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Business in Brief
SMART CARDS: Lewes-based ID Data has signed a three-year alliance with US-based Total System Services to supply smart card services to the European banking sector. FREE SEMINAR: Edward Jones, the Rottingdean-based firm of tax advisors, is presenting a
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Pretty legs trip up PC users
Computer users have been warned to beware of a fast-spreading email virus which promises a photograph of tennis star Anna Kournikova. Experts said the new virus was spreading at twice the rate of Love Bug, which paralysed the email servers of more than
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Motor dealers in takeover
A family-run firm of car dealers and repairers has bought out one of its competitors Eastbourne-based Caffyns has taken over Ridleys Volvo of Eastbourne and Hastings. It is not yet known whether any jobs will be created by the take-over but Caffyns chief
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Tomboy - Hair-raising
Hanningtons Hairdressers had a reunion party. 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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Flood fears over rising water
Flood-hit residents fear they will be washed out within days after ground water threatened to wipe out their homes. Householders in Patcham are measuring water levels following huge downpours last week and reckon they are close to disaster yet again.
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Homes wrecked in gas blast
A gas explosion ripped through a house in Lewes in the early hours of this morning. Neighbours in Hamsey Crescent were evacuated while the area was made safe. The explosion caused severe structural damage to the semi-detached home, which has been left
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Landslip closes the London line
Thousands of rail passengers suffered severe delays today after a major landslide blocked lines on the London-Brighton route. The landslide, involving falling trees, happened between Balcombe and Three Bridges and meant no through trains could run. The
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Easy solution
For a very long time I have had both legs in bandages owing to varicose eczema. This needs constant special cream massaged into the legs. Being disabled, I have found this hard, as I cannot reach my ankles. I cannot massage my left leg at all. I am sure
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Need for action
I too would like to congratulate Brighton and Hove Council's highways department on the clean-up of Stonery Road (Opinion, February 10), where I was a resident from 1959 to 1964. Perhaps it would like to do a similar job in Brentwood Road, Hollingdean
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Fascist facts
I am a PhD student at the University of Sussex, researching the history of British fascism from 1939 to 1966. The blurb about the BBC1 Omnibus documentary on Nancy Mitford (Argus, February 7) stated that Mitford's sister, Lady Diana Mosley, Oswald Mosley's
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Fresh start
Now Brighton and Hove has acquired city status with candid practicality, Voice Of The Argus (February 9) reminds us: "Now the hard work begins." So, let's start right now. With an expeditious performance by both our private and public sectors, our city
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Costly mistake
Last year I received an offer of three years' free membership of a health club. I decided to accept the offer and found it was not absolutely free and a fee towards club maintenance was expected. As I was unable to pay the full amount up front, I was
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Youth in Action : Athletics - Charlotte romps to Inter-County title
Chichester High pupil Charlotte Browning became the first Sussex athlete to win the under-13s title. She won the title when she romped home through the wind and rain at the Inter-County Cross Country Championships in Nottingham. She said: "Conditions
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Rest homes can't expect subsidy
I refer to the article regarding the financial difficulties owners and managers of residential homes are experiencing (Argus, February 12). They are going to either sell up or raise fees substantially unless the Government subsidises them or the elderly
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Alexander has great ambition
Sussex has a new British boxing champion. When Wayne Alexander stepped into the ring to challenge for the WBO world light-middleweight title in Widnes last Saturday he did so as a resident of Hailsham. Twenty-seven-year-old Alexander has chosen the Sussex
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Cullip plays waiting game
Albion's reigning player of the season Danny Cullip could be forced to sit out a clash with one of his biggest admirers. The influential central defender is available for Saturday's trip to Cheltenham after completing a three-match ban. Andy Crosby and
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Council chief calls it a day
Glynn Jones, the top official at Brighton and Hove Council, is to retire later this year. He will go at the end of October, giving the authority eight months in which to fill the £90,000-plus post of chief executive. He said today: "This is not a sudden
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Knife raid on pizza shop
A customer was held hostage when a knifeman wearing pink ski goggles held up a takeaway pizza shop. The raider walked into Perfect Pizza in Church Road, Hove, at 10.30pm last night. He grabbed a customer who was waiting for a pizza and held a 5in kitchen
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Day three for rape jury
A jury in the case of a barman accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Brighton girl at knifepoint will today start a third day of deliberations. Stephen Potter, 35, allegedly forced the girl from a property in the town in the early hours one day
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Pub robbed twice within hours
A landlord was knocked unconscious and his barman beaten in separate raids at the same Horsham pub within 24 hours. In the first robbery, a man ordered a drink at the Horse and Groom in East Street before punching the barman, snatching cash from the till
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Meningitis boy in drugs blunder
A hospital trust at the centre of an inquiry into the death of a patient given the wrong injection during an operation has made a second error in a week. A three-year-old boy, who was showing symptoms of meningitis, was given at least four times the recommended
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Time for love
It's a time for curious messages in The Argus and chocolate presents to follow. It's the biggest day in the year for florists. It's a time when old-fashioned men who are deeply in love still go down on one knee to propose marriage and when restaurants
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Perverts who got off lightly
Ordinary people will find our story today of the world's largest internet paedophile ring hard to believe. The seven people sentenced yesterday, including one from Bognor and one from St Leonards, were part of an international organisation which had more
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Business in Brief
SMART CARDS: Lewes-based ID Data has signed a three-year alliance with US-based Total System Services to supply smart card services to the European banking sector. FREE SEMINAR: Edward Jones, the Rottingdean-based firm of tax advisors, is presenting a
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Airline announces jobs boost
Airline Virgin Atlantic has announced detailed expansion plans at Gatwick Airport. Sir Richard Branson's airline will add extra flights and increase the number of business class seats on journeys to several North American cities from the summer. The plans
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Historic hypocrisy
There is a certain amount of hypocrisy from those who describe Lady Wedgwood's solar panel as unsightly (Argus, February 6). The solar panel is hardly noticeable from the street. Lewes has just suffered horrendous flooding, no doubt made worse by climate
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Sirens could sound flood alert
Sirens could be used to warn residents and businesses in Lewes if the town is about to be flooded. Lewes District Council is today considering a package of measures aimed at developing an effective early warning system. The move comes following the devastating
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Fury over child porn sentences
Leading children's charities united to condemn the jail sentences handed down to two Sussex paedophiles who were part of the world's largest child porn ring. David Hines, 30, of Chichester Road, Bognor, and Ian Baldock, 31, of Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards
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£10,000 price on robber's head
Worthing police have put up a £10,000 reward to help catch a shotgun raider who has carried out nine robberies on shops and garages. He is believed to have escaped with up to £2,000 in a string of robberies since Christmas. Officers are now linking an
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Health concern
Regarding the recent public outcry about the retention without consent of dead human organs, should we not be at least equally concerned about the removal and disposal of healthy live human foetuses in spite of the fact that the mother has given consent
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Easy solution
For a very long time I have had both legs in bandages owing to varicose eczema. This needs constant special cream massaged into the legs. Being disabled, I have found this hard, as I cannot reach my ankles. I cannot massage my left leg at all. I am sure
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A cut above the rest
They may have changed their hairstyles and even their husbands over the years but a group of women are still the good friends they were more than 30 years ago. The young apprentices of the hair and beauty salon at Hanningtons department store in Brighton
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Costly mistake
Last year I received an offer of three years' free membership of a health club. I decided to accept the offer and found it was not absolutely free and a fee towards club maintenance was expected. As I was unable to pay the full amount up front, I was
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Youth in Action: Rugby - Rookie wings in for surprise England call
Mark Barnard has been selected for the English Clubs under-18s squad. The 17-year-old winger, who plays for Lewes and Sussex, successfully completed trials at Castlecroft in The Midlands and is lined up for the Home Internationals in South Wales in April
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Youth in Action : Athletics - Charlotte romps to Inter-County title
Chichester High pupil Charlotte Browning became the first Sussex athlete to win the under-13s title. She won the title when she romped home through the wind and rain at the Inter-County Cross Country Championships in Nottingham. She said: "Conditions
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Parking worry
So Brighton and Hove Council has allowed another commercial concern to monopolise Brighton and Hove's public services - NCP will run our traffic wardens. Just as the council washed its hands of responsibility for public transport with the buses, so too
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Rest homes can't expect subsidy
I refer to the article regarding the financial difficulties owners and managers of residential homes are experiencing (Argus, February 12). They are going to either sell up or raise fees substantially unless the Government subsidises them or the elderly
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Alexander has great ambition
Sussex has a new British boxing champion. When Wayne Alexander stepped into the ring to challenge for the WBO world light-middleweight title in Widnes last Saturday he did so as a resident of Hailsham. Twenty-seven-year-old Alexander has chosen the Sussex
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Cullip plays waiting game
Albion's reigning player of the season Danny Cullip could be forced to sit out a clash with one of his biggest admirers. The influential central defender is available for Saturday's trip to Cheltenham after completing a three-match ban. Andy Crosby and
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Rail strike threatened
Rail workers are threatening strike action to protest what they claim is lack of action from bosses to protect them from an increasing number of attacks by passengers. Union representatives for train drivers and conductors met with Connex bosses at Brighton
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Council chief calls it a day
Glynn Jones, the top official at Brighton and Hove Council, is to retire later this year. He will go at the end of October, giving the authority eight months in which to fill the £90,000-plus post of chief executive. He said today: "This is not a sudden
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Knife raid on pizza shop
A customer was held hostage when a knifeman wearing pink ski goggles held up a takeaway pizza shop. The raider walked into Perfect Pizza in Church Road, Hove, at 10.30pm last night. He grabbed a customer who was waiting for a pizza and held a 5in kitchen
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Day three for rape jury
A jury in the case of a barman accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Brighton girl at knifepoint will today start a third day of deliberations. Stephen Potter, 35, allegedly forced the girl from a property in the town in the early hours one day
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Pub robbed twice within hours
A landlord was knocked unconscious and his barman beaten in separate raids at the same Horsham pub within 24 hours. In the first robbery, a man ordered a drink at the Horse and Groom in East Street before punching the barman, snatching cash from the till
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Another blunder
Another day and another crucial mistake at a hospital run by Brighton Health Care NHS Trust. The eyes of Britain were on the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton at the weekend when a patient died after an experienced consultant gave an injection
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Perverts who got off lightly
Ordinary people will find our story today of the world's largest internet paedophile ring hard to believe. The seven people sentenced yesterday, including one from Bognor and one from St Leonards, were part of an international organisation which had more
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Manage home from home
Abbey National is to invest up to £35 million setting up a joint venture for the post-sales servicing of its mortgages and personal loans. The bank is establishing the venture with IT and business process management group Electronic Data Systems, and
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Airline announces jobs boost
Airline Virgin Atlantic has announced detailed expansion plans at Gatwick Airport. Sir Richard Branson's airline will add extra flights and increase the number of business class seats on journeys to several North American cities from the summer. The plans
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Historic hypocrisy
There is a certain amount of hypocrisy from those who describe Lady Wedgwood's solar panel as unsightly (Argus, February 6). The solar panel is hardly noticeable from the street. Lewes has just suffered horrendous flooding, no doubt made worse by climate
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Between You And Me, by Vanora Leigh
As far as I can remember, no one has ever called me honeybunch, cutiepie or snugglebum. No, not even on Valentine's Day, a date which as I've grown older has come to mean as little to me as other February festivities such as Groundhog Day or Abraham Lincoln's
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Sirens could sound flood alert
Sirens could be used to warn residents and businesses in Lewes if the town is about to be flooded. Lewes District Council is today considering a package of measures aimed at developing an effective early warning system. The move comes following the devastating
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Protest as bypass approved
A controversial Sussex bypass scheme won key backing today, to the frustration of environment campaigners. Opponents of the scheme have promised to wage a "second Battle of Hastings" over planned bypasses for the town and neighbouring Bexhill. They say
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Fury over child porn sentences
Leading children's charities united to condemn the jail sentences handed down to two Sussex paedophiles who were part of the world's largest child porn ring. David Hines, 30, of Chichester Road, Bognor, and Ian Baldock, 31, of Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards
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Severed hand horror at golf course
A builder's hand has been severed after he caught it in machinery while working on a golf club roof. The man, an employee of family-run sub-contractors Hove Asphalt, was working with a bitumen shredding machine at Seaford Golf Course in File Road, Seaford
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Health concern
Regarding the recent public outcry about the retention without consent of dead human organs, should we not be at least equally concerned about the removal and disposal of healthy live human foetuses in spite of the fact that the mother has given consent
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Charity register
The Common Sense Charity and our sister organisation Charities Information Service (Sussex) regularly receive telephone calls from people with goods to give away to a good home - furniture they are replacing or children's clothes their own children have
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A cut above the rest
They may have changed their hairstyles and even their husbands over the years but a group of women are still the good friends they were more than 30 years ago. The young apprentices of the hair and beauty salon at Hanningtons department store in Brighton
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Youth in Action: Rugby - Rookie wings in for surprise England call
Mark Barnard has been selected for the English Clubs under-18s squad. The 17-year-old winger, who plays for Lewes and Sussex, successfully completed trials at Castlecroft in The Midlands and is lined up for the Home Internationals in South Wales in April
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Parking worry
So Brighton and Hove Council has allowed another commercial concern to monopolise Brighton and Hove's public services - NCP will run our traffic wardens. Just as the council washed its hands of responsibility for public transport with the buses, so too
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Date
Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart
After my column last week, I think I have all but scuppered any chances of being invited on a coke'n'crisps coach frenzy with the Albion super fans. My opinions on the current situation surrounding the Falmer planning application have ruffled a few feathers
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Rail strike threatened
Rail workers are threatening strike action to protest what they claim is lack of action from bosses to protect them from an increasing number of attacks by passengers. Union representatives for train drivers and conductors met with Connex bosses at Brighton
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Another blunder
Another day and another crucial mistake at a hospital run by Brighton Health Care NHS Trust. The eyes of Britain were on the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton at the weekend when a patient died after an experienced consultant gave an injection
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Date
Manage home from home
Abbey National is to invest up to £35 million setting up a joint venture for the post-sales servicing of its mortgages and personal loans. The bank is establishing the venture with IT and business process management group Electronic Data Systems, and
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Date
Pretty legs trip up PC users
Computer users have been warned to beware of a fast-spreading email virus which promises a photograph of tennis star Anna Kournikova. Experts said the new virus was spreading at twice the rate of Love Bug, which paralysed the email servers of more than
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Date
Motor dealers in takeover
A family-run firm of car dealers and repairers has bought out one of its competitors Eastbourne-based Caffyns has taken over Ridleys Volvo of Eastbourne and Hastings. It is not yet known whether any jobs will be created by the take-over but Caffyns chief
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Date
Tomboy - Hair-raising
Hanningtons Hairdressers had a reunion party. 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
Between You And Me, by Vanora Leigh
As far as I can remember, no one has ever called me honeybunch, cutiepie or snugglebum. No, not even on Valentine's Day, a date which as I've grown older has come to mean as little to me as other February festivities such as Groundhog Day or Abraham Lincoln's
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Date
Flood fears over rising water
Flood-hit residents fear they will be washed out within days after ground water threatened to wipe out their homes. Householders in Patcham are measuring water levels following huge downpours last week and reckon they are close to disaster yet again.
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Man and child hurt in crash
A baby and a man needed hospital treatment after a car was involved in a succession of smashes, damaging six other vehicles and a bus stop. The driver was heading east along Seaside in Eastbourne at noon yesterday when his white Nissan hit a lamp post
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Homes wrecked in gas blast
A gas explosion ripped through a house in Lewes in the early hours of this morning. Neighbours in Hamsey Crescent were evacuated while the area was made safe. The explosion caused severe structural damage to the semi-detached home, which has been left
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Date
Protest as bypass approved
A controversial Sussex bypass scheme won key backing today, to the frustration of environment campaigners. Opponents of the scheme have promised to wage a "second Battle of Hastings" over planned bypasses for the town and neighbouring Bexhill. They say
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Date
Severed hand horror at golf course
A builder's hand has been severed after he caught it in machinery while working on a golf club roof. The man, an employee of family-run sub-contractors Hove Asphalt, was working with a bitumen shredding machine at Seaford Golf Course in File Road, Seaford
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Landslip closes the London line
Thousands of rail passengers suffered severe delays today after a major landslide blocked lines on the London-Brighton route. The landslide, involving falling trees, happened between Balcombe and Three Bridges and meant no through trains could run. The
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Date
Severed hand horror at golf course
A builder's hand has been severed after he caught it in machinery while working on a golf club roof. The man, an employee of family-run sub-contractors Hove Asphalt, was working with a bitumen shredding machine at Seaford Golf Course in File Road, Seaford
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Need for action
I too would like to congratulate Brighton and Hove Council's highways department on the clean-up of Stonery Road (Opinion, February 10), where I was a resident from 1959 to 1964. Perhaps it would like to do a similar job in Brentwood Road, Hollingdean
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Date
Fascist facts
I am a PhD student at the University of Sussex, researching the history of British fascism from 1939 to 1966. The blurb about the BBC1 Omnibus documentary on Nancy Mitford (Argus, February 7) stated that Mitford's sister, Lady Diana Mosley, Oswald Mosley's
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Date
Fresh start
Now Brighton and Hove has acquired city status with candid practicality, Voice Of The Argus (February 9) reminds us: "Now the hard work begins." So, let's start right now. With an expeditious performance by both our private and public sectors, our city
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Date
Charity register
The Common Sense Charity and our sister organisation Charities Information Service (Sussex) regularly receive telephone calls from people with goods to give away to a good home - furniture they are replacing or children's clothes their own children have
-
Date
Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart
After my column last week, I think I have all but scuppered any chances of being invited on a coke'n'crisps coach frenzy with the Albion super fans. My opinions on the current situation surrounding the Falmer planning application have ruffled a few feathers
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Date
Meningitis boy in drugs blunder
A hospital trust at the centre of an inquiry into the death of a patient given the wrong injection during an operation has made a second error in a week. A three-year-old boy, who was showing symptoms of meningitis, was given at least four times the recommended
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Date
Time for love
It's a time for curious messages in The Argus and chocolate presents to follow. It's the biggest day in the year for florists. It's a time when old-fashioned men who are deeply in love still go down on one knee to propose marriage and when restaurants
