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Poster power to pester Prescott
The Argus is today helping thousands of Brighton and Hove Albion fans call on John Prescott to grant them a new stadium. Up to 7,000 are expected to descend on the seafront for this afternoon's March For Falmer. The words on our poster will leave
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Norman and Zoe supporting Falmer march
Norman Cook has promised John Prescott a noisy welcome to Brighton this afternoon. The superstar DJ, aka Fatboy Slim, is the latest in a string of high-profile names to commit themselves to the March For Falmer. Norman said: "I wouldn't miss it.
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Art Brut, Concorde 2, Brighton
"That last song," Art Brut's frontman Eddie Argos told the crowd at Concorde 2, waving his finger in the air as the band crashed into the last chord of Emily Kane, "I wrote when I was 15, before I'd ever had sex." "This next song," he continued, "I wrote
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Transglobal Underground, Komedia, Brighton
Back in 1991 Transglobal Underground achieved the enduring love of clubbers everywhere with the release of Temple Head, a fusion of ethnic sounds and techno breaks which became a dancefloor favourite and heralded the arrival of "world dance" music. Almost
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Conference is a major turn off for residents
The Labour Party conference is a big turn off to people in Brighton, a survey has revealed. Interviewers from the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank asked 85 residents what they thought of the city's most high-profile event. Most were indifferent
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Inflatable's dirty protest
A 14ft inflatable poo is to be floated in the sea in protest against sewage. Campaigners from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are calling for the Government to support their calls for a full sewage treatment infrastructure for Brighton's 250,000 residents
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Caught out on camera
Police have arrested 51 people as part of the security operation for the Labour Party conference. Since September 17, 43 motorists have been caught by hi-tech vehicle number plate readers placed at strategic locations around Brighton and Hove. The automatic
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Blanket coverage for conference hotel
One of the main Labour Party conference hotels has given a helping hand to the homeless. The Grand hotel has donated 500 blankets it would otherwise have destroyed to St Patrick's night shelter in Hove. The hotel, where many speakers and delegates will
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Late football start for MPs
The annual football match between Labour MPs and Westminster lobby journalists got off to a late start yesterday. The politicos, including such faces as Gordon Brown's right-hand man Ed Balls and former Hove MP Ivor Caplin, stood about for more than half
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Brown's reforming vow upsets unions
Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday threatened to open up a rift within the Labour movement after he pledged to continue with public sector reforms if he succeeds Tony Blair as leader. Trade unions responded with dismay to Mr Brown's assertion that there
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Title joy as Moores says farewell
Peter Moores celebrated the third trophy during his eight years in charge of Sussex cricket on Sunday. He declared: "It's ended just how I wanted it to." On his last day with the county after two decades as player and coach Moores lifted the totesport
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Sussex's season is set for a big finale
Sussex will have the chance to send off Peter Moores in style by winning the National League second division title at Hove on Sunday. An easy 61-run win over Kent at Canterbury yesterday means victory over a Yorkshire side who have not beaten county opposition
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Moments from a gunman's bullets
These are the seconds before a hooded gunman opened fire on a jeweller. One bullet missed but a second struck Darren Prior in the chest. Incredibly, Mr Prior was saved by his mobile phone which absorbed the impact, leaving him in shock but unscathed.
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Woman losing sleep over lost pet sheep
A woman has been left counting sheep after four of her woolly pets went missing. Bernadette Barton is suffering sleepless nights with worry after her pet sheep Mabel, Mildred, Angel and Flower vanished from their paddock. She has spent up to 12 hours
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Grandmother's tears for missing girl, 14
A woman wept as she pleaded with her missing granddaughter to get in touch. Alex Heamen, 14, disappeared more than three weeks ago and her family is desperate for news. Grandparents Sandra and John Dunstan travelled from their home in Cornwall for a Press
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Closure threat to top attractions
Landmark attractions in a seaside town are under threat of closure unless council chiefs can find millions of pounds, it has emerged. Finance officers at Eastbourne Borough Council admit "difficult choices" are needed to solve the "daunting" financial
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Letter: Lack of respect
I felt compelled to write this after an experience I had in London Road. I hadn't been there for a while, so what a shock it was to see how run-down it has become. The shops are mostly cheap discount stores, charity shops (which I like) and food outlets
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Letter: It was politics but, in the end, the sea wins
In response to the comment by David Spear (Letters, September 21), of course the "towers 'yes' vote was purely political". Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's housing policy for the South-East is the reason why the renewal of the low-lying Hove seashore
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Letter: Contrived designs bury the past
I went to Shoreham-by-Sea recently and was dismayed to be confronted by the buildings of the Ropetackle development (The Argus, September 12). Where once from Shoreham's ancient High Street you could see the land dipping to the River Adur and then rising
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Football: Lewes boss praises referee
Lewes manager Steven King praised the referee for changing his mind a 1-0 FA Cup win at Leyton The Rooks narrowly went through to the third qualifying round after a controversial decision by Mike Rowley. He awarded Leyton a penalty nine minutes from time
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Letter: Control freaks
I have the misfortune to live in a Regency block on Hove seafront - great location, shame about Brighton and Hove City Council's conservation department. The problem is the Grade I listing, which is designed to protect the buildings from being mercilessly
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Football: Hassocks out of Cup
Hassocks slipped to a 1-0 defeat against a streetwise Ryman League Dulwich Hamlet. The County League's last remaining team in the FA Cup worked hard but Dulwich's passage into the third qualifying round was more comfortable than the scoreline suggests
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Letter: The problem of Gehry's design? It's too meek
he eagerly-awaited proposed design for the King Alfred site is now open to public ridicule and scorn. No surprises then that the controversial Frank Gehry concept is to be the design which is submitted. Savvy developers know the controversy will be worth
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Match report: Crawley Town 1 Grays Athletic 3
Midfielder Simon Wormull insists the players should be blamed for Crawley's desperate start to the season, not manager Francis Vines. Vines' job appears to be hanging by a thread following a home defeat against Grays. It leaves Reds bottom of the Conference
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Match report: Burnley 1 Albion 1
Albion proved a point with another hard-earned away draw. They have not only a team but a squad capable of holding their own in the Championship. The Seagulls finished, for one reason or another, without five of the players kept together by Mark McGhee
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Title joy as Moores says farewell
Peter Moores celebrated the third trophy during his eight years in charge of Sussex cricket on Sunday. He declared: "It's ended just how I wanted it to." On his last day with the county after two decades as player and coach Moores lifted the totesport
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Bingo! It's a restaurant
An empty bingo hall is to become a 100-seat restaurant. Mid Sussex District Council's planning committee is allowing developers to convert the old bingo hall in Cyprus Road, Burgess Hill. The developer plans to install new windows in the western side
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Hotel gets renovated for Holiday
A landmark hotel is to undergo a major refurbishment. The 131-bedroom Hilton Brighton West Pier will be re-branded the Holiday Inn Brighton Seafront on October 4. A main priority of the refurbishment will be to fit every bedroom with air conditioning.
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More trouble in store for retail workers
Furniture store workers are facing an uncertain future for the second time in a year. Staff at Furnitureland's store in Shoreham were told on Friday that the company has been put into administration. Many had previously worked for the Courts empire which
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Last chance to honour Battle of Britain hero
The man behind the campaign to honour a World War Two fighter pilot is hoping a ruling against the idea will be overturned. John Pulfer, of the Battle of Britain Historical Society, said he was disappointed Crowborough Town Council had chosen not to rethink
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PM gets a bat in his belfry at church service
Cricket-mad Lucas Percy was knocked for six when the Prime Minister agreed to sign his bat. Tony Blair and his wife Cherie were leaving All Saints Church in Hove after a special Labour Party conference service when they came upon young Lucas. The nine-year-old
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Diners catch pizza of Blair family life
Cherie Blair broke away from official duties at the Labour conference to enjoy a meal at Donatello restaurant in Brighton Place on Saturday night. Soon after arriving in Brighton, she went upstairs in the popular pizza parlour with a large group including
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£3.7m security for city centre
Brighton city centre is in the grip of the tightest and most high-profile security operation in its history. The full might of the £3.7 million crackdown was felt yesterday as hundreds of delegates arrived for the start of the Labour conference. The city
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Poster power to pester Prescott
The Argus is today helping thousands of Brighton and Hove Albion fans call on John Prescott to grant them a new stadium. Up to 7,000 are expected to descend on the seafront for this afternoon's March For Falmer. The words on our poster will leave the
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Letter: We jeered our councillors, not Ruth Kelly
I'd like to confirm Dave Lepper MP's assertions (Letters, September 21) that the Secretary of State for Education, Ruth Kelly, was not jeered when she was in Brighton last week. Dave Lepper, my MP, and Ruth Kelly kindly took the time to speak to those
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Flames and fancy dress light up town
Thousands gathered to watch a display of colourful costumes and flaming torches at a bonfire procession. The Burgess Hill Bonfire Society's annual celebrations lit up the town's streets on Saturday night. Bonfire societies from across Sussex dressed up
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Park row dad told: Lock it yourself
A father has been told if he wants to stop rowdy youngsters using a park near his home at night he will have to lock the gate himself. Peter Wilkinson, of Upper North Street in Brighton, said he and his family have been kept awake because of noisy revellers
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Letter: Sharing lets the poor buy a home
I write in response to the letter, "Single mums can't get on the property ladder" (September 15). The question raised is whether the affordable housing provided in the city is available to those who can't afford to buy a house, given the current high
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Controversy courted as 20-year-old DJ made JP
A 20-year-old man has become Britain's youngest magistrate. The unnamed man, thought to be a DJ of Asian origin, was selected for the North Sussex bench following a Government drive to recruit magistrates who were more representative of the communities
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Letter: Learn a lesson
On September 6, I returned from a visit to my brother and his wife, who live in Rottingdean. He took his full wheelie bin back into his drive. It had been there for six days awaiting collection - eventually it was collected and emptied. Might I suggest
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Letter: Put a plug in it
The Argus reported that Southern Water plans to install another 60,000 meters in people's homes over the next five years (The Argus, Sept 19). What you failed to mention is the compulsory element. Meters will be fitted when customers change address, whether
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Norman and Zoe supporting Falmer march
Norman Cook has promised John Prescott a noisy welcome to Brighton this afternoon. The superstar DJ, aka Fatboy Slim, is the latest in a string of high-profile names to commit themselves to the March For Falmer. Norman said: "I wouldn't miss it. It is
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Letter: Rename the roads
When I was a boy, transport planners invented three-lane fast roads, with a middle lane for overtaking in either direction. My then local authority renamed one of these roads Death Hill, by way of a warning. We could adopt the idea here. Preston Street
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Voices calling out for justice
They sang, they shouted, they jeered, they banged drums. And then one powerful voice emerged from the cacophony, as 300 ordinary men and women called for justice for Omar Deghayes. Hundreds gathered outside the Brighton Centre to heckle politicians into
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Seagulls in battle to keep McShane
Albion manager Mark McGhee vowed today to try to keep hold of Paul McShane, at least until the end of the season. The Seagulls would love to sign the young Manchester United centre half permanently. At worst, they hope to extend his loan for the rest
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Club NME Tour, Concorde 2, Brighton, Monday, September 26
It's not unusual to find divergent accounts in the mythology of a band's formation. What is unusual is to find ones so contradictory as these. Depending on which history you read, The Rakes formed either out of a bonding session in the local Wetherspoons
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Glamour girl out to get the X Factor
A glamour model hopes to prove she has what it takes to be a star on TV's The X Factor. Jamie-Lee Church, 19, has already made a name for herself by posing in a bikini in lads' magazines. The model, from Portslade, appears in this week's editions of Nuts
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Omar campaign hits the street
They sang, they shouted, they jeered, they banged drums. And then one powerful voice emerged from the cacophony, as 300 ordinary men and women called for justice for Omar Deghayes. Hundreds gathered outside the Brighton Centre to heckle politicians
