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  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Security for Vanessa TEENAGER Vanessa Pritchard was left permanently disabled after being struck by a car in Portslade nearly five years ago. Now aged 17, she is confined to a wheelchair and has difficulty with her memory. But yesterday there was a little

  • CROWDS AND PROTESTS AS PORTOBELLO INQUIRY OPENS

    Hundreds of protesters today crammed into the first day of a public inquiry into plans for a new sewage treatment works at Telscombe Cliffs. At one point the crowds were so great it was impossible to get into the main hall of the Meridian Centre, Peacehaven

  • TOWN BANS A FRENCH MARKET

    COUNCILLORS have banned a French market from Worthing as part of a nationwide protest against the ban on British beef. The decision to ban the twice-yearly market in Montague Place was today welcomed by traders and the National Farmers' Union. Organisers

  • SIGNAL FAILURE WITH LIZZIE ENFIELD

    AM usually so flippant in this column that, for past couple of weeks, have resisted temptation to say anything about Paddington train crash. However, like anyone else who travels regularly by train I was worried, upset, scared, moved, horrified and appalled

  • DREAMING OF FUTURE PEACE

    1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the People's Republic of China - and the 40th anniversary of China brutally suppressing the uprising of Tibetans. Here in Brighton, Tibetan Soname Yangchen tells Rebecca Burgess why she fled her homeland

  • CRASH GIRL'S £1M AWARD

    THE mum of a 17-year-old girl awarded £1 million after being permanently disabled in a road crash, says nothing can compensate for the life she should have had. Vanessa Pritchard was awarded £1,026,201 agreed damages in London's High Court yesterday,

  • DEREK JAMESON

    YOU CAN DO IT, GEORGE FOR more than thirty years George Best has been taking advantage of our natural sympathy with the sob story that he's a sad creature who can't help the dreadful way he behaves because he is an alcoholic. He's in the headlines yet

  • VOICE OF THE ARGUS

    Security for Vanessa TEENAGER Vanessa Pritchard was left permanently disabled after being struck by a car in Portslade nearly five years ago. Now aged 17, she is confined to a wheelchair and has difficulty with her memory. But yesterday there was a little

  • CROWDS AND PROTESTS AS PORTOBELLO INQUIRY OPENS

    Hundreds of protesters today crammed into the first day of a public inquiry into plans for a new sewage treatment works at Telscombe Cliffs. At one point the crowds were so great it was impossible to get into the main hall of the Meridian Centre, Peacehaven

  • FANCY A PUB LUNCH? YOUR CARRIAGE AWAITS

    FORGET cheese ploughman's or limp sandwiches - diners at a Sussex pub will now be able to enjoy a really first class meal. Landlord Fred Courcha achieved a ten-year ambition yesterday when an entire train carriage was lifted into the garden of his pub

  • EXPLOSIVE END FOR BEACH FIND

    AN old naval shell uncovered by the storms on the beach at Norman's Bay, Pevensey, was blown up by Royal Navy bomb disposal experts yesterday. Contractors working for the Environment Agency uncovered the four-inch shell hidden in the shingle as they worked

  • RAIL DRIVERS' TRAINING CUT TO THE BONE, SAYS REPORT

    An MP is demanding to know more about claims in a new report that training for train drivers has been "cut to the bone". Hastings MP Michael Foster is disturbed by the controversial document, written by Laurie Holden, the drivers' health and safety representative

  • LEGAL THREAT OVER OIL LEAK

    RAILTRACK could be prosecuted for the leak of gallons of oil from a train into a stream, the Argus can reveal today. About 170 gallons of hydraulic oil leaked from an engineer's train in Clayton Tunnel, near Hassocks station, in the early hours of last

  • Levy may mean lower rail fares

    COMMUTERS could pay less for their train fares next year because the performance of rail companies has not been up to speed. The Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (SSRA) announced its capping levels for train fares today. It told Thameslink it must slash

  • TOWN BANS A FRENCH MARKET

    COUNCILLORS have banned a French market from Worthing as part of a nationwide protest against the ban on British beef. The decision to ban the twice-yearly market in Montague Place was today welcomed by traders and the National Farmers' Union. Organisers

  • SIGNAL FAILURE WITH LIZZIE ENFIELD

    AM usually so flippant in this column that, for past couple of weeks, have resisted temptation to say anything about Paddington train crash. However, like anyone else who travels regularly by train I was worried, upset, scared, moved, horrified and appalled

  • DREAMING OF FUTURE PEACE

    1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the People's Republic of China - and the 40th anniversary of China brutally suppressing the uprising of Tibetans. Here in Brighton, Tibetan Soname Yangchen tells Rebecca Burgess why she fled her homeland

  • CALL FOR THE BINMEN TO HAVE A SAY

    UNION leaders say it is "incredible" that binmen in Brighton and Hove were not consulted over a new street cleaning contract which could bring over a dozen job losses. The GMB, Britain's General Union, today called for a new forum on which binmen would

  • CRASH GIRL'S £1M AWARD

    THE mum of a 17-year-old girl awarded £1 million after being permanently disabled in a road crash, says nothing can compensate for the life she should have had. Vanessa Pritchard was awarded £1,026,201 agreed damages in London's High Court yesterday,

  • DEREK JAMESON

    YOU CAN DO IT, GEORGE FOR more than thirty years George Best has been taking advantage of our natural sympathy with the sob story that he's a sad creature who can't help the dreadful way he behaves because he is an alcoholic. He's in the headlines yet

  • LEGAL THREAT OVER OIL LEAK

    RAILTRACK could be prosecuted for the leak of gallons of oil from a train into a stream, the Argus can reveal today. About 170 gallons of hydraulic oil leaked from an engineer's train in Clayton Tunnel, near Hassocks station, in the early hours of last

  • Levy may mean lower rail fares

    COMMUTERS could pay less for their train fares next year because the performance of rail companies has not been up to speed. The Shadow Strategic Rail Authority (SSRA) announced its capping levels for train fares today. It told Thameslink it must slash

  • CALL FOR THE BINMEN TO HAVE A SAY

    UNION leaders say it is "incredible" that binmen in Brighton and Hove were not consulted over a new street cleaning contract which could bring over a dozen job losses. The GMB, Britain's General Union, today called for a new forum on which binmen would

  • FANCY A PUB LUNCH? YOUR CARRIAGE AWAITS

    FORGET cheese ploughman's or limp sandwiches - diners at a Sussex pub will now be able to enjoy a really first class meal. Landlord Fred Courcha achieved a ten-year ambition yesterday when an entire train carriage was lifted into the garden of his pub

  • EXPLOSIVE END FOR BEACH FIND

    AN old naval shell uncovered by the storms on the beach at Norman's Bay, Pevensey, was blown up by Royal Navy bomb disposal experts yesterday. Contractors working for the Environment Agency uncovered the four-inch shell hidden in the shingle as they worked

  • RAIL DRIVERS' TRAINING CUT TO THE BONE, SAYS REPORT

    An MP is demanding to know more about claims in a new report that training for train drivers has been "cut to the bone". Hastings MP Michael Foster is disturbed by the controversial document, written by Laurie Holden, the drivers' health and safety representative