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Albion fans want swift Falmer decision
A CAMPAIGN calling on the Government to hurry up and give Brighton and Hove Albion the go-ahead to build a new stadium is growing. The club's heroics against Ipswich at the weekend have ensured their survival in the Championship but supporters want the
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May 10: McGhee says a big thank you
Albion manager Mark McGhee paid tribute today to the team effort responsible for the club's highest finish for 14 years. McGhee has thanked everyone, from chairman Dick Knight through to the office staff, for their help in keeping the Seagulls in the
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Letter: Tow away this blot on the landscape
Sitting looking at the West Pier on Saturday, I thought if it was an old dumped car outside my house I would ask my local council to tow it away. We should ask Brighton and Hove City Council to tow the pier away. It has been a blot on the landscape for
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Letter: Abuse rising in line with NCP's working practices
I find it quite astonishing the amount of times traffic wardens are being verbally and physically assaulted. I worked as a traffic warden, employed by Sussex Police, before Brighton and Hove City Council took responsibility for parking in 2001. Sometimes
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Letter: Vanishing cars have moved the problem elsewhere
Mr Evans of St James's Street asks where all the cars have gone (Letters, April 28). Living on the western side of the new parking scheme for Queens Park, I can tell him they are now parking in the nearby streets of Toronto Terrace, Montreal Road, at
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Peregrine chicks hatch at Heights
Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched from a clutch of four eggs on top of one of Sussex's most exclusive properties. A pair of peregrine falcons laid the eggs in a nesting box perched 334ft up at the top of Sussex Heights apartment block, which
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Albion fans want swift Falmer decision
A campaign calling on the Government to hurry up and give Brighton and Hove Albion the go-ahead to build a new stadium is growing. The club's heroics against Ipswich at the weekend have ensured their survival in the Championship but supporters want the
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Letter: It's no wonder they made me mad
The abuse of parking wardens does not surprise me. I am a particularly placid person but, having reluctantly accepted the 500 per cent parking charge increase last year so that I pay 50p every day to collect my son from school, I was incensed by the ticket
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Davina's boost for hospital
TV presenter Davina McCall had tea with new mothers and took a tour of a maternity unit when she visited a hospital. The host of Big Brother was helping St Richard's Hospital in Chichester celebrate getting a Unicef Baby Friendly award. It is the third
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Letter: How to avoid getting fined
In response to Anthony Blakey's comments headed: "Money Wardens Collecting A Stealth Tax" (Letters, April 29), I have never paid a parking fine in Brighton or anywhere because I've never received one, since I don't park illegally. Nor have I received
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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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Letter: Confusing signs lead to tickets
I wasn't at all surprised to hear of the violence against traffic wardens (The Argus, April 28). The parking situation in Brighton is dire. I received two parking tickets in one week from avid car parking wardens in Albany Villas when visiting my mother
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Housing market is starting to level out
House prices are rising in Sussex despite falling sales of homes and an economic slowdown. Latest figures from the Land Registry show the number of homes sold in the county has fallen by more than a third during the last year, while house prices are still
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Letter: Deadly parking of the selfish and ignorant
The other day an ambulance had trouble getting out of Laburnum Avenue because of a car parked on a double yellow line. I do hope no one dies because of such selfish and ignorant car users. Laburnum Avenue was not built to have so many cars. -Lesley Kite
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My neighbour attacked me with a scythe
A noisy neighbour lashed out with a scythe at a father who asked him to turn down his blaring television, a court heard. Kenneth Whitear left Clayton Turner's eyebrow hanging by a thread of skin, Hove Crown Court was told. Mr Turner also suffered wounds
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Tennis: Svetlana is returning to defend her crown
Svetlana Kuznetsova said today she will defend her Eastbourne title. The world No. 7 will join a 32-strong draw for the Hastings Direct International Ladies Championship at Devonshire Park from June 13 to 19. Kuznetsova, who beat Daniela Hantuchova in
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Southern FM link-up hit by weak trading
Southern FM yesterday became part of the biggest radio group in the country when its owner, Capital Radio, completed a merger with one of its biggest rivals. The landmark tie-up between Capital and Classic FM owner GWR was overshadowed by figures showing
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Mental health merger plans
Mental health services in Sussex could merge to be run by one trust. A public consultation has been launched to ask people for their views on the future of mental health facilities for thousands of people in the county. Any changes will also affect drug
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London Symphony Orchestra, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton
I left the Dome on Saturday evening rolling from one leg to the other like a sailor back on dry land after years at sea. The reason? A powerful and evocative performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), which
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Tomorrow's Warriors, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
Tomorrow's Warriors is more a jazz cradle than a band. Established by Jazz Jamaica All Stars bassist Gary Crosby as a vehicle to bring on young new British talent, it has helped former members such as Soweto Kinch and Denys Baptiste to stardom. And the
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Letter: Modern vision of a new pier
I agree with Adam Trimingham (The Argus, April 27) - it is time to rebuild the West Pier and rekindle the heritage this iconic structure gave the world. However, it appears to me the surviving skeleton is the clue to the shape the new pier should take
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Letter: The train is not so slow
John Stanaway should get his facts right (Letters, April 27). While I agree with the sentiments expressed in his letter regarding the railway network infrastructure, he could have done his homework regarding the time it can take by rail between Ashford
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Billie-Jo jury see scene of murder
Former deputy head Sion Jenkins watched from the dock as a video showing his dead foster daughter lying in a pool of blood was played to a jury trying him for her murder. The film showed Billie-Jo lying by the patio doors she was painting when she was
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Fitness club row over unhealthy rumours
Britain's biggest lottery winner is at loggerheads with a company which has built a fitness centre just yards from his own. Mark Gardiner claims false rumours are circulating that his St Leonards health and fitness club, The Workplace on The Ridge, is
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Headline that's just magical
A magician was last night preparing to stun an audience by correctly predicting the front page headline of The Argus a week in advance. Lee Hatt, of Wykeham Terrace, Brighton, wrote out his prediction for yesterday's paper on a scrap of paper from reporter
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Dubai drugs mother home-coming delayed
A sports osteopath cleared by a Dubai court of deliberately carrying banned drugs in her system is facing a further agonising delay in her ten-week battle to get home to Sussex. Tracy Wilkinson, from Balcombe, near Haywards Heath, was hoping prosecutors
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Disabled voters angry at poor access to polls
Disabled voters have complained about poor access to polling stations. Two people said ramps provided for wheelchair users in last Thursday's election were several inches too short to reach the door of different voting rooms in Brighton. Barry North,
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Letter: Frustration will just make it worse
The story of the rise of assaults on parking attendants was most amusing. Public service? Please, don't insult us. The NCP-run parking system in this city is a local tax on residents and visitors. No one would disagree that badly parked vehicles causing
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Fire service reeling from double blow to services
The fight to save a crew of firefighters and a turntable ladder has finally ended as an aerial ladder appliance has been removed for good. It marked the end of an emotional debate in which councillors, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and leading members
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Letter: Narrow thinking slows the arteries
Perhaps someone at Brighton and Hove City Council could reply as to why, when there is room enough for a dual carriageway and separate cycle lane from Patcham to Preston Park on the A23 trunk road, the major artery into the city, the authorities have
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Letter: Park-and-ride ingredient in tomorrow's jam
You recently reported that a 12-mile traffic jam between Bolney and Patcham delayed journeys to Brighton by up to two hours (The Argus, May 2). Nine hundred car parking spaces on a park-and-ride site at Patcham would only have made this problem worse.
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Letter: Public service response to the crowds
Q: When is Brighton and Hove at its busiest? A: Weekends and public holidays. Q: When are public services and public transport at their lowest levels? A: Weekends and public holidays. Walking past the ripped-open bin-bags and overflowing litter bins on
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Cricket: Glynde make perfect start in quest for a title treble
Glynde made the perfect start in their bid to become the first club for more than 30 years to win a hat-trick of East Sussex League titles. Ringmer, who were triumphant for three seasons on the trot after the league was formed in 1972, are the only previous
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Letter: Parking problems are strangling our fair city
Many congratulations to Brighton and Hove City Council. When most seaside resorts aim to get good publicity to encourage tourism for the coming year, this council must congratulate itself on getting coverage on BBC News 24, reporting it issues more parking
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Cricket: Prior is refusing to look back in anger
Matt Prior says he bears no grudges against the selectors despite his surprise omission from the England Development Squad. But the 23-year-old admits his one-day career-best on Sunday could not have been better timed. Sussex's wicketkeeper-batsman made
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McGhee says a big thank you
Albion manager Mark McGhee paid tribute today to the team effort responsible for the club's highest finish for 14 years. McGhee has thanked everyone, from chairman Dick Knight through to the office staff, for their help in keeping the Seagulls in the
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State of the art title for law firm
A law firm which has spent the past seven years building links with Brighton and Hove's artistic community has won recognition for its efforts. DMH Stallard scooped the Outstanding Achievement Award at the inaugural Arts and Business South East Awards
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Double outlet blow for Caffyns
Family-run car dealership Caffyns has been forced to close two of its showrooms following the collapse of MG Rover Group last month. The Eastbourne-based company said it had been unable to find new franchises for its branches in Seaford, East Sussex and
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Teenager rises to challenge
A Teenager has entered the record books by becoming the youngest person to complete a marathon known as the Tough One. Will Ellinger, 18, was challenged to enter the Three Forts Marathon by his chemistry teacher at Lancing College. Dr Simon Norris ran
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Underland, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, May 11 and 12
Easily identified by his tattooed arms, pearl-tipped ears and silver premiere suits, renowned in the dance world for his urban gothic choreography, Stephen Petronio is New York's bad boy of modern dance. He is best known for causing a stir by staging
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People Show All Stars, The Famous Spiegeltent, Brighton, May 10 - 12
You may not have heard of London's People Show but, starting out in the Sixties in the basement of a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, the underground company was one of the first to excel in mixed-media theatre. And, though its 100 or so performances have
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Brighton Beach Boys, Komedia, Brighton
The Brighton Beach Boys kicked off a Brighton Festival Party on Saturday night with an amazing sell-out show. The first half saw the band on cracking form, belting out the early surfing and hot rod hits including Surfin' USA, Little Deuce Coupe and I
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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
