Albion fans continue to wonder what on earth has gone wrong with Alex Frutos. Just as puzzling as the French winger's decline from Championship regular to League One also-ran is the rise and fall of Richard Martin. The young goalkeeper was held in high
We had to wait seven years and it cost a staggering £800m but did the new Wembley stadium live up to all the hype? The answer has to be an emphatic yes' following Saturday's FA Cup final where the amazing surroundings even seemed to take the players'
Albion are closing in on long-time transfer target Andrew Whing. But they face competition for his signature from one of their League One rivals. The Seagulls have made an offer to Whing, who is currently on holiday considering his options. The former
Guy Butters has agreed a new one-year deal with Albion, stretching his career as a professional into a 20th season. The veteran centre half has quickly resolved his future following talks with manager Dean Wilkins. Butters, 37, said: "I haven't got
Steven King claims unfinished business was the motivation behind committing his future to Lewes. King has snubbed interest from other high profile non-league sides to sign a new two-year contact at the Dripping Pan. The news was confirmed last night
David Norris faces four weeks out of action for Eastbourne Eagles after failing a fitness test. But Dean Barker could be back next week after undergoing surgery today. A scan found fragments of loose bone in an arm socket and Barker had an operation
Commuters travelling back to Sussex from London faced a nightmare journey tonight after a trackside fire closed lines and roads. Trains in and out of London Bridge station were stopped and London Victoria was shut because of overcrowding. A man was
Vicious rapes, horrific torture and vengeful murder set the scenes for these monologues, based around updated Bible stories in which, through the not always innocent testimonies of Rahab, Bathsheba, Judith and Hannah, the darker aspects of male dominated
While Meri Everitt's angst-ridden tunes, and Lee Westwood's beautiful acoustics, were pleasurable as support, I was buzzing in anticipation of the set when new collective Raissa And The Mummmers took to the stage. They are causing quite a stir in Brighton
Perhaps because of the intimacy with which she seemed to open her soul with the lyrics, or because she announced at the start, "I trust you, Brighton. "I know you are extraordinarily gifted and intelligent", Tina Dico had a gift for making me, as part
A Latin jazz quartet which brought Brazil to Brighton, Auro played a range of samba, choro and bossa, energetically led by a pied piper like flute player. Their uplifting performance had the whole floor dancing by the end of the night. The entertainment
As a nation we're getting fatter and recent research shows this is happening at an alarming rate. That's the bad news. The question is this - what can be done to reverse this trend? Professor Erik Millstone presented the findings of a recent study involving
Another Sunday evening and another impressive variety of short films, this time focusing on the New York and Los Angeles independent scenes. Every film showed in the penultimate edition of Final Cut's mini film festival was a premiere in the United
Neary definitely has an eye for spotting the funny foibles of the people she encounters, and this is what makes her performances so convincing. Starting the show with a reading from her teenage diary, Neary already had the audience on side before she
I didn't know what to expect from a show entitled Blame Us, which only lasted half an hour, but I left the Marlborough Theatre pleasantly surprised. With a formula similar to that of a television sketch show, the three enthusiastic performers delivered
A court has stopped the sale of a crumbling pier which could have cleared the structure's massive debts. Hastings Pier owner Ravenclaw Investments has tried to sell the pier to a new company, Hastings Pier Ltd. Ravenclaw's commercial manager Harmesh
Europe's first tuk-tuk service is back on the streets with a new fleet of colourful rickshaws. The controversial three-wheelers now include half a dozen six-seaters and twelve three-seaters which will be able to collect passengers from anywhere in the
Neil Bartlett's The Maids isn't the only site-specific production taking place at the Old Ship Hotel this Brighton Festival. A little-known company called Theatre In Translation has also spotted the dramatic potential of the city's oldest working hotel
It may share its title and its context with the TS Eliot poem of the same name, but this three-hander promises a much funnier take on the scenario of the first dinner date. A co-production between Inspector Sands and Stamping Ground Theatre, Hysteria
A woman in a red velvet dress swings dreamily above our heads. She dangles her legs, not off a wooden seat, but from the chest of a man who lies beneath her. With his face chalked white, his body curves like a crescent moon beneath her fragile weight.
Somewhere in my twisted imagination I have this idea of the perfect gig - it consists of an attractive girl playing the drums and singing "we're all gonna die". I never thought I'd actually ever see anything like this - until tonight. Certain musicians
Armed police followed a man after he was seen with a gun. A member of the public tipped police off after seeing the man sitting in a car with a silver pistol in his hand. He gave officers the registration number and said it had driven off from Eaton
Like a lot of Westerners, I first encountered this great Hindu epic courtesy of Peter Brook's marathon version in the Eighties. This was, and remains, a masterful piece of storytelling and theatre. Such a work must stand as a barrier for anyone wishing
Since the fourth reactor of the nuclear set which sustained Chernobyl exploded 21 years ago, the town has been a blockbuster filmmaker's dream. In this beautiful and subtle project, however, Brighton producers Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff avoided
They don't often have the last laugh, but losers always produce the best comedy, not least when they're imbecillic Frenchmen with supreme comic timing. With a half-baked philosopher robed in a tight pink dressing gown and a feral Asterix lookalike with
A health worker who spent £14,000 training to become a home inspector plans to sue the Government for compensation after his career was left in limbo. David Thompson, 44, of Hove, is furious that ministers have delayed the introduction of new Home Information
The number of people with dementia in Sussex is expected to rise by more than 7,000 over the next 15 years. Research published by the Alzheimer's Society shows cases of the disease in some parts of the county are expected to go up by as much as 30 per
This wasn't quite what was advertised. Described as a take on some "original and traditional stories", it was nothing of the sort. The storytelling was kept to a minimum while the interactive element was cranked up high. That's not to knock what
The mid-Eighties pop chart was a cruel place for the different and the exotic. Anne Pigalle's sole post-punk cinematic release vanished after a brief flirtation with the music-buying public in 1985. More than two decades on, when some of the biggest
If this insightful talk was anything to go by, Andrew Marr's new book and television series A History Of Modern Britain (BBC2, Tuesdays, 9pm) will be the sort of landmark stuff to make Simon Schama worried. Relaxed and cheerful onstage, Marr eschewed
It came as a surprise to me to discover Brighton-based illustrator and author Chris Riddell was so prolific: around 30 books to date. While I was familiar with the Edge Chronicles, which Riddell co-creates with Paul Stewart (according to Riddell's
As this screening of the 1944 Laurence Olivier production of Shakespeare's Henry V began, I was trying to understand just why Brighton Festival had invested so much money in the two-year project to bring the film back to the big screen with a live
The life and times of Doncaster's most influential and talented showman have been recorded in great detail, not least in the pages of this very newspaper. He has told the story in his own autobiography, Through It All I've Always Laughed, we've
The life and times of Doncaster's most influential and talented showman have been recorded in great detail, not least in the pages of this very newspaper. He has told the story in his own autobiography, Through It All I've Always Laughed, we've
"What makes my Bacon recognisable?" says Pip Utton. "I look like him, I dress like him, I sound like him, I swear like him and I get absolutely bladdered. Two bottles of champagne per show." Currently playing the celebrated 20th-century painter
Dragging a bulging suitcase down the stairs of Komedia's theatre, Taylor Mac arrived dressed in red heels, orange and green fishnets and a skirt made of surgical gloves. His larger-than-life dazzling red lips beamed out from a painted green face illustrated
The Argus is looking for a photographer to cover maternity leave. The successful candidate should have experience of working on a daily newspaper covering events from sport to hard news and be bale to provide quality front page material.
A health trust's decision to bring in an external communications agency to help it deal with the launch of a controversial public consultation has been criticised by campaigners. West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) is spending £18,000 to use the London
Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by the British Government to make way for the Diego Garcia US airbase today won their legal battle to return home. The families - many of whom live in Sussex - and well-wishers packed the Court of Appeal for
A man accused of a string of sex attacks on girls and young women dating back nine years appeared in court today to deny further charges. Mark Campbell, 37, pleaded not guilty to two counts of burglary between July 1 2003 and February 14 2004, and sexual
Exposed to the elements and miles from their nearest neighbour, the latest home to go on the market takes the idea of a rural retreat to a new level. Belle Tout, on the top of Beachy Head, is a Grade II listed lighthouse converted into a six-bedroom
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has sent a message of hope to supporters of Omar Deghayes, the Brighton man held in Guantanamo Bay. Speaking to The Argus during a visit to Sussex, the clergyman and human rights campaigner compared those in the US prison
The Keep Our NHS Public campaign needs to understand that private companies running specialist services such as the orthopaedic treatment centre in Haywards Health are doing so on behalf of the NHS. Such centres are giving high quality care, at
It was unexpectedly sunny last Sunday, so at lunchtime I walked to George Street to browse the shops and the Italian market. I had hoped to sit outside one of the bars or cafes and enjoy a cup of coffee. The whole experience was ruined by people
A government minister has praised the work being carried out to combat a city's drugs problem. Baroness Scotland, the Home Office minister for crime reduction, was in Brighton and Hove - which has the unwanted title of drugs death capital of the UK -
So MPs have just voted to exclude themselves from the Freedom of Information Act using an argument that, as other MPs have pointed out, is fabricated (The Argus, May 19). I used the Freedom of Information Act last year to get documents from the
Another scurrilous one-sided anti-Israel dirge by Jean Calder (The Argus, May 19) The Palestinian Arabs she refers to, being mostly from Jordan and Syria, have no claim on the West Bank (formerly Judea). There has never been an Arab Palestine
Thank you for publishing the case for the Hastings and Bexhill link road (The Argus, May 18). We hope many more readers will now understand why this vital project will help regenerate this area of East Sussex. Incidentally, the picture caption
I think it is a travesty that the relocation of Brighton and Hove Albion has been proposed at a rural retreat such as Falmer. Yes, there are plenty of pros which can be put foward, with all sorts of reasons for a stadium being built there, such
Conmen stole cash from a vulnerable pensioner after tricking their way into her home. Police say the 76-year-old victim was left shocked and deeply upset by her ordeal. They are looking for two small men believed to be responsible for the robbery.
I am not at all surprised that hypocrital MPs have outrageously voted to muzzle questions, asked in the public's interest, about their own business. In a Commons vote that has been branded "shameful", MPs of both major parties gave approval to
Plans to turn a former care home into a centre for elderly patients recovering from hospital treatment have been thrown into doubt. Hastings and Rother Primary Care Trust (PCT) and East Sussex County Council had planned to create a 30-bed intermediate
Jean Calder's interview with a local group which went to Palestine was quite excellent. All too often the tragedy of that oppression is subject to a futile argument over who did what when and who is right and who wrong. Gordon Carter, Dolphin
We are really pleased to hear of Chloe Cross's recovery from ME (The Argus, May 21) using the "Lightning Process" and have heard of a number of others who have been helped in this way. However, we need to remember that these courses do not work
Former councillor Simon Battle (Letters, May 19) deserves praise for honestly trying his best to ease ever-increasing traffic problems across our growing high-rise tenement block seaside resort. If the new city administration promotes more car
I read with amazement the remarks made by ex-councillor Tehmtan Framroze (The Argus, May 17). If councillors are not considered good enough to hold on to their seats and are voted off the council, why should they be rewarded with a cash buffer
A new summer festival has attracted some of the biggest names in music. Ronan Keating, Lemar, Jamelia and Beverley Knight are among headline acts booked for The Music Park. The four-day event will be held in Stanmer Park, Brighton, next month and will
Towns and cities across the world have been a source of inspiration for musicians down the ages. From London Calling by the Clash, to Frank Sinatra singing New York, New York, some of the world's most grandiose places have been immortalised in song.
The parents of a young boy, who has a life-threatening heart condition, are facing an agonising wait for their son to have an operation which they hope will save his life. Orlando Buckland has suffered from serious heart problems since he was born three
I was delighted to see a photo of Mike Tait, headteacher at Portslade Community College in The Argus (May 14). He is a lovely man and is always friendly. My son chose PCC because of Mr Tait. Lesley Kite, Clarendon Villas, Hove
All MPs who voted for exemption from the Freedom of Information Act have nominated themselves as the untrustworthy hypocrites they are and voters will remember that at the polls. May their ride on the gravy train be very short. Ronald Anderson
I cannot believe that a councillor of such high integrity would go into print with the article that Tehmtan Framroze placed in your newspaper. So there should be a "severance" pay-out to councillors who collectively attempted to give away our
It is not only pupils from Patcham High who are capable of "mindless yobbishness" on buses (The Argus, May 16). I've witnessed such things from pupils across Brighton and Hove. Brighton and Hove Bus Company has made little attempt to curb this
With what children know these days, I shouldn't think they would worry about people riding bikes naked. So carry on bikers I say! Mary Frankel, Whitehawk Way, Brighton
A disabled window cleaner has been put up in a string of top hotels at the public's expense - because town hall bosses could not find him a home with wheelchair access. Ricky Perrin, who lost the use of his legs after falling 30ft from a window,
From the outside it looks like all the other Victorian terraces tightly packed on the slopes of Muesli Mountain. But for the last month a Hanover home in Brighton has been operating as a brothel - a poetry brothel, that is. The Young Hanoverians
An elderly thespian with memory loss has won an Argus Angel. The Argus critic Glen Ferris recommended Count Arthur Strong for a statue after seeing him perform at the Komedia on Sunday. The comedy show had an equally strong affect on other audience
The jury in the trial of four men accused of murdering a homeless alcoholic was to spend a third day considering its verdict today at Hove Crown Court. Matthew Heading, 41, died from a ruptured spleen two days after he was attacked in Grand Parade
Fly-tipping in Sussex is rocketing while less than a dozen people a year are being prosecuted. Figures from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show illegal dumping in the county is continuing to increase. In West Sussex dumpings
A benefit gig headlined by The Kooks in aid of the search for Madeleine McCann has sold out. The Brighton band will play an acoustic set at tonight's gig to raise money for the missing four-year-old's family. It takes place at the Concorde 2
Thousands of hard-up families have received the wrong tax credit payments for the third year in a row. Figures published yesterday show almost half the 143,300 Sussex families in receipt of tax credits during 2005-06 were either over or underpaid
Pictures of some of the world's best known black stars were shown to a jury yesterday. Images of former England and Arsenal footballer Ian Wright were given to jurors at Hove Crown Court. They also received photographs of ex-world sprint champion
The family of a heavily pregnant woman who was dragged along a street by a carjacker have been having nightmares that she could have lost her baby. Christine Saunders said her 23-year-old daughter Gemma was so shaken by the incident in London Road, Brighton
A woman received her third card from the Queen this weekend as she celebrated her 106th birthday. Dinah Parker, who is believed to be Eastbourne's oldest person, was joined by friends and family at Queen Alexandra Cottages, Seaside, Eastbourne
A man accused of murdering the Earl of Shaftesbury has said he is innocent and appealed to the new French president for justice. In a dramatic court outburst, the flamboyant earl's former brother-in-law claimed the death was an accident and
One of Sussex's most famous citizens was born 100 years ago today. Sir Laurence Olivier, considered by many to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, was made Baron Olivier of Brighton in 1970. He lived in Brighton during the Sixties, Seventies
Flamboyant boxing legend Chris Eubank has thrown another punch in his campaign to embarrass the Government over Britain's involvement in Iraq. The 40-year-old ex-world middleweight champion was still ducking and weaving as he drove his 32ft truck around
Sussex towns have been given mixed reviews in the latest edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Great Britain. The 7th edition of the book describes the country as being in the grip of an identity crisis. It cites the growing independence of Scotland
Police have launched separate investigations after two men were found dead in East Sussex towns. The body of Robert Clark, from Bexhill, was found on the beach at Hastings. And the body of a second man, Brett Phipps aged 37, was discovered by police
