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Albion confident of stadium success
Brighton and Hove Albion's directors are confident they can overcome the latest hurdle to their plans for a new community stadium. Last week, the University of Brighton made a surprise interjection at the public inquiry into the Falmer proposals. It said
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Ex-wife's reprieve for attack on home
A wife placed on a rehabilitation order after going on a £19,000 wrecking spree at her husband's home has had her sentence revoked. Lyn Drouin, 52, received a two-year community rehabilitation order in February last year after she admitted causing criminal
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Gerry Armstrong: Kitson goal lifts his spirits
I was absolutely delighted to see Paul Kitson come off the bench to score the winner against Reading last week. If anyone needed a goal to give themselves a bit of a boost it was him. He has been so unlucky with injuries, not just at Brighton, but at
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Brooker sets goals targets
Paul Brooker is seeing double in a bid to help Albion beat the drop from Division One. The former Fulham winger wants to start hitting ten goals a season. Brooker took his tally this term to a career-best six at Reading recently, putting him behind only
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Albion 0 Preston 2
Albion's battle to beat the drop suffered a blow with a disappointing first home defeat for six games. Goals in the last 19 minutes by Michael Jackson and Richard Cresswell kept the Seagulls in the bottom three. The only consolation for Steve Coppell's
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Terrace Talk, with Roz South
After last week I'm assuming Alan Pardew is putting his team through some intensive training to reintroduce them to that alien object, the goalmouth. Because, with the exception of a cracking and un-saveable shot from Jamie Cureton, last Friday's performance
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Motorsport: Glenn gives it a go
Debut man Glenn Burtenshaw was vying for honours in the Rookie Class of the Corgi Legends Cars championship at Mallory Park. The 37-year-old Forest Row racer proved that he is equally adept in race cars as in karts by storming to third place in class
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A lonely heart
Two collared doves ruffled a few feathers when they made a love nest in the shelter of Brighton city centre traffic lights. Now there is only one of them, giving the red light to any hanky-panky which might have distracted motorists.
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Student's relief at death case verdict
A teenager has spoken of his relief after a jury cleared him of manslaughter. William Hopkins, 19, who hopes to be a primary school teacher, was accused of unlawfully killing David Illingworth, who died after being punched once in the face in a street
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Motorsport: Sussex duo's solid start
Mark Sumpter and Mike Jordan got their 2003 international racing programme off to a solid start in round one of the FIA GT Championship at Barcelona. Despite a fuel pump problem that forced them to make more pit stops than expected, the pair finished
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Frisbees: Life's a beach for Mohawks
Brighton Mohawks are off to the unofficial world ultimate frisbee championships in Rimini, Italy. The 24-strong squad, skippered by Felix Shardow, will compete in the mixed event of a sport described as a cross between netball and American Football by
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Calls over missing teacher
New lines of inquiry are being pursued by police searching for missing teacher Jane Longhurst. Ten people called in with information on Friday following renewed appeals and distribution of The Argus posters offering a Sussex Police reward of £5,000. Detective
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Police catch pervert
A convicted paedophile created a new identity to get a job supervising children on a pier ride. Daniel Gregory changed his name to Christopher Adams and moved to Brighton after his release from a six-year jail sentence. But he retained an unhealthy interest
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The tolerated trespasser
Grieving widower Terry Pemberton has been labelled a "tolerated trespasser" in his own home. Mr Pemberton, 58, shared the council-owned house with wife Margaret for almost 30 years. But because the four-bedroom property in Colbourne Avenue, Moulsecoombe
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Inside View, by Nathan Jones
With five games remaining including today's against Preston, the survival race is really hotting up, with all the clubs involved desperately scrapping for points. There are a quintet of teams at the bottom with five cup finals to play and it won't all
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Turn cement works site into biodome
There seems to be a lack of positive ideas on how to re-use the Upper Beeding cement works site. Why not redevelop it as a biodome, similar to that in Cornwall which also is effectively a glazed-over quarry? It seems odd to put either housing or an industrial
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Sorry to see old wall go
It was with sadness I saw the old flint wall fronting the Tesco site on New Church Road, Hove, has finally been demolished. I believe one of the original proposals for this site would have retained at least part of this wall, which was attractive and
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Good luck, Linda
I wish Linda Kelly good luck for the London Marathon tomorrow. She is a lovely teacher at the Goldstone Primary School in Hove and a brilliant acting headteacher. She is caring, kind and works very hard - in short, wonderful. -Lesley Kite, Hove
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Wok Wok
Reviewed: 17th May, 2000 Duke Street, Brighton Tel: 01273 735712 After a weekend of lager and late nights my body was craving a large dose of wholesome and healthy food. I suspect the nine pints of Stella I'd gulped the night before had stripped my system
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Sacking still hurts Hinsh
Former Albion manager Martin Hinshelwood has revealed his rapid sacking still hurts. Hinshelwood was ditched two months into the season after a sequence of ten straight League defeats. Hinshelwood, now rebuilding his reputation in the newly created role
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Home Truths with Jacqui Bealing
In the early days of our marriage my husband was an enthusiastic filer. He would create folders for every imaginable domestic category and religiously tidy away anything that looked vaguely important into an old metal cabinet. If we needed to lay our
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Albion 0 Preston 2
Albion's battle to beat the drop suffered a blow with a disappointing first home defeat for six games. Goals in the last 19 minutes by Michael Jackson and Richard Cresswell kept the Seagulls in the bottom three. The only consolation for Steve Coppell's
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Sword man cautioned
A young man was stopped by police after he was spotted waving a large sword around on a main street. The 19-year-old had taken the sword, which was over 4ft, out to show friends. A member of the public dialled 999 after seeing him in Sussex Road, Haywards
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Terrace Talk, with Roz South
After last week I'm assuming Alan Pardew is putting his team through some intensive training to reintroduce them to that alien object, the goalmouth. Because, with the exception of a cracking and un-saveable shot from Jamie Cureton, last Friday's performance
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Total howler
Intrigued by recent letters to The Argus about these horrid "Baby on board" signs, I did my own little survey on a long and boring motorway drive. Call me sad, but every time I overtook a car with one of these signs I looked inside to see if there was
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Not enough
Having looked at Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Budget, I am once again down in the doldrums - nothing for us disabled people, yet again. I think the Government is of the misguided opinion that because it gives tax relief to blind people and
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Health 4 - added later
Cayeene pepper and chillies, dried ripe fruits of Capsicum Minimum, are a native of South America, Africa and India. Capsicum contains a pungent crystalline principle called Capsaicin, which has been recently introduced in modern medicine as a pain-relieving
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Who wins?
At a time when pensioners' increases are being swallowed up by council tax increases, Edward Lister, council leader for the London Borough of Wandsworth, says some of the council tax increases being imposed on residents in his area will be used to safeguard
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Self knowledge for well being
"The only learning that significantly influences human behaviour is self knowledge." This powerful statement by Carl Rogers was sent to me on the internet by my revered friend and colleague Tony Betts, an international business consultant who has transformed
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A lonely heart
Two collared doves ruffled a few feathers when they made a love nest in the shelter of Brighton city centre traffic lights. Now there is only one of them, giving the red light to any hanky-panky which might have distracted motorists.
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Checks are vital
There has long been a debate about the rights and wrongs of a public list of known paedophiles. The conviction yesterday of paedophile Christopher Adams should serve as a warning of the dangers associated with a list available to communities. Adams went
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Student's relief at death case verdict
A teenager has spoken of his relief after a jury cleared him of manslaughter. William Hopkins, 19, who hopes to be a primary school teacher, was accused of unlawfully killing David Illingworth, who died after being punched once in the face in a street
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Motorsport: Sussex duo's solid start
Mark Sumpter and Mike Jordan got their 2003 international racing programme off to a solid start in round one of the FIA GT Championship at Barcelona. Despite a fuel pump problem that forced them to make more pit stops than expected, the pair finished
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A shoddy way to be treated
Struggling to cope with the death of his wife of 25 years, Terry Pemberton has been branded a trespasser in his own home. When Mr Pemberton's wife died of cancer in January, he knew it would be difficult for him to remain in the council house they shared
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Best option
In answer to the options for the siting of a new Brighton and Hove Albion football stadium, more than one site will more than adequately meet the criteria for first-division status. Falmer has one A-road, the A27, one B-road, the B2123 The Drove leading
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Motorsport: Freshwater's making waves
Richard Freshwater defied the odds to claim an impressive set of results on his return to road racing at Lydden Hill. Peacehaven rider Freshwater won the BEMSEE club's Powerbike in 2001 but another track venture for last season fell through. Instead he
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Falmer stadium is courting disaster
Supporters of the Albion stadium at Falmer are somewhat selective in their version of events and figures. Using The Argus web site, the following examples come to light. Ivor Caplin, the Hove MP, suggests overwhelming support, based on a referendum where
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Brooker sets goals targets
Paul Brooker is seeing double in a bid to help Albion beat the drop from Division One. The former Fulham winger wants to start hitting ten goals a season. Brooker took his tally this term to a career-best six at Reading recently, putting him behind only
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Letting agent says sorry to landlords
A letting agent being investigated by police after shutting shop owing thousands of pounds has written to angry landlords saying: "I'm sorry." Keith Youngs has also applied to go into liquidation, days after claiming his debt-ridden firm would be up and
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Disorder fears threaten festival
A major music festival could be cancelled following fears of car parking chaos, noise and disorder. Organisers of the Rox 2003 Music and Arts Festival hope up to 5,000 people will attend the two-day event, near Chichester College, which has a line up
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Calls over missing teacher
New lines of inquiry are being pursued by police searching for missing teacher Jane Longhurst. Ten people called in with information on Friday following renewed appeals and distribution of The Argus posters offering a Sussex Police reward of £5,000. Detective
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Police catch pervert
A convicted paedophile created a new identity to get a job supervising children on a pier ride. Daniel Gregory changed his name to Christopher Adams and moved to Brighton after his release from a six-year jail sentence. But he retained an unhealthy interest
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The tolerated trespasser
Grieving widower Terry Pemberton has been labelled a "tolerated trespasser" in his own home. Mr Pemberton, 58, shared the council-owned house with wife Margaret for almost 30 years. But because the four-bedroom property in Colbourne Avenue, Moulsecoombe
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My months of race slur hell
Delana Gregoire enjoyed her job. She was experienced, respected and popular. But her world was shattered after a colleague branded her a racist. The allegations were eventually withdrawn. But not before they had caused seven months of hell, which Mrs
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Albion 0 Preston 2
Albion's battle to beat the drop suffered a blow with a disappointing first home defeat for six games. Goals in the last 19 minutes by Michael Jackson and Richard Cresswell kept the Seagulls in the bottom three. The only consolation for Steve Coppell's
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Albion v Preston: The teams
Albion were unchanged as they attempted to maintain their impressive recent home form against depleted Preston at Withdean. Boss Steve Coppell, as expected, kept faith with the team which won 2-1 at Reading eight days earlier. Centre half Dean Blackwell
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Traffic fear over 'hamlet' plan
Highways chiefs say a housing development would push traffic flow over the limit. Developers want to build a rural hamlet on the derelict Blue Circle Cement works site at Upper Beeding. All traffic from the proposed 84 homes would have to use the single
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Randy turtle is sent on his way
Turtle Gulliver is back on his travels after his red-blooded passions led to trouble in his tank. The giant 29-stone loggerhead turtle just could not keep his flippers off fellow turtles at Brighton Sea Life Centre. He will now be transferred to a new
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Inside View, by Nathan Jones
With five games remaining including today's against Preston, the survival race is really hotting up, with all the clubs involved desperately scrapping for points. There are a quintet of teams at the bottom with five cup finals to play and it won't all
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Sacking still hurts Hinsh
Former Albion manager Martin Hinshelwood has revealed his rapid sacking still hurts. Hinshelwood was ditched two months into the season after a sequence of ten straight League defeats. Hinshelwood, now rebuilding his reputation in the newly created role
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Motorsport: Sidecar experts head to Sussex
British Championship Moto Cross heads to Sussex on Sunday. The Horsham Motorcycle Club hosts the second round of the Sidecar Cross Championship at Winterpick Farm, Plummers Plain, near Horsham. Seventeen of the country's top charioteers will battle it
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Checks are vital
There has long been a debate about the rights and wrongs of a public list of known paedophiles. The conviction yesterday of paedophile Christopher Adams should serve as a warning of the dangers associated with a list available to communities. Adams went
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Basketball: Bears still keen on Europe
Nick Nurse has insisted Brighton Bears' title disappointment need not spell the end of their plans to tackle Europe. The Bears coach and owner was widely expected to forget about Europe for next season after his side missed out on top spot in the British
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Brooker sets goals targets
Paul Brooker is seeing double in a bid to help Albion beat the drop from Division One. The former Fulham winger wants to start hitting ten goals a season. Brooker took his tally this term to a career-best six at Reading recently, putting him behind only
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Letting agent says sorry to landlords
A letting agent being investigated by police after shutting shop owing thousands of pounds has written to angry landlords saying: "I'm sorry." Keith Youngs has also applied to go into liquidation, days after claiming his debt-ridden firm would be up and
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Disorder fears threaten festival
A major music festival could be cancelled following fears of car parking chaos, noise and disorder. Organisers of the Rox 2003 Music and Arts Festival hope up to 5,000 people will attend the two-day event, near Chichester College, which has a line up
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Spurned husband torched wife's car
A man who defied an order banning him from seeing his wife set fire to her car when she refused to speak to him, a court was told. Ronald Hazeldon torched his wife's Vauxhall Astra, which was parked under the sitting room window of their home. He had
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My months of race slur hell
Delana Gregoire enjoyed her job. She was experienced, respected and popular. But her world was shattered after a colleague branded her a racist. The allegations were eventually withdrawn. But not before they had caused seven months of hell, which Mrs
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Albion v Preston: Blow by blow
Albion were the first to threaten in the opening stages, Zamora's back header from Watson's right-wing cross drifting wide of the far post. Preston chief Craig Brown was acutely aware of the threat Zamora poses. Brown, the former Scotland coach, hailed
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Traffic fear over 'hamlet' plan
Highways chiefs say a housing development would push traffic flow over the limit. Developers want to build a rural hamlet on the derelict Blue Circle Cement works site at Upper Beeding. All traffic from the proposed 84 homes would have to use the single
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Randy turtle is sent on his way
Turtle Gulliver is back on his travels after his red-blooded passions led to trouble in his tank. The giant 29-stone loggerhead turtle just could not keep his flippers off fellow turtles at Brighton Sea Life Centre. He will now be transferred to a new
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Albion confident of stadium success
Brighton and Hove Albion's directors are confident they can overcome the latest hurdle to their plans for a new community stadium. Last week, the University of Brighton made a surprise interjection at the public inquiry into the Falmer proposals. It said
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Ex-wife's reprieve for attack on home
A wife placed on a rehabilitation order after going on a £19,000 wrecking spree at her husband's home has had her sentence revoked. Lyn Drouin, 52, received a two-year community rehabilitation order in February last year after she admitted causing criminal
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We don't need a burner
It is a great shame that West Sussex County Council wants to build an incinerator at the disused Upper Beeding cement works. We do not need one - it will do nothing to solve waste problems and would not be friendly to the environment. The council should
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Gerry Armstrong: Kitson goal lifts his spirits
I was absolutely delighted to see Paul Kitson come off the bench to score the winner against Reading last week. If anyone needed a goal to give themselves a bit of a boost it was him. He has been so unlucky with injuries, not just at Brighton, but at
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Brooker sets goals targets
Paul Brooker is seeing double in a bid to help Albion beat the drop from Division One. The former Fulham winger wants to start hitting ten goals a season. Brooker took his tally this term to a career-best six at Reading recently, putting him behind only
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Traffic fear over 'hamlet' plan
Highways chiefs say a housing development would push traffic flow over the limit. Developers want to build a rural hamlet on the derelict Blue Circle Cement works site at Upper Beeding. All traffic from the proposed 84 homes would have to use the single
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Burglars targeted OAPs
A judge has jailed two East Sussex burglars for a total of five years after telling them they had damaged the lives of their elderly victims. They ransacked the Hastings flat of a pensioner whose doctor described him as a heart attack waiting to happen
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Still bouncing
With current interest in the Dambusters raid on Germany during the Second World War - both a documentary and the film of the same name being broadcast on TV - I thought the picture above would interest readers. It shows the star of The Dambusters film
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Motorsport: Glenn gives it a go
Debut man Glenn Burtenshaw was vying for honours in the Rookie Class of the Corgi Legends Cars championship at Mallory Park. The 37-year-old Forest Row racer proved that he is equally adept in race cars as in karts by storming to third place in class
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Hot stuff for pain relief
Cayeene pepper and chillies, dried ripe fruits of Capsicum Minimum, are a native of South America, Africa and India. Capsicum contains a pungent crystalline principle called Capsaicin, which has been recently introduced in modern medicine as a pain-relieving
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Motorsport: Sidecar experts head to Sussex
British Championship Moto Cross heads to Sussex on Sunday. The Horsham Motorcycle Club hosts the second round of the Sidecar Cross Championship at Winterpick Farm, Plummers Plain, near Horsham. Seventeen of the country's top charioteers will battle it
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Beat fat the holistic way
Obesity or weight gain is becoming an increasingly common health problem as a result of modern lavish living with high consumption of fatty foods and alcohol. Many of us are born with a genetic tendency to weight gain. Ayurvedic medicine attributes weight
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Up to tricks
Once again, East Sussex County Council is up to its old tricks (The Argus, April 10). Now it is opposing a National Park with my money. The council said there had been consultation with the people of East Sussex. If this happened, it was only with friends
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No extra load
Simon Icke (Letters, April 2) spouts a lot of tommy rot. Brighton and Hove City Council does not own the West Pier and is by law prevented from making any financial contribution to its restoration. As for the Albion, this is also a financial institution
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Gall stones
I hope sincerely we can vote Brighton and Hove City Council out as soon as possible, although a postal vote will not do it. How all the councillors of all parties could have the gall to send out the latest rate demands to those of us over 70, on fixed
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Frisbees: Life's a beach for Mohawks
Brighton Mohawks are off to the unofficial world ultimate frisbee championships in Rimini, Italy. The 24-strong squad, skippered by Felix Shardow, will compete in the mixed event of a sport described as a cross between netball and American Football by
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Basketball: Bears still keen on Europe
Nick Nurse has insisted Brighton Bears' title disappointment need not spell the end of their plans to tackle Europe. The Bears coach and owner was widely expected to forget about Europe for next season after his side missed out on top spot in the British
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Disorder fears threaten festival
A major West Sussex music festival could be cancelled following fears of car parking chaos, noise and disorder. Organisers of the Rox 2003 Music and Arts Festival hope up to 5,000 people will attend the two-day event, near Chichester College, which has
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Spurned husband torched wife's car
A man who defied an order banning him from seeing his wife set fire to her car when she refused to speak to him, a court was told. Ronald Hazeldon torched his wife's Vauxhall Astra, which was parked under the sitting room window of their home. He had
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Albion v Preston: Blow by blow
Albion were the first to threaten in the opening stages, Zamora's back header from Watson's right-wing cross drifting wide of the far post. Preston chief Craig Brown was acutely aware of the threat Zamora poses. Brown, the former Scotland coach, hailed
