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From Russia with love
It takes a lot to impress 21st-Century kids. Top-quality, hi-tech entertainment at the push of a button is a hard act to follow. So it is always gratifying to see hundreds of pairs of young eyes glued to a show which relies on physical ingenuity and old-fashioned
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How To Succeed In Business, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
The 2005 Chichester Festival has got off to a stunning start with a revival of Frank Loesser's musical from the early Sixties, which is chockfull of fizz and fun. The show, a satirical look at big business based on the hard-back book of the title, may
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Forties hit is a winner
A wartime theme gave dancer Nathan Potter the chance to shine on the BBC1 reality television show Strictly Dance Fever. The 26-year-old manager of Bay Trading at Hastings danced the jitterbug to the 1940s hit Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree, He and dance
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Film star slams architect for creating 'gaudy alpine chalet'
Film star Michael York is so appalled by the modernisation of his parent's former house that he refuses to walk past it. The star of Cabaret, Three Musketeers and Young Winston, has joined the growing band of local residents concerned at the changes to
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Letter: Rapid response
Our county's police force's growing deployment of bicycles in their fight to reduce crime is about to take on a whole new dimension with the possible introduction of rapid-response tandem bicycles. This has arisen because officers who currently use cycles
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Letter: Tandems are so limited in capacity
After reading the article entitled "On you get - we're off to the nick" (The Argus, May 3) regarding Eastbourne police, who are considering issuing tandem bikes to some of their officers so they may transport miscreants to Eastbourne police station, most
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Fun in the sun
Brighton Festival got under way with a carnival atmosphere when thousands of youngsters joined this year's Children's Parade. The event on Saturday saw 4,500 children, parents and teachers taking part and more than 10,000 spectators lining the route from
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Letter: Fair pay for police
If the Police have to deal with the same dangerous crimes in Sussex as they do in London, why don't they get the same wages? -Mary Frankel, Hove
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Painkiller mother's holiday hell to end
A woman who faced up to four years in a Dubai jail accused of having traces of banned drugs in her body has been cleared and is waiting to hear when she can fly home to Sussex. Painkiller codeine and the sedative tamazepam were found in Tracy Wilkinson's
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Letter: Patrol the streets
How many crimes were committed in the south while a large number of policemen were protecting one lot of louts from another lot of louts at the Portsmouth-Southampton soccer match? If the same number of police were patrolling the streets, what a difference
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Speedway: Watt's in a hurry to make it a good day in the end
Davey Watt had a really bad day on Saturday. It all had something to do, he explained at Arlington Stadium, with policemen, cameras and a pheasant. "I've had a terrible day. I got done twice for speeding getting here and I've got a smashed windscreen
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Letter: Welcome visitors
I currently live in Sweden. Today, I spoke to a Swedish woman (of Kurdish background) whose sister had visited Brighton and lived there for a while. I asked how her sister liked Brighton and her reply was disturbing. While in Brighton her sister had been
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Rugby: Shield bid is a step into the unknown
Sussex admit they are venturing into the unknown in their bid to get to Twickenham. Skipper Gordon Denslow and his men got their Powergen County Shield season off to a winning start with a home 16-15 success over Hertfordshire which was more convincing
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Letter: Lock thieves up
On a recent visit to America, we passed through one town, to discover the children had placed their soft toys on the central reservation as an Easter display. Those toys were still there at the end of the weekend. The reason I mention this, is because
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Cricket: Prior reacts to omission by cracking big century
It did not take long for Matt Prior to get over the disappointment of his England snub. Three days after he was left out of the 25-man development squad, Prior made the second highest score in Sussex's Sunday League history as the Sharks eased to a comfortable
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Letter: Where have my tall antipodeans got to?
They were tall, bronzed and Australian. The pair of them graced our front garden for many a year. They would wave to me every morning when I opened the front curtains. had put in them in the foolish hopes it would make them too heavy to steal. If you
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Destiny was all in a text
So this is how it feels to fight a survival battle in the age of mobile text-messaging. Yes it was nervous, yes it was tense, yes the second half seemed to go on for an eternity. And yes, we wondered where those four minutes of added time had come from
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Hero Virgo salutes survival on a tense final day
Adam Virgo today saluted Championship survival as a bigger triumph than Albion's three promotions in the last five years. Virgo's tenth-minute equaliser against promotion-chasing Ipswich at Withdean yesterday earned the Seagulls the point they needed
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Albion deserve to stay up
Mark McGhee walked along the gangway behind the North Stand at Withdean towards his last press conference of another nerve-shredding campaign for Albion. Fans celebrating Championship survival on the terrace of the Sportsman pub spontaneously applauded
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Dora film festival preview
A short film receiving its international premier at the Cannes Film Festival can be seen alongside work from directors across the South-East. Someone In Particular, featuring Brighton resident and Last Of The Summer Wine actress Dora Bryan, will be screened
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May 9: Hero Virgo salutes survival on a tense final day
Adam Virgo today saluted Championship survival as a bigger triumph than Albion's three promotions in the last five years. Virgo's tenth-minute equaliser against promotion-chasing Ipswich at Withdean yesterday earned the Seagulls the point they needed
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Sherlock Holmes double Bill, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, May 9, 10 and 15
With his erratic personal grooming, partiality to mind-altering substances and tendency to indulge in improvisational violin playing at ungodly hours, Sherlock Holmes was always regarded as something of an eccentric. So imagine the challenge posed to
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Letter: We love singing about our family
Name any subject and chances are someone has written a song about it. The family has always been a popular subject with both songwriters and singers. The Beverley Sisters, appropriately enough, did well with Sisters while The Hollies reached number three
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Letter: Too many cars
An ambulance had trouble getting out of Laburnham Avenue the other day because of a car parked on double yellow lines. I do hope no one will die because of such selfish car users. Laburnham Avenue was not built to have so many cars. -Lesley Kite, Hove
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Letter: Danger: parking
It is coming to something when our firefighters notice dangerous double-parking has become worse since Brighton and Hove City Council took over the parking restrictions. When will the council realise taking away parking places does not ease traffic flow
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Letters of mourning for author revealed
Letters sent to the family of Virginia Woolf after her suicide have been published for the first time. In 1941 the author loaded her pockets with stones and walked into the River Ouse near her home in Rodmell, near Lewes. Her suicide was seen as both
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Letter: We salute this brave but modest local hero
Sergeant Terry Thomson should feel very proud for receiving his well-deserved Gallantry Cross for saving nine colleagues while under heavy fire in Iraq (The Argus, April 29). He has received the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, only outranked by the Victoria
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60 years on, veterans relive the joy of peace
Veterans relived memories of the war years as VE Day commemorations took place across Sussex at the weekend. Some recreated the street parties and celebrations that took place on May 8, 1945, when it was announced on the radio the Second World War was
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Teenager jailed for campaign of terror
A TEENAGE menace who terrorised shopkeepers has been jailed. Tony "Tubby" White has also been banned from entering Valley Road, Portslade, for the next five years. A judge said that although White was still only 19, the action was necessary to protect
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Heroes of a magic night
There were tears, laughter and standing ovations as Sussex paid tribute to its hidden heroes. The roof was almost lifted from Brighton's Hilton Metropole Hotel as celebrities and finalists gathered to applaud the winners of the fourth Argus Achievement
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Letter: Fix that eyesore
When will something be done about the eyesore outside the shops at the bottom of New England Hill? Shrubs at some time were planted there and now seem to be a dumping ground for litter. It could be a pleasant place to sit if it was cleaned up; it's a
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Football: Horsham bow out
Party-poopers Bromley dashed Horsham's dreams of playing Ryman League premier division football on Saturday. The Kent side eased through in the play-off final to put a massive dampener on the Hornets' end-of-season dinner. Downcast boss John Maggs said
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Football: Borough go marching on
Goalscorer Matt Smart helped Eastbourne Borough beat the odds to go through to the Conference north-south play-off final and said: "It feels like a dream." Midfielder Smart produced an inspirational man-of-the-match display as Borough eased past favourites
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Panel will study eb4U
The fourth meeting of a scrutiny panel examining the work of the Government-funded eb4U organisation is being held in public. A panel of Brighton and Hove City Councillors, chaired by Councillor Jan Young, has taken evidence from directors of eb4u and
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School's plans for sports prize
An energy supplier handed out cash to Sussex schools to help improve playgrounds and pay for sports equipment. For the eighth year running, EDF Energy ran its £15,000 Fit for Fun! award scheme to reward the most creative projects to encourage children
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Crawley: Hours of drama as just 37 votes win it
The last General Election result in Sussex was finally announced after a gruelling 15 hours of vote counting. Laura Moffatt, the sitting MP for Crawley, fell to her knees and burst into tears as she was named the winning candidate after four counts. Mrs
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May 9: Destiny was all in a text
So this is how it feels to fight a survival battle in the age of mobile text-messaging. Yes it was nervous, yes it was tense, yes the second half seemed to go on for an eternity. And yes, we wondered where those four minutes of added time had come from
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Uncle's bid to uncover girls' killer
The uncle of murdered Babes in the Woods schoolgirl Nicola Fellows is creating a web site filled with details of the crime to help jog people's memory. Nigel Heffron hopes to remind people of the day his niece Nicola and her friend Karen Hadaway, both
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Eubank belt fails to sell at auction
The world title boxing belt Chris Eubank won during his 1991 fight with Michael Watson is still up for sale after it did not sell at an auction. The super middleweight championship belt was expected to fetch about £4,000 when it went under the hammer
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Man owes life to first aid trainees
A charity which teaches people how to help heart attack victims says it is delighted a group it trained saved a man's life. Brighton-based Heartguard taught staff at the Littlehampton swimming and sports centre how to use a defibrillator and give life
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Sell-out festival show is axed
Hundreds of ticket-holders are being given refunds after one of the highlights of Brighton Festival was cancelled at the 11th hour. Tickets for DV8 Physical Theatre's production Just For Show sold out within a fortnight of going on sale. Just For Show
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The Go Betweens, Concorde 2, Brighton, May 9
It might have been the decade that fashion forgot but it seems music lovers have no intention of doing so. Nearly three decades after they first graced the music scene with their melange of elegantly passionate melodies wrapped in spine-tingling riffs
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May 9: Hero Virgo salutes survival on a tense final day
Adam Virgo today saluted Championship survival as a bigger triumph than Albion's three promotions in the last five years. Virgo's tenth-minute equaliser against promotion-chasing Ipswich at Withdean yesterday earned the Seagulls the point they needed
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May 9: Destiny was all in a text
So this is how it feels to fight a survival battle in the age of mobile text-messaging. Yes it was nervous, yes it was tense, yes the second half seemed to go on for an eternity. And yes, we wondered where those four minutes of added time had come from
