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  • ITV newsreader leads skyscraper protest

    NEWSREADER Carol Barnes has presented a 500 signature petition against plans to build a 40-storey skyscraper at Brighton Marina to councillors. Brunswick Developments has applied to Brighton and Hove City Council for planning permission for a £175 million

  • £30m cost of Albion exile

    Brighton and Hove Albion's seven years of enforced homelessness have cost the club at least £30 million. Chairman Dick Knight said the figure was an estimate of potential revenue lost since the Goldstone Ground was closed in 1997 combined with the crippling

  • Thunder ready for Parillon

    Worthing Thunder are fired up for the return of a former team mate tonight. The Trophy finalists take on Reading Rockets at Durrington (8pm) in EBL division one. Reading will include Steve Parillon, who left Thunder at Christmas and re-surfaced in Berkshire

  • Jake will revel at Shots

    Albion manager Mark McGhee believes striking prospect Jake Robinson will be better equipped for the rigours of regular first team football after a loan spell with Aldershot. The 18-year-old is with the Nationwide Conference promotion contenders for the

  • Gardening champion is targeted by thieves

    A GARDENING champion's family heirlooms were stolen while their owner was in hospital. They include three silver trophies and 13 medals awarded as horticultural prizes to former greengrocer Philip Blaber. His granddaughter Susan has pleaded for their

  • Police concerned over house arrests

    RANK and file police in Sussex are uneasy over controversial plans to detain terror suspects without trial. They are concerned that more demands will be placed on police to oversee "house" arrests and that the country may be moving towards a police state

  • Councils fall out over transferred homeless

    A row has broken out between two councils over a policy of sending homeless people from Brighton to Eastbourne. Brighton and Hove City Council is removing 60 homeless people it had moved to a hotel in Eastbourne in an attempt to save money following complaints

  • Toby's nose for cash nets fake film stash

    A SNIFFER dog helped police catch a man with 100 counterfeit DVDs of films only just released in the cinema. Toby, a Customs and Excise springer spaniel trained to find large sums of money, picked up the man's scent at Brighton station. Officers searched

  • Bears tip-off change

    Brighton Bears will tip-off at 7.30pm against Newcastle Eagles at the Triangle tonight, 30 minutes later than planned, to avoid a clash with another event taking place at the venue. Eagles nicked a 73-69 win at Plymouth last night.