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Come and see our cultural corridor
A scheme to put Sussex on the tourist trail for visitors from the U.S. has been set up. Sussex Enterprise is behind the innovative cross-border collaboration to attract tourists to the county, particularly from the lucrative U.S. holiday market. The organisation
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NetStore thrive in harsh conditions
Online software provider NetStore announced stronger than expected results for its first year since listing on the Stock Exchange. The group, which offers small and medium-sized firms the chance to buy software for a fixed fee over the internet, said
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Garry Spencer - Little sense in big world
Is big really beautiful? It seems all our financial institutions are merging. Just a short time ago we had three very well-respected companies, General Accident, Commercial Union and Norwich Union. What have we got today? - CGNU! The same has happened
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Firms losing parking fight
Owners of small business across Sussex are calling on councils to make it easier to trade in town centres. The Federation of Small Businesses South East Policy Unit said firms are fighting a losing battle to stay in business in the face of rising parking
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Twist in the tale of an inventor
Eastbourne inventor Darren Schofield has found the answer to tangled telephone lines. But solving this problem has left him with another - how to get his swivel plug to the market. Since his schooldays at Eastbourne Grammar when he solved a problem that
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Drun and offensive
Saturday evening's event This Rough Magic was incoherent rubbish but at least it wasn't overtly offensive, which is more than can be said for the many young men and women in the audience who, having drunk all the booze they'd brought with them, ambled
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Sign is not welcoming
Whose idea was it to put up the stoneclad rockery that "welcomes" visitors to Brighton at the top of London Road? Besides the rather bizarre idea of welcoming people to two towns simultaneously, the sign is ugly, cheap-looking and tatty. Wouldn't it have
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Boundary moves put members on edge
Liberal Democrats are fighting to preserve the boundaries of a town. Brighton and Hove Council is proposing to change the boundaries of wards across the two towns. One of the alterations is getting rid of the Brunswick ward in Hove. It includes Brunswick
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Grossly unfair
Councillor Prince reaches a new low in his attempt to defend his position to the residents of Telscombe and East Saltdean (Opinion, August 3). It is grossly unfair to blame the town clerk for the agenda being presented in such a way as to place discussion
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The net's closing in on you, say police
Sussex Police are sending a message to every villain in the county through an article in its annual newspaper. The unprecedented move comes as the first of the 600,000 papers are about to arrive through letterboxes. Force Press officer Chris Oswick said
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Street sleepers on the decline
The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Brighton and Hove has fallen by more than a third in the last year, according to Government figures. The Government's Rough Sleepers Unit said a recent count showed there were now 26 homeless people
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Bid to secure pier market
The West Pier market in Brighton could be made permanent if new plans are approved. The market has been at the centre of controversy since Brighton and Hove Council served notices on the stallholders to quit, although they have carried on in defiance.
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Phoenix House
I read Bob Westley's remarks (Argus, August 8) about the work of Phoenix House with dismay. Phoenix House is part of the only charity that treats substance misusers as families. Parents go there, with their children, because they are desperate to come
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Rubbish service is a shambles, firm told
The leader of Brighton and Hove Council today joined in criticism of the towns' rubbish collection, admitting the service was a "shambles." Last week, Brighton and Hove Council chief executive Glynn Jones decided to take a tough line with Sita, the firm
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Sign up to save A&E
The Argus today launches a petition to save the accident and emergency department at a major Sussex hospital. Health chiefs want to downgrade the A&E at the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath to an emergency treatment centre, meaning many casualties
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Mud slinging
Michael Fisher (August 17) may seek to ridicule my efforts to keep up the environmental standards in Westbourne Ward but if the Labour council of our two towns did its job properly, I and my colleagues would not have to spend so much time dealing with
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Merchant navy
This year there is to be inaugurated an Annual Merchant Navy Day, September 3, to recognise the importance of the merchant navy in the life of this nation and to honour the memory of those mariners who gave their lives in the various conflicts of the
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Delight for Smithson
Discus thrower Claire Smithson has cracked the 50m barrier for the first time. The 17-year-old made the breakthrough at the Brighton and Hove Open Evening meeting at Withdean. She did it with her third effort that flew out to 51.38m to clinch the title
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Ifill misses Albion trip
Albion reject Paul Ifill misses out tonight on a chance to shut his friends up. Millwall's Brighton-born midfielder tore a hamstring in training six weeks ago. It has reduced him to spectating as the Lions try to avenge last season's surprise 1-0 defeat
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Foster denied starring role
Albion had former skipper Steve Foster removed as the star guest from an event promoting tonight's Worth-ington Cup tie against Millwall. They protested to the competition sponsors because of Foster's association with Stephen Purdew, the health club tycoon
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Seagulls consider Crosby appeal
Albion are considering an appeal against Andy Crosby's controversial red card. Manager Micky Adams has branded the decision 'an absolute disgrace' after studying video evidence of Crosby's dismissal in Saturday's 2-1 home win against Rochdale. Crosby
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Young designer enjoys his material success
Brighton University graduate Paul Garred has been cooking up a storm in the design world with his egg-shaped glass table. The table, which costs £2,000, was on display at the Handworkers' Guild exhibition at Ditchling Town Hall. Paul created an innovative
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Webcam
Mount Etna erupted in February for the first time in nine years, spewing lava, ash and rocks across the Sicilian countryside. Fortunately, the flow avoided villages but Europe's most active volcano showed how volatile it could be. A website has been set
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Cashing in on way we pay for calls
A Sussex firm is to change the way we pay for mobile phone calls after being bought for £12.5 million by Irish communications firm ITG Group. Worthing-based Targeted Transaction Managed Services (TTMS) is pioneering swipe cards which will let pre-paid
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Tent's moment unveils art of the homeless
An ex-army tent emblazoned with works of art by homeless people will go on display this week. The exhibition, titled Loitering Within Tent, features writing, photography, painting, film, and sculpture created by rough sleepers or ex-homeless people who
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Net Solutions
With Andrew Hardy. Owner of Worthing-based DoubleClick-IT Q: I have three PCs networked together. Can I share an internet connection on one machine with the other PCs on the network? A: In theory, this shouldn't be a problem. There are a number of packages
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Website of the week
Few people can remember the days when phones just rang. Now they beep merrily through any range of tunes to the endless fascination of their users and the annoyance of everyone else. Ring-tone fans can pick from a limitless selection of pop songs and
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Byte: Tax site is suspended
The Inland Revenue has closed down its internet service which enables people to file their self-assessment tax returns online. A spokesman confirmed the self-assessment page on its website had been suspended last Thursday just two months after it came
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Review: Catch a Bus for plug-ins
Before you ask, no, the Belkin BusStation isn't a home for double-deckers, single-deckers or bendy buses. The BusStation is a multiport USB (Universal Serial Bus) hub which allows you to plug in up to seven USB peripherals at a time. So you can forget
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Review: Right for Italian job
Learning languages is never easy and learning from a computer can be a disaster. This is clearly not the case with Syracuse Language Italian, which combines speech recognition technology with multimedia and internet activities to give a clear path to
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Come and see our cultural corridor
A scheme to put Sussex on the tourist trail for visitors from the U.S. has been set up. Sussex Enterprise is behind the innovative cross-border collaboration to attract tourists to the county, particularly from the lucrative U.S. holiday market. The organisation
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NetStore thrive in harsh conditions
Online software provider NetStore announced stronger than expected results for its first year since listing on the Stock Exchange. The group, which offers small and medium-sized firms the chance to buy software for a fixed fee over the internet, said
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Dalby Stewart - Sussex in the City
What on earth is going at Creightons, the Storrington-based perfumes and toiletries company? Six months ago the group announced it was throwing in the towel as a manufacturer. Selling its existing business, it would raise cash through a rights issue to
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No to the Euro
I quite agree with Paul Plumb (Argus, August 16) on "change had no decimal point for me". We were told by Edward Heath what we lost on the roundabouts we would gain on the swings but sadly there were no swings. Say no to the euro. We don't want to be
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Twist in the tale of an inventor
Eastbourne inventor Darren Schofield has found the answer to tangled telephone lines. But solving this problem has left him with another - how to get his swivel plug to the market. Since his schooldays at Eastbourne Grammar when he solved a problem that
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Art gone potty?
Who foots the bill when Brighton and Hove Council pays £40,000 to erect some rusty iron on Brighton beach for children to have daily accidents on instead of the bungee jump? Has the art world gone potty? -Jill Jerome, Saltdean, Brighton
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Drun and offensive
Saturday evening's event This Rough Magic was incoherent rubbish but at least it wasn't overtly offensive, which is more than can be said for the many young men and women in the audience who, having drunk all the booze they'd brought with them, ambled
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Sign is not welcoming
Whose idea was it to put up the stoneclad rockery that "welcomes" visitors to Brighton at the top of London Road? Besides the rather bizarre idea of welcoming people to two towns simultaneously, the sign is ugly, cheap-looking and tatty. Wouldn't it have
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Shopper's fears after mall death
A father who witnessed the aftermath of a shopping mall plunge victim's death today pleaded with centre managers: "Please stop it happening again." Tom Stringer was with his young son in County Mall, Crawley, when the man, a 26-year-old local man, fell
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Fighting travellers force pub to close
One pub closed down and a second was badly damaged in Brighton over the weekend. The Clyde Arms in Bristol Gardens had to close after 8pm on Sunday after a fight broke out between two rival sets of travellers. Glasses were thrown as one group burst into
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Disruption is generated by cost cutting
I have been watching the dustmen's problems with great interest and I must say my sympathies are all with the dustmen. If the new contractor had left them to carry on in their very efficient way and not disrupted their routine, this chaos would never
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The net's closing in on you, say police
Sussex Police are sending a message to every villain in the county through an article in its annual newspaper. The unprecedented move comes as the first of the 600,000 papers are about to arrive through letterboxes. Force Press officer Chris Oswick said
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Street sleepers on the decline
The number of people sleeping rough on the streets of Brighton and Hove has fallen by more than a third in the last year, according to Government figures. The Government's Rough Sleepers Unit said a recent count showed there were now 26 homeless people
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Guides count cost of vandal attacks
Vandals who are repeatedly attacking a Guide hall, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, were today condemned for their mindless behaviour. Yobs have attacked the headquarters of Lancing District Guides, in Penhill Road, eight times in the last
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Special first for Zoe and Norman
Celebrity couple Norman Cook and Zoe Ball were all smiles as they celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Former Radio One presenter Zoe and pop star Norman, alias chart-topping dance star Fatboy Slim were at their seafront house in Hove for the celebrations
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Corner trade nosedives
Traders whose shops near Bognor are due to be bulldozed say business has already slumped even though a redevelopment scheme is still two years away. A new planning application to replace Summerley Corner, Felpham, with 14 town houses and two detached
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Patients flee fire in laundry
Patients were evacuated from the Princess Royal early this morning after a blaze broke out when an iron overheated. Fire crews helped move 24 patients after the fire started at around 2am. The blaze happened in the hospital's Villa block, its acute mental
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Rubbish service is a shambles, firm told
The leader of Brighton and Hove Council today joined in criticism of the towns' rubbish collection, admitting the service was a "shambles." Last week, Brighton and Hove Council chief executive Glynn Jones decided to take a tough line with Sita, the firm
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Mud slinging
Michael Fisher (August 17) may seek to ridicule my efforts to keep up the environmental standards in Westbourne Ward but if the Labour council of our two towns did its job properly, I and my colleagues would not have to spend so much time dealing with
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Sussex duo are axed
Sussex batsmen Toby Peirce and Wasim Khan have played their last games for the county. They were released today, six weeks before their contracts expire. Khan, who joined the county three years ago, played just two Championship matches this season and
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SITA management must resolve problems soon
I would like to apologise to those residents of Brighton and Hove who have suffered by not having their waste collected at the agreed time since the beginning of August. As the Argus has reported, our contractor, SITA, carried out a radical review of
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Ifill misses Albion trip
Albion reject Paul Ifill misses out tonight on a chance to shut his friends up. Millwall's Brighton-born midfielder tore a hamstring in training six weeks ago. It has reduced him to spectating as the Lions try to avenge last season's surprise 1-0 defeat
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Foster denied starring role
Albion had former skipper Steve Foster removed as the star guest from an event promoting tonight's Worth-ington Cup tie against Millwall. They protested to the competition sponsors because of Foster's association with Stephen Purdew, the health club tycoon
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Review: Road to real bliss
As a real ale drinker and connoisseur of fine country pubs and hotels, I am delighted with AutoRoute 2001. The Good Pub Guide and RAC Guide to hotel and guesthouse accommodation are both included in this new version of Microsoft's best-selling mapping
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Review: Conversion skates on thin ice
Tony Hawk's Skateboarding is a disappointing conversion of PlayStation's top-selling title as there is little difference between the two. Developers do not appear to have made the most of the Dreamcast's superior powers. But despite the similarity between
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Review: Guilty pleasures of Jukebox jury
Digital music is everywhere nowadays so Siren Jukebox, with its ability to handle all kinds of sound files, should be on every audiophile's wish list. I started loading this title and soon realised I did not have a serial number to activate it. This was
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Odds are it's a good bet
A Sussex man has created a website which is set to shake up the massive online betting industry. The Easyodds.com site makes sure punters always have the best odds when they place a bet. It has the support of William Hill, Ladbrokes, Corals' online division
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Young designer enjoys his material success
Brighton University graduate Paul Garred has been cooking up a storm in the design world with his egg-shaped glass table. The table, which costs £2,000, was on display at the Handworkers' Guild exhibition at Ditchling Town Hall. Paul created an innovative
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Webcam
Mount Etna erupted in February for the first time in nine years, spewing lava, ash and rocks across the Sicilian countryside. Fortunately, the flow avoided villages but Europe's most active volcano showed how volatile it could be. A website has been set
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Tent's moment unveils art of the homeless
An ex-army tent emblazoned with works of art by homeless people will go on display this week. The exhibition, titled Loitering Within Tent, features writing, photography, painting, film, and sculpture created by rough sleepers or ex-homeless people who
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Friend pays tribute to jet plunge pilot
A colleague has paid tribute to pilot Ted Girdler, who died when his plane plunged into the sea during an aerobatic display. Mr Girdler, from Kent, was killed when the Czech L-29 Delfin failed to pull out of a stunt and crashed at the Airbourne show in
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Investment with Stewart Dalby
One of the problems of discussing dot com or internet shares is the weak get mixed up with the strong. People talk of the internet bubble. Like all bubbles it was bound to burst, wasn't it? Sure enough, last March there was a shakeout at the Nasdaq, the
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Website of the week
Few people can remember the days when phones just rang. Now they beep merrily through any range of tunes to the endless fascination of their users and the annoyance of everyone else. Ring-tone fans can pick from a limitless selection of pop songs and
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Byte: Tax site is suspended
The Inland Revenue has closed down its internet service which enables people to file their self-assessment tax returns online. A spokesman confirmed the self-assessment page on its website had been suspended last Thursday just two months after it came
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Byte: Mobile news for immobile
Sussex commuters will soon be able to receive news of train delays on their mobile phones. They will be able to register their regular travel routes with the Railtrack site and receive updates on hold-ups as SMS text messages. The new service, created
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Review: Right for Italian job
Learning languages is never easy and learning from a computer can be a disaster. This is clearly not the case with Syracuse Language Italian, which combines speech recognition technology with multimedia and internet activities to give a clear path to
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Student duo claim prizes
Josie Good and Maike Rotermund are celebrating a double achievement after graduating from the University of Brighton and winning a cash prize from Sussex-based American Express. Josie received a certificate and a cheque for £250 from Jo Crockett, public
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Your link to the big upturn in IT
Last year was a tough one for businesses involved in IT as many firms delayed projects until the Y2K problem had been resolved. Although 2000 got off to a slow start for the industry, things are now moving ahead at a fast pace. One company starting to
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Dalby Stewart - Sussex in the City
What on earth is going at Creightons, the Storrington-based perfumes and toiletries company? Six months ago the group announced it was throwing in the towel as a manufacturer. Selling its existing business, it would raise cash through a rights issue to
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Date
No to the Euro
I quite agree with Paul Plumb (Argus, August 16) on "change had no decimal point for me". We were told by Edward Heath what we lost on the roundabouts we would gain on the swings but sadly there were no swings. Say no to the euro. We don't want to be
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Art gone potty?
Who foots the bill when Brighton and Hove Council pays £40,000 to erect some rusty iron on Brighton beach for children to have daily accidents on instead of the bungee jump? Has the art world gone potty? -Jill Jerome, Saltdean, Brighton
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Hoping for sweet smell of success
The chief executive of FTSE-listed Sussex perfumes and cosmetics firm Creightons has stepped aside to launch a management buy-out, the Argus has learned. If Bill Hamilton successfully buys the business, a company trying to get on to the stock exchange
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Signal Failure - Lizzie Enfield
Have been suffering from recurring nightmare occasioned, (probably) by watching too much Big Brother, travelling too much by train and spending too long on planet paranoia. Unlike most nightmares, where you wake up and realise they were a dream, this
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Shopper's fears after mall death
A father who witnessed the aftermath of a shopping mall plunge victim's death today pleaded with centre managers: "Please stop it happening again." Tom Stringer was with his young son in County Mall, Crawley, when the man, a 26-year-old local man, fell
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Fighting travellers force pub to close
One pub closed down and a second was badly damaged in Brighton over the weekend. The Clyde Arms in Bristol Gardens had to close after 8pm on Sunday after a fight broke out between two rival sets of travellers. Glasses were thrown as one group burst into
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Disruption is generated by cost cutting
I have been watching the dustmen's problems with great interest and I must say my sympathies are all with the dustmen. If the new contractor had left them to carry on in their very efficient way and not disrupted their routine, this chaos would never
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Big Issue vendors revel in sweet idea
Chocolate suppliers Simon and Helen Pattinson are used to putting smiles on people's faces with their cocoa creations. Now the couple are winning new friends from all quarters after offering free chocolate to homeless shelters and women's centres across
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No Amnesty
With reference to your article (Argus, August 12) about the letter sent to Dr Enderby from Amnesty International, I too received such a letter. My initial bewilderment was quickly replaced by anger as I realised many elderly people would have received
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Quaking all over is the key to success
As Britain's athletes prepare for Olympic glory, a Brighton teenager is getting ready to represent his country in a very different sporting tournament this weekend. Chris Hoare, 17, from Patcham will wear England's colours on Sunday when he competes in
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Safety at work
Responsible employers do try to ensure safety measures in the building industry are enforced (Argus, August 1). These measures are government laws. Trying to enforce safe working measures is equal to the police trying to enforce statutory speed limits
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Special first for Zoe and Norman
Celebrity couple Norman Cook and Zoe Ball were all smiles as they celebrated their first wedding anniversary. Former Radio One presenter Zoe and pop star Norman, alias chart-topping dance star Fatboy Slim were at their seafront house in Hove for the celebrations
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Voice of the Argus - Sign up to save our A&E
Health bosses think it is efficient to downgrade the accident and emergency department at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath so that many casualties go to Brighton instead. But that's not the way people living in Mid Sussex see it, as they
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A direct say
Reduced intervention of central government in local issues on face value gives the individual more of a say in planning our communities. In reality, we have a secondary level of petty demigods who further want to erode the democratic process by reducing
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Sussex duo are axed
Sussex batsmen Toby Peirce and Wasim Khan have played their last games for the county. They were released today, six weeks before their contracts expire. Khan, who joined the county three years ago, played just two Championship matches this season and
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Date
SITA management must resolve problems soon
I would like to apologise to those residents of Brighton and Hove who have suffered by not having their waste collected at the agreed time since the beginning of August. As the Argus has reported, our contractor, SITA, carried out a radical review of
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Date
Review: Road to real bliss
As a real ale drinker and connoisseur of fine country pubs and hotels, I am delighted with AutoRoute 2001. The Good Pub Guide and RAC Guide to hotel and guesthouse accommodation are both included in this new version of Microsoft's best-selling mapping
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Date
Review: Conversion skates on thin ice
Tony Hawk's Skateboarding is a disappointing conversion of PlayStation's top-selling title as there is little difference between the two. Developers do not appear to have made the most of the Dreamcast's superior powers. But despite the similarity between
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Date
Review: Guilty pleasures of Jukebox jury
Digital music is everywhere nowadays so Siren Jukebox, with its ability to handle all kinds of sound files, should be on every audiophile's wish list. I started loading this title and soon realised I did not have a serial number to activate it. This was
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Famous faces find new home
Art fans can now see the National Portrait Gallery's entire collection in one place for the first time with the help of a Sussex firm's new media wizardry. Just one-tenth of the gallery's pictures are on public display but every image has been digitally
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New media is in the running
A Sussex new media firm has sponsored Olympic athlete Sean Baldock ahead of his appearance at the Sydney games. Webzone stepped in to help Hastings-based Sean when Adidas and the National Lottery withdrew funding after he injured his hamstring last year
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Magic C@rpet will fly
A Brighton group has won a £19,000 grant to create the definitive guide to school visits in Sussex. Sussex Arts Marketing (SAM) was given the money by the Department for Education and Employment to create the Magic C@rpet website. It will contain everything
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Odds are it's a good bet
A Sussex man has created a website which is set to shake up the massive online betting industry. The Easyodds.com site makes sure punters always have the best odds when they place a bet. It has the support of William Hill, Ladbrokes, Corals' online division
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Hardware: A close call in mobile war
Mobile phone take-up is growing faster in the UK than almost any other European country. With the arrival of WAP services, we are on the verge of a new phone-tariff price war but this time the winners could actually be consumers. The main players, BT
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A water way to follow up illness work
A Sussex scientist has won more than £500,000 to study his controversial claims. Professor John Hermon Taylor discovered bacteria which can lead to Crohn's Disease could be transmitted to humans from infected cows' milk earlier this year. He will now
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Friend pays tribute to jet plunge pilot
A colleague has paid tribute to pilot Ted Girdler, who died when his plane plunged into the sea during an aerobatic display. Mr Girdler, from Kent, was killed when the Czech L-29 Delfin failed to pull out of a stunt and crashed at the Airbourne show in
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Date
Investment with Stewart Dalby
One of the problems of discussing dot com or internet shares is the weak get mixed up with the strong. People talk of the internet bubble. Like all bubbles it was bound to burst, wasn't it? Sure enough, last March there was a shakeout at the Nasdaq, the
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Date
Vision of 2,000 jobs in valley
Plans were unveiled today for a science park on one of the largest open spaces in Brighton and Hove which could create up to 2,000 jobs. The owners of Toads Hole Valley also intend to turn the rest of the site into a 60-acre public park under the controversial
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Byte: Good news, to be Frank
Brighton design firm Get Frank is to redesign one of Britain's most popular music websites. The company will revamp Clickmusic ahead of a relaunch in October. Get Frank was well-placed to win the musical contract having created a website for Fat Les,
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Byte: Mobile news for immobile
Sussex commuters will soon be able to receive news of train delays on their mobile phones. They will be able to register their regular travel routes with the Railtrack site and receive updates on hold-ups as SMS text messages. The new service, created
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Date
Student duo claim prizes
Josie Good and Maike Rotermund are celebrating a double achievement after graduating from the University of Brighton and winning a cash prize from Sussex-based American Express. Josie received a certificate and a cheque for £250 from Jo Crockett, public
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Date
Your link to the big upturn in IT
Last year was a tough one for businesses involved in IT as many firms delayed projects until the Y2K problem had been resolved. Although 2000 got off to a slow start for the industry, things are now moving ahead at a fast pace. One company starting to
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Date
Garry Spencer - Little sense in big world
Is big really beautiful? It seems all our financial institutions are merging. Just a short time ago we had three very well-respected companies, General Accident, Commercial Union and Norwich Union. What have we got today? - CGNU! The same has happened
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Date
Firms losing parking fight
Owners of small business across Sussex are calling on councils to make it easier to trade in town centres. The Federation of Small Businesses South East Policy Unit said firms are fighting a losing battle to stay in business in the face of rising parking
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Date
Hoping for sweet smell of success
The chief executive of FTSE-listed Sussex perfumes and cosmetics firm Creightons has stepped aside to launch a management buy-out, the Argus has learned. If Bill Hamilton successfully buys the business, a company trying to get on to the stock exchange
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Date
Signal Failure - Lizzie Enfield
Have been suffering from recurring nightmare occasioned, (probably) by watching too much Big Brother, travelling too much by train and spending too long on planet paranoia. Unlike most nightmares, where you wake up and realise they were a dream, this
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Date
Boundary moves put members on edge
Liberal Democrats are fighting to preserve the boundaries of a town. Brighton and Hove Council is proposing to change the boundaries of wards across the two towns. One of the alterations is getting rid of the Brunswick ward in Hove. It includes Brunswick
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Date
Big Issue vendors revel in sweet idea
Chocolate suppliers Simon and Helen Pattinson are used to putting smiles on people's faces with their cocoa creations. Now the couple are winning new friends from all quarters after offering free chocolate to homeless shelters and women's centres across
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Date
Grossly unfair
Councillor Prince reaches a new low in his attempt to defend his position to the residents of Telscombe and East Saltdean (Opinion, August 3). It is grossly unfair to blame the town clerk for the agenda being presented in such a way as to place discussion
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Date
No Amnesty
With reference to your article (Argus, August 12) about the letter sent to Dr Enderby from Amnesty International, I too received such a letter. My initial bewilderment was quickly replaced by anger as I realised many elderly people would have received
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Date
Quaking all over is the key to success
As Britain's athletes prepare for Olympic glory, a Brighton teenager is getting ready to represent his country in a very different sporting tournament this weekend. Chris Hoare, 17, from Patcham will wear England's colours on Sunday when he competes in
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Date
Safety at work
Responsible employers do try to ensure safety measures in the building industry are enforced (Argus, August 1). These measures are government laws. Trying to enforce safe working measures is equal to the police trying to enforce statutory speed limits
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Date
Bid to secure pier market
The West Pier market in Brighton could be made permanent if new plans are approved. The market has been at the centre of controversy since Brighton and Hove Council served notices on the stallholders to quit, although they have carried on in defiance.
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Date
Phoenix House
I read Bob Westley's remarks (Argus, August 8) about the work of Phoenix House with dismay. Phoenix House is part of the only charity that treats substance misusers as families. Parents go there, with their children, because they are desperate to come
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Date
Sign up to save A&E
The Argus today launches a petition to save the accident and emergency department at a major Sussex hospital. Health chiefs want to downgrade the A&E at the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath to an emergency treatment centre, meaning many casualties
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Date
Merchant navy
This year there is to be inaugurated an Annual Merchant Navy Day, September 3, to recognise the importance of the merchant navy in the life of this nation and to honour the memory of those mariners who gave their lives in the various conflicts of the
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Date
Delight for Smithson
Discus thrower Claire Smithson has cracked the 50m barrier for the first time. The 17-year-old made the breakthrough at the Brighton and Hove Open Evening meeting at Withdean. She did it with her third effort that flew out to 51.38m to clinch the title
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Date
Voice of the Argus - Sign up to save our A&E
Health bosses think it is efficient to downgrade the accident and emergency department at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath so that many casualties go to Brighton instead. But that's not the way people living in Mid Sussex see it, as they
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Date
A direct say
Reduced intervention of central government in local issues on face value gives the individual more of a say in planning our communities. In reality, we have a secondary level of petty demigods who further want to erode the democratic process by reducing
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Seagulls consider Crosby appeal
Albion are considering an appeal against Andy Crosby's controversial red card. Manager Micky Adams has branded the decision 'an absolute disgrace' after studying video evidence of Crosby's dismissal in Saturday's 2-1 home win against Rochdale. Crosby
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Famous faces find new home
Art fans can now see the National Portrait Gallery's entire collection in one place for the first time with the help of a Sussex firm's new media wizardry. Just one-tenth of the gallery's pictures are on public display but every image has been digitally
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New media is in the running
A Sussex new media firm has sponsored Olympic athlete Sean Baldock ahead of his appearance at the Sydney games. Webzone stepped in to help Hastings-based Sean when Adidas and the National Lottery withdrew funding after he injured his hamstring last year
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Magic C@rpet will fly
A Brighton group has won a £19,000 grant to create the definitive guide to school visits in Sussex. Sussex Arts Marketing (SAM) was given the money by the Department for Education and Employment to create the Magic C@rpet website. It will contain everything
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Hardware: A close call in mobile war
Mobile phone take-up is growing faster in the UK than almost any other European country. With the arrival of WAP services, we are on the verge of a new phone-tariff price war but this time the winners could actually be consumers. The main players, BT
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A water way to follow up illness work
A Sussex scientist has won more than £500,000 to study his controversial claims. Professor John Hermon Taylor discovered bacteria which can lead to Crohn's Disease could be transmitted to humans from infected cows' milk earlier this year. He will now
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Cashing in on way we pay for calls
A Sussex firm is to change the way we pay for mobile phone calls after being bought for £12.5 million by Irish communications firm ITG Group. Worthing-based Targeted Transaction Managed Services (TTMS) is pioneering swipe cards which will let pre-paid
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Net Solutions
With Andrew Hardy. Owner of Worthing-based DoubleClick-IT Q: I have three PCs networked together. Can I share an internet connection on one machine with the other PCs on the network? A: In theory, this shouldn't be a problem. There are a number of packages
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Street drink ban for town
More police officers are being drafted into a town centre in a bid to crack down on street drinking and violence. The move is part of a police initiative to tackle the increase in violent attacks in Hastings town centre over recent months. Introduced
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Vision of 2,000 jobs in valley
Plans were unveiled today for a science park on one of the largest open spaces in Brighton and Hove which could create up to 2,000 jobs. The owners of Toads Hole Valley also intend to turn the rest of the site into a 60-acre public park under the controversial
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Byte: Good news, to be Frank
Brighton design firm Get Frank is to redesign one of Britain's most popular music websites. The company will revamp Clickmusic ahead of a relaunch in October. Get Frank was well-placed to win the musical contract having created a website for Fat Les,
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Review: Catch a Bus for plug-ins
Before you ask, no, the Belkin BusStation isn't a home for double-deckers, single-deckers or bendy buses. The BusStation is a multiport USB (Universal Serial Bus) hub which allows you to plug in up to seven USB peripherals at a time. So you can forget
