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Yardy injured in Sussex sickener
An unbeaten 65 from birthday boy Chris Cooke helped Glamorgan beat Sussex by five wickets in the NatWest T20 Blast tonight. And, to add to the Sharks’ agony, they lost slow bowler Mike Yardy with a pulled bicep when he slipped and fell towards
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Your Interview: Keith Taylor, Green MEP for the South East
Keith Taylor is a newly re-elected MEP who will continue to serve South East England following the European Election results on Sunday. The Green Party politician was previously a councillor for Brighton and Hove City Council. IAN TAYLOR by
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Did you see a bus crash which left eight people injured and two hospitalised?
Did you see a bus crash which left eight people injured and two hospitalised? Police want to trace the drivers of three vehicles after a collision between a white Toyota Yaris and a Brighton and Hove bus in Newhaven Road, Seaford at 2.50pm on May
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West Pier columns to be removed from the beach
The columns which stand on Brighton Beach opposite the West Pier will be removed. The West Pier Trust revealed today contractors will be moving in on Monday to start dismantling the columns and root end of the pier's structure by the promenade
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Fun day for all the family
CHILDREN with disabilities and additional needs are invited to a family fun day. The Short Breaks Family Fun Day takes place at Impulse Leisure Lancing Manor on June 22. As well as a mobile petting zoo and puppet shows, children and teenagers
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BIMM set to showcase stars of the future on new album
HAVING already helped launch the careers of The Kooks, Kate Walsh, Beth Rowley and Tom Odell, contemporary music college BIMM is showcasing more of their stars of the future on a new album. The compilation Connections 2014 features 13 tracks by
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Five reasons to go out...
1 Treatment Audio, Marine Parade, Brighton, Friday, May 30 HAVING broken the top five with single Ready For Your Love earlier this year, special guests Gorgon City pay a visit on their first headline tour. 11pm, £10. Call 01273 606906.
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Dead Funny Season - Devonshire Park Theatre
Dead Funny season: Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne, Tuesday, June 3, to Saturday, June 21 AUDIENCES are much more adventurous about film – they will go and see something they haven't seen before or is new. I wish it was more
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Guitar makers go on an adventure to discover the true value of wood
Musicwood Duke Of York’s Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton, Monday, June 2 When maestro guitar makers Chris Martin, Bob Taylor and Dave Berryman decided to travel on a tiny boat to a remote Alaskan forest to negotiate with Native Americans
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Brighton Fringe: B.O.A.T Benefit Zincbar, Spiegeltent, May 23
The Spiegeltent played host to a memorably fine night of comedy on May 23 in a special fundraising event. The Brighton Open Air Theatre (B.O.A.T.) was the ambitious dream of local theatre-maker Adrian Bunting, whose sad death last year left behind
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Brighton Fringe: Lucid Dreaming, Spiegeltent, May 28
Face your fears, turn your nightmares into success stories, improve your sporting abilities…. fulfil sex fantasies that are better left out of the 'real world'. There are many reasons why we should learn how to access the rich landscape of our
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Ceyda Tanc – Harman Brighton Speigeltent, Old Steine, Saturday, May 31
There is an old Turkish proverb that no road is too long in good company. After spending four months at The State Turkish Conservatoire for Music and Dance in Izmir, Brighton choreographer Ceyda Tanc thought it fitting to put the axiom to dance.
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Urban Artfest: Circus Street Market, Brighton, Saturday, May 31
Graffiti artist Pure Evil produced screen prints for £20 and sold them from the back of a bright orange van at London’s Art Car Boot Fair two years ago. The event is a modern twist on the classic jumble sale and has proved so popular that Peter
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Brighton Fringe: What If Women Ruled The World, The Old Courtroom, May 29
The audience at The Old Courtroom spilled out of the seats and on to the stairs, eager to hear the distinguished panel assembled by The Institute of Development Studies to discuss – What If Women Ruled The World? Professor Andrea Cornwall chaired,
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Brighton Fringe: Greater Expectations, Unitarian Church, May 29
Four plays by four female writers were staged in 60 minutes, featuring seven actresses and one man, with four directors. With so much variety on display some patchiness was inevitable. The first piece, Are You There Though, a game of relationship
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Pet Shop Boys, Brighton Centre, May 29
Over the past 20 years the Pet Shop Boys have earned a reputation for their bombastic live shows. For Electric, which launched in Brighton last night, this had translated into a retina-searing light and lasershow. Rather than the stacks of
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D-Day nerve centre in Pressure play
ACROSS the world the British are famed for their obsession with the weather. David Haig’s new play depicts a day when the atmospheric conditions were vital for the safety of the free world – D-Day. Pressure covers 72 hours in the nerve centre
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Earning their Strypes at benefit festival
IRISH rhythm and blues tykes The Strypes are joining Squeeze’s Chris Difford and 1960s legend Arthur Brown for a benefit festival to raise cash for those affected by a devastating fire. Artists and musicians lost work and valuable equipment when
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Crawley man on begging charge
A MAN will appear in court for begging. Kieran Mooney, 24, of Samphire Close, Crawley, has been charged with persistently begging in a public place after being arrested in the town on May 27. He has been bailed to appear at Crawley Magistrates
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Smoke Fairies - 'Why music dominates our lives'
IN these financially constrained times, the glory days of rock – when bands travelled the world in their own private jets and enjoyed five-figure advances from record companies – are long gone. “The whole of London is being propped up by the arts
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After Madame Butterfly comes Mme Butterfly at the Marlborough
Mme Butterfly The One Man Opera The Marlborough, Princes Street, Brighton, Thursday, June 5-7 Ever since he first saw Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, opera singer Ignacio Jarquin has wondered what could have happened to
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Brighton Fringe: Blackout, The Dukebox Theatre, Hove, until June 1
The concept behind Blackout is intriguing: a power cut in a block of flats forces two neighbours together in darkness, only for things to take a turn when the sun doesn’t rise the following morning. Does it deliver? Sort of. It’s always going to
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PATRICK HAMILTON’S THE WEST PIER
DESCRIBED by Graham Greene as “the best book written about Brighton”, The West Pier isn’t just a splendid evocation of the city between the wars. It also provides the introduction to Patrick Hamilton’s last great character – the psychopathic swindler
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Hospitals prepare for unannounced inspections
HOSPITAL bosses are preparing themselves for an unannounced visit by government inspectors. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals is among the first wave of trusts in the country to undergo a new style of checks being carried out by the Care
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Hearing support group due to meet
THE next Heathfield Hard of Hearing Support Group meeting will be held on June 9. The event will take place at the Red Cross Centre on Streatfield Road in Heathfield, from 2pm to 3.30pm. The event is an opportunity for people who are hard of
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King stays and makes Cronin first signing
Steven King has pledged his future to Whitehawk and made former England C goalkeeper Lance Cronin his first signing. Hawks were deep in relegation trouble in Conference south when King took over in February. However, King led them to safety
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Council up for eco award
A LOCAL authority is in the running to be named council of the year. Arun District Council has been nominated in the Council of the Year Award at the National Green Deal and Eco Awards. Council bosses were finding out if they were successful last
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Fundraisers complete London to Brighton trek
FUNDRAISERS completed a non-stop 100km trek from London to Brighton. Either walking or jogging, 2,229 “challengers” took part in the London to Brighton Challenge in aid of more than 320 charities raising an estimated £2 million. They set out
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Blind veterans are on target at archery day
AMERICAN and South African military veterans challenged British ex-servicemen to an archery contest. The veterans, who were mostly blinded in Iraq and Afghanistan, used assistive technology such as tactile aiming devices to shoot balloons at a
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Woman left with fractured eye socket after road rage incident
A woman has been assaulted in a road rage incident because her partner was driving too slowly. The 35-year-old woman was left with a fractured eye socket after she was attacked after an argument in Crawley Leisure Park. At about 11.10pm on
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Southgate hails Albion's 'intelligent footballers' as England chase play-off spot
Gareth Southgate has revealed the key ingredient which has helped Albion’s young lions make an international impression. Jake Forster-Caskey and Solly March hope to extend their stay in the south of France by helping England under-21s to a point
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Two arrested over street robbery of 17-year-old boy
Two people have been arrested after 17-year-old boy was robbed. The boy was at the junction between the The Square and Stable Lane, Findon, at around 3.30pm on May 25 when he was approached and robbed by two people. A 36-year-old man and a
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Man sought over trafficking African woman for prostitution
A mystery man is sought by police in connection with the trafficking of a woman for prostitution. The man is believed to be known as Rola Benwar, a Zimbabwean national, described as being black, in his mid-forties, about 5'6" or slightly taller
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Boy, 12, headbutted and punched
A 12-year-old boy was head-butted, repeatedly punched and knocked unconscious. Sussex Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault on the boy in Marine Parade, Hastings. The victim was playing football with friends at 7.10pm when he was
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Two women arrested for GBH and drug offences
Two women have been arrested after a 44-year-old woman was assaulted. The victim from Portslade was approached by a group of women outside the Brighton Music Hall on the Kings Road Arches around 4.30pm on May 19. She suffered a fractured eye
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Police and Crime Commissioner joins domestic abuse group
THE COUNTY’S police and crime commissioner has been chosen to join a national task force looking at domestic abuse. Katy Bourne has been chosen by Home Secretary Theresa May to serve on a National Oversight Group which will look into ways to tackle
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Burglars force their way into property but say "wrong house"
Two ski mask wearing burglars forced their way into a property but left without taking anything and saying "wrong house". At around 11pm yesterday two suspects knocked on the door of a house in Mile Oak Road, Southwick. One of the occupants
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Dance your way to a discount with The Argus card
A DANCE studio which does outreach work in some of the city’s poorest communities has joined forces with The Argus for a discount loyalty scheme. Marina Studios, based at Brighton Marina, is offering 10% off all dance classes and memberships to
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Traveller vans get stuck as they move onto park
Travellers have moved onto a city park and managed to get stuck in the mud on their way in. The travelling group moved onto Wild Park, Brighton, this morning and caused traffic tailbacks as they tried to move their vans through the thick mud.
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Officials accused of “wasting time” looking into councillor’s blog describing meeting as a “throwback to the 70s”
A SENIOR Conservative councillor has criticised town hall lawyers for “wasting time and money” by asking him to explain his comment that a meeting between unions and senior staff was like “a throwback to the 70s”. Graham Cox, who represents Westbourne
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Have you herd about the thieves who stole an elephant?
Thieves have stolen an elephant from a front garden. The concrete elephant garden ornament, worth £50, was stolen from a front garden of a house in Udimore Road, Rye, overnight between Monday and Tuesday. Sussex Police say that the ornament
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Crafty Chooks - “a completely new kind of dining experience for the city”
INTRODUCING the eighth venue in the Golden Lion Group, Leo Day describes Crafty Chooks as “a completely new kind of dining experience for the city”. And, with its combination of craft ales and rotisserie chicken menu, the Second Avenue venue certainly
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Council claims new academy is achievable
A council has renewed its support for a new academy despite concerns over the school’s “challenging” budget and location. West Sussex County Council has said a new secondary academy in Worthing in September next year is “achievable” within its
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Police officers in Sussex among the fittest
SUSSEX Police officers are some of the fittest in the country according to a new report by the College of Policing. In total 2,093 Sussex officers took the recommended fitness test with 98.3% passing – beating the 97% average pass rate across the
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Design firm chosen for £3 million square revamp
An award-winning design company have been selected for a £3 million overhaul of a public square. Crawley Borough Council and West Sussex County Council have selected award-winners Burns + Nice to help regenerate Queens Square in the town centre
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Dambusters letter sells for £11,000 at auction
The last letter written by a war hero on the day before he died has been sold at auction for more than £11,000. Dambusters hero Guy Gibson wrote the note to his secretary Joyce Meade to thank her for helping to type the proofs for his autobiography
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Victim’s worries after an firearms criminal walks free from open prison
AN ARMED robbery victim has criticised the authorities for allowing a criminal serving a life sentence to walk free from an open prison. Mo Shah, 34, from Preston Drove, Brighton, said he “couldn’t understand” why convicted firearms criminal Kevin
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Pair paddle from Shoreham to Kent
Two men are set to paddle from Shoreham to Kent in a fundraising effort for the RNLI. Oliver Spencer from Worthing and Tim Sortain from Shoreham are stand up paddle boarders and will be setting off from Shoreham on their 70-mile challenge to Dymchurch
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Evicted travellers join others at Preston Park
TRAVELLERS evicted from Stanmer Park on Wednesday have joined scores of others at Preston Park. Dozens of caravans were removed from the Stanmer area after Brighton and Hove City Council launched court action to repossess the land. But council
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University raises cash for new builds through bonds
A UNIVERSITY has become one of the first educational establishments of its kind to raise millions of pounds for new accommodation projects through selling bonds. The University of Brighton has secured £35 million to fund a major expansion in its
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Another violent criminal leaves open prison
A violent robber has gone missing from an open prison. Simon Marcus Rhodes-Butler was jailed for seven years in September 2011 after he and accomplice Ilyas Ismail attacked and robbed a garage owner in London in March that year. The 37-year-old
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Cyclist seriously injured in parked taxi collision
A cyclist was airlifted to hospital after suffering serious head injuries after colliding with a parked taxi. Emergency services were called to Lansdowne Road near to the junction with Lansdowne Street in Hove at around 7.30pm last night. The
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Police van parked in disabled bay for 2 days caught on camera
POLICE have apologised after a van remained parked in a disabled bay for two days. The CCTV unit was parked on the corner of High Street and Neville Road in Rottingdean from Saturday until Sunday afternoon without receiving a parking ticket.
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Major road shut following serious accident
Two men suffered serious injuries after a horror crash at the beginning of the morning rush hour. The two men were travelling in this black car when it left the A27 this morning, rolled over before coming to rest as a crumpled wreck in woodland
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Prior vows to beat injury and get England career back on track
Matt Prior has vowed to beat the injury which has put his international future in doubt. Prior will make his comeback from an Achilles problem in Sussex’s NatWest Twenty20 Blast game at Glamorgan tonight after eight weeks on the sidelines.
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Hate crime has risen by almost a third across the county in 12 months
HATE crime has risen by almost a third across the county in 12 months. One thousand and nine hate crimes targeting race, religion, disability and sexual orientation were reported in Sussex from April 2013 to March 2014 – compared to just 786 in
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Pride street party plans revealed
THE controversial plans for the ticketing of Pride’s street party have been unveiled. More than 70 people packed into a public meeting at Brighton’s Dorset Gardens Methodist Church on Wednesday night to hear the proposal for the event on August
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I don't support Ukip but its results do make me a smile
As someone who would never in a million years vote for Ukip, I have enjoyed their success – in the same way that I was delighted to see so many anti-EU parties do well throughout the Union, almost regardless of whether they were extreme left or extreme
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Lifesaving Beachy Head charity under threat of closure
A CHARITY which works to saves the lives of suicidal people at a beauty spot is at risk of closing. The Beachy Head Chaplaincy Team urgently needs £15,000 by the end of June and £50,000 over the next three months if it is to carry on its vital
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What happened to the A27 trunk road vision of the 1980s?
Hearing the other day on the radio of the Highways Agency’s recent interest in resolving congestion problems on the A27 reminded me of a recent car journey through Worthing, where I spent a good deal of time trying to negotiate this nightmare location
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Building a new hospital? We have a site going spare in Shoreham
Building a new hospital? We have one here A recent letter suggested a new Royal Sussex County Hospital be built in Stanmer Park and so avoid the difficulty of rebuilding on the current site. In Shoreham, a disused Southlands Hospital stands on
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Countering the 'compensation culture'
I write to provide a different perspective on your excellent story regarding compensation paid to council staff (The Argus, May 24), based on information public bodies are now required to publish. Many of these claims will have been due to the
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The police van parked in a disabled bay...
It’s frustrating enough seeing private cars parked in disabled bays but really annoying when it is a police vehicle. There was a police CCTV vehicle parked in a disabled bay in Rottingdean last Saturday afternoon. It was there for at least an hour
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Albion fans told to rule out Remi as boss
Albion fans have been told to forget about Remi Garde becoming their club’s new manager. The former Lyon boss was speculatively linked with the post as the Seagulls hunt a successor for Oscar Garcia. Chairman Tony Bloom and chief executive
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Motorist caught driving 71mph in a 20mph zone
A “STUPID” motorist was admitted speeding along a residential street at 71mph. Car mechanic Nathan Townsend has become the first person to be convicted of breaking a 20mph limit in Brighton and Hove. He admitted speeding along Elm Grove, Brighton
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Great to see Chris Hoy at Preston Park's velodrome
I was delighted to see Sir Chris Hoy visiting the Preston Park Velodrome last Tuesday to promote a new range of children’s bikes and ride a lap of the circuit. It was fantastic to see so many people of all ages braving the rain and catching a glimpse
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Argus correction
The Argus reported the conviction of Joanne Dunmore of Littlehampton for racially aggravated harassment on April 21. The article said she pleaded guilty to one count of the charge when she appeared at Chichester Crown Court. It also stated
