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Treat these teenagers as people
How interesting. Under your headline "Vandals are told to just buzz off", you describe a device which sends out an irritating noise (The Argus. May 30). Isn't that called an MP3 player, which most of the teenagers at whom this device is apparently aimed
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Co-op is run by the people for the people of Brighton
Thank you for printing my letter last Monday. However, some confusion appears to have crept in and my phrase "owned by the city" has become "owned by Brighton and Hove City Council". I must make it clear. Magpie is not owned by Brighton and Hove City
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Burglar asks police to send him to prison
A burglar who stole to feed his heroin habit appealed to police to jail him so he could get help for his addiction. Simon Sullivan, 37, walked into Brighton Police Station to confess to a string of crimes. He told surprised officers he wanted treatment
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Speed kills
I would like to ask the selfish speeding van driver who ran over my daughter's cat on Bank Holiday Monday around 4pm: "Why didn't you stop and try to do something?" Instead, you left the cat to drag himself into our driveway and lie screaming in agony
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Rescuers praised as heroes
Police officers have been praised for the dramatic rescue of a woman who had threatened to jump 30ft from a bridge on to the A23. After spending several minutes persuading the 41-year-old to allow police to get near, an officer heroically jumped over
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Pupils screened for chlamydia
Pupils are being offered screening tests for a sexually transmitted disease (STD) at schools in Sussex for the first time. Longhill High School in Rottingdean, near Brighton, is the first state school in the county to provide a drop-in clinic to screen
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Parking 'free for all' fears
An overhaul of city centre parking, which critics fear will result in chaos, will be decided next week. Brighton and Hove City Council plans to scrap the current eight parking zones and create two large zones. Two and four-hour free parking bays will
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Military funeral for RAF man
An RAF volunteer who served in Afghanistan is to be given a full military funeral today. Colin Pratt-Hooson died at the age of 43 after developing cancer in his leg where he had suffered deep vein thrombosis (DVT). He will be sent off with honours at
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You don't have to be a toff for politics
about "Jane", the supermarket checkout woman and Mrs Thornton, the woman who, slaving away in a private care home as I once did, was blinded by bleach. I was moved to tears as I was reminded of the days I didn't have enough money to buy a loaf of supermarket
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No complacency
Ron Wood enquired what British water companies are doing to combat the drought "perhaps sitting back complacently" (Letters, May 20). enough for 500,000 customers. We've doubled the size of our leak-detection team to 120 and launched a programme of free
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On the beach we tremble at the tumult of the sea
History identifies those who equate swimming in the confined and tamed water of an indoor swimming pool with a sea plunge as having lost sight of what it is on which their humanity is predicated; namely, a descriptive use of sensory resources. Oliver
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Girls Aloud, Brighton Centre
"The girls all want to really push the boundaries," a source recently disclosed to the Daily Star. "You will see a lot of flesh and very suggestive dance routines. The outfits are so rude as to be almost dangerous". Parents probably won't welcome the
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Josh Rouse, Concorde 2, Brighton
Depressingly, the audience lapped up Josh Rouse's sickeningly goody-goody songs. The Nebraska-born singer-songwriter clearly has a strong fan base. He is well scrubbed and self-effacing and his tunes are catchy and heartwarming. The experience is infuriatingly
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Freudian Slips, Charleston, Firle
Interesting but not entertaining - that sums up the final event of the Charleston section of the Brighton Festival. The two halves were about Sigmund Freud, the most famous psychoanalyst, who met the Woolfs and whose work was published by their Hogarth
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Be constructive
While I have to accept fireworks have become a background to daily life in this city (although in my view a totally unnecessary one) could they not perhaps be restrained at least until after dark? For the past two days, there has been a number of rockets
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Asbo teenager barred from seeing brother
A teenager has been banned from meeting his older brother in public under an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo). Jimmy Fitzgerald, 17, has been told he cannot see his brother Ricky, 29, outside their home, after he breached a previous Asbo. Jimmy has been
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Graduations under threat by boycott
A national marking boycott by university lecturers demanding better pay could delay graduations in Sussex. Thousands of students are expected to graduate from the University of Sussex and University of Brighton next month. But hundreds of lecturers are
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Police hunt knifeman after two raids
A knifeman struck in the same shopping square on consecutive nights. Police are linking the raids in which terrified staff were robbed at knifepoint. Assistants at Ladbrokes betting shop in Southwick Square, Southwick, were just about to close on Tuesday
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Boundary boulder is returned
A historic stone moved in ignorance by a council has been put back in its rightful position. Brighton and Hove City Council moved a boulder in Wild Park marking the boundary between ancient parishes to grass surrounding St Peter's Church, Brighton, to
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Bankrupt at 21, £85k in debt, single mum is still spending
A lap-dancer who uses credit cards to fund a lavish lifestyle could be about to go bankrupt for the second time in ten years. Shopaholic Aimi Robinson is £85,000 in debt but is still spending thousands on clothes, jewellery and beauty treatments she says
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Not privatisation
David Jones has a good grasp of history but not of current affairs. He repeats the assertion that the proposed stock transfer equates to "privatisation" of Brighton and Hove City Council's housing stock. Tenants will vote on whether or not to transfer
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Help the poorest
I agree with David Jones (Letters, May 30). The Labour Party has been slow to reverse the situation of the decline in affordable social housing. When councils are faced with the delaying tactics of the NIMBYs ("not in my back yard" people against new
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Dentist struck off over charges
A dentist who left a woman unable to eat or speak properly and another patient "looking like a horse" has been struck off. Dirk van Moerbeke, who practised in Bexhill and Eastbourne, left patients with thousands of pounds worth of repair bills after giving
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Great thinker lived in Lewes
In her review, "Hitchens still defending the indefensible" (The Argus, May 27), Bella Todd incorrectly describes Thomas Paine as "Lewes-born author of The Rights Of Man" for, while Paine lived for a time in Lewes, he was born in Thetford, Norfolk. In
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Brother's agony after body find
Police investigating the disappearance of a man on holiday in Spain have found a body. Officers from Sussex Police are liaising with Spanish authorities to determine whether the body is that of 39-year-old Kevin Hoare. Nobody has seen or heard from Mr
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One in two tax credits wrong
A Government agency has come under fire after it was revealed thousands of families have received the wrong tax credit payments because of administrative errors. Figures published yesterday show 36,900 claims made by East Sussex and West Sussex families
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Pumping us dry
Since the utility companies were privatised, the directors can give themselves large pay rises and make consumers pay, without a thought for the individual pensioner who relies solely on the state pension. The Victorian underground pipes should have been
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The sea or nothing
In the absence of bathing huts, it is suggested David Sawyers uses the Prince Regent Pool to relieve his arthritis (Letters, May 27). I also suffer from arthritis and get no relief swimming in a pool. Only in the sea is there sufficient buoyancy and the
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Tennis: Amelie heads to Eastbourne
Amelie Mauresmo, the world No.1, will be the jewel in a star-studded line-up when she returns to Eastbourne. The French ace, who won her first Grand Slam and regained top spot this year, has entered the Hastings Direct International Championships at Devonshire
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Cricket: Sussex close on new boy
Sussex are close to signing Yasir Arafat as their new overseas player. The 24-year-old practised with the squad at Horsham yesterday and the county hope to finalise an agreement by the end of the week. They have to secure Arafat's release from Pakistan
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We can get out of this league
Gary Hart is determined to help Albion bounce straight back into the Championship. The versatile utility player will begin his ninth campaign at the Seagulls in August after agreeing a new one year contract. Hart, 29, says relegation back to League One
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Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, June 1
Four albums in 23 years is not what you could call a prolific career. But for Paul Buchanan his slow perfectionism is justified whenever fans fall silent and cross themselves at the mention of The Blue Nile. Ambient pop sophisticates with a penchant for
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Cheeky Pete is the real deal
Friends of Big Brother contestant Pete Stephenson have revealed he is just as lovable and cheeky in real life as he is on the show. Fellow members of Pete's psychedelic rock 'n' roll band Daddy Fantastic and former classmates at the University of Brighton
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Bankrupt at 21, £85k in debt, single mum is still spending
A LAP-DANCER who uses credit cards to fund a lavish lifestyle could be about to go bankrupt for the second time in ten years. Shopaholic Aimi Robinson is £85,000 in debt but is still spending thousands on clothes, jewellery and beauty treatments she says
