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Close look
The two Hove policemen who issued parking tickets to the Labour Party's entourage when John Prescott visited the city last week said they had no idea who the cars belonged to and claimed it was pure chance the tickets were issued. If this is so, no wonder
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No-pain gain
I read with interest about Barbara Doe, who "suffered" with the operation on her toes at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Lewes (Argus, May 11), because I, too, had the same operation on two toes last year. I can only praise the hospital and staff for their
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Nice change
Having seen Brighton and Hove City Council used as the butt of a number of letters about the lack of attention to its services, it is rather nice to have had a number of calls recently complimentary to service delivery. The grass verges are being cut
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These so-called safe solutions
Naughty, naughty. The Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Estuary (DOVE) have never said the issue was about being "near their homes" (Voice Of The Argus, May 15). The issue is about incineration. The Argus stated latest evidence conflicts with evidence
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Hypocritical
The reply (Opinion, May 11) to my letter quoted that "the Tories were too ashamed to say who they were" in a telephone canvassing call. Then the correspondent most appropriately ended his or her letter with "name and address supplied". How hypocritical
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Tory big gun hits Hove
Conservative home affairs spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe will join a protest in Hove on Monday. Miss Widdecombe and Tory election candidate Jenny Langston will join residents outside Hove police station in Holland Road. They will be there to draw attention
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Council is copping out
The cost of advertising for a new chief executive would be in the region of £100,000 (Argus, May 5). This would be the cost of calling in experts. What is the point of having councillors elected if an all-party committee can't get together, read CVs and
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The Corporate Takeover of Britain
The pairing of George Monbiot, investigative journalist, philosopher and environmentalist with former head of the CBI Adair Turner was an interesting choice for a literary debate. In a meeting of formidable intellects, the two recent authors discussed
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Spirit of Africa featuring The Drummers of Burundi
This sell-out show has to be the high point of the festival so far, with its superb triple-bill of staggering high-energy music and dance. The Drummers of Burundi were mesmerising to watch with their frantic physicality and stunning playing. As they entered
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Tomboy - Cinders
The public can download paper sculptures by the welder artist, Hamish Black. 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
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Thanks, Seagulls
My thanks to all the players and those who turned up to support the Crowborough friendly. All were a credit to our club and nothing was too much trouble. The spirit in which they played the game was brilliant. I can't ever remember enjoying a friendly
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Frogmarched
Can any Argus reader answer our problem? We have a pond, 8ft by 6ft, which has always had about 50 frogs at breeding time. They leave loads of spawn in the pond after mating, resulting in hundreds of tadpoles and, later on, baby frogs. This year, as last
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The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham
Let me tell you about a journey I made at the weekend which typifies a few good things and a lot of bad things about travelling by rail these days. I was with a party of 11 friends going for a cycling weekend in Kent and was the only one to make the trip
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Signalman jailed for drinking
A signalman responsible who went on a drinking session before his shift was today jailed for 60 days. Paul Clear, 57, nodded off in his signal box at Lancing and was later found to be nearly twice the legal drink-drive limit. Clear, of North Lane, East
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Price on child killers' heads
A £10,000 reward was offered today to help solve the 34-year-old murder of a Brighton schoolboy. Keith Lyon, 12, son of the late bandleader Ken Lyon, was stabbed to death on downland at Woodingdean in 1967. Despite a massive police investigation, including
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I root for you
I should like to thank the thousands of visitors who accepted the precautions taken here during the foot-and-mouth crisis, though much of Wakehurst Place was cordoned off for many weeks. We would have liked to have allowed access to all areas but we had
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Three to go
Well done the Albion - but I fully agree with J B of Brighton. Of the four divisions in the English Football League, the Albion have won the bottom one. Simple arithmetic deems that the Fourth Division is what they really won, with three divisions above
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Glory boys
J B from Brighton (Opinion, May 11) said he could not understand all the fuss about the Albion's promotion. I have supported the Albion for more than 30 years (I only missed two home games in that time, the last being in 1981) and my father has done so
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Good for all
How refreshing to read such a balanced and realistic report on the East Brighton New Deal for Communities (Argus, May 12). It is easy to write sensational stories about the bad things that happen in Moulescoomb and Whitehawk but it takes journalistic
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Out in the open
The one good thing to have emerged from the tragic story of Sarah Lawson is proper discussion about depression. Sarah was killed by her father because she suffered so terribly from depression and had begged him to help her die. Today Vanora Leigh writes
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Come on in
Thank you for publishing my letter about the Boys' Brigade (Stedfast Association). What a lovely surprise to see the reply from Mr Clark of Salisbury, Australia (Opinion, May 12), who is a former member of my old company, the 12th Brighton Railway Mission
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Table Tennis: Venner pushed hard
Ritchie Venner lifted the Seaman Cup to prove he is still king of the Sussex tables, but it was close. The cup is contested by the top eight Sussex men but Venner, who has now won it nine times, was pushed all the way by hard-hitting Adrian Moore. In
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Writing's on the wall
The war to stop graffiti has started in earnest and it is one that Brighton and Hove must win against the vandals. It's easy to regard graffiti as harmless since it does not actually harm anyone and nobody is robbed of money or property as a result. But
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Cycling: Dennis too hot to handle
Steve Dennis hit top form in the Addiscombe CC 25-mile open time trial at Crawley. The East Grinstead ace recorded a superfast time of 52min.56sec to beat James Dear (Eastbourne Rovers) by 33 seconds. Dennis won despite having little sleep before the
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Racing: Charlie would have relished victory
Amir Quinn guided 8-1 chance Barbason to its fifth course victory at Brighton yesterday and dedicated it to Lorna Moore and her late husband Charlie. It was the 20-year-old Bevendean jockey's debut ride with the chestnut trained by the Moore's son Gary
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Hidden peril for spraycan vandals
Police will set up hidden cameras across Brighton in a crackdown on graffiti 'taggers' who cost traders hundreds of thousands of pounds. Officers have teamed up with the council and youth and business groups to combat the vandals with a new anti-graffiti
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Jobs axe looms at digital firm
A digital media company has announced plans to axe up to 25 employees, blaming changing global markets for a struggle to stay profitable. Brighton-based Victoria Real, one of the early success stories in digital and web media production, said it had been
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Hunt for missing OAP
Householders are being asked to check their gardens and outbuildings for a pensioner who has been missing since yesterday morning. Police are concerned at the sudden disappearance of Margaret Branston, 70, who was last seen at her home in South Heighton
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Hotel staff in axe terror
Axe-wielding raiders forced workers at a Brighton hotel to lie on the floor as they tried to rob a safe. They grabbed one employee as she went to a rubbish bin outside. She screamed and they followed her as she broke free and ran into the hotel for help
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Seagulls on the up
So Stanley Goode is critical of the Albion losing their last game of the season (Argus, May 12). He obviously doesn't understand the game, otherwise he might try to explain why it was that not only the Albion but also Manchester United and Fulham who
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Let off lightly
The report about the ticketing of John Prescott's cars (Argus, May 12) stated it was because they had parked on double yellow lines on the corner of Osborne Villas and Church Road, Hove. Yet the photograph clearly shows the car he was standing by is on
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Nice change
Having seen Brighton and Hove City Council used as the butt of a number of letters about the lack of attention to its services, it is rather nice to have had a number of calls recently complimentary to service delivery. The grass verges are being cut
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These so-called safe solutions
Naughty, naughty. The Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Estuary (DOVE) have never said the issue was about being "near their homes" (Voice Of The Argus, May 15). The issue is about incineration. The Argus stated latest evidence conflicts with evidence
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Tory big gun hits Hove
Conservative home affairs spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe will join a protest in Hove on Monday. Miss Widdecombe and Tory election candidate Jenny Langston will join residents outside Hove police station in Holland Road. They will be there to draw attention
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Council is copping out
The cost of advertising for a new chief executive would be in the region of £100,000 (Argus, May 5). This would be the cost of calling in experts. What is the point of having councillors elected if an all-party committee can't get together, read CVs and
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Peers lording it in Lewes
Lewes is a hotbed of Peers, with representatives in the House of Lords outnumbering the constituency's MP by 11 to one. The area is the most popular outside London for members of the Upper Chamber to live, according to new research. Brighton Pavilion,
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The Corporate Takeover of Britain
The pairing of George Monbiot, investigative journalist, philosopher and environmentalist with former head of the CBI Adair Turner was an interesting choice for a literary debate. In a meeting of formidable intellects, the two recent authors discussed
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Spirit of Africa featuring The Drummers of Burundi
This sell-out show has to be the high point of the festival so far, with its superb triple-bill of staggering high-energy music and dance. The Drummers of Burundi were mesmerising to watch with their frantic physicality and stunning playing. As they entered
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Boris Godunov
The idea of a two-hour play performed in Russian with subtitles and no interval may put some people off going to see Declan Donnellan's adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov. But those who brave this international production will be rewarded
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It could have been worse
When the Royal Sussex County Hospital casualty department faced a crisis one morning recently, following an unexpected influx of patients, it occurred to me it could have been a much bigger crisis had there been no reprieve for the Princess Royal Hospital
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Frogmarched
Can any Argus reader answer our problem? We have a pond, 8ft by 6ft, which has always had about 50 frogs at breeding time. They leave loads of spawn in the pond after mating, resulting in hundreds of tadpoles and, later on, baby frogs. This year, as last
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Crashes bring rush-hour problems
Drivers faced rush hour delays today after two car crashes on the coast road in West Sussex. There were long tailbacks in and out of Worthing after a head-on collision at 8.20am at the junction of the A259 Brighton Road and Navarino Road. One vehicle,
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Signalman jailed for drinking
A signalman responsible who went on a drinking session before his shift was today jailed for 60 days. Paul Clear, 57, nodded off in his signal box at Lancing and was later found to be nearly twice the legal drink-drive limit. Clear, of North Lane, East
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Price on child killers' heads
A £10,000 reward was offered today to help solve the 34-year-old murder of a Brighton schoolboy. Keith Lyon, 12, son of the late bandleader Ken Lyon, was stabbed to death on downland at Woodingdean in 1967. Despite a massive police investigation, including
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Factory fear
I am dismayed by councillors approving plans to build a car factory near Chichester (Argus, May 12). The city has no history of motor manufacturing or any other heavy industry and I can see no good reason why Rolls-Royce should need to move there from
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Glory boys
J B from Brighton (Opinion, May 11) said he could not understand all the fuss about the Albion's promotion. I have supported the Albion for more than 30 years (I only missed two home games in that time, the last being in 1981) and my father has done so
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Table Tennis: Venner pushed hard
Ritchie Venner lifted the Seaman Cup to prove he is still king of the Sussex tables, but it was close. The cup is contested by the top eight Sussex men but Venner, who has now won it nine times, was pushed all the way by hard-hitting Adrian Moore. In
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Writing's on the wall
The war to stop graffiti has started in earnest and it is one that Brighton and Hove must win against the vandals. It's easy to regard graffiti as harmless since it does not actually harm anyone and nobody is robbed of money or property as a result. But
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Cycling: Dennis too hot to handle
Steve Dennis hit top form in the Addiscombe CC 25-mile open time trial at Crawley. The East Grinstead ace recorded a superfast time of 52min.56sec to beat James Dear (Eastbourne Rovers) by 33 seconds. Dennis won despite having little sleep before the
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Racing: Charlie would have relished victory
Amir Quinn guided 8-1 chance Barbason to its fifth course victory at Brighton yesterday and dedicated it to Lorna Moore and her late husband Charlie. It was the 20-year-old Bevendean jockey's debut ride with the chestnut trained by the Moore's son Gary
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Rogers: I'll play till I'm 40
Albion skipper Paul Rogers says he could be playing until he is 40. The captain has agreed a one-year deal after helping to inspire Seagulls' Championship -winning season. But the midfielder wants to play as long as possible and already looking to secure
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Hidden peril for spraycan vandals
Police will set up hidden cameras across Brighton in a crackdown on graffiti 'taggers' who cost traders hundreds of thousands of pounds. Officers have teamed up with the council and youth and business groups to combat the vandals with a new anti-graffiti
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'Abductor' was trying to help
A man who police believed tried to abduct a two-year-old girl at Gatwick Airport was in reality trying to help her. Little Claudia Jones ran away from her mother and her partner as they got off the bus at the South Terminal. The family were heading for
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Call to save crumbling cliffs
Telscombe Cliffs may have to be renamed Telscombe Edge, according to residents who want action to stop further cliff erosion. There were calls at a public meeting last night for an end to red tape which prevents councils from taking quick action to implement
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Mayor takes up office
The new Mayor of Eastbourne was sworn into office yesterday. David Stevens and wife Jane were sworn in as mayor and mayoress at the town hall yesterday. Councillor Stevens takes over from fellow Tory Michael Tunwell, who held a reception for more than
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Holmes and the monument mystery
It was a crime that could have leapt straight from the pages of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Drunken pranksters decided to ridicule the author of the famous detective stories by stealing a hat from his statue. A youth climbed on to the plinth supporting
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End of the road for bus to Lewes
Passengers are furious after a bus service was withdrawn because of lack of use. East Sussex County Council's 134 route will stop at the end of May. The Metrobus runs from Seaford to Lewes, Monday to Friday at 8.10am, via Newhaven and the A26. County
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Misery of ankle op mother
A woman has won almost £70,000 in damages from a hospital after an operation on her ankle left her unable to walk or stand properly. Simone Stead, 32, says she is not celebrating the windfall at her home in Playden Close, Whitehawk, Brighton. She says
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Hotel staff in axe terror
Axe-wielding raiders forced workers at a Brighton hotel to lie on the floor as they tried to rob a safe. They grabbed one employee as she went to a rubbish bin outside. She screamed and they followed her as she broke free and ran into the hotel for help
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Nail in the coffin
Another reduction in the bank rate is another nail in the coffin for the OAPs who rely on their monthly interest on savings to pay the bills. I will give any new Labour candidate my £100 fuel allowance if he or she returns the loss on my savings over
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Put out more flags
The splendid display of flags on Brighton Marina breakwater looked wonderful. Brighton and Hove should have lots more flags, streamers and pennants. They add immeasurably to the gaiety of the seaside. It was a pity the four big poles on the seafront at
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Research appeal
I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sussex and am conducting an oral history project about the experiences of working-class grammar-school girls in the Fifties. If any reader who started at a mixed-sex grammar school between 1948 and 1957
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Just the ticket?
So "Two Jags" has become "Two Tickets". Quite rightly, Mr Prescott's entourage was treated the same way as we all are. If you park illegally, you risk getting a ticket. What separates him, though, is the attempted cover-up, a spokesperson saying he arrived
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Wrecking ball
The police wrecked a peaceful party. Hundreds of young revellers were pointlessly displaced from a beachside location, where they had been harmlessly enjoying a dance on the first warm Saturday night of the year. Unsurprisingly, the resourceful ravers
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Zeroing in
I am very pleased to see Connex South Central is continuing its "zero tolerance" campaign against ticket evasion (in spite of the inconvenience at peak times). Having reaped the success of this initiative, I wonder if Connex is thinking about extending
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What a world
Brian Ralfe of Hove (Opinion, May 14) asked "what world is Ian Hart living in?" From my observations, it is a far more realistic one than Mr Ralfe's. Mr Ralfe seems to think the resale of the Goldstone, of £24 million, came to the Albion. The original
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Seagulls on the up
So Stanley Goode is critical of the Albion losing their last game of the season (Argus, May 12). He obviously doesn't understand the game, otherwise he might try to explain why it was that not only the Albion but also Manchester United and Fulham who
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Let off lightly
The report about the ticketing of John Prescott's cars (Argus, May 12) stated it was because they had parked on double yellow lines on the corner of Osborne Villas and Church Road, Hove. Yet the photograph clearly shows the car he was standing by is on
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Hopeful's ice cream van campaign
Tory candidate Jenny Langston is using a novel form of transport during the election campaign - and she hopes to give her opponents a licking. She is travelling around in an ice cream van loaned to her by Sean Kempin, the boss of British Bulldog Ice Creams
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Peers lording it in Lewes
Lewes is a hotbed of Peers, with representatives in the House of Lords outnumbering the constituency's MP by 11 to one. The area is the most popular outside London for members of the Upper Chamber to live, according to new research. Brighton Pavilion,
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Greens' poll on station site
The Green Party has launched an online poll to test public opinion on the future of the controversial Brighton station site redevelopment. City councillor Keith Taylor and environmental campaigner George Monbiot toured the 15-acre site as the poll initiative
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Dmitry Alexeev
Russian virtuoso Dmitry Alexeev is a former winner of the Moscow and Leeds international piano competitions. He more than proved his worth when he stood in at short notice for Portuguese star Maria Joao Pires - who pulled out because of ill health. Actually
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Boris Godunov
The idea of a two-hour play performed in Russian with subtitles and no interval may put some people off going to see Declan Donnellan's adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov. But those who brave this international production will be rewarded
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It could have been worse
When the Royal Sussex County Hospital casualty department faced a crisis one morning recently, following an unexpected influx of patients, it occurred to me it could have been a much bigger crisis had there been no reprieve for the Princess Royal Hospital
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Return to sender
I would very much like to share my joy with all country lovers at seeing the wonderful, beautiful sight of the bluebells this year in Stanmer Woods. After what has been a long, drawn-out winter, the pure pleasure of such a wonder of nature has had a profoundly
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Gasworks go-ahead likely
A major redevelopment of a prime city centre site is expected to take a giant leap forward. Developers want to build a new food store on the site of the old gas works off Church Road in Hove. The scheme also includes a new school on the Malvern Street
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Factory fear
I am dismayed by councillors approving plans to build a car factory near Chichester (Argus, May 12). The city has no history of motor manufacturing or any other heavy industry and I can see no good reason why Rolls-Royce should need to move there from
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Don't act up
Mr J E Bartlett (Opinion, May 14) is factually incorrect. He stated I was "wide of the mark" (Opinion, May 10) when, in fact, I was responding to the councillors' own use of "best value" where it was claimed the term meant obtaining the highest price
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Doyle foil
Vandals stole a hat from the statue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, recently erected in Crowborough where the author lived for many years. But the 17-year-old culprit was captured by a means entirely unknown to Doyle's great detective, Sherlock Holmes. How
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Estate crowns its Queen Camilla
It may seem old-fashioned to some, but these three ladies ignored the armchair critics and battled it out for the title of Whitehawk Festival Queen. In the age of political correctness and equality, some see such titles as part of a bygone age, but festival
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Help the poor
A recent public opinion poll found more than half of 16-44-year-olds in London and the South-East would be more likely to vote in the forthcoming General Election if politicians addressed global poverty and international development as well as domestic
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Safe from sunburn, Continental fashion
Now we are getting some warmer days and the bars on the seafront are filling with people, I am concerned about something seriously lacking there - sun umbrellas. Most of the bars have only a handful of tables with umbrellas and, while it is certainly
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Cricket: Pretty good from Prittipaul
Lawrence Prittipaul struck a chanceless unbeaten 175 to put Hampshire on top in the 2nd XI championship match against Sussex at Hove. Hampshire, replying to Sussex's 285, claimed a lead of 69 by making 354 and Sussex lost Andy Perry for a duck in closing
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Rogers: I'll play till I'm 40
Albion skipper Paul Rogers says he could be playing until he is 40. The captain has agreed a one-year deal after helping to inspire Seagulls' Championship -winning season. But the midfielder wants to play as long as possible and already looking to secure
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Call to save crumbling cliffs
Telscombe Cliffs may have to be renamed Telscombe Edge, according to residents who want action to stop further cliff erosion. There were calls at a public meeting last night for an end to red tape which prevents councils from taking quick action to implement
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Date
Holmes and the monument mystery
It was a crime that could have leapt straight from the pages of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Drunken pranksters decided to ridicule the author of the famous detective stories by stealing a hat from his statue. A youth climbed on to the plinth supporting
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Date
End of the road for bus to Lewes
Passengers are furious after a bus service was withdrawn because of lack of use. East Sussex County Council's 134 route will stop at the end of May. The Metrobus runs from Seaford to Lewes, Monday to Friday at 8.10am, via Newhaven and the A26. County
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Misery of ankle op mother
A woman has won almost £70,000 in damages from a hospital after an operation on her ankle left her unable to walk or stand properly. Simone Stead, 32, says she is not celebrating the windfall at her home in Playden Close, Whitehawk, Brighton. She says
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Death blamed on spitting yob
An elderly woman who was spat at in the face by a young yob in the street, collapsed soon afterwards and died, an inquest has heard. Roberta Hawes, known as Bobbie, chased the teenager in her electric invalid carriage and cornered him in the foyer of
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Nail in the coffin
Another reduction in the bank rate is another nail in the coffin for the OAPs who rely on their monthly interest on savings to pay the bills. I will give any new Labour candidate my £100 fuel allowance if he or she returns the loss on my savings over
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Put out more flags
The splendid display of flags on Brighton Marina breakwater looked wonderful. Brighton and Hove should have lots more flags, streamers and pennants. They add immeasurably to the gaiety of the seaside. It was a pity the four big poles on the seafront at
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Date
Research appeal
I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sussex and am conducting an oral history project about the experiences of working-class grammar-school girls in the Fifties. If any reader who started at a mixed-sex grammar school between 1948 and 1957
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What mugs
Having paid subsidies to farmers to raise sheep, we then paid out huge sums for many of those animals to be slaughtered to control foot-and-mouth. Now the Meat and Livestock Commission is demanding £25 million of our money to fund an advertising campaign
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Just the ticket?
So "Two Jags" has become "Two Tickets". Quite rightly, Mr Prescott's entourage was treated the same way as we all are. If you park illegally, you risk getting a ticket. What separates him, though, is the attempted cover-up, a spokesperson saying he arrived
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Date
Wrecking ball
The police wrecked a peaceful party. Hundreds of young revellers were pointlessly displaced from a beachside location, where they had been harmlessly enjoying a dance on the first warm Saturday night of the year. Unsurprisingly, the resourceful ravers
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Date
Zeroing in
I am very pleased to see Connex South Central is continuing its "zero tolerance" campaign against ticket evasion (in spite of the inconvenience at peak times). Having reaped the success of this initiative, I wonder if Connex is thinking about extending
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Date
What a world
Brian Ralfe of Hove (Opinion, May 14) asked "what world is Ian Hart living in?" From my observations, it is a far more realistic one than Mr Ralfe's. Mr Ralfe seems to think the resale of the Goldstone, of £24 million, came to the Albion. The original
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Close look
The two Hove policemen who issued parking tickets to the Labour Party's entourage when John Prescott visited the city last week said they had no idea who the cars belonged to and claimed it was pure chance the tickets were issued. If this is so, no wonder
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No-pain gain
I read with interest about Barbara Doe, who "suffered" with the operation on her toes at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Lewes (Argus, May 11), because I, too, had the same operation on two toes last year. I can only praise the hospital and staff for their
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Hypocritical
The reply (Opinion, May 11) to my letter quoted that "the Tories were too ashamed to say who they were" in a telephone canvassing call. Then the correspondent most appropriately ended his or her letter with "name and address supplied". How hypocritical
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Hopeful's ice cream van campaign
Tory candidate Jenny Langston is using a novel form of transport during the election campaign - and she hopes to give her opponents a licking. She is travelling around in an ice cream van loaned to her by Sean Kempin, the boss of British Bulldog Ice Creams
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Greens' poll on station site
The Green Party has launched an online poll to test public opinion on the future of the controversial Brighton station site redevelopment. City councillor Keith Taylor and environmental campaigner George Monbiot toured the 15-acre site as the poll initiative
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Date
Dmitry Alexeev
Russian virtuoso Dmitry Alexeev is a former winner of the Moscow and Leeds international piano competitions. He more than proved his worth when he stood in at short notice for Portuguese star Maria Joao Pires - who pulled out because of ill health. Actually
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Tomboy - Cinders
The public can download paper sculptures by the welder artist, Hamish Black. 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
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Thanks, Seagulls
My thanks to all the players and those who turned up to support the Crowborough friendly. All were a credit to our club and nothing was too much trouble. The spirit in which they played the game was brilliant. I can't ever remember enjoying a friendly
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Return to sender
I would very much like to share my joy with all country lovers at seeing the wonderful, beautiful sight of the bluebells this year in Stanmer Woods. After what has been a long, drawn-out winter, the pure pleasure of such a wonder of nature has had a profoundly
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The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham
Let me tell you about a journey I made at the weekend which typifies a few good things and a lot of bad things about travelling by rail these days. I was with a party of 11 friends going for a cycling weekend in Kent and was the only one to make the trip
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Woman hurt in kitchen blaze
An elderly Worthing woman suffered burns to her hands trying to tackle a chip pan fire last night. Elsie White was injured trying to put a damp tea towel over the blazing pan. The heat forced her and a neighbour into the hall, where they were found by
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Woman dies in road smash
An elderly Worthing woman died after a car in which she was a passenger crashed into a brick wall. The 73-year-old victim, from Worthing, was in the front seat of a Renault Clio driven by her 70-year-old husband. He is in St Richard's Hospital at Chichester
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Boy, 16, in drama on roof
A disturbed teenager sparked a tense rooftop drama in Worthing last night. Police and firefighters were called to a four-storey house in Rowlands Road at 11.40pm after the 16-year-old boy climbed out of a window on to the roof and refused to come down
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I root for you
I should like to thank the thousands of visitors who accepted the precautions taken here during the foot-and-mouth crisis, though much of Wakehurst Place was cordoned off for many weeks. We would have liked to have allowed access to all areas but we had
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Gasworks go-ahead likely
A major redevelopment of a prime city centre site is expected to take a giant leap forward. Developers want to build a new food store on the site of the old gas works off Church Road in Hove. The scheme also includes a new school on the Malvern Street
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Don't act up
Mr J E Bartlett (Opinion, May 14) is factually incorrect. He stated I was "wide of the mark" (Opinion, May 10) when, in fact, I was responding to the councillors' own use of "best value" where it was claimed the term meant obtaining the highest price
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Three to go
Well done the Albion - but I fully agree with J B of Brighton. Of the four divisions in the English Football League, the Albion have won the bottom one. Simple arithmetic deems that the Fourth Division is what they really won, with three divisions above
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Doyle foil
Vandals stole a hat from the statue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, recently erected in Crowborough where the author lived for many years. But the 17-year-old culprit was captured by a means entirely unknown to Doyle's great detective, Sherlock Holmes. How
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Good for all
How refreshing to read such a balanced and realistic report on the East Brighton New Deal for Communities (Argus, May 12). It is easy to write sensational stories about the bad things that happen in Moulescoomb and Whitehawk but it takes journalistic
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Out in the open
The one good thing to have emerged from the tragic story of Sarah Lawson is proper discussion about depression. Sarah was killed by her father because she suffered so terribly from depression and had begged him to help her die. Today Vanora Leigh writes
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Estate crowns its Queen Camilla
It may seem old-fashioned to some, but these three ladies ignored the armchair critics and battled it out for the title of Whitehawk Festival Queen. In the age of political correctness and equality, some see such titles as part of a bygone age, but festival
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Come on in
Thank you for publishing my letter about the Boys' Brigade (Stedfast Association). What a lovely surprise to see the reply from Mr Clark of Salisbury, Australia (Opinion, May 12), who is a former member of my old company, the 12th Brighton Railway Mission
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Help the poor
A recent public opinion poll found more than half of 16-44-year-olds in London and the South-East would be more likely to vote in the forthcoming General Election if politicians addressed global poverty and international development as well as domestic
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Safe from sunburn, Continental fashion
Now we are getting some warmer days and the bars on the seafront are filling with people, I am concerned about something seriously lacking there - sun umbrellas. Most of the bars have only a handful of tables with umbrellas and, while it is certainly
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Cricket: Pretty good from Prittipaul
Lawrence Prittipaul struck a chanceless unbeaten 175 to put Hampshire on top in the 2nd XI championship match against Sussex at Hove. Hampshire, replying to Sussex's 285, claimed a lead of 69 by making 354 and Sussex lost Andy Perry for a duck in closing
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Arson probe over flat blaze
An investigation is under way after a suspected arson attack on a flat in Hastings last night. The offender is thought to have stuffed rags through the letterbox of a ground floor flat in Priory Road, then set them on fire at 8.20pm. Firefighters were
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Jobs axe looms at digital firm
A digital media company has announced plans to axe up to 25 employees, blaming changing global markets for a struggle to stay profitable. Brighton-based Victoria Real, one of the early success stories in digital and web media production, said it had been
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Price on child killers' heads
A £10,000 reward was offered today to help solve the 34-year-old murder of a Brighton schoolboy. Keith Lyon, 12, son of the late bandleader Ken Lyon, was stabbed to death on downland at Woodingdean in 1967. Despite a massive police investigation, including
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Hunt for missing OAP
Householders are being asked to check their gardens and outbuildings for a pensioner who has been missing since yesterday morning. Police are concerned at the sudden disappearance of Margaret Branston, 70, who was last seen at her home in South Heighton
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Signalman jailed for drinking
A signalman responsible who went on a drinking session before his shift was today jailed for 60 days. Paul Clear, 57, nodded off in his signal box at Lancing and was later found to be nearly twice the legal drink-drive limit. Clear, of North Lane, East
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Death blamed on spitting yob
An elderly woman who was spat at in the face by a young yob in the street, collapsed soon afterwards and died, an inquest has heard. Roberta Hawes, known as Bobbie, chased the teenager in her electric invalid carriage and cornered him in the foyer of
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What mugs
Having paid subsidies to farmers to raise sheep, we then paid out huge sums for many of those animals to be slaughtered to control foot-and-mouth. Now the Meat and Livestock Commission is demanding £25 million of our money to fund an advertising campaign
