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Sussex firms show their tweet cred
Argus Business Tuesday is an exciting new scheme to help you use the power of social media to promote your business. Each Tuesday morning businesses across Sussex can 'pitch 'their business via Twitter to John Keenan, business supplement editor
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Teens arrested on suspicion of murdering Connor Saunders told they are free
Two boys arrested on suspicion of murdering Connor Saunders have been told they are free. A 13-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy, both arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of 19-year-old Connor, were today told by police that
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Albion go first class in Spain
Albion have been told they will tread in the footsteps of the world’s greatest players when they spend a week of pre-season in southern Spain. The Seagulls will be in Jerez from July 22 to 29 and are likely to play two matches as part of their build-up
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Homeless soldiers abandoned to the streets
Homeless soldiers are a “sad legacy” on the streets of Sussex. Veterans suffering from the trauma of war are sleeping rough, living alone and struggling to adapt to civilian life after returning from the battlefield. As many as one in
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Man hit by coach in city centre
A MAN has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a coach. The incident happened at about 4.30pm at the junction of North Street, Brighton and the Old Steine. The man has been taken to hospital but the extent of his injuries is unclear
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Sussex sisters could be oldest cystic fibrosis sufferers
Two sisters are believed to be the oldest living twins with cystic fibrosis. Christine Mumford and Michelle Martin say the care and support they got from their parents while growing up helped them defy the odds. The pair, aged 48, are both married and
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Man in court over Brighton flat murder
A man charged with murdering a 40-year-old widower who was found stabbed to death at his seaside flat has appeared in court. Joel Elliott did not enter a plea during the preliminary hearing in front of Judge Richard Brown at Lewes Crown Court today
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Mills goes in Reds shake-up
Crawley have released former skipper Pablo Mills as they plan for life in League One. Mills, who was stripped of the captaincy following the infamous Bradford Brawl, is one of six players told he is being let go. Defender Dean Howell
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£3 million plan for bath house site
A developer says he is preparing to unveil his latest multi-million plans for a Victorian bath house. Sirus Taghan says he hopes to submit plans for a seven-storey residential block to Brighton and Hove City Council at the site of Medina
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Sync and swim for Brighton Fringe show
A new show is making a splash. Sussex’s synchronised swimmers celebrate 50 years of James Bond in a show called Eau Eau 7 at the Brighton Fringe show in May. Over 30 swimmers from Brighton Dolphins and Brighton Swimming Club will perform
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Priest charged with child abuse
A priest has been charged with child abuse. The Diocese of Chichester has confirmed that priest Reverend Keith Wilkie Denford and Michael Mytton, worked as an organist in the Lewes area have been charged in relation to allegations of abuse.
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Mother to stand trial after death of three-year-old daughter
A woman will stand trial today accused of the murder of her three-year-old daughter eight years ago. Lesley Dunford, 33, is accused of killing Lucy Dunford at their former family home in Camber, near Rye, East Sussex, on February 2 2004.
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Brighton school plans drug education classes
A school plans to teach children as young as seven about drugs. St Luke’s Primary School in Queen’s Park Rise, Brighton, has written to parents about plans for drugs education classes. Children will be told: “Not all drugs are medicines
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Family of killed man pay tribute
THE former fiancé of a 37-year-old stabbed to death in a Brighton flat has spoken of her “heartbreak”. Liverpool man Graeme Pethard was stabbed to death in a flat on Taunton Road, Bevendean, in the early hours of Saturday morning. Andrea Miller, 31,
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Jayson Gillham, Pavilion Theatre, May 7
Young Australian pianist Jayson Gillham delighted a packed Pavilion Theatre with a varied recital of Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and George Ligeti. Jayson gave short but illuminating introductions to the longer pieces
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Whisky snatched from Bexhill home
BURGLARS stole bottles of whisky during a house robbery. Police are appealing for witnesses to the burglary at a property in Duke Street, Bexhill, between Monday April 23 and Wednesday April 25. Three 75cl bottles of whisky - Glenfiddich, Royal
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Mandela’s Children, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, May 6
Mandela’s Children offered a rare personal glimpse of arguably the world’s most public figure. In the first-released footage of Kemal Akhtar’s debut feature film, Nelson Mandela was candidly interviewed by the people who were perhaps denied
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Hagen Quartet, Glyndebourne, May 6
Last year Glyndebourne's concert in the Brighton Festival featured Ludwig van Beethoven's final piano sonata. This year it was his final string quartet, sublimely played by the Hagen Quartet. Next year the group will focus solely on Beethoven’
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Uses Of Religion For Non-Believers – Alain De Botton, Corn Exchange, May 5
Alain de Botton tackles religion in the same manner that Alan Partridge extols the virtues of the Travel Tavern and its breakfast buffet. Namely, by filling his oversized plate with the best bits while trying to convince us the concept isn’t the
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Silent, Pavilion Theatre, May 5
Tino McGoldrig had a family and a home, a life, but found himself living rough on the streets of Dublin, struggling with drink and depression. As he slowly emerged from under his blanket, Tino, on a sparse, black stage and with
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Biker seriously hurt in Winchelsea crash
A BIKER was seriously injured in a crash with a car. The 41 year-old man from Tonbridge, Kent has been taken to the William Harvey Hospital with serious but non life threatening injuries after his Honda motorbike was in a collision with a Mercedes-Benz
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Faber Social, Corn Exchange, May
“So, poetry, that’s a room clearer.” When an interviewer from BBC Radio Sheffield fired the gambit to Yorkshire’s unofficial poet laureate, Simon Armitage, he hadn’t done his research. The poet recently walked the Pennine Way and was
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Vanessa Redgrave CBE: A Life In Pictures, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, May 5
Vanessa Redgrave settled herself, long legs crossed at the ankles, opposite The Guardian’s Michael Billington for this enjoyable evening of talk and film clips. Her demeanour gave us a subtle hint that this was to be a carefully crafted performance
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Burglars rob Catsfield home in broad daylight
Burglars brazenly walked into a house in broad daylight and stole cash. Police are appealing for witnesses to the robbery at a property in Henley Down, Catsfield, at 1.10pm on Wednesday May 2. At 1.05pm the owner of the property heard a noise. At
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Bug, The Warren, various dates until May 27, call 01273 917272
American writer Tracy Letts is best known for his Pulitzer-Prize winning play August: Osage County that was staged at the National Theatre in 2008. His work is usually about people struggling with moral and spiritual questions but with
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, The Thistle Hotel, various dates until May 27, call 01273 917272
If you wander into the Thistle Hotel before lunch or supper over the next fortnight without reading the Brighton Fringe programme, you will be surprised to find Basil Fawlty shouting at Manuel for not circulating nuts. And look, there’s Sybil,
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Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: Guilty Treasures, St Nicholas Church, May 5
There is something telling about a gay men’s chorus who, singing in a church, start with the Pet Shop Boys’ hit It’s A Sin. Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, who have gone from strength to strength in the past few years, know they fit very neatly
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Hanover The Musical, Hanover Community Centre, various dates until May 27, call 01273 917272
“The ultimate compliment is parody,” says director and writer Mark Brailsford in the programme to Hanover The Musical. And you haven’t made it in Brighton and Hove (actually) unless his musical creation features a song about you. From
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Book Slam, Corn Exchange, May 7
This visiting “literary club night” was an uncomfortable mix of a variety show, which would have been more at home on a smaller stage. Here, Natasha Beard’s relaxed presentation seemed more like she was winging it at times. It was billed
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A Streetcar Named Desire, New Venture Theatre, various dates until May 19, call 01273 917272
A two room apartment in New Orleans during a hot summer is the location for Tennessee Williams story of Blanche DuBois, destitute and unstable, who descends upon her sister, Stella, and her Polish husband, Stanley. What follows in this claustrophobic
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I Have Never Cared For Sunsets, Regency Tavern, various dates until May 20, call 01273 917272
Anyone doubting Sir Isaac Newton’s theories on gravity need only have sat in the front row of Garyhaus Players strange puppet show on Saturday afternoon. One after another, both sets of seats in the small space deep in the bowels of the Regency
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Connection Unsecure: Continue? Upstairs At Three And Ten, until May 9, call 01273 917272
As a self-confessed geek, the exploration of breaking free from the internet world to form IRL (that's 'in real life,' for those who have a real life) connections seems both topical and original. Connection Unsecure: Continue? is the very modern
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Crimes Against Humanities Teachers, The Brunswick, Hove, various dates until May 20, call 01273 917272
“The worst thing about being a teacher isn’t the students. It’s the other teachers.” We’ve all been there – that moment when you’re about to leave a job, and that little voice at the back of your head says: ‘Tell them what you really think
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Word Jam Friday, The Writer’s Place, May 4
Turn off the main drag of Bond Street and head down a back alley, past the bins: directions to The Writer’s Place are gloomy. Yet on the first of New Writing South’s Word Jam Fridays, the premises positively shimmered with the sparkling
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Bane, The Warren, May 6
Bane is Joe Bone, and Joe Bone is the sole actor in the Bane Trilogy, with plot twists, time lapses and a memory-testing 79 characters. Since the first Bane's debut in 2009, rave reviews and recognition have been won for the show and its actor
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Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio, Komedia, May 7
Trombonist Dennis Rollins, best known for his funky quintet Badbone & Co, has taken a new tack with his latest project, the Velocity Trio. In what is probably a unique combination, he’s teamed up with Hammond organ virtuoso Ross Stanley and the
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Rolling On The Floor Laughing, Sallis Benney Theatre, May 6
With a recent study showing that traditional PE lessons are putting large numbers of girls off sport, schools would do well to incorporate some of the activities showcased in this performance to encourage more young people to keep fit.
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Brighton businesses keen to reap benefits of ‘May effect’
Traders have hailed a city’s ‘May effect’. Businesses are gearing up to reap the economic benefit of the four festivals taking place in Brighton and Hove this month. Arts consultancy Sussex Arts Marketing (SAM) says Brighton Festival, Brighton Fringe
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Foil, Arms and Hog, Upstairs At Three And Ten, May 6
The hardest skill of the rapid-fire sketch show troupe is to maintain a consistency of output across an hour-long set. It’s all very well having two or three stand-out sketches but if the other 50-minutes are awash with sub-standard drivel
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Going the extra tile
The exterior looks much like any other 1920s Brighton semi, but step inside 75 Stanmer Villas and it’s a very different story. Owner Kay Aplin has transformed the property into a living showcase of her work as a ceramicist. In the hallway there
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Finding the meaning in life
Alain de Botton is a writer who tends to divide opinion. Some can’t stand him, while others can’t heap enough praise on him. He has been called both “dazzling” and “an absolute pair-ofaching- balls of a man”. It’s somewhat ironic, given
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Landing Celebrities
Those who market Brighton Festival seem sometimes to be obsessed with the cult of image and the number of celebrities, rather than concentrating on depth and substance in the talks. Sunday was a wet, wet afternoon; it was a good time to go to the Dome
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Reds urged not to break up squad
David Hunt hopes Crawley’s promotion-winning squad will not be broken up. Ten members of the squad which clinched a place in League One with victory at Accrington Stanley on Saturday are out of contract this summer. Others like Kyle
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Train delays as vehicle hits bridge
Trains through Gatwick are severely delayed after a vehicle struck a bridge near the airport. Services on the Brighton mainline are being disrupted between Gatwick Airport and East Croydon due to a vehicle striking a railway bridge in the
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Pet shootings
I AM writing in reference to the story about a tabby cat recovering after being shot in the head with an air rifle or BB-type gun (The Argus, May 1). I agree with Trevor Weeks, from East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service, that
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Party wastage
I WRITE in reference to Crawley Borough Council’s “fundraising” party, which cost taxpayers more than £7,000, but only generated £2,671 (The Argus, April 28). What an extraordinary waste of public money on an unnecessary extravagance. £1,202 on flowers
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Choose wind turbine sites with care
I understand the threat posed by climate change, and I support action to tackle it, but I think the use of onshore wind turbines needs to be carefully controlled in order to avoid unacceptable damage to countryside we are seeking to protect. Many people
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Man punched and robbed in a Worthing street
A MAN was threatened with a knife and robbed of his mobile phone in the street. The 22-year old local man was walking home along Westcourt Road in Worthing just after 2am on Monday May 7 when he was approached by two men. One of the men threatened him
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Driver seriously injured in Bolney crash
A MAN was seriously injured in an early-morning crash. The 21-year old is in hospital after his car hit a lamp post on the A23 at Bolney at 4.30am on Monday. The man, who is from Lewisham in London, was driving his white Honda Civic
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Brighton cafe customers driven away by parking prices
A flight club has abandoned its traditional meeting place because of the council’s hike in parking charges. Rob Chisholm who runs Freeflight Brighton paragliding school said he has been meeting customers at the Madeira Drive cafe on the seafront
