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Spot of bother
If Albion pay the ultimate penalty in the Championship, a cruel irony will be at the heart of their downfall. The manner in which they were promoted is threatening to consign them to relegation. Success in the shoot-out against Swindon at Withdean and
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Stand up and be counted
Albion manager Mark McGhee today asked his players to stand up and be counted in the fight for Championship survival. The Seagulls are in the relegation zone for the first time since the first month of the season as they try to end a run of six straight
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April 7: Spot of bother
If Albion pay the ultimate penalty in the Championship, a cruel irony will be at the heart of their downfall. The manner in which they were promoted is threatening to consign them to relegation. Success in the shoot-out against Swindon at Withdean and
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Carers banned from crossing road for OAP
Home helpers have been banned from walking 30 yards across the road to buy milk for a bed-ridden pensioner - because it is not their job. Rosemary Woodford, 75, from Lancing, takes the drink regularly as a crucial part of her medical treatment and fears
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Organisation reassures drivers over speed cameras
The organisation which operates the county's speed cameras today reassured drivers that one which led to hundreds of tickets being issued in error is working perfectly. The Argus reported last week that 200 motorists were issued with duplicate tickets
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Letter: He was a success for the Tory party
Keith Jago (Letters, March 24) is suffering from a distortion of memory. Dennis Hobden did not capture Brighton Kemptown by a margin of six votes in 1966. He captured the seat by a margin of seven votes, 18 months earlier, at the General Election of October
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Letter: Care on the road
Every day, we see pictures of road traffic accidents in The Argus. Perhaps all newspapers could help promote safety by adding the words "lets take care out there" to the end of each report of an accident. -Ian Steedman, Worthing
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Mother finds needle in son's medicine
A Hospital has apologised after a mother found a needle floating in her week-old son's medicine. Julie Webster noticed a green object in the bottle as she was about to give baby Joshua a dose of his antibiotics. She said: "I saw something in the liquid
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Letter: I just want a book
When I visit Hove Library I have to cross the congested and increasingly busy Church Road at what seems its narrowest point. I am so concerned with trying to avoid the traffic I'm afraid I'm in no state to appreciate "the intrinsic relationship between
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Letter: Support teenagers
As Secretary of the Clarendon and Ellen Residents' Association, I attend Clarendon Local Action Team meetings and, with the police, YMCA, residents, council officers and two councillors, try to identify local needs and solutions to improve quality of
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MPs urge hospital discharge solution
The Government has piled pressure on to East Sussex social services to ease the bed-blocking crisis gripping the county's hospitals. Junior health minister Stephen Ladyman accused the county council of "setting its face" against moves to reduce delayed
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Pensioner sent £47,000 electricity bill
Pensioner Pamela Fowler was incredulous when an electricity bill for more than £47,000 landed on her doormat. The 72-year-old has no idea how Seeboard Energy came up with the figure and spent sleepless nights wondering where she would find the money.
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Letter: No targets for us
The assertion by Jane Bentley that "exclusion panels are driven by targets to keep the number of exclusions low" (The Argus, March 30) is simply not true. Similarly, it belittles the integrity of our appeal panel members to say they are not making judgements
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Athletics: Marathon men will run from Paris to London
The finish line of the Paris Marathon will be just the start of the road for three runners from Hastings on Sunday. While everyone else dreams of a cold drink and a hot bath after 26 gruelling miles around the streets of the French capital, Brian Kirkdale
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Football: Ringmer shock Bognor
John Crumplin guided County League minnows Ringmer to a Sussex Senior Cup Final against mighty Conference outfit Crawley. His giant-killers punched above their weight for the second round running as they overcame Conference south side Bognor thanks to
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Letter: Human faces
As with many people, I sometimes come close to madness with frustration in my dealings with Brighton and Hove City Council. It is therefore a pleasure to thank Jeanette Walsh of the major projects team for tackling the light pollution and privacy problem
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Basketball: Exciting times ahead
Nick Nurse today heralded a high-profile British League overhaul as great news for basketball and Brighton Bears. NBA legend AC Green is heading a group of American investors who have taken out a significant shareholding in the BBL. Green, who played
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Spot of bother
If Albion pay the ultimate penalty in the Championship, a cruel irony will be at the heart of their downfall. The manner in which they were promoted is threatening to consign them to relegation. Success in the shoot-out against Swindon at Withdean and
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Seafront tower is rejected
Plans for a seafront tower up to 12 storeys high have been thrown out. Councillors unanimously rejected a scheme for 98 flats, offices and an underground car park on the site of the former Caffyns garage showroom in Kingsway, Hove. More than 150 neighbours
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Walkers in clash over path round mansion
Ramblers are fighting to save a public footpath running through a £20 million estate. Millionaire Charles Pearson wants to divert the path away from Pitshill House, his Georgian mansion near Petworth, to improve security and privacy before his family
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Peregrines pick plush perch
A pair of falcons have laid a clutch of eggs after making their home on the top of one Sussex's most exclusive venues. The peregrine falcons have laid four eggs in a nesting box perched 334ft up at the top of Sussex Heights apartment block, which has
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Trouble-hit jet has to turn back to airport
An airliner has broken down again after taking off from Gatwick. Phuket Air's 15-year-old Boeing 747-200 took off at 10am yesterday but turned back within minutes after developing a problem with its hydraulic systems. There were 82 passengers on board
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Treasure Island, Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Friday April 8 - 9
The reputation of children's theatre company Wee Stories is such that they were invited, this year, to export their maverick version of Treasure Island to Barbados. Luckily for Brighton audiences, however, their UK tour was already confirmed. And so this
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Love with Arthur Lee, Concorde 2, Brighton
Arthur Lee warmly hugged original Love guitarist John Echols and then told the crowd to love one another. And when you cast your eyes across the rammed seafront venue mixed with Noughties hippy chicks to fiftysomething herbal cigarette smokers, you could
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Seafront tower is rejected
Plans for a seafront tower up to 12 storeys high have been crushed. Councillors unanimously rejected a scheme for 98 flats, offices and an underground car park on the site of the former Caffyns garage showroom in Kingsway, Hove. More than 150 neighbours
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Billie-Jo murder retrial delayed
Sion Jenkins arrived with his new wife at the Old Bailey yesterday before learning his retrial for the murder of his foster daughter, Billie-Jo, had been postponed for two weeks. Former deputy headteacher Jenkins, 47, looked relaxed as he entered court
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Sacked MP's farewell as new man is chosen
Sacked Conservative MP Howard Flight last night drew a line under his row with party leader Michael Howard and vowed to help him win the election. Mr Flight spoke of his plans before members of his party association voted Nick Herbert - 42 today and director
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Letter: Japan is more attractive than their wedding
After last week's tantrum on the ski slopes at Klosters, when he said he hated the highly respected Nicholas Witchell, Prince Charles has lost a great deal of sympathy, respect and honour from the British public. This Saturday, Prince Charles and Camilla
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Letter: Well done, Jean
As a weekender in Brighton, I am always delighted to read your paper. It is a most interesting, well written and diverse local paper - possibly the best in the UK. It also has the most articulate writer in Jean Calder. How refreshing to read a woman who
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Letter: Our freedoms include choosing not to vote
"It's marvellous to live in a free and democratic country where you can do or say anything you want." Unless, of course, you choose not to vote, in which case you should be punished. In her article "Let's fine people too lazy to vote" (The Argus, March
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Cricket: Decision time on overseas signing
Sussex will make a decision tomorrow about whether to bring in Johan van der Wath as their second overseas player. The 26-year-old South African bowler is keen to come to Hove on a short-term contract until mid-June when Pakistan's Rana Naved ul-Hasan
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Stand up and be counted
Albion manager Mark McGhee today asked his players to stand up and be counted in the fight for Championship survival. The Seagulls are in the relegation zone for the first time since the first month of the season as they try to end a run of six straight
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Properties sit vacant despite continuing housing crisis
Brighton and Hove may be in the throes of a housing crisis but there are more than 1,800 homes lying empty in the city. New figures show hundreds of empty properties are still dotted throughout the city's streets, despite significant progress by the council
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Busy hospital to have beds in a car park
Extra beds are to be made available in the car park of a crisis-hit hospital facing unprecedented pressure on space. A temporary 35-bed acute ward for surgical patients is to be built at Eastbourne District General Hospital (DGH). It will be based in
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A priest who had time for everyone dies from brain tumour
Canon Derek Moody, one of the best known Anglican priests in Brighton and Hove, died on Tuesday from a brain tumour. The 63-year-old became vicar of St Nicholas Church in 1988 and immediately embarked on restoring the 14th Century building. He also ensured
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Council 'misled' in boat wrangle
Council bosses say they were misled into giving permission to a couple to convert a former Nato minesweeper into a floating home. Keith Morgan, Adur District Council's planning manager, told a public inquiry that the measurements they were given for the
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Residents are delighted by their first glimpses of renovated city landmark
The public has been given its first glimpse of a revamped seafront eyesore. Workers have begun dismantling the scaffolding surrounding Brighton's Embassy Court following the first phase of a £4.2 million project to restore the badly-decayed Thirties masterpiece
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Carers banned from crossing road for OAP
Home helpers have been banned from walking 30 yards across the road to buy milk for a bed-ridden pensioner - because it is not their job. Rosemary Woodford, 75, from Lancing, takes the drink regularly as a crucial part of her medical treatment and fears
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April 7: Stand up and be counted
Albion manager Mark McGhee today asked his players to stand up and be counted in the fight for Championship survival. The Seagulls are in the relegation zone for the first time since the first month of the season as they try to end a run of six straight
