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'Close Guantanamo' call backed
Supporters of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes welcomed comments from the Attorney General that the prison should close but said action, not words, was required. The Attorney General yesterday became the most senior Government minister to publicly
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King Alfred team to think again
A multi-million pound seafront scheme by a world-renowned architect will have to be redesigned, say councillors. A meeting of the King Alfred Project Board at Brighton and Hove City Council ended with members recommending to the Policy and Resources
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For The Love Of Chocolate, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton,
Like the subject matter, Amanda Waring's show in praise of chocolate will be an acquired taste for some people. This amusing celebration of the cocoa bean, in cabaret style, covers its history and particularly its mystical importance to the Aztec race
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Letter: Democracy is a devil in disguise
As a firm opponent of the "democracy" we supposedly enjoy, I was disturbed to read a think-tank is recommending voting be made compulsory (The Argus, May 7). Let us put the notion of democracy under the microscope and examine its worth. Firstly, why do
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Letter: Tax your teeth
Your anonymous correspondent suggests private dentists pay £2,000 a week (£104,000 a year) for a licence (Letters, May 8). In the unlikely event this would happen, their fees would simply go up to cover that cost - the licence money would go to the Government
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May 11: Sussex skipper praises Mushtaq for the way he handled heated confrontation
Sussex skipper Chris Adams today praised Mushtaq Ahmed for keeping his cool during a bust-up with Chris Read. Read raced down the dressing room steps to confront Sussex's star bowler after he had been dismissed for a duck on the second day of the Championship
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'Close Guantanamo' call backed
Supporters of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes welcomed comments from the Attorney General that the prison should close but said action, not words, was required. The Attorney General yesterday became the most senior Government minister to publicly
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Souterrain, Stanmer Park, Brighton, May 11-20
Ten years ago, when Bill Mitchell was artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre, he started something called Wild Walks. A group of 50 unsuspecting souls would be led on a walk through a wood and, as they progressed, "things would happen". What things, Bill
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The Evocation Of Papa Mas, Corn Exchange, Brighton, May 11-14
The costumier is Notting Hill Carnival's prize-winning Clary Slandy. The designer is Dick Bird, the man who turned the basement of Saltdean's art deco hotel into a forest for last year's Festival highlight Dirty Wonderland. And the company is celebrated
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Bus chaos prompts parade rethink
You wait 20 minutes for a bus, then 36 come along all at once. This queue of buses was one of the more bizarre scenes of traffic mayhem that took place during the Children's Parade on Saturday. The city's main bus company is now calling for a fresh look
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Letter: Trees please
We have all heard more than enough about Hove lately. It is vital to take a wider view. During a recent morning's walk around North Moulescoomb, I was struck by the desire for the area to be planted with trees. What a difference these would make. They
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Letter: If Crawley can do it, why can't we?
Discussions about the proposed, controversial, leisure centre development for the King Alfred site feel like they have been dragging on forever. So how come, while this has been going on, Crawley Town Council has been able to build a wonderful new swimming
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Council workers get £12 million pay-outs
Taxpayers have dished out millions of pounds in early retirement and redundancy payments to former council workers in Sussex during the last five years. The settlement sums, which total at least £12 million, have come to light as councils revealed their
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Tycoon's £3 million museum deal
A property tycoon who saved a historic steam engine museum said he bought it because it would have been a disgrace if the collection had been lost. Mike Holland stepped in moments before the collection from the British Engineerium in Hove was to be sold
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Letter: History sale
Is another part of Hove's heritage being sold off? Is the wonderful Victorian Goldstone pump at the Engineerium being auctioned as well? As a young police officer, I was shown this beam engine with its large wheel and giant pistons by a man who took great
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Letter: The police are right to ensure people get home
With reference to your report of Brighton police's bill for taxis to take home people released after arrest (The Argus, May 9), we should remember that within the British justice system a suspect is assumed innocent until proved guilty. Just because someone
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Cricket: Sussex skipper praises Mushtaq for the way he handled heated confrontation
Sussex skipper Chris Adams today praised Mushtaq Ahmed for keeping his cool during a bust-up with Chris Read. Read raced down the dressing room steps to confront Sussex's star bowler after he had been dismissed for a duck on the second day of the Championship
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Passenger figures take off at Gatwick
More than 2.7 million passengers passed through Gatwick during April. The total, which was boosted by the late Easter holidays, was 12.5 per cent up on last year. Passenger numbers on routes to Ireland rose by 47.1 per cent and more than a million people
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Groundhog Day on road to regeneration
What is regeneration? Making your street a nicer place to live in? Improving your arts institutions? Or bringing bigger business to the city to create more jobs? It seems those involved in this bureaucratic beast are not always sure themselves. Look around
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Maternity is in safe hands
A senior midwife has hit back against criticisms of the service. Carol Drummond, who is in charge of all midwives at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, said rumours of cutbacks to midwife services
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Makeover for street
A dead-end street used as a dumping ground is to be turned into caf quarter. Farm Yard, close to Churchill Square, Brighton, is used to store commercial bins and is a magnet for fly-tipping and graffiti. Now Brighton and Hove City Council plans to get
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Beach 'raid' firm fined
A developer has been fined £8,500 by magistrates for burying waste on a beach and removing shingle for a new car park, damaging sea defences. Jones Homes' multi-million pound development in Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne, hit a snag last August when the
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Residents 'abused by pupils'
Unruly school pupils are terrifying elderly people, breaking windows, starting fires and vandalising trees, say neighbours. Residents of Greenleas, Hove, which backs on to Hove Park School, said their lives were being made a misery by noisy teenagers
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Fear for animal safety in new Sea Life plans
Animal rights protesters have stepped up their campaign against an aquarium's plans to create two seal and otter pools. They say the Sea Life Centre's revised proposals, which give more detail about the canopies and railings to protect the creatures,
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Sussex and the Olympics
Olympic athlete Sally Gunnell has launched a new-look sports partnership to propel Sussex into the limelight at the 2012 Olympics. Ms Gunnell officially declared the Sussex County Sports Partnership open for business yesterday at the University of Brighton
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Los Albertos, Spiegeltent, Old Steine Lawns, Brighton
Los Albertos in The Spiegeltent was like the world's best party, beautifully gift-wrapped and left in the middle of Brighton for all to enjoy. Spreading more good vibes than a dancing monkey handing out tequila shots, they played an uplifting, horn-driven
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Paradise Lost, Theatre Royal, Brighton
Retelling the Christian myth from Lucifer's banishment from Heaven to Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, Milton's epic poem is as exciting as literature gets. So you know things have gone badly wrong when, midway through Eve's temptation, you find yourself
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Letter: Please, let Richardson Road alone
I was sad to hear Brighton and Hove City Council plans to implement resident permit parking for Richardson Road, Brighton (The Argus, May 4). I got to know some of the traders while shopping for my mother, who lived in New Church Road for 20 years until
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Letter: New Church Road, Hove
As far as waste and sewage issues go, Tim Hodges certainly knows how to win friends and influence people by suggesting Newhaven accepts Brighton's effluent in return for the prosperity that Brighton suffering the stadium brings (Letters, May 3). However
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Letter: Dancing thanks
We would like to say thank you for the thoroughly enjoyable evening we had at The Dome, Brighton, on April 26 watching Let's Dance 2006 by Brighton and Hove schools. Well done everyone concerned. Here's to next year. -Mrs G Patrick, Brighton
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Letter: Missing rooks
I have lived in Woodingdean since 1958 and, for as long as I can remember, there has been a small rookery in the trees between Nuffield Hospital and the youth hut. Some trees were lost in the hurricane. When the Nuffield was built, this resulted in the
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King Alfred team to think again
A multi-million pound seafront scheme by a world-renowned architect will have to be redesigned, say councillors. A meeting of the King Alfred Project Board at Brighton and Hove City Council ended with members recommending to the Policy and Resources Committee
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Mum praises police for helping drunken son
A mother has praised Sussex Police for rescuing her drunken son. Writing anonymously in this month's edition of the force's magazine Patrol, she said officers found him worse for wear in Shoreham High Street. She wrote: "My son does not remember the incident
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Pushed too far by parking laws
A woman was forced to push her elderly wheelchair-bound mother up a steep hill to reclaim her car after it was towed away by parking attendants. Jennifer Fiander, 54, is boycotting Brighton city centre and demanding an apology from Brighton and Hove City
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Letter: Lodge complaint
However you describe the planned Benfield Barn development on the edge of Portslade (The Argus, May 5) - hotel, pub, cafe, restaurant - anyone looking at the plans will see this is a Travel Lodge-style hotel and a very large Harvester/Beefeater-style
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Sex and a sandwich seller ...
A newsagent was left stunned after she was asked to disclose her sexuality in a form related to the sale of pre-packed sandwiches. Aruna Majevadia had been selling sandwiches from Aruna's Newsagent in Gardner Street, Brighton, for more than two years
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Letter: Are do-gooders simpy being over-sensitive?
M Thomas writes eloquently about golliwogs and how offensive they are (Letters, May 8). He then relates their existence to racial hatred and abuse. I would be interested to know the views of a representative selection of black people. Somehow, I get the
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NHS pays £700k to cut 400 jobs
A team of consultants who drew up plans to cut 400 hospital jobs have been paid almost £700,000 in fees in only three months. The turnaround team from KPMG has been paid the money after the firm was hired by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in January
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Letter: Unfairy story
So, Big Ears loses his job but little fat Noddy keeps his grace-andfavour accommodation. -Peter Mitch, Shoreham
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Letter: Go the wrong way
The Waterloo and Cross Street area of Hove is plagued by motorists who drive and park facing the wrong direction in one-way streets. Last Sunday, I pointed out an illegally parked car to a traffic warden, only to be told they couldn't do anything about
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Letter: Just the ticket
If the police are to guard the traffic wardens, does this mean we might see a police presence in Brighton again? The last time I saw a policeman on the streets of Brighton was during the Labour Party conference last September. He was guarding John Prescott
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Albion are up for the fight
Albion's fight to win back Championship status is already well under way beneath the King Alfred sports centre on Hove seafront. In an underground boxing gym, short on luxury and big on sweat, Scott Welch is putting the Seagulls' young stars through their
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Mushtaq in boundary bust-up
Mushtaq Ahmed believes the ECB are right not to throw the book at Chris Read. The Nottinghamshire wicketkeeper has been charged with abusive behaviour towards an opponent after confronting Mushtaq during the second day of the Championship match at Hove
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Seafront plans spark opposition
Protesters packed into a public meeting last night as oppostion to the multi-million pound redevelopment of a prime seafront site mounted. There was standing room only at St Laurence's Church hall, Sea Place, Goring, near Worthing, as more than 120 residents
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Tesco looks again at expansion plan
Supermarket giant Tesco wants to change its plans for a major increase in the size of one of its flagship Sussex stores. Tesco has already been given the go-ahead to expand its superstore at Holmbush, Shoreham, by a third, creating up to 200 jobs. Now
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Don't make crisis out of our drama
Council managers sent to drama workshops to learn political correctness have vigorously defended them. The courses, costing £26,000, were described by a senior manager at Brighton and Hove City Council as, "the best course I have done at the council".
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The money floods in for cancer dad
The first £10,000 has been handed over to a family battling to help a father spend more precious time with his family. The cheque was given to Neil and Wendy Cooper by The Argus group editor Michael Beard at the couple's home in Portslade. Generous supporters
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Man drowned in ditch after toilet stop
A driver who stopped by the side of a road to relieve himself slipped into a water-filled ditch and drowned, an inquest heard. Patrick Webster, 33, was driving home with his wife and sister at 3am when he felt an overriding urge to go to the toilet. He
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Big rise in complaints about police
There has been a big rise in the number of complaints against Sussex Police. Latest figures show there were 531 complaints during the year ending March 31, 87 more than the previous year. In a report to the Sussex Police Authority, Deputy Chief Constable
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Glimmer of hope for threatened department
A rescue package for a top-rated university chemistry department, earmarked for closure, will be considered by a senior management committee tomorrow. Chemistry students and staff at the University of Sussex hope the committee will approve recommendations
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Children's Parade chaos on the streets
You wait 20 minutes for a bus, then 36 come along all at once. This queue of buses was one of the more bizarre scenes of traffic mayhem that took place during the Children's Parade on Saturday. The city's main bus company is now calling for a fresh look
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Pigeon row woman dies at 59
A woman who fought to keep her home after a council tried to evict her for feeding pigeons has died. Animal lover Margaret Waite, 59, died of a heart attack on Monday. She was waiting for a court case to determine whether or not she would have to leave
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Sarah Jane Bradley, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
Just why viola players seem to be the butt of most orchestral jokes has always evaded me. And when you hear the viola in the hands of Sarah-Jane Bradley you know you are hearing an angel in performance. I have been listening to Bradley since she was in
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The Levellers, Spiegeltent, Old Steine Lawns, Brighton
The Levellers were slapped with a crusty ASBO years ago. Once pigeon-holed, vivid live performances and a batch of catchy singles were conveniently brushed under the carpet. Here in the sparkling environs of the Spiegeltent, the city's most successful
