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Video - How Albion were left facing a play-off deficit
These are the goals - and the saves - which left Albion needing a win at Derby. The Seagulls went down 2-1 in the first leg of their play-off semi-final last night. They led through Jesse Lingard's strike but were behind at the interval
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Letting agent caught claiming £29,000 in benefits
Three benefit cheats who stole £70,000 from the taxpayer have had their cases heard in court. Stephen Winter Gill of Rotherfield Crescent, Brighton, fraudulently claimed over £29,000 in benefits while running a lettings agency. The 32-year-old
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Brighton Festival: ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Theatre Royal Brighton, until May 10
Here’s just the thing for the first week of the Festival: a rousing tale of incest, seduction and mutilation. They relished this sort of thing on the Jacobean stage – there being no Jeremy Kyle back then. But Declan Donnellan’s production is no sleazy
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The Great Escape: Klaxons, The Warren, May 8
Klaxons were afforded one of the special guest slots at The Great Escape and put on a show that made you question where they have been for the past six years. The performance was full of the energy that marked their rapid rise to popularity and
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The Great Escape: Little Dragon, Coalition, May 8
Yukimi Nagano cites Prince and Janet Jackson as influences for the recent Little Dragon record. But the Swedish electro-pop band – chosen by Gorillaz, David Sitek and SBTRKT for collaborations and vocal guest spots – are impossible to pin down.
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Gunman holds up post office
A man armed with a gun has escaped with hundreds of pounds worth of cash after a daring robbery this afternoon. Police were called to the Post Office, in Salvington Road, Worthing, at 1.50pm this afternoon to reports of a man with a 'pistol-type
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Brighton Festival: Talvin Singh’s Bombay Talkies, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, May 7
Oddly billed as Bombay Talkies, given that Satyajit Ray is synonymous with Calcutta, this was an act of conversational homage between a band of very fine musicians and some of their favourite moving pictures. In Ray’s seminal film, Devi, a young
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The Great Escape: Rosie Lowe, Komedia Studio Bar, May 8
If there was one word available to describe Rosie Lowe it would be sultry. The London-by-way-of-Devon singer’s voice has a raspy edge behind its power that is reminiscent of the Sugababes’ Mutya Buena on Overload. Coupled with a shimmering, loop-heavy
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The Great Escape: Thursday night at The Warren
For the lucky few at The Warren – a kind of hidden wonderland off West Street, the beauty of which seems to grow each year – producers Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott offered a radio-friendly dose of dance in their Gorgon City guise. Two keyboardists
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The Great Escape: The Hold Steady, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, May 9
Born on the bar circuit, The Hold Steady based their reputation on their live show. And to transform a normally fairly staid Great Escape audience into a sweaty throng during their post-midnight show demonstrated they haven’t lost that skill.
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The Great Escape: The Rails and Alice Boman, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, May 8
Anyone wondering about the health of the new folk rock revival in the UK post-Mumfords should probably have seen the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre clear ahead of The Rails appearance. And for Island-signings The Rails it was a shame. Husband and
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Brighton Fringe: Behind The Lines, St Nicholas Church, May 7
Music’s modernist response to the carnage of the First World War is heard to best advantage in that context. Suddenly, the agitated and staccato rhythms of Casella and Stravinsky make sense, as does the mournful plangency of Debussy or Frank Bridge
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Brighton Fringe: Moscow State Circus, Preston Park, until May 18
Roll up, roll up – there’s a fun circus in town. The Moscow State Circus in Preston Park has terrifying acts, a funny clown and beautiful women to behold. Too often these days, circuses are mere shadows of their former glories with half-empty seats
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Brighton Fringe: Rue Royale, The Brunswick, Hove, May 8
Three hours of hypnotic music glided past with barely a pause. Anglo-American married couple Rue Royale were the headliners and they had to be on form to follow the other guests before them. At the start of a European tour, they weaved their
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Armed robber steals thousands from bank security guard
An armed robber stole several thousand pounds in cash from a bank security guard. Police were called to Selsey High Street, near Chichester, just after 12.30pm today (Friday) to reports a bank security guard had been robbed. Police say a guard
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Vigil for abducted Nigerian girls to be held tonight
Tonight a vigil will be held for the school girls abducted in Nigeria. A silent vigil will be held this evening in Brighton in an effort to help raise awareness and to show solidarity for the 240 girls stolen from their school. People are asked
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New money for Brighton Digital Festival
A leading digital festival will receive £173,000 of funding over the next two years. The money, in addition to sponsorship from Brighton digital businesses including Brandwatch and Pure360, will help deliver more digital art events and strong content
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Woman punched and robbed of hundreds of pounds
A woman was punched to the ground and robbed of hundreds of pounds. The 23-year-old victim was attacked by a man as she walked in South Coast Road in Peacehaven, close to the post office, at about 2.30pm on Sunday April 20. The man struck her
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Busy summer for Albion loanee
Albion loanee Stephen Ward faces a shortened summer break, whether or not he makes it to Wembley in the play-offs. The left-back borrowed from Wolves has been named by Martin O'Neill in a provisional squad of 32 for the Republic of Ireland's four
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Chart toppers the Kaiser Chiefs arrive in Brighton ahead of secret gig
Chart toppers the Kaiser Chiefs will play a special gig as part of the Great Escape Festival this afternoon. Photographer Mike Burnell caught up with the band as they prepared for their secret gig at Concorde 2 scheduled for 1pm. The band have
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Limited Albion tickets go on sale for second leg against Derby
A number of tickets for the second leg of Albion’s play-off semi-final against Derby have gone on sale. The returned tickets are available to supporters with 1150 points or more. They will be on sale from 2pm for those with 1,000 points or
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Protesters gather to send message to Michael Gove
Protesters gathered outside a school as it hosted a conference featuring the Secretary of State for Education. Michael Gove spoke about state and public schools at the 17th Annual Education Conference at Brighton College yesterday. Campaigners
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Albion duo doubts for Derby return
Albion have two fresh injury worries for Sunday's second leg of the play-offs at Derby. Winger Will Buckley and player of the season Matt Upson are both struggling for the trip to the iPro Stadium. Buckley was replaced by Kazenga LuaLua at
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Brighton Fringe: The Lady Boys Of Bangkok, Sabai Pavilion, Brighton, until May 31
Going to see The Lady Boys Of Bangkok – like bumping into Chris Eubank or having your chips pinched by a seagull – is something of a Brighton rite of passage. So after eight years of living in the city, it was high time to visit the white marquee
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The Seekers Golden Jubilee Tour, The Brighton Centre, May 7
The beads on Judith Durham’s dress were not the only things to sparkle on the stage of the Brighton Centre on Wednesday night. Judith was in fine voice, and the boys (I use the term loosely as the foursome have a combined age close to 300), Athol Guy
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Brighton Fringe: Sister, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, May 7
Sister begins with two pole dancers in identical wigs and lacy underwear greeting us. Their appearance and dance moves are homogeneous – a costume of femininity. Both performers pull an audience member onstage for a synchronized lap dance, stripping
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Brighton Fringe: Phone Whore, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, until May 10
Cameryn Moore is a dealer in sexual fantasies. She charges by the hour to regale eager men with their deepest, darkest desires over the telephone, in between making toast and collaging. Phone Whore is a snapshot of this life. The piece treads a
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Brighton Fringe: The Horne Section, Komedia, Brighton, May 7
“Like swimming in the sea holding a painting” is how Alex Horne described his combination of jazz and comedy. Backed by a five-piece of top musicians all capable of changing tack at a moment’s notice, The Horne Section mixed cleverly planned routines
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Grinstead sign international forward
East Grinstead have pulled off a coup by signing England and Great Britain international Sophie Bray. The 23-year-old has joined Grinstead as they begin planning for a second season of national league hockey. Her signature – after a spell playing
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Brighton Festival: Mark Cousins brings his Cinema Of Childhood to the Duke Of York's
Mark Cousins doesn’t hold with the old movie maxim “never work with children or animals”. “It’s like saying never work with an unpredictable actor,” he says as he launches his personally curated Cinema Of Childhood movie strand as part of Brighton
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Brighton embraces the speakeasy with new bar Dirty Blonde
Walk around New York’s meatpacking district and you can’t help but stumble on a speakeasy. The prohibition-era inspired venues might be hidden behind innocuous-looking doors or barber shops but nowadays they can advertise their existence without
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71 year old suffers back fracture to traffic collision
An elderly cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with a car. A 71-year-old man from Yapton suffered a fracture to his back in the collision with a blue Toyota Yaris, driven by an 89-year-old man from Littlehampton. It happened at 10.15am
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Prior ruled out for another two weeks as injury fails to respond to treatment
Matt Prior will miss the start of Sussex's NatWest T20 Blast campaign after beginning a new treatment programme in an attempt to cure an Achilles injury. Prior has been provisionally pencilled in to make his comeback as a specialist batsman in
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Witnesses sought after car is stolen
Burglars stole car keys from just inside the front door of a house and then used them to take a Mini Cooper parked outside. The turquoise car was driven away from the home in Leopold Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, and was later found burnt out less than
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Man remanded in custody on shoplifting charges
A man charged with three shoplifting offences, including the theft of more than £100 of cosmetics from a shop in the Priory Meadow shopping centre, Hastings, appeared at Lewes Crown Court. Aaron Elvis Croft, 25, of Old Church Road, St Leonards-on-Sea
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Firefighters respond to reports of kitchen fire in the early hours
Fire fighters responded to reports of a house fire in the early hours of this morning. A crew from East Sussex Fire and Rescue was called a house in Church Road in St Leonards-on-Sea just after 6am this morning (FRI). They arrived at the scene
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BIG INTERVIEW: Hospital chief executive on £420m hospital redevelopment
THE long-awaited Government approval for the ambitious redevelopment of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton was finally granted last week. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust chief executive MATTHEW KERSHAW explains
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School bans pupils from bringing eggs to class in case they throw them
SCHOOL pupils have been banned from bringing eggs and flour into class today amid fears they could throw them. Year 11 leavers at Chailey School near Lewes were told in a letter to students, parents and carers they were not allowed to carry the
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Campaigners celebrate over action to tackle travellers
Campaigners are celebrating after Brighton and Hove City Council built mounds around Wild Park in an effort to deter travellers. Work started on the prevention measures this week after more than 600 people signed a petition calling for councillors
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Albion fans still hopeful after defeat
ALBION fans remain optimistic despite slipping to defeat in the first leg of their bid to reach the Premier League. More than 27,000 fans crammed into the American Express Community Stadium as the Seagulls fell to a 2-1 loss in the Sky Bet Championship
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Dozens gather at protest against massive housing development
DOZENS of residents protested against a housing development proposed for the edge of the South Downs National Park. Residents from Woodingdean, Ovingdean and Rottingdean gathered outside Brighton Town Hall in Bartholomew Square yesterday ahead
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Lewes is braced for 750th battle anniversary fun
A MEDIEVAL fair with re-enactments will mark the 750th anniversary of the Battle of Lewes on Saturday. Entertainment will include live demonstrations, the arrival of King Henry III and visitors can try out medieval weaponry during the sixth annual
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Pride parade on line for a record
HUNDREDS of disco divas and dudes will fill Brighton’s streets this summer in what is expected to be the biggest Pride parade ever. Organisers are expecting the rhythmic snake that is the Pride LGBT Community Parade to be longer and louder than
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New business launched to stop empty shop squatting
A former royal security guard has launched a new business designed to protect empty shops from squatters by moving in low-paying renters. Former police officer and bodyguard Jennifer Kehoe has launched Intuitive Guardians - an agency that finds
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Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water... jet skis!
I went in the sea in Hove last weekend and had an enjoyable swim, going out about 40 metres at times. After I came out I was stunned to see two jet skis race past just where I had been swimming. As they appeared to be racing I doubt if they would
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Disabled alcoholic to stay at care home to stop him drinking himself to death
A disabled alcoholic has been ordered to live in a "prison" of a care home to prevent him from drinking himself to death. Earlier this week appeal court judges supported a decision by Brighton and Hove City Council to detain the 37-year-old man
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Investigation into how long it took for bed to become available
A HOSPITAL held an investigation after a patient was left waiting more than 12 hours for a bed to become available. The patient was being seen in the accident and emergency department at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester and told they would need
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Our drinking culture is now out of control - alcohol seems the most important economic factor
The subject of drinking and its effects always divides opinion. After a friend from Australia visited recently (having lived in Brighton ten years ago) and told me how he thought Brighton had changed after dark, I wanted to write to The Argus.
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Mixed feelings over belated Royal Sussex County Hospital grant
There has been much joy exhibited regarding the Government’s approval of a grant of £420 million in order to rebuild the Royal Sussex County Hospital after several years of lobbying. The glad tidings were announced by the Chancellor, George Osborne
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Still no dedicated gardener for Withdean Park
Withdean Park hasn’t had a gardener for years despite our petition to Brighton and Hove City Council with more than 400 signatures. This is apart from emptying the bins and mowing the grass by the Cityparks gardeners. All the work is done by
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The story of a forgotten hero comes to The Old Courtroom as part of Brighton Fringe
The most remarkable fact about Operation Mincemeat is not that it went to plan, but that the Germans believed it. In 1943, the Allies took a dead tramp from London and dropped him into the sea off southern Spain. Welshman Glyndwr Michael had
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The Guide speaks to the hardest-working performer in this year’s Fringe, John Roberston
Leaving aside the many programmers regularly pulling 20-hour shifts in May, John Robertson must be the hardest-working performer in this year’s Fringe. Not only has he brought his acclaimed semi-improvised show The Dark Room to Upstairs At The
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Harriet Walter swaps Downton Abbey for Brighton Fringe in A Walk Through The End Of Time
Dame Harriet Walter’s contribution to the 2014 Brighton Fringe combine both her first and second loves – acting and music. A Walk Through The End Of Time sees her star alongside her husband Guy Paul in a story about a piece of 20th-century music
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Stand-up comedian George Egg on creating nutritious meals using appliances found in hotel rooms
Alan Carr once told The Guide he had spent so long on the road he could do four hours of material about service station pasties. For his new Anarchist Cook show, Brighton-based comic George Egg is combining 20 years of tales of food on the road
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Brighton chef and performer MC Cashback on rapping recipes and cooking lasagne live on stage
Angus Greenhalgh has two loves: food and rap. On recent record The Dinnersty, he combined the two. For his Brighton Fringe shows, he’ll take the medley further. MC Cashback, as his fans know him, will be preparing and serving a lasagne on stage
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On the radar: The Melodic
Hacing cut their live teeth in one of Brighton’s best-loved intimate venues, The Melodic released their debut album Effra Parade on independent label Anti in March. As they prepare to return to the city, co-songwriter Huw Williams talks about the
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Play-off defeat was unfair says Albion striker
Leo Ulloa reckons Albion do not deserve to be behind in their play-off semi-final. But the striker is convinced they can overturn last night’s 2-1 first-leg defeat and claim a place at Wembley. Ulloa said: “We didn’t have much luck. We’re 2
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Oscar: We must believe we can make history
Albion boss Oscar Garcia has urged his players to re-write Championship history in the play-offs by overturning a first leg deficit at home against Derby County. The Seagulls are playing catch-up in the return leg at the iPro Stadium on Sunday
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Alice Mary Cooper mixes fact and fiction in a play about the swimmer who invented the butterfly stoke
Any keen swimmers who’ve ever struggled to master the butterfly might see the majestic stroke quite differently after the fantastical journey imagined in this Brighton Fringe Emerging Talent- nominated show. It’s a slice of historical fiction presented
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Victoria Melody takes to the stage with her naughty Basset hound Major Tom as part of Brighton Fringe
It was when a Birmingham dog show judge said she should replace her beloved Basset hound Major Tom if she ever wanted to win anything that artist Victoria Melody decided to put her own body under scrutiny. “It had taken me four hours to drive to
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Up-and-coming jazz singer Zara McFarlane on being inspired by the women in her family
On Zara McFarlane’s second album, If You Knew Her, she puts her own stamp on the Junior Murvin classic Police And Thieves. Its combination of a reggae origin and jazz aesthetic perfectly sums up McFarlane’s own musical inspirations and touchstones
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War correspondent Neil Fleming on penning a revenge tragedy for the 21st century
It was Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton watching a live transmission of Osama Bin Laden’s execution by US special forces that inspired former war correspondent Neil Fleming to pen a revenge tragedy for the 21st century. “It made me think revenge
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These New Puritans frontman Jack Barnett on the evolution of the band's sound
"I feel like I’m tied to this music. My vocal parts couldn’t be sung by anybody else. I have lived through this music.” These New Puritans frontman Jack Barnett has such a strong connection with his band’s third album, Fields Of Reeds, that he
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Kaiser Chiefs speak exclusively to The Guide ahead of their secret Great Escape gig
Kaiser Chiefs were close to calling it a day when former drummer Nick Hodgson decided he’d had enough in 2012. “We were fighting for survival,” admits curly-mopped bass player Simon Rix, a few days before the big-selling band head to Brighton for
