Everyone's always going on about phasing out slam door trains because they're old and dangerous. But they have their uses and we (self and fellow passengers in non-slam door carriage) really could have done with one this week when elderly gentleman needed
The Queen is set to join Britain's growing band of dot.com millionaires, just four months after investing £100,000 in an internet company. It is believed her shares in getmapping.com will be worth £1.2 million when the firm, which is producing an aerial
Room for a change, Get back, Turn on and switch off, Spring has sprung! It's just as well that Rigsby, the shark landlord in Rising Damp, is no longer with us. He would have been down to Brighton and Hove like a shot making a fortune in student rents.
Police are appealing for witnesses following the pile-up on the M23 near Gatwick last Tuesday when one man died and eight others were injured. A British Airways baggage transfer van travelling from Gatwick to Heathrow crashed crashed through the central
Union chiefs said today they were dismayed by the loss of another 50 jobs in Burgess Hill. The 180-strong workforce at CAE Electronics will be culled during the next six months. The news brings more jobs gloom to the town. Filofax announced two months
Worthing's twin towers have sent the most unpredictable side in Sussex rugby to the county cup final. Second row high-fliers Mark Skrypec and Steve Dove helped the visitors destroy Grinstead with five tries in the first half hour on Sunday. Now skipper
Manager Micky Adams has hit out at the club's former marksman Richard Barker for criticising his team. Barker was unimpressed when he played against the Seagulls for Macclesfield earlier in the season, then watched them lose at Mansfield. Speaking in
Butlin's could lose its entertainments licence after noise complaints at its multi-million pound Skyline Pavilion. Local residents are fed up with the noise of singing and loud music since the new-look resort opened at Bognor in a blaze of publicity last
Noisy bikers were again roaring around a downland site just days after a trench was dug to stop them. A Strictly No Motorcycling sign was torn down and used to make a bridge over the trench at Toad's Hole Valley in Hove. The private site has been turned
Gilly Smith and Lucy Shuttleworth are the Red Bull and vodka of the literary world. The pair have pooled their talents and passion for the town to write the Juicy Guide to Brighton and Hove. It promises to be a quirky insider's guide to the town, written
Judge Jules is a world-famous DJ, but went on his first world tour with his mother-in-law. Janet Shaw played a key role as the Judge was mixing sounds to thousands of frenzied clubbers across the globe. She packed in her job as a supervisor at a Chichester
Model Heather Mills, the new love of Sir Paul McCartney, is moving to a five-bedroom house in Hove. Heather, 31, a former swimwear model who lost her leg after she was hit by a police motorcycle in 1993, is buying the four-storey house in a backstreet
A campaign to reduce cancer deaths in East Sussex by getting people to eat fresh fruit and vegetables has received a £100,000 boost from the Government. Hastings and St Leonards is one of five pilot sites in the country selected by the Department of Health
Police have launched an investigation after a young woman was gang-raped by a group of men. The 20-year-old careworker was described by detectives as "very traumatised". The woman, who had spent the evening in a Hastings pub, was held down by two men
Police are searching for a driver who fled after knocking down a pensioner on a pelican crossing. The elderly woman was using the crossing by the Quintins Shopping Centre, North Street, Hailsham at 1.30pm yesterday when a car reversed into her. The pensioner
Two teenagers have been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm in a row over a takeaway pizza. Paul Cruden and Matthew Tanner, both 19, were convicted after a five-day trial at Lewes Crown Court. The pair launched a furious assault on Steven Moss
Fashionable internet stocks are proving to be less popular as traders rediscover'old economy' companies. Earlier this week, TechMark 100, an index set up to monitor hi-tech shares, dropped 300 points as the American Dow Jones Industrial Average enjoyed
Penalties do not fit the crimes, Best wishes, A cut above How long do you get in prison if you neglect your children in the most appalling manner, letting them live in filth and squalor? The answer is two years for the father involved and two-and-a-half
Room for a change, Get back, Turn on and switch off, Spring has sprung! It's just as well that Rigsby, the shark landlord in Rising Damp, is no longer with us. He would have been down to Brighton and Hove like a shot making a fortune in student rents.
A water company was fined £7,500 for allowing sewage to flood into a brook. Southern Water Services admitted polluting Brockhurst Brook, at Billingshurst, last October. An Environment Agency investigation discovered the entire fish population of the brook
The future is looking bright for Brighton Racecourse as it sheds its rundown image. With an ambitious programme of investment and modernisation, manager Northern Racing hopes it can bring back the glory days of the 1950s when Brighton races regularly
Haywards Heath saved the fireworks for the second half as they celebrated a fifth successive final appearance. Five of their six tries came after the break as they eventually ground down a spirited Heathfield side in which skipper and lock Rick Ure again
National Hunt cards at Exeter, Fontwell and Sedgefield. Racing starts at 2pm and finishes at 4.40pm. Naylor's Nag: Dragon King - 3.20 Sedgefield Recommended stake £10 win Monty's Marvel: Worth the Wait - 2.20 Sedgefield Recommended stake £7 win Yesterday
Worthing's twin towers have sent the most unpredictable side in Sussex rugby to the county cup final. Second row high-fliers Mark Skrypec and Steve Dove helped the visitors destroy Grinstead with five tries in the first half hour on Sunday. Now skipper
Sussex's cricketers got a taste of the Army life when they began pre-season preparations yesterday. A squad of 25, including coaches Peter Moores and Keith Greenfield, spent the day at Baker Barracks on the Sussex-Hampshire border under the watchful eye
Noisy bikers were again roaring around a downland site just days after a trench was dug to stop them. A Strictly No Motorcycling sign was torn down and used to make a bridge over the trench at Toad's Hole Valley in Hove. The private site has been turned
Model Heather Mills, the new love of Sir Paul McCartney, is moving to a five-bedroom house in Hove. Heather, 31, a former swimwear model who lost her leg after she was hit by a police motorcycle in 1993, is buying the four-storey house in a backstreet
A campaign to reduce cancer deaths in East Sussex by getting people to eat fresh fruit and vegetables has received a £100,000 boost from the Government. Hastings and St Leonards is one of five pilot sites in the country selected by the Department of Health
Chancellor Gordon Brown today raided his £12 billion war chest to give the NHS a Budget boost. Mr Brown delighted Labour MPs with a commitment to increase spending on the health service over the next four years by a record 6.1 per cent each year over
Everyone's always going on about phasing out slam door trains because they're old and dangerous. But they have their uses and we (self and fellow passengers in non-slam door carriage) really could have done with one this week when elderly gentleman needed
The Queen is set to join Britain's growing band of dot.com millionaires, just four months after investing £100,000 in an internet company. It is believed her shares in getmapping.com will be worth £1.2 million when the firm, which is producing an aerial
Police are appealing for witnesses following the pile-up on the M23 near Gatwick last Tuesday when one man died and eight others were injured. A British Airways baggage transfer van travelling from Gatwick to Heathrow crashed crashed through the central
Union chiefs said today they were dismayed by the loss of another 50 jobs in Burgess Hill. The 180-strong workforce at CAE Electronics will be culled during the next six months. The news brings more jobs gloom to the town. Filofax announced two months
A major crackdown on beggars who target town centre shopping areas was launched today. Police were issuing warning notices to beggars who have set up regular pitches in the centre of Hove. They were concentrating on problem areas in pedestrianised George
The go-ahead has been given for a massive nightclub to open in Brighton. Government inspectors have overturned a decision not to allow almost 2,000 clubbers into the new Terraces development on the seafront opposite the Palace Pier. Brighton and Hove
Defiant Macclesfield manager Peter Davenport reckons his team can still make the play-offs after rescuing a point against fourth-placed Peterborough on Saturday. Neil Moore's equaliser deep into stoppage time at Moss Rose left Davenport's fading team
Lewes manager Peter Boyse has vowed his team will bounce back from the crushing disappointment of missing out on promotion to hockey's National League premier division. A 2-2 draw against Doncaster in front of a 400-plus crowd at the Southdown Club on
More than 3,000 fake elephant tusks are to travel to Downing Street as part of a national campaign to stop the ivory trade. Sussex art student Adrian Andrews made the tusks for the Born Free Foundation, which has launched a petition to stop Britain from
Manager Micky Adams has hit out at the club's former marksman Richard Barker for criticising his team. Barker was unimpressed when he played against the Seagulls for Macclesfield earlier in the season, then watched them lose at Mansfield. Speaking in
Detectives from Bognor will be manning the phone lines tonight when Crimewatch viewers will be asked to help catch two armed robbers. The BBC programme is showing a reconstruction of a February 3 raid on jewellers Nicholas and Company in the town's Queensway
Butlin's could lose its entertainments licence after noise complaints at its multi-million pound Skyline Pavilion. Local residents are fed up with the noise of singing and loud music since the new-look resort opened at Bognor in a blaze of publicity last
A homeless man who carried out a racist attack at Brighton railway station has been jailed for nine months. Timothy Gladwish, 45, attacked Kevin Ramsay as he walked through the station on January 21 last year. He was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court after
It is interesting to see members of the Cabinet are being encouraged to take one day off work a year. This is in order to give a day to the community in the form of some service to a charitable organisation. The range of offers does not seem to be very
When her husband collapsed and died while making a impassioned speech to a council meeting Jeanette Allen was left facing life on her own. It was a tragic end to 23 years of marriage and Jeanette still remembers the sense of cold dread she felt as she
Gilly Smith and Lucy Shuttleworth are the Red Bull and vodka of the literary world. The pair have pooled their talents and passion for the town to write the Juicy Guide to Brighton and Hove. It promises to be a quirky insider's guide to the town, written
Judge Jules is a world-famous DJ, but went on his first world tour with his mother-in-law. Janet Shaw played a key role as the Judge was mixing sounds to thousands of frenzied clubbers across the globe. She packed in her job as a supervisor at a Chichester
Police have launched an investigation after a young woman was gang-raped by a group of men. The 20-year-old careworker was described by detectives as "very traumatised". The woman, who had spent the evening in a Hastings pub, was held down by two men
Police are searching for a driver who fled after knocking down a pensioner on a pelican crossing. The elderly woman was using the crossing by the Quintins Shopping Centre, North Street, Hailsham at 1.30pm yesterday when a car reversed into her. The pensioner
Two teenagers have been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm in a row over a takeaway pizza. Paul Cruden and Matthew Tanner, both 19, were convicted after a five-day trial at Lewes Crown Court. The pair launched a furious assault on Steven Moss
Fashionable internet stocks are proving to be less popular as traders rediscover'old economy' companies. Earlier this week, TechMark 100, an index set up to monitor hi-tech shares, dropped 300 points as the American Dow Jones Industrial Average enjoyed
Penalties do not fit the crimes, Best wishes, A cut above How long do you get in prison if you neglect your children in the most appalling manner, letting them live in filth and squalor? The answer is two years for the father involved and two-and-a-half
A water company was fined £7,500 for allowing sewage to flood into a brook. Southern Water Services admitted polluting Brockhurst Brook, at Billingshurst, last October. An Environment Agency investigation discovered the entire fish population of the brook
The future is looking bright for Brighton Racecourse as it sheds its rundown image. With an ambitious programme of investment and modernisation, manager Northern Racing hopes it can bring back the glory days of the 1950s when Brighton races regularly
A major crackdown on beggars who target town centre shopping areas was launched today. Police were issuing warning notices to beggars who have set up regular pitches in the centre of Hove. They were concentrating on problem areas in pedestrianised George
The go-ahead has been given for a massive nightclub to open in Brighton. Government inspectors have overturned a decision not to allow almost 2,000 clubbers into the new Terraces development on the seafront opposite the Palace Pier. Brighton and Hove
Defiant Macclesfield manager Peter Davenport reckons his team can still make the play-offs after rescuing a point against fourth-placed Peterborough on Saturday. Neil Moore's equaliser deep into stoppage time at Moss Rose left Davenport's fading team
Haywards Heath saved the fireworks for the second half as they celebrated a fifth successive final appearance. Five of their six tries came after the break as they eventually ground down a spirited Heathfield side in which skipper and lock Rick Ure again
Lewes manager Peter Boyse has vowed his team will bounce back from the crushing disappointment of missing out on promotion to hockey's National League premier division. A 2-2 draw against Doncaster in front of a 400-plus crowd at the Southdown Club on
National Hunt cards at Exeter, Fontwell and Sedgefield. Racing starts at 2pm and finishes at 4.40pm. Naylor's Nag: Dragon King - 3.20 Sedgefield Recommended stake £10 win Monty's Marvel: Worth the Wait - 2.20 Sedgefield Recommended stake £7 win Yesterday
Sussex's cricketers got a taste of the Army life when they began pre-season preparations yesterday. A squad of 25, including coaches Peter Moores and Keith Greenfield, spent the day at Baker Barracks on the Sussex-Hampshire border under the watchful eye
More than 3,000 fake elephant tusks are to travel to Downing Street as part of a national campaign to stop the ivory trade. Sussex art student Adrian Andrews made the tusks for the Born Free Foundation, which has launched a petition to stop Britain from
Detectives from Bognor will be manning the phone lines tonight when Crimewatch viewers will be asked to help catch two armed robbers. The BBC programme is showing a reconstruction of a February 3 raid on jewellers Nicholas and Company in the town's Queensway
A homeless man who carried out a racist attack at Brighton railway station has been jailed for nine months. Timothy Gladwish, 45, attacked Kevin Ramsay as he walked through the station on January 21 last year. He was sentenced at Lewes Crown Court after
It is interesting to see members of the Cabinet are being encouraged to take one day off work a year. This is in order to give a day to the community in the form of some service to a charitable organisation. The range of offers does not seem to be very
When her husband collapsed and died while making a impassioned speech to a council meeting Jeanette Allen was left facing life on her own. It was a tragic end to 23 years of marriage and Jeanette still remembers the sense of cold dread she felt as she
Chancellor Gordon Brown today raided his £12 billion war chest to give the NHS a Budget boost. Mr Brown delighted Labour MPs with a commitment to increase spending on the health service over the next four years by a record 6.1 per cent each year over
