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QS, the value-for-money clothing retailer, has reported a four-fold increase in pre-tax profits.
The Hove-based company had a successful year to January 30 with profits up from £280,000 in 1997 to £1.09 million. Turnover for the year was up by 9.3 per cent to £63.9 million. Chairman David Heywood, who leaves the company at the end of the month, said
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For most of his long political career he received no payment at all and when he did claim allowances
Yet when a memorial service is held for him, I can guarantee that the pews will be packed with friends, colleagues, relations and a fair number of those whom he served so selflessly for so long. Stan was a working man who never forgot his roots. He kept
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CASH-STRAPPED Crawley Town have not paid their players for three weeks.
Chief executive John Maggs has pledged to find the cash, but the players might have to wait until the end of the season in six weeks time before they are paid up. Maggs, whose own salary is partly paid by Crawley Borough Council, and the management team
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SUSSEX will parade all four of their winter signings when the new season swings into action under th
Richard Montgomerie, Michael Di Venuto, Tony Cottey and Umer Rashid are all in the side for the opening friendly against Kent. The day-night match is being played under National League rules of 45 overs per-side. It starts at 3pm and forms the centrepiece
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LAST week the Argus challenged Albion chairman Dick Knight to reveal his detailed plans and funding
JUDGING by all the hype surrounding the news that leisure tycoon Stephen Purdew has announced plans in the media to pour millions into the Albion in return for a controlling interest, you'd think the club has miraculously been shown the light at the end
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A WOMAN who turned a holiday flight into a nightmare at 30,000ft was today starting 12 months in pri
Belinda Seery attacked a member of the crew and another passenger during a flight from Gatwick to the Caribbean. A jury heard that Seery constantly ignored cabin crew by going to the toilet for cigarettes on the non-smoking flight. She eventually had
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YOUTH WORKER FACES HIGH COURT ACTION
A SENIOR youth worker employed to help vulnerable teenagers took up to £100,000 earmarked for youth charities and organisations, it has been alleged. Steven Ralf offered counselling and support to 11 to 25-year-olds while working for Hastings Detached
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AID worker Sally Becker is returning to the war-torn Balkans alone as Russia ordered a warship to th
Sally left her home in Withdean, Brighton, last night to give her support to refugees. She is flying to Athens and will then use any means possible to reach the refugee camp at Shkodra in northern Albania. Sally's spokesman, Mike Mendoza said: "She will
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SUSPECT burglars got soaked and covered in mud as they fled from police through fields and across a
The chase started at 4.20pm yesterday when a woman spotted four men acting suspiciously near a restaurant at Barcombe Mills, Lewes. Police, aware of two break-ins in the area, found nearby a car containing property stolen from the restaurant and burglary
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QS, the value-for-money clothing retailer, has reported a four-fold increase in pre-tax profits.
The Hove-based company had a successful year to January 30 with profits up from £280,000 in 1997 to £1.09 million. Turnover for the year was up by 9.3 per cent to £63.9 million. Chairman David Heywood, who leaves the company at the end of the month, said
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FIRMS have been warned to obey safety-at-work rules or face prosecution.
Mid Sussex environmental health chiefs spoke out after two firms were fined a total of £47,000 over an accident in which a cashier broke an arm and a leg falling through a hatch at a shop in East Grinstead. Mid Sussex Council prosecuted Seeboard and the
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A 91-YEAR-OLD woman who spent a night snared on a barbed wire fence was recovering from her ordeal t
And the man who found her said he was amazed when he discovered how old she was. He said:"She must be marvellously fit for her age." Elsie Calnan was found last night in a field two miles from the Sussex Grange rest home in Vincent Road, Selsey, where
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LAST week the Argus challenged Albion chairman Dick Knight to reveal his detailed plans and funding
JUDGING by all the hype surrounding the news that leisure tycoon Stephen Purdew has announced plans in the media to pour millions into the Albion in return for a controlling interest, you'd think the club has miraculously been shown the light at the end
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YOUTH WORKER FACES HIGH COURT ACTION
A SENIOR youth worker employed to help vulnerable teenagers took up to £100,000 earmarked for youth charities and organisations, it has been alleged. Steven Ralf offered counselling and support to 11 to 25-year-olds while working for Hastings Detached
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SUSPECT burglars got soaked and covered in mud as they fled from police through fields and across a
The chase started at 4.20pm yesterday when a woman spotted four men acting suspiciously near a restaurant at Barcombe Mills, Lewes. Police, aware of two break-ins in the area, found nearby a car containing property stolen from the restaurant and burglary
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FIRMS have been warned to obey safety-at-work rules or face prosecution.
Mid Sussex environmental health chiefs spoke out after two firms were fined a total of £47,000 over an accident in which a cashier broke an arm and a leg falling through a hatch at a shop in East Grinstead. Mid Sussex Council prosecuted Seeboard and the
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DENTIST Aiden McHugh pulled the wool over his parents' eyes when he sprang a cheeky April Fool's Day
The 37-year-old paid an early morning visit to their home in Upper Drive, Hove, and left a ram munching on their lawn. His mother Breda said: "I woke up and went down stairs to make a cuppa and as I was filling the kettle I gazed sleepily out the window
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A 91-YEAR-OLD woman who spent a night snared on a barbed wire fence was recovering from her ordeal t
And the man who found her said he was amazed when he discovered how old she was. He said:"She must be marvellously fit for her age." Elsie Calnan was found last night in a field two miles from the Sussex Grange rest home in Vincent Road, Selsey, where
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SUSSEX PC Chris Sherwood was last night charged with the murder of James Ashley.
The 31-year-old force marksman, the first Sussex officer to face such a charge, is also accused of manslaughter. He has been freed on bail and is due to appear before Bow Street magistrates in London on May 21. Four other Sussex officers have been charged
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DENTIST Aiden McHugh pulled the wool over his parents' eyes when he sprang a cheeky April Fool's Day
The 37-year-old paid an early morning visit to their home in Upper Drive, Hove, and left a ram munching on their lawn. His mother Breda said: "I woke up and went down stairs to make a cuppa and as I was filling the kettle I gazed sleepily out the window
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For most of his long political career he received no payment at all and when he did claim allowances
Yet when a memorial service is held for him, I can guarantee that the pews will be packed with friends, colleagues, relations and a fair number of those whom he served so selflessly for so long. Stan was a working man who never forgot his roots. He kept
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Date
CASH-STRAPPED Crawley Town have not paid their players for three weeks.
Chief executive John Maggs has pledged to find the cash, but the players might have to wait until the end of the season in six weeks time before they are paid up. Maggs, whose own salary is partly paid by Crawley Borough Council, and the management team
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Date
SUSSEX will parade all four of their winter signings when the new season swings into action under th
Richard Montgomerie, Michael Di Venuto, Tony Cottey and Umer Rashid are all in the side for the opening friendly against Kent. The day-night match is being played under National League rules of 45 overs per-side. It starts at 3pm and forms the centrepiece
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Date
A WOMAN who turned a holiday flight into a nightmare at 30,000ft was today starting 12 months in pri
Belinda Seery attacked a member of the crew and another passenger during a flight from Gatwick to the Caribbean. A jury heard that Seery constantly ignored cabin crew by going to the toilet for cigarettes on the non-smoking flight. She eventually had
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AID worker Sally Becker is returning to the war-torn Balkans alone as Russia ordered a warship to th
Sally left her home in Withdean, Brighton, last night to give her support to refugees. She is flying to Athens and will then use any means possible to reach the refugee camp at Shkodra in northern Albania. Sally's spokesman, Mike Mendoza said: "She will
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SUSSEX PC Chris Sherwood was last night charged with the murder of James Ashley.
The 31-year-old force marksman, the first Sussex officer to face such a charge, is also accused of manslaughter. He has been freed on bail and is due to appear before Bow Street magistrates in London on May 21. Four other Sussex officers have been charged
