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  • Legal fund's cash boost

    A parish council has added funding to a legal challenge against Brighton and Hove Albion's plans for a stadium at Falmer. Rottingdean Parish Council is donating £2,500 to the fighting fund to help Lewes District Council's legal bid. A report in

  • Drink-drive doctor suspended

    A drunken doctor caught speeding the wrong way down a one way street has been suspended for six months. Dr John Christian Silberbauer, 29, was stopped by a police patrol in Eastbourne almost three years ago and found to be twice over the drink drive limit

  • Wayne fights for the shirt

    Wayne Henderson has vowed to hunt down Michel Kuipers in the battle to be Albion's No. 1. Henderson resumes his career with the Seagulls on the bench at Sheffield United today but he does not intend staying there for long. The former Aston Villa prospect

  • Club's £10,000 debt pledge

    A cash-strapped football club, faced with closure over thousands of pounds in unpaid tax, has secured its future. Burgess Hill Football Club owes more than £10,000 to the Inland Revenue after the agency filed a petition to wind up the club to ensure the

  • Headteacher voices vetting fears

    A headteacher whose school is at the centre of a storm over a teacher who abused a teenager says her confidence in the Government vetting system has been shaken. Sue Marooney, head at Durrington High School, Worthing, said changes had to be made. She

  • £2,000 snatched in shop raid

    Terrified Co-op staff were threatened with hammers as masked raiders burst into their store. Customers and shop assistants watched in horror as three offenders, all in dark clothes and balaclavas, grabbed £2,000 before running to a getaway car. One woman

  • Schools hit by virus

    Sussex was last night facing a widespread outbreak of winter vomiting as up to 700 pupils at 11 schools were struck down by the virus. Our Lady Queen of Heaven school in Crawley has been closed since Thursday after more than 100 pupils fell ill with gastroenteritis

  • Fake drug deal peril

    Police are arresting seafront dealers - for not selling hard drugs. Sudanese gangs have taken control of the lower esplanade on Brighton's seafront, long identified as a problem area by police and council drugs teams. But in a potentially deadly new tactic

  • Gayle can do Magic

    Steve Gayle is going in where it hurts for Worthing Thunder And he hopes it helps him put on a show for fans in his native city as the team hit the road this weekend. Barker (Tarring) Thunder visit unpredictable Manchester Magic tonight before going to

  • Sussex hunt new man

    Sussex are looking for a new chief executive after Hugh Griffiths confirmed he is to go part-time later this year. A group headed by committee member Guy Walker and including chairman David Green and cricket manager Mark Robinson hope to have chosen Griffiths