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Park status appeal for the Downs
The Government has been urged to speed-up its decision on whether to afford protected status to a countryside region. MPs and Brighton and Hove City Councillors have called on the Labour Party Conference to support making the South Downs a National
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Letter: Crossings couldn't be more safe
With reference to your headline "Ferry safety worries" relating to the ferries Dieppe and Sardinia Vera (The Argus, September 22), I would like to make my own comments. I am a frequent traveller with Transmanche Ferries on both Sardinia Vera and Dieppe
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Letter: Monitoring care
We all worry when we read of abuse in care homes for older people. When the time comes for a relative to move into care, we want the best for them. Sadly, it doesn't always work out that way. Although most care homes are adequate, and some are excellent
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Letter: Protect the lane
By sheer chance I have heard about the proposed Titnore Lane development. When my family lived in Worthing many years ago, we went out of our way to use Titnore Lane as often as we could because it was so delightful. As well as all those current residents
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Top dogs sniff out honour
Two Sussex Police sniffer dogs were honoured yesterday for protecting delegates at the Labour Party conference in Brighton. The Springer spaniels were presented with animal hero rosettes by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Home Office
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City set to be major player for Olympics
The Minister in charge of the London Olympics hopes Brighton and Hove will play a major role in the 2012 Games. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell urged the city to host a national team for the duration of the tournament and invited residents to sign up as
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Blair promise of radical reforms
Tony Blair is today expected to make a promise to see through the next phase of radical New Labour reforms before standing down as Prime Minister. He is to stamp on suggestions that he would make an early exit from Downing Street and set out his vision
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Park status appeal for the Downs
The Government has been urged to speed-up its decision on whether to afford protected status to a countryside region. MPs and Brighton and Hove City Councillors have called on the Labour Party Conference to support making the South Downs a National Park
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Protests straight to the decision-makers
Pensioners took their clothes off outside the Labour conference to highlight how they had been stripped of their pension money. The nude protest was staged by workers who lost pension funds after firms went bust. It was just one of a string of inventive
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Benn collapses after Blair's speech
Veteran Labour politician Tony Benn collapsed seconds after Tony Blair had finished his conference speech. Mr Benn, who had been smoking his pipe while watching the Prime Minister deliver his speech on television from a cafe in the Hilton Brighton Metropole
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Letter: Thank you both
I would like to thank the two young men for their help and concern when I smashed my face while riding on the top deck of a bus on Tuesday, September 13. Thanks also to the driver, ambulance crew and the bus company staff. I seem to be recovering, although
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Murder trial jury told of cans clue
Empty beer cans found near the spot where a man was kicked to death in a park have been linked to two men accused of murder, a jury heard. Seph Lawrance, 22, who worked at Costa Coffee at Gatwick, was found dying on a footpath in Goffs Park, Crawley,
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Sinking cruiser saved at Brighton Marina
Firefighters spent an hour bailing out a sinking boat. The owner of the 175-ton cruiser Welsh Conquest raised the alarm when he arrived at Brighton Marina at the weekend to find the moored vessel listing dangerously. The old pleasure cruiser was damaged
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New signs of confusion for motorists
An attempt to simplify confusing parking signs has left motorists and traffic wardens even more perplexed. Steve Percy, of the Brighton-based People's Parking Protest campaign group, claims the new signs are so unintelligible that some parking attendants
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Health bosses welcome rise in MMR vaccinations
The number of children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella in Sussex is beginning to rise. All ten primary care trusts (PCT) in the county have reported a rise in take up rates for the controversial MMR vaccine in the past year. Figures published
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Club Revenge wins right to serve alcohol till 6am
A gay nightspot will be allowed to serve alcohol until 6am under relaxed new drinking laws. The licence for Club Revenge is thought to be the latest granted for a public venue in Brighton and Hove. The club, in Old Steine, originally wanted to allow nude
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Ambulance burnt out in arson attack
A St John Ambulance that took months of fund-raising to buy has been destroyed by vandals. Criminals broke into the garage where it was stored and set light to the cab of the £43,500 Crusader. Fortunately the fire self-extinguished before it could take
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Fire spectacular could fizzle out
A bonfire society's annual celebrations are at risk because of a shortage of cash. The final touches are being put to this year's Littlehampton Bonfire Society event but organisers say future celebrations are seriously in doubt. It costs about £16,000
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Letter: We need seats
Now that repairs to the pavement on the west side of Brighton's Old Steine have been completed, is there any chance of the three bus shelters being renovated, with seats provided? These have been an eyesore for some years now and this work needs to be
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Letter: Short-changed
I read that Wealden District Council is being given a tree for every tonne of scrap aluminium it donates to Alupro, a not-for-profit company (The Argus, September 22). I just bought a tree for my garden - a nice Japanese maple costing £53 - at the local
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Letter: I'll be glad when it's all over
Hopefully this is the last time the Labour party will come to Brighton. The number of police in the town is quite obscene and very oppressive. After the London shooting, armed police on Western Road is frightening, not reassuring. As for all the money
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Naked OAPs join day of protest
Pensioners took their clothes off outside the Labour conference to highlight how they had been stripped of their pension money. The nude protest was staged by workers who lost pension funds after firms went bust. It was just one of a string of inventive
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Albion united
Thousands of Brighton and Hove Albion fans from all over Sussex joined a march in support of a new stadium for their club. Car-loads of supporters drove from all over the county to pack the roads into Brighton for the demonstration yesterday. TV presenter
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Letter: Self-interested
In the UK, a progressive housing policy would seek to ensure an adequate supply of decent affordable homes to those born, living and working in a particular area. No major political party has such a policy because they all believe themselves dependent
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Letter: Not so revered
It is interesting to note that two buildings Frank Gehry has built in Los Angeles are not so revered. His Santa Monica Shopping Mall is facing demolition as it is disliked by local residents who say it does not mesh with their city's outdoor beach environment
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Letter: Anti-Semitism is not rife at the university
The article "Extremism at our colleges" (The Argus, September 23) bears no relation whatsoever to reality. I am Jewish and a post-graduate student of the School of Law. Never, not once, have I experienced anti-Semitism at the University of Sussex. Anti-Semitism
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Brighton Early Music Festival, various venues, until October 16
"The early music movement is sometimes called the authentic music tradition,c says Clare Norburn. "But that all sounds a bit stuffy and boring. I think we should be the 'old and interesting movement'." Now in its third year, Brighton's Early Music Festival
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Bowled over by football
Bosses at the Bowlplex leisure centre in Brighton were congratulating themselves today after securing the rights to launch Sega's hotly-anticipated new arcade game. The entertainments complex at the Marina was the first in the UK to install World Championship
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Plea to Brown to put brake on fuel costs
Business leaders have urged the Government to review the way it taxes fuel amid growing concern about the effect rising petrol prices are having on small firms. The Forum of Private Business (FPB) yesterday launched a petition calling on Chancellor Gordon
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Singer wows X Factor judges
A teenage singer who has made it through the X Factor television show's tough judging process is to face her next big challenge. Jamie-Lee Church, from Portslade, wowed the panel on the TV talent contest at the weekend. After her audition in front of
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Tough NHS job to last four years
A struggling hospital trust has appointed a new long-term chairman to help tackle one of the toughest NHS jobs in the South-East. Roy Davies, interim chairman of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, has been appointed chairman until the end of December
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Air Guitar Championship, Concorde 2, Brighton
We'd all heard about the legendary Air Guitar Championships and now here was our chance to see the rockstravaganza for ourselves. Sadly, for an event which started out in Brighton 11 years ago, the level of guitarists lined up seemed a little poor. The
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Letter: My mate Mitchell deserves respect
Rachel Pegg reviewed "Mitchell & Mounfield - Apart at Last", which was performed at the Komedia on September 15. While very happy to receive a favourable review of my show, "I am a Charles Kennedy", I was shocked to read the hatchet job Rachel did
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Letter: Any info?
Can any reader say which of the former Brighton, Hove and District trolleybuses ran a service from Whitehawk Garage during March 1959 (the last month of operations)? Any letters will be answered and postage refunded. -Mr W Cosgrave, 36 Shelford, Burritt
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Letter: See you next year
A big thank you to all the lifeguards and seafront officers for being so helpful and friendly this summer. See you next year. -Love from, Alex Chown (aged 5), Hove
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Club Boothby, Komedia, Brighton
Does Boothby Graffoe suffer from an inferiority complex? Why else would this brilliant comic choose to surround himself with performers so obviously less funny and talented than he is? Club Boothby, a carnival of misfits and mediocrity, came alive when
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Letter: How refreshing
I was waiting to be served in the Co-op store in Hove when the till girl called a man back and gave him his wallet he had left behind. It is nice to know there are some honest people around. -Mary Frankel, Hove
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Cherie takes a break at nursery
Playtime was interrupted when Cherie Blair paid a visit to a children's nursery. The Prime Minister's wife took a break from the Labour Party conference to spend 45 minutes at the Hopscotch nursery in Portland Road, Hove, where she chatted to staff and
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Clarke defends terrorism response
Home Secretary Charles Clarke defended the Government's response to the threat of terrorism against claims it represented a major assault on civil liberties. Mr Clarke insisted that putting in place a legislative framework to combat terrorists intent
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Albion united
Thousands of Brighton and Hove Albion fans from all over Sussex joined a march in support of a new stadium for their club. Car-loads of supporters drove from all over the county to pack the roads into Brighton for the demonstration yesterday. TV presenter
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Protesters say no to building on downs
Banner-waving protesters turned out in force in a bid to save downland from the bulldozers. A 100-strong crowd marched along the A27 at Worthing in a noisy demonstration against proposals for 90 homes on the South Downs. Worthing Borough Council has twice
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Council's alternative to wheelies is rejected
Householders have voted to reject plastic bag collections as an alternative to the hated wheelie bins. Bags had been suggested as an alternative to dealing with rubbish in Preston Park, Brighton, after hundreds of residents complained about the introduction
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More big names for buses
More local heroes will be commemorated on a new fleet of buses. The Brighton and Hove Bus Company has taken delivery of 19 vehicles which it plans to name after people who have made great contributions to the city. Those honoured will include two Brighton
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Letter: Pull the other one
And I am George W Bush who loves Noam Chomsky ("The US did not go to war for oil", Letters, September 22). -Richard W Symonds, Ifield
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Badge of support for Omar
Orange badges have been made to highlight the plight of a Guantanamo detainee. The Save Omar group, lobbying for the trial or release of Omar Deghayes, a Saltdean man who has been held at Camp Delta since 2002, is asking people to wear badges bearing
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Protests straight to the decision-makers
PENSIONERS took their clothes off outside the Labour conference to highlight how they had been stripped of their pension money. The nude protest was staged by workers who lost pension funds after firms went bust. It was just one of a string of inventive
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Letter: King Alfred debate misses the point
While one can argue for or against the aesthetic merits of Frank Gehry's plans for the redevelopment of the King Alfred site in Hove, I have been disappointed with the shallow debate about the real consequences of the scheme. At no time have I read how
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Letter: Isn't it funny?
As I started to refill my battered bird feeder with peanuts, I suddenly thought, golly, it reminds me of a Victorian lady walking along the promenade to Hove. Isn't funny how one's imagination works. -BG Beck, Lewes
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Football: Vines boss does not deserve to be axed
Crawely boss Francis Vines has been backed by the man who could push him closer to the sack. Vines is under pressure after a disappointing start to the season. He could be axed if rock-bottom Crawley lose against Kidderminster Harriers at the Broadfield
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Albion don't worry about other sides
Mark McGhee's response was revealing when asked to assess his old club Leicester ahead of Albion's visit tonight. "I've no idea," he said. "I've got a match report, I know their shape, I know their team, but I really am paying Leicester very little attention
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Basketball: Sanders unlikely to join the Bears
Brighton Bears new boy Marshall Sanders is set to turn his back on British basketball after his brother was killed. The 26-year-old American centre was due to have made his debut in Saturday's win at Birmingham. His arrival in this country was initially
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We must keep marching on
Mark McGhee wants to push for the Premiership with Albion, by keeping them up while they wait for a new stadium at Falmer. Albion go to Leicester tonight in search of a first away win after joining thousands of fans in yesterday's seafront March For Falmer
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Raking it in, with help of Wallace and Gromit
The owner of a delicatessen has extolled the selling power of the internet after shifting £500 worth of cheese ahead of the new Wallace and Gromit film. Helena Hudson runs The Real Eating Company in Western Road, Hove, which sells the gloriously named
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Badge of support for Omar
Orange badges have been made to highlight the plight of a Guantanamo detainee. The Save Omar group, lobbying for the trial or release of Omar Deghayes, a Saltdean man who has been held at Camp Delta since 2002, is asking people to wear badges bearing
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Campaign for Omar backed by experts
A group of experts in international affairs has backed a campaign by The Argus for justice for Omar Deghayes. The 36-year-old Guantanamo detainee has been on hunger strike for more than six weeks and his family fear he is near death. BBC World Affairs
