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Tripped up by tax traps
Beleaguered farmers who heed the Prime Minister's advice to diversify could find themselves facing unexpected tax traps. Sidelines like livery, farm shops and barn conversions may bring unwelcome tax complications, warned Peter Silk, a member of the Farming
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Payouts go unclaimed
As many as 80,000 Scottish Widows policyholders have yet to claim windfall cheques averaging £6,000 being paid as a result of the takeover of the life assurer by Lloyds TSB last year. Scottish Widows began sending out the first batch of payments last
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Cleaned up on new contract
Systems Hygienics, the Eastbourne-based air and water hygiene specialist, has won a service contract with the rapidly-expanding Silk and Spice restaurant chain. The firm will carry out regular inspections of Silk and Spice's seven restaurants and carry
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Enter a forgotten time
A decade ago when everyone was laughing at the fashions and fads of the Seventies, Tim Mason was starting to collect the things other people were discarding. Now with a revival of interest in what some people called the Decade that Taste Forgot, Tim has
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Modest growth to boost exports
Manufacturers showed modest growth last month with exports benefiting from the weakness of the pound against the dollar. A monthly survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) showed the UK manufacturing economy strengthening
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Fan firm bought in town takeover
Aerco Holdings, the Horsham-based electromechanical distribution firm, has bought a 75 per cent stake in Fan Technology, also of Horsham. Fan Technology will continue to operate as an independent company within the Aerco Holdings group. The existing co-directors
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Sussex in the City - Stewart Dalby
There seems to be no stopping Epic Group, the online training company based in Brighton's Old Steine. Preliminary results for the year to May 2000 show the three-pronged multimedia company increased turnover by 43 per cent. Pre-tax profits were 60 per
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Phones from the gas man
British Gas has revealed plans to move into the telecoms market. With electricity suppliers already supplying gas and vice versa, British Gas has announced its latest move to beat the competition. As well as home telephone services, mobile and internet
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High-flyer's wings of desire
Justin Fleming, the man who turned Sussex-based Panorama Holidays into a leading UK brand, has retired. He has plans to spend more time with his family and hobbies. One of the first things on the agenda for the 50-year-old multi-millionaire will be to
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Tribunal to rule on jobs pay-out
A group of 247 dinner ladies who lost their jobs when a council scrapped hot school meals are fighting to win redundancy money. An employment tribunal to decide who is liable for the payments, an estimated £300,000, started in Brighton yesterday. The
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Unreliable
Selma Mountford asks why people living in Patcham are using Park and Ride instead of their own local buses (Opinion, August 24). If she depended on the 5A (Patcham Old village) route she would soon find out. Since the new "improved" re-scheduling, our
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Tomboy - Live Burgers
Tim Davies has opened Grubbs Organic Burgers. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards, magazine illustrations
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Rubbish policy
What a pity Mid Sussex District Council has reduced the refuse service provided to residents when there was a golden opportunity to actually improve on it. Small quantities of garden waste used to be collected along with household rubbish, no questions
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Off the streets
Recent correspondence draws attention to the fact there are still people, many of them vulnerable, living and sleeping on the streets of Brighton. There are several organisations and groups who do their best to provide help, many of them voluntary, several
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Three teams in battle for the championship
Three teams can still be crowned champions as one of the most exciting title races for years reaches its climax. Just six points separate the leading three sides with one match to play. Chiddingly are the new leaders after Ringmer's surprise defeat at
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Portobello is stage for major power struggle
The hypocracy of the Liberal Democrats, and in particular Coun Paul Cosham, is beyond belief. He piously states the issue of the sewage water treatment plant at Portobello should be above party politics when he and his colleagues have gone out of their
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Moores to join England set-up
Sussex coach Peter Moores is joining the England set-up. The 38-year-old will coach England A on their tour of West Indies early next year. Moores, who took over as Sussex coach in 1998 after 13 years keeping wicket for the county, today described his
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We don't fear the lions' den
Albion should not fear a mauling in the Lions' New Den tonight. That is the battle cry from goal ace Bobby Zamora as the Seagulls try to spring a surprise in the Worthington Cup. Second Division Millwall won 2-1 at Withdean a fortnight ago. It means Micky
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Review: Getting your 75,000 pieces of art
When you have seen one clip art collection, you have seen 'em all so this offering from Focus Multimedia offers no surprises. However, 75,000 Clip Art Images is a very comprehensive collection. Let's face it, anything makes a change from the over-used
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Review: Grand time will be had by all
Some games are great, some become classics but very few get known as standards. Grand Prix 3 by Geoff Crammond on the PC is such a comprehensive simulation of the high-tech circus it will certainly be updated but surely never beaten. It does all the things
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Hardware: Don't fall prey to the hard sell
Buying a laptop computer is harder than many people think. A laptop is not just a smaller version of a desktop PC but a completely different design model with more things to go wrong and more opportunities for a sneaky salesman to sell you something you
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Date
Free and easy way to calls
Free telephone calls are now available in phone boxes in Brighton and Hove. The only catch is callers will have to listen to 30-second adverts for Silhouette Books, Nimble Bread and Nestle's Starburst ice cream first. Phone users can take advantage of
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The Rivals bringing sporting supporters together
Websites created by Sussex fans have been snapped up for inclusion in Europe's biggest online sports network. Two sites, set up by cycle-mad Richard Stern and cricket-crazy Jon Rutter, appear along with more than 300 other independent fan sites on pan-European
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A great Movement forward
A two-month-old Hove new media firm has landed contracts with two of the biggest names in clubbing. BAHWeb is to create a site for London drum and bass club night Movement ahead of the release of its first album. Steve Penfold, 26, a partner in the firm
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Watch out for the dot com cowboys
One of Sussex's leading trade organisations has warned of the danger of "dot com cowboys" who tout their services via the internet. In recent months there has been a spate of companies starting up on the web as agencies to put consumers in contact with
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Hindus mark anniversary of their temple
Preparations are underway to mark the first birthday of a Hindu temple. The Brighton and Hove Hindu community bought the building in Trafalgar Road, Portslade, for £150,000. It had previously been the Southern Cross Club. Volunteers from 130 local families
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Webcam
Helsinki Camera offers panoramic views of the Finnish capital from its lofty position on top of the country's main TV transmission tower. The camera takes pictures automatically from three different directions around every ten minutes. Viewers can zoom
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Net Solutions
With Andrew Hardy, owner of Worthing based DoubleClick-IT Q: How can I make my computer play a sound when I receive an e-mail? A: Windows 98 and NT allow the user to associate sounds with any number of events. The first thing you need to do is get a sound
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Tripped up by tax traps
Beleaguered farmers who heed the Prime Minister's advice to diversify could find themselves facing unexpected tax traps. Sidelines like livery, farm shops and barn conversions may bring unwelcome tax complications, warned Peter Silk, a member of the Farming
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Date
Help the aged worker
Older workers who face discrimination on grounds of age should have legal protection, a leading employment think-tank has urged. The Employment Policy Institute said "radical" steps may be needed to help older people stay in work. Research showed in the
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Cleaned up on new contract
Systems Hygienics, the Eastbourne-based air and water hygiene specialist, has won a service contract with the rapidly-expanding Silk and Spice restaurant chain. The firm will carry out regular inspections of Silk and Spice's seven restaurants and carry
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Date
No disputing his talents
Leading south-east law firm Rawlison & Butler has announced the appointment of new partner Stuart Evans to its litigation team in Crawley. Stuart, 39, qualified as a solicitor in 1987. Prior to joining Rawlison & Butler, he worked at international
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Enter a forgotten time
A decade ago when everyone was laughing at the fashions and fads of the Seventies, Tim Mason was starting to collect the things other people were discarding. Now with a revival of interest in what some people called the Decade that Taste Forgot, Tim has
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Date
Working for water competition
Worthing-based Southern Water has joined a working party looking at ways customers can benefit from competition in the water industry. The working party, also consisting of Thames Water, North West Water and IT solutions company Logica, will carry out
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Fan firm bought in town takeover
Aerco Holdings, the Horsham-based electromechanical distribution firm, has bought a 75 per cent stake in Fan Technology, also of Horsham. Fan Technology will continue to operate as an independent company within the Aerco Holdings group. The existing co-directors
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Date
High-flyer's wings of desire
Justin Fleming, the man who turned Sussex-based Panorama Holidays into a leading UK brand, has retired. He has plans to spend more time with his family and hobbies. One of the first things on the agenda for the 50-year-old multi-millionaire will be to
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Club show is a winner
Everyone was a winner when the Ansty Garden Club staged its first show. But no prizes were awarded because the display at the village hall was the rehearsal to a competitive event later in the year. Show spokeswoman Suzanne Mace said: "We only put it
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Current trends make it harder to go green
A council which wanted to go green with its electricity contract has had to scrap the idea. Brighton and Hove Council usually spends about £550,000 a year on power for its main buildings. These include its offices, seven secondary schools, the Royal Pavilion
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Lights out
Thank goodness we have people such as D. Bonwick with the moral principal and courage to take on our local authority over the glaringly anti-social lighting layout at Downland Court, Stonery Road (Argus, August 25). Brighton and Hove Council had many
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Tribunal to rule on jobs pay-out
A group of 247 dinner ladies who lost their jobs when a council scrapped hot school meals are fighting to win redundancy money. An employment tribunal to decide who is liable for the payments, an estimated £300,000, started in Brighton yesterday. The
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Climber's 'eggs-ibit'
A forgotten set of bird's eggs collected more than a century ago by the father of British mountaineering has been discovered at the Booth Museum in Brighton. They were picked up by Victorian climber Edward Whymper in Greenland in 1872. Among the dozen
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Unreliable
Selma Mountford asks why people living in Patcham are using Park and Ride instead of their own local buses (Opinion, August 24). If she depended on the 5A (Patcham Old village) route she would soon find out. Since the new "improved" re-scheduling, our
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Traffic grief
Gardens. In the 1950s, the need was to provide parking for day coaches. In the 1960s, the prevalent theory was to build a parkway station at Patcham with a hovertrain into central Brighton. We then had the widening of roads to accommodate more traffic.We
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How's that?
Ron Richardson's suggestion the County Cricket Ground in Hove can accommodate more people than attended the Lancashire evening match on August 7 (Opinion, August 30) makes me feel he must have been at a different match. Having seen the game with my two
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Tomboy - Live Burgers
Tim Davies has opened Grubbs Organic Burgers. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards, magazine illustrations
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Date
Off the streets
Recent correspondence draws attention to the fact there are still people, many of them vulnerable, living and sleeping on the streets of Brighton. There are several organisations and groups who do their best to provide help, many of them voluntary, several
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Date
Three teams in battle for the championship
Three teams can still be crowned champions as one of the most exciting title races for years reaches its climax. Just six points separate the leading three sides with one match to play. Chiddingly are the new leaders after Ringmer's surprise defeat at
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Date
Portobello is stage for major power struggle
The hypocracy of the Liberal Democrats, and in particular Coun Paul Cosham, is beyond belief. He piously states the issue of the sewage water treatment plant at Portobello should be above party politics when he and his colleagues have gone out of their
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Date
We don't fear the lions' den
Albion should not fear a mauling in the Lions' New Den tonight. That is the battle cry from goal ace Bobby Zamora as the Seagulls try to spring a surprise in the Worthington Cup. Second Division Millwall won 2-1 at Withdean a fortnight ago. It means Micky
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Date
Review: Getting your 75,000 pieces of art
When you have seen one clip art collection, you have seen 'em all so this offering from Focus Multimedia offers no surprises. However, 75,000 Clip Art Images is a very comprehensive collection. Let's face it, anything makes a change from the over-used
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Date
Review: Grand time will be had by all
Some games are great, some become classics but very few get known as standards. Grand Prix 3 by Geoff Crammond on the PC is such a comprehensive simulation of the high-tech circus it will certainly be updated but surely never beaten. It does all the things
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Date
Hardware: Your just desserts
As the kids get ready to go back to school, one of the most important items on the shopping list is almost certainly a new calculator. Now mathematics and street cred can go hand in hand. The Sharp Jelly Calculator comes in seriously cool colours while
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Date
Hardware: Don't fall prey to the hard sell
Buying a laptop computer is harder than many people think. A laptop is not just a smaller version of a desktop PC but a completely different design model with more things to go wrong and more opportunities for a sneaky salesman to sell you something you
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Date
The Rivals bringing sporting supporters together
Websites created by Sussex fans have been snapped up for inclusion in Europe's biggest online sports network. Two sites, set up by cycle-mad Richard Stern and cricket-crazy Jon Rutter, appear along with more than 300 other independent fan sites on pan-European
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Date
A great Movement forward
A two-month-old Hove new media firm has landed contracts with two of the biggest names in clubbing. BAHWeb is to create a site for London drum and bass club night Movement ahead of the release of its first album. Steve Penfold, 26, a partner in the firm
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Date
Royal Pavilion, with onions, is fit for a king
Model-maker Ted Bayley has got Brighton's Royal Pavilion down to a fine art with his recreation of the famous landmark. Mr Bayley has just added the finishing touches to his three-foot high model of the former royal residence, which has taken him almost
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Date
Net Solutions
With Andrew Hardy, owner of Worthing based DoubleClick-IT Q: How can I make my computer play a sound when I receive an e-mail? A: Windows 98 and NT allow the user to associate sounds with any number of events. The first thing you need to do is get a sound
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Date
Help the aged worker
Older workers who face discrimination on grounds of age should have legal protection, a leading employment think-tank has urged. The Employment Policy Institute said "radical" steps may be needed to help older people stay in work. Research showed in the
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Date
No disputing his talents
Leading south-east law firm Rawlison & Butler has announced the appointment of new partner Stuart Evans to its litigation team in Crawley. Stuart, 39, qualified as a solicitor in 1987. Prior to joining Rawlison & Butler, he worked at international
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Developing into a big firm
Photographic retail chain Jessops is to float on the London Stock Exchange next month. The move will allow it to double its number of stores and create 1,500 UK jobs over the next seven years. The flotation is expected to value Jessops, which was founded
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Date
We're turning Japanese-style
As English gardens become more popular in Japan, it is Japanese gardens that are turning heads in the UK. Landscape gardener Alan Harwood and his team have just completed a Japanese-style garden at the Wyvale Garden Centre at Kingston, near Lewes. The
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Date
Working for water competition
Worthing-based Southern Water has joined a working party looking at ways customers can benefit from competition in the water industry. The working party, also consisting of Thames Water, North West Water and IT solutions company Logica, will carry out
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Date
Family gets a real buzz out of farming
The jobs of more than four million Sussex workers are safe thanks to a deal with a leading supermarket. Bees at Paynes Southdown Bee Farms will be busy over the coming years supplying honey to branches of Somerfield in the supermarket's bid to offer more
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Date
Talent at top to transform firms
A new scheme has been launched offering the services of leading business professionals to Sussex firms. The Non-Executive Director Service from Sussex Enterprise helps provide qualified directors to inject fresh ideas into the heart of a company's operations
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Date
Derek Jameson - Past pays a flying visit
Surrounded by retired air chief marshalls and other top brass at the Shoreham Air Show, I explain how even kids learned to recognise the contrasting engine sounds. They knew the sounds of the Messerschmitt 109, Dornier 17 and Heinkel 111. My listeners
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Date
Club show is a winner
Everyone was a winner when the Ansty Garden Club staged its first show. But no prizes were awarded because the display at the village hall was the rehearsal to a competitive event later in the year. Show spokeswoman Suzanne Mace said: "We only put it
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Date
Newsletter sparks row over cash
Crawley Council has been accused of a "gross misuse of public money" after sending out a newsletter that reads like a Labour Party leaflet. Henry Smith, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Crawley, claims the latest issue of the Broadfield
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Parish is lumbered with Euro vote bill
Thousands will have community services cut to pay for a referendum demanded by just 19 residents. Lancing Parish Council will have to foot the estimated £2,500 bill for a parish poll into whether Britain should adopt the Euro. A group of Euro sceptics
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It's a whine bar for bankless customers
A bank has been accused of hypocrisy by turning a branch into a trendy bar and restaurant after criticising rivals for doing the same thing. The branch of the NatWest Bank in East Wittering closed last year, forcing customers to travel seven miles to
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Date
Don't close ASNP
I'm very sad to hear Adur Special Needs Project (ASNP) may have to close due to lack of funding. My nine-year-old son suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and has been attending this marvellous club for the past four years. Without
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Date
New drive at car crimes
Four people have been arrested in a crackdown on car crime. The suspects were detained in Hove as part of a high-profile initiative to tackle the theft of cars and property from them. Following the arrests, police recovered property believed to have been
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Date
Current trends make it harder to go green
A council which wanted to go green with its electricity contract has had to scrap the idea. Brighton and Hove Council usually spends about £550,000 a year on power for its main buildings. These include its offices, seven secondary schools, the Royal Pavilion
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Date
Lights out
Thank goodness we have people such as D. Bonwick with the moral principal and courage to take on our local authority over the glaringly anti-social lighting layout at Downland Court, Stonery Road (Argus, August 25). Brighton and Hove Council had many
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Date
Climber's 'eggs-ibit'
A forgotten set of bird's eggs collected more than a century ago by the father of British mountaineering has been discovered at the Booth Museum in Brighton. They were picked up by Victorian climber Edward Whymper in Greenland in 1872. Among the dozen
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Date
Ben is a real star at night
Young star Ben Gray is taking the pressures of fame in his stride. Three nights a week Ben, 12, from Hove, travels to London's West End to appear in the hit musical Whistle Down The Wind. It is the second time he has been selected to appear in the Andrew
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Date
Traffic grief
Gardens. In the 1950s, the need was to provide parking for day coaches. In the 1960s, the prevalent theory was to build a parkway station at Patcham with a hovertrain into central Brighton. We then had the widening of roads to accommodate more traffic.We
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Date
Man tells court of car death
A man strangled a woman with his bare hands after driving to a countryside lane, a court heard. The body of Karen Heywood, 35, was found in a wood at Houghton, near Arundel, in January. Lewes Crown Court heard how Jarno Cable, 25, of Laurel Grove, Bognor
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Date
How's that?
Ron Richardson's suggestion the County Cricket Ground in Hove can accommodate more people than attended the Lancashire evening match on August 7 (Opinion, August 30) makes me feel he must have been at a different match. Having seen the game with my two
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Date
Time runs out on travellers
The leaders of Brighton and Hove Council have accused Sussex Police of failing to tackle the problem of travellers in the area. Council leader Lynette Gwyn-Jones and chief executive Glynn Jones held top-level talks with Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse
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Date
Radio noise
I was disappointed to read Norman McLeod's comments regarding Surf 107.2's range of listening choice (Opinion, August 31). I am surprised Mr McLeod believes the station has narrowed the service it offers listeners. Recent adjustments to the schedule saw
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Heath are punished for making basic mistakes
Skipper Dave Wattam is convinced his side can learn the harsh lessons of their losing start to life in the new-look London Two South. Sussex's flag-bearers at this level spent the vast majority of Saturday's opener battering away at a Midwhitgiftians
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Date
Review: Setting up shop on the internet
Actinic Catalog 4.0 is a complete e-commerce package which lets you build and keep control of an online webstore. It has an incredible range of features, including the facility to set up a web catalogue, security and order processing straight from the
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Date
Hardware: Your just desserts
As the kids get ready to go back to school, one of the most important items on the shopping list is almost certainly a new calculator. Now mathematics and street cred can go hand in hand. The Sharp Jelly Calculator comes in seriously cool colours while
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Date
Royal Pavilion, with onions, is fit for a king
Model-maker Ted Bayley has got Brighton's Royal Pavilion down to a fine art with his recreation of the famous landmark. Mr Bayley has just added the finishing touches to his three-foot high model of the former royal residence, which has taken him almost
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Date
Website of the week
No trip to India would be complete without a visit to the sub-continent's most celebrated landmark, the Taj Mahal. The 16th Century monument was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in memory of his wife Mumtaj Mahal. Thanks to the Armchair Travel Company
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Investment with Stewart Dalby
Online gambling is growing exponentially. The forecasts from research consultant Datamonitor is that by 2004, European online betting will soar a hundred-fold from just £36 million last year to £3.7 billion. If you think about it, gambling is a natural
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Date
Payouts go unclaimed
As many as 80,000 Scottish Widows policyholders have yet to claim windfall cheques averaging £6,000 being paid as a result of the takeover of the life assurer by Lloyds TSB last year. Scottish Widows began sending out the first batch of payments last
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Date
Developing into a big firm
Photographic retail chain Jessops is to float on the London Stock Exchange next month. The move will allow it to double its number of stores and create 1,500 UK jobs over the next seven years. The flotation is expected to value Jessops, which was founded
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Date
Modest growth to boost exports
Manufacturers showed modest growth last month with exports benefiting from the weakness of the pound against the dollar. A monthly survey carried out by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) showed the UK manufacturing economy strengthening
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Date
We're turning Japanese-style
As English gardens become more popular in Japan, it is Japanese gardens that are turning heads in the UK. Landscape gardener Alan Harwood and his team have just completed a Japanese-style garden at the Wyvale Garden Centre at Kingston, near Lewes. The
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Date
Sussex in the City - Stewart Dalby
There seems to be no stopping Epic Group, the online training company based in Brighton's Old Steine. Preliminary results for the year to May 2000 show the three-pronged multimedia company increased turnover by 43 per cent. Pre-tax profits were 60 per
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Date
Phones from the gas man
British Gas has revealed plans to move into the telecoms market. With electricity suppliers already supplying gas and vice versa, British Gas has announced its latest move to beat the competition. As well as home telephone services, mobile and internet
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Date
Family gets a real buzz out of farming
The jobs of more than four million Sussex workers are safe thanks to a deal with a leading supermarket. Bees at Paynes Southdown Bee Farms will be busy over the coming years supplying honey to branches of Somerfield in the supermarket's bid to offer more
-
Date
Talent at top to transform firms
A new scheme has been launched offering the services of leading business professionals to Sussex firms. The Non-Executive Director Service from Sussex Enterprise helps provide qualified directors to inject fresh ideas into the heart of a company's operations
-
Date
Derek Jameson - Past pays a flying visit
Surrounded by retired air chief marshalls and other top brass at the Shoreham Air Show, I explain how even kids learned to recognise the contrasting engine sounds. They knew the sounds of the Messerschmitt 109, Dornier 17 and Heinkel 111. My listeners
-
Date
Newsletter sparks row over cash
Crawley Council has been accused of a "gross misuse of public money" after sending out a newsletter that reads like a Labour Party leaflet. Henry Smith, the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Crawley, claims the latest issue of the Broadfield
-
Date
Parish is lumbered with Euro vote bill
Thousands will have community services cut to pay for a referendum demanded by just 19 residents. Lancing Parish Council will have to foot the estimated £2,500 bill for a parish poll into whether Britain should adopt the Euro. A group of Euro sceptics
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Date
It's a whine bar for bankless customers
A bank has been accused of hypocrisy by turning a branch into a trendy bar and restaurant after criticising rivals for doing the same thing. The branch of the NatWest Bank in East Wittering closed last year, forcing customers to travel seven miles to
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Date
Don't close ASNP
I'm very sad to hear Adur Special Needs Project (ASNP) may have to close due to lack of funding. My nine-year-old son suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and has been attending this marvellous club for the past four years. Without
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Date
New drive at car crimes
Four people have been arrested in a crackdown on car crime. The suspects were detained in Hove as part of a high-profile initiative to tackle the theft of cars and property from them. Following the arrests, police recovered property believed to have been
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Date
Hospital's cash aid to beat winter
A hospital trust has been given a £500,000 boost to help prepare itself for expected winter pressures. Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust won additional funding from the Department of Health for critical care services. The funding will allow
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Dream realised as roof raised
Builders have started work on putting the final touches to a new £750,000 community project in West Sussex. Fishergate Community Association has managed to raise enough money to begin the building of a new community centre for the area. The money was
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Date
Ben is a real star at night
Young star Ben Gray is taking the pressures of fame in his stride. Three nights a week Ben, 12, from Hove, travels to London's West End to appear in the hit musical Whistle Down The Wind. It is the second time he has been selected to appear in the Andrew
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Date
Stock ruined in store blaze
Mountains of stock went up in smoke during a blaze in a warehouse store. Staff and customers at the Trading 4 U retail store were evacuated when the fire broke out about 3pm yesterday. Four fire engines were called to the blaze, which had engulfed a storeroom
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Date
Man tells court of car death
A man strangled a woman with his bare hands after driving to a countryside lane, a court heard. The body of Karen Heywood, 35, was found in a wood at Houghton, near Arundel, in January. Lewes Crown Court heard how Jarno Cable, 25, of Laurel Grove, Bognor
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Date
Time runs out on travellers
The leaders of Brighton and Hove Council have accused Sussex Police of failing to tackle the problem of travellers in the area. Council leader Lynette Gwyn-Jones and chief executive Glynn Jones held top-level talks with Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse
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Date
Rubbish policy
What a pity Mid Sussex District Council has reduced the refuse service provided to residents when there was a golden opportunity to actually improve on it. Small quantities of garden waste used to be collected along with household rubbish, no questions
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Date
Radio noise
I was disappointed to read Norman McLeod's comments regarding Surf 107.2's range of listening choice (Opinion, August 31). I am surprised Mr McLeod believes the station has narrowed the service it offers listeners. Recent adjustments to the schedule saw
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Date
Heath are punished for making basic mistakes
Skipper Dave Wattam is convinced his side can learn the harsh lessons of their losing start to life in the new-look London Two South. Sussex's flag-bearers at this level spent the vast majority of Saturday's opener battering away at a Midwhitgiftians
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Date
Moores to join England set-up
Sussex coach Peter Moores is joining the England set-up. The 38-year-old will coach England A on their tour of West Indies early next year. Moores, who took over as Sussex coach in 1998 after 13 years keeping wicket for the county, today described his
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Date
Review: Setting up shop on the internet
Actinic Catalog 4.0 is a complete e-commerce package which lets you build and keep control of an online webstore. It has an incredible range of features, including the facility to set up a web catalogue, security and order processing straight from the
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Date
Free and easy way to calls
Free telephone calls are now available in phone boxes in Brighton and Hove. The only catch is callers will have to listen to 30-second adverts for Silhouette Books, Nimble Bread and Nestle's Starburst ice cream first. Phone users can take advantage of
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Date
Watch out for the dot com cowboys
One of Sussex's leading trade organisations has warned of the danger of "dot com cowboys" who tout their services via the internet. In recent months there has been a spate of companies starting up on the web as agencies to put consumers in contact with
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Date
Hindus mark anniversary of their temple
Preparations are underway to mark the first birthday of a Hindu temple. The Brighton and Hove Hindu community bought the building in Trafalgar Road, Portslade, for £150,000. It had previously been the Southern Cross Club. Volunteers from 130 local families
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Date
Minutes that may be vital
Mother Sharon Ruben is joining the fight to save casualty services in Mid Sussex after hospital staff helped save her life. People in Haywards Heath and surrounding villages have been signing the Argus Save Our A&E petition to keep the full accident
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Lottery bid to save pavilion
Protesters battling to secure the future of Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion were celebrating today after councillors agreed to push ahead with a Lottery bid. Plans to sell off the Grade 1 listed building to a private investor sparked a public outcry, with
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Website of the week
No trip to India would be complete without a visit to the sub-continent's most celebrated landmark, the Taj Mahal. The 16th Century monument was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in memory of his wife Mumtaj Mahal. Thanks to the Armchair Travel Company
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Webcam
Helsinki Camera offers panoramic views of the Finnish capital from its lofty position on top of the country's main TV transmission tower. The camera takes pictures automatically from three different directions around every ten minutes. Viewers can zoom
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Investment with Stewart Dalby
Online gambling is growing exponentially. The forecasts from research consultant Datamonitor is that by 2004, European online betting will soar a hundred-fold from just £36 million last year to £3.7 billion. If you think about it, gambling is a natural
