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September 23: Carpenter looks forward to home return
For Albion players like Kerry Mayo and Gary Hart, who experienced the groundsharing arrangement, it wasn't much fun playing home games at Gillingham. Richard Carpenter, on the other hand, is really looking forward to Saturday's visit to the Seagulls'
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September 23: McGhee sets points target
Albion manager Mark McGhee today set his team a target of at least eight points from the next five matches to stay out of relegation trouble. The Seagulls have eight points from nine games so far in the Coca-Cola Championship and McGhee wants them to
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September 23: Carpenter looks forward to home return
For Albion players like Kerry Mayo and Gary Hart, who experienced the groundsharing arrangement, it wasn't much fun playing home games at Gillingham. Richard Carpenter, on the other hand, is really looking forward to Saturday's visit to the Seagulls'
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Letter: Shame on you
As a Wolverhampton-born guy living in Brighton, I was pleased to see Wolves fans and Brighton fans mixed peacefully at the Withdean, both before and after the game. I was amazed when I walked into the pub just outside the ground to find a mix of both
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Tribunal told of GP's dirty weekend
A family doctor boasted about her dirty weekend with a new lover to embarrassed colleagues at her surgery, a professional conduct committee heard. The General Medical Council hearing was told Dr Yvonne Hunniford also openly flirted, kissed and danced
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Barricades go up in Fortress Brighton
Welcome to Fortress Brighton. For the next seven days the city will be in the grip of the most high-profile police operation in its history. Yesterday, four days before the first delegate takes his place on the conference floor, the seafront road was
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Letter: Albion need our help
I have been an Albion supporter for more than 60 years. Selling the Goldstone and being forced to move to Gillingham was a disaster. This board of directors was not responsible but is still picking up the pieces with a capital gains tax bill from the
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Letter: Immobilised by paperwork
I am 61, have just got a motability car and am waiting for my log book to come. The DVLA said they had sent it but I did not get it. I rang them and they said I ought to pay £19 for a replacement but they would let me off and send me another one. But
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Letter: Poor impersonation
I recently had my car stolen but the police don't seem to care. I am a considerate person when my car was broken into. I was very aware and noticed, for example, a car radio theft in Stanmer Park which I rang up about and helped the police catch the thieves
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Letter: Do police care?
On Monday, August 23, I reported to the police an abandoned vehicle that had been left outside my house for a month. Once they discovered it had a road tax disc they were not interested even though I pointed out it was parked illegally, facing the flow
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Cycling: Tadros peaks in hill-climb
Hastings star Peter Tadros exploded the myth that southern riders are not good hill-climbers by winning the Glossop Vclo hill-climb. The event was held on the gruelling three-mile ascent of the 1,680ft Snake Pass in the Peak District and Tadros (In Gear
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Letter: Save money
Why was there a need to increase parking charges? There are other ways of saving or making money. Here are a few. Why are individual boxes painted on the road for car parking? Why not just mark the start and finish of the area? While walking along the
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Letter: We must reduce our reliance on dirty cars
It is surprising the Conservative candidate for Brighton Pavilion is calling for more city parking and saying no to increased parking and congestion charges in his Unblock Brighton campaign. Congestion charges have proved successful in reducing car use
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Basketball: Nurse needs another big Bear
Nick Nurse will today step up his search for an experienced big man after admitting he is "over the moon" with his new-look Brighton Bears. The British League champions are close to signing 6ft 11ins utility player Ajou Deng and American guard Steve Lepore
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Carpenter looks forward to home return
For Albion players like Kerry Mayo and Gary Hart, who experienced the groundsharing arrangement, it wasn't much fun playing home games at Gillingham. Richard Carpenter, on the other hand, is really looking forward to Saturday's visit to the Seagulls'
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Law firm's the envy of South East
Staff at law firm Thomas Eggar were celebrating today after being described as "the envy of the South-East" in The Lawyer UK's annual report. According to the survey, the firm, which has offices in Chichester, Horsham and Worthing, retained its position
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BA take on staff to beat chaos
British Airways is to recruit 200 new workers following disruption to flights last month which led to cancellations and travel chaos for passengers, it was announced today. The airline has been conducting a review of its operations since the disruption
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Vodafone to launch new range
Vodafone has begun a major push into the market for third-generation mobile phones with plans to launch ten new handsets before Christmas. The telecoms giant said it would begin selling the phones in November. They will feature modern technology offering
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Group 4 on target but job cuts loom
Security firm Group 4 Securicor was keeping tight-lipped about job cuts today as it posted a ten per cent rise in pro-forma earnings. The Gatwick-based group said it was on track to make the £30 million of annual cost savings it promised at the time of
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Twelfth Night, Theatre Royal, Brighton
Director Stephen Unwin milks the Shakespeare comedy for all it is worth, making the English Touring Theatre's Twelfth Night the funniest I have ever seen. This is Shakespeare done just how I like it. On a bare stage with just a curtain and a seascape
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Letter: Our fish festival was a great success
Last year, Newhaven ran a Maritime festival for the first time. It was very successful. Last Saturday, a Fish festival was put on with even greater success. A great many people visited (1,500-2,000 perhaps) and the whole event was enjoyed enormously.
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Letter: Question of responsibility
In his reply to the question about the Spen Cama legacy, the chairman of Sussex County Cricket Club said: "Any responsibly-run business has to try to make the books balance from year to year" (Letters, September 17). How responsible is it to run up a
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Letter: Seagulls need to cut costs as well
Top marks to The Argus for supporting the Albion's appeal for cash before the club moves to Falmer. It must be up to each individual how much, if anything, they are willing and able to contribute. No one is forcing anyone to pay but the club must also
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Ordinary row in band's hometown
The Beatles had their love affair with Liverpool. Oasis were mad for Manchester. Now pop phenomenom The Ordinary Boys are finally putting Worthing on the musical map. Or at least...they were. The latest darlings of the scene grew up and went to school
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Instant TV star begs for votes
Rocky the labrador has a last-minute place in the final three of a nationwide contest for talented pets. The three-year-old found himself in the top slot after Frankie the ferret, a previous finalist, died of heart trouble. Undeterred by just a few hours
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Albion make Palookaville their home
Brighton and Hove Albion are to play their next home tie in Palookaville. But John Prescott need not reach for his A to Z and order a public inquiry because the club is not moving anywhere. The Seagulls are to rename the Withdean stadium - for one match
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Letter: Stop begging
I was surprised to see two pages of The Argus taken up with a begging letter from Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. Does this set a precedent for other companies that are in financial difficulties and will you publish the same for them? After all
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Award for clifftop hero
A grieving husband foiled a woman's suicide bid seven days after his wife fell to her death. Keith Lane went to the clifftop at 5.30am to pay his daily respects to his wife a week after her death at Beachy Head. As he was grieving on the clifftop, he
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Neighbour gave me a heart attack
A dustman drove his neighbours to despair by blasting them with loud music - when he went out. Graham Tusler, 61, connected his television, radio and hi-fi to timer switches and programmed them to play while he was away. When he left his semi-detached
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Letter: Why so much?
I am surprised at the apparent lack of complaints at the punitive increase in parking charges in Brighton and Hove. Increasing the half-hour charge from 10 pence to 50 pence and removing the one-hour charge appears to be designed to increase revenue by
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Cricket: Sussex's season never took off
The players are resting tired bodies and minds. Supporters are wondering where they can get their cricket-fix over the next few months. Another summer is over, but as the inquest begins at Hove this week the question has to be: Did Sussex's season ever
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McGhee sets points target
Albion manager Mark McGhee today set his team a target of at least eight points from the next five matches to stay out of relegation trouble. The Seagulls have eight points from nine games so far in the Coca-Cola Championship and McGhee wants them to
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Workers feel let down by parting gifts
Traditional leaving gifts for workers have changed, with firms more likely to give jewellery, alcohol or even fluffy pencil cases than watches or travel clocks. A poll of 1,000 office staff for recruitment firm Office Angels showed some employers let
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Bank's rate decision was unanimous
The Bank of England voted unanimously to keep interest rates on hold this month, a report showed today. The nine members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept rates at 4.75% amid signs that the housing market was cooling, according to minutes
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Enterprising student bids for national honour
A student who designed a product to make life more comfortable for thousands of cancer patients has reached the national final of a major business competition. Martina Rieder, a biochemistry and management studies student at Sussex University, now faces
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Rolls-Royce reward for science teaching
Rolls-Royce wants to reward teachers who inspire children to study science. The global engineering company has launched the Rolls-Royce Science Prize to help arrest the growing science and engineering skills shortage in the UK. It has distributed information
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Chris T-T, Komedia, Brighton, Thursday September 23
"Secretly I'd like everyone to think I'm really hard," says Chris T-T. The cult singer-songwriter has been posing for photos flanked by two enormous Rottweilers and saying he'll "come and find" us if we print his real surname. But those familiar with
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Oliver! Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne
Charles Dickens' classic tale - with those immortal words, "Please sir, can I have some more?" - is back. This latest adaptation, directed by Dotty Briant and Keith Smith, is a fun-filled musical that will pull on even the most hardened heartstrings.
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Martin Simpson, Komedia, Brighton
Folk Now, Komedia's sampler platter of folk music from around the world, served up the home-made stylings of Martin Simpson. As one of the world's pre-eminent acoustic guitar-players, an accomplished songwriter and BBC Folk Awards 2004 Musician Of The
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September 23: McGhee sets points target
Albion manager Mark McGhee today set his team a target of at least eight points from the next five matches to stay out of relegation trouble. The Seagulls have eight points from nine games so far in the Coca-Cola Championship and McGhee wants them to
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September 22: Albion skipper faces surgery
Albion's game at Gillingham on Saturday could be the last for Danny Cullip before hernia surgery. Manager Mark McGhee today revealed his courageous captain should already have gone under the surgeon's knife. Cullip has been playing with a hernia in recent
