Archive
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Letter: The laws of physics are immutable
"Are phone masts cancerous?" is the headline on one of today's letters (March 29). Any electro-magnetic (EM) radiation is potentially harmful. As a CB-radio user in the Eighties, it was not unknown to get an occasional burn from holding the aerial while
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Letter: Is dangerous back-street parking fine?
Madeira Drive is one of the widest streets in Brighton - even double-parking wouldn't block the road - yet National Car Parks' parking attendants issued 5,803 parking tickets there in 2005 (The Argus, March 23). It would make more sense to allow free
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Letter: Easter games
At the risk of sounding ungrateful at the decision to update the play equipment in Blakers Park, I would like to know which bright spark decided to schedule the work over the Easter break. The work starts today (March 27) and continues for two weeks.
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Letter: Amazing show
I wish to give praise to Hangleton Junior School for the wonderful production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. The children were fantastic, from Year 5's choir to the children on stage. Many thanks must also be given to the teachers who
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Letter: Don't stand for it
If it comes to standpipes in the streets due to the water shortage, can we expect a reduction in our water bills due to the fact Southern Water has failed in its side of our contract, ie to maintain a service to our taps? And how are the infirm and elderly
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Letter: Seawater sense
After the bad drought back in 1976, would it not have been possible for Southern Water to pump unadulterated seawater to properties in Brighton and Hove? They could have left drinking water through the cold tap in the kitchens and fed sea water through
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Rape justice 'like a lottery'
Rape victims in Sussex suffer from a "postcode lottery" over whether their attacker will be brought to justice, it was claimed. Large regional variations in rape conviction levels across England and Wales were revealed in a report published yesterday.
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Birthday girl who fought for her life
Little Grace Stonnell's mother could hardly have dared dream of celebrating her daughter's first birthday when she was born two months premature. Grace weighed only three pounds and one ounce when she was born and had to battle through a life-threatening
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Letter: It is not our burden to bear
In response to Francis Tonks's article about people not paying their council tax (The Argus, March 25), I think he has a cheek to say the charge is being passed on to people who do pay on time. Why should it put a burden on those who do so? If you were
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Asbos handed out to ten-year-olds
More than 200 Sussex yobs have been given anti-social behaviour orders, latest Home Office figures revealed yesterday. The number of Asbos restricting movements and behaviour increased from 180 to 201 in Sussex between July and September last year. The
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Family's relief at £3.5m payout
The family of a girl awarded millions of pounds after being brain damaged at birth have spoken of their relief. The £3.5 million compensation deal, awarded in the High Court on Wednesday, brings to an end a four-year legal battle which the family of Eloise
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Letter: No lack of funds
How can lack of funds be an excuse for the closure and subsequent sale of Dresden House Care Home? Eighteen pensioners paying an average of £500 weekly should provide ample funds to keep the home ticking over very nicely, thank you. -Ron Wood, Brighton
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Club shuts after lap-dancing row
A nightclub has closed its doors after police accused the management of trying to set up a lap-dancing club without a proper licence. Police said the managers of the Brighton Gloucester in Gloucester Place, Brighton, had been auditioning lap dancers and
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Letter: Illegal rent rise
Council house tenants in Brighton have had a large rent rise, because of being in arrears rather than rent in advance. Some residents have had to pay an extra £35 per month, unilaterally, from £275.64 to £310.84. This is because John Prescott stopped
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Letter: Collect the rent!
With reference to the rent owed to Brighton and Hove City Council, I blame them for letting it get that bad in the first place. When I lived in Moulsecoomb, they came to my door for ten pence I had forgotten to add to my payment when the rent increased
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Rugby: Bognor face uphill task
Bognor have been told to do their club's unsung heroes proud as they face probably their toughest ever battle. The London Three South East outfit will be massive underdogs as they tackle holders Worthing, of London One, in the final of the Sussex Trophy
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Charles Linehan Company, Corn Exchange, Brighton, April 6
Often described as the "thinking person's choreographer", Charles Linehan's dance is understated and sensitive. Offering all the challenges and satisfaction of a good, brainy puzzle, his works aim to ease you into their message and leave you pondering
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Krater Comedy Club, Komedia, Brighton, March 31, April 1 and 2
Phil Butler shamelessly uses every gimmick in the book, whether it's cheap conjuring tricks, ventriloquism, pounding backing music or repeatedly asking the crowd to give him a cheer. At this weekend's Krater, he's joined by Marcus Birdman, who brings
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Hockey: Payne aims to keep it in the family
Richard Payne is hoping to create a unique piece of family history. The East Grinstead skipper will lead his side into HA Cup final action against Reading on Sunday (2.30pm). With younger brother Ben at his side, Payne will be bidding to become only the
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Bink and the Giant Whizpop, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing, April 5
With possibly one of the best theatrical titles ever, this children's play takes us to the Elven Kingdom. The date for Princess Verity's wedding has been set when all of a sudden she falls victim to a sinister sleeping spell. The princess will not wake
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Football: Hollins aims high
Crawley manager John Hollins has targeted a top half finish this season. Hollins believes his side can win all seven remaining games. Reds travel to relegation rivals Southport tomorrow on the back of four straight victories. It is their best run since
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Hinshelwood aims to silence his dad
Adam Hinshelwood wants the silent treatment from his dad tomorrow after Albion's do-or-die relegation battle at Millwall. That will tell him his comeback from a serious knee injury has continued on an upward curve. Hinshelwood's dad Paul played for Millwall
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New airport firm hit by fraud claim
The firm due to take over Shoreham Airport tomorrow is being investigated over a suspected £10 million fraud. The Erinaceous Group was forced to put out an announcement after the market got wind of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into an employee
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Faith pays off at exam time
Faith schools have topped the league tables in Sussex for pre-GCSE results. Department for Education and Skills tables show church schools ranked first in each education authority for Key Stage 3 exams taken by 14-year-olds last summer. Cardinal Newman
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The Shaggy Dog
(U, 98mins) Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Zena Grey, Spencer Breslin, Robert Downey Jr, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover. Directed by Brian Robbins. Brian Robbins's remake of the 1959 family favourite starring Fred MacMurray and Jean Hagen (reinvented in 1976 as
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Church to be demolished
A Congregation is preparing to bid farewell to the church which has served it for more than 100 years. London Road Methodist Church, built in 1894 by London architect James Weir, is to be sold to developers and the money put into other projects in Brighton
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The Sugababes, Brighton Centre, Brighton, April 3
When Mutya Buena announced she was leaving the Sugababes last year, the news came as something of a shock to fans of the band. But it wasn't such a shock to fellow band members. Given the speed with which Mutya - who said in her statement she was leaving
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Corinne Bailey Rae, Concorde 2, Brighton, April 1
As Corinne Bailey Rae rides a pushbike while wearing a white floaty top in her latest video, it's hard to imagine her stomping about in stripy tights and Doc Martins. But that's how the music career of the sweet and smiley songstress began - as frontwoman
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Critic's choice
The Guide offers a critical view of what's hot for the following week. Roachford, Komedia, Brighton, Friday, March 31 - British soul man Andrew Roachford was discovered by Terence Trent DArby in the Eighties and still commands a huge following particularly
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Rebel beats: Sway, Ocean Rooms, Brighton, Friday, March 31
Born Derek Desafo, Sway is a man with a musical game plan. The 23-year-old MC and producer's music is a truly British cross-pollination of hip-hop and grime, with witty rhymes and a distinctive flow. It was his self-sold mix tapes which won the Londoner
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Nightmares On Wax Soundsystem, Concorde 2, Brighton
It's shame George Evelyn will never have the budget to take the 20-piece band - full horn and string sections, gospel choir - his music needs on the road. But even with just him, an Iration Stepper and two female vocalists he was able to create a spellbinding
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Visible, The Gardner Arts Centre, Falmer
Halfway through this play a woman from the audience burst into tears and ran out of the theatre shouting, "It's sick, I can't believe you're all laughing at this." Everyone else froze. Onstage Gus Brown as Stuart White, a tasteless gameshow host leading
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Letter: Sceptical until there's proof
If, as Evelyn Lewes states (Letters, March 11), painting double yellow lines in the Clyde Road area has indeed made it easier and safer to cross, this must be an improvement. Your other correspondents (March 2) seemed to believe the lines would make things
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Letter: Not to be sold
Ruth Arundell of "Defend Council Housing" (DCH) again perpetuates the myth that the city's council housing stock will be given away to a private, profit-making Housing Association to be sold off (Letters, March 29). She is wrong. The proposals that tenants
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Letter: Keeping tidy
I am not surprised Waitrose refuses to have a cat food collection box in its Lewes store (Letters, March 16). Defending to me the decision not to display a bus map at the East Grinstead branch, the customer services department manager at Waitrose's headquarters
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Town fears the loss of its central post office
A town of 29,000 people is in danger of losing its only central post office. In June retailer Forbuoys will close the post office counter at its branch in London Road, East Grinstead, leaving the town with only three small branches on its outskirts. Chris
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Supergrass 'plotted to kill president'
Supergrass Mohammed Babar - giving evidence against seven men accused of planning bomb attacks - has admitted he plotted to kill the president of Pakistan. Babar, 31, said he had been involved in two conspiracies to murder General Pervez Musharaf. He
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'Sick' note left on grave of child murder victim
A letter saying sorry and reportedly signed by child killer Roy Whiting has been left at his victim's grave. Sarah Payne's mother said whoever wrote the note, which had the initials RW, was sick. Similar notes and flowers have been left on the graves
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Letter: Cleaning, not culling, is the solution
What an odd species the human is. It chooses when an animal lives or dies, after labelling it either "pet" or "pest". Take the hapless pigeon, the quintessential "scapegoat" for those people who seek to offload the burden of blame for a problem of "nuisance
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Speedway: Foreign legion are taking over but Eagles ace Norris wants to see
David Norris today challenged Britain's top riders to prove they can succeed at the highest level. Norris spearheads Eastbourne Eagles in their first home Elite League meeting of the season as highly-fancied Peterborough Panthers visit Arlington tomorrow
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Plans for 'Brighton Eye' revealed
The team behind the London Eye has unveiled plans to transform Brighton's skyline with the loftiest building in Sussex. Soaring above any other building on the seafront, the 600ft tower is expected to attract more than 500,000 visitors a year. It would
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Letter: Who really pays?
Further to the reports of council rent arrears, Brighton and Hove City Council will not tell me what proportion of my council tax goes to cover those who do not pay their council tax, nor those whom the council cannot be bothered to collect the tax from
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Basketball: Bears in battle to be kings of the Caribbean
Steve Parillon and Andrew Alleyne are uniting for the common cause of play-off success. But that will not stop the Genesis Brighton Bears stars enjoying constant Caribbean banter between games. Parillon, from the British Virgin Islands, and Alleyne, from
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The Spirit of the Man, Theatre Royal, Brighton, April 4 - 8
The pressure of acting the role of a footballing legend in front of die-hard fans - and his wife - must be as stomach-churning as a big match itself. For that reason, Colin Tarrant, who plays former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough in The Spirit
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Letter: Support us too
In response to Sarah Reeds' plea for support for the Unison pension strike (Argus March 29th), I would like to ask her and members of Unison and other unions involved if they have or are prepared to do anything to help the thousands of self-employed people
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Letter: Why should we treat them as special cases?
I had a distinct feeling of nausea on reading your report "County is braced for strike chaos" (The Argus, March 28). Last year, the unions engaged in demands enabling ever-increasing hordes of state employees to retire at 60 at an unaffordable cost to
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Cricket: Kirtley steps down as vice-captain
James Kirtley has given up the vice-captaincy of Sussex. Chris Adams will operate without a designated No. 2 this season although Kirtley would step in if the skipper was injured. Kirtley, 31, wants to concentrate on refining his new bowling action. He
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Yellow lines will ruin business, says angry trader
A trader is complaining double yellow lines will put customers off visiting his store. Simon Studd, sales and technical manager of City Wood Floors in New England Street, Brighton, said customers would be too worried about getting ticketed to park outside
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Businesses in East Sussex offered efficiency training
Businesses in East Sussex are being urged to take advantage of £160,000 in EU funding to help them cut their energy, water and waste bills. The East Sussex Betre project (Business Excellence Through Resource Efficiency) has been given the money to hold
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BA chucks out check-in desks for UK flights
British Airways is scrapping check-in desks for travellers on its domestic routes from Gatwick and other UK airports. From April 25, passengers on BA's routes within the UK will have to check in via its website or at airport kiosks. Conventional check-in
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Basic Instinct 2
(18, 113mins). Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis, Indira Varma, Stan Collymore. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Sex sells, as the original Basic Instinct proved in 1992, grossing more than 350 million dollars worldwide.
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Firewall
(12A, 104mins) Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robert Patrick, Robert Forster. Directed by Richard Loncraine. Any movie criminal or terrorist with an iota of intelligence should know that you never mess with Harrison Ford
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Jury hears girl tell of clash after robbery
Two men accused of a street robbery which led to the victim's death had a fierce argument after the alleged attack, a jury heard. Raymond Atkins, 33, and Philip Howell, 28, are alleged to have rowed after they fled the scene of the robbery in Bexhill.
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Coastal areas warned to prepare for floods
Experts warned large swathes of the Sussex coast could be hit today by gale-force winds and extremely high tides. The Environment Agency issued an urgent flood warning for the coastline between Chichester Harbour and Selsey Bill and said the rest of the
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Labour camp war hero dies
A shop owner who survived Siberian labour camps and the German occupation of Poland has died, aged 91. Peter Matwiejczuk was one of a group of Polish army officers who helped form a training school for the Seventh Polish Infantry in Uzbekistan. After
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Club shuts after lap-dancing row
A nightclub has closed its doors after police accused the management of trying to set up a lap-dancing club without a proper licence. Police said the managers of the Brighton Gloucester, in Gloucester Place, Brighton, had been auditioning lap dancers
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Graham Coxon, Concorde 2, Brighton, April 4
Four years after parting company with Blur, the shy Graham Coxon admits that, right now, he likes himself more than he has done in ages. These feelings of admiration are echoed by fans and the music Press, with many calling his latest solo album his best
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Hope Of The States, Audio, Brighton, Tuesday, April 4
Chichester-born Hope Of The States are road-testing new material with a series of low-key, intimate gigs. As well as having to cope with the death of founder member and guitarist James Lawrence in 2004, the band have faced tour disruptions, arguments
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Chaos Rocks presents: Peaches and Erol Alkan, Concorde 2, Brighton, Fri, March 31
Shouty-rap electropunk guttermouth Peaches is forever immortalised in Brighton thanks to club night FTPA, which is named after her infamous track. The Canadian-born, Berlin-based artist likes to sing about sex, backed up by deliciously minimal electronic
