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Letter: Her clothing is an insult to veterans
My telephone never stopped ringing after your front page picture of Kitten Pinder (The Argus, May 29). We were all upset that this woman, who looks no older than a schoolgirl, was wearing a "sailorboy" outfit and at least two war ribbons on the left side
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Letter: Get out now
I am distressed, disturbed and deeply ashamed of this government's pathetic lack of response to Israel's cold, calculated lawlessness inflicted upon an imprisoned and humiliated people in Palestine. This coming on top of Tony Blair's Iraqi crusade fosters
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Letter: Who's to blame?
At the trial of Cassie Watts and her father Neil Watts, the judge criticised the couple for taking the law into their own hands and sentenced them to six months' jail for the offence against Laura Garth. If, as Cassie claimed in court, Laura started the
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Abba fans' pilgrimage for weekend of Swede music
Abbamania comes to Brighton and Hove next week - 30 years after the famous four shot to global stardom in the Eurovision Song Contest at the Dome. Abbafest, a three-day festival in honour of the Swedish supergroup, is expected to attract up to 20,000
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Council loses £3,400 after expenses fiasco
A council has written off thousands of pounds which went missing during an election, The Argus can reveal. One senior official at Worthing Borough Council has vanished since the 2000 local election, when high-ranking staff received expenses to which the
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Letter: Sacrilege
Is the vicar of St George's Church, Kemp Town, Brighton, mad? I simply cannot believe he is proposing to move the Post Office into his dungeon-like crypt. The conversion recently carried out to the crypt has been done in a very unsympathetic manner. It
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Letter: No thanks
Like most people who live in and around Brighton, I felt it was good news for the city that the footballl team have been promoted. However, we must ensure that Brighton and Hove Albion do not have a stadium at Falmer because of the traffic problems it
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Up to you now
John Piercy and three more of Albion's out-of-contract squad players have been given three months to force their way into the First Division plans of manager Mark McGhee. Piercy, David Lee, Dean Hammond and Dan Beck have from July to October to prove
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£22m winner's divorce row
The winner of Britain's biggest National Lottery jackpot is heading for the divorce court - where he could lose half his fortune. Mark Gardiner, 42, married Brenda four months after he and his business partner scooped £22.6 million in June 1995. Their
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Letter: Well done
Having supported The Seagulls for about 45 years I would like to congratulate them on gaining promotion to Division 1 with very limited resources. Now is the time for Brighton and Hove City Council to get behind the club, and push John Prescott into making
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Letter: Now we're in Division 1 can we have a stadium?
Many congratulations to our super Seagulls on winning promotion to Division 1 with a great performance at the Millennium Stadium. Having watched a repeat of the match, I thought they played with great team spirit. The result and the number of Brighton
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Protesters test park users on its future
A conservation group is to run an alternative test of public opinion on plans for the future of a country park. The Friends of Stanmer Park has launched its own survey because it is unhappy with Brighton and Hove City Council's official consultation exercise
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Bid to extend national park boundary
Countryside campaigners are calling for more of the Ouse valley and land around Ringmer to be included in the proposed South Downs national park. Members of the South Downs Campaign will put the case at the long-running public inquiry into the park plans
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Acas moves in to help settle bins dispute
Conciliation service Acas is stepping in to help settle the feud between Brighton and Hove dustmen and their managers. Refuse staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, which could include a strike, following the suspension of 11 fellow
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Tories stage a seaside conference comeback
The Conservative Party is to hold a conference in Brighton for the first time in more than a decade. It is hoped next year's spring conference will bring in almost £2 million when as many as 3,000 representatives descend on the city. It is also the last
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Football fans to shell out £1bn on Sven's men
Football fans are set to spend almost £1 billion supporting England during Euro 2004 this summer, according to a report. Supporters are splashing out on everything from flights to Portugal to new team strips, research from credit card company Capital
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Awards aim to find Sussex's best firms
Time is running out for companies to enter the prestigious Sussex Business Awards 2004. The most outstanding large and small organisations in the county will be recognised at the event. Entrants for the Sussex Company of the Year award, sponsored by Crawley-based
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Letter: Her clothing is an insult to veterans
My telephone never stopped ringing after your front page picture of Kitten Pinder (The Argus, May 29). We were all upset that this woman, who looks no older than a schoolgirl, was wearing a "sailorboy" outfit and at least two war ribbons on the left side
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Letter: Be neutral
The academics of the University of Sussex and University of Brighton went over the top in suggesting our government should intervene regarding the carnage that is going on in the Gaza Strip (Letters, May 27). I recall the criticism the Government received
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Letter: It's persecution
Sylvia Harwood is quite correct, air guns should be banned (Letters, May 5). The same argument could equally be used for the banning of the private ownership of domestic cats who kill and decimate millions of the wild bird population every year, or the
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Letter: Who's to blame?
At the trial of Cassie Watts and her father Neil Watts, the judge criticised the couple for taking the law into their own hands and sentenced them to six months' jail for the offence against Laura Garth. If, as Cassie claimed in court, Laura started the
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Acas moves in to help settle bins dispute
Conciliation service Acas is stepping in to help settle the feud between Brighton and Hove dustmen and their managers. Refuse staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, which could include a strike, following the suspension of 11 fellow
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Letter: Wrong target
Keith Jago's call (Letters, May 27) for depth and circumspection was hilariously lacking in any such qualities. Finishing with "It's time to go, Tony, before you do further damage to Britain" had the typical characteristics of the 'phoney Tony' brigade
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BB rebel's caring past is revealed on web site
Big Brother troublemaker Kitten used to help troubled teenagers as a youth worker. Kathryn "Kitten" Pinder, from Brighton, revealed on the Friends Reunited web site she worked with teenage help organisation Connexions. The job involves supporting troubled
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Letter: Sacrilege
Is the vicar of St George's Church, Kemp Town, Brighton, mad? I simply cannot believe he is proposing to move the Post Office into his dungeon-like crypt. The conversion recently carried out to the crypt has been done in a very unsympathetic manner. It
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Letter: No thanks
Like most people who live in and around Brighton, I felt it was good news for the city that the footballl team have been promoted. However, we must ensure that Brighton and Hove Albion do not have a stadium at Falmer because of the traffic problems it
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Letter: Well done
Having supported The Seagulls for about 45 years I would like to congratulate them on gaining promotion to Division 1 with very limited resources. Now is the time for Brighton and Hove City Council to get behind the club, and push John Prescott into making
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Letter: Now we're in Division 1 can we have a stadium?
Many congratulations to our super Seagulls on winning promotion to Division 1 with a great performance at the Millennium Stadium. Having watched a repeat of the match, I thought they played with great team spirit. The result and the number of Brighton
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Protesters test park users on its future
A conservation group is to run an alternative test of public opinion on plans for the future of a country park. The Friends of Stanmer Park has launched its own survey because it is unhappy with Brighton and Hove City Council's official consultation exercise
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Bid to extend national park boundary
Countryside campaigners are calling for more of the Ouse valley and land around Ringmer to be included in the proposed South Downs national park. Members of the South Downs Campaign will put the case at the long-running public inquiry into the park plans
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Network Rail makes £758M loss
Rail infrastructure operator Network Rail said today it had fallen into the red - but said its debt levels were better than expected. Network Rail (NR) said it made an operating loss of £758 million in the year to March 31 against an operating profit
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Acas moves in to help settle bins dispute
Conciliation service Acas is stepping in to help settle the feud between Brighton and Hove dustmen and their managers. Refuse staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, which could include a strike, following the suspension of 11 fellow
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Tories stage a seaside conference comeback
The Conservative Party is to hold a conference in Brighton for the first time in more than a decade. It is hoped next year's spring conference will bring in almost £2 million when as many as 3,000 representatives descend on the city. It is also the last
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Football fans to shell out £1bn on Sven's men
Football fans are set to spend almost £1 billion supporting England during Euro 2004 this summer, according to a report. Supporters are splashing out on everything from flights to Portugal to new team strips, research from credit card company Capital
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Awards aim to find Sussex's best firms
Time is running out for companies to enter the prestigious Sussex Business Awards 2004. The most outstanding large and small organisations in the county will be recognised at the event. Entrants for the Sussex Company of the Year award, sponsored by Crawley-based
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Letter: BB's pants
Sadly, Big Brother is back, full of people wanting to sell their souls in order to get famous. Brookside was axed and yet Big Brother is pants. Lily Knox -Clarendon Villas, Hove
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Letter: Be neutral
The academics of the University of Sussex and University of Brighton went over the top in suggesting our government should intervene regarding the carnage that is going on in the Gaza Strip (Letters, May 27). I recall the criticism the Government received
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Letter: It's persecution
Sylvia Harwood is quite correct, air guns should be banned (Letters, May 5). The same argument could equally be used for the banning of the private ownership of domestic cats who kill and decimate millions of the wild bird population every year, or the
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Letter: Don't believe
So the Bible is a "wonderful book" (Letters, May 28) and we should follow all of its teachings? Perhaps Mrs. Chippendale is in favour of the biblical law that requires women to marry the men that rape them (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)? Perhaps she also believes
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Letter: Seek the truth
There are one or two observations about WJ McIlroy's letter "Some sense out of such silliness" (The Argus, May 24) that I should like to make. Firstly, it was not Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream which was regarded by the headmistress of St Mary's
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Web shopper loses £2,225 in bike sting
An internet shopper lost thousands of pounds after falling victim to international fraud. Mick Salsbury, of Highlands Road, Portslade, is £2,225 out of pocket after his first attempt to buy a bargain online. The painter and decorator sent money to Italy
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I've filmed drug deals but police have not even called
A drugs gang has set up business outside a pub, scaring regulars away. Queen's Head landlord David Beales has filmed cocaine and crack deals outside the pub in Steine Street, Brighton, and noted the number plates of cars involved. However, he hasn't had
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Acas moves in to help settle bins dispute
Conciliation service Acas is stepping in to help settle the feud between Brighton and Hove dustmen and their managers. Refuse staff voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, which could include a strike, following the suspension of 11 fellow
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Letter: Wrong target
Keith Jago's call (Letters, May 27) for depth and circumspection was hilariously lacking in any such qualities. Finishing with "It's time to go, Tony, before you do further damage to Britain" had the typical characteristics of the 'phoney Tony' brigade
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BB rebel's caring past is revealed on web site
Big Brother troublemaker Kitten used to help troubled teenagers as a youth worker. Kathryn "Kitten" Pinder, from Brighton, revealed on the Friends Reunited web site she worked with teenage help organisation Connexions. The job involves supporting troubled
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Letter: Drop kerbs
In recent years, kerbs have been lowered or removed to make movement easier for disabled people. Three cheers for that. But two new hazards have been created. First, the slabs used have quickly broken up and you can now trip over them. Second, at some
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Tears for a free spirit who perished on A23
More than 300 family members and friends attended the funeral of a "lively, free-spirited" girl who was killed in the A23 horror crash. Gemma Smoker, 17, was one of eight people who died in the accident near Pyecombe on May 16. Her mother Jackie wept
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Letter: Defunct cup
I am researching a book on defunct 1950s Sussex non-league football clubs and have found references to the Newhaven Charity Cup, competed for by Hove White Rovers (later Hove Town) and Newhaven FC. People and organisations I have spoken to know nothing
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Bystanders take plunge to save mare
Freckles the horse looked up helplessly after falling into a muddy ditch. But there was a happy ending to her ordeal. She was spotted in time by a passer-by, who plunged into the icy brook and held her head above water until a team of firefighters came
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Kuipers saves the day
Albion's damaged promotion silverware has been knocked back into the shape, by the big hands of goalkeeper Michel Kuipers. The play-offs trophy was buckled at the base during the celebrations which followed Sunday's victory in Cardiff against Bristol
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Letter: Top plot
Well done, Seagulls. Now please, John Prescott, let our players and fans have the Falmer ground to get to the top. Mary Frankel Benson Court, -Hove
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Letter: Sportsmanship
Having just returned from Cardiff, I could not wait to comment on the sportsmanship shown by the Bristol City supporters. In the lowest moment of their season, having had their hopes of promotion dashed they showed all the old fashioned virtues that we
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Network Rail makes £758M loss
Rail infrastructure operator Network Rail said today it had fallen into the red - but said its debt levels were better than expected. Network Rail (NR) said it made an operating loss of £758 million in the year to March 31 against an operating profit
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Letter: BB's pants
Sadly, Big Brother is back, full of people wanting to sell their souls in order to get famous. Brookside was axed and yet Big Brother is pants. Lily Knox -Clarendon Villas, Hove
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Letter: Get out now
I am distressed, disturbed and deeply ashamed of this government's pathetic lack of response to Israel's cold, calculated lawlessness inflicted upon an imprisoned and humiliated people in Palestine. This coming on top of Tony Blair's Iraqi crusade fosters
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Letter: Don't believe
So the Bible is a "wonderful book" (Letters, May 28) and we should follow all of its teachings? Perhaps Mrs. Chippendale is in favour of the biblical law that requires women to marry the men that rape them (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)? Perhaps she also believes
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Letter: Seek the truth
There are one or two observations about WJ McIlroy's letter "Some sense out of such silliness" (The Argus, May 24) that I should like to make. Firstly, it was not Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream which was regarded by the headmistress of St Mary's
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Web shopper loses £2,225 in bike sting
An internet shopper lost thousands of pounds after falling victim to international fraud. Mick Salsbury, of Highlands Road, Portslade, is £2,225 out of pocket after his first attempt to buy a bargain online. The painter and decorator sent money to Italy
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I've filmed drug deals but police have not even called
A drugs gang has set up business outside a pub, scaring regulars away. Queen's Head landlord David Beales has filmed cocaine and crack deals outside the pub in Steine Street, Brighton, and noted the number plates of cars involved. However, he hasn't had
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Abba fans' pilgrimage for weekend of Swede music
Abbamania comes to Brighton and Hove next week - 30 years after the famous four shot to global stardom in the Eurovision Song Contest at the Dome. Abbafest, a three-day festival in honour of the Swedish supergroup, is expected to attract up to 20,000
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Letter: Drop kerbs
In recent years, kerbs have been lowered or removed to make movement easier for disabled people. Three cheers for that. But two new hazards have been created. First, the slabs used have quickly broken up and you can now trip over them. Second, at some
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Date
Council loses £3,400 after expenses fiasco
A council has written off thousands of pounds which went missing during an election, The Argus can reveal. One senior official at Worthing Borough Council has vanished since the 2000 local election, when high-ranking staff received expenses to which the
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Tears for a free spirit who perished on A23
More than 300 family members and friends attended the funeral of a "lively, free-spirited" girl who was killed in the A23 horror crash. Gemma Smoker, 17, was one of eight people who died in the accident near Pyecombe on May 16. Her mother Jackie wept
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Letter: Defunct cup
I am researching a book on defunct 1950s Sussex non-league football clubs and have found references to the Newhaven Charity Cup, competed for by Hove White Rovers (later Hove Town) and Newhaven FC. People and organisations I have spoken to know nothing
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Date
Bystanders take plunge to save mare
Freckles the horse looked up helplessly after falling into a muddy ditch. But there was a happy ending to her ordeal. She was spotted in time by a passer-by, who plunged into the icy brook and held her head above water until a team of firefighters came
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Up to you now
John Piercy and three more of Albion's out-of-contract squad players have been given three months to force their way into the First Division plans of manager Mark McGhee. Piercy, David Lee, Dean Hammond and Dan Beck have from July to October to prove
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Date
Kuipers saves the day
Albion's damaged promotion silverware has been knocked back into the shape, by the big hands of goalkeeper Michel Kuipers. The play-offs trophy was buckled at the base during the celebrations which followed Sunday's victory in Cardiff against Bristol
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£22m winner's divorce row
The winner of Britain's biggest National Lottery jackpot is heading for the divorce court - where he could lose half his fortune. Mark Gardiner, 42, married Brenda four months after he and his business partner scooped £22.6 million in June 1995. Their
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Letter: Top plot
Well done, Seagulls. Now please, John Prescott, let our players and fans have the Falmer ground to get to the top. Mary Frankel Benson Court, -Hove
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Letter: Sportsmanship
Having just returned from Cardiff, I could not wait to comment on the sportsmanship shown by the Bristol City supporters. In the lowest moment of their season, having had their hopes of promotion dashed they showed all the old fashioned virtues that we
