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Save New Street Gardens! Megan Green, Millais
Over 150 local residents gathered in New Street Garden on Saturday, 11th November to protest against the proposed destruction of their community garden. Horsham District Council (HDC) propose to turn New Street Garden into an access road to a new housing
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Glyndebourne Youth Opera: Belongings, November 11 ★★★★★
Evacuees escaping the blitz arrive in Lewes by train while, in the present day, a group of teenagers in a refugee camp prepare to risk everything to complete their journey. When Glyndebourne’s Young Composer-in-Residence, Lewis Murphy, and librettist
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All change at the top table but it must be sorted out
I’ve been covering politics ever since the last grim days of Jim Callaghan’s Labour Government at the end of the seventies. It was a dreadful time – the so-called ‘winter of discontent’ was in full swing, the government was divided and directionless and
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Review: Protomartyr, The Haunt, Brighton, November 12 ★★★★
DETROIT rock band Protomartyr are unlikely modern prophets. Fronted by sharply-dressed singer Joe Casey, they've stayed largely under the radar even while their records have received positive reviews from the alternative music press. And yet
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Review: Quiz, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, until December 9 ★★★★
James Graham is a clever playwright who can conjure up informative and entertaining theatre. In This House, which played at Chichester in 2016, he created an absorbing but fictionalised account of Harold Wilson’s government, fighting to retain
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Review: Factory Floor - Metropolis, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, November 11 ★★★★
This was a match made in dystopian heaven – if that's not too much of a contradiction in terms. Fritz Lang's seminal science-fiction film, released in 1927, was given new life via a scintillating – and surprisingly emotional – soundtrack from electronic
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Reward for wanted man
POLICE are hunting a man in connection with an aggravated burglary.James Maloney is wanted for an attack on a man at his flat in Snowdrop Rise, St Leonards, last month. The victim was hospitalised with head injuries.The force is also offering a £500 reward
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Teenager cut in face during knife-point robbery
ROBBERS attacked a teenager with a knife and stole his watch and money. The 19-year-old man was walking through a subway between Pond Wood Road and Hazelwick Avenue in Crawley when the two robbers, both men, asked him for a cigarette before demanding
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Busiest October ever at airport
GATWICK achieved its busiest ever October as 3.9 million passengers travelled through the airport.Long-haul traffic continued its booming growth, up 13.3 per cent in the month.This growth drove soaring cargo tonnage up almost one third on the previous
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Leisure operator’s new training plan
LEISURE operator Cairn Group has launched its own national training programme creating apprenticeships and opening up career development opportunities. Cairn Academy offers apprenticeships across the group’s UK-wide hotel portfolio for people at varying
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Couple’s ginger wine scoops award
PORTSLADE couple Chris and Rosemary Knox have won a top accolade in a national food and drink industry awards.Gran Stead’s Reduced Sugar Fiery Ginger Wine took first place in the reduced/lower sugar ambient category at the Good Choice! Quality Food Awards
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Countdown to the Sussex Economic Forum 2017
THE county’s economic growth and development will be the main subject matter of The Sussex Economic Forum 2017 conference.It takes place at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel on Friday with up to 750 delegates attending.High-profile keynote speakers
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Duffy confident Ireland can finish the job and book World Cup place
SHANE DUFFY believes the Irish can complete their World Cup job – after a FOURTH successive away clean sheet for club and country. Duffy helped the Republic of Ireland to a 0-0 draw away to Denmark in the first leg of their World Cup qualification
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Sussex hot prospect Garton on board for two more years
Sussex have revealed man of the moment George Garton is on board until at least the end of the 2020 season after signing a two-year contract extension. The left-arm seamer is Down Under and has been called up to the England squad for their fixture
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Charity spin has touch of celebrity glamour
LOOSE Women star Katie Price brought a touch of glamour to a charity spinathon on Saturday afternoon. She took part in the event at Lanes Health Club in Angmering which was held to raise awareness and £1,600 for the British Lung Foundation.The Price family
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County council prepares for the bad winter weather
WE’RE ready for when snow and ice hit – that’s the message from West Sussex Highways which has a fleet of 22 gritters to call upon to help keep roads safe.Contractor Balfour Beatty has stockpiled 10,500 tonnes of salt at county council depots in preparation
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Council tax does not begin to cover spending
THE city’s council tax take is consumed entirely by spending on social services leaving the budget for 700 other services to be found from business rates and dwindling central government grant money, councillors have warned.Brighton and Hove City Council
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Hospice launches online auction ahead of annual ball
TO celebrate ten years of working with The Snowman and to mark the launch of its Snowman Spectacular Online Auction, Chestnut Tree House spent a day in Brighton with Raymond Briggs’ popular character. Kicking off with a flight on the British Airways i360
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Toilet seat exhibition creates quite a splash!
A QUIRKY toilet seat art exhibition has raised £620 for charity.The novel art sale, organised by Chandlers Bathroom Store in Lewes, involved 20 artists and MP Maria Caulfield creating works of art using just a wooden toilet seat as the canvas. The toilet
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Father in court over £73,000 benefit claim
A MAN who cycled to work for a year claimed £73,000 in disability benefits, a court heard. David Blunsdon ignored pages of letters from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) asking him to notify them of any changes in his condition. The
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Volunteers give emergency supplies to the homeless
GENEROUS volunteers handed out hundreds of rucksacks filled with emergency supplies for homeless people. The Rucksack Project saw hundreds of rough sleepers and those in temporary housing, queuing up at the Clock Tower for a plate of warm food and a dry