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Anger as protesters bussed in for Brighton EDO protest
A huge protest attracting demonstrators from across the country has sparked police anger after organisers refused to reveal how many will attend. More than 1,000 are expected to descend on Brighton and Hove for the Smash EDO May day march.
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Brighton move made Patsy Palmer calmer
Eastenders star Patsy Palmer says living in Brighton has changed her life. The actress, who plays loudmouth Bianca in the BBC soap, said moving from London to the South Coast in 1999 was a positive change. She said: "In Brighton, people stopped looking
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Death kits on sale for £35 in Brighton
A controversial suicide advocate dubbed "Dr Death" is reportedly selling suicide kits for £35. Australian Philip Nitschke is due to speak at the Brighthelm Centre in Brighton next month. His suicide kit is designed to test the strength of drugs planned
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Eastbourne gets Twittering
Visitors to Eastbourne will soon be able to access the town from around the world. Eastbourne's tourism website VisitEastbourne.com has set up profiles on Facebook and Twitter. Susan Morris, Eastbourne Borough Council's cabinet member
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Smash and grab raid on jewellers
Jewellery and silver cutlery was stolen in a smash and grab raid on a jewellers. Three black men, wearing hooded tops, went into Marston Barrett Jewellers in High Street, Lewes, at 4pm today and snatched the items. They left in a black
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St Leonards murder victim's father charged
The father of teenage murder victim Vicky Couchman has been charged with perverting the course of justice. Tony Couchman, 45, of Beecham Place, St Leonards, was arrested on Saturday and charged tonight with committing the crime in connection
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Shoreham speed limit discussion
Councillors will be discussing proposals to cut a speed limit from 40mph to 30mph. The change for Upper Shoreham Road, in Shoreham, will be discussed by West Sussex County Council s Adur County Local Committee. A report due before the committee states
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Children smuggled into Sussex by sex traffickers
Scores of children were illegally smuggled into Sussex to be sold into the sex industry last year. Although the figures suggest trafficked children who arrive in Britain via Gatwick are safer than in other parts of the country, national statistics reveal
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Sussex is home to the largest single stemmed rhododendron in Britain
Sussex is home to the largest single stemmed rhododendron in Britain. The plant is located at South Lodge Hotel in Brighton Road, Lower Beeding, near Horsham. It is more than 25ft high and 30ft wide and is carefully looked after and manicured by gardener
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Sussex v Lancashire: Day 1
CLOSE OF PLAY: Sussex 247-5 (Joyce 89, Martin-Jenkins 52) The sixth wicket pair have so far added 87 and that has ensured that first-day honours have finished just about even. Just spoken to Ed Joyce who reckons he has never had to bat better for
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Gary Moore, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, Apr 17
Blues purists can be a bit sniffy about guitar hero Gary Moore. They treat the Belfast axeman’s hard rock roots with suspicion and have trouble accepting him as a serious blues artist. And it’s unlikely Friday’s show at the Dome would have convinced
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The Rakes, Concorde 2, Brighton, April 21
David Bowie famously decamped to Berlin as he sought to dry out from drugs and reinvent himself. Moving in with Iggy Pop to dust the cobwebs from The Thin White Duke and avoid the debauched parties of 1970s London seemed a strange approach
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Easter cross
I read that Lewes District Council have refused to allow the Easter cross to be erected on the Downs (The Argus, April 18). Yet again we see health and safety gone mad. During my childhood in Lewes we used to play on the Downs and it was full of rabbit
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Erect statue of the Unknown Builder
Such are the workings of my subconscious that whenever I see one of the controversial communal bins, which have begun heading this way, I am reminded of the time when splendid library books were consigned to a skip (The Argus, March 15, 2005). Meanwhile
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Bash the poor
So Government ministers want to cut or stop benefits to alcoholics? Will the Department for Work and Pensions benefit sanction include middle class alcoholics or will we see the usual bashing of the poorest working classes? I wonder what cigar smoking
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Sheep shearer shortage worries Sussex farmers
Farmers are concerned about a drastic shortage of sheep shearers. Sheep will have to carry heavy coats throughout the hottest months of the year as new government regulations have discouraged shearers from coming to work in the UK. Usually
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Blue badge theft solution
A SIMPLE solution I used when I was driving to combat the theft of my blue disabled badge was to copy all the relevant details on to a card and add “original badge indoors for safe keeping”. I then displayed it in the usual manner and never had any trouble
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Respect on the prom
I’ve just returned from holiday in Exmouth, Devon, where one of the highlights was being able to cycle all along the prom. Cyclists and pedestrians were asked to respect other people on the prom and this worked really well. Brighton and Hove promenade
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Up the poles
There was controversy in Rottingdean last week at the annual meeting of the parish council. Not about the yellow submarine but the sudden appearance of 3ft telegraph poles on the perimeter of the village green. The chairman suggested the poles were
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Australian Pink Floyd, Brighton Centre, Apr 18
The opening refrain of In The Flesh? meandered into Waltzing Matilda as APF took on Pink Floyd’s typically English masterpiece. It soon became clear the Antipodean lead singer’s impression of Roger Waters wasn’t a patch on Irishman Bob Geldof’s rendition
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Nature will restore sparkling jewel
I am interested to know why several people have written to The Argus recently complaining about the current condition of Rottingdean pond. What do people expect a pond to look like after a long, surprisingly cold winter when all the plants have been
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Are recycle crews unfit?
I am appalled that the recycle crews of Cityclean are so ill they are incapable of being able to move more than 6ft from their lorries to collect waste. Why do I say that? Because for the past four collections they have been unable to move from one
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Precaution needed in use of mobile phone technology
I read with interest, and great concern, the article about yet another proposal by a church to host a transmission mast in Brighton and Hove (The Argus, April 13). In direct response to the comments made by David Nissen, church warden of the Church
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Pedestrian killed on railway line
A pedestrian has been killed on the railway line north of Uckfield. The incident happened at the Hempstead crossing near Uckfield railway station between 12.40pm and 12.45pm today. The Uckfield to London Bridge Southern service had left the station
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Brighton runaway bride walks down the aisle
A “runaway bride” had her dream wedding after travelling nearly two-and-a-half thousand miles to win it. Shirie Kearney, 25, from Brighton, managed to talk her way from Brighton to Egypt in just 24 hours as part of a Valentine’s Day competition. After
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Albion sweat on Elphick
Tommy Elphick has a 50-50 chance of being fit for Albion's crucial trip to Bristol Rovers on Tuesday night. The centre half is under intense treatment for a thigh injury sustained in Saturday's win against Oldham and will travel with the squad. The
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Brighton restaurant grows its own
Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall talk a good game when it comes to eating sustainably – and one Brighton restauranteur is following their lead. Dave Radtke has bought a small farm in Upper Dicker, near Hailsham, to supply his three
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How people know that you’re not serious about your business
I advise people who are serious about what they want to achieve and I can tell when someone is ambivalent about their business. If you’re not serious about it, why would someone bother to buy from you, or do business with you? 1. When your
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Shoreham doctor takes highest cricket match challenge
A doctor will be on hand when the world's highest game of cricket is played. Isla Cox, from Brighton, is currently climbing Mount Everest with 49 intrepid explorers who are aiming to make history by holding the Twenty20 match. The Nokia Maps Everest
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Hart refused to accept Albion career was over
REVITALISED Gary Hart has revealed how he refused to accept his Albion career was over as he battled back from major knee surgery. Now he is starting up front for the suddenly in-form Seagulls and eyeing an unbeaten end to the season to keep his club
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My beautiful day out with Canada
It’s been brought to my attention that you have all enjoyed my daily blogs from my journey to the John Smith’s Peoples Race so I thought I’d continue to write them to keep you all informed of my progress and what’s going on. First of all
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Sussex council split over election plans
Councillors and senior officers are split over plans to hold elections once every four years instead of every two to save almost £50,000. Adur District Council is considering electing its entire chamber in one go instead of one half every two years in
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A design for life
If you only watched Grand Designs, it would be easy to think the whole world is running off to the countryside to build a nice little eco house. According to the UK’s leading supplier to the self-build market, BuildStore, 20,000 people build
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Gilson and son
Mrs Evelyn Farley emails from Basingstoke: “I am trying to trace the family of my great uncle Gilson Smith. “Gilson was born in Thaxted in 1885 and his son, also Gilson, had a newsagents at 144 Lewes Road, Brighton, sometime in the 1950s. “Gilson
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In times of war and peace
For her new book, Into Danger, Kate Adie interviewed prostitutes, stunt women, armed robbers and missionaries – people who risk their lives for work. Apparently, war reporter isn’t an occupation that necessarily falls into that category unless you
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Worthing's disco Trev throws some shapes on Britain's Got Talent
With moves straight out of the hit film Saturday Night Fever, you could be forgiven for mistaking Trevor Blackman for Tony Manero. For it was his prowess on the dancefloor and slick disco moves that caught the eye of the judges on the
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Brighton parents call for primary school changes
Moves towards a lottery for city primary school places could follow after parents called for change. Councillors have asked Brighton and Hove City Council to look at the way allocations are handled in East Brighton after it emerged families
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Why rob kids of their last dab of radio?
After 50 years the BBC is axing the final half hour of children’s radio on its mainstream networks. Children’s radio champion and former Magpie presenter Susan Stranks, from Hove, argues that radio for children is so important for childrens’ development
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Brede High Woods circular
Much of the woodland covering large areas of the High Weald is in private ownership with restricted public access. So, it was good to learn last year that the Woodland Trust had acquired the 647-acre area of Brede High Woods, to the north and east
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Ryman One south round-up: Hillians are safe
BURGESS Hill breathed a sigh of relief after avoiding relegation from Ryman division one south. The Hillians lost 2-0 at home to Met Police but Chipstead’s 4-2 loss at Godalming means they cannot catch Gary Croydon’s side. Just one defeat in six before
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Rebels boss fumes at referee
ALAN POOK lambasted the referee after a defeat which could mean Worthing playing away from home in the play-offs. The Rebels are now fifth and in the final play-off place after a 2-1 defeat at home to in-form Croydon Athletic. Unless
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Windy start for relocated Brighton market
It was a windy start for the relocated Sunday market - but the crowds still turned out to support it. The weekly market opened for the first time at its new home at Brighton Marina, after almost 30 years at the city’s station. Despite
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Defensive problems pile up for Albion
BOSS Russell Slade has lost half of his back four for the game in hand which could lift Albion out of the relegation zone. The Seagulls are definitely without right-back Andrew Whing and centre-half Tommy Elphick will almost certainly be missing as well
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Three fires at Rustington retail park
Arsonists left a trial of fires across a retail park. Firefighters dealt with three blazes in bins at Rustington Retail Park in New Road, Rustington, last night. They tackled the first fire, in a large wheelie bin outside Halfords, at
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Owusu double gives Albion extra hope
LAST season it was Bas Savage’s Moonwalk, now it is Lloyd Owusu’s aerial bench-press which is grabbing his Albion colleagues and the fans. The more they see of his goal celebration in the three remaining games the better, because Owusu is threatening
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Royle blasts Albion multi-ball system
OLDHAM boss Joe Royle believes Albion get an unfair advantage from the multi-ball system at their wide open Withdean Stadium. But he admitted a poor first-half display and toothless finishing explained his side’s defeat, rather than what he described
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Crawley hit by injury time goal
CRAWLEY Town’s first ever visit to a sun-kissed Holker Street ended in disappointment after they twice surrendered the lead to relegation scrappers Barrow. The Red Devils led 2-0 and then 3-2, but an injury time goal from Barrow substitute Nick Rogan
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Hot lamp starts Eastbourne flat fire
A young couple needed hospital treatment after a fire started in their flat in Eastbourne. They were injured breathing in fumes from the blaze in Victoria Drive. The fire started when heat from a free-standing lamp melted a stereo speaker
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Youth players saved Lewes from disarray
STEVE IBBITSON admitted Lewes would have been in grave danger if they had not had a youth team to call on. In a season overshadowed by financial problems which has led to many senior players leaving, the Rooks have been able to call on youth. Ten of
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Borough boss not happy after defeat
EASTBOURNE Borough manager Garry Wilson questioned his side’s end-of-the-season approach after a poor display at relegation-threatened York City. Victory at KitKat Crescent would have guaranteed a top-half finish for Borough in their maiden Blue Square
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Gunpoint robbery at Brighton off-licence
A masked man robbed a Brighton off-licence at gunpoint. He walked into Red White Rose in Ditchling Road, at about 8.25pm on Sunday. He was thought to be white and was wearing a balaclava, jeans and a black T-shirt. He threatened
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Brighton G20 protester's criminal record for demo disorder
The G20 protester slapped by a police officer has been arrested at a demonstration in the past, The Argus can reveal. Nicola Fisher, of Wakefield Road, Brighton, has been thrust into the national spotlight after footage of the assault on her
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Bognor finish at home with a quality point
DARIN KILLPARTRICK was delighted as relegated Bognor rounded off their home campaign with a stylish show against Dorchester in Blue Square south. The match ended goalless but the Rocks were terrific in the first half and had chances to win the second
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Ryman premier: Hastings still have work work to do
Hastings United boss Tony Dolby still believes there is work to be done before his side are sure of Ryman Premier safety despite beating fellow strugglers Hendon 2-1 in a crunch game at the Pilot Field. Second-half substitute Matt Maclean got the winner
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Owusu raises the roof for Albion
GOAL hero Lloyd Owusu is raising the roof for Albion in their fight against relegation. The much-travelled striker lifted his tally to four in as many matches with a double in Saturday's vital 3-1 victory against Oldham at Withdean. Owusu celebrated
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Sussex rail violence up 40%
Reports of violence and thuggish behaviour on the railways in Sussex have risen by more than 40% in the last five years. Figures obtained by The Argus show there were 130 more recorded assaults or public order offences at railway stations and on trains
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Yardy leads by example but Sussex crash
Mike Yardy did his best to make his competitive debut as captain a winning one but Sussex's failure to post a more imposing total proved their undoing in Bristol yesterday. Yardy top-scored with 58 batting at No.6 in the Friends Provident Trophy opener
