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No handbag stress
I would like to thank the person who found my handbag which I left on the floor while having a cup of coffee in Woolworths, Western Road. I went through an emotional few minutes before it was handed back to me. Thank you so much. -Mrs D. Bakee, Upperton
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It could be worse for Tony
With all the fuss over Euan Blair, his father should remember it could be worse. Dad, I'm on drugs, dad I've got a girl pregnant, dad, isn't Ken Livingstone wonderful. -Nigel Donovan, Lincoln Road, Portslade
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Investigators in the firing line
One of the most experienced insolvency specialists in Sussex has questioned the Insolvency Service's current ability to investigate bankruptcy cases. Chris Ashurst, a partner in the Brighton office of chartered accountants Mazars Neville Russell, responding
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A first as new advertising deal is struck
Bupa International has appointed a Brighton-based advertising agency to handle part of its advertising. This is the first time an agency outside London has been chosen by the health care giant. The £250,000 creative account was awarded to Designate, one
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USA empty? No way
V. J. Harman describes the USA as a huge empty field (Opinion, July 7). Empty? Not on your life - or rather not on the lives of some 60 million native American Indians. These impoverished immigrants gained the land by genocide, cheating, terror, rape
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Bank's adviser praises Sussex achievements
Sussex has beaten off problems caused by the strong pound and could continue to outperform the national economy, says NatWest's chief economist David Kern. Mr Kern (below) was speaking at a breakfast meeting at The Hawth, Crawley, on Friday. He said Sussex
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Paul, 13, joins A&E campaign
Young Paul Thomasoo was so disgusted by plans to close a casualty unit, he has donated some of his pocket money to hospital supporters. Paul, 13, read our exclusive stories about plans to downgrade the accident and emergency department at the Princess
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£800,000 to counter domestic violence
Women suffering beatings and cruelty at the hands of violent husbands and partners are to benefit from an £800,000 crackdown in Sussex. The Government funding was announced yesterday with £398,882 going to The Women's Refuge, in Brighton, and £423,186
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Make them pay
As the £400,000 needed to maintain bus services at the present level is about half what Brighton and Hove councillors have awarded themselves in allowances, is it too much to expect them to meet this transport deficit? They surely wish to serve the community
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Pensioner wins £15,000 pay out
A pensioner who was almost blinded in one eye after it was injected with the wrong type of fluid has won £15,000 compensation in an out of court settlement with Bupa. The woman was among 20 elderly patients from the Brighton and Hove area whose eyesight
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Peerless
I have just discovered two books published locally, by Queens Spark Market Books. They recall the stories of two West Pier employees. Oh! What a Lovely Pier is by Daphne Mitchell and Deckhand West Pier is by Arthur Thickett. They capture the imagination
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Mystery of schoolgirl death
Mystery surrounds the death of a schoolgirl who was found in bed at her home in Brighton. Twelve-year-old Kali Hitchcock, of Hawkhurst Road, Coldean, was found by her father yesterday morning after she did not reply when called down to breakfast. An ambulance
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An alternative
It's obvious New Labour no longer cares about the people it is supposed to represent. Brighton and Hove Council has closed the Palmeira Project, while the axing of early morning bus services will be a blow to low paid shift workers and won't encourage
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Hypocrisy
Recent letters seem to have rounded on Brian Phillips from Transport 2000 like a pack of bloodhounds. In England, more children are killed and injured per mile walked or cycled than virtually anywhere else in western Europe. It is also conveniently forgotten
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Town's £32m bid to curb flood of cars
A £32 million bid to improve the transport system in Brighton and Hove has been submitted to the Government. If the bid is successful, Brighton and Hove Council plans to use the money to double the number of cyclists in the towns by 2002. It also aims
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Six bidding for £1bn rubbish contract
Six companies will be invited to bid for a multi-million pound waste contract that has yet to be approved by councillors. The firms will tender for the controversial private finance initiative contract to process waste in Brighton and Hove and East Sussex
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Frustration
I wonder if the Government has considered the thousands of disabled people in the country who rely on their cars to get about, when it tells us to pay up or shut up about rising petrol costs? People with mobility problems do not have the option of walking
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Super show by Barnett
Ringmer are the new leaders of division one of the East Sussex Cricket League after Rye suffered a surprise defeat at home to The Boards. Steve Barnett hit a splendid 97 as Ringmer set a total of 210-6, with Simon Pugh adding 47 as Rupert Thacker took
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After two years' work, is the Albion still wrong?
Recent reports on the suitability of Falmer as a site for the proposed community stadium suggest it is both unworkable and prohibitively expensive. Brighton and Hove Albion has been working on the application for nearly two years and I find it hard to
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Khan's hat-trick proves vain effort
Wasim Khan took a hat-trick for Sussex seconds as they skittled Surrey out for 173 before rain ruined the Aon Trophy clash at Sutton. Occasional medium-pacer Khan was introduced as Sussex's sixth bowler, and finished with 5-38 from his ten overs as Surrey
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Centre sets an example -Jay
Baroness Jay, minister for women, praised Sussex's female e-commerce entrepreneurs when she visited the county last week. Her comments came as she met local businesswomen at the Sussex Innovation Centre at Falmer. Managing director Jane Graham, of Viking
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Preparing for a giant leap in patients' care
A Brighton firm is hoping to bring space age medical technology to the NHS which it says will make patients better off in their homes than in hospital beds. Moon Communications has created a system which lets nurses check the blood pressure, heart movement
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New-haven
Newhaven residents will soon have a better idea than ever of just how the redeveloped West Quay will look thanks to cutting edge computer animation. A two-and-a-half minute computer-generated film showing the development, complete with passing joggers
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Fans can tap path to show
Fans of Riverdance can now get a taste of the foot-stomping show online thanks to a Brighton firm. Babel Media has created the official website for the show which launched the career of flamboyant Irish dancer Michael Flatley. Staff at the Brighton firm
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Musical booster for jobs market
Britain's first internet music radio portal is to be launched in Brighton by the man who created Surf 107.2. RadioRevolution is the brainchild of Eugene Perera, who founded Surf after setting up radio stations in Manchester and Yorkshire. The site is
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Computer prize will get a real hammering
A mother who worked extra shifts over the millennium holiday to afford a computer for her daughter has won a top-of-the-range PC from evolution. Karen Fallbrown, 37, scooped the £699 Tulip Computers machine after she entered an evolution competition and
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Is it time to sell, sell, sell?
Share dealers and dabblers will be able to get price updates sent straight from the internet to their phones and pagers thanks to two Sussex companies. Brighton-based website ShareCrazy has teamed up with Hove's Stock Alerts to create the net-based service
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Internet is booming
The first official statistics for internet use in Britain show nearly a quarter of people in the South-East have home access to the internet, up from 13 per cent last year. With 24 per cent of people in the region online, the South-East is just behind
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Resort gets thumbs up
An international telecoms firm hopes to create 20 jobs within a year after picking Brighton as the base for its recruitment division. Band-X Recruitment moved into offices in Tower Point, Brighton, last month and is currently looking for three new staff
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Net catching graduates
The number of employers recruiting graduates on the internet has doubled in the past year, according to a report. Two out of three graduate recruiters are now hiring staff online, while nine out of 10 students in their final year of university are looking
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Net Solutions with Andrew Hardy
Q: Can you tell me why I need a screen saver? Will my screen be damaged if I don't use one? A: In the early days of computing, text-based computer displays would often display the same text for long periods of time. This resulted in something called phosphor
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Review: A nifty combination
Fed up with buying, installing and maintaining lots of copies of Outlook or Eudora? What about picking up e-mail when you are out of the office? GLWebMail is a new British product that claims to fix all that by combining the security and functionality
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Review: This was hard work
My first expectations of DIV Games Studio were high; I had read the box thoroughly and was expecting to be producing games by the evening. I was disappointed to find game creation requires a good working knowledge of the Games Studio's own programming
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Website of the week
Launched in Sussex in 1993 with EU funding, Cartoonet has become a free international agency for illustrators. Designed for editors, its international pool of artists now makes it a fascinating visit for casual browsers. From jokey cartoons to subtle
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Review: Fluffy fun makes a change
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne from Eidos is a breath of fresh air. It is aimed squarely at the under-fives and it can be safely said that this title will not appeal to adults. The game centres on the adventues of the Bonne family who roam the world
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Bulmer proves its cider house rules
Fizzing sales of premium Strongbow cider helped HP Bulmer brew up strong profits last year. Strongbow is now the tenth biggest alcohol brand in the UK and together with Bulmer's other cider brands, which include Woodpecker and Scrumpy Jack, accounts for
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No handbag stress
I would like to thank the person who found my handbag which I left on the floor while having a cup of coffee in Woolworths, Western Road. I went through an emotional few minutes before it was handed back to me. Thank you so much. -Mrs D. Bakee, Upperton
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Holiday firm in VAT rule victory
First Choice, the Sussex-based holiday giant, has won an important test case against Customs and Excise in the High Court. A ruling by the court will mean a £20 million windfall to the country's holiday operators. The court, in a case involving the Crawley
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Investigators in the firing line
One of the most experienced insolvency specialists in Sussex has questioned the Insolvency Service's current ability to investigate bankruptcy cases. Chris Ashurst, a partner in the Brighton office of chartered accountants Mazars Neville Russell, responding
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Artillery Cottages info needed
I am researching my family history and am trying to locate buildings referred to as Artillery Cottages in Brighton on a birth certificate dated l848. Does anyone have any information? -H. Henry, 26 Winfield Avenue, Brighton
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Lizzie Enfield - Signal Failure
Last week, mentioned problems trying to order cup of British Rail tea. Firstly, from up-market cafe which served Madagascan Nutmeg, Rwandan Mango and various other previously unheard of types of tea; secondly, on train where employees are forbidden to
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£800,000 to counter domestic violence
Women suffering beatings and cruelty at the hands of violent husbands and partners are to benefit from an £800,000 crackdown in Sussex. The Government funding was announced yesterday with £398,882 going to The Women's Refuge, in Brighton, and £423,186
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MP makes a meal of Soames in jelly jibe
Things can often get overheated during stuffy debates in the House of Commons with ministers trading blows across the floor. But nothing prepared the assembled members for a spectacular attack on larger-than-life Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames yesterday
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No time to delay clock restoration
The Clock Tower in Brighton town centre looks sad and shabby. But money is the only thing holding up its return to former glory. They loved it when it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. They loathed it when it became a traffic hazard
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Make them pay
As the £400,000 needed to maintain bus services at the present level is about half what Brighton and Hove councillors have awarded themselves in allowances, is it too much to expect them to meet this transport deficit? They surely wish to serve the community
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Furious farmers lash out at French market
Council chiefs have angrily dismissed claims they are threatening local farmers' livelihoods by helping foreign competitors instead. Sussex farmers demonstrated against a three-day French market in Haywards Heath over the weekend by driving tractors around
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Pensioner wins £15,000 pay out
A pensioner who was almost blinded in one eye after it was injected with the wrong type of fluid has won £15,000 compensation in an out of court settlement with Bupa. The woman was among 20 elderly patients from the Brighton and Hove area whose eyesight
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Peerless
I have just discovered two books published locally, by Queens Spark Market Books. They recall the stories of two West Pier employees. Oh! What a Lovely Pier is by Daphne Mitchell and Deckhand West Pier is by Arthur Thickett. They capture the imagination
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Virtual virus teaches doctors
It looks like any other virtual reality machine hooked up at amusement centres across the country. But this technology has a serious message. Cancer experts have been using the latest scientific advances to experience the extreme fatigue from which many
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Mystery of schoolgirl death
Mystery surrounds the death of a schoolgirl who was found in bed at her home in Brighton. Twelve-year-old Kali Hitchcock, of Hawkhurst Road, Coldean, was found by her father yesterday morning after she did not reply when called down to breakfast. An ambulance
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An alternative
It's obvious New Labour no longer cares about the people it is supposed to represent. Brighton and Hove Council has closed the Palmeira Project, while the axing of early morning bus services will be a blow to low paid shift workers and won't encourage
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Brave PC Bob to get Queen's award
A policeman who rescued a baby from a burning house is to be awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery. PC Bob Greenall, from Little Common, Bexhill, was patrolling the streets of Eastbourne in April, 1998, when he was called to a fire in a two-storey
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Tory claim that crime has soared in a year
Crime in Sussex has risen by 5.4 per cent, show figures released today. More than 7,000 extra crimes were committed in the year ending in March, claims a Conservative Party report. The total of 137,000 represents a 5.4 per cent rise compared to 1998/99
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Go-ahead for £1.6m danger road bridge
Campaigners celebrate victory over A27 crossing Campaigners today celebrated winning their long-running battle for safety improvements on a notorious stretch of the A27. Residents in Worthing and Lancing are delighted after the Highways Agency announced
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Boss's pledge to speed mail
Angry Burgess Hill residents have won a victory in their fight against poor postal deliveries. The Royal Mail pledged at a public meeting last night to increase staff in the town by 10 per cent to 55 and admitted the service had fallen below standard.
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Fight to save cliff houses
The long-awaited public inquiry to decide the future of the cliffs at one of the best known beauty spots in Sussex is to open next week. A Government planning inspector will consider the plan for a wall at the base of crumbling cliffs at Birling Gap,
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Frustration
I wonder if the Government has considered the thousands of disabled people in the country who rely on their cars to get about, when it tells us to pay up or shut up about rising petrol costs? People with mobility problems do not have the option of walking
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It's rubbish
I cannot believe the arrogance of the recent article recommending Newhaven as the site for the new incinerator (Argus, July 5). Not only does Brighton have to dump all its sewage over its border, it now wants to burn all its rubbish in Newhaven. Is there
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Voice of the Argus - Good eye-opening decisions
A group of 20 pensioners became the victims of a series of bungled cataract operations at the Bupa Gatwick Park Hospital last year. Some of those affected suffered near-blindness after being injected with a liquid which contained a preservative and was
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Hardware: It's simply thew answer to an e-mailer's prayer
GlobalPulse Palm provides a real solution to one of the biggest mobile computer user questions. How do I get my e-mail when I am on the road, without carrying a laptop computer or waiting hours for my WAP phone to get its act together? This remarkable
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Hardware: Those familiar screens aren't so bad after all
Visual Display Units are often blamed for causing headaches, eyestrain and an assortment of other ills but how much of this is really true and how much is just office myth? The simple fact is that there is very little evidence VDUs actually cause any
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Centre sets an example -Jay
Baroness Jay, minister for women, praised Sussex's female e-commerce entrepreneurs when she visited the county last week. Her comments came as she met local businesswomen at the Sussex Innovation Centre at Falmer. Managing director Jane Graham, of Viking
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Preparing for a giant leap in patients' care
A Brighton firm is hoping to bring space age medical technology to the NHS which it says will make patients better off in their homes than in hospital beds. Moon Communications has created a system which lets nurses check the blood pressure, heart movement
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New-haven
Newhaven residents will soon have a better idea than ever of just how the redeveloped West Quay will look thanks to cutting edge computer animation. A two-and-a-half minute computer-generated film showing the development, complete with passing joggers
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Fans can tap path to show
Fans of Riverdance can now get a taste of the foot-stomping show online thanks to a Brighton firm. Babel Media has created the official website for the show which launched the career of flamboyant Irish dancer Michael Flatley. Staff at the Brighton firm
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Computer prize will get a real hammering
A mother who worked extra shifts over the millennium holiday to afford a computer for her daughter has won a top-of-the-range PC from evolution. Karen Fallbrown, 37, scooped the £699 Tulip Computers machine after she entered an evolution competition and
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Is it time to sell, sell, sell?
Share dealers and dabblers will be able to get price updates sent straight from the internet to their phones and pagers thanks to two Sussex companies. Brighton-based website ShareCrazy has teamed up with Hove's Stock Alerts to create the net-based service
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Net Solutions with Andrew Hardy
Q: Can you tell me why I need a screen saver? Will my screen be damaged if I don't use one? A: In the early days of computing, text-based computer displays would often display the same text for long periods of time. This resulted in something called phosphor
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Review: Designing a web made so simple
As expected, the packaging for this software hyped about WEB! Pro Edition's power - and it certainly didn't disappoint. Exact placement of images, text, buttons and the like makes this an attractive piece of software for business and home user. It allows
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Review: Fluffy fun makes a change
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne from Eidos is a breath of fresh air. It is aimed squarely at the under-fives and it can be safely said that this title will not appeal to adults. The game centres on the adventues of the Bonne family who roam the world
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Bulmer proves its cider house rules
Fizzing sales of premium Strongbow cider helped HP Bulmer brew up strong profits last year. Strongbow is now the tenth biggest alcohol brand in the UK and together with Bulmer's other cider brands, which include Woodpecker and Scrumpy Jack, accounts for
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Holiday firm in VAT rule victory
First Choice, the Sussex-based holiday giant, has won an important test case against Customs and Excise in the High Court. A ruling by the court will mean a £20 million windfall to the country's holiday operators. The court, in a case involving the Crawley
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Give Euan a break
I'm sick of hearing about Tony Blair's son. He's no different from any other teenager, and probably just wanted some attention. What really makes me sad is all the publicity he's getting, while the poor little girl who is missing should be the headlines
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Artillery Cottages info needed
I am researching my family history and am trying to locate buildings referred to as Artillery Cottages in Brighton on a birth certificate dated l848. Does anyone have any information? -H. Henry, 26 Winfield Avenue, Brighton
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Thanks Argus
Thanks to the Argus publishing my letter in an attempt to trace a schoolboy friend of a contact of mine in Australia, I was eventually able to get directly in touch with him. After 57 years I thought the chances were slim and the result is therefore doubly
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Lizzie Enfield - Signal Failure
Last week, mentioned problems trying to order cup of British Rail tea. Firstly, from up-market cafe which served Madagascan Nutmeg, Rwandan Mango and various other previously unheard of types of tea; secondly, on train where employees are forbidden to
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MP makes a meal of Soames in jelly jibe
Things can often get overheated during stuffy debates in the House of Commons with ministers trading blows across the floor. But nothing prepared the assembled members for a spectacular attack on larger-than-life Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames yesterday
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Don't blame us
There has been a lot of controversy about the skatepark being built in Homefield Park in Worthing, where a groundbreaking ceremony was recently attended by Worthing mayor Brian McLuskie. Local residents and users of the park feel it will attract the wrong
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No time to delay clock restoration
The Clock Tower in Brighton town centre looks sad and shabby. But money is the only thing holding up its return to former glory. They loved it when it was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. They loathed it when it became a traffic hazard
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Furious farmers lash out at French market
Council chiefs have angrily dismissed claims they are threatening local farmers' livelihoods by helping foreign competitors instead. Sussex farmers demonstrated against a three-day French market in Haywards Heath over the weekend by driving tractors around
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Virtual virus teaches doctors
It looks like any other virtual reality machine hooked up at amusement centres across the country. But this technology has a serious message. Cancer experts have been using the latest scientific advances to experience the extreme fatigue from which many
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Boy arrested for giving false Sarah tip-offs
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after police were given a false tip-off about missing Sarah Payne. A youth phoned three times, saying he had seen the eight-year-old being dropped off near the Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton in the early hours
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Sites unseen
Plans to build a waste incinerator at Newhaven looked dead and buried at the end of last year as councillors in East Sussex ripped-up carefully prepared waste proposals. Not only did they throw out plans to build a burner in the port, but also told Brighton
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Tory claim that crime has soared in a year
Crime in Sussex has risen by 5.4 per cent, show figures released today. More than 7,000 extra crimes were committed in the year ending in March, claims a Conservative Party report. The total of 137,000 represents a 5.4 per cent rise compared to 1998/99
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It's rubbish
I cannot believe the arrogance of the recent article recommending Newhaven as the site for the new incinerator (Argus, July 5). Not only does Brighton have to dump all its sewage over its border, it now wants to burn all its rubbish in Newhaven. Is there
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Date
Voice of the Argus - Good eye-opening decisions
A group of 20 pensioners became the victims of a series of bungled cataract operations at the Bupa Gatwick Park Hospital last year. Some of those affected suffered near-blindness after being injected with a liquid which contained a preservative and was
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Date
What a dump
Recent comments on Newhaven being the best site available for the incinerator are misguided to say the least (Argus, July 5). Is the theory that towns such as Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Newhaven and Hastings should become social and economic dumps for
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Date
Hardware: It's simply thew answer to an e-mailer's prayer
GlobalPulse Palm provides a real solution to one of the biggest mobile computer user questions. How do I get my e-mail when I am on the road, without carrying a laptop computer or waiting hours for my WAP phone to get its act together? This remarkable
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Date
Hardware: Those familiar screens aren't so bad after all
Visual Display Units are often blamed for causing headaches, eyestrain and an assortment of other ills but how much of this is really true and how much is just office myth? The simple fact is that there is very little evidence VDUs actually cause any
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Date
Checking out those medics
A former chiropodist has swapped foot corns for dot coms and launched an online medical service. Brighton-based Barry Wright's Mediseek site is designed to let patients find their nearest health practitioners at the touch of a button. Patients simply
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Date
Investment with Stewart Dalby
Gambling online has been growing at a dizzying rate with some predictions stating UK online betting will rise from a current £550 million a year to £5 billion by 2003. Betting on the Stock Exchange has existed for some time in the form of spread betting
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Date
Lacking in protection
Nearly 80 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in the South of England do not have sufficient virus protection. Almost 60 per cent are not insured against internet related risks. There is no firewall, a device designed to keep out viruses and
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Date
Caribbean contract
A Lewes internet firm has beaten off competition from firms across the world to win the right to create the Caribbean's official tourism website. Staff from Dot New Media had to travel to Miami to pitch for the contract. It was the only British web designer
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Girl called Sarah at M-way service area
Detectives hunting missing eight-year-old Sarah Payne are investigating a possible sighting of the girl with a man at a service station. But plans to study CCTV video footage have been dashed after the service station revealed security cameras were not
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Review: Designing a web made so simple
As expected, the packaging for this software hyped about WEB! Pro Edition's power - and it certainly didn't disappoint. Exact placement of images, text, buttons and the like makes this an attractive piece of software for business and home user. It allows
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Date
It could be worse for Tony
With all the fuss over Euan Blair, his father should remember it could be worse. Dad, I'm on drugs, dad I've got a girl pregnant, dad, isn't Ken Livingstone wonderful. -Nigel Donovan, Lincoln Road, Portslade
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Give Euan a break
I'm sick of hearing about Tony Blair's son. He's no different from any other teenager, and probably just wanted some attention. What really makes me sad is all the publicity he's getting, while the poor little girl who is missing should be the headlines
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Date
A first as new advertising deal is struck
Bupa International has appointed a Brighton-based advertising agency to handle part of its advertising. This is the first time an agency outside London has been chosen by the health care giant. The £250,000 creative account was awarded to Designate, one
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Date
USA empty? No way
V. J. Harman describes the USA as a huge empty field (Opinion, July 7). Empty? Not on your life - or rather not on the lives of some 60 million native American Indians. These impoverished immigrants gained the land by genocide, cheating, terror, rape
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Bank's adviser praises Sussex achievements
Sussex has beaten off problems caused by the strong pound and could continue to outperform the national economy, says NatWest's chief economist David Kern. Mr Kern (below) was speaking at a breakfast meeting at The Hawth, Crawley, on Friday. He said Sussex
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Date
Thanks Argus
Thanks to the Argus publishing my letter in an attempt to trace a schoolboy friend of a contact of mine in Australia, I was eventually able to get directly in touch with him. After 57 years I thought the chances were slim and the result is therefore doubly
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Date
Paul, 13, joins A&E campaign
Young Paul Thomasoo was so disgusted by plans to close a casualty unit, he has donated some of his pocket money to hospital supporters. Paul, 13, read our exclusive stories about plans to downgrade the accident and emergency department at the Princess
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Date
Don't blame us
There has been a lot of controversy about the skatepark being built in Homefield Park in Worthing, where a groundbreaking ceremony was recently attended by Worthing mayor Brian McLuskie. Local residents and users of the park feel it will attract the wrong
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Date
Boy arrested for giving false Sarah tip-offs
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after police were given a false tip-off about missing Sarah Payne. A youth phoned three times, saying he had seen the eight-year-old being dropped off near the Body Shop headquarters in Littlehampton in the early hours
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Date
Sites unseen
Plans to build a waste incinerator at Newhaven looked dead and buried at the end of last year as councillors in East Sussex ripped-up carefully prepared waste proposals. Not only did they throw out plans to build a burner in the port, but also told Brighton
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Date
Hypocrisy
Recent letters seem to have rounded on Brian Phillips from Transport 2000 like a pack of bloodhounds. In England, more children are killed and injured per mile walked or cycled than virtually anywhere else in western Europe. It is also conveniently forgotten
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Date
Town's £32m bid to curb flood of cars
A £32 million bid to improve the transport system in Brighton and Hove has been submitted to the Government. If the bid is successful, Brighton and Hove Council plans to use the money to double the number of cyclists in the towns by 2002. It also aims
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Date
Six bidding for £1bn rubbish contract
Six companies will be invited to bid for a multi-million pound waste contract that has yet to be approved by councillors. The firms will tender for the controversial private finance initiative contract to process waste in Brighton and Hove and East Sussex
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Date
What a dump
Recent comments on Newhaven being the best site available for the incinerator are misguided to say the least (Argus, July 5). Is the theory that towns such as Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Newhaven and Hastings should become social and economic dumps for
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Date
Super show by Barnett
Ringmer are the new leaders of division one of the East Sussex Cricket League after Rye suffered a surprise defeat at home to The Boards. Steve Barnett hit a splendid 97 as Ringmer set a total of 210-6, with Simon Pugh adding 47 as Rupert Thacker took
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Date
After two years' work, is the Albion still wrong?
Recent reports on the suitability of Falmer as a site for the proposed community stadium suggest it is both unworkable and prohibitively expensive. Brighton and Hove Albion has been working on the application for nearly two years and I find it hard to
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Date
Khan's hat-trick proves vain effort
Wasim Khan took a hat-trick for Sussex seconds as they skittled Surrey out for 173 before rain ruined the Aon Trophy clash at Sutton. Occasional medium-pacer Khan was introduced as Sussex's sixth bowler, and finished with 5-38 from his ten overs as Surrey
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Date
Checking out those medics
A former chiropodist has swapped foot corns for dot coms and launched an online medical service. Brighton-based Barry Wright's Mediseek site is designed to let patients find their nearest health practitioners at the touch of a button. Patients simply
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Date
Musical booster for jobs market
Britain's first internet music radio portal is to be launched in Brighton by the man who created Surf 107.2. RadioRevolution is the brainchild of Eugene Perera, who founded Surf after setting up radio stations in Manchester and Yorkshire. The site is
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Investment with Stewart Dalby
Gambling online has been growing at a dizzying rate with some predictions stating UK online betting will rise from a current £550 million a year to £5 billion by 2003. Betting on the Stock Exchange has existed for some time in the form of spread betting
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Date
Lacking in protection
Nearly 80 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses in the South of England do not have sufficient virus protection. Almost 60 per cent are not insured against internet related risks. There is no firewall, a device designed to keep out viruses and
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Date
Caribbean contract
A Lewes internet firm has beaten off competition from firms across the world to win the right to create the Caribbean's official tourism website. Staff from Dot New Media had to travel to Miami to pitch for the contract. It was the only British web designer
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Internet is booming
The first official statistics for internet use in Britain show nearly a quarter of people in the South-East have home access to the internet, up from 13 per cent last year. With 24 per cent of people in the region online, the South-East is just behind
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Resort gets thumbs up
An international telecoms firm hopes to create 20 jobs within a year after picking Brighton as the base for its recruitment division. Band-X Recruitment moved into offices in Tower Point, Brighton, last month and is currently looking for three new staff
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Net catching graduates
The number of employers recruiting graduates on the internet has doubled in the past year, according to a report. Two out of three graduate recruiters are now hiring staff online, while nine out of 10 students in their final year of university are looking
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Girl called Sarah at M-way service area
Detectives hunting missing eight-year-old Sarah Payne are investigating a possible sighting of the girl with a man at a service station. But plans to study CCTV video footage have been dashed after the service station revealed security cameras were not
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Review: A nifty combination
Fed up with buying, installing and maintaining lots of copies of Outlook or Eudora? What about picking up e-mail when you are out of the office? GLWebMail is a new British product that claims to fix all that by combining the security and functionality
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Review: This was hard work
My first expectations of DIV Games Studio were high; I had read the box thoroughly and was expecting to be producing games by the evening. I was disappointed to find game creation requires a good working knowledge of the Games Studio's own programming
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Website of the week
Launched in Sussex in 1993 with EU funding, Cartoonet has become a free international agency for illustrators. Designed for editors, its international pool of artists now makes it a fascinating visit for casual browsers. From jokey cartoons to subtle
