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  • Bring back BBC Radio Sussex

    Regrettably gone are the good old days of Radio Brighton, but many of us still have fond memories of BBC Radio Sussex. BBC Radio Berkshire is back on air - how about a campaign to give back Sussex its local BBC radio station? -Bronwynne Morley, Ansteym

  • On track

    I grew up in Mile Oak between 1970 and 1987, so I can appreciate Michael Wood's letter (May 17) about the lack of facilities for children, but Mile Oak is not unique. Back in the 1980s I was also a BMX fanatic and we didn't have a track then either. However

  • Still want to kill me?

    According to a recent media report, a consultant has stated that a number of nurses would like to deprive patients over 60 of the right to life by denying further treatment. I don't know how many of you belong to this death club but I'd like to put you

  • Testing time

    As we approach a new Test Match series with our hopes of finding a winning formula still in the infant stage, I am again left totally disillusioned by the way some of our counties behave towards their younger players. Shaun Humphries, the Sussex wicket

  • Pride of place

    I refer to Shared Vision (Christopher Swain, May 15) and the Genuine Worry (D Higgins, May 15). I wrote to the Home Secretary months ago and received a prompt, impartial reply. I, too, would encourage anyone with an opinion to do so. Simon Fanshawe is

  • Onwards and upward

    Thank you for all the pictures of Mayor Jenny Langston. She is so full of joy and love for the things she does and has a lovely supportive husband. Let us hope we will see her move forward in politics and show women can make their mark. -Mrs M Gee, Barnet

  • More Parks Constables

    I write in response to the various articles published in the Argus regarding safer parks around Sussex. I feel the answer to this problem would be for the council to reinstate Parks Police Constables to patrol them and to make them safer for everyone

  • FA Cup Final - Gregory's pearl

    John Gregory will get out his guitar and sing along to Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days tomorrow evening. The music-loving manager of Aston Villa, a record Albion signing from the Birmingham giants, is convinced his side will hit the right note against

  • Racing - Friday's four fixtures

    Afternoon meetings at Carlisle, Lingfield and Nottingham, plus an evening card at Stratford Naylor's Nag: Wishbone Alley - 4.10 Carlisle. Recommended stake £6 win Yesterday's Naylor's Nag - Capri - was unplaced. Running total on an initial tax-free £100

  • Cricket - Adams gets a reprieve

    Chris Adams has escaped disciplinary action by the English Cricket Board following his row with David Constant. An ECB spokesman confirmed last night: "We are not taking any further action. He apologised to David Constant and that was accepted, end of

  • Actor behaving impeccably

    Martin Clunes was in familiar surroundings when he took part in the filming of a new thriller in Sussex yesterday. Martin, best known for his role as laddish Gary in Men Behaving Badly, was in Worthing to shoot the two-part drama Dirty Tricks. The star

  • Essoldo saga takes a dramatic twist

    Andrew Lloyd-Webber is looking at converting a former cinema into a theatre that can stage musicals such as Cats. Developers Simons Estates wants to demolish the Essoldo, in North Street, Brighton, and a neighbouring bank to make way for shops and luxury

  • Go N Play elsewhere for mall kids

    A popular creche at a town centre shopping mall has closed and faces liquidation. The Sussex-based firm which runs the Stay N Play creche in Churchill Square, Brighton, along with 18 other nurseries in shopping centres and supermarkets across the country

  • Water down the drain

    Customers of Southern Water have been charged millions of pounds for a service they did not receive. The firm has no intention of paying the money back, the Argus can reveal. Since 1989 the company has been charging its 593,000 Sussex customers about

  • Bring back BBC Radio Sussex

    Regrettably gone are the good old days of Radio Brighton, but many of us still have fond memories of BBC Radio Sussex. BBC Radio Berkshire is back on air - how about a campaign to give back Sussex its local BBC radio station? -Bronwynne Morley, Ansteym

  • On track

    I grew up in Mile Oak between 1970 and 1987, so I can appreciate Michael Wood's letter (May 17) about the lack of facilities for children, but Mile Oak is not unique. Back in the 1980s I was also a BMX fanatic and we didn't have a track then either. However

  • Age old answer

    I write regarding Mr Sayers' claim that he has been discriminated against when applying for jobs with us because of his age (Argus letters, May 12). It is precisely because we do not discriminate in this way that we do not even ask for a date of birth

  • Planners and planters

    Just a word of praise for the fabulous garden displays this year, they are always so lovely. The yellow, orange and white pansies with the golden tulips at the big fountain were stunning. I admire the planners and the planters. -Mrs L Maddison, Hartington

  • What's eating you, Adam?

    I was amazed by the article in last Wednesday's Evening Argus on the China Hins Restaurant in Church Road, Hove, written by Adam Trimingham. Are there two restaurants with the same name? I have dined there on four separate occasions and have to say not

  • More Parks Constables

    I write in response to the various articles published in the Argus regarding safer parks around Sussex. I feel the answer to this problem would be for the council to reinstate Parks Police Constables to patrol them and to make them safer for everyone

  • Cricket - Adams gets a reprieve

    Chris Adams has escaped disciplinary action by the English Cricket Board following his row with David Constant. An ECB spokesman confirmed last night: "We are not taking any further action. He apologised to David Constant and that was accepted, end of

  • Nimrod's fighting for Punch

    Architect Nimrod Ping has launched a campaign to save Britain's longest-serving Punch and Judy show. Yesterday the Argus reported how Mike Stone had been asked by traders to move on from his seafront pitch in Brighton. Producing Punch and Judy under the

  • Actor behaving impeccably

    Martin Clunes was in familiar surroundings when he took part in the filming of a new thriller in Sussex yesterday. Martin, best known for his role as laddish Gary in Men Behaving Badly, was in Worthing to shoot the two-part drama Dirty Tricks. The star

  • Essoldo saga takes a dramatic twist

    Andrew Lloyd-Webber is looking at converting a former cinema into a theatre that can stage musicals such as Cats. Developers Simons Estates wants to demolish the Essoldo, in North Street, Brighton, and a neighbouring bank to make way for shops and luxury

  • Amazing Grace's living history lesson

    When Grace Smith last went to school, Queen Victoria was still on the throne. There were no Pokemon cards to swap at break time and lessons in computer studies and PE were unheard of. Grace admits most of her time was spent running round the classrooms

  • Water down the drain

    Customers of Southern Water have been charged millions of pounds for a service they did not receive. The firm has no intention of paying the money back, the Argus can reveal. Since 1989 the company has been charging its 593,000 Sussex customers about

  • Future pilot

    In last Friday's article about the collapse of Brighton and Hove's Cabinet system, Adam Trimingham says Brighton and Hove was one of the first in the country to move to a Cabinet system, and that 'East Sussex County Council have now followed the scheme

  • Right vote

    Well done to all those Brighton and Hove councillors who voted against the current Cabinet system. I attended four public hearings to find out how this new arrangement would work and it was obvious that Labour were acting with breathtaking arrogance by

  • Age old answer

    I write regarding Mr Sayers' claim that he has been discriminated against when applying for jobs with us because of his age (Argus letters, May 12). It is precisely because we do not discriminate in this way that we do not even ask for a date of birth

  • Boo to the back-stabbers

    Local politics can be as nasty as national politics when it comes to back-stabbing, as Councillor Graham Mayhew, the soon to be ex-Mayor of Lewes, has discovered to his cost. Not only has the Town Council reneged on its decision taken last September to

  • Royal treatment

    I have returned home after a stay in Sussex County Hospital. The treatment I received from doctors, nurses and all members of staff was excellent. I could not have had better if I had been the Queen. -Patricia Ewins, Chalkland Rise, Woodingdean

  • Planners and planters

    Just a word of praise for the fabulous garden displays this year, they are always so lovely. The yellow, orange and white pansies with the golden tulips at the big fountain were stunning. I admire the planners and the planters. -Mrs L Maddison, Hartington

  • What's eating you, Adam?

    I was amazed by the article in last Wednesday's Evening Argus on the China Hins Restaurant in Church Road, Hove, written by Adam Trimingham. Are there two restaurants with the same name? I have dined there on four separate occasions and have to say not

  • Golf - Worthing four-timer?

    Worthing clash with West Sussex in the semi-final of the Sussex Inter-Club matchplay knockout. The other decider is between Lewes and holders East Brighton. So the two big guns, Worthing and East Brighton, are kept apart at this stage. Unless West Sussex

  • Cricket - McGrath v Bevan

    Sussex's prospects of posting a healthy first innings score are under threat from Aussie fast bowler Glenn McGrath. Only an hour's play was possible on a rain-ravaged opening day in the Championship against Worcestershire at Hove. It was long enough for

  • Nimrod's fighting for Punch

    Architect Nimrod Ping has launched a campaign to save Britain's longest-serving Punch and Judy show. Yesterday the Argus reported how Mike Stone had been asked by traders to move on from his seafront pitch in Brighton. Producing Punch and Judy under the

  • Amazing Grace's living history lesson

    When Grace Smith last went to school, Queen Victoria was still on the throne. There were no Pokemon cards to swap at break time and lessons in computer studies and PE were unheard of. Grace admits most of her time was spent running round the classrooms

  • Future pilot

    In last Friday's article about the collapse of Brighton and Hove's Cabinet system, Adam Trimingham says Brighton and Hove was one of the first in the country to move to a Cabinet system, and that 'East Sussex County Council have now followed the scheme

  • Right vote

    Well done to all those Brighton and Hove councillors who voted against the current Cabinet system. I attended four public hearings to find out how this new arrangement would work and it was obvious that Labour were acting with breathtaking arrogance by

  • Still want to kill me?

    According to a recent media report, a consultant has stated that a number of nurses would like to deprive patients over 60 of the right to life by denying further treatment. I don't know how many of you belong to this death club but I'd like to put you

  • Testing time

    As we approach a new Test Match series with our hopes of finding a winning formula still in the infant stage, I am again left totally disillusioned by the way some of our counties behave towards their younger players. Shaun Humphries, the Sussex wicket

  • Pride of place

    I refer to Shared Vision (Christopher Swain, May 15) and the Genuine Worry (D Higgins, May 15). I wrote to the Home Secretary months ago and received a prompt, impartial reply. I, too, would encourage anyone with an opinion to do so. Simon Fanshawe is

  • Boo to the back-stabbers

    Local politics can be as nasty as national politics when it comes to back-stabbing, as Councillor Graham Mayhew, the soon to be ex-Mayor of Lewes, has discovered to his cost. Not only has the Town Council reneged on its decision taken last September to

  • Onwards and upward

    Thank you for all the pictures of Mayor Jenny Langston. She is so full of joy and love for the things she does and has a lovely supportive husband. Let us hope we will see her move forward in politics and show women can make their mark. -Mrs M Gee, Barnet

  • Royal treatment

    I have returned home after a stay in Sussex County Hospital. The treatment I received from doctors, nurses and all members of staff was excellent. I could not have had better if I had been the Queen. -Patricia Ewins, Chalkland Rise, Woodingdean

  • Golf - Worthing four-timer?

    Worthing clash with West Sussex in the semi-final of the Sussex Inter-Club matchplay knockout. The other decider is between Lewes and holders East Brighton. So the two big guns, Worthing and East Brighton, are kept apart at this stage. Unless West Sussex

  • FA Cup Final - Gregory's pearl

    John Gregory will get out his guitar and sing along to Bruce Springsteen's Glory Days tomorrow evening. The music-loving manager of Aston Villa, a record Albion signing from the Birmingham giants, is convinced his side will hit the right note against

  • Racing - Friday's four fixtures

    Afternoon meetings at Carlisle, Lingfield and Nottingham, plus an evening card at Stratford Naylor's Nag: Wishbone Alley - 4.10 Carlisle. Recommended stake £6 win Yesterday's Naylor's Nag - Capri - was unplaced. Running total on an initial tax-free £100

  • Cricket - McGrath v Bevan

    Sussex's prospects of posting a healthy first innings score are under threat from Aussie fast bowler Glenn McGrath. Only an hour's play was possible on a rain-ravaged opening day in the Championship against Worcestershire at Hove. It was long enough for

  • Go N Play elsewhere for mall kids

    A popular creche at a town centre shopping mall has closed and faces liquidation. The Sussex-based firm which runs the Stay N Play creche in Churchill Square, Brighton, along with 18 other nurseries in shopping centres and supermarkets across the country