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Laura Veirs, Komedia, Brighton, Monday, October 17
"All the songs are about transportation, motion," explains Seattle-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, talking about her new album, Year Of Meteors. "If you listen to the words, there's always some movement happening - whether it's greyhounds running
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Royksopp, Event 2, Brighton, Sunday, October 16
"We had to change our hairstyles, we had to have bigger hair. At one point we even had proper beards. Some of it still remains." Always ones to pay attention to detail, Royksopp have got this reinvention thing sorted. Such is their desire to move and
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Critic's choice
this is Brighton offers a critical view of what's hot for the coming week. Roddy Frame, Old Market Theatre, Hove, Friday, October 14 - Although Aztec Camera was always essentially a solo vehicle, Frame has opted to record under his own name since the
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Brendan Benson, Concorde 2, Brighton, Sunday, October 16
Most of you will already be aware of this but, just in case, please note: Brendan Benson sounds nothing like his long-time friend and early champion Jack White. He is in fact a power-pop artist who owes more to Teenage Fanclub than Muddy Waters. This
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Sea Tongue, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, October 15 and 16
Following a two-year, £8 million restoration and refurbishment project, tomorrow the UK's first modernist public building will once more open its doors. The management of the De La Warr Pavilion hope it will become the South-East's principal centre for
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Michael Bolton, Brighton Centre, Friday, October 14
Depending on where you stand on lovestruck melodies wrung throatily out across slicker-thanslick production, Michael Bolton is one of those artists you either love, hate or diplomatically ignore. Unless you subscribe to one of the numerous excitable fan
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Letter: The Albion should find another site
As a football supporter and resident of Brighton, I value the Albion very highly and appreciate the wide benefits the club brings to our community. However, the continuing Falmer campaign, while once understandably misguided, is now verging on the obsessive
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Ristorante Immortale, Komedia, Brighton
This is one of the most unusual and wackiest shows ever staged at Komedia. German mime and movement artists from the Berlin-based Familie Floz don't say a word as they move around this peculiar restaurant set with its variety of exits. Hidden behind huge
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Letter: Get it right
It never ceases to amaze me how little the anti-stadium brigade actually know about the proposed site at Falmer. Dave Beard (Letters, October 8) says the stadium is to be built in the Lewes District Council area and mentions a retail park. The stadium
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Letter: Enough's enough
I have been putting off writing this letter for so long now because I am an absolute football hater and don't want to waste my time writing about it. But I am so fed up with all the fuss about Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club that I have been forced
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Tribute to a brave mother
A runner who raised thousands of pounds as she was dying of cancer is to have a major peace movement named after her. Frances Powney died last month at the age of just 43. She was deeply involved in the Middle East-based Football 4 Peace and raised funds
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Masterpiece's modern makeover
Builders are frantically putting the finishing touches to what is arguably England's most beautiful arts venue. The De La Warr Pavilion was built in 1935 by the then mayor of Bexhill, Herbrand Sackville, the ninth Earl De La Warr. He wanted to create
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Anger over merger plan for schools
Merging two special schools is no more than a cost-cutting measure that will cause endless problems, according to worried parents. Parents of pupils at Downs Park School in Portslade say plans to merge it with nearby Hillside School could cause their
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Letter: Autumn blows into our lives
Autumn comes in with paint brush at hand, with one wild sweep she will change all the land. Leaves that are green will suddenly change brown, the ones that lose grip will come tumbling down. For autumn is here she makes herself known, the sun has to go
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Picketing pups barking mad at park-and-ride
Dozens of people fighting plans for a park-and-ride scheme picketed a town hall with banners and chanted protest slogans. Actor Chris Ellison joined the protesters who had gathered outside Brighton Town Hall yesterday afternoon to hand over two petitions
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Letter: Build on Kemp Town Enclosures instead
I read with interest the feature regarding Pierre-Yves Gerbeau and his proposal for a huge tower block to be built at Brighton Marina (The Argus, September 28). I question this on two counts: 1, If 988 flats were built, this would require 3,000 extra
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Drug grower is spared jail term
A former soldier who set up a cannabis factory after falling into debt has walked free from court. Carlos Perez, 40, grew hundreds of plants in rooms above his shop in busy Western Road, Hove. He grew his crop on the top floor of his failing business,
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Letter: ...and the lazy
If an unemployed person in this nation votes for the Conservative Party, has he or she the right to withdraw labour? -Felipe Hewlett, Hove
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NHS hospital trust faces £17m debt crisis
A stuggling hospital trust could be more than £17 million in the red by the end of March. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust's financial position is becoming increasingly precarious as it struggles to make £34 million worth of savings
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Letter: ..the bad
I am writing in reference to a horrible situation which happened to my 76-year-old mother last week. She drew out her monthly money and then proceeded to go shopping. But in either the Heart Foundation shop or Woolworths along London Road, Brighton, someone
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Letter: The good...
I would just like to thank the kind people who came to my Dad's aid when he passed out in Worthing town on Saturday. Thanks also to the paramedics. After a night in hospital, he's home and well. It's good to know there are such kind people out there.
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Dump plan could be scrapped
The company behind plans to build a recycling and waste transfer site may go back to the drawing board after its proposals triggered thousands of objections. The Argus has learned that Onyx, which wants to build a £10 million facility in Hollingdean Lane
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Golf: Richard is now a Hall of Famer
Richard Roelich didn't take up golf until he was 30 but in a few days time he will be 67 and entitled to call himself a national champion. He is the first East Brighton member to bring such an honour to the club. Roelich won the inaugural Hall of Fame
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Letter: Sinking feeling
Reading of the Impulse Leisure's vast increase in fees ("Pensioners priced out of swimming sessions", The Argus, October 7) prompts me to add my disgust. A mention was made of fees being doubled. An increase of £1.70 to more than £4 makes an increase
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Speedway: Bad luck denies Eagles a big lead
Jon Cook today backed his Eastbourne Eagles to make the Craven Shield final, despite two moments of misfortune at Oxford. Eagles have a two-point lead over Silver Machine in the battle to reach the final of the Craven Shield after last night's semi-final
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Conference: Vines wants Lindegaard to stay
Crawley manager Francis Vines is today poised to extend Andy Lindegaard's loan deal from League One side Yeovil. The midfielder is due to play the last game of a four-week spell against Exeter City tomorrow. Vines was in Somerset this week trying to keep
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McShane moving in the right direction
Paul McShane pulled out of the closing stages of training yesterday with a stiff neck, probably caused by continually looking upwards. McShane's career is certainly on an upward curve, for both club and country. The teenager has been outstanding at the
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Kerry vows to bounce back
Kerry Mayo vowed today to bounce back from one of the worst performances of his ten-year Albion career. Mayo's place is under threat against Cardiff at Withdean tomorrow after a below-par display when the Seagulls lost 3-1 at home to Norwich in their
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Head East and wake sleeping giants
A drive to encourage Sussex firms to exploit business opportunities in high-performing Asian economies has been launched. The Waking Giants - China campaign aims to get more companies exporting products and services to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. More
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Cheers as megastore plan is thrown out
A controversial plan to build a B&Q store at a prestigious marina complex has been thrown out. A special planning committee of Eastbourne Borough Council last night rejected the proposals for the development at Sovereign Harbour. The retail giant
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Bright new look for the heart of city
These images show how a bustling street filled with traffic could be transformed into a tranquil parade linking key city attractions. Brighton and Hove City Council is spending up to £1 million on improvements to New Road, Brighton, to make it attractive
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Will Smith Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
No, not that one. This one hails from Jersey and has an unnatural obsession with Eighties prog rockers Marillion. It's not so much that he owns every CD they ever made or that as a teenager he wore a home-made harlequin outfit to a gig, or even that he
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Flats plan on site of hospital in balance
A council committee is divided over a plan to demolish a former hospital and build a five-storey block of flats. Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee narrowly voted to defer a decision on the fate of the old Nuffield Hospital in New Church
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Head of hospital to leave
The head of a struggling hospital trust is stepping down after 13 years in post. Robert Lapraik, 56, is taking early retirement from the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust, which runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, at the end of the month. The trust could
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Row over tax credit fiasco
The Paymaster General faced resignation calls last night for the tax credits fiasco which threatened financial hardship for thousands of Sussex families. East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton told Dawn Primarolo she would have lost her job if she
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Banner couple told get help
A Brighton couple apparently conducting their failing relationship via banners hung over a busy dual carriageway were urged today to stop being "immature" and seek counselling. Police chiefs also took a dim view of the signs draped from the bridge over
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Domino
(15, 127mins) Starring Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu. Tony Scott's fast-paced crime thriller is inspired loosely by the true story of Domino Harvey, the one-time model and privileged daughter of actor Lawrence Harvey and
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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
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Re:present, Hove Town Hall, Hove, Saturday, October 15
Set up in 1987 to help promote knowledge of black history and culture, the annual Black History Month now incorporates up to 3,000 events around the country every October. Among these is Re:Present, a one-day community event aimed at celebrating cultural
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Royal British Legion 60th Anniversary Concert, Brighton Centre, Saturday, October 15
It is now, of course, 60 years since the end of the Second World War - and to celebrate, the Royal British Legion is presenting this Forties-themed dance and concert featuring live music, jive dance and even food of the decade (although hopefully cooked
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Letter: Check the facts, not fantasies
I understand it may now only be a matter of days before the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announces the decision on the site of Brighton and Hove Albion's new stadium. It strikes me, though, that those opposed to a stadium being built at Falmer
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Teechers, Barn Theatre, Southwick
Having won Best Production at the Brighton & Hove Arts Council Awards in 2003 with John Godber's Bouncers, it is not surprising the Southwick Players should turn to another of his plays. In Teechers he depicts life, to hilarious effect, within the
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Letter: Good luck, Albion
As the Albion awaits the decision on the Falmer stadium, my thoughts are with you and my best wishes go out to everyone from the directors to the supporters. I have been keeping a close watch on developments ever since the Goldstone ground was lost. I
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Pupils tuck in to good food as junk ditched
Crisps and snacks have been replaced with fruit and wholemeal toast at a city school. Children at Downs Park School in Foredown Road, Portslade, have been making healthy snacks to sell to children at the tuck shop. Deputy headteacher Hazel Grice said
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Murder trial man's suicide
A man on trial for the murder of his wife killed himself in prison. Nicholas Bailey, 59, took a "massive" overdose of pills the night before his cross-examination in court was due to begin. He was charged with killing his estranged wife, Susan, 57, after
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Letter: Don't build here
When the Government first announced its proposal for a massive increase in housing in the South-East, it was widely questioned and opposed. Throughout the consultation, people made it clear they thought it perverse to try to tackle the problems of an
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Letter: Not so serene
Regarding Lynn Daly's item regarding her daughter's visit to the cinema (The Argus, October 11), I was also stopped recently at Brighton Marina Cineworld and had my chews removed for my own safety. I don't blame the usher however, who was clearly upset
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Basketball: Thunder's new star had to flee hurricane
Alfredo Ott lost his basketball shoes and most of his possessions to Hurricane Katrina. But the hotshot new Worthing point guard is now fully equipped to try to lead his new club to a landmark BBL Trophy derby win. Ott will be at the helm when Genesis
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Letter: Now I've had enough of trying to recycle things
I am fed up with the amount of money Brighton and Hove City Council has spent on trying to get the public to recycle more. In case you have missed it, the campaign is plastered on most of the city's buses and, in a recent article in City News, the council
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Letting the roadtrain take parking strain
A miniature train could ease city centre parking problems. Chichester District Council borrowed a scaled-down train which runs on the road to test its viability as a city transport option yesterday. London attraction Kew Gardens handed over the road train
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Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, Theatre Royal, Brighton, October 17 - 22
The Smiths provided a sountrack to the Eighties with their tuneful tales of suburban angst, forgotten dreams and punctured bicycles. So it seems fitting that their songs have been used as the backdrop to a play which looks at the lives of six ordinary
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Sea breezes help library win award
A landmark library has won a prestigious architecture prize. The eco-friendly Jubilee Library in Brighton beat 14 other schemes to scoop the Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Buildings. The contest celebrates any scheme that helps build a better
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(U, 84mins) Featuring the voices of Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham-Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Kay, John Thomson, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith. Directed by Nick Park Steve Box. In the wonderful world of film, it's not often you can say with any degree of certainty
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Lord of War
(15, 121 mins) Starring Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm, Jean-Pierre Nshanian, Shake Toukhmanian and Eugene Lazarev. Directed by Andrew Niccol Think Traffic with guns or Goodfellas with an extra helping
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Trachtenburg Players, Corn Exchange, Brighton, Thursday October 20
To say Jason Trachtenburg is a one off would be an something of an understatement. His soft New York tones sound like those of a Scissor Sister, his outfits look like they've come off the back of a "trendy" dad from the Seventies and his attempt to eradicate
