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Letter: Celebrate our young achievers
Brighton and Hove's Young Environmentalist of the Year Awards for 2006 were held on Thursday, June 29 at The Old Market. Local teachers, parents, carers and students nominated members of their school community for this award in recognition of their environmental
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Letter: Unwanted meds
It is disturbing that, despite several letters of explanation, medical professional Dr Boyask (Letters, June 24/July 1) still fails to grasp the difference between water chlorination and water fluoridation. It is the sole legitimate business of water
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Letter: Gruesome deeds
As an animal lover and having had two beautiful cats myself in the past, I am absolutely appalled someone is again killing these wonderful, intelligent and loving creatures (The Argus, July 3). It is unbelievable whoever is responsible for these gruesome
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Pete gets nominated for eviction
Big Brother contestant Pete Stephenson has received his first nomination for eviction. Pete, 24, from Brighton, has been hugely popular inside and outside of the house and was the only housemate not to have been nominated at all in six weeks. But on Tuesday
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Fugitive risked lives in high-speed chase
A fugitive who put lives at risk during a high-speed police chase has been jailed. Damian Clack led police on a 70mph chase through Horsham and along winding country lanes. Police were forced to abandon the pursuit because it was too dangerous to continue
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Letter: Other options
I was disgusted at your reportersaying because litter bins in Bond Street had been removed by Brighton and Hove City Council, "Shoppers and visitors to the street have been left no option but to discard litter in the road." (The Argus, June 30) Are you
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Bomb planner escapes prison
A pensioner who gave a bomb-making instructions to a Right Wing extremist has escaped jail. Judge Anthony Niblett described 74-year-old Allen Boyce's extreme political views as "abhorrent to right-minded people" after hearing the defendant had sent the
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Letter: A gentle and talented man
It would have been nicer to use the word "man" in the headline reporting the death of Matthew Heading (The Argus, June 29). We were already dealing with the loss of a friend and it upset us to see him defined by a problematic facet of his life. I knew
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Weapons amnesty reveals scale of knife culture
The alarming extent of the knife culture in Sussex's smaller towns and villages has been revealed in new police figures. The number of blades collected during the five-week knife amnesty in Brighton and Hove, Crawley and other big population centres are
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Letter: Dog disk delight
To the kind person who found the identity disk for my Dalmatian, Freckles, and posted it on to me, thank you for you kindness. -Miss B Packham, Brighton
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Rickshaw taxis take to road
Europe's first fleet of motorised three-wheel rickshaws is to be launched in Brighton and Hove. Tuk-tuks - a common sight in India, China and Thailand - are expected to revolutionise public transport in the city, providing an environmentally-friendly,
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Letter: Madeira lack
Last Friday evening, I walked down Madeira Drive from Dukes Mound to the Palace Pier and witnessed no less than eight incidents of young boys and girls driving cars at very high speed around the chicanes (which were put there to prevent speeding) and
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Letter: Fair rules for all
So Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police are to become more proactive in patrolling the seafront cycle areas, with the promise of more fines for those deemed to be in breach of the law (The Argus, July 1). As a regular cyclist, I see no problem
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Speedway: Norris needs bulldog spirit
David Norris has been told to grab his double chance to stake a World Cup claim. Norris is a certain starter in Eastbourne Eagles' home and away tussles with Reading Bulldogs. Eagles boss Jon Cook reckons Norris can impress Great Britain boss Neil Middleditch
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Cricket: Sharks want home draw
Sussex are desperate to have home advantage should they qualify for the knockout stages of the Twenty20 Cup for the first time. And they can take a big step towards that objective by beating Kent Spitfires when the south group's top two meet at the County
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Midlake, Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton, Fri, July 7
Tim Smith, singer and songwriter with rising Texas folk-rockers Midlake, is uncommonly keen to talk about his influences. He likes Fleetwood Mac "a whole lot". He practically modelled the band's debut album on Grandaddy and Flaming Lips. But the record
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Residents deny backing rail scheme
Residents have criticised claims that they are in favour of plans to rebuild a railway which once ran through their village. Several residents from Isfield, near Uckfield, said they did not support proposals to reconstruct the line between Uckfield and
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Sewage site 'was ruled out by firm'
The proposed site of a controversial £200 million sewage plant plan was rejected by its proponent, Southern Water, in 1997, on the grounds it would have an unacceptable impact on the countryside and on nearby homes. John Hodgeson, of Peacehaven Residents
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Staff angered as hospitals axe free work bus
A free bus service for hospital workers has been axed to save £40,000 a year. The link between Worthing Hospital and Southlands Hospital in Shoreham will stop at the end of August, after eight years. Angry staff contacted The Argus after receiving a memo
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Pitchfork Disney, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton
The public, reckoned Cosmo Disney, would relish nothing more than watching public executions on primetime television. On Monday night, such a fate seemed preferable to dying of heat exhaustion in the sweltering humidity of The Marlborough. But the cast
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Letter: Our ancient tradition lives
I am the organiser for Sompting Village Morris, whose picture you used to accompany the article "Many are living on the breadline in the countryside" (The Argus, June 29). While the article highlighted some major concerns, I feel the caption could be
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Letter: Gizmo is home
Early on Thursday, June 15, my cat, Gizmo, was hit by a car in the Fox Way area. I want to say a heartfelt thankyou to the person who stopped after seeing this and took her to the vets on Valley Road. If you hadn't, she would have died, her injuries were
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Violent storms cause chaos for commuters
A bolt of lightning struck a house as a series of violent storms left thousands of commuters with chaotic journeys to work. Fire crews were called to the house in Highdown Close, Angmering, early yesterday morning after residents were woken by the sound
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Jordan's novel way to launch her book
Glamour model Jordan arrived at a book-signing in a horse-drawn carriage wearing a winged angel outfit. She launched her debut novel Angel under her real name, Katie Price, at Selfridge's department store in Oxford Street, London, yesterday. Angel is
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MPs urge mass action on hospital
The battle to save a hospital from closure has stepped up a gear with the launch of an online campaign. Worthing MPs Peter Bottomley and Tim Loughton have set up a website urging people to join the campaign to protect the town's hospital. East Worthing
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Letter: (B)Leak outlook
Southern water has started to replace the old cast iron pipes with plastic ones. Before it started on St Aubyns, we had no leaks but now we have a leak which has been there for days and water is being wasted where it wasn't before. I thought replacing
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Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well..., The Nightingale Theatre, Jul 6-9 and 13-16
He died nearly 30 years ago, but the spirit of Jacques Brel's life and times lives on in his music. The travelling troubadour, who abandoned his native Belgium for Paris in the Fifties, left a treasured legacy of passionate, poetic and poignant songs
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Society 'failed' drugs victim
The family of a homeless man found dead in a car park have accused the mental health services of letting him down. Drug addict Scott York, 32, was discovered at the NCP car park in High Street, Kemp Town, Brighton, at 8.30am on Tuesday morning. He was
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Letter: My aim is to save birds from harm
In reply to Gemma Millwood (Letters, June 29), this is the first article about me in particular. Any previous articles were about problems with birds. She refers to me as the "so-called" Birdman but I have been in the business for 15 years and I report
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Letter: Mind the gulls
Today, I buried a baby herring gull which had been killed on the road. This bird will never experience the joy of swooping over the sea. Please can drivers be considerate and realise herring gulls, especially the young ones just learning to fly, are unable
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Letter: The Germans know how to organise a cycle fest
I smile sadly when I read the arguments about the annual London-to-Brighton cycle ride. What a contrast to "Happy Mosel Day", an event I came across by chance in Germany recently. On that Sunday, about 200km (125 miles) of the main A-roads on both banks
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No move yet for Norwich striker
Albion's interest in Norwich striker Peter Thorne has been played down by Canaries chief Nigel Worthington. Worthington insists there has been no contact between the clubs and that Thorne has reported back to Carrow Road for pre-season training looking
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Frutos signs new deal
Alex Frutos has pledged his future to Albion by signing a new two-year contract without an escape clause. The French left winger agreed to rip up his existing deal, which had only a year to run and would have allowed him to leave for nothing following
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Sparkling results at RidgeView Vineyard
A vineyard famous for its champagne-style sparkling wines has added two more awards to its trophy cabinet - and banked £10,000 in the process. The RidgeView Wine Estate in Ditchling Common, near Lewes, won the drinks category - and a prize of £5,000 -
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Airport could close in 35 years 'if not viable'
Shoreham Airport could be closed in 35 years as part of the deal with its new owners. A clause in the deal with property company Erinaceous would allow the firm to consider other options for the site if it could show the airport was no longer commercially-viable
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2,000 demand protection from floods
Thousands of letters demanding protection from floods have been handed in to Downing Street by an MP. Norman Baker, MP for Lewes, and the Lewes Flood Action group handed the letters to Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday in a bid to secure more money from
