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Pot calling kettle black
policy. -Michael Fisher, Kings Road, Brighton
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John Parry - Hacked off with TV trivia
It is a sad, but unarguable, fact of life that television trivialises the news. Amid all the hot air generated by the Edinburgh Television Festival about whether TV news was being dumbed-down, whether the BBC should move the news to ten o'clock and the
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Feedback with Chris Chandler
This Rough Magic, the spectacular show witnessed by thousands of people on Brighton seafront, received a mixed reaction, not least on our opinion page. But it was our news report of the event in last Monday's paper that upset Geoff Crowe of George Street
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'Leisure plan won't help sports project'
Controversial plans to redevelop the King Alfred Leisure Centre will lead to a loss of sporting facilities for local residents, it is claimed. Citygrove Leisure has won approval for a £25million scheme to turn the centre in Kingsway, Hove, into a leisure
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Challenge of a lifetime for adventurous Helen
Daring Helen Armour went to extraordinary lengths to ensure she took part in the world's toughest yacht race. The 37-year-old jacked in her job as marketing manager for Panorama Holidays after seeing coverage of the BT Global Challenge on TV. Helen is
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Dead poet comes to life in archives
Virginia Woolf stunned the literary world when she committed suicide nearly 60 years ago. But Bet Inglis feels like she has known the famous writer intimately for the last 27 years. She knows almost everything there is to know about Virginia Woolf, from
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The local plan calls for sports facilities to be improved
Part Two: Important issues like the Brighton and Hove Albion's future stadium and the renovation of Shoreham's Harbour are directly affected. Leisure The local plan identifies a considerable shortage in quantity and quality of sports facilities and playing
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Fury at axed protest date
Organisers of an alternative Labour conference next month have suddenly had their booking cancelled. They believe political pressure is behind the decision not to honour the booking for Hove Town Hall on September 24. Brighton 2000 had provisionally booked
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Tears for a princess
They came from across Britain to pay their final respects to a little girl many had never even met. Standing outside the church, grown men wept and mothers clasped the hands of their children protectively as they listened to the service relayed to them
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Give me back my children
A father is desperately trying to trace his children after their mother took them and vanished. Lawrence Scott says he is worried sick about four-year-old Liam and Casey, one. Attempts to trace his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Sanders, have proved fruitless
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Horse misery
J. Noakes asks if people have seen for themselves how well the horses are looked after at Zippos Circus (Opinion, August 29). Has he visited the Sussex Horse Rescue Trust at Uckfield and seen Oopah, a spotted pony, bred for the circus but thrown out because
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Voice of the Argus - Sarah's death shocked us all
Sarah Payne's death shocked the nation to its core. Thousands of people grieved for a schoolgirl they knew only in their hearts, whose life had been cut short by a brutal murderer. Over the last weeks, we have watched Sarah's brave family cope with their
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It's a sign
While the controversy surrounding the new welcome to Brighton and Hove sign on the A23 roundabout rages, how about a similar sign on the B2123 welcoming visitors to Woodingdean? It could replace the "please keep our village tidy" sign erected in 1992
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Adams hits back at snipers
Micky Adams last night fired back at snipers already writing off Albion's season. The Seagulls go into the clash against Torquay at Withdean tomorrow having lost three of their four Division Three matches this season, two coming in three days over the
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To let: Space for a high-living family
A prime site with uninterrupted sea views is currently available for two high-fliers who need more space for their family. A box 77ft up the new tower of Shoreham Power Station is ready, with vacant possession, for a pair of peregrine falcons. Workers
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Get the scum who beat me
A man enjoying a night's clubbing remembers nothing of the brutal attack which left him with horrific facial injuries. The last recollection 38-year-old Mark Walker has of the night his face was beaten to a pulp, is sitting drinking and chatting in the
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Eidos tough it out
Computer games publisher Eidos said the industry was still suffering a slowdown ahead of the release of Sony's PlayStation 2 later this year. The company, home to the legendary Lara Croft, heroine of the Tomb Raider games, said it was confident it could
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Assured rise in insurance
Insurance companies' sales of individual life policies, pensions and other investments totalled £12.9 billion in the second quarter of 2000. Figures from the Association of British Insurers show the total invested is 1.4 per cent up on the comparable
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Hays count cost of leaving Europe
The cost of pulling out of transport businesses in Germany and France impacted on full-year profits at business services group Hays. Pre-tax profits for the year to June 30 fell by £28.6 million, to £203.6 million from £232.2 million at the same point
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Newhaven Fort worth the money
The Fort at Newhaven is very good value for money. I took my nephew and niece last week and we had a really good day. Plenty to see and even a play area for the kids. The price includes a second visit at a later date. -Shirley Carden, Ridgeway Close,
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Pot calling kettle black
policy. -Michael Fisher, Kings Road, Brighton
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Travellers spice up Saltdean
I have lived in Saltdean for four years with my family and although we love it, we find it a bit isolated and sleepy. At least this was the case until the recent travellers' rave on the Tye settlement. I suspect it was the liveliest Saltdean has been
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When will Brighton be clean?
At one time I thought I was almost the only person against giving Brighton and Hove city status but now many are realising changes must be made before this towns are worthy of the title. The most important is how and when Brighton will be made a cleaner
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Feedback with Chris Chandler
This Rough Magic, the spectacular show witnessed by thousands of people on Brighton seafront, received a mixed reaction, not least on our opinion page. But it was our news report of the event in last Monday's paper that upset Geoff Crowe of George Street
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Date
'Leisure plan won't help sports project'
Controversial plans to redevelop the King Alfred Leisure Centre will lead to a loss of sporting facilities for local residents, it is claimed. Citygrove Leisure has won approval for a £25million scheme to turn the centre in Kingsway, Hove, into a leisure
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Museum gets a £340,000 gallery
A museum has been given a cash handout to help build a millennium gallery. The historic Marlipins Museum, in High Street, Shoreham, has been awarded £30,000 by Adur District Council to help pay for a new £340,000 two-storey gallery. The Marlipins has
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Challenge of a lifetime for adventurous Helen
Daring Helen Armour went to extraordinary lengths to ensure she took part in the world's toughest yacht race. The 37-year-old jacked in her job as marketing manager for Panorama Holidays after seeing coverage of the BT Global Challenge on TV. Helen is
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Tories in party row over charity art show
A former Tory branch chairman has attacked a decision not to allow a Liberal Democrat MP to open an art exhibition in aid of stroke victims on Conservative club premises. Ed Cruickshank-Robb, a former chairman of Hove Tories who defected to Labour two
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Dead poet comes to life in archives
Virginia Woolf stunned the literary world when she committed suicide nearly 60 years ago. But Bet Inglis feels like she has known the famous writer intimately for the last 27 years. She knows almost everything there is to know about Virginia Woolf, from
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Barbecue hell
I fully sympathise with R. Stallard-White, who objects to the escalating incidence of noisy late-night parties in otherwise quiet residential areas (Opinion, August 26) . Hard on the heels of this anti-social nuisance is the growing popularity of back
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Charity awards are accepted with Pride
More than 250 people packed an Oscars-style awards ceremony to celebrate this year's record-breaking Pride event. Pride made a profit of £5,125 and the collections in pubs, restaurants and at the Preston Park venue raised £12,872, the most ever. Crowds
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Edna's on edge as she reaches new heights
Abseiling down a 50ft cliff would prove a challenge for most, but not even a heart bypass and fear of heights will stop grandmother Edna Cole. The 68-year-old mother-of-seven is set to abseil down a cliff in Peacehaven to raise money for the Mothers'
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So mean
British Telecom's meanness knows no bounds. My monthly bill showed an absence of my usual low user discount. On closer examination, I saw my calls had exceeded the limit by two pence. I telephoned to ask if there had been an error. After making me wait
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The local plan calls for sports facilities to be improved
Part Two: Important issues like the Brighton and Hove Albion's future stadium and the renovation of Shoreham's Harbour are directly affected. Leisure The local plan identifies a considerable shortage in quantity and quality of sports facilities and playing
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Joking aside
I always enjoy Adam Trimingham's Remember When feature in the Weekend Argus. However, last weekend's piece on the demolition of the Central National School in the 1970s made me laugh out loud. His statement "It is hard to imagine today's conservation-conscious
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Higgins piles on more agony
John Higgins completed the semi-final line-up in the Champions Cup at Brighton when he piled on the agony for Jimmy White yesterday. The former world champion and world number one from Wishaw defeated the out-of-touch Londoner 5-1 in the last match of
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Lancing one of top 100 schools
Only one independent school in Sussex has ranked in the national top 100 based on this year's GCSE results. More than half of the GCSE entries at the prestigious Lancing College achieved grades A* or A. The results were an improvement on last year when
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It's a route
In reply to a recent query, the route 13 bus from West Blatchington to Brighton Station via the seafront was withdrawn early in 1940, due to restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Defence which prohibited access to Hove lawns and the West and Palace
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Tears for a princess
They came from across Britain to pay their final respects to a little girl many had never even met. Standing outside the church, grown men wept and mothers clasped the hands of their children protectively as they listened to the service relayed to them
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Date
Give me back my children
A father is desperately trying to trace his children after their mother took them and vanished. Lawrence Scott says he is worried sick about four-year-old Liam and Casey, one. Attempts to trace his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Sanders, have proved fruitless
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Voice of the Argus - Sarah's death shocked us all
Sarah Payne's death shocked the nation to its core. Thousands of people grieved for a schoolgirl they knew only in their hearts, whose life had been cut short by a brutal murderer. Over the last weeks, we have watched Sarah's brave family cope with their
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Petty problems reveal sad lack of compassion
I used to read the Argus opinion page as an insight into human nature on a grander scale. I try not to any more. People write about problems with rubbish, seagulls or that they do not want to have a rehabilitation centre in their area. But what about
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Non-league: Rice in FA Cup vow
Marc Rice is ready to go on the spot again to kick start another Worthing cup run. Even if it means risking a repeat of his costly penalty miss in Monday's home defeat to Boreham Wood. Rice, who scored three goals in Rebels' first two league games, wasted
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Adams hits back at snipers
Micky Adams last night fired back at snipers already writing off Albion's season. The Seagulls go into the clash against Torquay at Withdean tomorrow having lost three of their four Division Three matches this season, two coming in three days over the
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Date
To let: Space for a high-living family
A prime site with uninterrupted sea views is currently available for two high-fliers who need more space for their family. A box 77ft up the new tower of Shoreham Power Station is ready, with vacant possession, for a pair of peregrine falcons. Workers
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Date
Eidos tough it out
Computer games publisher Eidos said the industry was still suffering a slowdown ahead of the release of Sony's PlayStation 2 later this year. The company, home to the legendary Lara Croft, heroine of the Tomb Raider games, said it was confident it could
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Date
Assured rise in insurance
Insurance companies' sales of individual life policies, pensions and other investments totalled £12.9 billion in the second quarter of 2000. Figures from the Association of British Insurers show the total invested is 1.4 per cent up on the comparable
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Date
Hays count cost of leaving Europe
The cost of pulling out of transport businesses in Germany and France impacted on full-year profits at business services group Hays. Pre-tax profits for the year to June 30 fell by £28.6 million, to £203.6 million from £232.2 million at the same point
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Date
Newhaven Fort worth the money
The Fort at Newhaven is very good value for money. I took my nephew and niece last week and we had a really good day. Plenty to see and even a play area for the kids. The price includes a second visit at a later date. -Shirley Carden, Ridgeway Close,
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Travellers spice up Saltdean
I have lived in Saltdean for four years with my family and although we love it, we find it a bit isolated and sleepy. At least this was the case until the recent travellers' rave on the Tye settlement. I suspect it was the liveliest Saltdean has been
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Date
When will Brighton be clean?
At one time I thought I was almost the only person against giving Brighton and Hove city status but now many are realising changes must be made before this towns are worthy of the title. The most important is how and when Brighton will be made a cleaner
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What if it were your nan?
I should like to thank the lady and librarian at the Meridian Centre, Peacehaven, the paramedics and police who attended my 80-year-old mother after she was mugged and robbed recently. If anyone should find her shopping bag containing her bus pass, glasses
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Russ was wonderful
The article about Russ Conway (Argus Weekend, August 26) was truly wonderful. When I finished reading it I felt a tear in my eye. Earlier, I had been listening to Russ on the Don McClean programme on BBC Radio 2. -Name and address supplied
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Museum gets a £340,000 gallery
A museum has been given a cash handout to help build a millennium gallery. The historic Marlipins Museum, in High Street, Shoreham, has been awarded £30,000 by Adur District Council to help pay for a new £340,000 two-storey gallery. The Marlipins has
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Girl in tears after thugs stone pony
Pony-mad Charlotte Waters-Yates burst into tears after thugs launched a savage attack on her pony. The seven-year-old animal Cash was pelted with stones as he frantically tried to escape the attack. Only when one of the helpers at the stables spotted
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Row erupts over bid to halt superstore
Opponents of a supermarket planned as part of a town centre redevelopment say almost everyone they asked about the store is against it. BUDD, Brighton Urban Design and Development, has released its report on the borough council's draft planning brief
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Tories in party row over charity art show
A former Tory branch chairman has attacked a decision not to allow a Liberal Democrat MP to open an art exhibition in aid of stroke victims on Conservative club premises. Ed Cruickshank-Robb, a former chairman of Hove Tories who defected to Labour two
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Science fiction
For Mark Bitton's information, I am sure I am not the only local person qualified to work in the field of scientific endeavour who has had to turn his attention elsewhere for the sake of earning a living, due to a lack of science jobs in the area (Opinion
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Barbecue hell
I fully sympathise with R. Stallard-White, who objects to the escalating incidence of noisy late-night parties in otherwise quiet residential areas (Opinion, August 26) . Hard on the heels of this anti-social nuisance is the growing popularity of back
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Date
Charity awards are accepted with Pride
More than 250 people packed an Oscars-style awards ceremony to celebrate this year's record-breaking Pride event. Pride made a profit of £5,125 and the collections in pubs, restaurants and at the Preston Park venue raised £12,872, the most ever. Crowds
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Date
Edna's on edge as she reaches new heights
Abseiling down a 50ft cliff would prove a challenge for most, but not even a heart bypass and fear of heights will stop grandmother Edna Cole. The 68-year-old mother-of-seven is set to abseil down a cliff in Peacehaven to raise money for the Mothers'
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So mean
British Telecom's meanness knows no bounds. My monthly bill showed an absence of my usual low user discount. On closer examination, I saw my calls had exceeded the limit by two pence. I telephoned to ask if there had been an error. After making me wait
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Date
Centre of attention
Part One: Today we outline how the local plan wants to modernise how we spend our time away from our offices or factories. Shopping There has been a rapid growth in out-of-town shopping centres following the relaxation of planning controls in the Eighties
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Joking aside
I always enjoy Adam Trimingham's Remember When feature in the Weekend Argus. However, last weekend's piece on the demolition of the Central National School in the 1970s made me laugh out loud. His statement "It is hard to imagine today's conservation-conscious
-
Date
Higgins piles on more agony
John Higgins completed the semi-final line-up in the Champions Cup at Brighton when he piled on the agony for Jimmy White yesterday. The former world champion and world number one from Wishaw defeated the out-of-touch Londoner 5-1 in the last match of
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Date
Lancing one of top 100 schools
Only one independent school in Sussex has ranked in the national top 100 based on this year's GCSE results. More than half of the GCSE entries at the prestigious Lancing College achieved grades A* or A. The results were an improvement on last year when
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Date
It's a route
In reply to a recent query, the route 13 bus from West Blatchington to Brighton Station via the seafront was withdrawn early in 1940, due to restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Defence which prohibited access to Hove lawns and the West and Palace
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Date
Eyes off the naked lady!
Police are warning drivers to keep their eyes on the road after a billboard appeared with a naked woman emblazoned across it. The advert for Marks & Spencer clothes for women has caused uproar among local residents. It appeared at the junction of
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Unbelievable
One is now used to Brighton and Hove Council leader Lynette Gwyn-Jones' tortured way with words and logic, but her claim that Hove Centre is part of a campaign to attract more stars to Hove (Argus, August 28) beggars belief. Will this really woo celebrities
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Mongan sets his heart on the top title
In-form Ian Mongan has declared: "My ambition is to be championship apprentice next year." The Brighton jockey rode a double at Brighton on Wednesday and his total of 32 since turning professional places him fourth in the list of apprentice riders this
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Montgomerie drops anchor to guide Sussex
Sussex eased safely past their follow-on target against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge yesterday thanks to a century by opener Richard Montgomerie. After Nottinghamshire had scraped a fourth batting point before their innings closed on 351, Montgomerie
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Basketball: Bears sign trio
Brighton Bears have snapped up three new players a month before the new season. Two of the recruits are from the States while Errol Seaman has joined the club from last season's play-off winners Manchester Giants. The Americans are 6ft 6in small forward
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Non-league: Reds boss backs refs
Crawley boss Billy Smith has praised the standard of refereeing in the Dr Martens League. Smith believes he has never come across better officials than those he has experienced in his two spells with Crawley. He said: "Referees are always under pressure
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Non-league: Rice in FA Cup vow
Marc Rice is ready to go on the spot again to kick start another Worthing cup run. Even if it means risking a repeat of his costly penalty miss in Monday's home defeat to Boreham Wood. Rice, who scored three goals in Rebels' first two league games, wasted
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Councillor in stand over OAPs eviction
A councillor has vowed he will break the law rather than let two pensioners be evicted from their home. Nyewood House in Bognor Regis is set to close today but two pensioners are adamant they are not going to leave. West Sussex County Council wrote to
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Date
What if it were your nan?
I should like to thank the lady and librarian at the Meridian Centre, Peacehaven, the paramedics and police who attended my 80-year-old mother after she was mugged and robbed recently. If anyone should find her shopping bag containing her bus pass, glasses
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Date
Russ was wonderful
The article about Russ Conway (Argus Weekend, August 26) was truly wonderful. When I finished reading it I felt a tear in my eye. Earlier, I had been listening to Russ on the Don McClean programme on BBC Radio 2. -Name and address supplied
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Date
John Parry - Hacked off with TV trivia
It is a sad, but unarguable, fact of life that television trivialises the news. Amid all the hot air generated by the Edinburgh Television Festival about whether TV news was being dumbed-down, whether the BBC should move the news to ten o'clock and the
-
Date
Girl in tears after thugs stone pony
Pony-mad Charlotte Waters-Yates burst into tears after thugs launched a savage attack on her pony. The seven-year-old animal Cash was pelted with stones as he frantically tried to escape the attack. Only when one of the helpers at the stables spotted
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Date
Row erupts over bid to halt superstore
Opponents of a supermarket planned as part of a town centre redevelopment say almost everyone they asked about the store is against it. BUDD, Brighton Urban Design and Development, has released its report on the borough council's draft planning brief
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Date
Science fiction
For Mark Bitton's information, I am sure I am not the only local person qualified to work in the field of scientific endeavour who has had to turn his attention elsewhere for the sake of earning a living, due to a lack of science jobs in the area (Opinion
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Date
Centre of attention
Part One: Today we outline how the local plan wants to modernise how we spend our time away from our offices or factories. Shopping There has been a rapid growth in out-of-town shopping centres following the relaxation of planning controls in the Eighties
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Date
Fury at axed protest date
Organisers of an alternative Labour conference next month have suddenly had their booking cancelled. They believe political pressure is behind the decision not to honour the booking for Hove Town Hall on September 24. Brighton 2000 had provisionally booked
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Date
Eyes off the naked lady!
Police are warning drivers to keep their eyes on the road after a billboard appeared with a naked woman emblazoned across it. The advert for Marks & Spencer clothes for women has caused uproar among local residents. It appeared at the junction of
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Date
Horse misery
J. Noakes asks if people have seen for themselves how well the horses are looked after at Zippos Circus (Opinion, August 29). Has he visited the Sussex Horse Rescue Trust at Uckfield and seen Oopah, a spotted pony, bred for the circus but thrown out because
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Date
Unbelievable
One is now used to Brighton and Hove Council leader Lynette Gwyn-Jones' tortured way with words and logic, but her claim that Hove Centre is part of a campaign to attract more stars to Hove (Argus, August 28) beggars belief. Will this really woo celebrities
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Date
Mongan sets his heart on the top title
In-form Ian Mongan has declared: "My ambition is to be championship apprentice next year." The Brighton jockey rode a double at Brighton on Wednesday and his total of 32 since turning professional places him fourth in the list of apprentice riders this
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Date
It's a sign
While the controversy surrounding the new welcome to Brighton and Hove sign on the A23 roundabout rages, how about a similar sign on the B2123 welcoming visitors to Woodingdean? It could replace the "please keep our village tidy" sign erected in 1992
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Date
Montgomerie drops anchor to guide Sussex
Sussex eased safely past their follow-on target against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge yesterday thanks to a century by opener Richard Montgomerie. After Nottinghamshire had scraped a fourth batting point before their innings closed on 351, Montgomerie
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Date
Basketball: Bears sign trio
Brighton Bears have snapped up three new players a month before the new season. Two of the recruits are from the States while Errol Seaman has joined the club from last season's play-off winners Manchester Giants. The Americans are 6ft 6in small forward
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Date
Non-league: Reds boss backs refs
Crawley boss Billy Smith has praised the standard of refereeing in the Dr Martens League. Smith believes he has never come across better officials than those he has experienced in his two spells with Crawley. He said: "Referees are always under pressure
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Date
Councillor in stand over OAPs eviction
A councillor has vowed he will break the law rather than let two pensioners be evicted from their home. Nyewood House in Bognor Regis is set to close today but two pensioners are adamant they are not going to leave. West Sussex County Council wrote to
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Date
Get the scum who beat me
A man enjoying a night's clubbing remembers nothing of the brutal attack which left him with horrific facial injuries. The last recollection 38-year-old Mark Walker has of the night his face was beaten to a pulp, is sitting drinking and chatting in the
