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Shop shock
What sort of person goes into a public shop toilet to cover the walls with human anal waste? I pity the cleaner who had to clear up the mess. I dread to think what sort of person shops like that. The store, Woolworths, now has to lock the toilet so only
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Waste of hospital waiting game
Thousands of pounds a day are being wasted as patients are forced to stay in hospital until nursing home places can be found for them. It costs each hospital in Sussex between £1,050 and £2,450 a week to look after patients waiting to transfer to a home
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Swallow hard
Kelly Preston (Letters, October 2) says the vilification of Councillor Bassam by the campaign against an elected mayor is a disgrace. I have not read anything in the No literature that is not a demonstrable fact. However, even if some of it were found
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Cut out council's dead wood
During my stint on Brighton and Hove City Council, some members from all parties made no contribution in any meeting or council for the whole of their council membership. This is a chance for the local electorate to get rid of the dead wood by voting
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Town's £50m recovery bid
Plans for a £50 million recovery package, including a new university, could boost the area around Hastings after July's bypass blow. The plan outlines measures aimed at addressing transport and regeneration problems in Hastings and Rother. It follows
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A leader we can all elect
There has been a lot of froth, nonsense and unpleasantness in the campaign of the vested interests opposed to a city mayor. The ludicrous alliance that is the anti-mayor brigade has not answered one basic question. How, in the name of all reason, is it
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We need councillors with principles
Well done to the six councillors who stood by their principles and voted the way they felt was to the benefit of the local community. It will be very interesting to see what happens when the vote comes for the election of a mayor for Brighton and Hove
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Real test of democracy
The referendum on whether or not Brighton and Hove should have a directly-elected mayor is an essential test of democracy that we should all take part in. If you are a real democrat and believe in collective choice, you must vote against a mayoral system
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Let's not stop progress
Adam Trimingham was right when he said Brighton and Hove is the seafront star of Sussex (September 20). But it is worth remembering the voices expressed in the Seventies against change and progress. Had they succeeded, we would not now have such a thriving
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Terrible tale of neglect
Yet another disgusting case of an elderly gentleman being neglected at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (October 1). How many more times will we read such stories in the Press before the fat cats of these NHS trusts are brought to book? The captain of
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Heard World, by John Wilson Goddard
I have always described it as looking like a cross between an old-fashioned cash register, from when I still had my little bit of sight (some 35 years ago now), and a battleship. Battleship may be somewhat tongue-in-cheek but it is grey (they come in
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The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham
Tony Blair has rarely been off the TV or out of the newspapers since the atrocities in America on September 11. His almost presidential image was reinforced during his speech to the Labour conference in Brighton on Tuesday. Almost unnoticed, the Tories
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Railway replies
With regard to Lizzie Enfield's Signal Failure (September 25), I should like to apologise to Graham for the unsatisfactory responses he has received to his letters of complaint about train service difficulties he had experienced. We have in the past been
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Rifle Shooting: We are aiming for Games glory
David Davies could become the oldest medal winner at next year's Commonwealth Games. He will be 60 in November but has set his sights on hitting the target for the senior citizens of sport. Davies, from Littlehampton, has been selected for the full-bore
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Cycling: Mitre riders mix with international stars
Brighton Mitre riders Tristan Court and Jay Chisnall were among an international field of 760 who took part in the Duo Normand race meeting at Marigny in Normandy. A crowd of 10,000 watched various events and the riders included leading professionals,
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Refused compensation over fall
I read with interest the article concerning Mrs Smart and Mrs Simmons seeking compensation from Brighton and Hove City Council after tripping on pavements and sustaining injuries (The Argus September 27). I, too, was refused compensation after tripping
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Burner questions
I was surprised to learn of the existence of a waste incinerator at Rye. I looked it up on the Energy Authority web site and it appears to be a "hydrocarbon fluids recovery" facility. In 1993, it emitted 1,000 times more dioxin than it was authorised
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Under siege but defiant
The Labour Party conference has left Brighton after four tumultuous days and some residents are questioning whether it should come back again. They are saying all the security measures gave the city a threatening atmosphere and depressed trade in the
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Shocked by police action
The riot police did not act with intelligence when they arrested the people at the beginning of the march at the Labour Party conference (The Argus, October 12). They acted with a lack of intelligence The reason I can say this with conviction is that
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Privatisation isn't working
I went to a meeting about privatisation of public services and the general feeling was no - not just in Brighton and Hove, but across the country. It would seem all questions and answers are rubber-stamped behind closed doors When it all goes pear-shaped
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Kirtley in new throwing probe
Sussex stood by vice-captain James Kirtley today after his England debut was marred by more controversy over his bowling action. Kirtley took 2-33 on his international debut in yesterday's victory over Zimbabwe in Harare, but later learned that match
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Cullip's the bee's knees
Albion stopper Simon Morgan has warned Brentford they will have to get beyond "the best defender in the Second Division" to wreck the Seagulls' invincible League run at Withdean. Danny Cullip's defensive partner holds Albion's former Brentford centre
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A life of challenges
Grocer Thomas Crawt, who has died aged 82, was not a man to surrender to the whims of convention. Not only did he work his way up from humble errand boy to the boss of a leading supermarket chain, he also defied family tradition by marrying his first
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Work planned to save library
Repairs are planned to stop Hove's much-loved public library from crumbling to bits. The library, in Church Road, is a Grade II listed building built almost 100 years ago. It was one of many libraries up and down the UK provided by philanthropist Andrew
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Fatal risk of missed tests
Thousands of women are risking their lives by not having regular cervical smear tests. More than 8,000 women aged between 25 and 64 in the East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority area have never had a test. The authority says many more women are
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Man, 91, robbed of savings
A man of 91 was robbed of £500 by two men who kicked open his front door. The victim was ordered to sit in a chair while one man stood over him and his accomplice searched his home. The men eventually fled after finding the pensioner had his life savings
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Watchdog halts playing field sale bid
The Government's chief sports watchdog has objected to plans to build homes on playing fields owned by a Brighton sixth form college. Sport England has told Brighton and Hove City Council planners it will not support Varndean College's bid to sell three
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Disabled MP's taxi snub fury
A Labour MP has accused a taxi driver of refusing to pick her up from Brighton station because she was in a wheelchair. Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South, said she was stunned when the cabbie gave several excuses for not allowing her in. The incident happened
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Was the conference worth it?
No one who passed through Brighton and Hove this week could have failed to notice there was a big event on the seafront. The city's main conference centre and neighbouring hotels were turned into a fortress and hundreds of police, many of them armed,
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Dead boy's father blames social workers
Four-year-old John Smith's adoptive parents, Simon and Michelle McWilliam, denied cruelty in court yesterday and insisted he harmed himself. Mr McWilliam said the boy, who was covered in 54 bruises and four adult bite marks when he died, was constantly
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Alert over abduction bid
Schoolchildren have been put on abduction alert by police after a man tried to snatch a teenage girl as she walked to school. The kidnap attempt on Tuesday came just two weeks after two similar bids in the Worthing area, although police are not linking
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Anne Frank's story on show
The extraordinary story of Anne Frank will be revealed in a major exhibition next month. It has been inspired by the life and legacy of the young girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic during the Second World War. Anne
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Anger at sixth-form axe threat
Parents say children could have to travel miles for further education under plans to close Newhaven's only school sixth form. They fear a scheme to turn the sixth form into a centre for technology for 11 to 16-year-olds will push up travel costs and take
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Dog sliced in half
Police have been called in after a dog was found cut in two in a Sussex back garden. Dog wardens were called to the garden in Cornwallis Gardens, Hastings, where a resident had found the remains of a small black dog. A dog warden spokesman said: "We have
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Writer's wrong on Israel
The anonymous supporter of Israel (Letters, October 2) is wrong in stating that opposition to Israeli settlements among Palestinians only comes from Arab countries. Both the UK and the US voted in 1980 for a United Nations motion condemning the settlements
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Festive stress
Autumn has barely started and already the high street stores are forcing us to start the Christmas countdown. Everywhere you look, festive stock is sneaking its way on to the shelves. I won't be changing the habit of a lifetime. I'll still be doing my
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Waste of hospital waiting game
Thousands of pounds a day are being wasted as patients are forced to stay in hospital until nursing home places can be found for them. It costs each hospital in Sussex between £1,050 and £2,450 a week to look after patients waiting to transfer to a home
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Swallow hard
Kelly Preston (Letters, October 2) says the vilification of Councillor Bassam by the campaign against an elected mayor is a disgrace. I have not read anything in the No literature that is not a demonstrable fact. However, even if some of it were found
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Cut out council's dead wood
During my stint on Brighton and Hove City Council, some members from all parties made no contribution in any meeting or council for the whole of their council membership. This is a chance for the local electorate to get rid of the dead wood by voting
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Careful, now
I hope voters in Brighton and Hove will think carefully before voting in the forthcoming referendum on the future shape of local government in the city. The idea of an elected mayor appears to be good but the proposal is also for the mayor to govern the
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A leader we can all elect
There has been a lot of froth, nonsense and unpleasantness in the campaign of the vested interests opposed to a city mayor. The ludicrous alliance that is the anti-mayor brigade has not answered one basic question. How, in the name of all reason, is it
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Real test of democracy
The referendum on whether or not Brighton and Hove should have a directly-elected mayor is an essential test of democracy that we should all take part in. If you are a real democrat and believe in collective choice, you must vote against a mayoral system
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Let's not stop progress
Adam Trimingham was right when he said Brighton and Hove is the seafront star of Sussex (September 20). But it is worth remembering the voices expressed in the Seventies against change and progress. Had they succeeded, we would not now have such a thriving
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Mayors and money-saving
Adam Trimingham wrote that Steve Rayson and Howard Attree are in favour of a mayor because it would save money (October 3). "The primary reason is fewer committees, fewer councillors and less bureaucracy," they were reported as saying. What they were
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Faceless fools must be shown the door
We will be the only city in the country to revert to a committee system if the referendum goes against an ejected mayor. Bearing in mind the track record of the committee system, the mind boggles. Which committee was responsible for the refuse contract
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Hooliganism is nothing new
Increasingly aggressive behaviour on football pitches is nothing new, according to this statement from the Anatomy Of Abuses - written in 1593: "Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder and great effusion of blood." World
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Blight of the road
It is hard to ignore how many times road accidents are reported in the Press. Sometimes they seem quite trivial but others can be, and are, fatal. It is not surprising. Having today taken possession of a new car, some maniac tearing down Drove Crescent
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Terrible tale of neglect
Yet another disgusting case of an elderly gentleman being neglected at the Royal Sussex County Hospital (October 1). How many more times will we read such stories in the Press before the fat cats of these NHS trusts are brought to book? The captain of
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Heard World, by John Wilson Goddard
I have always described it as looking like a cross between an old-fashioned cash register, from when I still had my little bit of sight (some 35 years ago now), and a battleship. Battleship may be somewhat tongue-in-cheek but it is grey (they come in
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Soaring cost of a city garage
It is only 16ft by 8ft and has no windows or central heating, but this little piece of hot property will set you back £18,000. Once considered somewhere to stash overflow junk from the house, spare parts and perhaps a car, a lock-up garage now sparks
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Council fined over rent stress
A council has been fined after it refused to house a penniless family facing homelessness until they paid their rent in advance. The Local Government Ombudsman found Arun District Council guilty of maladministration causing injustice. It was ordered to
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Two hurt in street attack
Police are appealing for witnesses after a street attack left two Crawley men with serious head injuries. Two assailants were spotted repeatedly kicking one of the victims in the head and body. The attack happened just after 7pm yesterday in Brighton
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Lib Dems fall out over chief's appointment
Political in-fighting has broken out between two leading Liberal Democrats over the appointment of Eastbourne council's chief executive. Beryl Healy, Liberal Democrat opposition leader on the council, issued a statement distancing herself from comments
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Anger at sixth-form axe threat
Parents say children could have to travel miles for further education under plans to close Newhaven's only school sixth form. They fear a scheme to turn the sixth form into a centre for technology for 11 to 16-year-olds will push up travel costs and take
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Railway replies
With regard to Lizzie Enfield's Signal Failure (September 25), I should like to apologise to Graham for the unsatisfactory responses he has received to his letters of complaint about train service difficulties he had experienced. We have in the past been
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Table Tennis: Venner is firing on all cylinders
Ritchie Venner, the Sussex No 1, is back on the Grand Prix circuit and firing on all cylinders. At Paignton in the Pengelly Memorial Tournament, the Crawley star reached the semi finals. After flooring five victims Venner reached the last four by stopping
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Speak proper
Has anyone noticed the subtle changes occurring in the pronunciation of the English language in our media? Everybody seems to be speaking as if they were a member of the staff of Top Gear. Sanitary towels are made to sound like the latest thing from Nasa
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How to make boyfriends behave
Tanya Sassoon knows a thing or two about badly behaved boyfriends. In fact she knows so much about their appalling time keeping, inability to say sorry and use of terms such as "top totty", that she has produced the Boyfriend Training Kit. Tanya, 24,
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Burner questions
I was surprised to learn of the existence of a waste incinerator at Rye. I looked it up on the Energy Authority web site and it appears to be a "hydrocarbon fluids recovery" facility. In 1993, it emitted 1,000 times more dioxin than it was authorised
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Under siege but defiant
The Labour Party conference has left Brighton after four tumultuous days and some residents are questioning whether it should come back again. They are saying all the security measures gave the city a threatening atmosphere and depressed trade in the
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Shocked by police action
The riot police did not act with intelligence when they arrested the people at the beginning of the march at the Labour Party conference (The Argus, October 12). They acted with a lack of intelligence The reason I can say this with conviction is that
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Privatisation isn't working
I went to a meeting about privatisation of public services and the general feeling was no - not just in Brighton and Hove, but across the country. It would seem all questions and answers are rubber-stamped behind closed doors When it all goes pear-shaped
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Fans have a word with 'Whispering' Bob
'Whispering' Bob Harris brought memories of the Old Grey Whistle Test to Brighton. The legendary DJ was at Borders bookshop, in Churchill Square, to publicise his newly published autobiography The Whispering Years. It is 30 years since he first appeared
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Sussex trio's new deals
Sussex's out-of-contract trio Dominic Clapp, Will House and Jamie Carpenter have been offered new deals by the county. All three are to be awarded one-year contracts after lengthy deliberation by the club's management. The decision was made after Sussex
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Work planned to save library
Repairs are planned to stop Hove's much-loved public library from crumbling to bits. The library, in Church Road, is a Grade II listed building built almost 100 years ago. It was one of many libraries up and down the UK provided by philanthropist Andrew
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OAPs fight for NHS equality
Pensioners are fighting for their rights, claiming they face a daily barrier of discrimination and inequality. Elderly people across Mid and West Sussex say they face daily difficulties because people become impatient with their frailty, and this can
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Council bars late hours bid
Objectors in Worthing are celebrating victory in their campaign against a superpub's plans to open until midnight. Pub giant Bar Med's plan for a £1 million pub in the former Landmark furniture store in Chapel Road could now be scrapped altogether. The
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Man, 91, robbed of savings
A man of 91 was robbed of £500 by two men who kicked open his front door. The victim was ordered to sit in a chair while one man stood over him and his accomplice searched his home. The men eventually fled after finding the pensioner had his life savings
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Watchdog halts playing field sale bid
The Government's chief sports watchdog has objected to plans to build homes on playing fields owned by a Brighton sixth form college. Sport England has told Brighton and Hove City Council planners it will not support Varndean College's bid to sell three
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Disabled MP's taxi snub fury
A Labour MP has accused a taxi driver of refusing to pick her up from Brighton station because she was in a wheelchair. Anne Begg, MP for Aberdeen South, said she was stunned when the cabbie gave several excuses for not allowing her in. The incident happened
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Summit on bins crisis
A city's refuse collection crisis could be resolved after councillors were summoned to a crunch meeting. Councillors who sit on Brighton and Hove City Council's policy and resources committee were asked to attend the talks later today. Most of the session
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Shopping centre crime crackdown
Eastbourne town centre traders have joined forces with the police to share information about criminals. Official police pictures of known criminals will be circulated to members of the newly-formed Retail Crime Group in Eastbourne. Some town centre stores
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Anne Frank's story on show
The extraordinary story of Anne Frank will be revealed in a major exhibition next month. It has been inspired by the life and legacy of the young girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic during the Second World War. Anne
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Dog sliced in half
Police have been called in after a dog was found cut in two in a Sussex back garden. Dog wardens were called to the garden in Cornwallis Gardens, Hastings, where a resident had found the remains of a small black dog. A dog warden spokesman said: "We have
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Man finds nail in pasty
Hungry Nigel Heffron bit off more than he could chew when he tucked into a Cornish pasty and almost swallowed a fingernail. The Brighton father-of-three felt sick after finding the nail inside a snack he bought from Asda. The store has now refused a demand
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Festive stress
Autumn has barely started and already the high street stores are forcing us to start the Christmas countdown. Everywhere you look, festive stock is sneaking its way on to the shelves. I won't be changing the habit of a lifetime. I'll still be doing my
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Shop shock
What sort of person goes into a public shop toilet to cover the walls with human anal waste? I pity the cleaner who had to clear up the mess. I dread to think what sort of person shops like that. The store, Woolworths, now has to lock the toilet so only
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Don't shut hospital
Brighton and Hove City Council should think again and not close Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove. I suggest building a new hospital on the front part of the site and using the back for housing. I always get treated with utmost kindness at Brighton
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Town's £50m recovery bid
Plans for a £50 million recovery package, including a new university, could boost the area around Hastings after July's bypass blow. The plan outlines measures aimed at addressing transport and regeneration problems in Hastings and Rother. It follows
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Fans' tribute goes on TV
Albion fans who organised a tribute to terror victim Robert Eaton feature in a TV documentary with actress Helen Mirren tonight. Teenager Nick Lovett, of Dover Road, Brighton, and other fans will appear in Terror in America, a documentary about the British
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We need councillors with principles
Well done to the six councillors who stood by their principles and voted the way they felt was to the benefit of the local community. It will be very interesting to see what happens when the vote comes for the election of a mayor for Brighton and Hove
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Owner of antique shotgun jailed
A man has been jailed for possession of a 19th Century double-barrelled shotgun. Police found the antique weapon when they searched gardener Simon Boxall's home in Worthing. He had kicked in a neighbour's front door during a drunken row with his partner
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Victory for driver who hit plane
A delivery driver sacked after crashing into a Boeing 737 at Gatwick Airport has won his claim for unfair dismissal. Ray Paice, 57, of Broadfield, Crawley, blamed a mechanical fault for the accident, which caused more than £500,000 of damage. No one was
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On bus parking
I, too, have seen buses parked in pay-and-display bays for more than two hours at a time. On Friday and Saturday nights, the disco-decker bus parks on double yellow lines in Western Road, Hove, for up to 90 minutes at a time, causing considerable problems
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The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham
Tony Blair has rarely been off the TV or out of the newspapers since the atrocities in America on September 11. His almost presidential image was reinforced during his speech to the Labour conference in Brighton on Tuesday. Almost unnoticed, the Tories
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Alert over abduction bid
Schoolchildren have been put on abduction alert by police after a man tried to snatch a teenage girl as she walked to school. The kidnap attempt on Tuesday came just two weeks after two similar bids in the Worthing area, although police are not linking
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Victory for driver who hit plane
A delivery driver sacked after crashing into a Boeing 737 at Gatwick Airport has won his claim for unfair dismissal. Ray Paice, 57, of Broadfield, Crawley, blamed a mechanical fault for the accident, which caused more than £500,000 of damage. No one was
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Gatwick passenger numbers plunge
Passenger numbers at Gatwick Airport took a 6.2 per cent dive last month compared with September 2000. The number passing through Gatwick was 0.6 per cent up on last year until the terrorist attacks in America. But they dropped to ten per cent below last
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Sussex policeman aids NY relatives
Sussex detective constable Clinton Novelle is well used to dealing with tragedy. As a trained family liaison officer with Sussex Police, he counsels families of the victims of murder, rape and road crashes. But nothing was to prepare him for the scale
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Body found in pond
The body of a woman was recovered from a duck pond in Hailsham early today. It is believed the woman, in her 60s, had been dead in the water at Common Pond for several hours before she was discovered by a passer-by at 12.10am. Underwater dive teams pulled
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Town's £50m recovery bid
Plans for a £50 million recovery package, including a new university, could boost the area around Hastings after July's bypass blow. The plan outlines measures aimed at addressing transport and regeneration problems in Hastings and Rother. It follows
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Pub's late hours bid barred
Objectors in Worthing are celebrating victory in their campaign against a superpub's plans to open until midnight. Pub giant Bar Med's plan for a £1 million pub in the former Landmark furniture store in Chapel Road could now be scrapped altogether. The
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Something to celebrate
At last, something to be cheerful about. According to the British Psychology Journal, we are now top of the European league - for being depressed (The Argus, October 1). -A Bruggi, Clifton Road, Brighton
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Council fined over rent stress
A council has been fined after it refused to house a penniless family facing homelessness until they paid their rent in advance. The Local Government Ombudsman found Arun District Council guilty of maladministration causing injustice. It was ordered to
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In God's name
I am pleased the Reverend John Webster believes his god is looking after him. Perhaps he would tell us where his god was on September 11. He certainly was nowhere near New York when more than 6,000 of his "specks" were murdered, nor was around during
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Rifle Shooting: We are aiming for Games glory
David Davies could become the oldest medal winner at next year's Commonwealth Games. He will be 60 in November but has set his sights on hitting the target for the senior citizens of sport. Davies, from Littlehampton, has been selected for the full-bore
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Value peace
I congratulate The Argus (September 27) on the excellent, well-informed article that stressed all our communities in Brighton and Hove, including the Muslim community, were outraged and deeply distressed at the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre
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Cycling: Mitre riders mix with international stars
Brighton Mitre riders Tristan Court and Jay Chisnall were among an international field of 760 who took part in the Duo Normand race meeting at Marigny in Normandy. A crowd of 10,000 watched various events and the riders included leading professionals,
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Love lessons
A row with her boyfriend, Marc, proved productive for Tanya Sassoon when she was a student at Brighton University. She used it as a basis to produce her Boyfriend Training Kit, a guide to things men do that irritate women. Men are awarded points for good
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Refused compensation over fall
I read with interest the article concerning Mrs Smart and Mrs Simmons seeking compensation from Brighton and Hove City Council after tripping on pavements and sustaining injuries (The Argus September 27). I, too, was refused compensation after tripping
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Ride too far
A Brighton cabbie refused to take Labour MP Anne Begg from the station to a conference hotel because she was disabled. Even though the MP said she could get into the cab and fold up her wheelchair, the driver still refused and said there were too many
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Darren may end his exile
Darren Freeman may end his self-imposed exile from Withdean tomorrow night. The retired Albion marksman is considering whether to attend the game against his old club Brentford. Freeman has been unable to bring himself to watch a match since recurring
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Seagulls set for new training venue
Albion are poised to solve their training ground fiasco by switching to a fourth site in the space of three months. The club hopes to clinch a deal today for a new venue in north Sussex. Chief executive Martin Perry said: "We have been putting in place
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Revamp for village hall
A village hall is to undergo a major revamp thanks to a six-figure National Lottery windfall. Ringmer Village Hall, near Lewes, will be extensively refurbished thanks to a grant of £135,920 from the Community Fund. The hall, built in 1860 and extended
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Owner of antique shotgun jailed
A man has been jailed for possession of a 19th Century double-barrelled shotgun. Police found the antique weapon when they searched gardener Simon Boxall's home in Worthing. He had kicked in a neighbour's front door during a drunken row with his partner
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Adams has never forgiven Noades
Micky Adams is unlikely to shake Ron Noades' hand if they bump into each other at Withdean tomorrow night. The Albion boss is more likely to shake the Brentford chairman by the throat! Adams has never forgiven Noades for kicking him out of Griffin Park
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Kirtley in new throwing probe
Sussex stood by vice-captain James Kirtley today after his England debut was marred by more controversy over his bowling action. Kirtley took 2-33 on his international debut in yesterday's victory over Zimbabwe in Harare, but later learned that match
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Teacher bows out after 37 years
A teacher is retiring after working at the same Mid Sussex school for 37 years. Arthur Earl has been at Thomas Bennett Community College in Crawley for most of his working life. To mark his retirement the college is hosting a farewell party and will make
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Cullip's the bee's knees
Albion stopper Simon Morgan has warned Brentford they will have to get beyond "the best defender in the Second Division" to wreck the Seagulls' invincible League run at Withdean. Danny Cullip's defensive partner holds Albion's former Brentford centre
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A life of challenges
Grocer Thomas Crawt, who has died aged 82, was not a man to surrender to the whims of convention. Not only did he work his way up from humble errand boy to the boss of a leading supermarket chain, he also defied family tradition by marrying his first
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Fatal risk of missed tests
Thousands of women are risking their lives by not having regular cervical smear tests. More than 8,000 women aged between 25 and 64 in the East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority area have never had a test. The authority says many more women are
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Was the conference worth it?
No one who passed through Brighton and Hove this week could have failed to notice there was a big event on the seafront. The city's main conference centre and neighbouring hotels were turned into a fortress and hundreds of police, many of them armed,
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Man uses sweets to lure girl
A man tried to entice a ten-year-old girl into his car with the promise of sweets. He offered to take her to nearby shops but the girl refused and ran home. Police today warned all parents and children to be on their guard. The incident happened at about
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Dead boy's father blames social workers
Four-year-old John Smith's adoptive parents, Simon and Michelle McWilliam, denied cruelty in court yesterday and insisted he harmed himself. Mr McWilliam said the boy, who was covered in 54 bruises and four adult bite marks when he died, was constantly
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Alert over abduction bid
Schoolchildren have been put on abduction alert by police after a man tried to snatch a teenage girl as she walked to school. The kidnap attempt on Tuesday came just two weeks after two similar bids in the Worthing area, although police are not linking
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Anger at sixth-form axe threat
Parents say children could have to travel miles for further education under plans to close Newhaven's only school sixth form. They fear a scheme to turn the sixth form into a centre for technology for 11 to 16-year-olds will push up travel costs and take
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Heart op tragedy baffles surgeons
Doctors were baffled when an apparently healthy man died two days after a successful heart operation, an inquest heard. Peter Stanford was said to have been enjoying an "amazing" recovery from the triple heart bypass and surgeons believed he had every
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Writer's wrong on Israel
The anonymous supporter of Israel (Letters, October 2) is wrong in stating that opposition to Israeli settlements among Palestinians only comes from Arab countries. Both the UK and the US voted in 1980 for a United Nations motion condemning the settlements
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High price of security systems
It's about time the intruder alarm companies reduced their prices so working-class folk could afford these systems. Failing that, could they not introduce an easy payment scheme? I had to save hard before I could sleep easier in my bed or leave the house
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Don't shut hospital
Brighton and Hove City Council should think again and not close Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove. I suggest building a new hospital on the front part of the site and using the back for housing. I always get treated with utmost kindness at Brighton
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Careful, now
I hope voters in Brighton and Hove will think carefully before voting in the forthcoming referendum on the future shape of local government in the city. The idea of an elected mayor appears to be good but the proposal is also for the mayor to govern the
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Fans' tribute goes on TV
Albion fans who organised a tribute to terror victim Robert Eaton feature in a TV documentary with actress Helen Mirren tonight. Teenager Nick Lovett, of Dover Road, Brighton, and other fans will appear in Terror in America, a documentary about the British
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Mayors and money-saving
Adam Trimingham wrote that Steve Rayson and Howard Attree are in favour of a mayor because it would save money (October 3). "The primary reason is fewer committees, fewer councillors and less bureaucracy," they were reported as saying. What they were
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Faceless fools must be shown the door
We will be the only city in the country to revert to a committee system if the referendum goes against an ejected mayor. Bearing in mind the track record of the committee system, the mind boggles. Which committee was responsible for the refuse contract
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Hooliganism is nothing new
Increasingly aggressive behaviour on football pitches is nothing new, according to this statement from the Anatomy Of Abuses - written in 1593: "Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder and great effusion of blood." World
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Blight of the road
It is hard to ignore how many times road accidents are reported in the Press. Sometimes they seem quite trivial but others can be, and are, fatal. It is not surprising. Having today taken possession of a new car, some maniac tearing down Drove Crescent
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Victory for driver who hit plane
A delivery driver sacked after crashing into a Boeing 737 at Gatwick Airport has won his claim for unfair dismissal. Ray Paice, 57, of Broadfield, Crawley, blamed a mechanical fault for the accident, which caused more than £500,000 of damage. No one was
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On bus parking
I, too, have seen buses parked in pay-and-display bays for more than two hours at a time. On Friday and Saturday nights, the disco-decker bus parks on double yellow lines in Western Road, Hove, for up to 90 minutes at a time, causing considerable problems
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Sussex policeman aids NY relatives
Sussex detective constable Clinton Novelle is well used to dealing with tragedy. As a trained family liaison officer with Sussex Police, he counsels families of the victims of murder, rape and road crashes. But nothing was to prepare him for the scale
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Something to celebrate
At last, something to be cheerful about. According to the British Psychology Journal, we are now top of the European league - for being depressed (The Argus, October 1). -A Bruggi, Clifton Road, Brighton
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Council fined over rent stress
A council has been fined after it refused to house a penniless family facing homelessness until they paid their rent in advance. The Local Government Ombudsman found Arun District Council guilty of maladministration causing injustice. It was ordered to
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In God's name
I am pleased the Reverend John Webster believes his god is looking after him. Perhaps he would tell us where his god was on September 11. He certainly was nowhere near New York when more than 6,000 of his "specks" were murdered, nor was around during
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Value peace
I congratulate The Argus (September 27) on the excellent, well-informed article that stressed all our communities in Brighton and Hove, including the Muslim community, were outraged and deeply distressed at the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre
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Table Tennis: Venner is firing on all cylinders
Ritchie Venner, the Sussex No 1, is back on the Grand Prix circuit and firing on all cylinders. At Paignton in the Pengelly Memorial Tournament, the Crawley star reached the semi finals. After flooring five victims Venner reached the last four by stopping
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Speak proper
Has anyone noticed the subtle changes occurring in the pronunciation of the English language in our media? Everybody seems to be speaking as if they were a member of the staff of Top Gear. Sanitary towels are made to sound like the latest thing from Nasa
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Love lessons
A row with her boyfriend, Marc, proved productive for Tanya Sassoon when she was a student at Brighton University. She used it as a basis to produce her Boyfriend Training Kit, a guide to things men do that irritate women. Men are awarded points for good
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Ride too far
A Brighton cabbie refused to take Labour MP Anne Begg from the station to a conference hotel because she was disabled. Even though the MP said she could get into the cab and fold up her wheelchair, the driver still refused and said there were too many
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How to make boyfriends behave
Tanya Sassoon knows a thing or two about badly behaved boyfriends. In fact she knows so much about their appalling time keeping, inability to say sorry and use of terms such as "top totty", that she has produced the Boyfriend Training Kit. Tanya, 24,
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Darren may end his exile
Darren Freeman may end his self-imposed exile from Withdean tomorrow night. The retired Albion marksman is considering whether to attend the game against his old club Brentford. Freeman has been unable to bring himself to watch a match since recurring
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Seagulls set for new training venue
Albion are poised to solve their training ground fiasco by switching to a fourth site in the space of three months. The club hopes to clinch a deal today for a new venue in north Sussex. Chief executive Martin Perry said: "We have been putting in place
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Revamp for village hall
A village hall is to undergo a major revamp thanks to a six-figure National Lottery windfall. Ringmer Village Hall, near Lewes, will be extensively refurbished thanks to a grant of £135,920 from the Community Fund. The hall, built in 1860 and extended
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Adams has never forgiven Noades
Micky Adams is unlikely to shake Ron Noades' hand if they bump into each other at Withdean tomorrow night. The Albion boss is more likely to shake the Brentford chairman by the throat! Adams has never forgiven Noades for kicking him out of Griffin Park
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Fans have a word with 'Whispering' Bob
'Whispering' Bob Harris brought memories of the Old Grey Whistle Test to Brighton. The legendary DJ was at Borders bookshop, in Churchill Square, to publicise his newly published autobiography The Whispering Years. It is 30 years since he first appeared
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Sussex trio's new deals
Sussex's out-of-contract trio Dominic Clapp, Will House and Jamie Carpenter have been offered new deals by the county. All three are to be awarded one-year contracts after lengthy deliberation by the club's management. The decision was made after Sussex
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Council bars late hours bid
Objectors in Worthing are celebrating victory in their campaign against a superpub's plans to open until midnight. Pub giant Bar Med's plan for a £1 million pub in the former Landmark furniture store in Chapel Road could now be scrapped altogether. The
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Summit on bins crisis
A city's refuse collection crisis could be resolved after councillors were summoned to a crunch meeting. Councillors who sit on Brighton and Hove City Council's policy and resources committee were asked to attend the talks later today. Most of the session
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Man uses sweets to lure girl
A man tried to entice a ten-year-old girl into his car with the promise of sweets. He offered to take her to nearby shops but the girl refused and ran home. Police today warned all parents and children to be on their guard. The incident happened at about
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Man finds nail in pasty
Hungry Nigel Heffron bit off more than he could chew when he tucked into a Cornish pasty and almost swallowed a fingernail. The Brighton father-of-three felt sick after finding the nail inside a snack he bought from Asda. The store has now refused a demand
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High price of security systems
It's about time the intruder alarm companies reduced their prices so working-class folk could afford these systems. Failing that, could they not introduce an easy payment scheme? I had to save hard before I could sleep easier in my bed or leave the house
