Archive
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Letter: Football crazy
On May 19, Steyning Football Club fly out to take on the might of football-crazy Bochum in Germany. Bochum has 71 football pitches - they take their football seriously. Since the first match in 1965, a friendly rivalry has developed with social visits
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Letter: Jobsworth
Having pulled into a parking bay, not realising that it was for residents only, I crossed the road to purchase a ticket to park for up to one hour. I noticed the traffic warden on the same side of the road as the ticket machine. He cannot have missed
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Police fears over Spider-Man stunt
A police chief told of the chaos caused when a fathers' rights protester scaled a crane dressed as Spider-Man. Police had to seal off the area around Tower Bridge when David Chick, 36, of The Ridgeway, Burgess Hill, was seen wandering along the arm of
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Letter: Centre success
Recently, the Brighton Centre has come in for some unfair criticism. Living practically next door, I go there frequently to see concerts, ice shows, the Brighton Bear's basketball games and to visit exhibitions and conferences. It is the only flexible
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Tennis: Nastase relishes Eastbourne date
Ilie Nastase, the original bad boy of tennis, is coming to Eastbourne. But fans be warned. Nastase, now aged 57, says his wild days are over. He has been tamed. That is due to the influence of new wife Amalia and their one-year-old baby daughter Alessia
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Basketball: Rico issues parting shot
Rico Alderson has walked out on Brighton Bears with a warning shot for his old club. The 6ft 5ins all-rounder, hero-worshipped for two seasons by fans who call him The Birdman, wants to come back to the Brighton Centre and put 50 points on the Bears.
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Letter: Tetra masts affected our sleep
We were impartial about Tetra masts until the Bognor mast began to affect us in a mild way. We got to know people living close to the mast site who were quite severely affected, so we did what research we could as a typical older couple. No research on
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Football on seafront lawns banned
Organised football matches on a seafront lawn are to be shown the red card. Hundreds of people get together for kickabouts on Brunswick Lawns in Hove every summer and teams from as far away as Crawley regularly take part in organised matches. But councillors
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Tennis: Sharpova set for Eastbourne debut
Maria Sharapova, dubbed the new Anna Kournikova of the tennis circuit, will make her debut at the Hastings Direct International Ladies Championships at Devonshire Park next month. Sharapova, 17, is blessed with stunning looks but is rapidly proving she
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Albion target play-off cash
Albion are poised to pocket more than £500,000 if they return to the First Division via the play-offs. That is the enormous financial enticement for the cash-strapped Seagulls as they prepare for Sunday's semi-final first leg at Swindon. The potential
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Farmers return to the land
Farmers are regaining the initiative in the countryside and fighting back against the "city slickers", despite rising farmland prices. The latest rural land survey published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), shows farmers in the
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Glaxo boss hunt
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has hired headhunters to search for a replacement for Sir Christopher Hogg, its chairman, adding further competition in the search for a new boss at Marks & Spencer. The pharmaceuticals giant, which has a large manufacturing
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Drivers face £100 bus lane penalties
Drivers who stray into bus lanes are to face £100 instant fines. Brighton and Hove City Council plans to introduce digital traffic cameras at three sites in the city centre. A survey by The Argus in the bus lane approaching the Clock Tower from Dyke Road
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Letter: ME awareness
In 1996 I collapsed. My whole body just gave up and I was eventually diagnosed with the debilitating illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Until that time, I was extremely fit and active. I walked my dog twice a day - long walks across Scottish islands
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Letter: Surgery site
We write in response to Peter Arnott-Job (Letters, April 24) about the proposal for a new GP surgery at Carden Hill, Brighton. Due to the need to stay within the catchment area for current patients, our area of search for a suitable site was automatically
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Letter: Restored church is magnificent
My daughter and I were privileged to join the mayor and her husband for the launch of Alterations, a stunning festival art exhibition at St Andrew's Church in Waterloo Street, Hove, by the Red Hen Artists Collective. This is supported by the Churches
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Letter: Sir Richard?
How sad for the people of Brighton and Hove with the departure of Richard Baker the general manager of the Grand Hotel. For the past decade in my capacity as fund raiser for The Argus Christmas Appeal, The Royal British Legion, British Heart Foundation
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Basketball: Rico issues parting shot
Rico Alderson has walked out on Brighton Bears with a warning shot for his old club. The 6ft 5ins all-rounder, hero-worshipped for two seasons by fans who call him The Birdman, wants to come back to the Brighton Centre and put 50 points on the Bears.
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Waiting list opens for 'pink' weddings
Gay and lesbian couples from across England are being urged to come to Brighton and Hove to book places on the country's first "pink wedding" waiting list. Brighton and Hove City Council is organising the drive in a bid to become the UK's flagship city
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Cricket: Sussex cling on for draw
Sussex are targeting successive home wins before the end of the month to kick-start their Championship defence. It is not even mid-May but the county are already a quarter of the way through their four-day programme and have yet to win. Their match with
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May 11: Albion target play-off cash
Albion are poised to pocket more than £500,000 if they return to the First Division via the play-offs. That is the enormous financial enticement for the cash-strapped Seagulls as they prepare for Sunday's semi-final first leg at Swindon. The potential
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Football on seafront lawns banned
Organised football matches on a seafront lawn are to be shown the red card. Hundreds of people get together for kickabouts on Brunswick Lawns in Hove every summer and teams from as far away as Crawley regularly take part in organised matches. But councillors
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May 11: King talk fires up Seagulls
Andy King has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth and Albion want to make him eat his words. The chain-smoking Swindon manager's remarks about the play-offs have not gone unnoticed in the Seagulls' camp. King, once a combative midfielder for
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Tennis: Sharpova set for Eastbourne debut
Maria Sharapova, dubbed the new Anna Kournikova of the tennis circuit, will make her debut at the Hastings Direct International Ladies Championships at Devonshire Park next month. Sharapova, 17, is blessed with stunning looks but is rapidly proving she
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Date
Albion target play-off cash
Albion are poised to pocket more than £500,000 if they return to the First Division via the play-offs. That is the enormous financial enticement for the cash-strapped Seagulls as they prepare for Sunday's semi-final first leg at Swindon. The potential
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Everest diners break world record
Six friends set a world record when they sat down to a formal dinner in evening dress, 22,326ft up a mountain in the Himalayas. The team, most of whom grew up together in Forest Row, carried tables, chairs, silver cutlery and a five-course meal to the
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City lands top tourism catch
A fish and chip lunch on the pier is in store for delegates at a tourism and travel conference normally held in Paris. About 50 French TV, radio, newspaper and travel trade journalists, tour operators and specialist travel firms will visit Brighton and
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Takeover for city gamers
Wide Games, the Brighton-based computer games developer, has been taken over by Kuju Entertainment. The company, based in Old Steine, is now called Kuju Brighton and has begun work on a new PlayStation 2 title. Ed Daly, co-founder and ex-Wide Games managing
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Agency's emphasis is on good writing
A company which trains people to write more clearly has been called in by the Environment Agency. Emphasis, based in Middle Street, Brighton, will train members of the agency's 11,000-strong staff in the art of good writing. One of the aims is to make
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Firm brings Ikea to your door
Since opening its first UK store in 1987, Ikea has become a Mecca for home improvement buffs and the most popular Swedish export since Abba. But for Brightonians, travelling to the nearest store in Croydon can often prove trickier and more stressful than
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Date
Drivers face £100 bus lane penalties
Drivers who stray into bus lanes are to face £100 instant fines. Brighton and Hove City Council plans to introduce digital traffic cameras at three sites in the city centre. A survey by The Argus in the bus lane approaching the Clock Tower from Dyke Road
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Theatre: The Wicker Woman
Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Until Saturday May 15 This spoof of cult Seventies film The Wicker Man offers the intriguing combination of "live human sacrifice and folk songs". It follows beautiful young policewoman Sergeant Chastity Howie and her
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Music: Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music, Sussex Arts Club
One word of advice: If you are thinking about going to see Movin, Melvin Brown's exuberant retrospective on the history of black music, try to get there in the worst mood possible. Only when you are feeling at your lowest ebb and the world around you
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Stage: La Syncope du 7, Dome Concert Hall
Having fulfilled a lifetime ambition to see Cirque du Soleil earlier this year, I may have gone along expecting a little too much from Collectif AOC's La Syncope du 7. But then the preview in the Brighton Festival brochure did claim them to be the rightful
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Letter: ME awareness
In 1996 I collapsed. My whole body just gave up and I was eventually diagnosed with the debilitating illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Until that time, I was extremely fit and active. I walked my dog twice a day - long walks across Scottish islands
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Letter: Surgery site
We write in response to Peter Arnott-Job (Letters, April 24) about the proposal for a new GP surgery at Carden Hill, Brighton. Due to the need to stay within the catchment area for current patients, our area of search for a suitable site was automatically
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Letter: Let Katie and Peter have their privacy
The other Saturday, while having a drink in the Lanes in Brighton, a Bentley pulled up and out from the car emerged Katie Price, aka Jordan, and Pete Andre, who then went off to have a meal I expect. What got me was a group of five men with a camcorder
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Letter: Restored church is magnificent
My daughter and I were privileged to join the mayor and her husband for the launch of Alterations, a stunning festival art exhibition at St Andrew's Church in Waterloo Street, Hove, by the Red Hen Artists Collective. This is supported by the Churches
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Letter: Sir Richard?
How sad for the people of Brighton and Hove with the departure of Richard Baker the general manager of the Grand Hotel. For the past decade in my capacity as fund raiser for The Argus Christmas Appeal, The Royal British Legion, British Heart Foundation
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TV credits helped reunite cousins
Seth Jee discovered a relative after seeing his unusual name in the credits of a television programme. Seth, from Sayers Common, near Hassocks, could not believe someone else shared his name and decided to find out who the other Seth was. He tracked the
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Letter: Green pressure
Following your article "The Terror of Tetra masts" (The Argus, May 3), people should be aware that at least seven Tetra masts have been identified in Brighton. They are situated on top of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton police station and Theobald
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Date
Waiting list opens for 'pink' weddings
Gay and lesbian couples from across England are being urged to come to Brighton and Hove to book places on the country's first "pink wedding" waiting list. Brighton and Hove City Council is organising the drive in a bid to become the UK's flagship city
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Date
Cricket: Sussex cling on for draw
Sussex are targeting successive home wins before the end of the month to kick-start their Championship defence. It is not even mid-May but the county are already a quarter of the way through their four-day programme and have yet to win. Their match with
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Date
May 11: Albion target play-off cash
Albion are poised to pocket more than £500,000 if they return to the First Division via the play-offs. That is the enormous financial enticement for the cash-strapped Seagulls as they prepare for Sunday's semi-final first leg at Swindon. The potential
-
Date
May 11: King talk fires up Seagulls
Andy King has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth and Albion want to make him eat his words. The chain-smoking Swindon manager's remarks about the play-offs have not gone unnoticed in the Seagulls' camp. King, once a combative midfielder for
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Date
King talk fires up Seagulls
Andy King has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth and Albion want to make him eat his words. The chain-smoking Swindon manager's remarks about the play-offs have not gone unnoticed in the Seagulls' camp. King, once a combative midfielder for
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Date
Everest diners break world record
Six friends set a world record when they sat down to a formal dinner in evening dress, 22,326ft up a mountain in the Himalayas. The team, most of whom grew up together in Forest Row, carried tables, chairs, silver cutlery and a five-course meal to the
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Date
City lands top tourism catch
A fish and chip lunch on the pier is in store for delegates at a tourism and travel conference normally held in Paris. About 50 French TV, radio, newspaper and travel trade journalists, tour operators and specialist travel firms will visit Brighton and
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Date
Outback witness calls for fair trial
The girlfriend of a missing Briton has declared she wants the man accused of murdering him to receive a fair hearing. Joanne Lees, a Hove travel agent, is in Australia as the chief prosecution witness at Bradley John Murdoch's pre-trial hearing. Murdoch
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Takeover for city gamers
Wide Games, the Brighton-based computer games developer, has been taken over by Kuju Entertainment. The company, based in Old Steine, is now called Kuju Brighton and has begun work on a new PlayStation 2 title. Ed Daly, co-founder and ex-Wide Games managing
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Date
Agency's emphasis is on good writing
A company which trains people to write more clearly has been called in by the Environment Agency. Emphasis, based in Middle Street, Brighton, will train members of the agency's 11,000-strong staff in the art of good writing. One of the aims is to make
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Date
Firm brings Ikea to your door
Since opening its first UK store in 1987, Ikea has become a Mecca for home improvement buffs and the most popular Swedish export since Abba. But for Brightonians, travelling to the nearest store in Croydon can often prove trickier and more stressful than
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Date
Sports retailer hit by huge profit fall
JD Sports owner John David Group today said it was continuing to review all its options after revealing an 80% drop in pre-tax profits to £2.1 million. The sportswear retailer said the year to January proved to be very difficult as it struggled to integrate
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Tycoon's bid to win back frozen assets
Property tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten has begun a legal tug-of-war to seize back control of his financial empire. Mr Hoogstraten, from Framfield, near Uckfield, who has claimed to be worth £500 million, said a ruling which led to his property empire being
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Male fish feminised by river pollutants
Pollution is causing male fish to develop female characteristics. Water companies were told to investigate ways of removing pollution from Sussex water six years ago. The Environment Agency estimates it could cost £1 billion more than the Government and
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Date
Bogus officer ticks off real police
A bogus policeman pulling over motorists was arrested after stopping a car carrying four real officers. The man, from Brighton, was in his car dressed in a police uniform when he overtook the unmarked car and forced it to pull over. He then started giving
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Sussex scores highest against Iraq pull-out
Sussex voters favour British troops staying in Iraq more than those in the rest of the country, according to a poll commissioned by a Brighton academic. Sociology professor Colin Francome asked NOP to conduct the survey. It asked whether British troops
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Neighbour defends festival noise ban
A nurse whose complaints helped silence the Brighton Festival Club said today she had been driven up the wall by late-night noise. She was one of three neighbours who complained about music from the Spiegeltent in Pavilion Gardens. The city council has
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Date
Theatre: The Wicker Woman
Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Until Saturday May 15 This spoof of cult Seventies film The Wicker Man offers the intriguing combination of "live human sacrifice and folk songs". It follows beautiful young policewoman Sergeant Chastity Howie and her
-
Date
Letter: Football crazy
On May 19, Steyning Football Club fly out to take on the might of football-crazy Bochum in Germany. Bochum has 71 football pitches - they take their football seriously. Since the first match in 1965, a friendly rivalry has developed with social visits
-
Date
Letter: Jobsworth
Having pulled into a parking bay, not realising that it was for residents only, I crossed the road to purchase a ticket to park for up to one hour. I noticed the traffic warden on the same side of the road as the ticket machine. He cannot have missed
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Date
Music: Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music, Sussex Arts Club
One word of advice: If you are thinking about going to see Movin, Melvin Brown's exuberant retrospective on the history of black music, try to get there in the worst mood possible. Only when you are feeling at your lowest ebb and the world around you
-
Date
Stage: La Syncope du 7, Dome Concert Hall
Having fulfilled a lifetime ambition to see Cirque du Soleil earlier this year, I may have gone along expecting a little too much from Collectif AOC's La Syncope du 7. But then the preview in the Brighton Festival brochure did claim them to be the rightful
-
Date
Letter: Let Katie and Peter have their privacy
The other Saturday, while having a drink in the Lanes in Brighton, a Bentley pulled up and out from the car emerged Katie Price, aka Jordan, and Pete Andre, who then went off to have a meal I expect. What got me was a group of five men with a camcorder
-
Date
Police fears over Spider-Man stunt
A police chief told of the chaos caused when a fathers' rights protester scaled a crane dressed as Spider-Man. Police had to seal off the area around Tower Bridge when David Chick, 36, of The Ridgeway, Burgess Hill, was seen wandering along the arm of
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Date
TV credits helped reunite cousins
Seth Jee discovered a relative after seeing his unusual name in the credits of a television programme. Seth, from Sayers Common, near Hassocks, could not believe someone else shared his name and decided to find out who the other Seth was. He tracked the
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Date
Letter: Centre success
Recently, the Brighton Centre has come in for some unfair criticism. Living practically next door, I go there frequently to see concerts, ice shows, the Brighton Bear's basketball games and to visit exhibitions and conferences. It is the only flexible
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Date
Tennis: Nastase relishes Eastbourne date
Ilie Nastase, the original bad boy of tennis, is coming to Eastbourne. But fans be warned. Nastase, now aged 57, says his wild days are over. He has been tamed. That is due to the influence of new wife Amalia and their one-year-old baby daughter Alessia
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Date
Letter: Green pressure
Following your article "The Terror of Tetra masts" (The Argus, May 3), people should be aware that at least seven Tetra masts have been identified in Brighton. They are situated on top of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton police station and Theobald
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Date
Letter: Tetra masts affected our sleep
We were impartial about Tetra masts until the Bognor mast began to affect us in a mild way. We got to know people living close to the mast site who were quite severely affected, so we did what research we could as a typical older couple. No research on
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Date
King talk fires up Seagulls
Andy King has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth and Albion want to make him eat his words. The chain-smoking Swindon manager's remarks about the play-offs have not gone unnoticed in the Seagulls' camp. King, once a combative midfielder for
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Date
Soldier's mum tells of 'cheeky' gatecrasher
The mother of an Army corporal accused of trying to rape a businesswoman at a luxury seafront hotel described the alleged victim as a "cheeky madam". Jonathan Brockhouse, 34, is accused of attempting to rape the woman at The Grand hotel in Brighton. Brockhouse
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Farmers return to the land
Farmers are regaining the initiative in the countryside and fighting back against the "city slickers", despite rising farmland prices. The latest rural land survey published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), shows farmers in the
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Date
Glaxo boss hunt
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has hired headhunters to search for a replacement for Sir Christopher Hogg, its chairman, adding further competition in the search for a new boss at Marks & Spencer. The pharmaceuticals giant, which has a large manufacturing
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Date
Outback witness calls for fair trial
The girlfriend of a missing Briton has declared she wants the man accused of murdering him to receive a fair hearing. Joanne Lees, a Hove travel agent, is in Australia as the chief prosecution witness at Bradley John Murdoch's pre-trial hearing. Murdoch
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Date
Sports retailer hit by huge profit fall
JD Sports owner John David Group today said it was continuing to review all its options after revealing an 80% drop in pre-tax profits to £2.1 million. The sportswear retailer said the year to January proved to be very difficult as it struggled to integrate
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Date
Tycoon's bid to win back frozen assets
Property tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten has begun a legal tug-of-war to seize back control of his financial empire. Mr Hoogstraten, from Framfield, near Uckfield, who has claimed to be worth £500 million, said a ruling which led to his property empire being
-
Date
Male fish feminised by river pollutants
Pollution is causing male fish to develop female characteristics. Water companies were told to investigate ways of removing pollution from Sussex water six years ago. The Environment Agency estimates it could cost £1 billion more than the Government and
-
Date
Bogus officer ticks off real police
A bogus policeman pulling over motorists was arrested after stopping a car carrying four real officers. The man, from Brighton, was in his car dressed in a police uniform when he overtook the unmarked car and forced it to pull over. He then started giving
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Date
Sussex scores highest against Iraq pull-out
Sussex voters favour British troops staying in Iraq more than those in the rest of the country, according to a poll commissioned by a Brighton academic. Sociology professor Colin Francome asked NOP to conduct the survey. It asked whether British troops
-
Date
Neighbour defends festival noise ban
A nurse whose complaints helped silence the Brighton Festival Club said today she had been driven up the wall by late-night noise. She was one of three neighbours who complained about music from the Spiegeltent in Pavilion Gardens. The city council has
