuting company bosses over fatal accidents could be made easier following new measures being announced by the Home Secretary Jack Straw

  • Pop star driven to attraction

    Pop star Jay Kay will line up with some of the best-known names in motor racing for a zany soapbox derby. The lead singer with Jamiroquai has entered the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed being staged next month in the grounds of Lord March's ancestral

  • Ministerial rap for councilors

    Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong has branded Brighton and Hove councillors "irresponsible". She launched the attack after being quizzed by Nigel Waterson, Tory local government spokesman and Eastbourne MP, on the new council decision-making

  • Racist claim boss may appeal

    Rebecca Pugh has won her case against the boss of a £100 million-a-year recruitment company. A tribunal found Mrs Pugh, 30, had been bullied by Tony Antoniades, the owner of Brighton firm Eurolink, because she was married to a black American man. Mr Antoniades

  • Fish4 launches new advertising campaign

    A national poster and online advertising campaign for Fish4, the family of online consumer services, broke on 8 May. The £1.3 million campaign, phase two of the £20 million marketing spend for 2000, will run until 18 June. "The Fish", the friendly character

  • Dossier of a red tape nightmare

    A dossier detailing damaging red tape that is holding back small firms has been presented to the Government. Compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses, it focuses on individual pieces of legislation which entrepreneurs say are stifling business growth

  • Lizzie Enfield - Signal failure

    Almost home this evening when train ground to a halt not far from Hassocks and sat there for nearly 20 minutes. After a few minutes of huffing and shuffling, self and rest of stranded commuters settled in with usual resigned acceptance of situation, caused

  • Jacqui Bealing - Home truths

    Our close friends Jake and Rafia have invited us on holiday. However, before we could look at brochures or brush up on our pidgin Eskimo, we had to tell them they would be sharing accommodation with three heavy snorers. "Well, that rules out camping,"

  • Vanora Leigh - Between you and me

    Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I'm not a praying type of person. I don't mean a kneeling in church, reciting the Lord's Prayer kind of praying, but rather the silent dialogue between self and a Greater Being sort, said to be comforting in

  • Have a ball

    I have an idea to stop hooliganism at football matches when the British play away in Europe - that is to call the United States to send a posse of police from their country. Do you ever hear about yobs breaking up baseball matches in the States? No fear

  • Shut up, Simon

    I was born and bred in Brighton and I think the Place to Be promotion by Simon Fanshawe is bringing many people down from London, pushing up house prices to silly amounts. -A. Todd, Rugby Road, Brighton

  • Water waste

    Southern Water is charging for water not to go down its drains. You think that's daft! Did you know that farmers are charged for rainwater to be allowed to go into ditches? We have to pay the River Adur Internal Drainage Board. Are we allowed to extract

  • Court in the act

    Last week I read two reports involving the courts. In one, a woman put a bottle in a man's face and was given community service. In the other case, a man who supplied his friends with drugs was jailed for nine months. I know who I prefer to be walking

  • Well done

    Thanks to our Argus editor, who has finally brought home to councillors the advisability of an open inquiry into the child neglect case. He did not need five years to seek this. Regular visits by social and health workers, GPs and police over a five-year

  • Where were the police when we needed them?

    After seeing a car dumped in Hollingbury Rise West, Brighton, on Monday, May 15, in a precarious position, near woods and houses, I immediately reported it to the police in case it was torched. As the days went by the car was slowly smashed up by vandals

  • Hair today, gone tomorrow?

    I was recently walking in George Street, Hove, when a child walked in front of a car being driven by a woman. She was not looking at the road but adjusting her hair in the mirror. Had it not been for the quick actions of a passer-by there could have been

  • Water rip-off

    Having spent a pleasant day out in London shopping and sight-seeing, I was most perturbed to find that I was charged one pound for a bottle of water on my train journey back to Brighton. -Robert Woodcock, Canfield Road, Brighton

  • Byte-sized

    The vast majority of people do not want to be part of the dot com industry. A MORI survey for FT.Com revealed 93 per cent of people are put off by the new economy. Michael Foster, managing director of FT.com, said: "They don't want to be part of the dot

  • Rugby - Local star fights on

    Sussex rugby star Roy Winters must forget all about his England call-up in tonight's Allied Dunbar play-off. The Bedford and England A flanker was yesterday named in Clive Woodward's senior party for their five-match tour to South Africa this summer.

  • Carrying a life in your pocket

    It's high time people looked at how they carry mission-critical personal information. The chances are you have files on your home or office computer containing your most important addresses, phone numbers, diary events, notes and lists of things that

  • Cricket - Kirtley sees the light

    Chris Adams had every reason to smile at the end of a rain-ruined first day against Essex yesterday. In the 18 overs which were possible before the weather closed in during lunch, Sussex reduced their hosts to 59-3 thanks to a superb new ball spell from

  • Racing - Wednesday's fixtures

    Afternoon meetings at Goodwood and Kelso. Evening meeting at Brighton starts at 6.15pm Naylor's Nag: Daniysha - 2.10 Goodwood Recommended stake £8 win Yesterday's Nag - Touch for gold - was unplaced. Running total on an initial tax-free £100 bank Naylor's

  • Youth in action - Weekly round-up

    Local football, rugby, athletics, duathlon, cricket and hockey are all featured this week Football - Kids on glory trail Two school teams have tasted football glory for the first time against the odds. East Brighton College of Media Arts and Peter Gladwin

  • E-firm heads into unchartered waters

    Three Brighton pop-pickers are preparing to transform the online music business with the world's first official internet music chart. Husband-and-wife team Mike and Liz Fitzsimons and partner Paul Lainchbury plan to launch the NET Chart in September.

  • Cricket - Eastbourne show goes on

    Eastbourne cricket week looks to have earned a reprieve after talks with Sussex representatives. Sussex were threatening to switch the Championship and National League versus Northamptonshire in August to Hove because they were unhappy with the attitude

  • Fish site shares its success

    Web site Fish4Homes plans to offer estate agents shares in the company. Fish4Homes.co.uk, launched in October last year, is already one of the UK's leading homes websites offering details of properties for sale and rent. It boasts more than 180,000 visits

  • The language of the future

    The computer speech and language technology marketplace is still a very confusing place for the ordinary person to go shopping. Software developers are trying to make the technology easy to understand but people still seem frightened to take the plunge

  • Good net neighbours

    You could soon find your next-door neighbour on the web thanks to a website launched by Brighton's Virtual Festival Cybercafe. Organisers are encouraging community workers to send pictures and descriptions of themselves to the Get Active! website featuring

  • Grave site

    Real fame does not stop when the famous die and all true stalkers want to see the graves of their heroes. Find A Grave is designed to help them do just that. Photographs of the most famous graves appear next to biographies of the deceased. The site gives

  • Pop star driven to attraction

    Pop star Jay Kay will line up with some of the best-known names in motor racing for a zany soapbox derby. The lead singer with Jamiroquai has entered the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed being staged next month in the grounds of Lord March's ancestral

  • Racist claim boss may appeal

    Rebecca Pugh has won her case against the boss of a £100 million-a-year recruitment company. A tribunal found Mrs Pugh, 30, had been bullied by Tony Antoniades, the owner of Brighton firm Eurolink, because she was married to a black American man. Mr Antoniades

  • Road to success mapped out

    The largest UK retailer of industrial fencing has bought highway maintenance operation, Associated Holdings, for £8.5 million. The firm, with a history of nearly forty years' trading in Sussex, has acquired Associated Holdings' highway infrastructure

  • Fishing four business

    Now Sussex companies can reach millions of potential customers using a free web directory. Fish4 It was launched in October 1999 and operates a national database of 1.9 million businesses accessible to web users around the world. A tailored Sussex version

  • You are watching Big Brother

    Brighton media firm Victoria Real has created the first stage of a website for one of Europe's most controversial television series. The Big Brother show will put ten strangers in a house for 70 days and record their every move while viewers vote to expell

  • Group engaged on expensive agenda

    Telecoms group Kingston Communications reported its profits were sharply down after a year of major investment in its business. But the company hailed its success at growing its business while still staying in the black. It unveiled a deal with fellow

  • Lis Solkhon - Voice of the third age

    It seemed like a good idea at the time. The fact that it all went pear-shaped is nothing to do with being a member of the Third Age. It's just that I'm the sort of person to whom such things seem to happen. "Let's go for a trip on the London Eye," said

  • Derek Jameson - Do they mean me?

    Hero's life of bravery; Put childern first; Grand job, Greg; Oh baby The last hero, I call him, though George Heffaran will have none of it. George is almost certainly the only remaining survivor of a brave attempt by a group of Sussex fishermen to rescue

  • Pier should be Palace to be

    I feel compelled to write over the name change of the Palace Pier, Brighton. A report in the Argus (May 10) states "Noble aims to ensure that tourists and visitors know exactly where the 100-year-old pier is". Well, what happens if the same tourists or

  • Healthy aims

    We were concerned to read about the difficulties faced by Ms Dugard (May 17) when dealing with local health services. Our aim is to provide an excellent service to all children and families and focus particularly on women who suffer from post-natal depression

  • Beyond belief

    I read the Argus report of the council meeting held to discuss the Brighton child cruelty case with mounting incredulity, especially the part about the council going into closed, ie, secret session to discuss action. And what has emerged? A pathetic and

  • Costing a bomb

    I was dismayed to read of the proposed closure of Palmeira House for autistic and severely mentally handicapped children. If the council wants to save money, how can it justify occupying Kings House in Grand Avenue - a high prestigious site, costing a

  • Voice of the Argus

    Daily opinion (again) - Boss should know better; Model council?; Royal painter Tony Antoniades knows what racism is like, having experienced taunts and beatings half a century ago when he arrived in Brighton as the young son of Greek Cypriots. So it's

  • Voice of the Argus

    Daily opinion - Boss should know better; Model council?; Royal painter Tony Antoniades knows what racism is like, having experienced taunts and beatings half a century ago when he arrived in Brighton as the young son of Greek Cypriots. So it's astonishing

  • Anaesthetists are cool

    I was surprised to read that two out of five Britons were unaware that anaesthetists were doctors, according to a recent survey by MORI (Argus May 16). Anaesthetists do an excellent job, I was fortunate to work in theatre for a while during my student

  • Can anyone help?

    I am trying to gather information regarding the evacuation of children from Brighton during the war. I was one of those children, along with my brother, who were evacuated to Woolley, near Wakefield. If any readers can help I would be very grateful for

  • Reviews

    It seems like a long time since you were able to pick up a new PlayStation game and be completely blown away. Fear Effect is quite simply the best game I've played on the machine since Driver. Remember the awe of playing Tomb Raider for the first time

  • Net solutions

    Your internet and technology questions answered by the Evolution experts. Q. I have registered my website URL with some of the major search engines and directories. However from time to time, the entry in Yahoo! and Altavista disappears and I have to

  • DIY crazy on net

    This bank holiday will no doubt see the nation turning DIY crazy once again as we take advantage of the three-day weekend... If you too are planning a spot of home improvement, you may want to beat the rush and stock up online. Some conventional DIY retailers

  • Goodbye to old rag trade

    Robot arms controlled by state-of-the-art computers pass metal blocks between machines. The work is checked by an operator on the other side of the county. It sounds like a Government experiment in a distant laboratory but Sussex students are using this

  • Hi-tech fashion is firm's only high

    You can turn it into ice cream, clothing, cosmetic oil and bread. The only thing you cannot do is get high on it. A new strain of hemp is being grown in fields near Lewes and a website based at the farm has had huge success selling hemp products. But

  • Albion - Brooker mulls it over

    Albion have moved a step closer to completing the capture of Paul Brooker from Fulham. Chairman Dick Knight had "a very productive meeting" with Brooker and his agent yesterday. No agreement has been reached yet, but the Seagulls are hoping for a positive

  • Water complaints flood in

    The Argus has been inundated with letters from Southern Water customers after this week's relevations. We revealed how the firm has been charging thousands of people for a service they never needed. A total of 88 letters and e-mails have been sent which

  • Lift-off for cross-Channel service

    The first flight of a new air passenger service from Shoreham Airport to France took off yesterday. The 16-seater Trilander aircraft was carrying journalists and dignitaries to Le Touquet, in northern France. The full service to France will begin on June

  • Bereaved father speaks out

    The father of Simon Jones is sceptical about plans for new laws aimed at bringing corporate killers to account. Prosecuting company bosses over fatal accidents could be made easier following new measures being announced by the Home Secretary Jack Straw

  • Ministerial rap for councilors

    Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong has branded Brighton and Hove councillors "irresponsible". She launched the attack after being quizzed by Nigel Waterson, Tory local government spokesman and Eastbourne MP, on the new council decision-making

  • Road to success mapped out

    The largest UK retailer of industrial fencing has bought highway maintenance operation, Associated Holdings, for £8.5 million. The firm, with a history of nearly forty years' trading in Sussex, has acquired Associated Holdings' highway infrastructure

  • You are watching Big Brother

    Brighton media firm Victoria Real has created the first stage of a website for one of Europe's most controversial television series. The Big Brother show will put ten strangers in a house for 70 days and record their every move while viewers vote to expell

  • Lizzie Enfield - Signal failure

    Almost home this evening when train ground to a halt not far from Hassocks and sat there for nearly 20 minutes. After a few minutes of huffing and shuffling, self and rest of stranded commuters settled in with usual resigned acceptance of situation, caused

  • Jacqui Bealing - Home truths

    Our close friends Jake and Rafia have invited us on holiday. However, before we could look at brochures or brush up on our pidgin Eskimo, we had to tell them they would be sharing accommodation with three heavy snorers. "Well, that rules out camping,"

  • Derek Jameson - Do they mean me?

    Hero's life of bravery; Put childern first; Grand job, Greg; Oh baby The last hero, I call him, though George Heffaran will have none of it. George is almost certainly the only remaining survivor of a brave attempt by a group of Sussex fishermen to rescue

  • Vanora Leigh - Between you and me

    Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I'm not a praying type of person. I don't mean a kneeling in church, reciting the Lord's Prayer kind of praying, but rather the silent dialogue between self and a Greater Being sort, said to be comforting in

  • Pier should be Palace to be

    I feel compelled to write over the name change of the Palace Pier, Brighton. A report in the Argus (May 10) states "Noble aims to ensure that tourists and visitors know exactly where the 100-year-old pier is". Well, what happens if the same tourists or

  • Water waste

    Southern Water is charging for water not to go down its drains. You think that's daft! Did you know that farmers are charged for rainwater to be allowed to go into ditches? We have to pay the River Adur Internal Drainage Board. Are we allowed to extract

  • Court in the act

    Last week I read two reports involving the courts. In one, a woman put a bottle in a man's face and was given community service. In the other case, a man who supplied his friends with drugs was jailed for nine months. I know who I prefer to be walking

  • Healthy aims

    We were concerned to read about the difficulties faced by Ms Dugard (May 17) when dealing with local health services. Our aim is to provide an excellent service to all children and families and focus particularly on women who suffer from post-natal depression

  • Well done

    Thanks to our Argus editor, who has finally brought home to councillors the advisability of an open inquiry into the child neglect case. He did not need five years to seek this. Regular visits by social and health workers, GPs and police over a five-year

  • Beyond belief

    I read the Argus report of the council meeting held to discuss the Brighton child cruelty case with mounting incredulity, especially the part about the council going into closed, ie, secret session to discuss action. And what has emerged? A pathetic and

  • Hair today, gone tomorrow?

    I was recently walking in George Street, Hove, when a child walked in front of a car being driven by a woman. She was not looking at the road but adjusting her hair in the mirror. Had it not been for the quick actions of a passer-by there could have been

  • Costing a bomb

    I was dismayed to read of the proposed closure of Palmeira House for autistic and severely mentally handicapped children. If the council wants to save money, how can it justify occupying Kings House in Grand Avenue - a high prestigious site, costing a

  • Water rip-off

    Having spent a pleasant day out in London shopping and sight-seeing, I was most perturbed to find that I was charged one pound for a bottle of water on my train journey back to Brighton. -Robert Woodcock, Canfield Road, Brighton

  • Net solutions

    Your internet and technology questions answered by the Evolution experts. Q. I have registered my website URL with some of the major search engines and directories. However from time to time, the entry in Yahoo! and Altavista disappears and I have to

  • Rugby - Local star fights on

    Sussex rugby star Roy Winters must forget all about his England call-up in tonight's Allied Dunbar play-off. The Bedford and England A flanker was yesterday named in Clive Woodward's senior party for their five-match tour to South Africa this summer.

  • DIY crazy on net

    This bank holiday will no doubt see the nation turning DIY crazy once again as we take advantage of the three-day weekend... If you too are planning a spot of home improvement, you may want to beat the rush and stock up online. Some conventional DIY retailers

  • Racing - Wednesday's fixtures

    Afternoon meetings at Goodwood and Kelso. Evening meeting at Brighton starts at 6.15pm Naylor's Nag: Daniysha - 2.10 Goodwood Recommended stake £8 win Yesterday's Nag - Touch for gold - was unplaced. Running total on an initial tax-free £100 bank Naylor's

  • Goodbye to old rag trade

    Robot arms controlled by state-of-the-art computers pass metal blocks between machines. The work is checked by an operator on the other side of the county. It sounds like a Government experiment in a distant laboratory but Sussex students are using this

  • E-firm heads into unchartered waters

    Three Brighton pop-pickers are preparing to transform the online music business with the world's first official internet music chart. Husband-and-wife team Mike and Liz Fitzsimons and partner Paul Lainchbury plan to launch the NET Chart in September.

  • Albion - Brooker mulls it over

    Albion have moved a step closer to completing the capture of Paul Brooker from Fulham. Chairman Dick Knight had "a very productive meeting" with Brooker and his agent yesterday. No agreement has been reached yet, but the Seagulls are hoping for a positive

  • Lift-off for cross-Channel service

    The first flight of a new air passenger service from Shoreham Airport to France took off yesterday. The 16-seater Trilander aircraft was carrying journalists and dignitaries to Le Touquet, in northern France. The full service to France will begin on June

  • Grave site

    Real fame does not stop when the famous die and all true stalkers want to see the graves of their heroes. Find A Grave is designed to help them do just that. Photographs of the most famous graves appear next to biographies of the deceased. The site gives