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Southern Water spent more than £170 million on environmental improvements between April and
September. The investment was £30 million more than Southern Water's £140 million operating profit in the same period. Parent company ScottishPower announced the figures as part of the group's interim results. They showed a six per cent increase in turnover
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VOICE OF THE ARGUS
Girls flushed with anger Teenage girls at a new college in Brighton don't like the closed circuit TV cameras that have been installed in the loos and are planning a protest. Their feelings that their privacy has been invaded are understandable but they
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COMMUNITY NEWS FROM AROUND SUSSEX
Worthing Tony Malone 01903 246486 COMMUNITY CENTRE: Broad-water Community Association are a group in Worthing trying to raise funds and awareness of the need for a Community Centre in Broadwater. Worthing Borough Council have transferred the lease of
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COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA
Hove to fishersgate Frank Blake 01273 885332 FIREWORKS: St Mary's RC Primary School, Vale Road, Portslade, are holding a Grand Fireworks night at the school tonight. Gates open 6pm. Children's Guy Fawkes Mask Competition plus barbecue. Tickets on the
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HOSPITAL STILL SHORT OF FOUR DOCTORS FOR CHILDREN'S WARD
THE future of the children's ward at a hospital was thrown into further doubt today. Four doctors needed to run a slimmed-down service have still not been recruited for the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath, despite a rescue package agreed by West Sussex
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FRIENDS MOURN ROAD VICTIM DAPHNE, 80
A PENSIONER was killed in a hit-and-run accident as she crossed the street in Hove. Daphne Fitzgerald, 80, was crossing the westbound carriageway of Kingsway when she was struck by a car outside the Neptune pub. She died at the scene. Police said the
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Adams is such a busy man
MICKY Adams has been a very busy man since taking charge of Albion little more than 200 days ago. The speed and severity of his squad rebuilding has been quite startling. Adams inherited 31 players with first team experience when he arrived in April.
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Late goals sink the Reserves
DESPITE holding a 2-1 lead with little more than 20 minutes remaining, Albion slipped to a 4-2 defeat in their Avon Combination fixture at Leyton Orient yesterday afternoon. Two goals from David Cameron had put Albion in the driving seat but the Londoners
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OUR BABY HAS COST US £20,000
A young couple are facing a £20,000 bill after their baby was born on a disastrous holiday in Florida. The medical costs have mounted up because they were not covered for pregnancy on their insurance. But Stephen Titheridge, 40, said his girlfriend, Lynda
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STUDENTS KEEP LEGS CROSSED IN PROTEST
TEENAGE girls claim their privacy is being invaded by closed circuit television cameras fitted in college toilets. When students returned to the East Brighton College of Media Arts after half-term they discovered cameras had been installed in both the
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GET INTO THE MAGPIE HABIT!
DOOR-TO-DOOR or kerbside collection schemes are the future if more of our waste is going to be recycled. In the fourth of our special reports Chris Baker looks at how some areas are cutting what gets thrown away and the problems they face. THE old are
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FIGHT THEM ON THE BRIGHTON BEACHES
THE campaign to save the French Convalescent Home was in full swing today, with people from all walks of life joining the fight to save it from the bulldozers. Today we ask Argus readers to sign our petition calling on Bovis Retirement Homes to think
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Shamed boss gets minimum pay-off
A SENIOR Government minister has told the Commons shamed hospital boss Clive Uren will receive the "lowest possible" pay-off. There was uproar when it emerged chief executive Mr Uren, who stepped down following a damning report into levels of care at
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WITH THESE CUFFS I THEE NICK
A BRIDEGROOM was arrested in a register office just minutes before he was due to marry. James Reid, wanted on warrants for burglary and forgery, was handcuffed, taken to a police car outside the office at Brighton Town Hall, and driven to the John Street
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PROTEST RISK TO £5.5m BID
Anti-parking protesters are putting a town's chance of a £5.5 million windfall at risk, says a council leader. Coun Bert Leggett, of Eastbourne Borough Council, launched a scathing attack on them last night. He said their campaign against pay and display
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VOICE OF THE ARGUS
Girls flushed with anger Teenage girls at a new college in Brighton don't like the closed circuit TV cameras that have been installed in the loos and are planning a protest. Their feelings that their privacy has been invaded are understandable but they
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COMMUNITY NEWS FROM AROUND SUSSEX
Worthing Tony Malone 01903 246486 COMMUNITY CENTRE: Broad-water Community Association are a group in Worthing trying to raise funds and awareness of the need for a Community Centre in Broadwater. Worthing Borough Council have transferred the lease of
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HOSPITAL STILL SHORT OF FOUR DOCTORS FOR CHILDREN'S WARD
THE future of the children's ward at a hospital was thrown into further doubt today. Four doctors needed to run a slimmed-down service have still not been recruited for the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath, despite a rescue package agreed by West Sussex
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Adams is such a busy man
MICKY Adams has been a very busy man since taking charge of Albion little more than 200 days ago. The speed and severity of his squad rebuilding has been quite startling. Adams inherited 31 players with first team experience when he arrived in April.
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Late goals sink the Reserves
DESPITE holding a 2-1 lead with little more than 20 minutes remaining, Albion slipped to a 4-2 defeat in their Avon Combination fixture at Leyton Orient yesterday afternoon. Two goals from David Cameron had put Albion in the driving seat but the Londoners
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Freeman: I lose it sometimes
ALBION ace Darren Freeman admitted today: "I lose it sometimes". The Seagulls will be without their unpredictable top scorer for the next three fixtures after he was sent off at Cheltenham last month for stamping on an opponent. Freeman is banned from
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THEY GAVE MY JOB TO A MACHINE
EVERY morning for the past eight years John Hambridge has cheerfully greeted motorists as they leave their cars at Brighton station. John, 74, hands commuters their car park tickets and chats to them before they leave to catch their trains to work. But
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Shamed boss gets minimum pay-off
A SENIOR Government minister has told the Commons shamed hospital boss Clive Uren will receive the "lowest possible" pay-off. There was uproar when it emerged chief executive Mr Uren, who stepped down following a damning report into levels of care at
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ADAM TRIMINGHAM : THE SAGE OF SUSSEX
Elected mayors are commonplace in continental Europe and in parts of America but here in Britain we are only now taking our hesitant first steps towards having one in London. What a shame that the process is being besmirched by the worst sort of political
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Alldis: This is the point of no return
CRAWLEY'S Michael Alldis has vowed to shed his 'nearly man' tag when he fights Patrick Mullings for the vacant British super-bantam weight title on Saturday. In seven years as a professional, Alldis has fought for five major titles and lost the lot of
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Freeman: I lose it sometimes
ALBION ace Darren Freeman admitted today: "I lose it sometimes". The Seagulls will be without their unpredictable top scorer for the next three fixtures after he was sent off at Cheltenham last month for stamping on an opponent. Freeman is banned from
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CALL FOR ALL TO GET WEB ACCESS
Every person in Brighton and Hove could be put on the Internet free for a millennium project. The scheme was outlined to Brighton and Hove Council's ruling cabinet yesterday by writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe. He chairs The Place to Be campaign
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THEY GAVE MY JOB TO A MACHINE
EVERY morning for the past eight years John Hambridge has cheerfully greeted motorists as they leave their cars at Brighton station. John, 74, hands commuters their car park tickets and chats to them before they leave to catch their trains to work. But
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Southern Water spent more than £170 million on environmental improvements between April and
September. The investment was £30 million more than Southern Water's £140 million operating profit in the same period. Parent company ScottishPower announced the figures as part of the group's interim results. They showed a six per cent increase in turnover
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COMMUNITY NEWS FROM THE BRIGHTON AREA
Hove to fishersgate Frank Blake 01273 885332 FIREWORKS: St Mary's RC Primary School, Vale Road, Portslade, are holding a Grand Fireworks night at the school tonight. Gates open 6pm. Children's Guy Fawkes Mask Competition plus barbecue. Tickets on the
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FRIENDS MOURN ROAD VICTIM DAPHNE, 80
A PENSIONER was killed in a hit-and-run accident as she crossed the street in Hove. Daphne Fitzgerald, 80, was crossing the westbound carriageway of Kingsway when she was struck by a car outside the Neptune pub. She died at the scene. Police said the
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ADAM TRIMINGHAM : THE SAGE OF SUSSEX
Elected mayors are commonplace in continental Europe and in parts of America but here in Britain we are only now taking our hesitant first steps towards having one in London. What a shame that the process is being besmirched by the worst sort of political
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Alldis: This is the point of no return
CRAWLEY'S Michael Alldis has vowed to shed his 'nearly man' tag when he fights Patrick Mullings for the vacant British super-bantam weight title on Saturday. In seven years as a professional, Alldis has fought for five major titles and lost the lot of
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OUR BABY HAS COST US £20,000
A young couple are facing a £20,000 bill after their baby was born on a disastrous holiday in Florida. The medical costs have mounted up because they were not covered for pregnancy on their insurance. But Stephen Titheridge, 40, said his girlfriend, Lynda
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CALL FOR ALL TO GET WEB ACCESS
Every person in Brighton and Hove could be put on the Internet free for a millennium project. The scheme was outlined to Brighton and Hove Council's ruling cabinet yesterday by writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe. He chairs The Place to Be campaign
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STUDENTS KEEP LEGS CROSSED IN PROTEST
TEENAGE girls claim their privacy is being invaded by closed circuit television cameras fitted in college toilets. When students returned to the East Brighton College of Media Arts after half-term they discovered cameras had been installed in both the
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GET INTO THE MAGPIE HABIT!
DOOR-TO-DOOR or kerbside collection schemes are the future if more of our waste is going to be recycled. In the fourth of our special reports Chris Baker looks at how some areas are cutting what gets thrown away and the problems they face. THE old are
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FIGHT THEM ON THE BRIGHTON BEACHES
THE campaign to save the French Convalescent Home was in full swing today, with people from all walks of life joining the fight to save it from the bulldozers. Today we ask Argus readers to sign our petition calling on Bovis Retirement Homes to think
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WITH THESE CUFFS I THEE NICK
A BRIDEGROOM was arrested in a register office just minutes before he was due to marry. James Reid, wanted on warrants for burglary and forgery, was handcuffed, taken to a police car outside the office at Brighton Town Hall, and driven to the John Street
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PROTEST RISK TO £5.5m BID
Anti-parking protesters are putting a town's chance of a £5.5 million windfall at risk, says a council leader. Coun Bert Leggett, of Eastbourne Borough Council, launched a scathing attack on them last night. He said their campaign against pay and display
