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Hillary of Larkfield?
Rene Henry emails: "In July 1961 and 1962 I went to Brighton to stay with a family living in Hollingbury to improve my English. I had a girlfriend, Hillary, living in the area (somewhere near the beginning of Larkfield Way, on the left when you're coming
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Williams/Strevens
Williams/Strevens June Moon emails: "I am tracing my family and desperately need help. "My mother, Edith Mary Williams, was born in Brighton in 1922. Her mother, Ethel Williams was not married at the time and her parents my great-grandparents were
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Table Manners, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne,
As one third of the trilogy which constitutes The Norman Conquests, written by Alan Ayckbourn in the early Seventies, one can only say, at best, is dated. Despite the stalwart efforts of the able and experienced cast, little can save the play from faltering
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Letter: Wild animals should not be penned up
I was surprised to hear plans by the Brighton Sea Life Centre to exhibit otters and seals have been approved by Brighton and Hove City Council's planning applications sub-committee. How can anyone believe it acceptable to hold wild animals in artificial
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Letter: The Lords are our only safeguard
Joyce Edmond-Smith wishes to see the House of Commons debate Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying For The Terminally Ill Bill (Letters, May 17). I wonder if the "large majority of people in this country" she claims support the Bill would welcome the use of the
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Letter: Level the field
The article "Small shops - use them or lose them" (The Argus, May 2), added depth to the news the marina is in line for transformation and that Asda and McDonald's would be demolished under facelift plans to incorporate space for residential, retail and
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Roads up as water mains are renewed
Plans to start the overhaul of more than 35 miles of water pipes in Brighton and Hove have been announced by Southern Water. The city's network of pipes, between 120 and 150 years old, will be replaced as part of a £15.5 million project lasting until
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Daddy gets chosen for the hood
The Daddy of Big Brother contestants is safe from eviction this week after securing a place in the Big Brtoherhood. Pete Stephenson, 24, of Brighton band Daddy Fantastic was chosen by Shahbaz and Lisa to joing them in the elite group. Brotherhood status
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Arrests blitz makes life tough for drug dealers
Drugs dealers are being chased out of Brighton and Hove, say police. They have taken a tough stance on pushers who move in to the city to cash in on partying tourists who head to the coast in their thousands. More than 200 have been arrested during a
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Cutting crime with Cleese
He is known throughout the world for catchphrases like "don't mention the war" and "he's from Barcelona". But the voice of John Cleese, or one very similar, could soon be reminding shoppers to hold on to their handbags or lock their cars. Sussex Police
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Rebel lecturers told their pay will be cut
LecturerS are angry a university has threatened to withhold 20 per cent of their pay if they continue a marking boycott. Dozens of lecturers at the University of Sussex face being docked a fifth of their pay this month if they continue to refuse to mark
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Letter: What has he done for us?
I have just read Adam Trimingham's article entitled "The PM must go" (The Argus, May 9). There are going to be a lot of Labour MPs in Sussex out of a job if Tony Blair does not stand down. What has he done for the people of the UK? Taken us to war, increased
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Trainee slams risk at airport
Gatwick Airport has been accused of lax security after a job applicant claimed he could have planted bombs in passengers' luggage on the first day of an airport training course. Ken Fisher, of London Road, Burgess Hill, spoke of his shock at discovering
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Homes that can be built in a week
New "expandable" family homes which can be built in less than a week and cost just £60,000 are planned for a Sussex town. Construction firm William Verry's flat-pack house plan is one of six winning designs in a Government competition to come up with
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Letter: It's a wonder there was not an accident
I agree with Debbie Knowles (Letters, May 10). The roads should be closed for the Brighton Festival Children's Parade. We waited at the South Gate arch of the Royal Pavilion. Each time traffic was let through, the parade was halted then, as the traffic
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Letter: Endangered walk
I have just received (although too late for me to participate in the first items), Brighton and Hove City Council's publication Countryside Events And News dated May to September. In this, we are advised of the beautiful walk which can be enjoyed on Sunday
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Letter: Buy a tank, then
Is it true the police are saying the problem with anti-social off-road motorcyclists is increasing because there is nowhere for them to go (The Argus, May 18)? How can this possibly excuse the motorcyclists in the same story from riding their bikes at
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Pep talk inspires Rayner
Ollie Rayner today revealed how a pep talk from one of Sri Lanka's star batsmen helped him re-write the Sussex record books. The 20-year-old off-spinner became the first Sussex batsman for 86 years to score a hundred on his first-class debut against the
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Firm's grant for website
A furniture company is sitting pretty after receiving a grant to improve its website. New Dawn Furniture, in Westbourne, near Chichester, was given £1,000 by Chichester District Council as part of its regular round of business grants. Councillor Maureen
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Final suspect in gang is convicted
The final suspect in the murder of a father who was bludgeoned to death with baseball bats by a teenage gang has been convicted of manslaughter. Gary Rae was attacked by a gang of six teenagers outside his flat in High Street, Hailsham, on May 29 last
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Hotel faces collapse
A landmark seafront hotel which had been undergoing a £5 million refurbishment is in danger of collapse after strong winds battered the building. Towers at the front of the Sackville Hotel in Hove have become unstable and will have to be pulled down.
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Facing the 'nightmare' of London's rubbish
Plans to heap nearly five million tonnes of London's rubbish on Sussex could lead to the nightmare scenario of roads jammed with waste lorries, more tips and even the installation of incinerators, a council leader has warned. Under the new South East
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Dr John, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton
Mac Rebennack's life, which has often seemed to be a state of permanent Mardi Gras, has been spent creating a fusion of styles heady even by the standards of his native New Orleans. In the late-Sixties and early-Seventies, he blended gospel, Cajun, blues
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Public says no to police merger
Government plans to merge two police forces are strongly opposed by the public, a poll has revealed. Fifty-nine per cent of those surveyed for the poll were against proposals to merge Sussex and Surrey police forces. Residents were two times more likely
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Pupils offered cash to pass their exams
A secondary school is paying pupils to attend revision sessions to improve exam results. Worthing High School has selected 16 pupils for the pilot scheme in a bid to raise grades. Deputy headteacher Jules White said: "It will work out at about £50 or
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G4, Brighton Centre, Brighton
A polished group performance from the X Factor-originating band was let down by some poor solos. The quartet were great together as they rattled through their repertoire of pop covers including Coldplay's Yellow, Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again and
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Dr John, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton
Mac Rebennack's life, which has often seemed to be a state of permanent Mardi Gras, has been spent creating a fusion of styles heady even by the standards of his native New Orleans. In the late-Sixties and early-Seventies, he blended gospel, Cajun, blues
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Simunye, Theatre Royal, Brighton
I Fagiolini's director, Robert Hollingworth, has always been serious about music and playful about performance. So his amusing introductions counterpointed well the group's delightfully precise singing, whether of 16th-Century madrigals or the pieces
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Table Manners, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne,
As one third of the trilogy which constitutes The Norman Conquests, written by Alan Ayckbourn in the early Seventies, one can only say, at best, is dated. Despite the stalwart efforts of the able and experienced cast, little can save the play from faltering
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Martha Wainwright, Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton
"I'm related to one of the best looking men in the world," joked Martha Wainwright, "you gotta help me out here!" Identifiable by the dense smoke which coiled in the Hanbury's domed ceiling and the cider which made a human fly-paper of its floor, The
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Letter: Build it yourself
Being a resident of Hassocks and after reading your report "DIY commuters to rebuild station" (The Argus, May 17), I strongly object to the situation. I hope Councillor Wilsdon does not coming knocking on my door asking for donations. This is the railway's
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Letter: Nowhere to run
I wonder if people who walk their dogs on the spare piece of land in Benfield Valley behind Sainsbury's and Hove Park School are aware of the planning application to erect a golf driving range, football pitches and floodlights, leaving only a small footpath
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Letter: Close the roads
Anyone who has ever stood and watched this wonderful parade must agree the roads should be closed. If this was properly done, the parade would be over much more quickly and buses and traffic would get back to normal in a shorter time than it takes now
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Homes at £2,000 a square metre
Property prices measured per square metre have risen faster in Brighton and Hove than in London. The city has seen the second biggest jump in house prices by floor space in the country over the last decade, Britain's biggest mortgage lender said today
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Heroes enjoy night of tears and laughter
The glittering annual Argus Achievement Awards were once again a magnificent night as the unsung heroes of Sussex had their moment of glory in the spotlight. All the finalists at Friday's awards night were invited as guests of honour. Nicholas Owen began
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Letter: Sock it to them
Your article "Call to put a sock in it" (The Argus, May 18), reported Chichester District Council is launching Noise Action Week from May 22. The main problem appears to be burglar alarms which do not cut off after 20 minutes. This 20-minute period is
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Letter: Traveller blight
Out walking my dog this afternoon, as I do every afternoon, I discovered travellers have once again invaded East Brighton Park. There were 28 caravans, work vans, quad bikes, picnic tables and chairs, with kids riding back and forth over the recently-formed
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Letter: Where is it acceptable to ruin land like this?
Inspector Stephen Curry says of the ground at Braypool that it is unacceptable to leave a cricket pitch covered in human excrement, rubble and scrap (The Argus, May 18). Perhaps he would like to tell us where in his opinion it is acceptable, because personally
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Cricket: Sussex are in harm's way
Sussex's leadership of the County Championship will be under threat from England's premier fast bowler at the Riverside this week. Steve Harmison will continue his comeback from injury for Durham after he was left out of England's squad for the second
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Albion denied cash windfall
Albion's hopes of a £150,000 windfall were dashed yesterday when Watford crushed Leeds United in the Championship play-off final at the Millennium Stadium. The cash-strapped Seagulls would have landed the cash bonus had Kevin Blackwell's Leeds beaten
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Homes at £2k a square metre
Property prices measured per square metre have risen faster in Brighton and Hove than in London. The city has seen the second biggest jump in house prices by floor space in the country over the last decade, Britains biggest mortgage lender said today.
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Airline plans to cut 120 jobs at Gatwick
An airline is making 120 engineers and support staff at Gatwick redundant. Union Amicus is protesting after British Airways announced it was making around a fifth of its Gatwick aircraft maintenance posts redundant. In the last decade the number of BA
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Fears for Omar as violence erupts
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba clashed with guards who were trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide. The fight happened yesterday in medium-security section of the US Navy base in Cuba as guards were responding to the fourth attempted suicide
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The Fairy Queen, Theatre Royal, Brighton
When The Fairy Queen premiered in 1692, it was as a series of masques interspersed between the acts of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. These days, Purcell's 'half-opera' tends to be presented minus the Shakespearean content thus removing much
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Payout for sacked pregnant lesbian
A Lesbian estate agent who claimed she was sacked from a gay-friendly company because her boss found out she was pregnant has been awarded £13,000 by a tribunal. Corrina Slow told a tribunal her boss at 2Let estate agency was angry with her for deliberately
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Simunye, Theatre Royal, Brighton
I Fagiolini's director, Robert Hollingworth, has always been serious about music and playful about performance. So his amusing introductions counterpointed well the group's delightfully precise singing, whether of 16th-Century madrigals or the pieces
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Tories choose new leader
The Conservatives have elected a new leader as part of a re-organisation on Brighton and Hove City Council. Councillor Brian Oxley has succeeded Coun Garry Peltzer Dunn as leader of the opposition group. The Tories have also appointed two new deputy leaders
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Novel tastes of football stars
When football manager Sir Alex Ferguson is not reading the riot act to his players, he is busy reading a book. The Manchester United manager is one of several football stars who answered a plea from Worthing librarian Jackie Manners as she tried to interest
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Controversial book and film might inspire religious interest
Church leaders in Sussex believe the highly controversial Da Vinci Code movie could help usher in a new age of religious activity. The central theme of the film and book - that Jesus Christ had a child with Mary Magdalene and that descendants of the couple
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Students create unusual garden design for flower show
Couch potatoes are not usually found in the garden. They are more at home on a dishevelled sofa staring listlessly at the television in the living room. But a team of students have incorporated a grass couch, an old television set and a host of bizarre
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The Kooks, Spiegeltent, Brighton
There were a lot of disappointed Kooks fans in Brighton on Saturday night. Hundreds queued in vain, hopeful of getting into the best gig of the Great Escape Festival. But, as with Texan music festival South By South West, the festival is organised for
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Richard Hawley, Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton, Friday
Richard Hawley is one if those songwriters who just instantly convinces. Maybe it's because he and his four-man band arrived in a tiny van marked Sheffield Transport. Maybe it's something to do with being 39 rather than 22. Maybe it's just the way his
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Fathers 4 Justice man's pride at TV protest
A member of the reformed Fathers 4 Justice protest group has told why he helped orchestrate their invasion of the live broadcast of the National Lottery Draw. Guy Harrison, 38, from Steyning, was part of the organisation behind the group's relaunch on
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UK Funk All-Stars, Corn Exchange, Brighton
Seventies funk is a term that turns our thoughts to America. But the UK had its own burgeoning scene which produced material easily on par with - and in some cases better than - our American funk cousins. Comprising some original masters from the British
