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NHS staff told of merger
Health workers today vowed to keep a close eye on developments after being told of plans to merge two major hospital trusts. We exclusively revealed on Saturday plans to merge Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and Mid Sussex NHS Trust. Staff were officially
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Crashes shut the A27
A series of crashes in roadworks brought traffic on the A27 to a standstill yesterday. A woman had to be cut from the wreckage of one car on the busy dual carriageway at Sompting, near Worthing. Medics and firefighters lifted her on to a spinal board
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Safety is low priority for bosses
Company chiefs are more concerned with boosting profits and customer satisfaction than they are with the health and safety of their workers, according to a new survey. The poll of executives, which included those in some of Britain's largest firms, showed
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£6m to fight off takeover
Bus and rail operator Go-Ahead said the cost of fighting off last year's hostile takeover bid by French consortium C3D had dented profits. Go-Ahead, the operator of Thames Trains which operate from Brighton to Bedford, said C3D's approach had been "wholly
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Love Matters, by Julia Meanwell
When you have lived together for several years there is a natural tendency to become complacent. Being so used to each other you may have lowered your standards of appearance. It is understandable to want to wear comfortable clothes at home but are you
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Me and my Kids, by Bini McCall
Like most of the rest of the country we have been avid watchers of Popstars, that programme where young hopefuls are being given the chance to make it big. It has taken over from Sabrina The Teenage Witch as daughter's favourite programme and Saturday
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Voice of the Third Age, by Lis Solkhon
It was a bit like the charge of the Light Brigade - minibuses to the right of me, community coaches to the left of me, a veritable army of determined senior citizens. All were heading for the Brighthelm Centre. Under the less-than-beautiful acronym BGOP
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Japanese flavour to festival
Japanese Taiko drummers heralded the launch of the new Brighton Festival programme today. Many of the events for the month-long festival in May have a Japanese flavour as it forms part of Japan 2001, a national celebration of all things Japanese. Guests
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Stressful accent
Joanne Goode, on Southern Counties radio, is trying to get Adur pronounced not as "Ay-der" but "A-dure". I am one who objects to this. Should we start calling Lewes "Loos" or Sussex "Suss-sex"? I have suffered all my life from people pronouncing my name
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Tunnel vision
On a recent Saturday, I went with my husband to Brighton looking in the second-hand shops for Elvis Presley records. My husband went on to work and I was "all shook up". I was going up Trafalgar Street when 30-40 men, all yobs in rainwear, started shouting
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On the right track
Half a century ago, every little boy was said to want to be a train driver when he grew up and many of them achieved their ambition. Girls never did because all train drivers were men. But that's not true any more as Fiona Pooley can testify. She wanted
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A real bargain?
Come on, let's have a sense of perspective here: £20,000 may seem a lot of money, but it's only the cost of ten councillors attending one council meeting (councillors are paid "expenses" of £2,000 per council meeting, remember). If you think £20,000 could
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Tough job at the top
There's a new man organising this year's Brighton Festival and a new theme. He's Nick Dodds and the celebration will be of all things Japanese. How appropriate that it should be launched today at Moschi Moschi, the Japanese restaurant which has brought
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Football: Title race wide open
Dave John saw his Hassocks side stun leaders Pagham, then admitted: "That has opened it up for everyone." Robins won 3-0 at Nyetimber Lane with second half goals from James Laing (two) and Luke Flomo as the Rich City title race took another twist on Saturday
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Football: Hastings on the up
Three goals in seven second-half minutes saw Hastings Town storm to a 3-1 win at home to Witney Town. Hastings looked to be heading for another miserable afternoon at The Pilot Field until a few choice words from manager George Wakeling at half time turned
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Half marathon attracts 1,500 runners
More than 1,500 runners pounded along Brighton seafront for the Sussex Beacon Half Marathon. The event, which has been taking place for ten years, raises funds for the Brighton-based charity which offers care for people with HIV/AIDS-related diseases.
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Closure fears for zoo
A zoo park may be forced to close as fears mount over the spread of foot and mouth disease. Two attractions at Drusillas Zoo Park at Alfriston, near Polegate, have been closed to the public as Government vets start incinerating pigs and cattle from infected
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'Taxi' pair's sex attack on man
A man has been seriously sexually assaulted after accepting a lift in what he thought was a taxi. The 23-year-old got into the car, which had a red sign on the roof, next to Ship Street Gardens in Ship Street, Brighton, shortly after 3am yesterday. Two
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Garage raiders kick woman
A cashier was kicked by armed raiders who grabbed cash from a Brighton petrol station. The two men, one white and the other black, tricked the 44-year-old woman into opening the door at the Total service station in Eastern Road early yesterday. The pair
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NHS staff told of merger
Health workers today vowed to keep a close eye on developments after being told of plans to merge two major hospital trusts. We exclusively revealed on Saturday plans to merge Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and Mid Sussex NHS Trust. Staff were officially
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Crashes shut the A27
A series of crashes in roadworks brought traffic on the A27 to a standstill yesterday. A woman had to be cut from the wreckage of one car on the busy dual carriageway at Sompting, near Worthing. Medics and firefighters lifted her on to a spinal board
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Tomboy - Cleaning up Hollywood
A cleaning lady has won a trip to California. 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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Free bus pass
We would like to put Mrs Power's mind at rest regarding her daughter's free bus pass to Cardinal Newman School (Argus, February 19). Brighton and Hove City Council is not considering any changes to the existing travel allowances for children attending
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Tunnel vision
On a recent Saturday, I went with my husband to Brighton looking in the second-hand shops for Elvis Presley records. My husband went on to work and I was "all shook up". I was going up Trafalgar Street when 30-40 men, all yobs in rainwear, started shouting
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On the right track
Half a century ago, every little boy was said to want to be a train driver when he grew up and many of them achieved their ambition. Girls never did because all train drivers were men. But that's not true any more as Fiona Pooley can testify. She wanted
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Driver in car pound protest
A disabled man locked himself in his car in a police vehicle compound in protest at having to pay £105 to get it back. Steven Woolley, 52, sat in his silver Ford Sierra for almost two hours in the pound in Westergate Road, Brighton. He refused to budge
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A real bargain?
Come on, let's have a sense of perspective here: £20,000 may seem a lot of money, but it's only the cost of ten councillors attending one council meeting (councillors are paid "expenses" of £2,000 per council meeting, remember). If you think £20,000 could
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Date
Tough job at the top
There's a new man organising this year's Brighton Festival and a new theme. He's Nick Dodds and the celebration will be of all things Japanese. How appropriate that it should be launched today at Moschi Moschi, the Japanese restaurant which has brought
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Contemptible crowd who cheer on crime
Last Tuesday, in Blatchington Road, Hove, I came across a store manager and his security guard struggling with a shoplifter. He was a big man and putting up a good fight. I went straight in to lend a hand. I do not see myself as a big hero. I have been
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Football: Hastings on the up
Three goals in seven second-half minutes saw Hastings Town storm to a 3-1 win at home to Witney Town. Hastings looked to be heading for another miserable afternoon at The Pilot Field until a few choice words from manager George Wakeling at half time turned
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Armed raid number 15
Two masked raiders armed with knives last night took the tally of armed robberies in Worthing to 15 since Christmas. The raiders held up staff and customers at the Mace store in Aldsworth Parade, Goring. They bundled them into a back room, raided the
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Warning for officer in arrest of chief's daughter
A police sergeant has been given a written warning and four other officers are to be offered "advice" over the arrests of a Chief Constable's daughter. Frances Whitehouse, daughter of Sussex police chief Paul Whitehouse, filed two complaints to the Police
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Dog fighting ring: Man jailed
A man from Portslade has been sent to prison for his part in a dog-fighting ring. Kenneth Langan, 32, admitted four charges of causing unnecessary suffering and failing to provide veterinary care, and was jailed for four months. The prosecution against
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Police in court over shooting
Five Sussex police officers charged in connection with the shooting of James Ashley appeared at the Old Bailey today. PC Christopher Sherwood, 33, has been charged with the murder of Mr Ashley, 39. Superintentent Christopher Burton, 43, Acting Detective
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Body fished from sea
A lifeboat crew plucked the body of a young woman out of the sea off Eastbourne yesterday. The town's offshore lifeboat was launched at 10.30am after police received a report of an object in the water. They discovered the body of a dark-haired woman,
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Blaze destroys old stables
A derelict stable block at the centre of a wrangle between residents and a property developer has been gutted by fire. Ten firefighters fought the blaze, which police are treating as suspicious, in the two-storey building in Wilbury Grove, Hove. The block
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Business in Brief
SHARP RISE: The number of small businesses against joining the single currency has risen sharply to 70 per cent, research by the Forum of Private Business showed. MILESTONE: Internet service provider BTinternet has signed up its millionth customer. The
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Firms to trial vaccine
Pharmaceutical firm PowderJect is to start clinical trials of a vaccine to combat hepatitis B as part of its continuing alliance with GlaxoSmithKline. The trial will involve 24 healthy volunteers and is designed to evaluate a range of different types
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Safety is low priority for bosses
Company chiefs are more concerned with boosting profits and customer satisfaction than they are with the health and safety of their workers, according to a new survey. The poll of executives, which included those in some of Britain's largest firms, showed
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£6m to fight off takeover
Bus and rail operator Go-Ahead said the cost of fighting off last year's hostile takeover bid by French consortium C3D had dented profits. Go-Ahead, the operator of Thames Trains which operate from Brighton to Bedford, said C3D's approach had been "wholly
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Cable ties itself up
We suffered similar problems to Celia Webster with TV reception (Opinion, February 22), so we decided to hurl ourselves into the 21st Century and invest in state-of-the-art technology, cable TV. Well, with terrestrial TV we had four channels available
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Love Matters, by Julia Meanwell
When you have lived together for several years there is a natural tendency to become complacent. Being so used to each other you may have lowered your standards of appearance. It is understandable to want to wear comfortable clothes at home but are you
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Me and my Kids, by Bini McCall
Like most of the rest of the country we have been avid watchers of Popstars, that programme where young hopefuls are being given the chance to make it big. It has taken over from Sabrina The Teenage Witch as daughter's favourite programme and Saturday
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Voice of the Third Age, by Lis Solkhon
It was a bit like the charge of the Light Brigade - minibuses to the right of me, community coaches to the left of me, a veritable army of determined senior citizens. All were heading for the Brighthelm Centre. Under the less-than-beautiful acronym BGOP
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Date
Japanese flavour to festival
Japanese Taiko drummers heralded the launch of the new Brighton Festival programme today. Many of the events for the month-long festival in May have a Japanese flavour as it forms part of Japan 2001, a national celebration of all things Japanese. Guests
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Date
Warm luxury
I was astonished to read the review by Audrey Simpson of Leone's Restaurant in Hove. The feeling you have when sitting in the restaurant is of luxury with warmth and comfort thrown in. The service has always been courteous and professional. I have enjoyed
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No equal
As a regular diner at Leone's Restaurant in Hove, I was surprised at the criticism levelled by Audrey Simpson (Ahead, February 21). While I appreciate the reviewer's comments are an individual opinion, I cannot accept her all-round criticisms. The decor
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Stressful accent
Joanne Goode, on Southern Counties radio, is trying to get Adur pronounced not as "Ay-der" but "A-dure". I am one who objects to this. Should we start calling Lewes "Loos" or Sussex "Suss-sex"? I have suffered all my life from people pronouncing my name
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Cleaning up
Lillian Forbes has spent more than 40 years cleaning and polishing people's homes in Sussex. Now she has won a national competition she was secretly entered for by her daughter and her reward is a week in California. Lillian, who loves cleaning so much
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Seeing red
ACCORDING to Haywards Heath-based Sightsavers, it costs £18 to restore sight to a child suffering from cataracts in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Why, then, do private patients in NHS and private hospitals have to pay between £1,300 and £1,800 in Mid
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Football: Geddes hits target
Gavin Geddes was among the scorers as Horsham strolled to a 3-0 win away to Wokingham Town. Geddes had been expected to complete a move to Lewes before the weekend, but instead he was in the Hornets line-up for this victory. It was Geddes who opened the
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Football: Rebels struggle
Worthing failed to follow up their away victory over Aylesbury with a much needed home success as bottom of the table Barton Rovers held them to a 1-1 draw at Woodside Road. Rebels have been stuck in a rut at home since their last win over Walton and
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Overstretched
At a recent meeting of Brighton and Hove Pensioners' Association, we heard there was a proposal by Brighton and Hove City Council to cut the number of sheltered housing scheme managers. Apparently, it is suggested each scheme manager should cover two
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Football: Title race wide open
Dave John saw his Hassocks side stun leaders Pagham, then admitted: "That has opened it up for everyone." Robins won 3-0 at Nyetimber Lane with second half goals from James Laing (two) and Luke Flomo as the Rich City title race took another twist on Saturday
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Booing is just sad
First it was Roy Keane and the prawn sandwich set at Old Trafford. Now we have Micky Adams lambasting the burger brigade of the South Stand at Withdean. Albion and the side they should have beaten in the FA Cup final 18 years ago are now, of course, worlds
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Adams slams the boo-boys
Albion boss Micky Adams has blasted the Withdean boo-boys. Saturday's 1-1 draw against lowly York was greeted with boos at the final whistle from sections of the south stand. Adams said: "I was disappointed with them again. We didn't play well, but they
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Pensioners' benefit scheme axed
A project which helped pensioners claim more than £700,000 this year may have to close because of a lack of funding. Impact was set up by Eastbourne Citizens' Advice Bureau with a National Lottery grant in 1998 to help pensioners get claim social security
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Hunt for road rage attacker
A road rage driver kicked another motorist's door, damaging it badly and leaving his victim shaken. The driver, a 53-year-old man had stopped on The Boulevard in Durrington, Worthing, 50 yards south of the junction with the A259 just after 7pm on Saturday
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Half marathon attracts 1,500 runners
More than 1,500 runners pounded along Brighton seafront for the Sussex Beacon Half Marathon. The event, which has been taking place for ten years, raises funds for the Brighton-based charity which offers care for people with HIV/AIDS-related diseases.
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Will port's ship come in?
Hopes were high today that a new conventional cross-Channel ferry would make its first appearance at Newhaven this week. It is believed the Italian vessel Sardina Vera, chartered to operate the Newhaven-Dieppe route all year, could slip into the port
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Mystery of plane's death plunge
Air accident investigators were today trying to find out why a plane nosedived into a Sussex field, killing all four people on board. Police said it could take up to a week to formally identify the victims, one of whom is believed to have lived in the
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Closure fears for zoo
A zoo park may be forced to close as fears mount over the spread of foot and mouth disease. Two attractions at Drusillas Zoo Park at Alfriston, near Polegate, have been closed to the public as Government vets start incinerating pigs and cattle from infected
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Armed raid number 15
Two masked raiders armed with knives last night took the tally of armed robberies in Worthing to 15 since Christmas. The raiders held up staff and customers at the Mace store in Aldsworth Parade, Goring. They bundled them into a back room, raided the
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'Taxi' pair's sex attack on man
A man has been seriously sexually assaulted after accepting a lift in what he thought was a taxi. The 23-year-old got into the car, which had a red sign on the roof, next to Ship Street Gardens in Ship Street, Brighton, shortly after 3am yesterday. Two
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Date
Garage raiders kick woman
A cashier was kicked by armed raiders who grabbed cash from a Brighton petrol station. The two men, one white and the other black, tricked the 44-year-old woman into opening the door at the Total service station in Eastern Road early yesterday. The pair
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Date
Blaze destroys old stables
A derelict stable block at the centre of a wrangle between residents and a property developer has been gutted by fire. Ten firefighters fought the blaze, which police are treating as suspicious, in the two-storey building in Wilbury Grove, Hove. The block
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Date
Business in Brief
SHARP RISE: The number of small businesses against joining the single currency has risen sharply to 70 per cent, research by the Forum of Private Business showed. MILESTONE: Internet service provider BTinternet has signed up its millionth customer. The
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Date
Firms to trial vaccine
Pharmaceutical firm PowderJect is to start clinical trials of a vaccine to combat hepatitis B as part of its continuing alliance with GlaxoSmithKline. The trial will involve 24 healthy volunteers and is designed to evaluate a range of different types
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Date
Tomboy - Cleaning up Hollywood
A cleaning lady has won a trip to California. 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
Cable ties itself up
We suffered similar problems to Celia Webster with TV reception (Opinion, February 22), so we decided to hurl ourselves into the 21st Century and invest in state-of-the-art technology, cable TV. Well, with terrestrial TV we had four channels available
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Date
Warm luxury
I was astonished to read the review by Audrey Simpson of Leone's Restaurant in Hove. The feeling you have when sitting in the restaurant is of luxury with warmth and comfort thrown in. The service has always been courteous and professional. I have enjoyed
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Date
No equal
As a regular diner at Leone's Restaurant in Hove, I was surprised at the criticism levelled by Audrey Simpson (Ahead, February 21). While I appreciate the reviewer's comments are an individual opinion, I cannot accept her all-round criticisms. The decor
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Date
Free bus pass
We would like to put Mrs Power's mind at rest regarding her daughter's free bus pass to Cardinal Newman School (Argus, February 19). Brighton and Hove City Council is not considering any changes to the existing travel allowances for children attending
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Date
Cleaning up
Lillian Forbes has spent more than 40 years cleaning and polishing people's homes in Sussex. Now she has won a national competition she was secretly entered for by her daughter and her reward is a week in California. Lillian, who loves cleaning so much
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Date
Seeing red
ACCORDING to Haywards Heath-based Sightsavers, it costs £18 to restore sight to a child suffering from cataracts in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Why, then, do private patients in NHS and private hospitals have to pay between £1,300 and £1,800 in Mid
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Date
Football: Geddes hits target
Gavin Geddes was among the scorers as Horsham strolled to a 3-0 win away to Wokingham Town. Geddes had been expected to complete a move to Lewes before the weekend, but instead he was in the Hornets line-up for this victory. It was Geddes who opened the
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Date
Driver in car pound protest
A disabled man locked himself in his car in a police vehicle compound in protest at having to pay £105 to get it back. Steven Woolley, 52, sat in his silver Ford Sierra for almost two hours in the pound in Westergate Road, Brighton. He refused to budge
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Date
Football: Rebels struggle
Worthing failed to follow up their away victory over Aylesbury with a much needed home success as bottom of the table Barton Rovers held them to a 1-1 draw at Woodside Road. Rebels have been stuck in a rut at home since their last win over Walton and
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Date
Overstretched
At a recent meeting of Brighton and Hove Pensioners' Association, we heard there was a proposal by Brighton and Hove City Council to cut the number of sheltered housing scheme managers. Apparently, it is suggested each scheme manager should cover two
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Date
Contemptible crowd who cheer on crime
Last Tuesday, in Blatchington Road, Hove, I came across a store manager and his security guard struggling with a shoplifter. He was a big man and putting up a good fight. I went straight in to lend a hand. I do not see myself as a big hero. I have been
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Date
Booing is just sad
First it was Roy Keane and the prawn sandwich set at Old Trafford. Now we have Micky Adams lambasting the burger brigade of the South Stand at Withdean. Albion and the side they should have beaten in the FA Cup final 18 years ago are now, of course, worlds
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Date
Armed raid number 15
Two masked raiders armed with knives last night took the tally of armed robberies in Worthing to 15 since Christmas. The raiders held up staff and customers at the Mace store in Aldsworth Parade, Goring. They bundled them into a back room, raided the
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Date
Adams slams the boo-boys
Albion boss Micky Adams has blasted the Withdean boo-boys. Saturday's 1-1 draw against lowly York was greeted with boos at the final whistle from sections of the south stand. Adams said: "I was disappointed with them again. We didn't play well, but they
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Date
Warning for officer in arrest of chief's daughter
A police sergeant has been given a written warning and four other officers are to be offered "advice" over the arrests of a Chief Constable's daughter. Frances Whitehouse, daughter of Sussex police chief Paul Whitehouse, filed two complaints to the Police
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Date
Dog fighting ring: Man jailed
A man from Portslade has been sent to prison for his part in a dog-fighting ring. Kenneth Langan, 32, admitted four charges of causing unnecessary suffering and failing to provide veterinary care, and was jailed for four months. The prosecution against
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Date
Will port's ship come in?
Hopes were high today that a new conventional cross-Channel ferry would make its first appearance at Newhaven this week. It is believed the Italian vessel Sardina Vera, chartered to operate the Newhaven-Dieppe route all year, could slip into the port
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Date
Police in court over shooting
Five Sussex police officers charged in connection with the shooting of James Ashley appeared at the Old Bailey today. PC Christopher Sherwood, 33, has been charged with the murder of Mr Ashley, 39. Superintentent Christopher Burton, 43, Acting Detective
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Date
Body fished from sea
A lifeboat crew plucked the body of a young woman out of the sea off Eastbourne yesterday. The town's offshore lifeboat was launched at 10.30am after police received a report of an object in the water. They discovered the body of a dark-haired woman,
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Date
Mystery of plane's death plunge
Air accident investigators were today trying to find out why a plane nosedived into a Sussex field, killing all four people on board. Police said it could take up to a week to formally identify the victims, one of whom is believed to have lived in the
