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Iron advice
At 80 years old I am fit, healthy, active and enjoying life. This I attribute to my taking seven portions of fruit or vegetables most days. Because I take little meat my body needs iron and iron tablets have side effects so I do not take them. I do eat
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Signal Failure, by Lizzie Enfield
We were so busy making sure we hadn't left any of the Christmas presents on the platform, that it wasn't until we reached East Croydon that we realised we'd lost Aunt Maud. The trouble was we were all coming from different parts of the county, (self,
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MP calls for guns amnesty
Lewes MP Norman Baker is calling for a firearms amnesty in Sussex to help cut gun-related crime. The number of firearms offences in Sussex has risen from 74 in 1979 to 218 in 1997 and stands at 377 in the year to March 2000 - although the way the figures
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Truth about travellers
I have to reply to yet another misinformed and bigoted member of the public (December 19). Most travellers in this country are Roma, Irish or Scottish in origin, were born into their nomadic lifestyle and so did not choose it. Of the so-called "New Travellers
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Christmas nightmare
A young woman faces starting the New Year living on the streets after a candle set fire to her Christmas tree. Talitha McIntyre-Burnie was forced from her temporary home at the Russell Lodge Hotel in Holland Road, Hove, after flames swept through it shortly
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Highland fling
My association with the Highland bothy (December 7) goes back to the winter of 1942 when I was sent on a sniping course in Invernesshire, eight miles up the glen from the village of Struy. This course turned out to be one of the highlights of my life.
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Bus routes
Over the past three years we have adjusted the schedules of many city bus routes to allow for worsening traffic and bad parking. Nine buses have been added to the network to provide greater slack but this adds to the costs, which have to be passed on
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Falmer stadium
Attila the Stockbroker's recent tirade against Friends of the Earth and the Green Party (December 13) missed the point. A lot of people are asking why a new football stadium has got to be on the South Downs and not on a brownfield site in town. Dick Knight
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Straight record
When it comes to providing the public with misinformation, the Tories on Adur District Council have become serial offenders (Councillor Funnell, December 18). To put the record straight, I was not invited to the Conservative Party meeting at King's Manor
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I'd sail on wrecked superyacht again
Graham Goff should have been in Barcelona on New Year's Eve, standing on the deck of one of the most amazing boats ever built. His wife and two children should have been waving him off at the start of a round-the-world race. Instead, they will be at home
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Hove sympathy
So Brighton (and let's not forget Hove, shall we?) is a city now. Hurrah! I can see no end to the benefits - after all, Brighton and Hove Council pre-empted a successful bid by introducing a chaotic traffic management system to make us feel more at home
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Confidence trick
Am I alone in feeling patronised and puzzled by your repeated assertion that this "city" thing means we can feel "self confident"? City as therapy? Get a life - to use Brighton and Hove Council's language. My impression is that the news bemuses many people
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Friends pay tribute to 'Bunny'
Tributes have been paid to a hairdresser to the stars found dead earlier this month. A man has been charged with the murder of 79-year-old Bernard Murphy, whose body was found at his home in Crown Street, Brighton. Mr Murphy, known as Bunny, was a renowned
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How I launched a Hollywood star
When film director John Stallwood put Greta Scacchi in front of the camera he knew she had what it took to make it in Hollywood. And she was just nine at the time. The actress, now a major movie star, launched her film career with Mid Sussex Cine Society
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We've room for bikes, says train firm
Rail operator Govia says there will be room for bikes in new trains it is ordering for Sussex routes. Chief executive Keith Ludeman said there were demands for storage space on trains which could be used for wheelchairs, heavy luggage and bicycles. Cycling
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Two in custody over raid
Two men have been remanded in custody until Thursday accused of aggravated burglary at the home of a 92-year-old. Michael Hall, 24, from Bracklesham Bay, and Robert Benham, 43, from Selsey, appeared at Chichester Magistrates Court charged with the burglary
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Tree crash man named
A driver who was killed after his car overturned and hit a clump of trees has been named. Paul Newman, 21, of Laughton, crashed his Daewoo saloon on the A26 just south of Crowborough Army base early on Thursday. Firefighters managed to cut him free but
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Local radio company gets to bid
The first bidder for the new radio slot in Worthing has emerged. The Wireless Broadcasting Company (WBC), which went out live from Worthing Football Club in November last year, will apply for the licence announced by the Radio Authority two weeks ago.
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Iron advice
At 80 years old I am fit, healthy, active and enjoying life. This I attribute to my taking seven portions of fruit or vegetables most days. Because I take little meat my body needs iron and iron tablets have side effects so I do not take them. I do eat
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Date
MP calls for guns amnesty
Lewes MP Norman Baker is calling for a firearms amnesty in Sussex to help cut gun-related crime. The number of firearms offences in Sussex has risen from 74 in 1979 to 218 in 1997 and stands at 377 in the year to March 2000 - although the way the figures
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Christmas nightmare
A young woman faces starting the New Year living on the streets after a candle set fire to her Christmas tree. Talitha McIntyre-Burnie was forced from her temporary home at the Russell Lodge Hotel in Holland Road, Hove, after flames swept through it shortly
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Highland fling
My association with the Highland bothy (December 7) goes back to the winter of 1942 when I was sent on a sniping course in Invernesshire, eight miles up the glen from the village of Struy. This course turned out to be one of the highlights of my life.
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Falmer stadium
Attila the Stockbroker's recent tirade against Friends of the Earth and the Green Party (December 13) missed the point. A lot of people are asking why a new football stadium has got to be on the South Downs and not on a brownfield site in town. Dick Knight
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Birth of a star
John Stallwood from Burgess Hill was the first film director ever for international actress Greta Scacchi. She was nine years old and starred in a film called Inhabit the Wind about youngsters saving a kestrel. He recalls the film was made in appalling
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Straight record
When it comes to providing the public with misinformation, the Tories on Adur District Council have become serial offenders (Councillor Funnell, December 18). To put the record straight, I was not invited to the Conservative Party meeting at King's Manor
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Stormy story
The catamaran Team Philips was built to be a world beater - but instead it was dumped in the middle of the ocean after its crew was rescued. Yet the experimental boat still commands the loyalty of those who endured all the problems she created. Among
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Mother throws book at minister
Home Office Minister Charles Clarke ignored the pleas of the Tooley family for motorists who cause death by dangerous driving to be given longer sentences. But Veronica Tooley, mother of PC Jeff Tooley, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Shoreham
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We've room for bikes, says train firm
Rail operator Govia says there will be room for bikes in new trains it is ordering for Sussex routes. Chief executive Keith Ludeman said there were demands for storage space on trains which could be used for wheelchairs, heavy luggage and bicycles. Cycling
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Sorry, I'm Shoreham
Brighton is not the Place to Be. Shoreham and Southwick most certainly is. I am not jealous of the fact Brighton now has city status. It's just that Shoreham should have got it first. What a pity we did not apply to the Home Office. -H. Sherbert, Shoreham
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Signal Failure, by Lizzie Enfield
We were so busy making sure we hadn't left any of the Christmas presents on the platform, that it wasn't until we reached East Croydon that we realised we'd lost Aunt Maud. The trouble was we were all coming from different parts of the county, (self,
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Diary drive for street drinking ban
Residents in Brighton have been asked to keep a street-drinking diary as part of a drive to have it banned. Reports of drunks harassing and threatening people in the St James's Street and St George's Road area led to proposals for a bylaw forbidding drinking
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Truth about travellers
I have to reply to yet another misinformed and bigoted member of the public (December 19). Most travellers in this country are Roma, Irish or Scottish in origin, were born into their nomadic lifestyle and so did not choose it. Of the so-called "New Travellers
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Bus routes
Over the past three years we have adjusted the schedules of many city bus routes to allow for worsening traffic and bad parking. Nine buses have been added to the network to provide greater slack but this adds to the costs, which have to be passed on
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Out of touch
Where in the name of God has Des Turner been living for the last year or so (December 18)? Is he really expecting people to believe he was genuinely surprised at the latest asylum seeker figures? If he is, it is obvious he is completely out of touch with
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Stowaways in plane plunge
A body spotted plummeting from a jumbo jet on to a runway at Gatwick Airport is thought to be the second to fall from the undercarriage of a plane in two days. Police believe the victims could have been stowaways who clambered into the underbellies of
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I'd sail on wrecked superyacht again
Graham Goff should have been in Barcelona on New Year's Eve, standing on the deck of one of the most amazing boats ever built. His wife and two children should have been waving him off at the start of a round-the-world race. Instead, they will be at home
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Hove sympathy
So Brighton (and let's not forget Hove, shall we?) is a city now. Hurrah! I can see no end to the benefits - after all, Brighton and Hove Council pre-empted a successful bid by introducing a chaotic traffic management system to make us feel more at home
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Confidence trick
Am I alone in feeling patronised and puzzled by your repeated assertion that this "city" thing means we can feel "self confident"? City as therapy? Get a life - to use Brighton and Hove Council's language. My impression is that the news bemuses many people
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City status brings stress>
I hold no brief for the Campaign for a Better Brighton and Hove - they appear to be just a bunch of disgruntled Tories. Having said that, the granting of city status fills me with dread. Unlike most of the people behind the Place to Be campaign, I was
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Friends pay tribute to 'Bunny'
Tributes have been paid to a hairdresser to the stars found dead earlier this month. A man has been charged with the murder of 79-year-old Bernard Murphy, whose body was found at his home in Crown Street, Brighton. Mr Murphy, known as Bunny, was a renowned
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How I launched a Hollywood star
When film director John Stallwood put Greta Scacchi in front of the camera he knew she had what it took to make it in Hollywood. And she was just nine at the time. The actress, now a major movie star, launched her film career with Mid Sussex Cine Society
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Dead PC's mum plans book of horrors
Heartbroken mother Veronica Tooley plans to publish a book she hopes will give a Government minister nightmares. Her son, PC Jeff Tooley, was killed by a hit-and-run driver and she has supported calls to increase sentences for those who cause death by
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Two in custody over raid
Two men have been remanded in custody until Thursday accused of aggravated burglary at the home of a 92-year-old. Michael Hall, 24, from Bracklesham Bay, and Robert Benham, 43, from Selsey, appeared at Chichester Magistrates Court charged with the burglary
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Tree crash man named
A driver who was killed after his car overturned and hit a clump of trees has been named. Paul Newman, 21, of Laughton, crashed his Daewoo saloon on the A26 just south of Crowborough Army base early on Thursday. Firefighters managed to cut him free but
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Local radio company gets to bid
The first bidder for the new radio slot in Worthing has emerged. The Wireless Broadcasting Company (WBC), which went out live from Worthing Football Club in November last year, will apply for the licence announced by the Radio Authority two weeks ago.
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Sorry, I'm Shoreham
Brighton is not the Place to Be. Shoreham and Southwick most certainly is. I am not jealous of the fact Brighton now has city status. It's just that Shoreham should have got it first. What a pity we did not apply to the Home Office. -H. Sherbert, Shoreham
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Diary drive for street drinking ban
Residents in Brighton have been asked to keep a street-drinking diary as part of a drive to have it banned. Reports of drunks harassing and threatening people in the St James's Street and St George's Road area led to proposals for a bylaw forbidding drinking
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Out of touch
Where in the name of God has Des Turner been living for the last year or so (December 18)? Is he really expecting people to believe he was genuinely surprised at the latest asylum seeker figures? If he is, it is obvious he is completely out of touch with
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Stowaways in plane plunge
A body spotted plummeting from a jumbo jet on to a runway at Gatwick Airport is thought to be the second to fall from the undercarriage of a plane in two days. Police believe the victims could have been stowaways who clambered into the underbellies of
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Birth of a star
John Stallwood from Burgess Hill was the first film director ever for international actress Greta Scacchi. She was nine years old and starred in a film called Inhabit the Wind about youngsters saving a kestrel. He recalls the film was made in appalling
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Stormy story
The catamaran Team Philips was built to be a world beater - but instead it was dumped in the middle of the ocean after its crew was rescued. Yet the experimental boat still commands the loyalty of those who endured all the problems she created. Among
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Mother throws book at minister
Home Office Minister Charles Clarke ignored the pleas of the Tooley family for motorists who cause death by dangerous driving to be given longer sentences. But Veronica Tooley, mother of PC Jeff Tooley, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Shoreham
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City status brings stress>
I hold no brief for the Campaign for a Better Brighton and Hove - they appear to be just a bunch of disgruntled Tories. Having said that, the granting of city status fills me with dread. Unlike most of the people behind the Place to Be campaign, I was
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Dead PC's mum plans book of horrors
Heartbroken mother Veronica Tooley plans to publish a book she hopes will give a Government minister nightmares. Her son, PC Jeff Tooley, was killed by a hit-and-run driver and she has supported calls to increase sentences for those who cause death by
