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Workers' date for good cause
Engineering workers became models for a day when they posed for a charity calendar. Staff from Mott MacDonald in Brighton agreed to help create the official Rockinghorse Appeal calendar for 2002. Each adopted a pose to reflect a theme for the month, such
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Happy Christmas, Albion
I hope all the players and staff at the Albion have a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year. The players gave up an evening last week to sign autographs. Bobby Zamora was very popular and had a massive following waiting to see him. -Lesley Kite
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Where's the evidence?
I must comment on a recent letter in these columns made by a Liberal Democrat MEP with regard to the proposed ban on "bull bars" on new 4x4 vehicles. He stated that countless people, especially children, would be saved from horrific injuries - fair comment
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Fe-lines
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you bin? I've bin with bin Laden, the Master of Sin. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what does he do? He sits in a cave all day laughing at you. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what does he say? He says he'll repeat it all some other day.
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Return of the Partridge
Comedian Steve Coogan says his most famous creation, Alan Partridge, will return to the screen next autumn. The Hove-based star has left the failed sports commentator and chat show host on the sidelines for several years to concentrate on other projects
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Breathe again
John Stanaway (Letters, December 17) is absolutely right. Party politics has been the ruination of Brighton and Hove and has claimed the careers of many worthy councillors in the past who could not agree with their party hierarchies on issues of conscience
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Religion is just hype to keep people quiet
In reponse to Mrs P Bolingbroke (Letters, December 15), I don't think my youth affects my ability to judge whether someone is right or wrong. Mine is simply a different viewpoint and I am sure many of my elders, who aren't living in the past, would agree
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I'm with Ivor
As a Conservative, I support the Labour MP for Hove in his suggestion that we have an Olympic-size swimming pool and ice rink included in the redevelopment at the King Alfred centre as well as an independent cinema, Duke of Yorks style. It would widen
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Think Of It This Way, by John Parry
With four days to go to the big day, far be it from me to pretend to be a holy-roller, much less a spoilsport. But every year at around this time I wonder how we have managed to transform the simple celebration of a man's birthday into the demented, greedy
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Flying visitors raise smile at hospital
Panto stars were full of Christmas cheer when they took time off from rehearsals to visit children in hospital. Tinkerbell, Wendy and Tiger Lily from Peter Pan at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, chatted to children at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick
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Crooks swipe kids' gifts
Thieves stole Christmas presents destined for a pre-school children's festive party. More than 60 gifts had been bought and wrapped for children attending the Kipling Lions Pre-School party. But vandals broke into a shed in the grounds of Rudyard Kipling
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Protest delays the chop for tree
Protesters stopped tree surgeons' power saws to win a stay of execution for a 100-year-old cherry tree. Residents sprang into action to save the ancient tree which blossoms every spring. It had been given a death sentence by Brighton and Hove City Council
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The journey of a lunchtime
As you tuck into your turkey and stuffing, pause for a moment and consider how it got to your plate. You might be surprised to hear that the bird and trimmings could well have clocked up 24,000 miles. One sample of a supermarket-bought Christmas dinner
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Day of chaos as trains halt
Passengers heading home for Christmas faced rail chaos today as services were delayed and cancelled. The chaos led to misery for thousands of people trying to make an early start home for the festive season. Passengers waiting at Brighton at noon were
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Still some honest souls
Last Friday, while shopping in Marks & Spencer's food hall, I inadvertently lost my handbag. I am writing in the hope that the kind person who handed it in reads this. I was, naturally, over the moon to get it back. It's nice to know there are still
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TV appeal boosts attack inquiry
Police have new leads in the hunt for the brutal attacker who left a cleaner for dead. More than 50 calls were received following an appeal on BBC TV's Crimewatch programme last night. Philip Gray, 54, is slowly improving at the Royal Sussex County Hospital
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French kiss
Simon Darrington highlights the price increases for the "centre fare" during the late Nineties (Letters, December 20) but fails to add during this time the zone boundaries were constantly moving outwards in response to passenger requests for a larger
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Doublespeak
We have almost become used to taxation by stealth but there is another area where the Government is threatening to pull the wool. Under the banner Faster Fairer Planning For All, the latest Green Paper, published on December 12, it is proposing to take
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Stamp it out
I was truly amazed the other day on the run-up to Christmas to find the post office had run out of second-class stamps. This is like saying the bank has run out of £5 notes. No wonder the service expected from the Royal Mail is falling fast. Second deliveries
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Water babies
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the children, their parents, grandparents and our swimmers of all ages for their generosity throughout this year. I run a swim school, which operates in Brighton, Eastbourne and Seaford. This year, we
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Golf: Tull hopes he will be a shining light
Nick Tull has become another amateur to fly the Sussex nest. He has joined his Worthing clubmate Scott Nightingale, the county champion, to gain experience on the Sunshine Tour. Already doing the rounds in Southern Africa are Mark Hilton, from Lewes,
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Rugby: Worthing aim to stay on top
Worthing can make it a table-topping Christmas by beating old rivals Lewes tomorrow. But assistant coach Ben Coulson has warned his side not to under-estimate their visitors as competition hots up in London Three South East. Victory by a commanding 29
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Who is the best striker in Sussex?
Just who is the best striker in Sussex this season? There are plenty to choose from with our top sides doing so well. Crawley top the Dr Martens premier and Hastings are pushing for promotion with Eastbourne Borough in the eastern division. Bognor have
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Viewings up at cinema
A town cinema has been so successful that film showings will be increased next year. The screenings at the Meridian Centre in Peacehaven will be held every fortnight instead of every month. Residents have flocked to the venue to see films which have been
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I knew crash pals had died
The girlfriend of a man killed with his best friend in a car crash says she had a premonition of the tragedy. Darren Kemp and his friend Jake Kelly, both fathers, died when the BMW they were in crashed into a lamp post. The pair, who often lived with
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Stadium 'would need new rail station'
Major changes to rail travel will be needed if a community stadium is built, according to a councillor. Councillor Brian Oxley, opposition Tory leader on Brighton and Hove City Council, discussed the issue with Matt Ball, external relations manager for
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CCTV a success, say police
CCTV cameras on a Brighton housing estate have cut crime by almost a quarter, according to the police. Cameras monitored 939 incidents on the Whitehawk estate in the first year of operation. In the second year, from November 2000 to October this year,
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Hospice to launch home care
A hospice is developing a service to care for terminally ill patients in their homes. The aim of the Martlets At Home project, organised by the Hove-based Martlets Hospice, is to give people the choice of spending their final days in familiar surroundings
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Be more responsible
Our community must try to be more responsible and not so over-the-top. All oppressed sections of society, when liberated, have problems - that's natural. Perhaps in our city, things will level out in some 30 to 40 years' time. My desire is to live in
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Another site for a stadium?
With the recent cancellation of the Reading match, it came to my attention that not all the possible sites for a stadium have been considered. The Albion, with the help of private money, could redevelop the Holmbush site, in an area which has already
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Happy Christmas, Albion
I hope all the players and staff at the Albion have a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic New Year. The players gave up an evening last week to sign autographs. Bobby Zamora was very popular and had a massive following waiting to see him. -Lesley Kite
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Where's the evidence?
I must comment on a recent letter in these columns made by a Liberal Democrat MEP with regard to the proposed ban on "bull bars" on new 4x4 vehicles. He stated that countless people, especially children, would be saved from horrific injuries - fair comment
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Date
Dumbstruck
Golly - J Brown's diatribe about dentistry (Letters, December 19) was a real eye-opener. There's me, trained for six years, slaving over a hot drill and post-graduate courses for more than thirty years, and I don't seem to know half as much about the
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Blunted edge
Many years ago, I was closely involved with all the top production companies in ice skating and, when the Brighton Centre was being envisaged, I had several meetings with Tony Hewison in which I proposed that an ice floor should be included. This could
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Years of ears
The Argus reported on gremlins busy at BBC Southern Counties Radio ("Listeners get silent treatment", December 19). As part of the BBC's programme of re-equipping its radio stations with up-to-date technology, we acquired a new computerised production
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Return of the Partridge
Comedian Steve Coogan says his most famous creation, Alan Partridge, will return to the screen next autumn. The Hove-based star has left the failed sports commentator and chat show host on the sidelines for several years to concentrate on other projects
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Breathe again
John Stanaway (Letters, December 17) is absolutely right. Party politics has been the ruination of Brighton and Hove and has claimed the careers of many worthy councillors in the past who could not agree with their party hierarchies on issues of conscience
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Date
Religion is just hype to keep people quiet
In reponse to Mrs P Bolingbroke (Letters, December 15), I don't think my youth affects my ability to judge whether someone is right or wrong. Mine is simply a different viewpoint and I am sure many of my elders, who aren't living in the past, would agree
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Offices for killers
We now have it in the bag and fully understand why "our boys" gave their lives in the name of freedom. If you bomb Birmingham, if you bomb Ealing Broadway, if you snatch two Army boys, drag them into a taxi and shoot them after a beating, if you bomb
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I'm with Ivor
As a Conservative, I support the Labour MP for Hove in his suggestion that we have an Olympic-size swimming pool and ice rink included in the redevelopment at the King Alfred centre as well as an independent cinema, Duke of Yorks style. It would widen
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Hotels bank on boom time
A string of new hotels planned for Brighton and Hove provides concrete evidence the city is bucking the global recession. Despite the drop in overseas visitors following the events of September 11, the local market remains buoyant. Even the city's oldest
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Think Of It This Way, by John Parry
With four days to go to the big day, far be it from me to pretend to be a holy-roller, much less a spoilsport. But every year at around this time I wonder how we have managed to transform the simple celebration of a man's birthday into the demented, greedy
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Date
Flying visitors raise smile at hospital
Panto stars were full of Christmas cheer when they took time off from rehearsals to visit children in hospital. Tinkerbell, Wendy and Tiger Lily from Peter Pan at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, chatted to children at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick
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Crooks swipe kids' gifts
Thieves stole Christmas presents destined for a pre-school children's festive party. More than 60 gifts had been bought and wrapped for children attending the Kipling Lions Pre-School party. But vandals broke into a shed in the grounds of Rudyard Kipling
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Protest delays the chop for tree
Protesters stopped tree surgeons' power saws to win a stay of execution for a 100-year-old cherry tree. Residents sprang into action to save the ancient tree which blossoms every spring. It had been given a death sentence by Brighton and Hove City Council
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The journey of a lunchtime
As you tuck into your turkey and stuffing, pause for a moment and consider how it got to your plate. You might be surprised to hear that the bird and trimmings could well have clocked up 24,000 miles. One sample of a supermarket-bought Christmas dinner
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Date
Day of chaos as trains halt
Passengers heading home for Christmas faced rail chaos today as services were delayed and cancelled. The chaos led to misery for thousands of people trying to make an early start home for the festive season. Passengers waiting at Brighton at noon were
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Terror police swoop on cargo ship
Anti-terrorist officers were today searching a cargo ship 30 miles off Beachy Head in what Scotland Yard described as a "major security operation". They swooped on the MV Nisha at 8am along with the Royal Navy and Customs and Excise after an intelligence-led
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French kiss
Simon Darrington highlights the price increases for the "centre fare" during the late Nineties (Letters, December 20) but fails to add during this time the zone boundaries were constantly moving outwards in response to passenger requests for a larger
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Date
Doublespeak
We have almost become used to taxation by stealth but there is another area where the Government is threatening to pull the wool. Under the banner Faster Fairer Planning For All, the latest Green Paper, published on December 12, it is proposing to take
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Money or debt
If you like your fish and chips and value the right to eat cod, you would do well to support the campaign to reform the existing monetary system. The banks create money by lending, which is fraud and results in our using debt as currency. Fair trading
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Just so mean
The meanest thieves of the year have been operating in the grounds of Rudyard Kipling School in Woodingdean. They broke into a shed at the Kipling Lions Pre-School and stole every one of the 63 presents destined for the children. These vandals must have
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Golf: Tull hopes he will be a shining light
Nick Tull has become another amateur to fly the Sussex nest. He has joined his Worthing clubmate Scott Nightingale, the county champion, to gain experience on the Sunshine Tour. Already doing the rounds in Southern Africa are Mark Hilton, from Lewes,
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Caring team put me on road to recovery
I really must write to thank everyone involved for the wonderful treatment I received at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. My wife had to call an ambulance after I suffered severe chest pains on the afternoon of December 3. I was received in A&E,
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Rugby: Worthing aim to stay on top
Worthing can make it a table-topping Christmas by beating old rivals Lewes tomorrow. But assistant coach Ben Coulson has warned his side not to under-estimate their visitors as competition hots up in London Three South East. Victory by a commanding 29
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Bears' version of Road Trip
Coach Nick Nurse is convinced his side can play starring roles as they stage their own version of Road Trip this weekend. The in-form BBL outfit are at Newcastle Eagles in the Championship tonight (7.30pm), then head even further north for Sunday's clash
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Who is the best striker in Sussex?
Just who is the best striker in Sussex this season? There are plenty to choose from with our top sides doing so well. Crawley top the Dr Martens premier and Hastings are pushing for promotion with Eastbourne Borough in the eastern division. Bognor have
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Seagulls plan Christmas bonus
Brighton and Hove Albion boss Peter Taylor has asked his players to deliver a top Christmas gift to the fans. The Seagulls will regain the Second Division leadership and keep it until Boxing Day or beyond if they beat troubled Chesterfield at Withdean
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Jobs axed at arts centre
Workers at The Old Market, an arts venue in Hove, were told today they are out of a job. Employees arrived this morning to begin clearing their belongings after being told of the redundancies. Their bosses have been in crisis talks about funding a £1.4
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Viewings up at cinema
A town cinema has been so successful that film showings will be increased next year. The screenings at the Meridian Centre in Peacehaven will be held every fortnight instead of every month. Residents have flocked to the venue to see films which have been
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Date
Stadium 'would need new rail station'
Major changes to rail travel will be needed if a community stadium is built, according to a councillor. Councillor Brian Oxley, opposition Tory leader on Brighton and Hove City Council, discussed the issue with Matt Ball, external relations manager for
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Legacy shocks dead man's friends
A man who left more than £500,000 to charity shocked his friends who never knew he had so much money. When John Tither, of Findon Road, Worthing, died in April he left £536,211 to The Leprosy Mission, The British and Foreign Bible Society, Tear Fund,
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Hospice to launch home care
A hospice is developing a service to care for terminally ill patients in their homes. The aim of the Martlets At Home project, organised by the Hove-based Martlets Hospice, is to give people the choice of spending their final days in familiar surroundings
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Date
Be more responsible
Our community must try to be more responsible and not so over-the-top. All oppressed sections of society, when liberated, have problems - that's natural. Perhaps in our city, things will level out in some 30 to 40 years' time. My desire is to live in
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Date
Another site for a stadium?
With the recent cancellation of the Reading match, it came to my attention that not all the possible sites for a stadium have been considered. The Albion, with the help of private money, could redevelop the Holmbush site, in an area which has already
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Date
Crowded house
Voice Of The Argus ("Our Dome is well worth it", December 13) was wrong to say audience figures were flagging when the Dome closed in 1999 for refurbishment, at least as far as the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is concerned. The BPO, which then as now
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Date
Dumbstruck
Golly - J Brown's diatribe about dentistry (Letters, December 19) was a real eye-opener. There's me, trained for six years, slaving over a hot drill and post-graduate courses for more than thirty years, and I don't seem to know half as much about the
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Date
Blunted edge
Many years ago, I was closely involved with all the top production companies in ice skating and, when the Brighton Centre was being envisaged, I had several meetings with Tony Hewison in which I proposed that an ice floor should be included. This could
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Date
Years of ears
The Argus reported on gremlins busy at BBC Southern Counties Radio ("Listeners get silent treatment", December 19). As part of the BBC's programme of re-equipping its radio stations with up-to-date technology, we acquired a new computerised production
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Date
Coppiced off
I agree with John Stanaway's basic premise, though not his embellishments. Of course councillors should listen to constituents, focus groups, tenants' associations and so on, but these have no rights and should not expect to have delegated functions,
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Date
Offices for killers
We now have it in the bag and fully understand why "our boys" gave their lives in the name of freedom. If you bomb Birmingham, if you bomb Ealing Broadway, if you snatch two Army boys, drag them into a taxi and shoot them after a beating, if you bomb
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Date
Horror crash driver recovering
A lorry driver is recovering after a head-on crash with a minibus whose dead driver was pulled from the wreckage by her firefighter son. Stephen Coe, 48, of Lewes Road, Newhaven, is believed to have pulled out to pass a parked car on the A47 in Norfolk
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Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw
An emailer, whose electronic address gives no clue to his or her identity, was "shocked" by last Thursday's front page. He or she objected to the juxtaposition of the front page advertisement and the main headline, "Guilty", above a report on the conviction
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Hotels bank on boom time
A string of new hotels planned for Brighton and Hove provides concrete evidence the city is bucking the global recession. Despite the drop in overseas visitors following the events of September 11, the local market remains buoyant. Even the city's oldest
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Terror police swoop on cargo ship
Anti-terrorist officers were today searching a cargo ship 30 miles off Beachy Head in what Scotland Yard described as a "major security operation". They swooped on the MV Nisha at 8am along with the Royal Navy and Customs and Excise after an intelligence-led
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Date
Hear us now
Further to C J Naish's comments regarding the negative way he has been treated by NCP and Brighton and Hove City Council (Letters, December 19), may I suggest the following. I had a letter published (December 13) in which I suggested a few ways of treating
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Date
Money or debt
If you like your fish and chips and value the right to eat cod, you would do well to support the campaign to reform the existing monetary system. The banks create money by lending, which is fraud and results in our using debt as currency. Fair trading
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Date
Much-travelled
Ingredients for a typical Christmas dinner bought at a supermarket could have travelled thousands of miles before they reached a home in Sussex. Yet the environmental campaign Sustain bought food at a farmers' market, which had travelled nothing like
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Date
Crimebusting in the frame
There were doubts over whether closed-circuit TV cameras would work on the Brighton estate of Whitehawk. Some residents wondered whether the cameras, undoubtedly effective in shopping areas, would be a deterrent on a housing estate in a residential area
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Date
Girls on film
Two years ago, my colleagues Susie Passingham and Anna Nomikou and I made a film for Sussex University about women who served in the forces during the Second World War. This week the film, A Force For Change, won the Best Documentary award in the 2001
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Date
Turf Talk: All-action Linzi is going full gallop
There is no cure for the bite of the horse bug. Once bitten the victim is marked for life and nobody bears out the truth of this better than Linzi Mason. Linzi, 37, first took riding lessons as a ten-year-old, and now three children and countless jobs
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Date
Just so mean
The meanest thieves of the year have been operating in the grounds of Rudyard Kipling School in Woodingdean. They broke into a shed at the Kipling Lions Pre-School and stole every one of the 63 presents destined for the children. These vandals must have
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Date
Caring team put me on road to recovery
I really must write to thank everyone involved for the wonderful treatment I received at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. My wife had to call an ambulance after I suffered severe chest pains on the afternoon of December 3. I was received in A&E,
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Date
Bears' version of Road Trip
Coach Nick Nurse is convinced his side can play starring roles as they stage their own version of Road Trip this weekend. The in-form BBL outfit are at Newcastle Eagles in the Championship tonight (7.30pm), then head even further north for Sunday's clash
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Date
Seagulls plan Christmas bonus
Brighton and Hove Albion boss Peter Taylor has asked his players to deliver a top Christmas gift to the fans. The Seagulls will regain the Second Division leadership and keep it until Boxing Day or beyond if they beat troubled Chesterfield at Withdean
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Date
Advice centre shuts after grant cut
Hove's Citizens' Advice Bureau was due to close its doors for the last time today. The bureau office at Hove town hall has been shut after Brighton and Hove City Council cut its grant by £67,000. Staff, backed by a petition containing more than 2,500
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Date
Jobs axed at arts centre
Workers at The Old Market, an arts venue in Hove, were told today they are out of a job. Employees arrived this morning to begin clearing their belongings after being told of the redundancies. Their bosses have been in crisis talks about funding a £1.4
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Date
'Get real' plea over police
A senior police officer told watchdogs to "get real" with their demands for community policing. Deputy Chief Constable Maria Wallis, told members of the Sussex Police Authority: "You can't expect us to get crime down and do all the things you tell us.
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Fireman climbs career ladder
Firefighters have welcomed a familiar face to one of the East Sussex brigade's top jobs. Chris Large, 45, is to take over as assistant chief fire officer from Len Richards, who has been promoted to deputy chief fire officer. Mr Large came to Eastbourne
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Honour for Sarah detectives
Two top detectives have been honoured for their dogged determination in bringing Sarah Payne's killer to justice. Brighton-based Detective Inspector Martyn Underhill and Detective Superintendent Alan Ladley led Operation Maple - the biggest and most complex
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Barracks may bring new jobs
A historic barracks site in Brighton could be used to provide hundreds of new jobs. Brighton and Hove City Council is negotiating with the Ministry of Defence to buy part of Preston Barracks, off Lewes Road. Up to £3 million from the Government's Single
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Library reopens after rent row
A library has reopened after staff were locked out of the building in a dispute over rent payments. Bailiffs took possession of Peacehaven library on Monday, December 10, barring customers and staff from the premises without warning. The East Sussex County
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More than just a janitor
With ancestors including the artist Turner and poet Shelley, it's no surprise Peter Turner has always been more than just a school caretaker. Peter inherited creative traits from both family lines, developing a flair for drawing and poetry. But these
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Legacy shocks dead man's friends
A man who left more than £500,000 to charity shocked his friends who never knew he had so much money. When John Tither, of Findon Road, Worthing, died in April he left £536,211 to The Leprosy Mission, The British and Foreign Bible Society, Tear Fund,
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Date
Workers' date for good cause
Engineering workers became models for a day when they posed for a charity calendar. Staff from Mott MacDonald in Brighton agreed to help create the official Rockinghorse Appeal calendar for 2002. Each adopted a pose to reflect a theme for the month, such
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Date
Crowded house
Voice Of The Argus ("Our Dome is well worth it", December 13) was wrong to say audience figures were flagging when the Dome closed in 1999 for refurbishment, at least as far as the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is concerned. The BPO, which then as now
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Date
Fe-lines
Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you bin? I've bin with bin Laden, the Master of Sin. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what does he do? He sits in a cave all day laughing at you. Pussy cat, pussy cat, what does he say? He says he'll repeat it all some other day.
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Date
Coppiced off
I agree with John Stanaway's basic premise, though not his embellishments. Of course councillors should listen to constituents, focus groups, tenants' associations and so on, but these have no rights and should not expect to have delegated functions,
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Date
Horror crash driver recovering
A lorry driver is recovering after a head-on crash with a minibus whose dead driver was pulled from the wreckage by her firefighter son. Stephen Coe, 48, of Lewes Road, Newhaven, is believed to have pulled out to pass a parked car on the A47 in Norfolk
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Date
Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw
An emailer, whose electronic address gives no clue to his or her identity, was "shocked" by last Thursday's front page. He or she objected to the juxtaposition of the front page advertisement and the main headline, "Guilty", above a report on the conviction
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Date
Pedestrian killed in accident
A young pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a car in Lindfield last night. He was walking home along Hickmans Lane at 11.30pm when he was struck by a Vauxhall Corsa. Police have not yet named the dead man, who came from the Haywards Heath area and
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Attack ordeal of boy, 14
A teenage boy was indecently assaulted as he walked along a quiet Mid Sussex path. The 14-year-old was grabbed from behind by a man who touched his trousers. The boy called out "Help - pervert!" and the man ran off. The attack happened on the Broadfield
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Road death woman, 93, is named
Police have named a 93-year-old woman who died after a road accident in Worthing. Barbara Taylor from Hurst Avenue, Worthing, was struck by a Peugeot 205 as she crossed the A27 Upper Brighton Road near its junction with Charmandean Road at 11.30am on
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Scramble for Rolls-Royce jobs
More than 1,000 people have applied for 400 jobs at the new Rolls Royce factory being built near Chichester. BMW, owner of Rolls-Royce, said it was not surprised at the level of interest in the £60 million complex under construction at Goodwood. The German
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Still some honest souls
Last Friday, while shopping in Marks & Spencer's food hall, I inadvertently lost my handbag. I am writing in the hope that the kind person who handed it in reads this. I was, naturally, over the moon to get it back. It's nice to know there are still
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TV appeal boosts attack inquiry
Police have new leads in the hunt for the brutal attacker who left a cleaner for dead. More than 50 calls were received following an appeal on BBC TV's Crimewatch programme last night. Philip Gray, 54, is slowly improving at the Royal Sussex County Hospital
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Date
Hear us now
Further to C J Naish's comments regarding the negative way he has been treated by NCP and Brighton and Hove City Council (Letters, December 19), may I suggest the following. I had a letter published (December 13) in which I suggested a few ways of treating
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Date
Much-travelled
Ingredients for a typical Christmas dinner bought at a supermarket could have travelled thousands of miles before they reached a home in Sussex. Yet the environmental campaign Sustain bought food at a farmers' market, which had travelled nothing like
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Date
Stamp it out
I was truly amazed the other day on the run-up to Christmas to find the post office had run out of second-class stamps. This is like saying the bank has run out of £5 notes. No wonder the service expected from the Royal Mail is falling fast. Second deliveries
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Date
Crimebusting in the frame
There were doubts over whether closed-circuit TV cameras would work on the Brighton estate of Whitehawk. Some residents wondered whether the cameras, undoubtedly effective in shopping areas, would be a deterrent on a housing estate in a residential area
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Date
Girls on film
Two years ago, my colleagues Susie Passingham and Anna Nomikou and I made a film for Sussex University about women who served in the forces during the Second World War. This week the film, A Force For Change, won the Best Documentary award in the 2001
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Date
Turf Talk: All-action Linzi is going full gallop
There is no cure for the bite of the horse bug. Once bitten the victim is marked for life and nobody bears out the truth of this better than Linzi Mason. Linzi, 37, first took riding lessons as a ten-year-old, and now three children and countless jobs
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Date
Water babies
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the children, their parents, grandparents and our swimmers of all ages for their generosity throughout this year. I run a swim school, which operates in Brighton, Eastbourne and Seaford. This year, we
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Date
Advice centre shuts after grant cut
Hove's Citizens' Advice Bureau was due to close its doors for the last time today. The bureau office at Hove town hall has been shut after Brighton and Hove City Council cut its grant by £67,000. Staff, backed by a petition containing more than 2,500
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Date
'Get real' plea over police
A senior police officer told watchdogs to "get real" with their demands for community policing. Deputy Chief Constable Maria Wallis, told members of the Sussex Police Authority: "You can't expect us to get crime down and do all the things you tell us.
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Fireman climbs career ladder
Firefighters have welcomed a familiar face to one of the East Sussex brigade's top jobs. Chris Large, 45, is to take over as assistant chief fire officer from Len Richards, who has been promoted to deputy chief fire officer. Mr Large came to Eastbourne
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Honour for Sarah detectives
Two top detectives have been honoured for their dogged determination in bringing Sarah Payne's killer to justice. Brighton-based Detective Inspector Martyn Underhill and Detective Superintendent Alan Ladley led Operation Maple - the biggest and most complex
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Barracks may bring new jobs
A historic barracks site in Brighton could be used to provide hundreds of new jobs. Brighton and Hove City Council is negotiating with the Ministry of Defence to buy part of Preston Barracks, off Lewes Road. Up to £3 million from the Government's Single
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I knew crash pals had died
The girlfriend of a man killed with his best friend in a car crash says she had a premonition of the tragedy. Darren Kemp and his friend Jake Kelly, both fathers, died when the BMW they were in crashed into a lamp post. The pair, who often lived with
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CCTV a success, say police
CCTV cameras on a Brighton housing estate have cut crime by almost a quarter, according to the police. Cameras monitored 939 incidents on the Whitehawk estate in the first year of operation. In the second year, from November 2000 to October this year,
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Library reopens after rent row
A library has reopened after staff were locked out of the building in a dispute over rent payments. Bailiffs took possession of Peacehaven library on Monday, December 10, barring customers and staff from the premises without warning. The East Sussex County
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More than just a janitor
With ancestors including the artist Turner and poet Shelley, it's no surprise Peter Turner has always been more than just a school caretaker. Peter inherited creative traits from both family lines, developing a flair for drawing and poetry. But these
