A QC acting for the Government has admitted ministers have no plans to lobby the US on behalf of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes. The revelation came in the High Court yesterday where lawyers acting for the Saltdean law student and two other inmates
Having been involved with dyslexia for more than 20 years as teacher, lecturer and consultant, I was pleased to see such a well-balanced article on dyslexia written by Jenny Legg, with contributions from involved parents (The Argus, March 21). Too often
A supergrass with al-Qaida connections told a court how he and a group of Muslims "brothers" from Crawley went to Pakistan for the Jihad. Mohammed Babar, 31, a Pakistani-born American citizen, told how he travelled to Britain and then to Pakistan with
As a member of Sussex University's Foundation Year, I was appalled to read of the proposal to close its chemistry department. The university first saw the light of day on Preston Park Road with 52 arts students but it was clearly understood that science
Twelve million gallons is the amount of tap water the proposed incinerator in Newhaven will need to operate each year. This figure was confirmed by an Onyx/Veolia official at a recent meeting. Sea water is not good enough for Onyx, river water is not
Motorists using a busy seafront street have shelled out up to £350,000 in parking fines. Parking enforcement firm NCP revealed 5,803 tickets were dished out by attendants in Madeira Drive, Brighton, in 2005 at £60 a time. The figure is the highest collected
Phil Waghorn today challenged his Genesis Brighton Bears to end the season on a high after their longest day ended in heartbreaking defeat. Bears, struggling to get into the play-offs, gave the BBL leaders the fright of their lives at the Braehead Arena
An epic tale of Greek gods, men and monsters from the same team behind the interactive show World Cup Final 1966. A reluctant hero is sent on a seemingly impossible quest. Under the watchful eyes and playful hands of the gods, Jason and his intrepid crew
In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, several local men swap stories of fairies and ghosts, their supernatural narratives laced with a mixture of belief, scepticism and Guinness. Listening to them is a young woman from Dublin who has just moved into the
Showing off his talents as a musician, songwriter and comedian, Glen Richardson's one-man spoof nostalgia night features five singers in one, from a rat pack crooner to an Eighties europop star and a Michael Bolton wannabe. Glen, who regularly appears
Albion are celebrating a successful conclusion to their exhaustive search for a striker - in the nick of time. The Seagulls clinched the loan signing of Burnley target man Gifton Noel-Williams, shortly before yesterday's 5pm deadline. Albion have paid
Three trendy coffee shops have been ticked off for opening without planning permission. Caffe Nero, Costa Coffee and Starbucks have opened new branches in Chichester without being granted permission to change the use of their buildings from shops to coffee
A Chronic shortfall in Indian flight crew could be plugged by British and European pilots, thanks to an innovative aviation recruitment firm. Burgess Hill-based AviationJobSearch is aiming to place experienced cabin crew inside India's rapidly-expanding
GolfPunk, the irreverent golf magazine famed for its bunker babes and interviews with celebs, hits German news stands next month. Publishers Kyn Publishing, based at the Sussex Innovation Centre in Falmer, are confident the title will be a hit in the
A seaside cafe fears it will be forced to close by new charges being introduced at a nearby car park. NCP, which runs the council-owned car park beneath the Sea Lane Cafe, in Sea Lane, Goring, plans to introduce fees. Peter Attwood, who bought the business
For months, a campaign group named Dump The Dump has been fighting plans for a waste tip. Their efforts have met with some success. The company behind the scheme has re-examined its original plan and made significant changes in a bid to appease objectors
Cert 15, 103 Mins. Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Graham Green, Written and Directed by Duncan Tucker. Due for a sex change operation, Bree, (Felicity Huffman), a male transsexual, learns of one of the more enduring "mistakes" of her
(15, 129mins) Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Plummer. Directed by Spike Lee With echoes of David Mamet, The Usual Suspects, Dog Day Afternoon and the 1990 Bill Murray comedy Quick Change, no one is who they seem
A £5 million hostel and training centre is to replace an outdated homeless shelter. Brighton and Hove City Council has approved plans to demolish YMCA George Williams House, in Highdown Road, Portslade, and build two new accommodation blocks and a life
Feeder have unfinished business in Brighton. They were last here in December but cut their gig short after just half an hour. Frontman Grant Nicholas stopped singing in the middle of a song, crippled by a sore throat and unable to continue. The audience
"Rock music has a very narrow emotional range, to be honest," says Gerard Langley, head pilot of The Blue Aeroplanes. "Anyone who writes anything slightly out of the ordinary tends to stick out a bit." Gerard has never been afraid to stand apart from
Following a year touring the world, those moustachioed Cuban Brothers find themselves back in Brighton. They will be performing new material from their forthcoming album and, of course, some killa dance moves. Inspired by Seventies Havana and nurtured
Enjoy a taster of what's to come at this year's Brighton Early Music Festival at a special fund-raising gala. The centrepiece of the programme will be a period instrument performance of the Mozart Requiem, with the now firmly-established BREMF Singers
Joseph Mount is an amiable, unpretentious bloke, like a young construction worker with a twinkle in his eye and unexpectedly delicate skills. Shambolically dressed in ill-fitting jeans and a black T-shirt, he exposed his builder's crack to the crowd waiting
If you thought Baz Luhrmann had taken Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet to the limit when he brought it to the big screen, think again. Rumble, a break-dancing, hip-hop take on the timeless love story, was an exhilarating production - the sheer energy of
Ballet Rambert is the epitome of modern dance, always innovative, always thoughtprovoking, always exciting and always visually stunning. And yet it has never lost sight of its classical roots in Marie Rambert's Russian dancing school. At the Theatre Royal
Eastbourne Theatres has embarked on a new venture - promoting new writing. On Tuesday, Hastings playwright Christine Harmer Brown's 15 Minutes opened in a specially-constructed studio theatre in the Gold Room above the Winter Garden. The play gives an
I see those gimmicky, inventive and offbeat instrumentalists Stomp are performing once again at the Dome Concert Hall during the forthcoming Brighton Festival. While wishing them success with their new Lost and Found Orchestra, would it be asking too
The war against chewing gum is being won thanks to a new chemical gumbuster. Crawley Borough Council has begun piloting the use of Protect It - a solution which prevents gum sticking to the pavement. A 50sqm area in the Martlets outside County Mall was
Concern for a teenager is growing after he disappeared in mysterious circumstances a week ago. Robert Francis, 19, vanished from his home in New England Street, Brighton, on March 16 after telling his family he was going out with a friend. His family
The controversial owner of Crawley Town football club has been fined for selling alcopops to children. Magistrates in Brighton convicted Azwar Majeed, 30, his company SA Retail Limited and two members of staff for selling bottles of WKD to two 16-year-olds
I am conducting research for a forthcoming book on comments from the crowd at various sporting events. I am particularly keen to cover the entire country, so I would be pleased if any of your readers could recall any particularly amusing examples? Or
Boxing champ Mike Tyson made light of his controversial image by telling fans: "I won't eat your children." The fearsome legend breezed into a publicity event last night to meet and greet fans and up-and-coming fighters ahead of an amateur boxing bout
A pensioner suffered horrific burns after falling unconscious on a sofa during a fire at her home. The woman, who is thought to have been drinking, did not move as the blaze engulfed her sheltered-accommodation flat. Firefighters called to the scene did
Have the water boards not heard of reverse osmosis? It has been used by Dutch cannabis growers for years. It requires no distillation and removes everything, including salt. Coca Cola used it to produce pure water and it is, in effect, a filter. Surely
A man calling himself the non-league robber tricked his way into a football team's changing room and stole their mobile phones. Sidley Football Club were losing 3-0 at Crowborough Athletic and trudged disconsolately in at half time - only to find many
As a student of linguistics and epistomology, I was not surprised only one person understood my recent letter about Mike Tyson. This lack of the ability to think clearly and logically hinders the human race in its quest to improve and evolve. As I said
Motorists using a busy seafront street have shelled out up to £350,000 in parking fines. Parking enforcement firm NCP revealed 5,803 tickets were dished out by attendants in Madeira Drive, Brighton, in 2005 at £60 a time. The figure is the highest collected
Wonderful. It appears Brighton College has a new headmaster, Richard Cairns, and, like his predecessor, he's intent on lecturing us about the architecture and new developments we locals should have to live with (The Argus, March 21). I wouldn't expect
What planet is Brighton and Hove City Council on? Some months ago, it removed paving stones at regular intervals along our street. A few weeks later bare stakes were installed. The day water restrictions were announced, several young trees were planted
The proposed desalination plant at Newhaven by South East Water is yet another example of the water companies taking the population of East Sussex for a ride. Quite apart from the cost (15 times more expensive than conventional water supplies), which
Family reunions are always a hotbed of rows and recriminations. Add shocking revelations to the mix and you have a recipe for a gripping drama. All of the above collide in Simon Mendes da Costas' acclaimed play Losing Louis, which takes a look at the
"We have an ex-homeless actor who has just completed an 18-month contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company," says Adrian Jackson, director and founder of Cardboard Citizens, the only professional theatre company in the UK to work consistently with homeless
Based on the recent report (The Argus, March 16), South-East Water are to be congratulated for forecasting a working desalination plant by 2007, thus effectively ending droughts in our area forever. If it doesn't rain, no amount of savings, rationing,
Charlotte Kerwood is a woman on a mission - hellbent on landing Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008. Kerwood won her second gold at the Commonwealth Games yesterday as England's gold-rush at the shooting range gathered momentum. The teenage sensation from
Crawley's players are today back on full wages. The Conference club's owners, the SA Group, controversially slashed wages in half at the beginning of the month due to financial problems. Three players were allowed to walk out for free because the move
(18, 93mins) Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jana Kaderabkova. Directed by Eli Roth. Writer-director Eli Roth made his feature film debut in 2002 with Cabin Fever, a low budget horror about a group of teenagers
(12A, 94mins) Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Edward Barbanell, Jed Rees, Bill Chott, Geoffrey Arend. Directed by Barry W Blaustein. Everyone is different. Physical disability only stops you achieving your dreams if you let it. Appearances
Two months after leaving the Celebrity Big Brother House, Preston's chosen charity is still waiting for the cash. The Ordinary Boys singer, from Worthing, picked St Patrick's homeless hostel in Hove to receive the money raised by his telephone votes in
A QC acting for the Government has admitted ministers have no plans to lobby the US on behalf of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes. The revelation came in the High Court yesterday where lawyers acting for the Saltdean law student and two other inmates
The path has been cleared for the controversial sale of one of Brighton and Hove's biggest care homes. Dresden House, valued at £7 million, is likely to be put back on the market after the Charities Commission ruled its sale is legal. The property in
The Guide offers a critical view of what's hot for the coming week. Paul Curreri, Sanctuary Cafe, Cella, Brunswick Street East, Hove, Saturday, March 25 - Thirty-year-old folk-rock sensation Paul Curreri is the epitome of mid-West cool. The Charlottesville
The Pipettes, an all-girl doo-wop group with a post-punk heart, met at a beach party in Brighton a few years ago, where they swore world domination would be theirs. Since then, Becki, Gwenno and Rose have become the polka-dotted princesses of the gig
The collaboration between hip-hop comrades MC Yungun and Mr Thing is one of the most eagerly anticipated projects to come from the UK scene in a while. North Londoner Yungun, aka Essa, began his musical career as a host and MC on pirate radio station
Norman Cook's Southern Fried Records label takes over the Ocean Rooms for one night only. Nathan Detroit is long-term resident at The Chemical Brothers' eclectic London night, Glint. In addition to this, his enviable career has seen him play alongside
