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McFaul on call for right-back slot
Shane McFaul has emerged as a surprise candidate to solve Albion's right-back problem. McFaul or Gary Hart will fill in for the suspended Andrew Whing against Swindon at Withdean tomorrow (Saturday). Midfielder McFaul has made only one brief substitute
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Proto points to Shoreham's progress
Shoreham 0 Ringmer 0 (aet). (Shoreham won 10-9 on pens). Fred Proto hailed the progress of his Shoreham side after they lifted the John O'Hara League Cup for the second time in three years. The Musselmen kept their nerve in a tense penalty shoot-out
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Bexhill United lift the cup
Bexhill United won the Division Three Cup final 2-1 against Haywards Heath. Goals by Andy Garman and Peter Heritage took them to glory at Hailsham's Beaconsfield Ground. Heritage struck with a 25-yard free-kick on 62 minutes and Garman doubled the lead
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Hastings crash to defeat at Ashford
Hastings United's recent upturn in fortunes came to a grinding halt as they suffered a miserable 3-1 reverse away to Ashford Town (Middlesex). The defeat saw Hastings slip one place to third from bottom in the Ryman premier as relegation rivals East
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Pet-lover rescues tortoises from burning box
An animal lover has been branded a hero after he scalded his hands to rescue his pet tortoises from their burning box. Maurice Wheeler, 63, saved Doris and Dora when their hibernation home was engulfed in flames. Last night wife Marina, 54, praised
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Watt denies Eagles in opener
Former Eastbourne Eagles favourite Davey Watt was man-of-the-meeting as Poole started Good Friday with a home win. The Pirates held off Eastbourne 51-43 in the morning Craven Shield fixture on the back of 13 paid points from five rides by Watt. The
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Albion new boy thinking big
Therry Racon is hardly a household name, not yet anyway. Part of his signature might resemble that of a certain French superstar now plying his trade in Barcelona, rather than North London, but few people will have heard of Albion's latest loan acquisition
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Thunder aim to pack fans in
Worthing Thunder believe they have offered more evidence of why can thrive in the British League. A crowd of about 650 saw Thunder beat Sheffield last Saturday after the club worked hard to promote what was a largely meaningless EBL division one fixture
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Drinkers rescued after river plunge
Two men leapt 50ft into a raging river, prompting a huge rescue operation. The two men, both in their 30s, were pulled from the icy River Arun in separate incidents outside the Arun View pub in Wharf Road, Littlehampton. Pub regulars ran out to the
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Teams roll up for marble-ous day of sport
Cabbaging, fudging and blocking were all banned as marbles maestros descended on Sussex to vie for the world crown. The sun shone on hundreds of spectators at the 76th World Marble Championships which attracts competitors from all over the world. The
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Birth units turn away dozens of mothers
Maternity units are turning away dozens of women in labour because they have no room, figures show. Six NHS hospitals refused to accept expectant mothers at least once last year. The figures were obtained by the Conservatives under the Freedom of Information
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Shoreham win cup
Shoreham lifted the John O'Hara League Cup after beating Ringmer 10-9 in a penalty shoot-out at Three Bridges this morning. The teams cancelled each other out in a match which finished 0-0 after extra time. A total of 19 penalties were converted before
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Brighton Fringe will feature over 600 acts
The city skyline will be transformed by big tops as a thrilling line-up of acts appear under canvas during the 2008 Brighton Festival Fringe. The tents will host some of the biggest acts to appear at the three-week festival in May. They will include
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Thank you for a record-breaking mile
As organiser of the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile on Sunday, I wanted to write and thank the wonderful volunteers from the University of Brighton who helped run this fantastic event. For nothing more than a T-shirt and a sandwich they carried
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Police accused of film censorship
As one of those who turned up at the Duke of York's cinema on Monday expecting to see On The Verge, a documentary dealing with the campaign to close the EDO arms manufacturing factory in Brighton, I was disgusted to discover that because of the
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Property market
In your article on the top ten most expensive streets and top ten least expensive streets, you quoted three with a Portslade address. Of these, Old Mill Close and St Aubyn's Crescent are actually in Southwick and Fishersgate, in the Adur district
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Bill calculation
I am a 74-year-old man living in Newhaven. Like most pensioners I watch my fuel bills carefully. The date of the price increase for gas and electricity from British Gas - January 18 - came in the middle of my three-month billing period. I am amazed
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Lift campaign
So, two Labour councillors are campaigning for the Madeira Lift to be repaired and reopened. Very commendable. Why didn't they make this a priority when they were in control of Brighton and Hove City Council a mere 11 months ago? Pat Smith,
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Coastal defence
I am currently a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol and I am conducting a spatial and landscape analysis of Southern Command's anti-invasion defences set up in 1940. Using various areas as my case studies - East Sussex being one
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Exercising dogs
Regarding exercising dogs on beaches, how many people clean up after their pets while walking on beaches? Probably as few as do the same on pavements, from where it is much easier. Imagine, owners, how would you like to swim or paddle over pebbles
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Big cat sighting in Sussex
A dog walker has reported another big cat sighting in Sussex. The woman was walking the Cuckoo Trail, on the Common Road towards Ersham Road, in Hailsham, at 8.30am on March 10, when she bumped into her friend with her dog which bolted off into the woods
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Waste proposal
I attended the Towards Zero Waste event held by the Brighton and Hove Hotels Association (The Argus March 19). The chairman, Mark Jones, is offering a wellthought out opportunity for local hotels to get ahead of the game and organise their recycling
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MP’s question did not tackle problem
I was astounded on Wednesday, while watching Prime Minister's Questions, to hear Labour MP for Hove, Celia Barlow, ask a question on public housing in which she insinuated the Conservativerun Brighton and Hove City Council is not building enough
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Comment: Mps have made mockery of post office closures
Three Sussex MPs who campaigned to keep post offices open in their constituencies helped the Government avoid an embarrassing defeat on the issue this week. Pressure group Living Streets has campaigned in Brighton and Hove to keep services and shops
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Firms face crackdown on too much packaging
Trading standards officers are investigating firms which use excessive packaging to promote their products, it has emerged. Brighton and Hove City Council is ready to use powers to fine companies as much as £5,000 if they are found to be wasteful
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Tragedy of a husband killed by chainsaw
A tree surgeon died when the chainsaw he was using bounced off a branch and tore into his neck, it emerged today. Scott Donnison, 28, of Hollingbury Park Avenue, Brighton, is believed to have suffered a "kickback" from the saw. Friends and family
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Questioning success of school admissions
I would like to whole-heartedly congratulate the team that delivered the secondary schools admissions review. Despite it being such a complex issue and despite having to cope with the new school admissions code the team evidently formulated the
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Country betrayed
Ian Harris's letter is accurate in its description of the way in which the people of this nation are being betrayed by their Government (Letters, March 18). The United Kingdom's national identity and ability to control its own destiny are being
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Church fundraiser
There will be an afternoon and evening of entertainment in Waterloo Street on Easter Sunday in aid of St Andrew's Church. At midday a four-mile sponsored walk will by started by Mayor of Brighton and Hove Carol Theobold. The church will be open
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Game on for bellies, beers and cheers
There is something about darts which brings out the crowds. Watch any footage of the world championships on TV and you will see hundreds of spectators sprawled across the arena floor, drinking beer and squinting at the board in the far-off distance.
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Our House, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, Until Sat 22
In a tawdry semi between the northern towns of "Ponty" and "Donny", Mum (Jacqueline Naylor) shuffles through 45 years of desperately dull memories as she waits for her belongings to be taken into storage prior to moving to Spain. With some plays,
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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Pressure Point, Brighton, Mon
What makes Owen Ashworth's music initially so rewarding is his total grasp of one emotional state. He has miserably uplifting firmly nailed down - think The Smiths do electronica. He even paid homage to Morrissey and company mid-set with Toby
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Stanley Brinks, The Greenhouse Effect, Hove, Tue
Since leaving Herman Dune in 2006, French anti-folker Andre has performed as Ben Dope, Klaus Bong and Lord Stanislas, but tonight, he was the brilliant Stanley Brinks. Wearing dark glasses and a Hawaiian shirt, he was in the mood for calypso war
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BNP defeated in Sussex poll
Voters celebrated last night as the British National Party failed in its latest bid to get a councillor elected in Sussex. Despite coming third out of three, its candidate in a district council by-election in Yapton still secured almost 20 per cent of
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£40 million college rebuilding project moves on
Architects have begun work on the next stage of a £40 million college rebuilding project. Designs are being drawn up for the new look of Varndean College in Surrenden Road, Brighton. The college revealed last month that the existing historic facade
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Parking warden plans delayed
A scheme to curb illegal parking has been delayed again, according to the leader of the district council. Councillor Neil Parkin claims West Sussex County Council has put off plans to place six NCP parking wardens in the Adur district from September
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Asbo youth can be anonymous
A teenager who committed numerous offences across the city has been given an Asbo to try to curb his out-of-control behaviour. The 15-year-old, from Hove, committed 15 counts of criminal damage in the past 15 months and police and Brighton and
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Six arrested at Iraq war anniversary protest outside factory
Protesters locked and glued themselves to a factory entrance to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Police made seven arrests at the EDO MBM Technology Ltd site in Home Farm Road, Brighton, yesterday. Four demonstrators from
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Mushtaq to play for Sussex after escaping ban
Mushtaq Ahmed has been given the green light to play for Sussex this season. The Pakistan Cricket Board have brought weeks of uncertainty to a close by backtracking on their threat to ban the leg-spinner due to his involvement in the rebel Indian Cricket
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Shoreham garage fire wrecks car
A car caught fire in a garage in the early hours. Firefighters were called to a house in Fennel Walk, Shoreham, at about 4.10am today. The car and the private garage it was in were both badly damaged. Fire crews reported the blaze to be accidental.
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Flood damage to cost caravan park owner millions of pounds
The owner of the Selsey caravan park stricken by floods after last week's storms has said the damage will cost millions of pounds to fix and blames the Environment Agency for what happened. John Bunn was on the frontline when his West Sands park was
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Watt determined to have revenge on Eagles
Davey Watt has revealed his disappointment at losing his team place at Eastbourne for the second time in three years. Now last season's Eagles rider of the year has warned his old club they face a tougher battle than they might expect when he returns
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Man jumps in river outside pub
A lifeboat crew rescued a man who reportedly jumped into a river outside a pub. Police were called to the Arun View pub in Wharf Road, Littlehampton, at 11.20pm yesterday. A man had reportedly become trapped in the river after jumping into the Arun.
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Man trapped in car after crash
A man was trapped for an hour in an overturned car. Fire crews from Littlehampton, Arundel and Worthing were called to the accident on the A284 just after midnight. A silver Honda had hit a tree and turned onto its roof at the Whiteways roundabout north
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Man arrested after car flips
A man was arrested after a car flipped onto its roof. Police were called to an over-turned Peugeot just south of Horsham on the A281 shortly before 1am today. The car had been abandoned. A man was later arrested on suspicion of being drunk in charge
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Identical triplets celebrate first birthday
After unsuccessfully trying for a baby for eight years, Karen Styles feared she might never conceive. So imagine her delight when she was told she wasn't having just one baby or even twins - she was pregnant with triplets. The arrival of Antony
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Albion midfielder faces future brother-in-law
Albion's new signing, Therry Racon, will be unfamiliar to Steve Thomson when they join forces in midfield for Albion against Swindow tomorrow. There will, however, be a very familiar face opposing Thomson in the centre of the park for the visitors -
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Atomic Hooligan, Concorde 2, Brighton, March 23
This breaks, electro and dubstep extravaganza has been put together by the NuSkoolBreaks website. Headliner Atomic Hooligan will be playing a full live show with a nine-piece band. Tipped to be the breaks scene's breakthrough artists for 2008, they are
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Derrick May, Ocean Rooms, Brighton, March 23
One of the holy trinity of Detroit techno - along with Kevin Saunderson and Juan Atkins - Derrick May is one of the architects of modern electronic music. It's 15 years since he released any new music but many of his 1980s productions still sound spellbinding
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Piratechno, Komedia, Brighton, March 21
Piratechno nights are a mixture of fancy dress party, gig, club and cabaret. Having built up a following over the past few months, this is their biggest show to date. The band's Gogol Bordello-esque gipsy punk incorporates accordion, violin and mandolin
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Audio Bullys, Digital, Brighton, March 21
Dubbed "hooligan house" on their arrival back in 2003, the London duo enjoyed global success with their Nancy Sinatra reworking, Shot You Down, which made the top three in the UK. The accompanying second album, Generation, was a disappointment but last
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Luke Wright: Poet and Man, Komedia, Brighton, March 22
Luke Wright worries "too much" about whether he is considered a proper poet. Though his recent writing has been on respectably weighty subjects like funerals, messed-up friends and love, he has a prediliction for the humorous which doesn't always sit
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Adriano Adewale Group, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, March 27
The inaugral Eastbourne Festival is welcoming Brazilian-born master percussionist Adriano Adewale and his international quartet. Adriano, born in Sao Paulo, has been living in London since 2000, working with the likes of Zoe Rahman and Seb Rochford.
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Wire In The Blood Screening, Jubilee Library, Brighton, March 22
This year's City Reads festival focuses on the crime thriller A Place Of Execution by Val McDermid, the story of a missing child in a Northern town during the 1960s. Brighton's Jubilee Library is hosting a free screening of an ITV adaptation of another
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Colin Dexter, Winter Garden, Eastbourne, March 23
The creator of Inspector Morse didn't start writing until he was in his 40s, when he was inspired to put pen to paper by the tedium of a family holiday. "We were in a little guest house halfway between Caernarfon and Pwllheli. It was a Saturday and it
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Derren Brown, Pavilion Theatre, Worthing, March 26 & 27
Not content with convincing students they are talking to the dead, inducing ordinary people to commit a bank robbery and persuading a careless driver she is a ghost witnessing her own death, Derren Brown recently announced a system to predict which horse
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French & Saunders, Brighton Centre, March 25 & 26
Whatever you think of French and Saunders, three decades of successful comedy is no mean feat and all the duo's best characters and sketches are crammed into this new show. They met at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1977 and initially didn't
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Blah Blah Blah: Herve, The Brighton Coalition, Brighton, March 22
Herve is a man of many aliases, the most famous being Speakerjunk (with Trevor Loveys) and the Count Of Monte Cristal (with Sinden). After a series of high profile remixes for the likes of the Chemical Brothers, the latter have been signed to Domino
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Rory Phillips, Barfly, Brighton, March 21
Rory served his apprenticeship as Erol Alkan's sidekick during the glory years of the seminal London night Trash. After its demise, Rory started up the weekly DURRR party, which recently celebrated its first anniversary. Continuing its predecessor's
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Terry Saunders: Sitting On A Rug, Three and Ten, Brighton, March 26
From tales of Cadbury's Creme Egg obsession to cross-country bus journeys, the inaugural Sitting On A Rug last month certainly lived up to Saunders' "anti-comedy, lo-fi"objectives. Launched as a reaction to the traditional comedy club format, this monthly
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Lucy Porter, Duke Of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton, March 24
The perennially popular Lucy Porter - a name rarely mentioned without the addition of one superlative or other - adds to her Brighton portfolio with this night at the Duke of York's. Articulate, twisted and charming, Porter has done wonders for the sometimes
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The Christians, Komedia, Brighton, March 24
Liverpool's soulful kings of pop are performing unplugged in Brighton as part of a tour of the UK and Middle East. The band, lead by vocalist Garry Christian, made their name in the late Eighties with the hits Ideal World and their top ten cover of The
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Brighton Festival Chorus, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, March 22
Brighton Festival Chorus is marking its 40th anniversary and the Easter season with a performance of Bach's interpretation of the Gospel Of St John. The chorus is performing St John Passion in-the-round, in and among the audience in an intimate Proms
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Stan Tracey Trio, Komedia Studio Bar, Brighton, March 21
With a professional career beginning with the wartime variety group ENSA in 1943 through to a CBE last year from the Queen, Stan Tracey is a true giant of British jazz. The names he has worked with as a collaborator and pianist at Ronnie Scott's celebrated
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Worthing Philharmonic Choir, Assembly Hall, Worthing, March 21
Arguably one of the most famous choral works in the world is being given an Easter airing by the Worthing Philharmonic Choir. The choir is teaming up with the Sinfonia Of Arun under the direction of conductor Donovan Brown to perform Handel's Messiah
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Vitalic, Digital, Brighton, March 22
A welcome return for Pascal Arbez, who played a great support slot to Soulwax when he was last in town a few years back. A clear influence on the likes of Justice and Digitalism, he made an immediate impact with his Poney EP in 2001. Released on DJ Hell's
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Duncan Grant, Charleston, Lewes, until November 2
Charleston has been granted seven major new loans of work by one of its most famous artists, Duncan Grant, to mark the 30th anniversary of the painter's death. The farmhouse was Duncan's home from 1916 until 1978 and the pieces will hang alongside Duncan's
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Norman Re-Enactment, Arundel Castle, March 23 & 24
Arundel Castle is celebrating the beginning of its 2008 visitor season by returning to its Norman roots. Experienced re-enactment group Raven Tor will be bringing to life the era of 1066-1200, when the castle's construction was begun. There will be
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StopGap: Portfolio Collection, Hawth, Crawley, March 27
A banquet of "serene chaos, sinister loveliness and shocking beauty," StopGAP always delivers dance with a difference. Challenging traditional notions of dance, the company comprises four dancers, with and without disablities, who showcase strong technique
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Hedda Gabler, New Venture Theatre, Brighton, March 26-April 5
Spoilt bored, vicious, brave, feminist icon and small- minded fantasist - the complexity and ambiguity of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has fascinated directors for decades. An aristocratic woman just home from a six-month honeymoon, Hedda is struggling
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Skipper unable to save Eagles from defeat
Lee Richardson shone once again at the Abbey Stadium but it wasn't enough to prevent Eastbourne Eagles falling to a 48-42 Craven Shield defeat at Swindon last night. Eagles' skipper Richardson, on loan at Arlington from the Robins for the season, chalked