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Support grows as stadium decision looms
Here are the latest Brighton and Hove Albion supporters calling for a new stadium. Martin Weller, who works at Brighton Vehicle Rental (BVR), and Joseph Philogene from storage company KeepSafe in Brighton, today add their voice to The Argus campaign
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Lawyer alleges Guantanamo detainee is fed through a tube
A Guantanamo Bay hunger striker Omar Deghayes is being pinned down and force-fed through a tube pushed down one of his nostrils, his lawyer has claimed. Clive Stafford-Smith said yesterday the 36-year-old Saltdean graduate, and other inmates, had been
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Hal, Concorde 2, Brighton, Wednesday, October 12
"Music is supposed to open your mind and make you dream," says Dave Allen, lead singer and spokesman for Hal. "We're into making music that's not a fad. Music's not supposed to come and go. "We're rebelling against all that. It's not about being the latest
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Critic's choice
this is Brighton offers a critical view of what's hot for the coming week. Tom Baxter Komedia, Brighton, Tuesday, October 11 - Widely-tipped, Baxter will be showcasing new material from the follow-up to his Feather And Stone album. A former painter and
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Letter: Fear this hazard will close pitch-and-putt
I write in response to June Sullivan's letter about a golf ball striking her windscreen from a pitch-and-putt course. In a letter published last year, I alluded to the bizarre antics of the council in putting up a "safety fence" around a Christmas tree
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Letter: A golf club has a mind of its own
I would express sympathy to June Sullivan (Letters, October 4), who explained how her car windscreen had been damaged by a golf ball hit from the course at Roedean. The danger is one to which Brighton and Hove City Council should give attention, as with
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Letter: In deep water - and enjoying it!
Please allow me to comment on David Sawyer's wise and pertinent observation (Letters, October 3) that the benefits of "being in deep water could only be enjoyed at Brighton". This is true. I had thought myself in deep water before but it was not until
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Letter: Congratulations on quick response
I was appalled and sickened by stickers posted around central Brighton with racist and homophobic content. Congratulations to Brighton and Hove City Council's enforcement team for responding to my complaint so quickly. Having reported this to the inspection
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The Dumb Waiter and Anorak Of Fire: A Comedy Double Bill, The Barn Theatre, Southwick
The Wick Theatre Company has on offer two comedies for the price of one. How contrasting they prove to be. The Dumb Waiter is an early work by Harold Pinter, dating from 1960. It is a dark tale of two men, Ben and Gus, holed up in a basement hotel room
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Letter: Argument is hard to digest
I would like the chance to reply to S Biddle (Letters, October 4) regarding junk food. All this hyped-up nonsense about school meals is beyond belief. If a child likes sausage and chips, so be it. A little bit of what you fancy does you good. To be fair
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Row is rumbling underground
A row is brewing over an historical society's plans to open up secret wartime tunnels to the public. The underground centre, known as the Secret Tunnels of South Heighton, was rediscovered following detective work by the Newhaven Historical Society. Named
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Drag Starlet of the big screen
A drag queen is taking her act from gay clubs to the silver screen with a role in a major Hollywood movie. Classically trained Stephanie Starlet started performing on the Brighton gay scene when he was 21. For his first drag act, he played a robot stripper
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Filling the gap in NHS dentists
Thousands of people struggling to register with an NHS dentist have been thrown a lifeline. An NHS dental surgery with the eventual capacity to treat up to 10,000 patients opens in Worthing later this month. Six dentists will be working at the practice
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Letter: Don't move surgery to Brighton
It has been brought to our attention that Worthing Hospital is no longer allowed to carry out laprascopic surgery performed by Mr Singh and his excellent team. My husband has recently undergone surgery of this nature in Worthing Hospital performed by
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Day Dame Judi came for tea
It's not every day an Oscar-winning actress turns up at your house. But that's exactly what happened yesterday to retired couple John and Anne Veasey. Dame Judi Dench pitched up at their semi in Eastbourne to film a screen adaptation of Zoe Heller's Booker-prize
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Letter: Don't write us off with your shopping list
In reply to Richard March's letter "I can't buy anything I want here", I believe he is looking in the wrong places. There are a number of excellent outdoors shops scattered around the city to buy rain jackets. I'm sure even George at Asda might sell them
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Omar being force fed
Guantanamo Bay hunger striker Omar Deghayes is being pinned down and force-fed through a tube pushed down one of his nostrils, his lawyer has claimed. Clive Stafford-Smith said yesterday the 36-year-old Saltdean graduate, and other inmates, had been shackled
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Speedway: Just like home
Mark Loram today prepared to be Eastbourne Eagles' trump card in the Craven Shield and said: "This feels like home from home for me". The former Eagles rider is back in his old colours for the triangular semi-final against Belle Vue and Oxford to be raced
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Letter: Albion is the city's pride
Upon reading your sensational headline regarding Osvaldo Ardiles and Diego Maradona being interested in investing in the Albion (The Argus, October 4), I feel it is necessary that, should John Prescott say "no" to Falmer, which I hope is unlikely, Brighton
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Golf: Rookie pairing pull off a shock
A casual invitation issued nearly a year ago led to victory for Carl Rota and Adrian Milligan in one of Sussex golf's most prestigious events. Rota, one of the also-rans of county golf, and Milligan thrashed favourites Giles Velvick and Callum Callan
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Letter: Singing for glory
Perhaps the Prince of Darkness could play in goal for the Albion and Madonna up front, to score a few goals, when she is recovered from injury? -Michael Dartnell, Hove
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Letter: Let's ask why Maradona would give us a hand
Your article "Maradona eyes up Albion" (The Argus, October 4) made a great front page story but Albion fans may be a little sceptical to learn that Diego Maradona and Ossie Ardiles are "keen to invest" in the club. Most people invest in a venture with
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Basketball: Bears old boy says McGee is a great signing
Ryan Huntley today revealed Genesis Brighton Bears were slow off the mark in their efforts to bring him back to Sussex. But Huntley, who plays against Bears for Leicester Riders tomorrow night, is convinced his old club have signed a winner in point guard
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Conference: Burton wants revenge
Crawley striker Steve Burton today revealed his hatred for Scarborough manager Nick Henry and said: "I want to make him pay for what he did to me". Burton will be reunited with former boss Henry when Reds travel to the McCain Stadium tomorrow. It will
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Sussex Enterprise's window dressing
Independent retailers attended a three-hour evening course on how window dressing can increase trade. More than 20 Horsham shopkeepers took part in the free workshop. The event at Central Sussex College was part of a series of workshops funded by the
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Grand's bronze in travel awards
A five-star hotel has been named the third best hotel in Britain. The Grand in King's Road, Brighton, picked up bronze in the Best British Hotel category of the Daily Telegraph Travel Awards. It was beaten by Gleneagles, in Scotland, and The Savoy, in
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Fake smells test sewage monitors
Artifical pongs will be sent out from a sewage plant to test monitoring equipment. The smells will be released at Southern Water's wastewater treatment works in Ford, near Littlehampton, for short periods over the next week. They will not take place at
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Company playing with fire for charity
Customers at a storage company will be invited to make a donation to charity and get a fire-juggling performance. Steven Doyle, assistant manager of KeepSafe storage in Brighton has come up with the idea to raise cash during Jeans for Genes Day today.
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Tesco will be part of Jubilee Street scheme
A supermarket chain has signed up to move into a new development. Tesco Express is coming to the Jubilee Street development, incorporating the award-winning £14 million central library, in Brighton. The chain exchanged contracts with Ellandi development
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2005 shaping up as a vintage year
Wine makers are predicting this year's harvest could be one of the best yet. Sugar levels in a number of varieties of grapes at vineyards across Sussex are the highest in years. This means very little extra sugar will need to be added to produce the required
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You Never Can Tell, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Oct 10 - 15.
Anyone who has watched Edward Fox's superb portrayal of the assassin on the trail of president de Gaulle in The Day Of The Jackal won't be disappointed with his latest performance. Fox returns to Brighton this month to take the lead in George Bernard
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Men Should Weep, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, Oct 11 - 15
A call to attention for Eastbourne audiences who have been put out to graze all summer long on musicals and farces, this production has also proved a rare treat for theatre-goers nationwide. Performed by the revered Oxford Stage Company, it is the first
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Shelter online for vulnerable youngsters
Homeless charity Shelter has brought its Know Your Rights housing campaign for young people to Sussex. More than 1,200 families and single people in Brighton and Hove were found to be homeless last year, many of them young people. The Know Your Rights
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Inquiry into light aircraft crash
Air accident investigators have launched an inquiry into a crash which killed a Brighton restaurant owner and his girlfriend. Tony Baker, 52, from Saltdean, was flying to Devon from Shoreham Airport on Sunday with his partner, Elaine Parry, 43, from Brighton
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Oliver Twist
(PG, 130 mins) Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden. Directed by Roman Polanski Dickens' tale of a young orphan boy's adventures in 19th-Century London, ruled by vagabonds and thieves, is a literary classic. Oscar-winning director Roman
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Emiliana Torrini, Concorde 2, Brighton, Wednesday, October 12
Salvation must lie somewhere between Iceland and Italy, where Emiliana Torrini's parents come from. At least that was how her music made me feel. Dressed like a Communist hausfrau, in husky, carefully spoken tones, similar in speech and song to Bjork,
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Ray Davies, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, Monday, October 10
It can't be easy being a music legend. Ray Davies admits he finds the logistics of his career tedious and time-consuming. "If you're going to ask me what has changed since I first started out in this business, it's the incredible amount of admin I have
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Letter: Don't get lost in the translation
I read with interest the article "Language genius" about nine-year-old Ben Keeling and his remarkable talent for languages (The Argus, October 1). I was also fascinated to see the "Handy Chichewa phrases" appended to the piece. At the risk of appearing
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Letter: Top-notch care at eye hospital
I was a patient in the Royal Sussex Eye Hospital last month and I was greeted by the best staff you could wish for. On arrival, I was taken to the ward and shown my bed by a nurse. Then I was offered a cup of tea, which was gratefully received. Then a
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Incinerator scheme is to be challenged
A county council will be challenged about controversial plans to construct a waste incinerator. A Newhaven resident has tabled two questions to East Sussex County Council about the incinerator proposed for North Quay in the town. The facility would be
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Pensioners priced out of swimming sessions
Dozens of pensioners have complained they are being priced out of therapeutic swimming sessions. Doctors have recommended that many of them take gentle exercise to ease aches and pains but they say they can no longer afford to visit their local leisure
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Six firefighters hurt each week
Almost six firefighters are hurt at work each week in Sussex, a report has revealed. New statistics show 269 officers suffered injuries while answering 999 calls, taking part in training drills or carrying out routine duties at the fire station during
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Shop that inspired a TV comedy classic
Picture the scene: it's 3am. There is a rat-a-tat-tat on the door of a corner shop and Ronnie Barker's bespectacled eyes appear at the window. In a deadpan voice he says to the shopkeeper: "Sorry to trouble you old chap - just wondered if by any chance
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Animal lovers' parking protest
Campaigners are to take their dogs to the steps of a town hall to protest over plans to build a park-and-ride scheme on the site of an animal rescue centre. Brighton and Hove City Council is to meet next Thursday to discuss the proposal, which would mean
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Letter: Thank you for having us all
Please allow me to thank people in Brighton for hosting the Labour Conference for the past two years. It is always a right palaver when political conferences come to town, what with the security, bustle and disruption you get. It is amazing how kind and
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Salute to war veteran, 109
The oldest surviving First World War veteran has been made an honorary member of The Fleet Air Arm Association. Henry Allingham, 109, who lives in a nursing home in his home town of Eastbourne, was given the honour yesterday. The veteran, who joined the
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Letter: Sorry price of retail success
Most town centres are clones - the same chain stores with same fascias in a slightly different order. However, Brighton has a unique gem in the North Laine and The Lanes. They're something different and a real draw to tourists and locals. This is why
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Councillors to claim 200 per cent pay rise
Councillors are to award themselves pay rises of up to 200 per cent. The leader of Lewes District Council is seeing her pay almost double from £6,872 to £12,376 and the deputy leader's £2,062 package is being almost trebled to £6,188. Council tax campaigners
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Letter: The power of discussion rather than insult
I sympathise with Richard March's difficulties in finding various items in the shops in Brighton. I have had the same problem. As his letter progressed, I found myself saying "Hear, hear" - and then I read the last two paragraphs. I may be, in Mr March's
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Best Foot forward in campaign for Falmer
Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot is the latest high-profile figure to campaign for Brighton and Hove Albion's Falmer stadium bid. Football fanatic Mr Foot, 92, has written to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to persuade him to say yes to the
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Letter: Correspondent should get out more
Richard March's letter, "I can't buy anything I want here" (October 4), must surely have been a joke. He went to Cork to buy a raincoat because he couldn't find one in Brighton, tried to buy fuse wire from Seeboard offices (why? - surely a hardware shop
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Conference South: Point proved
Stafford Browne is hoping to maintain his rich vein of form in front of goal when Worthing entertain Basingstoke in the FA Cup tomorrow. Summer signing Browne has bagged eight goals in 12 games for a Worthing side who have not lost since the opening day
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Carpenter in fitness race
Richard Carpenter is racing against time to be fit to face his old club Cardiff. Albion's central midfielder admits he has his work cut out to be ready for the Championship clash against the Welshmen at Withdean a week tomorrow. Carpenter was forced off
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The Subways, Event II, Brighton, Wednesday, October 12
The Subways' garage rock may not be pushing the envelope, but you forgive them because they're young enough not to know any better and they look like they're having the time of their lives. Desperate to escape his home town of Welwyn Garden City, frontman
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Waste firm goes online
Hhouseholders who want to know more about how waste is dealt with are encouraged to look online. Onyx, the rubbish collection and management firm, has a web site covering the South Downs area. The site was launched in April this year and provides information
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Ristorante Immortale, Komedia, Brighton, Oct 12 - 15
When Komedia invited me to preview the play Ristorante Immortale, I jumped at the chance. Not only would I get an opportunity to visit Berlin, one of the coolest cities in Europe, I would also meet the talented company behind the show. Renowned for creating
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Blood Brothers, The Hawth, Crawley, Oct 10 - 15
"You either think Willy Russell is a genius who understands the misunderstood soul of ordinaryville," wrote one commentator. "or a patronising charlatan who uses bland characters to illustrate some pretty simplistic social comment. Most appear to go for
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£117,000 for safer eating
Three councils have received grants to help improve food safety. Brighton and Hove, Adur and Worthing councils will share £117,000 from the Food Standards Agency. Catering firms in each area will receive an information pack aimed at bringing them into
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Synagogue prepares for anniversary celebrations
A synagogue is looking for anecdotes and artefacts for an exhibition to mark its 70th anniversary. Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue in Lansdowne Road, Hove, was founded in 1935 and is calling on current and former members of the congregation to
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MP joins the battle for fair milk prices
An MP is joining a group of farmers campaigning for fairer milk prices. Lewes MP Norman Baker will take part in the protest in the centre of the town on Wednesday to coincide with the appearance of Surrey farmer Peter Parkes at Lewes Magistrates Court
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Call for faster STI treatment
An Aids charity has warned cases of sexually transmitted infections will continue to increase unless patients get treatment more quickly. The Terrence Higgins Trust investigation shows fewer than half of people attending genito-urinary medicine (GUM)
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Jacob's dad back in court
A man accused of murdering his terminally ill son appeared at Lewes Crown Court. Andrew Wragg, 37, is alleged to have killed ten-year-old Jacob in July last year. He admitted smothering Jacob but denied murder at a trial earlier this year when the jury
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Black and white and read ...
Black and white will be a literary festival's theme this year. The tenth Lewes Live Literature Festival is on between October 26 and 31 and will showcase a celebration of the spoken word, performance, film and the visual arts. Highlights include The Black
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NIGHT WATCH
(15, 114 mins) Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Maria Poroshina. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov Adapted from the novel by Sergei Lukyanenko, the first instalment of a best-selling trilogy, Night Watch is a dazzling, high-speed foray on to the streets
