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Terrace Talk, with Roz South
Burnley, beautiful Burnley. And that's not a description I ever imagined could trip lightly off the tongue. But beautiful it was, if only for 90 minutes last Saturday. Even the goalless draw against Coventry on Tuesday hasn't totally burst the Burnley
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Family tree
I am trying to trace the upbringing of my late wife, Audrey Tullet. She lived with her aunt, a Miss Moore, at 22 Coleman Street, Brighton, from a very early age. Should her neighbour and friend Evelyn Wheatley read this letter, I hope she will contact
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Wind of change
It is easy to see why the Tories hold out no hope for Britain when Charles Hendry MP hopes to make it fashionable to be a Conservative. I should rather support a party with principles, policies, commitments, democracy and a vision beyond being in fashion
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Taxing ride
As a committed cyclist, I agree with Joyce D Wise (Letters, August 16) about cyclists paying road tax and displaying a number plate. This would at least give us more legitimacy in the eyes of the law and other road users. The tax, if earmarked, could
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Zamora injured as Seagulls crash
Albion's first Saturday home defeat for more than two and a half years was overshadowed by an injury blow for Bobby Zamora. The Seagulls hotshot hobbled off after 36 minutes with suspected ligament damage. Zamora was hurt in a tackle with Norwich defender
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Hole new job
GARY Edwards trained at the prestigious Ecole Lenotre bakery school in Paris and rose to become head baker at top London hotel Claridges. So it may come as a surprise to see he now specialises in baking on Bognor seafront, after spotting a hole in the
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Cricket: Moores looks to bright future
It has not been a bad few days for Sussex coach Peter Moores. Last Thursday he signed a new four-year contract which will give him the security to plan long-term success for the county. Then on Sunday Moores saw his side beat Championship leaders Surrey
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Cricket: Graveney backs Kirtley
Chairman of selectors David Graveney today backed Sussex fast bowler James Kirtley to be a success in next month's Champions Trophy. Kirtley was named as the replacement for Darren Gough, who has been ruled out for the remainder of the summer after suffering
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Fantasy trio ready for big kick-off
Thousands of would-be managers have flooded a fantasy football web site ahead of today's Premiership kick-off. Seagulls fans Jon Trigg, Chris Walters and Vassos Shairlis have had to miss Brighton and Hove Albion's Division One match against Norwich in
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Crash mystery of dad I never knew
Maretta Pritchard's father died when she was just a baby. 30 years on she decided to investigate what happened on that tragic Autumn Saturday. MARETTA steadied herself as she flicked through the yellowing 30-year-old newspapers in the library. Sometimes
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Family's fury over building fiasco
A family was left stranded by builders after they dug up the road leading to their property. The mistake was the last straw after nine months of chaos caused by developers building a housing estate next to Ian and Isabella Thomas' pretty cottage. Since
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Sick boy set for dream Disney trip
A schoolboy who is going blind because of a brain tumour will now be able to go on the holiday of his dreams thanks to readers of The Argus. Jordan Powell is slowly losing his sight and mobility because of an inoperable brain tumour. His parents Anne
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Student in surfing tragedy
A student died while surfing during the holiday of a lifetime. It was the first time Stuart Randall, 21, on a three-month volunteer project to Ecuador, had tried the sport. Stuart, from Worthing, was swept out to sea by a riptide and his body was found
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Team News: Albion v Norwich
Shaun Wilkinson was handed his full League debut for Albion against the Canaries at a scorching Withdean. Wilkinson joined Bobby Zamora upfront as boss Martin Hinshelwood reverted from 4-3-3 to his favoured 4-4-2 formation. The 20-year-old Youth Team
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Report: Zamora injured as Seagulls crash
Albion's first Saturday home defeat for more than two and a half years was overshadowed by an injury blow for Bobby Zamora. The Seagulls hotshot hobbled off after 36 minutes with suspected ligament damage. Zamora was hurt in a tackle with Norwich defender
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Inside View: Nathan Jones
What A week that was. Two games into the season and four more points than Manchester United. After all the trials and tribulations of pre-opening day and Bozzy praying for cloud cover, the Seagulls got off to a flying start with a thoroughly deserved
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Chris Adams:
Not quite the 30 years of hurt Baddiel and Skinner once sung about, but I have waited a very long time to get one over Surrey in a Championship match. I made my Championship debut for Derbyshire in 1988 and last Sunday's win over them was the first I
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Get behind Dons
I have a relative who lives in south London who was shocked Ian Hart is not as supportive of the Dons' fans as he ought to be. The Football League has agreed for Wimbledon to relocate to Milton Keynes. It's wrong. My partner is not going to Selhurst Park
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Zamora injured as Seagulls crash
Albion's first Saturday home defeat for more than two and a half years was overshadowed by an injury blow for Bobby Zamora. The Seagulls hotshot hobbled off after 36 minutes with suspected ligament damage. Zamora was hurt in a tackle with Norwich defender
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The gospel truth
Most of us aged about 50 or more can remember where we were when we heard the news of John F Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, or when Martin Luther King met a similar fate on April 4, 1968. These tragedies affected the course of history.
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Motorsport: Smpter stays in hunt for honours
Mark Sumpter scored a brace of fifth places in the ninth round of the Michelin Porsche Cup at Knockhill last weekend. In different conditions, the Paragon Porsche/Ultrafilter International-backed car ran in the lead pack all weekend but was unable to
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Shock in store
I was most surprised to see in the piece about the proposed 24-hour Tesco store (The Argus, August 12) that our parish council is in favour. Councillors must want their heads examined and we will remember this at next year's elections. The site is small
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Glad to grant boy's wish
When you wish upon a star your dreams come true, according to the old Disney theme tune. Eight-year-old Jordan Powell made a wish for a holiday at the Magic Kingdom of Disneyworld in Florida. And generous readers of The Argus made that come true, after
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Back in time
So what has gone wrong with the refuse collections? I am receiving more complaints than ever about the service. It's not just the odd house being missed but whole streets. You can blame the binmen for missing the odd bin here and there but not entire
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Youth Judo: Ace sets sights on Korea
Sophie Johnstone has been selected for the World Junior Championships in South Korea. The 17-year-old was chosen in the under-48kg after a British training camp in Alicante, Spain. She said: "It's brilliant news, very pleasing." Sophie revealed how the
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Council just cannot keep our city clean
With rats now invading Brighton and Hove City Council's own residential care homes (The Argus, August 12), the city is most certainly the place to be for vermin. Since being taken in-house at a cost of millions, standards of refuse collection are even
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Basketball: Hoops Talk, with Nick Nurse
Wow, what a great afternoon we had at the beach last Saturday as Ballers In Brighton came to town. Those of you who attended will already know what an awesome event this was, despite a real soaking in the middle of the afternoon. We rounded it all with
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Family's fury over building fiasco
A family was left stranded by builders after they dug up the road leading to their property. The mistake was the last straw after nine months of chaos caused by developers building a housing estate next to Ian and Isabella Thomas' pretty cottage. Since
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Police question woman after beach ordeal
A woman was being questioned last night in connection with the attempted murder of a child. The 39-year-old woman from Bognor was arrested on Thursday after the woman and child were found in the sea off Selsey Bill. The toddler is now in the care of social
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Speedboat crash victim laid to rest
Family and friends of speedboat crash victim Ian Langan said a final farewell yesterday at an emotion-packed funeral. The six friends who went to sea with Ian on the fateful boat trip paid a special tribute to the "loveable rogue" with an eye for the
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Cruelty mum's fight for ninth baby
A Sussex mother jailed for cruelty to five children is fighting to win custody of her ninth child. The baby boy was taken into care at birth this year but the mother and her new partner are taking the case to the High Court. If they lose, the child will
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Full-Time: Albion 0 Norwich 2
Norwich began brightly, but it was Albion who created the first real moment of danger. Zamora showed wonderful touch and awareness to find Wilkinson with a first time pass on the volley from Mayo's long ball forward. Wilkinson was fouled close to the
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Stranded in our home
Builders left a family stranded by digging up the road leading to their home. The mistake was the last straw after nine months of chaos caused by developers building a housing estate next to Ian and Isabella Thomas' pretty cottage. Since work began in
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Inside View: Nathan Jones
What A week that was. Two games into the season and four more points than Manchester United. After all the trials and tribulations of pre-opening day and Bozzy praying for cloud cover, the Seagulls got off to a flying start with a thoroughly deserved
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Gerry Armstrong: Dream start raises eyebrows
Everyone connected with the Albion must be thrilled by their highly-encouraging start to life back in Division One after a ten-year absence. The 3-1 win at Burnley on the opening day raised a lot of eyebrows among football observers and left fans dreaming
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Secret life of the doughnut man
To Bognor's seafront holidaymakers, he is just the doughnut man. But Gary Edwards has an incredible secret past. Before he discovered his niche in the market - the promenade doughnut kiosk - Gary, 40, was head baker at posh London hotel Claridge's. He
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Chris Adams:
Not quite the 30 years of hurt Baddiel and Skinner once sung about, but I have waited a very long time to get one over Surrey in a Championship match. I made my Championship debut for Derbyshire in 1988 and last Sunday's win over them was the first I
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Date
Get behind Dons
I have a relative who lives in south London who was shocked Ian Hart is not as supportive of the Dons' fans as he ought to be. The Football League has agreed for Wimbledon to relocate to Milton Keynes. It's wrong. My partner is not going to Selhurst Park
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Tax blunder raises security alarm
Confidential information on a council taxpayer was posted to a third party by mistake. The application for housing benefit and council tax benefit extended payments gave the man's name, phone number, social security number, date of birth and employment
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Marina set to pay for police presence
Brighton Marina is set to become the first commercial site in Sussex to be specifically protected by paid-for police officers. Off-duty police will patrol the site in uniform and be paid overtime rates by the marina. Sussex Police and marina bosses are
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Kind act
I would like to say a big thank-you to those kind people who came to offer their assistance when I fell over in Church Road, Hove, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 1, the lady on the No 6A bus who offered me paper handkerchiefs to stem the flow of
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The gospel truth
Most of us aged about 50 or more can remember where we were when we heard the news of John F Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, or when Martin Luther King met a similar fate on April 4, 1968. These tragedies affected the course of history.
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Line 'em up
The RAF Lyneham Old Boys' Association has been in existence only a short while. All members are senior citizens, many of whom served in the Second World War. The association has almost 200 members, many of whom are widows, widowers or people living alone
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Birth marks
We were delighted to read such lovely praise for the care the midwifery staff have given Kat MacMillan (Letters, August 14). We always appreciate such letters and do try to maintain those high standards. Our role is to help families have a safe and positive
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Motorsport: Everest reday to scale heights
Things finally seem to be going right for Brighton bike racer Kenny Everest. It has been a couple of years since Everest was a force to be reckoned with in club racing. He looked like stepping up to national racing at one stage but a succession of mechanical
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Wasted lives
Thomas Bromley's latest defence of vivisection (Letters, August 14) is correct insofar as he states animals provide the most useful model for testing drugs destined for human use. I assume he is referring to the practice of animal dissection prevalent
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Motorsport: Smpter stays in hunt for honours
Mark Sumpter scored a brace of fifth places in the ninth round of the Michelin Porsche Cup at Knockhill last weekend. In different conditions, the Paragon Porsche/Ultrafilter International-backed car ran in the lead pack all weekend but was unable to
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Date
Dog-leg
I wish huntsmen and their supporters such as W Eleini (Letters, August 10) would make up their minds. One minute they're saying the fox is hardly ever caught on hunts, next they say without hunting we will be over-run by foxes and then they are caught
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Class action
The battle to save a popular infant school has already galvanised a community of parents. Now neighbours of Three Bridges First School in Crawley have joined in too after realising their gardens will be lost if the bulldozers roll in. West Sussex County
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I found true love after years of pain
A man has found the love of his life following a hospital operation which left him in a wheelchair. Sean Cox was 17 when a routine operation to cure him of bowel disease colitis caused severe nerve damage in his legs. After plunging into the depths of
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Shock in store
I was most surprised to see in the piece about the proposed 24-hour Tesco store (The Argus, August 12) that our parish council is in favour. Councillors must want their heads examined and we will remember this at next year's elections. The site is small
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Date
Glad to grant boy's wish
When you wish upon a star your dreams come true, according to the old Disney theme tune. Eight-year-old Jordan Powell made a wish for a holiday at the Magic Kingdom of Disneyworld in Florida. And generous readers of The Argus made that come true, after
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Date
Back in time
So what has gone wrong with the refuse collections? I am receiving more complaints than ever about the service. It's not just the odd house being missed but whole streets. You can blame the binmen for missing the odd bin here and there but not entire
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Date
Youth Judo: Ace sets sights on Korea
Sophie Johnstone has been selected for the World Junior Championships in South Korea. The 17-year-old was chosen in the under-48kg after a British training camp in Alicante, Spain. She said: "It's brilliant news, very pleasing." Sophie revealed how the
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Date
Council just cannot keep our city clean
With rats now invading Brighton and Hove City Council's own residential care homes (The Argus, August 12), the city is most certainly the place to be for vermin. Since being taken in-house at a cost of millions, standards of refuse collection are even
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Motorsport: Roundstone plan big step up
Roundstone Racing Suzuki of Angmering are set to move on to the world stage. The Sussex team have announced their intentions to move from the UK National Championships to the SBK World Supersport Championship for the 2003 season. It represents huge progress
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Hart protests his innocence
Albion ace Gary Hart has hit back at claims he over-reacted to get a rival player sent-off. He insists Burnley defender Arthur Gnohere made contact with a head-butt. The flashpoint happened early in the second half of last Saturday's clash at Turf Moor
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Basketball: Hoops Talk, with Nick Nurse
Wow, what a great afternoon we had at the beach last Saturday as Ballers In Brighton came to town. Those of you who attended will already know what an awesome event this was, despite a real soaking in the middle of the afternoon. We rounded it all with
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Airshow crowds on a high
Thousands of people flocked to the coast for the second day of one of the UK's biggest free airshows. Organisers estimated more than 200,000 people filled the beaches and Western Lawns along Eastbourne seafront yesterday for a day packed with thrilling
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Worker escapes crop blaze
A farm worker had a lucky escape when his combine harvester got too close to a power cable creating an arc of electricity which set fire to a field of crops. Farm worker Tim Williams was working at Locks Farm in Coldharbour Lane, Patching, near Worthing
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Police question woman after beach ordeal
A woman was being questioned last night in connection with the attempted murder of a child. The 39-year-old woman from Bognor was arrested on Thursday after the woman and child were found in the sea off Selsey Bill. The toddler is now in the care of social
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Date
Speedboat crash victim laid to rest
Family and friends of speedboat crash victim Ian Langan said a final farewell yesterday at an emotion-packed funeral. The six friends who went to sea with Ian on the fateful boat trip paid a special tribute to the "loveable rogue" with an eye for the
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Date
Cruelty mum's fight for ninth baby
A Sussex mother jailed for cruelty to five children is fighting to win custody of her ninth child. The baby boy was taken into care at birth this year but the mother and her new partner are taking the case to the High Court. If they lose, the child will
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Date
Cat loses ears to skin cancer
Ruby the cat's love of sunbathing brought her within a whisker of losing her life and cost her both ears. The stray moggy had her ears amputated after she was diagnosed with skin cancer. Ruby was rescued after she was found living on the streets in Reading
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Date
Full-Time: Albion 0 Norwich 2
Norwich began brightly, but it was Albion who created the first real moment of danger. Zamora showed wonderful touch and awareness to find Wilkinson with a first time pass on the volley from Mayo's long ball forward. Wilkinson was fouled close to the
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Date
Kind act
I would like to say a big thank-you to those kind people who came to offer their assistance when I fell over in Church Road, Hove, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 1, the lady on the No 6A bus who offered me paper handkerchiefs to stem the flow of
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Date
Line 'em up
The RAF Lyneham Old Boys' Association has been in existence only a short while. All members are senior citizens, many of whom served in the Second World War. The association has almost 200 members, many of whom are widows, widowers or people living alone
-
Date
Birth marks
We were delighted to read such lovely praise for the care the midwifery staff have given Kat MacMillan (Letters, August 14). We always appreciate such letters and do try to maintain those high standards. Our role is to help families have a safe and positive
-
Date
Motorsport: Everest reday to scale heights
Things finally seem to be going right for Brighton bike racer Kenny Everest. It has been a couple of years since Everest was a force to be reckoned with in club racing. He looked like stepping up to national racing at one stage but a succession of mechanical
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Date
Wasted lives
Thomas Bromley's latest defence of vivisection (Letters, August 14) is correct insofar as he states animals provide the most useful model for testing drugs destined for human use. I assume he is referring to the practice of animal dissection prevalent
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Date
Hole new job
GARY Edwards trained at the prestigious Ecole Lenotre bakery school in Paris and rose to become head baker at top London hotel Claridges. So it may come as a surprise to see he now specialises in baking on Bognor seafront, after spotting a hole in the
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Date
Dog-leg
I wish huntsmen and their supporters such as W Eleini (Letters, August 10) would make up their minds. One minute they're saying the fox is hardly ever caught on hunts, next they say without hunting we will be over-run by foxes and then they are caught
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Date
Class action
The battle to save a popular infant school has already galvanised a community of parents. Now neighbours of Three Bridges First School in Crawley have joined in too after realising their gardens will be lost if the bulldozers roll in. West Sussex County
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Date
I found true love after years of pain
A man has found the love of his life following a hospital operation which left him in a wheelchair. Sean Cox was 17 when a routine operation to cure him of bowel disease colitis caused severe nerve damage in his legs. After plunging into the depths of
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Date
Motorsport: Roundstone plan big step up
Roundstone Racing Suzuki of Angmering are set to move on to the world stage. The Sussex team have announced their intentions to move from the UK National Championships to the SBK World Supersport Championship for the 2003 season. It represents huge progress
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Date
Cricket: Moores looks to bright future
It has not been a bad few days for Sussex coach Peter Moores. Last Thursday he signed a new four-year contract which will give him the security to plan long-term success for the county. Then on Sunday Moores saw his side beat Championship leaders Surrey
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Cricket: Graveney backs Kirtley
Chairman of selectors David Graveney today backed Sussex fast bowler James Kirtley to be a success in next month's Champions Trophy. Kirtley was named as the replacement for Darren Gough, who has been ruled out for the remainder of the summer after suffering
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Date
Hart protests his innocence
Albion ace Gary Hart has hit back at claims he over-reacted to get a rival player sent-off. He insists Burnley defender Arthur Gnohere made contact with a head-butt. The flashpoint happened early in the second half of last Saturday's clash at Turf Moor
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Date
Fantasy trio ready for big kick-off
Thousands of would-be managers have flooded a fantasy football web site ahead of today's Premiership kick-off. Seagulls fans Jon Trigg, Chris Walters and Vassos Shairlis have had to miss Brighton and Hove Albion's Division One match against Norwich in
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Date
Crash mystery of dad I never knew
Maretta Pritchard's father died when she was just a baby. 30 years on she decided to investigate what happened on that tragic Autumn Saturday. MARETTA steadied herself as she flicked through the yellowing 30-year-old newspapers in the library. Sometimes
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Date
Airshow crowds on a high
Thousands of people flocked to the coast for the second day of one of the UK's biggest free airshows. Organisers estimated more than 200,000 people filled the beaches and Western Lawns along Eastbourne seafront yesterday for a day packed with thrilling
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Date
Sick boy set for dream Disney trip
A schoolboy who is going blind because of a brain tumour will now be able to go on the holiday of his dreams thanks to readers of The Argus. Jordan Powell is slowly losing his sight and mobility because of an inoperable brain tumour. His parents Anne
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Date
Worker escapes crop blaze
A farm worker had a lucky escape when his combine harvester got too close to a power cable creating an arc of electricity which set fire to a field of crops. Farm worker Tim Williams was working at Locks Farm in Coldharbour Lane, Patching, near Worthing
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Date
Student in surfing tragedy
A student died while surfing during the holiday of a lifetime. It was the first time Stuart Randall, 21, on a three-month volunteer project to Ecuador, had tried the sport. Stuart, from Worthing, was swept out to sea by a riptide and his body was found
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Date
Cat loses ears to skin cancer
Ruby the cat's love of sunbathing brought her within a whisker of losing her life and cost her both ears. The stray moggy had her ears amputated after she was diagnosed with skin cancer. Ruby was rescued after she was found living on the streets in Reading
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Date
Team News: Albion v Norwich
Shaun Wilkinson was handed his full League debut for Albion against the Canaries at a scorching Withdean. Wilkinson joined Bobby Zamora upfront as boss Martin Hinshelwood reverted from 4-3-3 to his favoured 4-4-2 formation. The 20-year-old Youth Team
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Date
Report: Zamora injured as Seagulls crash
Albion's first Saturday home defeat for more than two and a half years was overshadowed by an injury blow for Bobby Zamora. The Seagulls hotshot hobbled off after 36 minutes with suspected ligament damage. Zamora was hurt in a tackle with Norwich defender
-
Date
Stranded in our home
Builders left a family stranded by digging up the road leading to their home. The mistake was the last straw after nine months of chaos caused by developers building a housing estate next to Ian and Isabella Thomas' pretty cottage. Since work began in
-
Date
Gerry Armstrong: Dream start raises eyebrows
Everyone connected with the Albion must be thrilled by their highly-encouraging start to life back in Division One after a ten-year absence. The 3-1 win at Burnley on the opening day raised a lot of eyebrows among football observers and left fans dreaming
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Date
Terrace Talk, with Roz South
Burnley, beautiful Burnley. And that's not a description I ever imagined could trip lightly off the tongue. But beautiful it was, if only for 90 minutes last Saturday. Even the goalless draw against Coventry on Tuesday hasn't totally burst the Burnley
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Date
Secret life of the doughnut man
To Bognor's seafront holidaymakers, he is just the doughnut man. But Gary Edwards has an incredible secret past. Before he discovered his niche in the market - the promenade doughnut kiosk - Gary, 40, was head baker at posh London hotel Claridge's. He
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Date
Family tree
I am trying to trace the upbringing of my late wife, Audrey Tullet. She lived with her aunt, a Miss Moore, at 22 Coleman Street, Brighton, from a very early age. Should her neighbour and friend Evelyn Wheatley read this letter, I hope she will contact
-
Date
Wind of change
It is easy to see why the Tories hold out no hope for Britain when Charles Hendry MP hopes to make it fashionable to be a Conservative. I should rather support a party with principles, policies, commitments, democracy and a vision beyond being in fashion
-
Date
Taxing ride
As a committed cyclist, I agree with Joyce D Wise (Letters, August 16) about cyclists paying road tax and displaying a number plate. This would at least give us more legitimacy in the eyes of the law and other road users. The tax, if earmarked, could
-
Date
Tax blunder raises security alarm
Confidential information on a council taxpayer was posted to a third party by mistake. The application for housing benefit and council tax benefit extended payments gave the man's name, phone number, social security number, date of birth and employment
-
Date
Marina set to pay for police presence
Brighton Marina is set to become the first commercial site in Sussex to be specifically protected by paid-for police officers. Off-duty police will patrol the site in uniform and be paid overtime rates by the marina. Sussex Police and marina bosses are
