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Cabaret: Tina C
The Famous Spiegeltent, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday May 6 and 8-9 An award-winning country singer and satirist, Tina C returns to Brighton to perform her highly individual take on American history. Following the well-received Twin Towers Tribute and
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Man who brought art to the masses
Standing in a lake as he scrubbed red wallpaper paste from his nearly naked body, it occurred to Dave Reeves there might be less messy ways of bringing arts to the people. The 51-year-old had been performing The Second Coming, a solo piece of experimental
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Music: Brighton Consort, All Saints Church, Hove
Brighton Consort celebrates early music, not least unaccompanied singing of the great works of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Its Festival contribution this year was Tomas Louis de Victoria's Victory Mass, published in 1600. It is based on an earlier work
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Letter: Ban air guns
Once again there is a cruel and callous air gun attack on a defenceless animal (The Argus, May 3). This sort of incident happens all too often. Isn't it about time the sale of air guns and rifles was banned? What do people use them for anyway? I know
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Letter: Starlite success
I went to see the students of "Starlite Theatre Group" at the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton, doing a performance of Les Miserables (schools edition). I myself have been to many London shows over the years but feel without doubt the Starlite Group was
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Rampion's champion - but was poll rigged?
A poll to find a floral emblem for Sussex has been marred by an unlikely vote-fixing row. The round-headed rampion romped home as the plant most affectionately associated with the county - even though many people have never even heard of it. PlantLife
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Letter: Drunks' sin bin
The Brighton I knew and loved has vanished. Now living on the outskirts, I still work in and visit Brighton from time to time. I must say how sad I am to see what it has become. On a recent visit in the early hours of a Saturday morning, I thought I had
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Letter: Holligans made our lives a misery
I am writing in response to Henry Page's article about vandalism and personal abuse (The Argus, May 4). Our agony started six months after we had moved into our new home in Peacehaven. I was a town councillor and held the key to a play area nearby. One
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Albion reserves thrashed by rivals
A strong Crystal Palace side proved too much for Albion's second string at Selhurst Park last night, thrashing them 5-0. Palace, whose starting line-up boasted nine players who have figured for the first team this season, ensured they ended the Pontins
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Euro 2004 pulls plug on beach soccer
AN international beach football tournament has been scrapped because it would have clashed with this summer's European Championships. Former Manchester United legend Eric Cantona and ex-England, Spurs and Liverpool defender John Scales played in last
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Surgeon in dock over abuse claims
A police doctor drugged two young girls with spiked Angel Delight and filmed himself sexually abusing them, a court heard. Forensic medical examiner Dr Robert Wells, 52, convinced a family friend to allow her daughters, aged 11 and five, to sleep at his
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Argos 're-selling' exposed
Catalogue store Argos was today accused of passing off clearly used products as new. Examples included a hair-remover bristling with hair, a food-spattered liquidiser and a compact disc player containing crumbs and a heavy metal CD. The cases are highlighted
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Subsidies urged for women
Firms should be offered a special subsidy to help attract more women into construction, engineering and plumbing, a report has urged. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said recruiting more women into professions normally associated with men would
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Whitbread jobs boost
Leisure business Whitbread is planning to invest millions in the South-East, creating hundreds of jobs. The company, which runs hotels, restaurants and health and fitness clubs across the UK, has announced high growth for the sixth time in a row in its
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Cancer claims life of court prosecutor
A senior court prosecutor in Sussex has died from breast cancer at the age of 34. Rachel McConnell was the wife of BBC Southern Counties Radio presenter Marcus McConnell and mother to their three-year-old son Max. Mrs McConnell died in hospital yesterday
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BT to cull one in ten phone boxes
One telephone booth in ten will be removed from Sussex streets in a cull announced by telecoms firm BT. At the same time the company - which made a profit of £1.8 billion last year - is increasing the minimum call charge by 50 per cent. Britain ranks
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Post Office forced to close
A popular post office will close within weeks after losing its lease from the pizza restaurant next door. Saied Abdulkhani, owner of Otello restaurant, holds the freehold for the main post office at 120 Church Road, Hove, and wants the premises back.
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Music: Brighton Consort, All Saints Church, Hove
Brighton Consort celebrates early music, not least unaccompanied singing of the great works of the 15th and 16th Centuries. Its Festival contribution this year was Tomas Louis de Victoria's Victory Mass, published in 1600. It is based on an earlier work
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Letter: Ban air guns
Once again there is a cruel and callous air gun attack on a defenceless animal (The Argus, May 3). This sort of incident happens all too often. Isn't it about time the sale of air guns and rifles was banned? What do people use them for anyway? I know
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Music: Chiao-Ying Chang, Pavilion Theatre
Taiwanese pianist Chiao-Ying Chang is just 23 years old but she plays with a maturity far beyond those years. This slim and slightly-built young lady is a muscular player and began her recital with a powerful reading of Beethoven's Fourth Sonata. She
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Theatre: Gilgamesh, Gardners Arts Centre
Teatro Kismet's UK premiere tells the tale of the 5,000-year-old story of Gilgamesh, "two parts god and one part man", and his quest for immortality. Nonsense being such an underrated quality in theatre, I'm reluctant to dwell upon the play's moments
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Letter: Beware failures
Whatever our views on the Euro constitution we should be pleased the Prime Minister is offering us a referendum. The final word will rest with the people and no one will be able to complain that they were not consulted. I am, however, very worried by
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Letter: Starlite success
I went to see the students of "Starlite Theatre Group" at the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton, doing a performance of Les Miserables (schools edition). I myself have been to many London shows over the years but feel without doubt the Starlite Group was
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Basketball: Nurse threatens changes
Nick Nurse has warned his title winners no one's place is safe in the new look Brighton Bears line-up. Bears missed the chance of completing a silverware double by losing 80-79 to Chester Jets in the BBL play-off semi-finals last Saturday. That left the
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Letter: No sympathy for cycle oafs
Perhaps Mr Skull (Letters, April 19) would care to read the first paragraph of my previous letter again then tell me how he reconciles his implied charge of arrogance with my words "care and consideration for others"? I have no sympathy at all with oafs
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Ryman Play-Offs: Basingstoke 1 Lewes 4
Lewes are just one game away from playing in the Conference South next season. The Rooks came from behind to beat premier division side Basingstoke at the Camrose last night in their second promotion play-off. Craig McAllister put the home side ahead
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Albion reserves thrashed by rivals
A strong Crystal Palace side proved too much for Albion's second string at Selhurst Park last night, thrashing them 5-0. Palace, whose starting line-up boasted nine players who have figured for the first team this season, ensured they ended the Pontins
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Iwelumo wins round the fans
Little more than a year ago, Chris Iwelumo's name was mud to Albion fans. He converted a crucial second-half penalty winner for Stoke at Coventry, at exactly the same time as Bobby Zamora was equalising against Sheffield Wednesday at Withdean. It edged
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May 6: Iwelumo wins round the fans
Little more than a year ago, Chris Iwelumo's name was mud to Albion fans. He converted a crucial second-half penalty winner for Stoke at Coventry, at exactly the same time as Bobby Zamora was equalising against Sheffield Wednesday at Withdean. It edged
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Euro 2004 pulls plug on beach soccer
AN international beach football tournament has been scrapped because it would have clashed with this summer's European Championships. Former Manchester United legend Eric Cantona and ex-England, Spurs and Liverpool defender John Scales played in last
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Spider-Man protest caused chaos, court told
A father deliberately caused chaos during a six-day crane-top protest over fathers' access rights to their children, a court heard yesterday. David Chick's 150ft vigil near London's Tower Bridge forced police to seal off the area to pedestrians and traffic
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Surgeon in dock over abuse claims
A police doctor drugged two young girls with spiked Angel Delight and filmed himself sexually abusing them, a court heard. Forensic medical examiner Dr Robert Wells, 52, convinced a family friend to allow her daughters, aged 11 and five, to sleep at his
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Argos 're-selling' exposed
Catalogue store Argos was today accused of passing off clearly used products as new. Examples included a hair-remover bristling with hair, a food-spattered liquidiser and a compact disc player containing crumbs and a heavy metal CD. The cases are highlighted
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Dyson bottom of 'reliability chart'
Dyson vacuum cleaners have come bottom for reliability in a report published today. The brand, famous for its bagless technology, fell below average in a survey of owners conducted by the consumer magazine Which? More than 5,100 people with different
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Subsidies urged for women
Firms should be offered a special subsidy to help attract more women into construction, engineering and plumbing, a report has urged. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said recruiting more women into professions normally associated with men would
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Whitbread jobs boost
Leisure business Whitbread is planning to invest millions in the South-East, creating hundreds of jobs. The company, which runs hotels, restaurants and health and fitness clubs across the UK, has announced high growth for the sixth time in a row in its
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easyJet in a tailspin
Shares in no-frills airline easyJet went into a tailspin yesterday after it warned that tough competition could affect its traditionally strong summer and autumn season. The group runs flights from Gatwick and serves 21 European destinations, including
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Cancer claims life of court prosecutor
A senior court prosecutor in Sussex has died from breast cancer at the age of 34. Rachel McConnell was the wife of BBC Southern Counties Radio presenter Marcus McConnell and mother to their three-year-old son Max. Mrs McConnell died in hospital yesterday
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BT to cull one in ten phone boxes
One telephone booth in ten will be removed from Sussex streets in a cull announced by telecoms firm BT. At the same time the company - which made a profit of £1.8 billion last year - is increasing the minimum call charge by 50 per cent. Britain ranks
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Post Office forced to close
A popular post office will close within weeks after losing its lease from the pizza restaurant next door. Saied Abdulkhani, owner of Otello restaurant, holds the freehold for the main post office at 120 Church Road, Hove, and wants the premises back.
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Late baptism bars boy from school
The descendant of a martyred saint has been barred from his local faith school for not being Catholic enough. Alexander Payne's Catholic ancestry stretches back more than 900 years and includes Saint John Almond, who was hung, drawn and quartered in 1612
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Sussex pair sail into history
Atlantic rowers Sally and Sarah Kettle finally set foot on dry land and toasted their epic voyage. Sally celebrated with a rum and cola while her mother chose an orange juice with no ice. The women, who yesterday sailed into the record books as the first
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Theatre: Chicken
Komedia, Gardner Street, until Saturday May 8 David Henry Sterry grew up in nice neighbourhoods where kids played ball in front yards, the Tooth Fairy left a quarter under their pillows and there were merry-go-rounds and PTA meetings. He had a "very sweet
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Letter: Off the rails
I was watching Salvage Squad on the television the other night. They were restoring a 1952 Blackpool tram. I suddenly realised we don't build trams in England any more. The same seems to go for buses, as the new Brighton buses are built in Sweden. -Peter
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Music: Kal, Pavilion Theatre
Newspapers have been full of scare stories about gipsies from Eastern Europe waiting to flood into Britain following the expansion of the EU. Well, if they're anywhere near as musical as their compatriots in Serbia, I say let them all come in. It will
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Music: Chiao-Ying Chang, Pavilion Theatre
Taiwanese pianist Chiao-Ying Chang is just 23 years old but she plays with a maturity far beyond those years. This slim and slightly-built young lady is a muscular player and began her recital with a powerful reading of Beethoven's Fourth Sonata. She
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Date
Theatre: Gilgamesh, Gardners Arts Centre
Teatro Kismet's UK premiere tells the tale of the 5,000-year-old story of Gilgamesh, "two parts god and one part man", and his quest for immortality. Nonsense being such an underrated quality in theatre, I'm reluctant to dwell upon the play's moments
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Date
Broken back inspired action man
Ten years ago, Dave Ball was an average 26-year-old beer-drinking rugby lad. These days he's not so much average as inspirational. Weekends Dave once spent at the pub are now devoted to throwing himself out of aeroplanes or off bridges tied to an elasticated
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Letter: Beware failures
Whatever our views on the Euro constitution we should be pleased the Prime Minister is offering us a referendum. The final word will rest with the people and no one will be able to complain that they were not consulted. I am, however, very worried by
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Letter: Paradise (not)!
During the Easter holiday my wife and I took our two young grandchildren to Paradise Park at Newhaven as they like having rides on the roundabouts and playing on the various machines. When we arrived we were surprised to find the usual entrance boarded
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Letter: Time to protest
Once again the issue of fluoridation is rearing its ugly head so that we who value our right to safeguard our own physical and mental well-being are needing to fight for our freedom. This time the Government and pro-fluridation bodies are hoping to legislate
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Cycling: Tadros leads team to victory
Hastings star Peter Tadros was hoping to gain his seventh open win of the season in the Hampshire RC ten-mile time trial at Fontwell, but was narrowly beaten into second place. The event was won by Petersfield rider Ben Instone (A3 CRG) in 20min.28sec
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Letter: Keep fluoride out of drinking water
As a mother of two children, Katie, aged five, and Daniel, six months, I don't make a habit of taking part in public demonstrations but when it affects the health and human rights of my children I get angry. Recently I took part in a peaceful protest
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Basketball: Nurse threatens changes
Nick Nurse has warned his title winners no one's place is safe in the new look Brighton Bears line-up. Bears missed the chance of completing a silverware double by losing 80-79 to Chester Jets in the BBL play-off semi-finals last Saturday. That left the
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Letter: No sympathy for cycle oafs
Perhaps Mr Skull (Letters, April 19) would care to read the first paragraph of my previous letter again then tell me how he reconciles his implied charge of arrogance with my words "care and consideration for others"? I have no sympathy at all with oafs
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Date
Ryman Play-Offs: Basingstoke 1 Lewes 4
Lewes are just one game away from playing in the Conference South next season. The Rooks came from behind to beat premier division side Basingstoke at the Camrose last night in their second promotion play-off. Craig McAllister put the home side ahead
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Teen lads' mag folds after four months
Brighton-based lads' magazine Sorted has ceased publication after four issues, owing thousands of pounds. Russell Church, the man who set up the magazine with a £1 million budget, has apologised for the failure, blaming backers who suddenly pulled the
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Charity run gets star billing
Stars will lead the way during a one-mile run for the charity Sports Relief. Sussex-born Harry Enfield, presenter Nick Knowles, former S Club singer Rachel Stevens, Tess Daly, Gaby Logan, Gary Lineker, hurdler Colin Jackson and Olympic gold medallist
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Date
Iwelumo wins round the fans
Little more than a year ago, Chris Iwelumo's name was mud to Albion fans. He converted a crucial second-half penalty winner for Stoke at Coventry, at exactly the same time as Bobby Zamora was equalising against Sheffield Wednesday at Withdean. It edged
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May 6: Knight reveals Goldstone bombshell
Albion chairman Dick Knight today revealed the shocking price still being paid by the club for the controversial sale of the Goldstone by the previous owners eight years ago. The Seagulls have been warned by their auditors they face a hefty bill from
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Knight reveals Goldstone bombshell
Albion chairman Dick Knight today revealed the shocking price still being paid by the club for the controversial sale of the Goldstone by the previous owners eight years ago. The Seagulls have been warned by their auditors they face a hefty bill from
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Date
Spider-Man protest caused chaos, court told
A father deliberately caused chaos during a six-day crane-top protest over fathers' access rights to their children, a court heard yesterday. David Chick's 150ft vigil near London's Tower Bridge forced police to seal off the area to pedestrians and traffic
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Date
M&S hits 'trendy' market
High Street stalwart Marks & Spencer is preparing to go head-to-head with the likes of Topshop as it launches a new collection for young women. The Per Una Due range features boob tubes, batwing tops and the shortest skirt ever to bear the M&S
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Date
Dyson bottom of 'reliability chart'
Dyson vacuum cleaners have come bottom for reliability in a report published today. The brand, famous for its bagless technology, fell below average in a survey of owners conducted by the consumer magazine Which? More than 5,100 people with different
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Date
Call centre staff must improve
Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt warned call centre workers to improve their skills or risk losing jobs to India and the Philippines. Ms Hewitt insisted call centres had a bright future in this country and would employ a million people in three years'
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Date
easyJet in a tailspin
Shares in no-frills airline easyJet went into a tailspin yesterday after it warned that tough competition could affect its traditionally strong summer and autumn season. The group runs flights from Gatwick and serves 21 European destinations, including
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Date
Firms get behind city arts festival
This year's Brighton Festival has arrived, as always, with a burst of thunderous noise and an explosion of colour. The city is buzzing with festival fever and organisers believe England's biggest arts celebration is shaping up to be one of the best yet
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Date
We're too SusSEXy for net
Sussex Police are too sexy for US government censors. They are not the only ones. Other victims include US President George Bush, the US State Department and California governor and Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sussex Police web site appears
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Date
Late baptism bars boy from school
The descendant of a martyred saint has been barred from his local faith school for not being Catholic enough. Alexander Payne's Catholic ancestry stretches back more than 900 years and includes Saint John Almond, who was hung, drawn and quartered in 1612
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Date
Sussex pair sail into history
Atlantic rowers Sally and Sarah Kettle finally set foot on dry land and toasted their epic voyage. Sally celebrated with a rum and cola while her mother chose an orange juice with no ice. The women, who yesterday sailed into the record books as the first
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Date
Theatre: Chicken
Komedia, Gardner Street, until Saturday May 8 David Henry Sterry grew up in nice neighbourhoods where kids played ball in front yards, the Tooth Fairy left a quarter under their pillows and there were merry-go-rounds and PTA meetings. He had a "very sweet
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Date
Cabaret: Tina C
The Famous Spiegeltent, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday May 6 and 8-9 An award-winning country singer and satirist, Tina C returns to Brighton to perform her highly individual take on American history. Following the well-received Twin Towers Tribute and
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Date
Letter: Off the rails
I was watching Salvage Squad on the television the other night. They were restoring a 1952 Blackpool tram. I suddenly realised we don't build trams in England any more. The same seems to go for buses, as the new Brighton buses are built in Sweden. -Peter
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Date
Man who brought art to the masses
Standing in a lake as he scrubbed red wallpaper paste from his nearly naked body, it occurred to Dave Reeves there might be less messy ways of bringing arts to the people. The 51-year-old had been performing The Second Coming, a solo piece of experimental
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Date
Music: Kal, Pavilion Theatre
Newspapers have been full of scare stories about gipsies from Eastern Europe waiting to flood into Britain following the expansion of the EU. Well, if they're anywhere near as musical as their compatriots in Serbia, I say let them all come in. It will
-
Date
Broken back inspired action man
Ten years ago, Dave Ball was an average 26-year-old beer-drinking rugby lad. These days he's not so much average as inspirational. Weekends Dave once spent at the pub are now devoted to throwing himself out of aeroplanes or off bridges tied to an elasticated
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Date
Letter: Paradise (not)!
During the Easter holiday my wife and I took our two young grandchildren to Paradise Park at Newhaven as they like having rides on the roundabouts and playing on the various machines. When we arrived we were surprised to find the usual entrance boarded
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Date
Letter: Time to protest
Once again the issue of fluoridation is rearing its ugly head so that we who value our right to safeguard our own physical and mental well-being are needing to fight for our freedom. This time the Government and pro-fluridation bodies are hoping to legislate
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Date
Cycling: Tadros leads team to victory
Hastings star Peter Tadros was hoping to gain his seventh open win of the season in the Hampshire RC ten-mile time trial at Fontwell, but was narrowly beaten into second place. The event was won by Petersfield rider Ben Instone (A3 CRG) in 20min.28sec
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Date
Letter: Keep fluoride out of drinking water
As a mother of two children, Katie, aged five, and Daniel, six months, I don't make a habit of taking part in public demonstrations but when it affects the health and human rights of my children I get angry. Recently I took part in a peaceful protest
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Date
Rampion's champion - but was poll rigged?
A poll to find a floral emblem for Sussex has been marred by an unlikely vote-fixing row. The round-headed rampion romped home as the plant most affectionately associated with the county - even though many people have never even heard of it. PlantLife
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Date
Letter: Drunks' sin bin
The Brighton I knew and loved has vanished. Now living on the outskirts, I still work in and visit Brighton from time to time. I must say how sad I am to see what it has become. On a recent visit in the early hours of a Saturday morning, I thought I had
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Date
Teen lads' mag folds after four months
Brighton-based lads' magazine Sorted has ceased publication after four issues, owing thousands of pounds. Russell Church, the man who set up the magazine with a £1 million budget, has apologised for the failure, blaming backers who suddenly pulled the
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Date
Letter: Holligans made our lives a misery
I am writing in response to Henry Page's article about vandalism and personal abuse (The Argus, May 4). Our agony started six months after we had moved into our new home in Peacehaven. I was a town councillor and held the key to a play area nearby. One
-
Date
Charity run gets star billing
Stars will lead the way during a one-mile run for the charity Sports Relief. Sussex-born Harry Enfield, presenter Nick Knowles, former S Club singer Rachel Stevens, Tess Daly, Gaby Logan, Gary Lineker, hurdler Colin Jackson and Olympic gold medallist
-
Date
May 6: Knight reveals Goldstone bombshell
Albion chairman Dick Knight today revealed the shocking price still being paid by the club for the controversial sale of the Goldstone by the previous owners eight years ago. The Seagulls have been warned by their auditors they face a hefty bill from
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Date
Knight reveals Goldstone bombshell
Albion chairman Dick Knight today revealed the shocking price still being paid by the club for the controversial sale of the Goldstone by the previous owners eight years ago. The Seagulls have been warned by their auditors they face a hefty bill from
-
Date
M&S hits 'trendy' market
High Street stalwart Marks & Spencer is preparing to go head-to-head with the likes of Topshop as it launches a new collection for young women. The Per Una Due range features boob tubes, batwing tops and the shortest skirt ever to bear the M&S
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Date
Call centre staff must improve
Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt warned call centre workers to improve their skills or risk losing jobs to India and the Philippines. Ms Hewitt insisted call centres had a bright future in this country and would employ a million people in three years'
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Date
Firms get behind city arts festival
This year's Brighton Festival has arrived, as always, with a burst of thunderous noise and an explosion of colour. The city is buzzing with festival fever and organisers believe England's biggest arts celebration is shaping up to be one of the best yet
-
Date
We're too SusSEXy for net
Sussex Police are too sexy for US government censors. They are not the only ones. Other victims include US President George Bush, the US State Department and California governor and Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sussex Police web site appears
