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Dating agency for single mums
When Pauline Jacobs discovered how hard it was to meet a partner as a 30-year-old single mother, she decided to set up a different kind of dating agency. Kids No Object provides a service in which children are very much part of the package. Pauline came
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Greens want rethink on link road plan
Every option for a key road scheme is unacceptable because of the environmental impact, a green pressure group has warned. Friends of the Earth said the proposed Bexhill-Hastings link road would not solve economic problems or ease congestion. The group
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Grave error
I was appalled to learn Brighton and Hove City Council has allowed another cemetery to be opened at Woodingdean. What can it be thinking? In this modern age, one would have thought that graveyard land could be recycled. Is it not time the law was changed
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Not welcome
I enjoyed the note from Joyce Owen (Letters, March 5) about the smallpox outbreak here in 1950. It brought back not being allowed to come home to Hove or Brighton without being specially innoculated and told it would be better still not to travel here
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Endeavour towers given seal of approval
A scaled-down design for an apartment block on a key city site has been given the go-ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has passed the scheme for 75 flats on the Endeavour Garage site, off London Road, Brighton. The design, by
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Cat gratitude
A street collection made in Hove by the Brighton and Hove City branch of Cats Protection on March 6 raised £100.05. We are extremely grateful to all those who gave so generously. -Mrs A Westgate, Fundraising Officer Windmill Drive, Brighton
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Enjoy your holiday
Well, what a miserable man Trevor Pateman must be (Letters, March 16). I love Bank Holidays. I work hard and enjoy spending a long weekend relaxing and having fun with friends. My wife often works on Bank Holidays but she chooses to. It boils down to
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Epileptic fit caused pond tragedy
A father drowned in a pond after having an epileptic fit while on a bird shoot. Carpenter and farmer Andrew Walker, 29, was a member of a 14-strong group taking part in an organised afternoon shoot on September 21 last year, an inquest heard yesterday
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One Friday soon
Like Tony Booker (Letters, March 16), I received a letter from our council informing me that my collection day would change to a Friday. The trouble is the letter doesn't specify which particular Friday they're referring to. I hope they write back soon
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Surely not
I'm afraid I have to report an error in Monday's edition. The article entitled "Binmen Set To Walk Out" should surely have appeared further back in the paper. This can't be headline news, can it? I was under the impression it was an everyday occurrence
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Delivery divi
Let's not beat about the bush - the rubbish collection system in Brighton and Hove is a shambles. Firstly, a two day strike by binmen cripples the whole city for more than two weeks. Why on earth should it take so long to get back to normal? Then there
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No big deal
How refreshing to read about Ray Brooks in Weekend (The Argus, March 13). Unlike the majority of actors today, he has always remained the same. Both of my parents were on the buses during and just after the war and knew Addie Brooks well. It wasn't unusual
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Home tax boost for port
A blueprint to turn around the fortunes of the historic port town of Shoreham would see the redevelopment of various key sites. And a plan is being drawn up by Adur District Council that could use council tax from people with second homes in the area
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Are we safer now?
Perhaps after his Iraq trip, our MP and junior defence minister Ivor Caplin could tell us whether or not he thinks the world is a safer place now that Saddam Hussein has gone? To me it doesn't seem so and, as a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel, Ivor
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Basketball: Nurse to fight touchline ban
Nick Nurse insists he will not stop defending his players in their fight for a fair deal on court. Even if it means missing key games in Brighton Bears' push for the British League title. Nurse has confirmed he will appeal against a two-game ban resulting
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Iwelumo wants more play-off glory
Chris Iwelumo is only 24 and has not reached 100 appearances in English league football, yet his experience could be invaluable to Albion. If everything goes according to plan, the Seagulls' last game of the season will be the Second Division play-off
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Albion can't afford to sell goal ace
Albion will have to hand over half of the profit they make to Chelsea if they ever sell Leon Knight. The mega-rich Londoners negotiated an extraordinary 50 per cent sell-on clause when he joined the Seagulls from Stamford Bridge on a free transfer last
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Game-on at coast
Computer games retailer Game has highlighted a growing exodus of young professionals to the seaside as it announced 25 new stores in coastal resorts. The chain, which already has a shop in Brighton, said customer numbers at its shops in the South-West
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March 18: Albion can't afford to sell goal ace
Albion will have to hand over half of the profit they make to Chelsea if they ever sell Leon Knight. The mega-rich Londoners negotiated an extraordinary 50 per cent sell-on clause when he joined the Seagulls from Stamford Bridge on a free transfer last
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Endeavour towers given seal of approval
A scaled-down design for an apartment block on a key city site has been given the go-ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has passed the scheme for 75 flats on the Endeavour Garage site, off London Road, Brighton. The design, by
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Home tax boost for port
A blueprint to turn around the fortunes of the historic port town of Shoreham would see the redevelopment of various key sites. And a plan is being drawn up by Adur District Council that could use council tax from people with second homes in the area
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I'm no snob, head hits back
When Dr Anthony Seldon said many parents of Brighton College students were struggling to pay the fees, he was sympathising with them rather than chiding. The controversial head made the remark in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. In it, he added:
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Poison gas leak shuts nursery
A nursery school has been closed following the discovery of carbon monoxide during a routine boiler check. Children were told to stay away after traces of the potentially deadly gas were found by maintenance staff. Education leaders today insisted children
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Endeavour towers given seal of approval
A scaled-down design for an apartment block on a key city site has been given the go-ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has passed the scheme for 75 flats on the Endeavour Garage site, off London Road, Brighton. The design, by
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Shut eyes
Even with "hundreds of eyes", that mythical peacock, The Argus, can't take in everything. I'm glad it noticed my facetious comment about decision-making in Westminster made to taxi drivers (The Argus, March 10). What a pity it missed my next sentence
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Cat gratitude
A street collection made in Hove by the Brighton and Hove City branch of Cats Protection on March 6 raised £100.05. We are extremely grateful to all those who gave so generously. -Mrs A Westgate, Fundraising Officer Windmill Drive, Brighton
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Harbour vision for new homes
Eastbourne is throwing off its staid reputation and marketing itself as the place for young home-buyers to invest. Redrow Homes has started work on its latest development at Sovereign Harbour, including 260 one and two-bedroom flats with 18 penthouses
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Harbour vision for new homes
Eastbourne is throwing off its staid reputation and marketing itself as the place for young home-buyers to invest. Redrow Homes has started work on its latest development at Sovereign Harbour, including 260 one and two-bedroom flats with 18 penthouses
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Delivery divi
Let's not beat about the bush - the rubbish collection system in Brighton and Hove is a shambles. Firstly, a two day strike by binmen cripples the whole city for more than two weeks. Why on earth should it take so long to get back to normal? Then there
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No big deal
How refreshing to read about Ray Brooks in Weekend (The Argus, March 13). Unlike the majority of actors today, he has always remained the same. Both of my parents were on the buses during and just after the war and knew Addie Brooks well. It wasn't unusual
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All in favour
Falmer resident John Burt said: "The overall impression is that the vast majority do not want a stadium anywhere in the Brighton district" (Letters, March 15). In a long line of ridiculous statements from the nimbys of Falmer, that is only topped by publican
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Snowboarding: Living on the edge
He was two hours late, but at last a bleary-eyed Stu Brass entered the building looking nothing like his all-action image as a prime mover and shaker in British snowboarding. The two-times national champion apologised and muttered something about arriving
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Good reporting
Perhaps the difference between journalists who work for national and those who work for local papers - apart from their salaries - is that while the former seem more concerned with making a story, the latter are bent on finding a story. This came home
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Ivor took the easy route to Iraq
Many of us read the saga of our armed forces MP Ivor Caplin's trip to Iraq. This included eight hours in a plane of the Queen's Flight plus all the attendance required and, as later described, a punishing schedule of visits fully protected as befits a
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McPhee fires Albion to cup final
Albion gave trialist Paul Reid a run in their 7-1 Sussex Senior Cup semi-final romp over ten-man Eastbourne Borough. The Bradford City midfielder came off after 70 minutes in the first game of his two-match trial. Reserves manager Dean White said: "He
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Game-on at coast
Computer games retailer Game has highlighted a growing exodus of young professionals to the seaside as it announced 25 new stores in coastal resorts. The chain, which already has a shop in Brighton, said customer numbers at its shops in the South-West
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Train job losses mar record work figures
New figures showing a huge fall in unemployment and a record number of people in work were derailed yesterday when a leading train firm announced 1,300 job cuts. Canadian engineering giant Bombardier said three factories in the UK would close and jobs
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March 18: Albion can't afford to sell goal ace
Albion will have to hand over half of the profit they make to Chelsea if they ever sell Leon Knight. The mega-rich Londoners negotiated an extraordinary 50 per cent sell-on clause when he joined the Seagulls from Stamford Bridge on a free transfer last
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Endeavour towers given seal of approval
A scaled-down design for an apartment block on a key city site has been given the go-ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has passed the scheme for 75 flats on the Endeavour Garage site, off London Road, Brighton. The design, by
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Brown ignores tax to target schools and OAPs
Cash-strapped schools and pensioners in Sussex have been handed a multi-million pound Budget boost - paid for by the axing of thousands of Government jobs. Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £100 for pensioners who have been hit in the pocket by record
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Fantasy Island could save West Pier
A Fantasy Island that would save Brighton's West Pier has been proposed by developers. Mystery entrepreneurs have put their £100 million vision before the Brighton West Pier Trust. The scheme, which would not need public subsidy, involves a complete restoration
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Poison gas leak shuts nursery
A nursery school has been closed following the discovery of carbon monoxide during a routine boiler check. Children were told to stay away after traces of the potentially deadly gas were found by maintenance staff. Education leaders today insisted children
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What are stem cells and how can they help
Embryonic stem cells have been hailed as the most important medical breakthrough in the last 25 years. They offer the prospect of a cure for many degenerative diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and heart failure. But what are stem cells, how
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Dating agency for single mums
When Pauline Jacobs discovered how hard it was to meet a partner as a 30-year-old single mother, she decided to set up a different kind of dating agency. Kids No Object provides a service in which children are very much part of the package. Pauline came
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Fridge mountain blaze
Flames spread through a scrapyard and came dangerously close to a pile of dumped fridges. Firefighters feared CFC gases would be released if the fire took hold in what is acknowledged as the fridge mountain of Sussex. The flames ripped through scrapped
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Greens want rethink on link road plan
Every option for a key road scheme is unacceptable because of the environmental impact, a green pressure group has warned. Friends of the Earth said the proposed Bexhill-Hastings link road would not solve economic problems or ease congestion. The group
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Let Katie enjoy her achievement
What is the gripe about Katie Price (aka Jordan)? I mean what is people's problem with her? And why has The Argus taken the unusual decision of not mentioning her, apart from the occasional disparaging comments - specifically from a rather, how can I
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Grave error
I was appalled to learn Brighton and Hove City Council has allowed another cemetery to be opened at Woodingdean. What can it be thinking? In this modern age, one would have thought that graveyard land could be recycled. Is it not time the law was changed
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Plan for building rejected
Campaigners have won their battle to stop development on a disused site near their homes. Brighton and Hove planning committee voted seven to three against the scheme for the Hosiden Besson factory site in Gordon Road, Portslade. Applicants BLC had proposed
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Not welcome
I enjoyed the note from Joyce Owen (Letters, March 5) about the smallpox outbreak here in 1950. It brought back not being allowed to come home to Hove or Brighton without being specially innoculated and told it would be better still not to travel here
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Enjoy your holiday
Well, what a miserable man Trevor Pateman must be (Letters, March 16). I love Bank Holidays. I work hard and enjoy spending a long weekend relaxing and having fun with friends. My wife often works on Bank Holidays but she chooses to. It boils down to
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Egg them on
I read your front page story "Bumper Easter For The Binmen" (The Argus, March 13) . Fair wages, by all means but £230 a day for Brighton and Hove binmen to clear up the backlog of work following Easter reeks of extortion and should not be allowed. Binmen
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Epileptic fit caused pond tragedy
A father drowned in a pond after having an epileptic fit while on a bird shoot. Carpenter and farmer Andrew Walker, 29, was a member of a 14-strong group taking part in an organised afternoon shoot on September 21 last year, an inquest heard yesterday
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One Friday soon
Like Tony Booker (Letters, March 16), I received a letter from our council informing me that my collection day would change to a Friday. The trouble is the letter doesn't specify which particular Friday they're referring to. I hope they write back soon
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Surely not
I'm afraid I have to report an error in Monday's edition. The article entitled "Binmen Set To Walk Out" should surely have appeared further back in the paper. This can't be headline news, can it? I was under the impression it was an everyday occurrence
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Game show idea up for auction
Writer Daniel Jenner wants to make £100,000 by selling his top-secret idea for a game show on the internet. The NTL telesalesman's concept is up for bids on auction web site eBay and his aim is to grab the attention of the likes of Sir Richard Branson
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Maps are modern Domesday Book
The study of the maps in Brighton and Hove reference libraries will often uncover historic curiosities. One local authority collected all its old maps, put them together in chronological order, reproduced the maps in book form and sold them to the public
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Date
Home tax boost for port
A blueprint to turn around the fortunes of the historic port town of Shoreham would see the redevelopment of various key sites. And a plan is being drawn up by Adur District Council that could use council tax from people with second homes in the area
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Are we safer now?
Perhaps after his Iraq trip, our MP and junior defence minister Ivor Caplin could tell us whether or not he thinks the world is a safer place now that Saddam Hussein has gone? To me it doesn't seem so and, as a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel, Ivor
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Date
Basketball: Nurse to fight touchline ban
Nick Nurse insists he will not stop defending his players in their fight for a fair deal on court. Even if it means missing key games in Brighton Bears' push for the British League title. Nurse has confirmed he will appeal against a two-game ban resulting
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Date
Iwelumo wants more play-off glory
Chris Iwelumo is only 24 and has not reached 100 appearances in English league football, yet his experience could be invaluable to Albion. If everything goes according to plan, the Seagulls' last game of the season will be the Second Division play-off
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Albion can't afford to sell goal ace
Albion will have to hand over half of the profit they make to Chelsea if they ever sell Leon Knight. The mega-rich Londoners negotiated an extraordinary 50 per cent sell-on clause when he joined the Seagulls from Stamford Bridge on a free transfer last
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Date
Greens want rethink on link road plan
Every option for a key road scheme is unacceptable because of the environmental impact, a green pressure group has warned. Friends of the Earth said the proposed Bexhill-Hastings link road would not solve economic problems or ease congestion. The group
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March 18: Iwelumo wants more play-off glory
Chris Iwelumo is only 24 and has not reached 100 appearances in English league football, yet his experience could be invaluable to Albion. If everything goes according to plan, the Seagulls' last game of the season will be the Second Division play-off
-
Date
Home tax boost for port
A blueprint to turn around the fortunes of the historic port town of Shoreham would see the redevelopment of various key sites. And a plan is being drawn up by Adur District Council that could use council tax from people with second homes in the area
-
Date
March 18: McPhee fires Albion to cup final
Albion gave trialist Paul Reid a run in their 7-1 Sussex Senior Cup semi-final romp over ten-man Eastbourne Borough. The Bradford City midfielder came off after 70 minutes in the first game of his two-match trial. Reserves manager Dean White said: "He
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Brewers toast more tax breaks
Britain's real ale industry was buoyed by extended tax breaks announced in the Budget. Chancellor Gordon Brown had been voted Parliamentarian of the year by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) for introducing small breweries' relief in his 2002 Budget.
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Savers have to wait to reap dividend
Sussex savers were given mixed news as the Chancellor announced controversial plans to cap the amount of retirement savings that can benefit from tax relief. They were granted a slight reprieve with the news that the limit would be set at £1.5 million
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I'm no snob, head hits back
When Dr Anthony Seldon said many parents of Brighton College students were struggling to pay the fees, he was sympathising with them rather than chiding. The controversial head made the remark in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. In it, he added:
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Date
Binmen say no to strike
Eleventh-hour talks have averted a strike by binmen in Brighton and Hove. Refuse workers met at the Hollingdean depot yesterday to discuss what action they could take in protest at new working practices. Strike action was ruled out but staff accused management
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Date
Barman jailed for killing nurses
Barman Graham Travers was today jailed for five-and-a-half years for killing two nursery nurses in a crash. Travers, 21, was almost twice over the drink-drive limit when he borrowed a car to give the girls a lift home from the pub. The Ford Mondeo crashed
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Fridge mountain blaze
Flames spread through a scrapyard and came dangerously close to a pile of dumped fridges. Firefighters feared CFC gases would be released if the fire took hold in what is acknowledged as the fridge mountain of Sussex. The flames ripped through scrapped
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Date
Let Katie enjoy her achievement
What is the gripe about Katie Price (aka Jordan)? I mean what is people's problem with her? And why has The Argus taken the unusual decision of not mentioning her, apart from the occasional disparaging comments - specifically from a rather, how can I
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Date
Plan for building rejected
Campaigners have won their battle to stop development on a disused site near their homes. Brighton and Hove planning committee voted seven to three against the scheme for the Hosiden Besson factory site in Gordon Road, Portslade. Applicants BLC had proposed
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Date
Shut eyes
Even with "hundreds of eyes", that mythical peacock, The Argus, can't take in everything. I'm glad it noticed my facetious comment about decision-making in Westminster made to taxi drivers (The Argus, March 10). What a pity it missed my next sentence
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Date
Egg them on
I read your front page story "Bumper Easter For The Binmen" (The Argus, March 13) . Fair wages, by all means but £230 a day for Brighton and Hove binmen to clear up the backlog of work following Easter reeks of extortion and should not be allowed. Binmen
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Date
Harbour vision for new homes
Eastbourne is throwing off its staid reputation and marketing itself as the place for young home-buyers to invest. Redrow Homes has started work on its latest development at Sovereign Harbour, including 260 one and two-bedroom flats with 18 penthouses
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Date
Game show idea up for auction
Writer Daniel Jenner wants to make £100,000 by selling his top-secret idea for a game show on the internet. The NTL telesalesman's concept is up for bids on auction web site eBay and his aim is to grab the attention of the likes of Sir Richard Branson
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Date
Maps are modern Domesday Book
The study of the maps in Brighton and Hove reference libraries will often uncover historic curiosities. One local authority collected all its old maps, put them together in chronological order, reproduced the maps in book form and sold them to the public
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Date
All in favour
Falmer resident John Burt said: "The overall impression is that the vast majority do not want a stadium anywhere in the Brighton district" (Letters, March 15). In a long line of ridiculous statements from the nimbys of Falmer, that is only topped by publican
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Date
Snowboarding: Living on the edge
He was two hours late, but at last a bleary-eyed Stu Brass entered the building looking nothing like his all-action image as a prime mover and shaker in British snowboarding. The two-times national champion apologised and muttered something about arriving
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Date
Good reporting
Perhaps the difference between journalists who work for national and those who work for local papers - apart from their salaries - is that while the former seem more concerned with making a story, the latter are bent on finding a story. This came home
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Date
Ivor took the easy route to Iraq
Many of us read the saga of our armed forces MP Ivor Caplin's trip to Iraq. This included eight hours in a plane of the Queen's Flight plus all the attendance required and, as later described, a punishing schedule of visits fully protected as befits a
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Date
McPhee fires Albion to cup final
Albion gave trialist Paul Reid a run in their 7-1 Sussex Senior Cup semi-final romp over ten-man Eastbourne Borough. The Bradford City midfielder came off after 70 minutes in the first game of his two-match trial. Reserves manager Dean White said: "He
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Date
Train job losses mar record work figures
New figures showing a huge fall in unemployment and a record number of people in work were derailed yesterday when a leading train firm announced 1,300 job cuts. Canadian engineering giant Bombardier said three factories in the UK would close and jobs
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Date
Greens want rethink on link road plan
Every option for a key road scheme is unacceptable because of the environmental impact, a green pressure group has warned. Friends of the Earth said the proposed Bexhill-Hastings link road would not solve economic problems or ease congestion. The group
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Date
March 18: Iwelumo wants more play-off glory
Chris Iwelumo is only 24 and has not reached 100 appearances in English league football, yet his experience could be invaluable to Albion. If everything goes according to plan, the Seagulls' last game of the season will be the Second Division play-off
-
Date
March 18: McPhee fires Albion to cup final
Albion gave trialist Paul Reid a run in their 7-1 Sussex Senior Cup semi-final romp over ten-man Eastbourne Borough. The Bradford City midfielder came off after 70 minutes in the first game of his two-match trial. Reserves manager Dean White said: "He
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Date
Brewers toast more tax breaks
Britain's real ale industry was buoyed by extended tax breaks announced in the Budget. Chancellor Gordon Brown had been voted Parliamentarian of the year by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) for introducing small breweries' relief in his 2002 Budget.
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Date
Savers have to wait to reap dividend
Sussex savers were given mixed news as the Chancellor announced controversial plans to cap the amount of retirement savings that can benefit from tax relief. They were granted a slight reprieve with the news that the limit would be set at £1.5 million
-
Date
Brown ignores tax to target schools and OAPs
Cash-strapped schools and pensioners in Sussex have been handed a multi-million pound Budget boost - paid for by the axing of thousands of Government jobs. Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £100 for pensioners who have been hit in the pocket by record
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Date
Fantasy Island could save West Pier
A Fantasy Island that would save Brighton's West Pier has been proposed by developers. Mystery entrepreneurs have put their £100 million vision before the Brighton West Pier Trust. The scheme, which would not need public subsidy, involves a complete restoration
-
Date
Binmen say no to strike
Eleventh-hour talks have averted a strike by binmen in Brighton and Hove. Refuse workers met at the Hollingdean depot yesterday to discuss what action they could take in protest at new working practices. Strike action was ruled out but staff accused management
-
Date
Barman jailed for killing nurses
Barman Graham Travers was today jailed for five-and-a-half years for killing two nursery nurses in a crash. Travers, 21, was almost twice over the drink-drive limit when he borrowed a car to give the girls a lift home from the pub. The Ford Mondeo crashed
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Date
What are stem cells and how can they help
Embryonic stem cells have been hailed as the most important medical breakthrough in the last 25 years. They offer the prospect of a cure for many degenerative diseases such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and heart failure. But what are stem cells, how
