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Where to mark Remembrance Day
This weekend, an estimated 45 million people nationwide will remember, in their own way, those who died in the last century's conflicts. Remembrance services taking place in Sussex include: BOGNOR: A march from the Royal British Legion headquarters in
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Fine for driver, aged 100
A centenarian who crashed into a pensioner crossing the road with a shopping trolley escaped a driving ban. Gwynneth Stallard, 100, of Chuck Hatch, near Crowborough, pleaded guilty to careless driving and told magistrates she had not seen the pedestrian
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Girl, 6, in firework horror
A six-year-old girl suffered severe burns when a firework shot out of control and landed in her hair. The girl was sitting watching fireworks in the back garden of her Brighton home when the Roman candle flew towards her. She was taken to the Royal Sussex
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Looking for skeleton lady
At the peace march on Thursday, October 31, in Old Steine, Brighton, a lady "skeleton" stood with her arms raised with the notice "No sanctions, no war" on the roundabout opposite the Palace Pier. I was proclaiming "Jesus, I trust in you". Things were
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Official pitch
At last, Big Issue sellers now have their own official pitches. Many times my family and I have been approached by men who have become nasty because we refused to buy it from them (no vendor's badge). I hope this will stop. In future, we will look for
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Home Truths, by Jacqui Bealing
The most wonderful surprise arrived on my doorstep last week and I just can't keep my hands off it. My husband, in a fit of extravagance, has bought me a piano. He kept hinting he was getting me something special for my birthday but the tradition in our
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Bogus vendors
I was pleased to see Peter Wileman (Letters, November 7) explain that Big Issue vendors could sell the magazine only from specific pitches and must identify themselves as legitimate by wearing a badge showing their licence number. In Brighton's Lanes,
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Chronic pain
The "talks" between Brighton and Hove City Council and traders' representatives have got nowhere. The council hasn't been listening for months - why should anyone believe it would start now? What is a surprise is the slight change in attitude from Voice
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A clear line
If Brighton and Hove City Council wishes to enforce strict parking regulations - and I have no objection to this - then the least it could do is to ensure those restrictions are clear and unambiguous. This is by no means the case. For example, how many
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Inside View, by Nathan Jones
After weeks of disappointments, what ifs and a few controversies, last Saturday saw us get what we deserved, our first three points at The Withdean. It was an excellent victory and all the more sweeter having Nicky Law once again suffer at the hands of
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Gerry Armstrong: Victory was just reward
Congratulations Brighton. It was a long, long time coming, but mercifully their losing streak is over. Albion's 3-2 win at home over Bradford last weekend stopped a dire run of 12 successive defeats and is reward for the dignified manner in which the
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Kindly skinheads
Slaughterhouse 57 is a strange kind of skinhead band whose members would rather sip Horlicks in front of the telly than encourage fascism. They are keener on saving the environment than they are on being aggressive towards their audiences. And as for
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Shop horrors
CongratulationS to Fay Millar for summarising the ludicrous Horsham park-and-ride scheme so succinctly (October 30). I am lost for words, though, that West Sussex County Council thinks the scheme has started well and that it should quote 147 cars on the
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New record for Nurse
Nick Nurse has set a new record by winning a ninth BBL coach of the month award. The Bears chief scooped October's prize by a huge margin while Niki Arinze, who will lead Newcastle's challenge in the cup quarter-final at the Brighton Centre tomorrow (
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Save the Albion
Thirty years ago, Bert Murray helped Brighton and Hove Albion win a well-deserved promotion. He was particularly popular because he was the people's player, bought with contributions from fervent fans. Albion are currently at the foot of the first division
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We need to remember
You have to be at least in your 70s to have served in the Second World War and more than 60 to have experienced National Service. Only a few are left who took part in the First World War and soon there will be none. The image of Remembrance Day, and of
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Long haul
So the Government is trying to get people to use public transport? No way, Jose, after my experience the other day. I went shopping in Waitrose, Brighton, which took me approximately half an hour. Coming out of the supermarket, I noticed it was 3.10pm
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Basketball: McQueen gets ready to ref
Sussex's new recruit to the ranks of National League referees reckons more players should start taking up the whistle. Brighton Cougars sharpshooter Steve McQueen has already been handed his first NBL assignment and is confident of progressing to the
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All MPs must work to improve trains
The stricter line of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) is very good news indeed. Fears that scrapping 20-year franchises in favour of short-term contracts will deter investment are purely academic, since train companies have little intention of that
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Webb so glad to be back
Daniel Webb has spoken of his delight at rejoining Albion on a month's loan from Southend. The teenage target man says he never wanted to leave. Webb's return, first revealed by The Argus on Thursday, was completed yesterday. He was training with the
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Lotto bid to save seafront lift
Councillors will ask National Lottery chiefs for help to restore the historic Madeira Lift on Brighton seafront. Full restoration of the lift, which opened in 1890, would cost about £250,000. Brighton and Hove city councillors have agreed to investigate
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Sign me Albion, says Nigeria striker
A player turning out for County League division three side Haywards Heath has won a call-up to the full Nigerian squad. Francis Kumbur has been named in an experimental Nigerian squad for friendlies against Jamaica on November 20 and Egypt five days later
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Your £40 could save the Albion
Fans are being urged to put their hands in their pockets to save the Seagulls from relegation. Brighton and Hove Albion supporters have set up a fighting fund to help the cash-strapped club climb off the foot of Division One. Organisers believe they can
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Airgun attack admitted
A transsexual woman smashed a van window and threatened the driver with an air pistol because she thought he had tried to run her off the road. Leanne George, 46, of Bellbanks Road, Hailsham, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent
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Boy quizzed after rape
A 14-year-old schoolboy has been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a woman in a public park. The boy is helping police with inquiries about the incident, in which a 19-year-old woman was assaulted in Memorial Gardens, Crawley, on the night
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Skinheads shed right-wing image
They hate fascists, sing about environmentalism and run pubs instead of wreck them. Meet the new saviours of bad-boy skinhead punk. The five members of Slaughterhouse 57 are on a mission to bring skinhead music back to Brighton. They are, however, keen
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Drugs hidden in false leg
Customs officials at Gatwick swooped on a man trying to smuggle almost a kilo of cocaine into Britain - hidden in his false leg. The wooden and glassfibre limb of one-legged Yenline Neil, 58, of Spanish Town, Jamaica, was opened up and more than £65,000
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Visit from the 'Siberian Jesus'
A religious guru known as the Siberian Jesus and who claims to be the son of God will lodge with a Brighton pensioner on his first visit to England. Vissarion, a former traffic policeman and factory worker, leads a 4,000-strong religious commune set up
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No action
On two occasions, The Argus has reported that Seeboard is to tidy up Hangleton Road sub-station in Hove. Lib Dem and Labour Party councillors reported it. To date, there has been no action. It's an eyesore. What's the use of these two parties going to
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Official pitch
At last, Big Issue sellers now have their own official pitches. Many times my family and I have been approached by men who have become nasty because we refused to buy it from them (no vendor's badge). I hope this will stop. In future, we will look for
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Date
Bogus vendors
I was pleased to see Peter Wileman (Letters, November 7) explain that Big Issue vendors could sell the magazine only from specific pitches and must identify themselves as legitimate by wearing a badge showing their licence number. In Brighton's Lanes,
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Inside View, by Nathan Jones
After weeks of disappointments, what ifs and a few controversies, last Saturday saw us get what we deserved, our first three points at The Withdean. It was an excellent victory and all the more sweeter having Nicky Law once again suffer at the hands of
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Terrace Talk, with Roz South
In a drenched but delighted state of mind last week, I was overheard phoning-in a match report and accused of indulging in a positive ocean of sporting cliches. To which I offered absolutely no defence because Singing In the Rain summed things up perfectly
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New record for Nurse
Nick Nurse has set a new record by winning a ninth BBL coach of the month award. The Bears chief scooped October's prize by a huge margin while Niki Arinze, who will lead Newcastle's challenge in the cup quarter-final at the Brighton Centre tomorrow (
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It's Towers v Bears, junior style
Brighton Bears under-18s head to the southern fringes of London this weekend keen to make cup progress. Bears, coached by Phil Waghorn, have won three out of their five games to date and meet London Towers at Chessington tomorrow in the second round of
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Long haul
So the Government is trying to get people to use public transport? No way, Jose, after my experience the other day. I went shopping in Waitrose, Brighton, which took me approximately half an hour. Coming out of the supermarket, I noticed it was 3.10pm
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Librarian has date with Blair
A Sussex librarian will be keeping a date with Prime Minister Tony Blair next month. Lesley Sim, head of services to children and young people at West Sussex County Council's library service, has been invited to attend a Downing Street reception. The
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Lotto bid to save seafront lift
Councillors will ask National Lottery chiefs for help to restore the historic Madeira Lift on Brighton seafront. Full restoration of the lift, which opened in 1890, would cost about £250,000. Brighton and Hove city councillors have agreed to investigate
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Wordplay for art lovers
Visitors to a new exhibition can mould falling letters to the shape of their bodies using computer art at a Sussex gallery. A video installation called Text Rain, at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery was chosen to launch Hospital Festival. The interactive
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Webb so glad to be back
Daniel Webb has spoken of his delight at rejoining Albion on a month's loan from Southend. The teenage target man says he never wanted to leave. Webb's return, first revealed by The Argus on Thursday, was completed yesterday. He was training with the
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Sign me Albion, says Nigeria striker
A player turning out for County League division three side Haywards Heath has won a call-up to the full Nigerian squad. Francis Kumbur has been named in an experimental Nigerian squad for friendlies against Jamaica on November 20 and Egypt five days later
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Cheers for the life of Behan
Brian Behan, the great eccentric, playwright, nude swimmer and loveable character was cheered and clapped at the service to mark the end of his life. Friends and members of his large Irish family packed the chapel at Woodvale Crematorium, Brighton, to
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Yobs beat up poppy seller
A disabled pensioner fought off two men with his walking stick when they tried to steal money he had collected for the Poppy Appeal. The 61-year-old was beaten with sticks by the two men as he was collecting for the Royal British Legion in St James's
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Your £40 could save the Albion
Fans are being urged to put their hands in their pockets to save the Seagulls from relegation. Brighton and Hove Albion supporters have set up a fighting fund to help the cash-strapped club climb off the foot of Division One. Organisers believe they can
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Boy quizzed after rape
A 14-year-old schoolboy has been arrested in connection with the alleged rape of a woman in a public park. The boy is helping police with inquiries about the incident, in which a 19-year-old woman was assaulted in Memorial Gardens, Crawley, on the night
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Where to mark Remembrance Day
This weekend, an estimated 45 million people nationwide will remember, in their own way, those who died in the last century's conflicts. Remembrance services taking place in Sussex include: BOGNOR: A march from the Royal British Legion headquarters in
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Fine for driver, aged 100
A centenarian who crashed into a pensioner crossing the road with a shopping trolley escaped a driving ban. Gwynneth Stallard, 100, of Chuck Hatch, near Crowborough, pleaded guilty to careless driving and told magistrates she had not seen the pedestrian
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Security guard in sex case retrial
A jury has failed to reach a verdict on whether a security guard indecently assaulted a teenage girl in the toilets of a fast-food restaurant. The nine men and two women jurors failed to reach agreement in the case of Eleftherios Kopsidis after six hours
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Girl, 6, in firework horror
A six-year-old girl suffered severe burns when a firework shot out of control and landed in her hair. The girl was sitting watching fireworks in the back garden of her Brighton home when the Roman candle flew towards her. She was taken to the Royal Sussex
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Looking for skeleton lady
At the peace march on Thursday, October 31, in Old Steine, Brighton, a lady "skeleton" stood with her arms raised with the notice "No sanctions, no war" on the roundabout opposite the Palace Pier. I was proclaiming "Jesus, I trust in you". Things were
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Home Truths, by Jacqui Bealing
The most wonderful surprise arrived on my doorstep last week and I just can't keep my hands off it. My husband, in a fit of extravagance, has bought me a piano. He kept hinting he was getting me something special for my birthday but the tradition in our
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Rock-bottom
So, 99 per cent of residents in Gibraltar want to stay under British rule. Will they be prepared to pay the same taxes as the rest of us, I wonder? For instance, 200 tax-free cigarettes on The Rock cost a mere £5. -Graham Taylor, Uplands Road, Brighton
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Snail mail
Parcel Force seems to be an organisation in terminal decline. Parcels sent from London regularly take two to three weeks to arrive in Brighton and Hove. One parcel sent to me never arrived and could not be traced. Another took almost a month to reach
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Chronic pain
The "talks" between Brighton and Hove City Council and traders' representatives have got nowhere. The council hasn't been listening for months - why should anyone believe it would start now? What is a surprise is the slight change in attitude from Voice
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Devil of a performance
Horsham Legends Cars racer Nigel Kelsey has finished fourth in this year's Rockingham Championship. The former motor sport sprint champion has always looked at home in the 1200cc Yamaha powered scaled replicas of yesteryear's American cars. The plant
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A clear line
If Brighton and Hove City Council wishes to enforce strict parking regulations - and I have no objection to this - then the least it could do is to ensure those restrictions are clear and unambiguous. This is by no means the case. For example, how many
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Top six is fine for Wignall
Andy Wignall is delighted after clinching sixth place overall in the BEMSEE club's Supersport 600 series in his first year of road racing. It has been a hectic season for the Hove racer. It all started on March 9 and 20 rounds, 40 races, 14 different
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Gerry Armstrong: Victory was just reward
Congratulations Brighton. It was a long, long time coming, but mercifully their losing streak is over. Albion's 3-2 win at home over Bradford last weekend stopped a dire run of 12 successive defeats and is reward for the dignified manner in which the
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Kindly skinheads
Slaughterhouse 57 is a strange kind of skinhead band whose members would rather sip Horlicks in front of the telly than encourage fascism. They are keener on saving the environment than they are on being aggressive towards their audiences. And as for
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Shop horrors
CongratulationS to Fay Millar for summarising the ludicrous Horsham park-and-ride scheme so succinctly (October 30). I am lost for words, though, that West Sussex County Council thinks the scheme has started well and that it should quote 147 cars on the
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Save the Albion
Thirty years ago, Bert Murray helped Brighton and Hove Albion win a well-deserved promotion. He was particularly popular because he was the people's player, bought with contributions from fervent fans. Albion are currently at the foot of the first division
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Stand back
V Craig (Letters, November 7) is quite right to highlight the lack of a bus shelter opposite the Brighton and Hove's main hospital as a disgrace. We have been urging Brighton and Hove City Council to install a replacement since the damaged shelter was
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Date
We need to remember
You have to be at least in your 70s to have served in the Second World War and more than 60 to have experienced National Service. Only a few are left who took part in the First World War and soon there will be none. The image of Remembrance Day, and of
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Basketball: McQueen gets ready to ref
Sussex's new recruit to the ranks of National League referees reckons more players should start taking up the whistle. Brighton Cougars sharpshooter Steve McQueen has already been handed his first NBL assignment and is confident of progressing to the
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Date
All MPs must work to improve trains
The stricter line of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) is very good news indeed. Fears that scrapping 20-year franchises in favour of short-term contracts will deter investment are purely academic, since train companies have little intention of that
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Date
Sign me Albion, says Nigeria striker
A player turning out for County League division three side Haywards Heath has won a call-up to the full Nigerian squad. Francis Kumbur has been named in an experimental Nigerian squad for friendlies against Jamaica on November 20 and Egypt five days later
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Webb so glad to be back
Daniel Webb has spoken of his delight at rejoining Albion on a month's loan from Southend. The teenage target man says he never wanted to leave. Webb's return, first revealed by The Argus on Thursday, was completed yesterday. He was training with the
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Blackwell and Rodger can plug gaps
Steve Coppell is banking on Simon Rodger and Dean Blackwell filling the holes left by two of last season's most influential players. Junior Lewis and Simon Morgan were each in their own way instrumental in the Seagulls' Second Division title triumph.
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Plane spotter glad to be home
Defiant plane spotter Christopher Wilson returned to Sussex relieved to be free but angry at the ordeal he has been put through. Mr Wilson, 47, of Erica Way, Horsham, flew into Gatwick at 3.30am yesterday with his wife Judy, a year to the day of his arrest
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Airgun attack admitted
A transsexual woman smashed a van window and threatened the driver with an air pistol because she thought he had tried to run her off the road. Leanne George, 46, of Bellbanks Road, Hailsham, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent
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Forger jailed for six years
A forger who set up a multi-million pound factory producing counterfeit cash has been jailed for six years. Peter Blackbourn, who previously lived in a bungalow in Noel Rise, Burgess Hill, ran his counterfeiting operation from a lock-up in Canning Town
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Shop lost my precious heirloom
Robyn Schonhofer waited 25 years to wear a family heirloom diamond ring. But before she could put it on it was lost in a jewellery shop bungle. Robyn's mum, Stella Goddard, had worn the ring for years but when it got too tight she passed it on to her
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Skinheads shed right-wing image
They hate fascists, sing about environmentalism and run pubs instead of wreck them. Meet the new saviours of bad-boy skinhead punk. The five members of Slaughterhouse 57 are on a mission to bring skinhead music back to Brighton. They are, however, keen
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Drugs hidden in false leg
Customs officials at Gatwick swooped on a man trying to smuggle almost a kilo of cocaine into Britain - hidden in his false leg. The wooden and glassfibre limb of one-legged Yenline Neil, 58, of Spanish Town, Jamaica, was opened up and more than £65,000
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Security guard in sex case retrial
A jury has failed to reach a verdict on whether a security guard indecently assaulted a teenage girl in the toilets of a fast-food restaurant. The nine men and two women jurors failed to reach agreement in the case of Eleftherios Kopsidis after six hours
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Visit from the 'Siberian Jesus'
A religious guru known as the Siberian Jesus and who claims to be the son of God will lodge with a Brighton pensioner on his first visit to England. Vissarion, a former traffic policeman and factory worker, leads a 4,000-strong religious commune set up
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No action
On two occasions, The Argus has reported that Seeboard is to tidy up Hangleton Road sub-station in Hove. Lib Dem and Labour Party councillors reported it. To date, there has been no action. It's an eyesore. What's the use of these two parties going to
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Date
Rock-bottom
So, 99 per cent of residents in Gibraltar want to stay under British rule. Will they be prepared to pay the same taxes as the rest of us, I wonder? For instance, 200 tax-free cigarettes on The Rock cost a mere £5. -Graham Taylor, Uplands Road, Brighton
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Snail mail
Parcel Force seems to be an organisation in terminal decline. Parcels sent from London regularly take two to three weeks to arrive in Brighton and Hove. One parcel sent to me never arrived and could not be traced. Another took almost a month to reach
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Date
Devil of a performance
Horsham Legends Cars racer Nigel Kelsey has finished fourth in this year's Rockingham Championship. The former motor sport sprint champion has always looked at home in the 1200cc Yamaha powered scaled replicas of yesteryear's American cars. The plant
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Date
Top six is fine for Wignall
Andy Wignall is delighted after clinching sixth place overall in the BEMSEE club's Supersport 600 series in his first year of road racing. It has been a hectic season for the Hove racer. It all started on March 9 and 20 rounds, 40 races, 14 different
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Date
Terrace Talk, with Roz South
In a drenched but delighted state of mind last week, I was overheard phoning-in a match report and accused of indulging in a positive ocean of sporting cliches. To which I offered absolutely no defence because Singing In the Rain summed things up perfectly
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Date
Stand back
V Craig (Letters, November 7) is quite right to highlight the lack of a bus shelter opposite the Brighton and Hove's main hospital as a disgrace. We have been urging Brighton and Hove City Council to install a replacement since the damaged shelter was
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Date
It's Towers v Bears, junior style
Brighton Bears under-18s head to the southern fringes of London this weekend keen to make cup progress. Bears, coached by Phil Waghorn, have won three out of their five games to date and meet London Towers at Chessington tomorrow in the second round of
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Date
Sign me Albion, says Nigeria striker
A player turning out for County League division three side Haywards Heath has won a call-up to the full Nigerian squad. Francis Kumbur has been named in an experimental Nigerian squad for friendlies against Jamaica on November 20 and Egypt five days later
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Date
Librarian has date with Blair
A Sussex librarian will be keeping a date with Prime Minister Tony Blair next month. Lesley Sim, head of services to children and young people at West Sussex County Council's library service, has been invited to attend a Downing Street reception. The
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Date
Wordplay for art lovers
Visitors to a new exhibition can mould falling letters to the shape of their bodies using computer art at a Sussex gallery. A video installation called Text Rain, at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery was chosen to launch Hospital Festival. The interactive
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Date
Webb so glad to be back
Daniel Webb has spoken of his delight at rejoining Albion on a month's loan from Southend. The teenage target man says he never wanted to leave. Webb's return, first revealed by The Argus on Thursday, was completed yesterday. He was training with the
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Date
Blackwell and Rodger can plug gaps
Steve Coppell is banking on Simon Rodger and Dean Blackwell filling the holes left by two of last season's most influential players. Junior Lewis and Simon Morgan were each in their own way instrumental in the Seagulls' Second Division title triumph.
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Date
Cheers for the life of Behan
Brian Behan, the great eccentric, playwright, nude swimmer and loveable character was cheered and clapped at the service to mark the end of his life. Friends and members of his large Irish family packed the chapel at Woodvale Crematorium, Brighton, to
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Date
Plane spotter glad to be home
Defiant plane spotter Christopher Wilson returned to Sussex relieved to be free but angry at the ordeal he has been put through. Mr Wilson, 47, of Erica Way, Horsham, flew into Gatwick at 3.30am yesterday with his wife Judy, a year to the day of his arrest
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Yobs beat up poppy seller
A disabled pensioner fought off two men with his walking stick when they tried to steal money he had collected for the Poppy Appeal. The 61-year-old was beaten with sticks by the two men as he was collecting for the Royal British Legion in St James's
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Date
Forger jailed for six years
A forger who set up a multi-million pound factory producing counterfeit cash has been jailed for six years. Peter Blackbourn, who previously lived in a bungalow in Noel Rise, Burgess Hill, ran his counterfeiting operation from a lock-up in Canning Town
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Date
Shop lost my precious heirloom
Robyn Schonhofer waited 25 years to wear a family heirloom diamond ring. But before she could put it on it was lost in a jewellery shop bungle. Robyn's mum, Stella Goddard, had worn the ring for years but when it got too tight she passed it on to her
