Mark McGhee today put a valuation of up to £2million on Leeds-bound Dan Harding. The Seagulls boss is determined to get full value for his former leftback, who has agreed a three-year deal at Elland Road. And that is likely to mean Albion fighting their
So France, the most pro-European country of all, has completed its "tidying up exercise" and given its verdict on the EU Constitution - a deafening "non", despite millions of euros spent trying to achieve the opposite result. So where does that leave
I wonder how Reverend Debbie Gaston and Elaine Cook can square their relationship with what God says about homosexuality - the Bible calls it an "abomination". Rev Gaston says she had an email from a Church of England priest who was "thrilled" and added
E Hall (Letters, June 3) demonstrates a distinctly unchristian point of view, denouncing Debbie Gaston's desire to be entitled to marry before God. After the opening line - "I have nothing against homosexuals - in fact, I know several nice gay people"
Union members at one of the biggest employers in Sussex are being sent ballot papers to vote on industrial action over pay conditions. Lloyds TSB Group Union (LTU) claims staff are regularly working overtime and are badly paid compared to others in the
Top marks to the big tops of the Moscow State Circus. I visited Preston Park early, the morning after their last performance on the previous day. Apart from some discoloured grass, not one piece of refuse was visible, not even a black bag. Please, Gay
A medical expert who investigated the murder of Billie-Jo Jenkins told a court blood spots found on her foster father could have been breathed out as she lay dead or dying. Former deputy headteacher Sion Jenkins, 47, allegedly battered the 13-year-old
A young woman who completed the London Marathon despite losing both her legs to meningitis has been invited to tea by Tony Blair. Clare Forbes, 21, of Flamsteed Heights, Broadfield, Crawley, received the invitation last week to visit the Prime Minister
A website has been launched to allow people to comment on architect Frank Gehry's plans to create a futuristic development on the seafront. Members of the public will be able to tell developer Karis Holdings what they think of the £220 million scheme
Sussex Police are spending £31,000 buying 20 Taser stun guns as a non-lethal alternative to bullets. Tasers will not do away with the need for firearms but will replace them in last-resort situations where officers are facing violent offenders, possibly
The new "high hedge" legislation, I am sure, will be welcomed by those blighted by the tall Leylandii hedge of an uncooperative neighbour. As a small, but quality, developer of residential property, we took the initiative seven years ago of introducing
An RAF veteran aged 84 has died from a stroke suffered after a burglar broke into his home. Robert Morris's widow Kathleen, 82, has called it "murder" and added: "The man has not just taken my husband's life but he's stolen mine as well. "We were together
Yet another senseless and horrific murder, this time a father believed to have been beaten to death by a yobbo gang (The Argus, May 31). It is time to accept anarchy now exists in this country with a government which is virtually impotent where law and
Midfielders Simon Wormull and Robert Kember have agreed new contracts with Crawley Town. Wormull has signed for a further two years and Kember for one.
Felipe Hewitt (Letters, June 3) asks why the NHS should take care of those "who have made themselves unhealthy through drugs, drink and gluttony". Until three years ago, I lived in the North of England and remember the sickness and injuries incurred by
Your unsigned piece, entitled Class War on Lewes Road (The Argus, May 28) was poorly written and unfairly vilified the police, in particular the specials, which included my grandfather. Having said they had been dubbed the Black and Tans by the strikers
Johan van der Wath was today put on standby for Twenty20 Cup action after another big-hitting display for Sussex Sharks. Van der Wath fired a quick 44, including two towering leg-side sixes off Vasbert Drakes, as the Sharks went down by eight runs to
Mark McGhee today put a valuation of up to £2million on Leeds-bound Dan Harding. The Seagulls boss is determined to get full value for his former leftback, who has agreed a three-year deal at Elland Road. And that is likely to mean Albion fighting their
A manufacturer of sophisticated cancer-fighting equipment has won another contract in the latest round of public spending on the disease. Crawley-based Varian Medical Systems has been chosen as the main supplier of radiotherapy machines in wave eight
As Komedia gears up for its second world music season, programmer Laurence Hill says he has learnt two things - there's no better way to get a Brighton audience dancing and "you won't have any idea how many people are in these bands until they actually
John Stanaway (Letters, June 3) stated some rail journey times are no faster now than in 1933. A glaring example on the Coastway line is the journey time between Bexhill and Lewes, which took about 28 minutes 50 years ago. Today, it takes 41 minutes.
More than 1,000 people have objected to plans to build hundreds of homes in the countryside. Developers want to build more than 850 houses on land close to the A27 in Durrington, Worthing. The plans include space for shops, a first and middle school,
The new MP for Arundel and South Downs expressed sympathy with his ousted predecessor Howard Flight in his maiden speech. Nick Herbert, who was installed as the Tory candidate after Mr Flight was sacked on the eve of the election, said he was "sad about
The area around Stoneham Park and Poets Corner, Hove, is under threat from having wheelie-bins forced upon us. Few of us residents want them and a petition of more than 200 signatures has been obtained against them. It would appear the main argument for
A train ploughed into a van and horsebox which had been left on an unmanned level crossing, a court heard. The impact ripped the horsebox from the vehicle and shunted it more than 100 metres along the track. Train driver John Cooper told how he sounded
Lo and behold, the invasion of the wheelie-bins has reached these parts. There is consternation at the profligate way in which Brighton and Hove Council has distributed them. I have been given three, when each week, I only fill one carrier bag, if that
Sussex Police are spending £31,000 buying 20 Taser stun guns as a non-lethal alternative to bullets. Tasers will not do away with the need for firearms but will replace them in last-resort situations where officers are facing violent offenders, possibly
The council's latest plan to ban smoking in public places, such as restaurants and bars, ahead of Government legislation, smacks of the absurd and doctrinaire, as well as political self-indulgence. As restaurant owners, we welcome a nation-wide ban on
Regarding the musings of Tony Mernagh and Clifford Conway as to whether independent businesses are falling by the wayside in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, June 1), haven't they noticed this decline with their own eyes? Not a week goes by, it seems, when
They came to watch the stars of Lashings, celebrate the opening of the East Grinstead Cricket Academy and grab a glimpse of the great Sir Gary Sobers. A crowd which looked to be 3,000 or more did all that at Saint Hill yesterday, including former Crystal
The all-conquering Australians are coming to Sussex but you might have to get up early to catch them. Skipper Ricky Ponting and his team open their Ashes tour in Twenty20 action against a PCA Masters XI at what promsies to be a packed Arundel Castle ground
Global computer games specialist Babel Media has been chosen by Microsoft to become a tester for its new Xbox video games system. Babel, based in Fonthill Road, Hove, will help games developers and publishers ensure their titles are compatible with the
Retailers are suffering the knock-on effects of the housing slowdown with sales of furniture, DIY goods and carpets in decline. The overall drop in sales, across all sectors, was greater than expected last month according to the CBI's Distributive Trades
A recycling company's plans to extend a scrap metal site have fallen at the first hurdle. European Metal Recycling (EMR) wanted to expand its operations at Kingston Wharf, Shoreham Harbour. But neighbours whose homes overlook the busy port feared having
When Puccini's Madama Butterfly opened at La Scala, Milan, in 1904, it was greeted with boos, jeers and howls of derision. But just three months later at Bresca it was a huge triumph and so it has remained ever since, never dropping out of the operatic
"It's great to be back in Worthing on such a lovely rainy evening," said our frontman, a guy whose mullet and cheeky smile made him look suspiciously like The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt. The keyboard player - a hybrid of Bernard Sumner and Bernard
