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SHOPS group the Co-operative Retail Society is to sell the majority of its home furnishings and depa
The Co-op department store in Brighton is not included in the deal because it is owned by a separate society. The sale will raise around £150 million and will allow the society to focus on its food retailing and funerals divisions. It will close its out-of-town
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STORES COULD LOSE DRINKS LICENCES
FIVE traders could lose their drinks licence after selling alcohol to under-18s. Police are preparing evidence for applications to revoke the licences which will go before Crawley magistrates in June. A further six outlets are due to receive cautions
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HOME TRUTHS BY JACQUI BEALING
MY husband has good teeth. I have poor teeth. Whenever we find ourselves making personal attacks on each other's physical failing, he knows he only has to bare his Hampsteads to shut me up. He is 32 and doesn't have a filling in his head. I, meanwhile
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Clarke in for new era
CHAIRMAN Stan Clarke is aiming to launch a new era for Brighton racecourse from the winners' enclosure. The wealthy businessman has bought a local horse which runs at the first meeting of the season tomorrow. Trainer Gary Moore reckons miler Mutabassir
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REWARDS TO CATCH OFF-LICENCE RAIDERS
A DRINKS giant is offering a big reward to help solve two vicious robberies. First Quench, which is owned by Whitbread, runs the Drinks Cabin in Palatine Road, Worthing, and Threshers in Wallace Parade, Worthing. Both off-licences were targeted last month
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MAN, 78, VICTIM OF KNIFE THUG
POLICE today condemned as "abhorrent" a thug who stabbed and robbed a disabled pensioner at his own home. The 78-year-old victim, of Nelson Road, Goring, was attacked when he answered the doorbell just before 8pm last night. The terrified man, who walks
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STONE ME! PUPPET MAN'S SILVER STREAK
Celebrating 25 years as Punch and Judy performer PUNCH and Judy man Mike Stone, who has achieved notoriety in his time for performing nude and X-rated shows for adults, is celebrating his silver jubilee in the puppet business. Mike, who performs under
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A TREE IN MEMORY OF TRAGIC KRISTINA
A COMMEMORATIVE tree may be planted in memory of a seven-year-old girl killed after skateboarding into the path of a neighbour's car. Shocked teachers at the infants school where Kristina Jacobs was a pupil are now discussing how to remember the popular
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PC'S ROAD DEATH: MAN HELD
POLICE were today questioning a man in connection with the hit-and-run death of Sussex PC Jeff Tooley. The suspect, in his forties and from the Hove area, was arrested after walking into a solicitor's office yesterday afternoon. Police attended the office
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GUN RAIDER TAKES CASH FROM BANK
TERRIFIED bank staff handed over cash to a gun-toting robber. Police are now hunting the man who threatened a female cashier with a pistol before running off. The robbery happened in High Street, Battle, at 12.30pm yesterday. The man walked into Lloyds
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STORES COULD LOSE DRINKS LICENCES
FIVE traders could lose their drinks licence after selling alcohol to under-18s. Police are preparing evidence for applications to revoke the licences which will go before Crawley magistrates in June. A further six outlets are due to receive cautions
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DEMAND FOR CURBS ON ROAD LIKE A RACETRACK
PEOPLE in a busy suburb are calling for action over a main road they claim is like a racetrack. Traffic has doubled on Falmer Road, Woodingdean, since the completion of the Brighton bypass because drivers use it as a cut-back into town. Cyril Berry, former
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HOME TRUTHS BY JACQUI BEALING
MY husband has good teeth. I have poor teeth. Whenever we find ourselves making personal attacks on each other's physical failing, he knows he only has to bare his Hampsteads to shut me up. He is 32 and doesn't have a filling in his head. I, meanwhile
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Saltdean miss chance
SALTDEAN lost their nerve last night - and may have handed the title straight back to Burgess Hill. Tigers, in sight of their first ever Divison One crown, had Glenn Davies sent off after 18 minutes and failed to show any sort of composure on a night
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Clarke in for new era
CHAIRMAN Stan Clarke is aiming to launch a new era for Brighton racecourse from the winners' enclosure. The wealthy businessman has bought a local horse which runs at the first meeting of the season tomorrow. Trainer Gary Moore reckons miler Mutabassir
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REWARDS TO CATCH OFF-LICENCE RAIDERS
A DRINKS giant is offering a big reward to help solve two vicious robberies. First Quench, which is owned by Whitbread, runs the Drinks Cabin in Palatine Road, Worthing, and Threshers in Wallace Parade, Worthing. Both off-licences were targeted last month
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PC'S ROAD DEATH: MAN HELD
POLICE were today questioning a man in connection with the hit-and-run death of Sussex PC Jeff Tooley. The suspect, in his forties and from the Hove area, was arrested after walking into a solicitor's office yesterday afternoon. Police attended the office
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DEVELOPERS TAKE THE PLUNGE AT LAST
ONE of Sussex's oldest swimming baths is about to be demolished. The Devonshire Baths at Eastbourne, a classic Victorian indoor pool once a popular venue in the town, was shut 20 years ago. It rapidly became rat infested and vandals destroyed many of
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FEARS GROW FOR MISSING GIRL, 9
MICHAELA SEEN WITH HER MUM A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl has been missing for ten days amid fears she may have been abducted by her mother. Michaela McCulloch ran away from her foster carers on April 17. Since then police have been trying to contact her mother
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GUN RAIDER TAKES CASH FROM BANK
TERRIFIED bank staff handed over cash to a gun-toting robber. Police are now hunting the man who threatened a female cashier with a pistol before running off. The robbery happened in High Street, Battle, at 12.30pm yesterday. The man walked into Lloyds
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FURY OVER JOBS BLOW BY BOSS
WORKERS today slammed a boss who e-mailed employees to say some of them were losing their jobs. The 2,600 staff at Royal Sun Alliance's main Horsham offices were among 24,000 workers at offices across the UK to receive the message. The insurance giant's
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DEALERS JAILED FOR £144,000 DRUGS PLOT
TWO drug dealers who plotted to sell cannabis worth £144,000 have been jailed. Brighton landlord and part-time docker Ronald Compton, 37, was given eight years and Phillip Garvey, 49, of Kidders Lane, Henfield, five-and-a-half years. Lewes Crown Court
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DEMAND FOR CURBS ON ROAD LIKE A RACETRACK
PEOPLE in a busy suburb are calling for action over a main road they claim is like a racetrack. Traffic has doubled on Falmer Road, Woodingdean, since the completion of the Brighton bypass because drivers use it as a cut-back into town. Cyril Berry, former
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Saltdean miss chance
SALTDEAN lost their nerve last night - and may have handed the title straight back to Burgess Hill. Tigers, in sight of their first ever Divison One crown, had Glenn Davies sent off after 18 minutes and failed to show any sort of composure on a night
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COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR AT BEAUTY SPOT
A MAN and woman, holding hands, were found dead in their fume-filled car early today. They were discovered at Devil's Dyke by a jogger just after 8am. Ahose pipe attached to the exhaust led to the car's interior and the engine was still running. The jogger
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BUMPER HOPES FOR SUPER CAT CROSSING
SUPERSEACAT Two, the vessel on the revived Newhaven Dieppe ferry route, is riding the choppy Channel with ease. There have been no cancellations on the route since the first commercial crossing on Friday, and signs are good that the route is set for a
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DEVELOPERS TAKE THE PLUNGE AT LAST
ONE of Sussex's oldest swimming baths is about to be demolished. The Devonshire Baths at Eastbourne, a classic Victorian indoor pool once a popular venue in the town, was shut 20 years ago. It rapidly became rat infested and vandals destroyed many of
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FEARS GROW FOR MISSING GIRL, 9
MICHAELA SEEN WITH HER MUM A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl has been missing for ten days amid fears she may have been abducted by her mother. Michaela McCulloch ran away from her foster carers on April 17. Since then police have been trying to contact her mother
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SHOPS group the Co-operative Retail Society is to sell the majority of its home furnishings and depa
The Co-op department store in Brighton is not included in the deal because it is owned by a separate society. The sale will raise around £150 million and will allow the society to focus on its food retailing and funerals divisions. It will close its out-of-town
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FURY OVER JOBS BLOW BY BOSS
WORKERS today slammed a boss who e-mailed employees to say some of them were losing their jobs. The 2,600 staff at Royal Sun Alliance's main Horsham offices were among 24,000 workers at offices across the UK to receive the message. The insurance giant's
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DEALERS JAILED FOR £144,000 DRUGS PLOT
TWO drug dealers who plotted to sell cannabis worth £144,000 have been jailed. Brighton landlord and part-time docker Ronald Compton, 37, was given eight years and Phillip Garvey, 49, of Kidders Lane, Henfield, five-and-a-half years. Lewes Crown Court
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MAN, 78, VICTIM OF KNIFE THUG
POLICE today condemned as "abhorrent" a thug who stabbed and robbed a disabled pensioner at his own home. The 78-year-old victim, of Nelson Road, Goring, was attacked when he answered the doorbell just before 8pm last night. The terrified man, who walks
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COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR AT BEAUTY SPOT
A MAN and woman, holding hands, were found dead in their fume-filled car early today. They were discovered at Devil's Dyke by a jogger just after 8am. Ahose pipe attached to the exhaust led to the car's interior and the engine was still running. The jogger
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BUMPER HOPES FOR SUPER CAT CROSSING
SUPERSEACAT Two, the vessel on the revived Newhaven Dieppe ferry route, is riding the choppy Channel with ease. There have been no cancellations on the route since the first commercial crossing on Friday, and signs are good that the route is set for a
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STONE ME! PUPPET MAN'S SILVER STREAK
Celebrating 25 years as Punch and Judy performer PUNCH and Judy man Mike Stone, who has achieved notoriety in his time for performing nude and X-rated shows for adults, is celebrating his silver jubilee in the puppet business. Mike, who performs under
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A TREE IN MEMORY OF TRAGIC KRISTINA
A COMMEMORATIVE tree may be planted in memory of a seven-year-old girl killed after skateboarding into the path of a neighbour's car. Shocked teachers at the infants school where Kristina Jacobs was a pupil are now discussing how to remember the popular
