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Conference security warnings
Businesses in Brighton are getting early warnings about this year's Labour Party conference. The city council and Sussex Police are writing to neighbours of the Brighton Centre more than six months before the event. Officials hope by getting the dates
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Splitting hairs
Okay, so I'm wrong about the service No 1 entering the box junction in Boundary Road. The No 6 from Brighton regularly stops in the same box and it isn't oncoming traffic stopping it, it is the traffic jam in Boundary Road. So there, you so-called professional
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Pregnant applause?
Her body yesterday became one of the most talked about in Britain. For once a naked pose that has split the nation is nothing to do with Jordan but another Sussex woman. Alison Lapper will soon be towering 15ft over Trafalgar Square, London, her heavily
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What's a PM
An obscene message - "Tony Blair is a c..." - is carved into the Dispatch Box table by a vandal posing as a sightseer (The Argus, March 14). That's very, very wrong. Shouldn't that read - "Tony Blair is a d..."? -Richard W. Symonds, Ifield
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Smooth talker
I've watched with awe the development of the new cycle path along Brighton and Hove's seafront. I'm hoping the same amount of money that has been spent on this will be allotted to our wonderful highway engineer, Roger Simmons. Roger is always scratching
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Minor route
I read with great interest that work has started on the much-debated sea-front cycle route through Worthing. I wonder, after all the recent talk of council tax increases and lack of available money, how the council can still justify spending £280,000
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Who's the bigot?
Well done, K. Taylor from Southwick (Letters, March 11). The statement "people who support the stadium are bigoted and selfish" was so cutting. How are all the windows in your glass house by the way? Obviously, there is nothing bigoted about claiming
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MP warns of threat to fishing
New rules to preserve cod stocks threaten the fishing industry in a Sussex port town, an MP has claimed. Norman Baker said European quotas intended to help the fish population recover did not reflect actual cod numbers in the eastern Channel. He has written
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Street sign stamps musical's mark
One of Brighton's best-loved musical exports has been given its own street name in New York. Stomp, the award-winning production of percussion and dance, celebrated ten years at Manhattan's Orpheum Theatre with a lavish party at Terence Conran's restaurant
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A frigate by another name
The Eurydice (The Argus, March 6), although listed as a frigate, was a sixth-rate sloop. These ships were known as "Donkey Frigates" because, after the Napoleonic war, a number of true frigates were in reserve and these smaller ships were doing frigate
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Youth Rugby: Richards suffers setback
Kiba Richards (Brighton College) was in the England Schools' under-18s side defeated 13-6 by England Clubs in an international warm-up at Loughborough. Alex Rogers, the England Club squad player and Sussex Downs (Lewes) student, missed the match with
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At long last I live in the place I love
My first visit to Eastbourne was in 1935, riding a BSA 250 motorbike with my wife riding pillion. Riding up Beachy Head was like going up Everest. It was wonderful and we both loved it. We had bed and breakfast at a house in Seaside. The new bandstand
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Youth Badminton: Brothers combine to clinch title
Southover (Lewes) have won the Sussex Primary Schools' Championships. The team included brothers Alex and Tom Harris, plus Joe and Robbie Eyles, who are all Sussex players. Southover crushed Herne (Crowborough) 3-0 in the final at Eastbourne to win the
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Stay home
With regard to the debate on whether or not to take children out of school during term for the purpose of overseas holidays, I can't help feeling people are missing the point here. Having children means making sacrifices. If you can't afford to go abroad
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Youth Athletics: Charlotte makes impressive debut
Charlotte Browning was second in the 1,500m on her senior international debut for England at Cardiff. Browning, 16, the double national indoor champion from Chichester, finished in 4min.34sec behind experienced Debbie Jones of Wales. She missed the English
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Ryman (South): Lewes 3 Bromley 1
Lewes kept up the pressure on division one south leaders Windsor and Eton with a gutsy victory against Bromley. Rooks had Justin Harris and Junior Kadi sent off late on along with Bromley's Mark Willy, but with nine men Steven King's men held on. The
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Match Report: Chesterfield 0 Albion 2
Chris Iwelumo could not in his wildest dreams have imagined making a more dramatic impact on his debut for Albion. The giant Scot blew away Chesterfield's five-month undefeated record at windswept Saltergate in spectacular fashion. An explosive shot from
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Iwelumo makes dream start
Chris Iwelumo today revealed he can do even better than the long-range thunderbolt on his debut which sealed Albion's first away win since November. The big striker, signed from Stoke, scored with an unstoppable shot from 30 yards in the closing stages
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£75k to do mum's job
Women believe the long hours and stress of motherhood would merit a six-figure salary if it was a paid occupation. The average mother performs more than 15 jobs looking after children and the home and has just an hour and 45 minutes to herself each day
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MP warns of threat to fishing
New rules to preserve cod stocks threaten the fishing industry in a Sussex port town, an MP has claimed. Norman Baker said European quotas intended to help the fish population recover did not reflect actual cod numbers in the eastern Channel. He has written
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Parking group wants one permit per space
Campaigners are calling for the number of parking permits sold by Brighton and Hove city council to be slashed to one per space. The People's Parking Protest says the 12,000 permits given out by the council are too many for the 7,000 spaces available.
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Conference security warnings
Businesses in Brighton are getting early warnings about this year's Labour Party conference. The city council and Sussex Police are writing to neighbours of the Brighton Centre more than six months before the event. Officials hope by getting the dates
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How trip to Peru changed my life
The little disabled girl looked up through the wires of the chicken coop in which she was caged. The child's family had offered Suzy Butler, a student travelling through South America in her gap year, food and shelter when she fell ill. Struck by their
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Smooth talker
I've watched with awe the development of the new cycle path along Brighton and Hove's seafront. I'm hoping the same amount of money that has been spent on this will be allotted to our wonderful highway engineer, Roger Simmons. Roger is always scratching
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Date
Minor route
I read with great interest that work has started on the much-debated sea-front cycle route through Worthing. I wonder, after all the recent talk of council tax increases and lack of available money, how the council can still justify spending £280,000
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Date
A frigate by another name
The Eurydice (The Argus, March 6), although listed as a frigate, was a sixth-rate sloop. These ships were known as "Donkey Frigates" because, after the Napoleonic war, a number of true frigates were in reserve and these smaller ships were doing frigate
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At long last I live in the place I love
My first visit to Eastbourne was in 1935, riding a BSA 250 motorbike with my wife riding pillion. Riding up Beachy Head was like going up Everest. It was wonderful and we both loved it. We had bed and breakfast at a house in Seaside. The new bandstand
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Stay home
With regard to the debate on whether or not to take children out of school during term for the purpose of overseas holidays, I can't help feeling people are missing the point here. Having children means making sacrifices. If you can't afford to go abroad
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Youth Athletics: Charlotte makes impressive debut
Charlotte Browning was second in the 1,500m on her senior international debut for England at Cardiff. Browning, 16, the double national indoor champion from Chichester, finished in 4min.34sec behind experienced Debbie Jones of Wales. She missed the English
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Fresh air
I was a visitor to the Green Party conference. It was refreshing to listen to people who could speak honestly and informedly without need for speech writers, drama coaches or crocodile tears and who don't believe in the new religion - "Money Is Everything
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Fewer spaces
The Tories are sadly mistaken if they think a series of underground car parks will "help to ease the problems of motorists in Brighton and Hove" (The Argus March 13). Don't they understand that extra car parking spaces would generate yet more traffic,
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Dr Martens (Premier): Crawley 6 Hednesford 1
Pressure? Crawley don't know the meaning of the word according to manager Francis Vines. Last night's home game against FA Trophy semi-finalists Hednesford was a potential banana skin, but it seems nobody told the Crawley players. The game turned into
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Lecturers step up boycott
Students are being told to send their essays to the vice-chancellor of Sussex University because lecturers are refusing to mark them. The Association of University Teachers (AUT) is urging students to send their work to Professor Alasdair Smith while
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Homes out of reach for first-time buyers
The growing affordability gap faced by first-time home-buyers in Sussex is revealed today. Figures from the Halifax show that even in the county's cheapest town, St Leonards, the average first-time buyer would have to borrow almost four times his or her
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Conference security warnings
Businesses in Brighton are getting early warnings about this year's Labour Party conference. The city council and Sussex Police are writing to neighbours of the Brighton Centre more than six months before the event. Officials hope by getting the dates
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The working alternative to university
University has long been held up as a beacon of civilisation, good for the mind and one of the surest ways of getting ahead in life. It is remarkable how little these attitudes have changed, despite many successful people never having experienced the
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£75k to do mum's job
Women believe the long hours and stress of motherhood would merit a six-figure salary if it was a paid occupation. The average mother performs more than 15 jobs looking after children and the home and has just an hour and 45 minutes to herself each day
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MP warns of threat to fishing
New rules to preserve cod stocks threaten the fishing industry in a Sussex port town, an MP has claimed. Norman Baker said European quotas intended to help the fish population recover did not reflect actual cod numbers in the eastern Channel. He has written
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Parking group wants one permit per space
Campaigners are calling for the number of parking permits sold by Brighton and Hove city council to be slashed to one per space. The People's Parking Protest says the 12,000 permits given out by the council are too many for the 7,000 spaces available.
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Pair jailed after vicious attack on elderly
Two robbers who attacked an elderly couple at their country cottage with a knife and a stun gun have been jailed for a total of 28 years. Mark Dinmore and Ian Williams terrorised quadruple heart bypass survivor Gordon McEwan and his wife Susan, tying
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Parents slam college 'snob' head
The headteacher of Brighton College has been branded a snob for suggesting many parents struggle to pay the fees - and not enough of them drive a Mercedes. Dr Anthony Seldon's observations on those who pay fees of £12,500 a year have caused outrage, with
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This is comedy for the 21st Century
I don't know if Brendan Montague was at the same show as I when I saw and enjoyed Jenny Eclair. She wasn't, as it happens, "sporting" her black-rimmed glasses (as a wearer of glasses, I wished she had) and nor was she smoking or drinking on stage. She
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Splitting hairs
Okay, so I'm wrong about the service No 1 entering the box junction in Boundary Road. The No 6 from Brighton regularly stops in the same box and it isn't oncoming traffic stopping it, it is the traffic jam in Boundary Road. So there, you so-called professional
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Date
Pregnant applause?
Her body yesterday became one of the most talked about in Britain. For once a naked pose that has split the nation is nothing to do with Jordan but another Sussex woman. Alison Lapper will soon be towering 15ft over Trafalgar Square, London, her heavily
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Date
What's a PM
An obscene message - "Tony Blair is a c..." - is carved into the Dispatch Box table by a vandal posing as a sightseer (The Argus, March 14). That's very, very wrong. Shouldn't that read - "Tony Blair is a d..."? -Richard W. Symonds, Ifield
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Who's the bigot?
Well done, K. Taylor from Southwick (Letters, March 11). The statement "people who support the stadium are bigoted and selfish" was so cutting. How are all the windows in your glass house by the way? Obviously, there is nothing bigoted about claiming
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Date
MP warns of threat to fishing
New rules to preserve cod stocks threaten the fishing industry in a Sussex port town, an MP has claimed. Norman Baker said European quotas intended to help the fish population recover did not reflect actual cod numbers in the eastern Channel. He has written
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Date
Don't look
Leave the street drinkers alone and they'll leave you alone. Do not stare at them as you pass on the number one bus and do not judge or look down on them from your spurious moral high ground. Do not pour their drink down the drain (a case of valuable
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Street sign stamps musical's mark
One of Brighton's best-loved musical exports has been given its own street name in New York. Stomp, the award-winning production of percussion and dance, celebrated ten years at Manhattan's Orpheum Theatre with a lavish party at Terence Conran's restaurant
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Too many delays
I read with interest and considerable sympathy Lisa Sevell's account (Letters, March 13) of the appalling disruption she has suffered on her train journeys to and from London. I can confirm from my own experiences that the standard of service has been
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Youth Rugby: Richards suffers setback
Kiba Richards (Brighton College) was in the England Schools' under-18s side defeated 13-6 by England Clubs in an international warm-up at Loughborough. Alex Rogers, the England Club squad player and Sussex Downs (Lewes) student, missed the match with
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Youth Badminton: Brothers combine to clinch title
Southover (Lewes) have won the Sussex Primary Schools' Championships. The team included brothers Alex and Tom Harris, plus Joe and Robbie Eyles, who are all Sussex players. Southover crushed Herne (Crowborough) 3-0 in the final at Eastbourne to win the
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March 16: Chesterfield 0 Albion 2
Chris Iwelumo could not in his wildest dreams have imagined making a more dramatic impact on his debut for Albion. The giant Scot blew away Chesterfield's five-month undefeated record at windswept Saltergate in spectacular fashion. An explosive shot from
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Youth Athletics: We're up and running
A new-look athletics event is aiming to revive sport in primary schools. The first Brighton and Hove Primary Schools Cross Country Championships at Waterhall attracted 500 runners. Organiser Andy Marchant said: "Primary schools sport has suffered in recent
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Anger over stealth bid to change history
A turf war has broken out over the right to cash in on the name of the most fashionable tourist district in Brighton and Hove. Firms, developers and council officials have been accused of trying to rewrite history to exploit the growing popularity of
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Green irony
I wonder if the prospective Tory candidate for Brighton Pavilion asked his colleague from Hove whether he, too, was in favour of Conservative proposals to dig up green spaces such as Montpelier Crescent, Adelaide Crescent, Brunswick Square and Hove Lawns
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Ryman (South): Lewes 3 Bromley 1
Lewes kept up the pressure on division one south leaders Windsor and Eton with a gutsy victory against Bromley. Rooks had Justin Harris and Junior Kadi sent off late on along with Bromley's Mark Willy, but with nine men Steven King's men held on. The
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Senior Cup: Three Bridges 0 Worthing 2
Goals in each half from Sam Francis and Mark Pulling gave Worthing a comfortable passage through to the final of the Sussex Senior Cup at Horsham last night. Rebels, dreaming of a league and cup double, will make their first appearance in the final for
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She may have red hair but let's see her policy
Call me old-fashioned but I thought we voted for our Members of Parliament on what they stand for, what they have delivered and what they can deliver for us in the future. The coverage of the Conservative candidates in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, March
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Match Report: Chesterfield 0 Albion 2
Chris Iwelumo could not in his wildest dreams have imagined making a more dramatic impact on his debut for Albion. The giant Scot blew away Chesterfield's five-month undefeated record at windswept Saltergate in spectacular fashion. An explosive shot from
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Date
Iwelumo makes dream start
Chris Iwelumo today revealed he can do even better than the long-range thunderbolt on his debut which sealed Albion's first away win since November. The big striker, signed from Stoke, scored with an unstoppable shot from 30 yards in the closing stages
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Date
Homes out of reach for first-time buyers
The growing affordability gap faced by first-time home-buyers in Sussex is revealed today. Figures from the Halifax show that even in the county's cheapest town, St Leonards, the average first-time buyer would have to borrow almost four times his or her
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Date
Anger over stealth bid to change history
A turf war has broken out over the right to cash in on the name of the most fashionable tourist district in Brighton and Hove. Firms, developers and council officials have been accused of trying to rewrite history to exploit the growing popularity of
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Date
March 17: Iwelumo makes dream start
Chris Iwelumo today revealed he can do even better than the long-range thunderbolt on his debut which sealed Albion's first away win since November. The big striker, signed from Stoke, scored with an unstoppable shot from 30 yards in the closing stages
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Date
Brown to turn on fags and beer tap
Gordon Brown was today expected to hit drinkers, smokers and motorists in the pocket - again. In his eighth budget, the Chancellor was set to put 1p on a pint of beer, 2p on a litre of petrol and 10p on a packet of 20 cigarettes, pushing the average price
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Date
Parking group wants one permit per space
Campaigners are calling for the number of parking permits sold by Brighton and Hove city council to be slashed to one per space. The People's Parking Protest says the 12,000 permits given out by the council are too many for the 7,000 spaces available.
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Date
How trip to Peru changed my life
The little disabled girl looked up through the wires of the chicken coop in which she was caged. The child's family had offered Suzy Butler, a student travelling through South America in her gap year, food and shelter when she fell ill. Struck by their
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Date
This is comedy for the 21st Century
I don't know if Brendan Montague was at the same show as I when I saw and enjoyed Jenny Eclair. She wasn't, as it happens, "sporting" her black-rimmed glasses (as a wearer of glasses, I wished she had) and nor was she smoking or drinking on stage. She
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Date
Don't look
Leave the street drinkers alone and they'll leave you alone. Do not stare at them as you pass on the number one bus and do not judge or look down on them from your spurious moral high ground. Do not pour their drink down the drain (a case of valuable
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Date
Too many delays
I read with interest and considerable sympathy Lisa Sevell's account (Letters, March 13) of the appalling disruption she has suffered on her train journeys to and from London. I can confirm from my own experiences that the standard of service has been
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Date
March 16: Chesterfield 0 Albion 2
Chris Iwelumo could not in his wildest dreams have imagined making a more dramatic impact on his debut for Albion. The giant Scot blew away Chesterfield's five-month undefeated record at windswept Saltergate in spectacular fashion. An explosive shot from
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Date
Fresh air
I was a visitor to the Green Party conference. It was refreshing to listen to people who could speak honestly and informedly without need for speech writers, drama coaches or crocodile tears and who don't believe in the new religion - "Money Is Everything
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Date
Youth Athletics: We're up and running
A new-look athletics event is aiming to revive sport in primary schools. The first Brighton and Hove Primary Schools Cross Country Championships at Waterhall attracted 500 runners. Organiser Andy Marchant said: "Primary schools sport has suffered in recent
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Date
Anger over stealth bid to change history
A turf war has broken out over the right to cash in on the name of the most fashionable tourist district in Brighton and Hove. Firms, developers and council officials have been accused of trying to rewrite history to exploit the growing popularity of
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Date
Green irony
I wonder if the prospective Tory candidate for Brighton Pavilion asked his colleague from Hove whether he, too, was in favour of Conservative proposals to dig up green spaces such as Montpelier Crescent, Adelaide Crescent, Brunswick Square and Hove Lawns
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Date
Fewer spaces
The Tories are sadly mistaken if they think a series of underground car parks will "help to ease the problems of motorists in Brighton and Hove" (The Argus March 13). Don't they understand that extra car parking spaces would generate yet more traffic,
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Date
Senior Cup: Three Bridges 0 Worthing 2
Goals in each half from Sam Francis and Mark Pulling gave Worthing a comfortable passage through to the final of the Sussex Senior Cup at Horsham last night. Rebels, dreaming of a league and cup double, will make their first appearance in the final for
-
Date
She may have red hair but let's see her policy
Call me old-fashioned but I thought we voted for our Members of Parliament on what they stand for, what they have delivered and what they can deliver for us in the future. The coverage of the Conservative candidates in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, March
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Date
Dr Martens (Premier): Crawley 6 Hednesford 1
Pressure? Crawley don't know the meaning of the word according to manager Francis Vines. Last night's home game against FA Trophy semi-finalists Hednesford was a potential banana skin, but it seems nobody told the Crawley players. The game turned into
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Date
Lecturers step up boycott
Students are being told to send their essays to the vice-chancellor of Sussex University because lecturers are refusing to mark them. The Association of University Teachers (AUT) is urging students to send their work to Professor Alasdair Smith while
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Date
Homes out of reach for first-time buyers
The growing affordability gap faced by first-time home-buyers in Sussex is revealed today. Figures from the Halifax show that even in the county's cheapest town, St Leonards, the average first-time buyer would have to borrow almost four times his or her
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Date
Homes out of reach for first-time buyers
The growing affordability gap faced by first-time home-buyers in Sussex is revealed today. Figures from the Halifax show that even in the county's cheapest town, St Leonards, the average first-time buyer would have to borrow almost four times his or her
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Date
Conference security warnings
Businesses in Brighton are getting early warnings about this year's Labour Party conference. The city council and Sussex Police are writing to neighbours of the Brighton Centre more than six months before the event. Officials hope by getting the dates
-
Date
Anger over stealth bid to change history
A turf war has broken out over the right to cash in on the name of the most fashionable tourist district in Brighton and Hove. Firms, developers and council officials have been accused of trying to rewrite history to exploit the growing popularity of
-
Date
The working alternative to university
University has long been held up as a beacon of civilisation, good for the mind and one of the surest ways of getting ahead in life. It is remarkable how little these attitudes have changed, despite many successful people never having experienced the
-
Date
March 17: Iwelumo makes dream start
Chris Iwelumo today revealed he can do even better than the long-range thunderbolt on his debut which sealed Albion's first away win since November. The big striker, signed from Stoke, scored with an unstoppable shot from 30 yards in the closing stages
-
Date
Brown to turn on fags and beer tap
Gordon Brown was today expected to hit drinkers, smokers and motorists in the pocket - again. In his eighth budget, the Chancellor was set to put 1p on a pint of beer, 2p on a litre of petrol and 10p on a packet of 20 cigarettes, pushing the average price
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Date
Parking group wants one permit per space
Campaigners are calling for the number of parking permits sold by Brighton and Hove city council to be slashed to one per space. The People's Parking Protest says the 12,000 permits given out by the council are too many for the 7,000 spaces available.
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Date
Pair jailed after vicious attack on elderly
Two robbers who attacked an elderly couple at their country cottage with a knife and a stun gun have been jailed for a total of 28 years. Mark Dinmore and Ian Williams terrorised quadruple heart bypass survivor Gordon McEwan and his wife Susan, tying
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Date
Parents slam college 'snob' head
The headteacher of Brighton College has been branded a snob for suggesting many parents struggle to pay the fees - and not enough of them drive a Mercedes. Dr Anthony Seldon's observations on those who pay fees of £12,500 a year have caused outrage, with
