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July 9: Sussex v Essex (Lunch)
Sussex got the boost of a wicket in the first over as their Championship challenge gathered further momentum at Arundel. James Kirtley removed opener Paul Grayson for a fifth ball duck after Essex had won the toss in sweltering temperatures. Jason Lewry
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Greens' horror at M25 plan
Multi-billion pound proposals to widen the M25 and improve other motorways will threaten the proposed South Downs National Park, campaigners say. Transport secretary Alistair Darling was outlining huge road-building programmes today, which includes introducing
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Bikes are bad
Further to Richard Franklin's letter (July 2) I would add selfishness to the list of cyclists' crimes. It dumbfounds me the way a single cyclist out for exercise can choose to do so on traffic-clogged streets, disrupting the bus service for people needing
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Hart Beat, by Ian Hart
I have to admit I was very impressed the first time I met one of our MPs, Tim Loughton. It was during the election campaign of 1997 and he actually knocked on my door in Broadwater. He took time to listen to our concerns regarding the NHS and education
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Space for a start
A business has launched to provide office space in Brighton for start-up businesses and freelancers. Sarah Klugman and Alain van Gils have started Brighton Desk Space in the North Laine. The office provides a fully-cabled shared office space, a high-speed
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Greens' horror at M25 plan
Multi-billion pound proposals to widen the M25 and improve other motorways will threaten the proposed South Downs National Park, campaigners say. Transport secretary Alistair Darling was outlining huge road-building programmes today, which includes introducing
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Wine gurus taste victory
Two Sussex wines featured among the finalists in a competition for the country's top small producers. The Ditchling-based Ridgeview Wine Estate's Cuvee Merret Cavendish sparkling white wine and Davenport Vineyard's Horsmonden Dry white wine from Rotherfield
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Workers given back-pay bonus
A law allowing workers to claim back-salary from former bosses who failed to pay them the National Minimum Wage came into force yesterday. The legislation will enable the Inland Revenue to force firms to pay arrears to former, as well as existing, staff
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Council's U-turn on homes
Planning chiefs have agreed to do a U-turn on plans to expand a Mid Sussex town. West Sussex County Council aimed to build 500 houses west of Burgess Hill after 2011 as part of its future planning blueprint. But a report by the Government in March stated
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Cycle route plan runs into opponents
An attempt to block plans for a seafront cycle route will come before councillors next week. The controversial move to introduce a coastal route in Worthing are currently being resisted by residents' associations who think it will put pedestrians at risk
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Appeal for help after girl is shot
A child was shot in the arm as she played with friends near a park. Police believe the 12-year-old girl had been hit with a pellet from an air rifle. The incident happened on Monday as the girl played near the junction of Cotswold Close and Pennine Rise
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Coroner slams food-hunt police
A coroner has condemned the inhuman and degrading way a dying man was driven around in the back of a police van while officers searched for a snack. Ron Nicholls was left unconscious and handcuffed on the van's floor for 35 minutes before being taken
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Congratulations
Well done on winning two awards at the UK Press Gazette Regional Press Awards 2003 (The Argus, July 5). The first award was for best evening paper in the UK and the second was for Team of the Year. The awards are very well-deserved as there is first-class
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Clean up now
I rarely have the need to wander into Brighton but a fortnight ago, I did. Knowing the parking problems, I took a bus. When I disembarked at Churchill Square, I wondered who had the audacity to enter the city as a contender for The City of Culture award
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Youth Cricket: West Hove are champions
West Hove are celebrating after being crowned East Sussex primary school champions. Will Gray was player-of-the-match as they beat Ocklynge (Eastbourne) by eight runs in the final, sponsored by Davies and Tate, at the County Ground in Hove. They totalled
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Keep the wall
Adam Trimingham admits the new Tesco store in Church Road is "a shock to the eyeballs" (The Argus, July 3). It will be slightly more of a shock to those approaching from the east if the plans to reduce the height of the trees in St Andrew's churchyard
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Film's a treat
I went with my spouse to The Cinema of Comic Illusions in St Anne's Well Gardens, Hove, which was absolutely superb. We had seen a brief mention of it in The Argus. For anyone interested in the history of film-making, not to mention local history, it
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Tragic detour
Changes should be made to police practices following revelations at a Hove inquest and stern words from the coroner. Officers at Brighton were told to take Ron Nicholls to hospital after finding him unconscious in Hollingdean, Brighton. Instead they went
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Hunt saboteur filmed attack
A Sussex fox hunt saboteur told a court how he filmed a "madman" attacking his wife. Simon Wild, who claims to have been attacked by huntsman Jonathan Broise just after his wife Jaine was assaulted, filmed the incident a second longer than he needed to
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Coffee quest
I went on a mission to find out who served the best cup of coffee in Brighton and, for some strange reason, it's 3am and I'm wide awake. So why not write it up now? I'll name three coffee shops that hit the spot. Out of the big names I found Starbucks
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Boxing: Wray gets England call
Southwick boxer Neil Wray has been called up for an England training camp in Manchester this weekend. The light-welterweight will join up with the rest of the top English amateurs hoping to be selected for the full England side to compete in a Commonwealth
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Happy end to nightmare
It was wonderful news that a six year-old girl suspected of being abducted was found safe and well. Too often when a child goes missing the consequences are horrific. The case of Summer Haipule fitted all the criteria for a major emergency, with a detailed
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Bad buses
I am very disappointed with the new Brighton and Hove buses and I understand a number of them will be put on the Shoreham/Rottingdean route. They aren't at all pensioner-friendly. Getting on the bus, we are met with a cavernous space for baby buggies
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Football: Rebels in a muddle
Ryman League: Alan Pook has won a shedload of cups and medals in his time as a non-League manager. Worthing's self-appointed first team boss will discover in the weeks to come, though, there is more to life at Woodside Road than simply putting out a decent
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Coppell eyes young striker
Albion are giving an extended trial to rookie striker Carl Wilson-Denis. The 20-year-old former Kingstonian front man teamed up with the Seagulls last week for pre-season training. Wilson-Denis has impressed enough so far for boss Steve Coppell to stretch
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Road improvements ruled out
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling today rejected a raft of plans to cut traffic congestion in Sussex, including five separate projects to ease misery on the busy A27. The measures were turned down on the grounds they would be bad for the environment
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Half net users shop
Almost half of all adults who use the internet have shopped online. Booking travel, accommodation or a holiday was the most popular reason for 54 per cent of those in a survey with access to the net. Forty-one per cent also said they went online to book
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Exporters feeling downcast
Exporters in the South-East are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Government, according to research by Bibby Factors Sussex. A study by the factoring specialists showed 71 per cent believe the Government does not understand their needs - a
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Top ranking for Sussex firm
A Hove-based company is the second largest privately-owned company in Britain. Palmer & Harvey, which distributes cigarettes, sweets and soft drinks, was the South-East's top company and second overall in the annual Top Track 100 league table. The
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Police slammed for snack-hunt tragedy
A coroner has condemned the inhuman and degrading way a dying man was driven around in the back of a police van while officers searched for a snack. Ron Nicholls was left unconscious and handcuffed on the van's floor for 35 minutes before being taken
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Rail bosses face Hatfield crash charges
Several senior managers are to be charged over the Hatfield rail disaster, in which a Sussex man and three others died. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today that six men from Network Rail and contractor Balfour Beatty should be charged with
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Conmen rob elderly couple
Detectives today issued a CD-fit of a man they suspect conned his way into the home of an elderly Crawley couple with an accomplice and stole cash. They called at the couple's home in Tushmore Crescent, claiming they were working behind the house and
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Blaze wrecks thatched home
An electrical fault is thought to have sparked a fire which almost destroyed a thatched house in East Sussex. Firefighters from Hastings, Battle, Bexhill, Broad Oak, Uckfield, Lewes and Heathfield were called to the blaze at Sprays Bridge Farm, Westfield
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Harbour surgery opens at last
A long-awaited doctors' surgery in Eastbourne opened its doors to harbour residents last night as years of campaigning finally paid off. The Harbour Medical Practice, in Barrier Reef Way, Sovereign Harbour North, was opened by the Mayor of Eastbourne,
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£800,000 paid out to councillors
More than £800,000 was claimed by councillors in Brighton and Hove during the last financial year. The city council, which raised council tax bills by 14.5 per cent this year and says it will have to increase them again to plug an £18 million funding
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Did I discover my past life?
Eric Goldsworthy, a therapist who believes in death before life, is about to take me on a journey through the mists of time. But as I sank back into a leather armchair and prepared to find out about my past life, he offered a few words of advice: "Be
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Lessons of day Summer vanished
Painful experience has taught police that every second counts when it comes to child abductions. Statistics show 75 per cent of murders are committed within the first three hours. With this in mind, Sussex Police became the first UK force to launch a
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Relief of little Summer's family
The parents of little Summer Haipule today spoke of their relief after the return of the schoolgirl whose game of hide and seek sparked a 12-hour police hunt. While more than 80 police officers, a helicopter and dozens of friends searched through the
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Jordan's big charity slide
Glamour girl Jordan will be swapping the top shelf for the top of a 165ft-high aerial slide. She will be undertaking the challenge in Preston Park on July 27 to raise money for the Royal London Society for the Blind. Daredevils have to raise a minimum
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Shock death blamed on bug bite
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to a superstore worker who died after going to hospital with a suspected insect bite. David Selmes, 40, had arrived at work at the photographic counter of Asda in Hollingbury with flu-like symptoms. When his leg
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Coppell eyes young striker
Albion are giving an extended trial to rookie striker Carl Wilson-Denis. The 20-year-old former Kingstonian front man teamed up with the Seagulls last week for pre-season training. Wilson-Denis has impressed enough so far for boss Steve Coppell to stretch
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July 9: Sussex v Essex (Lunch)
Sussex got the boost of a wicket in the first over as their Championship challenge gathered further momentum at Arundel. James Kirtley removed opener Paul Grayson for a fifth ball duck after Essex had won the toss in sweltering temperatures. Jason Lewry
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Greens' horror at M25 plan
Multi-billion pound proposals to widen the M25 and improve other motorways will threaten the proposed South Downs National Park, campaigners say. Transport secretary Alistair Darling was outlining huge road-building programmes today, which includes introducing
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Stage success
On Saturday afternoon and evening, Stonelands School in Hove, performed its annual end-of-year show at the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing, to an appreciative audience. The show was divided into three sections, allowing the part-time school to share the stage
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Church ordeal
I enjoyed the headline to your letters page: "God must decide gay bishops issue" (July 2). I wonder which side He will favour after all the advice he has been receiving of late; the fundamentalists/traditionalists or the innovators/liberals? I have followed
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Parry's right
I agree with John Parry (The Argus, July 4) that fox hunting is socially divisive. You only have to speak to people who live in villages where the Hunt has its kennels and stables to know about the type of people who go fox hunting. I lived in Houghton
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Marketers win pier contract
Design and marketing agency Mosaic has been appointed by Palace Pier to manage its first major summer marketing and advertising campaign. The Brighton-based agency will manage the campaign, the largest of its kind undertaken by the pier, to promote two
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Wine gurus taste victory
Two Sussex wines featured among the finalists in a competition for the country's top small producers. The Ditchling-based Ridgeview Wine Estate's Cuvee Merret Cavendish sparkling white wine and Davenport Vineyard's Horsmonden Dry white wine from Rotherfield
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Workers given back-pay bonus
A law allowing workers to claim back-salary from former bosses who failed to pay them the National Minimum Wage came into force yesterday. The legislation will enable the Inland Revenue to force firms to pay arrears to former, as well as existing, staff
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Cruelty debate can be taken too far
The futility of the anti-hunting bill can be seen in its own hypocrisy and inconsistency. If a ban is based purely on cruelty, and cruelty is defined as unnecessary suffering, you have no option but to exterminate all cats in this country. They cause
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Congratulations
Well done on winning two awards at the UK Press Gazette Regional Press Awards 2003 (The Argus, July 5). The first award was for best evening paper in the UK and the second was for Team of the Year. The awards are very well-deserved as there is first-class
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Youth Squash: Sussex aces take on world
Two Sussex players have been selected to represent England in the World Under-19s Championships. Suzie Pierrepont, 18, will compete in team and individual events in Cairo next month. Rachel Willmott, 15, will play in the individual competition. Coach
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Keep the wall
Adam Trimingham admits the new Tesco store in Church Road is "a shock to the eyeballs" (The Argus, July 3). It will be slightly more of a shock to those approaching from the east if the plans to reduce the height of the trees in St Andrew's churchyard
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Youth Athletics: Wade bids for glory
Wade Bennett-Jackson is Sussex's best hope for a gold medal at the All-England Schools Championships in Sheffield on Saturday. Worthing High intermediate athlete Wade competes in the 200m, Wade, who only just missed selection for this weekend's World
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Happy end to nightmare
It was wonderful news that a six year-old girl suspected of being abducted was found safe and well. Too often when a child goes missing the consequences are horrific. The case of Summer Haipule fitted all the criteria for a major emergency, with a detailed
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Bad buses
I am very disappointed with the new Brighton and Hove buses and I understand a number of them will be put on the Shoreham/Rottingdean route. They aren't at all pensioner-friendly. Getting on the bus, we are met with a cavernous space for baby buggies
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Cricket: Goodwin plays down title talk
Murray Goodwin insists it is still too early to regard Sussex as serious Championship challengers. The county go into today's match with Essex at Arundel (11am) second in the first division after winning four of their first seven games. Leaders Surrey
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Coppell eyes young striker
Albion are giving an extended trial to rookie striker Carl Wilson-Denis. The 20-year-old former Kingstonian front man teamed up with the Seagulls last week for pre-season training. Wilson-Denis has impressed enough so far for boss Steve Coppell to stretch
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Half net users shop
Almost half of all adults who use the internet have shopped online. Booking travel, accommodation or a holiday was the most popular reason for 54 per cent of those in a survey with access to the net. Forty-one per cent also said they went online to book
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Medics supply drugs kit to addicts
Doctors, drug treatment workers and chemists are to be allowed to give drug-taking equipment to addicts for the first time. The Home Office is to change the law in a bid to prevent disease and infection. At present, it is illegal to supply items such
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Gloves off in factory row
A derelict factory which once made glamorous gloves for the Queen and Nicole Kidman is at the centre of a neighbourhood row. Tucked away in a quiet residential street in Brighton, the Cornelia James glove factory provided a touch of class for Hollywood
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Police stop naked bull run protest
A group of Sussex animal rights protesters have been stopped from streaking through the streets in protest at Spain's Running of the Bulls event. By day they have professional jobs but in the heat of the midday sun, they prepared to bare all in the city
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Pongy hedgehogs face eviction
A family of smelly hedgehogs have been given their marching orders after nesting in a couple's kitchen. The uninvited guests walked into the Morland's family home through a cat flap and have been squatting there for three weeks. Since their arrival the
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Decision looms on fate of school
Teachers, parents and pupils will find out this week if their special school is to be shut down. An independent adjudicator is expected to announce a decision on the future of St Anne's Special School, Lewes, by the end of the week. East Sussex County
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Bikes are bad
Further to Richard Franklin's letter (July 2) I would add selfishness to the list of cyclists' crimes. It dumbfounds me the way a single cyclist out for exercise can choose to do so on traffic-clogged streets, disrupting the bus service for people needing
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Between You And Me, by Vanora Leigh
Right! What am I offered for these two chicken legs? Corn-fed chicken legs, lady, and just reached their sell-by date. What's that? You'll pay £1.50 for them? Don't be silly. Tomorrow they'll be whiffy and not even fit to feed the cat so we'll let you
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Space for a start
A business has launched to provide office space in Brighton for start-up businesses and freelancers. Sarah Klugman and Alain van Gils have started Brighton Desk Space in the North Laine. The office provides a fully-cabled shared office space, a high-speed
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Moans mount over dirty streets
A restaurant owner is spearheading a campaign by residents to rid the streets of mountains of rubbish. Mamoud Bartoli wants Brighton and Hove City Council to improve its waste collection service after council dustcarts failed to make their regular visit
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Coroner slams food-hunt police
A coroner has condemned the inhuman and degrading way a dying man was driven around in the back of a police van while officers searched for a snack. Ron Nicholls was left unconscious and handcuffed on the van's floor for 35 minutes before being taken
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Clean up now
I rarely have the need to wander into Brighton but a fortnight ago, I did. Knowing the parking problems, I took a bus. When I disembarked at Churchill Square, I wondered who had the audacity to enter the city as a contender for The City of Culture award
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Youth Cricket: West Hove are champions
West Hove are celebrating after being crowned East Sussex primary school champions. Will Gray was player-of-the-match as they beat Ocklynge (Eastbourne) by eight runs in the final, sponsored by Davies and Tate, at the County Ground in Hove. They totalled
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Tesco eyesore
Standing in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove, I marvel that we have a country village church surrounded on four sides by its original Victorian graveyard in our midst here in the 2lst Century, intact and peaceful, and a place of
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Smelly squatters
Hedgehogs have set up home in the Morland family's kitchen in Newhaven after entering through a cat flap in search of grub. They are now being given their marching orders because of their appalling smell. The Morlands will have to make sure their prickly
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Film's a treat
I went with my spouse to The Cinema of Comic Illusions in St Anne's Well Gardens, Hove, which was absolutely superb. We had seen a brief mention of it in The Argus. For anyone interested in the history of film-making, not to mention local history, it
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Football: Selsey hunt new manager
County League: Selsey are still on the lookout for a new manager with less than six weeks to go before the new season starts. The West Sussex club were left without a manager when the popular Danny Hinshelwood resigned recently. It is understood the club
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Tragic detour
Changes should be made to police practices following revelations at a Hove inquest and stern words from the coroner. Officers at Brighton were told to take Ron Nicholls to hospital after finding him unconscious in Hollingdean, Brighton. Instead they went
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Hunt saboteur filmed attack
A Sussex fox hunt saboteur told a court how he filmed a "madman" attacking his wife. Simon Wild, who claims to have been attacked by huntsman Jonathan Broise just after his wife Jaine was assaulted, filmed the incident a second longer than he needed to
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Coffee quest
I went on a mission to find out who served the best cup of coffee in Brighton and, for some strange reason, it's 3am and I'm wide awake. So why not write it up now? I'll name three coffee shops that hit the spot. Out of the big names I found Starbucks
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Boxing: Wray gets England call
Southwick boxer Neil Wray has been called up for an England training camp in Manchester this weekend. The light-welterweight will join up with the rest of the top English amateurs hoping to be selected for the full England side to compete in a Commonwealth
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Basketball: Johnson departs with a promise
Wilbur Johnson completes his move to Germany today insisting: "Brighton fans have not seen the last of me." The popular Bears centre is set to tie up loose ends on a one-year deal with Bundesliga outfit Avitos Giessen. He will be linking up again with
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Comment: Ian Hart
The postponement of the annual Worthing versus Albion pre-season friendly is a huge blow for the Woodside Road club. The potential loss of £20,000 in revenue is a serious matter. Now County League team Arundel can cash in by hosting Albion's opening fixture
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Put the brakes on this bus shambles
I must put pen to paper regarding the shambles of a bus service run by Roger French. On Friday, July 4, at 8.05 I went to catch the No 10 bus at the top of The Avenue, Bevendean, Brighton. After waiting ten minutes a single-decker went sailing past, filled
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Football: Rebels in a muddle
Ryman League: Alan Pook has won a shedload of cups and medals in his time as a non-League manager. Worthing's self-appointed first team boss will discover in the weeks to come, though, there is more to life at Woodside Road than simply putting out a decent
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Countryside lovers keep ancient art alive
Judge Michael Kennedy QC is one of a growing number of people getting back to nature and keeping alive the art of hedgelaying. Twenty years ago, barbed wire fences were taking over the countryside and traditional hedges were being ripped out or falling
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Road improvements ruled out
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling today rejected a raft of plans to cut traffic congestion in Sussex, including five separate projects to ease misery on the busy A27. The measures were turned down on the grounds they would be bad for the environment
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Exporters feeling downcast
Exporters in the South-East are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the Government, according to research by Bibby Factors Sussex. A study by the factoring specialists showed 71 per cent believe the Government does not understand their needs - a
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Top ranking for Sussex firm
A Hove-based company is the second largest privately-owned company in Britain. Palmer & Harvey, which distributes cigarettes, sweets and soft drinks, was the South-East's top company and second overall in the annual Top Track 100 league table. The
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Water quality is top class
Drinking water in Sussex is top quality, according to new reports. Southern Water says its water quality rivals the best in Europe after extensive sampling which checked for more than 100 substances, including lead, zinc, chloride, arsenic, calcium and
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Police slammed for snack-hunt tragedy
A coroner has condemned the inhuman and degrading way a dying man was driven around in the back of a police van while officers searched for a snack. Ron Nicholls was left unconscious and handcuffed on the van's floor for 35 minutes before being taken
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Memorial at last for Blitz victim, 11
A Brighton boy killed during the Blitz will finally have a gravestone thanks to investigations by a fellow evacuee. Kenneth Carter was just 11 when a bomb fell on a draper's shop in Surrey. He and two other children died in the blast. Since then he has
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Rail bosses face Hatfield crash charges
Several senior managers are to be charged over the Hatfield rail disaster, in which a Sussex man and three others died. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today that six men from Network Rail and contractor Balfour Beatty should be charged with
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£800,000 paid out to councillors
More than £800,000 was claimed by councillors in Brighton and Hove during the last financial year. The city council, which raised council tax bills by 14.5 per cent this year and says it will have to increase them again to plug an £18 million funding
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Did I discover my past life?
Eric Goldsworthy, a therapist who believes in death before life, is about to take me on a journey through the mists of time. But as I sank back into a leather armchair and prepared to find out about my past life, he offered a few words of advice: "Be
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Date
£800,000 is paid out to councillors
More than £800,000 was claimed by councillors in Brighton and Hove during the last financial year. The city council, which raised council tax bills by 14.5 per cent this year and says it will have to increase them again to plug an £18 million funding
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Date
Lessons of day Summer vanished
Painful experience has taught police that every second counts when it comes to child abductions. Statistics show 75 per cent of murders are committed within the first three hours. With this in mind, Sussex Police became the first UK force to launch a
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Schools meeting lures just one parent
The first meeting to decide whether Brighton and Hove schools should adopt a six-term year attracted just one parent. Brighton and Hove City Council education chief David Hawker said he was pleased the event had been held in public despite the attendance
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Relief of little Summer's family
The parents of little Summer Haipule today spoke of their relief after the return of the schoolgirl whose game of hide and seek sparked a 12-hour police hunt. While more than 80 police officers, a helicopter and dozens of friends searched through the
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Jordan's big charity slide
Glamour girl Jordan will be swapping the top shelf for the top of a 165ft-high aerial slide. She will be undertaking the challenge in Preston Park on July 27 to raise money for the Royal London Society for the Blind. Daredevils have to raise a minimum
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Pongy hedgehogs face eviction
A family of smelly hedgehogs have been given their marching orders after nesting in a couple's kitchen. The uninvited guests walked into the Morland's family home through a cat flap and have been squatting there for three weeks. Since their arrival the
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Shock death blamed on bug bite
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute to a superstore worker who died after going to hospital with a suspected insect bite. David Selmes, 40, had arrived at work at the photographic counter of Asda in Hollingbury with flu-like symptoms. When his leg
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Date
Coppell eyes young striker
Albion are giving an extended trial to rookie striker Carl Wilson-Denis. The 20-year-old former Kingstonian front man teamed up with the Seagulls last week for pre-season training. Wilson-Denis has impressed enough so far for boss Steve Coppell to stretch
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Decision looms on fate of school
Teachers, parents and pupils will find out this week if their special school is to be shut down. An independent adjudicator is expected to announce a decision on the future of St Anne's Special School, Lewes, by the end of the week. East Sussex County
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Date
Stage success
On Saturday afternoon and evening, Stonelands School in Hove, performed its annual end-of-year show at the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing, to an appreciative audience. The show was divided into three sections, allowing the part-time school to share the stage
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Date
Church ordeal
I enjoyed the headline to your letters page: "God must decide gay bishops issue" (July 2). I wonder which side He will favour after all the advice he has been receiving of late; the fundamentalists/traditionalists or the innovators/liberals? I have followed
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Parry's right
I agree with John Parry (The Argus, July 4) that fox hunting is socially divisive. You only have to speak to people who live in villages where the Hunt has its kennels and stables to know about the type of people who go fox hunting. I lived in Houghton
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Between You And Me, by Vanora Leigh
Right! What am I offered for these two chicken legs? Corn-fed chicken legs, lady, and just reached their sell-by date. What's that? You'll pay £1.50 for them? Don't be silly. Tomorrow they'll be whiffy and not even fit to feed the cat so we'll let you
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Marketers win pier contract
Design and marketing agency Mosaic has been appointed by Palace Pier to manage its first major summer marketing and advertising campaign. The Brighton-based agency will manage the campaign, the largest of its kind undertaken by the pier, to promote two
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Moans mount over dirty streets
A restaurant owner is spearheading a campaign by residents to rid the streets of mountains of rubbish. Mamoud Bartoli wants Brighton and Hove City Council to improve its waste collection service after council dustcarts failed to make their regular visit
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Rail bosses face Hatfield crash charges
Several senior managers are to be charged over the Hatfield rail disaster, in which a Sussex man and three others died. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today that six men from Network Rail and contractor Balfour Beatty should be charged with
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Rocky Horror fans' red-faced Soho stroll
Two Rocky Horror fans had to walk through the streets of Soho wearing a leopardskin basque and stockings when his car was clamped. Jim Craig and his wife Jill had travelled from their home in Worthing to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show. The couple are
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Sex pest sparks patrols
Police have stepped up patrols after a serial sex pest targeted two teenage girls in Worthing. Several women have fallen victim of the man in and around the Homefield Park area during the past month. The most recent was on Monday, just after 4pm, when
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Brakes put on road schemes
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling today rejected schemes to cut congestion in West Sussex, including the controversial Worthing tunnel and Arundel bypass. He scrapped five separate projects to ease misery on the busy A27 on the grounds they would be
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£27m Downs road halted
Controversial plans for road improvements at an East Sussex accident blackspot were turned down today. At the same time, it became clear that no progress has been made over plans for a Hastings bypass. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling rejected five
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Cruelty debate can be taken too far
The futility of the anti-hunting bill can be seen in its own hypocrisy and inconsistency. If a ban is based purely on cruelty, and cruelty is defined as unnecessary suffering, you have no option but to exterminate all cats in this country. They cause
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Tesco eyesore
Standing in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove, I marvel that we have a country village church surrounded on four sides by its original Victorian graveyard in our midst here in the 2lst Century, intact and peaceful, and a place of
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Youth Squash: Sussex aces take on world
Two Sussex players have been selected to represent England in the World Under-19s Championships. Suzie Pierrepont, 18, will compete in team and individual events in Cairo next month. Rachel Willmott, 15, will play in the individual competition. Coach
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Youth Athletics: Wade bids for glory
Wade Bennett-Jackson is Sussex's best hope for a gold medal at the All-England Schools Championships in Sheffield on Saturday. Worthing High intermediate athlete Wade competes in the 200m, Wade, who only just missed selection for this weekend's World
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Smelly squatters
Hedgehogs have set up home in the Morland family's kitchen in Newhaven after entering through a cat flap in search of grub. They are now being given their marching orders because of their appalling smell. The Morlands will have to make sure their prickly
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Football: Selsey hunt new manager
County League: Selsey are still on the lookout for a new manager with less than six weeks to go before the new season starts. The West Sussex club were left without a manager when the popular Danny Hinshelwood resigned recently. It is understood the club
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Basketball: Johnson departs with a promise
Wilbur Johnson completes his move to Germany today insisting: "Brighton fans have not seen the last of me." The popular Bears centre is set to tie up loose ends on a one-year deal with Bundesliga outfit Avitos Giessen. He will be linking up again with
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Comment: Ian Hart
The postponement of the annual Worthing versus Albion pre-season friendly is a huge blow for the Woodside Road club. The potential loss of £20,000 in revenue is a serious matter. Now County League team Arundel can cash in by hosting Albion's opening fixture
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Put the brakes on this bus shambles
I must put pen to paper regarding the shambles of a bus service run by Roger French. On Friday, July 4, at 8.05 I went to catch the No 10 bus at the top of The Avenue, Bevendean, Brighton. After waiting ten minutes a single-decker went sailing past, filled
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Cricket: Goodwin plays down title talk
Murray Goodwin insists it is still too early to regard Sussex as serious Championship challengers. The county go into today's match with Essex at Arundel (11am) second in the first division after winning four of their first seven games. Leaders Surrey
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Countryside lovers keep ancient art alive
Judge Michael Kennedy QC is one of a growing number of people getting back to nature and keeping alive the art of hedgelaying. Twenty years ago, barbed wire fences were taking over the countryside and traditional hedges were being ripped out or falling
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Water quality is top class
Drinking water in Sussex is top quality, according to new reports. Southern Water says its water quality rivals the best in Europe after extensive sampling which checked for more than 100 substances, including lead, zinc, chloride, arsenic, calcium and
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Medics supply drugs kit to addicts
Doctors, drug treatment workers and chemists are to be allowed to give drug-taking equipment to addicts for the first time. The Home Office is to change the law in a bid to prevent disease and infection. At present, it is illegal to supply items such
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Coroner slams food-hunt police
A coroner has condemned the inhuman and degrading way a dying man was driven around in the back of a police van while officers searched for a snack. Ron Nicholls was left unconscious and handcuffed on the van's floor for 35 minutes before being taken
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Memorial at last for Blitz victim, 11
A Brighton boy killed during the Blitz will finally have a gravestone thanks to investigations by a fellow evacuee. Kenneth Carter was just 11 when a bomb fell on a draper's shop in Surrey. He and two other children died in the blast. Since then he has
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Boy bitten by dog
A teenage boy and his dog were bitten by an Alsatian while out for a walk in Crawley. Police say the 14-year-old was walking his family's bull mastiff in Bewbush Drive and Ellman Road at about 4.45pm on Thursday July 3 when he saw two girls with an Alsatian
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Partner assaulted after night out
A West Sussex man assaulted his partner before hurling a paving slab at his parents' car. Worthing Magistrates Court heard how Christopher Sayers, 36, became violent after returning home from the pub on June 14. Sayers, a fisherman, of Thorncroft Road
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Shop assistant stole takings
A woman who went on spending sprees with thousands of pounds of stolen money broke down in tears as she was jailed for a year. Kellie Taylor, 24, stole almost £4,000 takings from her employer to buy a car and used credit cards and blank cheques stolen
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Backing for six-term year
Headteachers and parents have given their backing to proposals for the biggest shake-up of the school system for a century. Education bosses are consulting schools across West Sussex on plans to replace the three-term year with six even terms, shortening
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£800,000 is paid out to councillors
More than £800,000 was claimed by councillors in Brighton and Hove during the last financial year. The city council, which raised council tax bills by 14.5 per cent this year and says it will have to increase them again to plug an £18 million funding
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Schools meeting lures just one parent
The first meeting to decide whether Brighton and Hove schools should adopt a six-term year attracted just one parent. Brighton and Hove City Council education chief David Hawker said he was pleased the event had been held in public despite the attendance
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Gloves off in factory row
A derelict factory which once made glamorous gloves for the Queen and Nicole Kidman is at the centre of a neighbourhood row. Tucked away in a quiet residential street in Brighton, the Cornelia James glove factory provided a touch of class for Hollywood
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Police stop naked bull run protest
A group of Sussex animal rights protesters have been stopped from streaking through the streets in protest at Spain's Running of the Bulls event. By day they have professional jobs but in the heat of the midday sun, they prepared to bare all in the city
