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  • 2,000 jobs go at Britannic

    Insurance company Britannic Assurance is to axe 2,000 jobs over the next year. Most of the redundancies will be within Britannic's direct salesforce as the company seeks savings of £82 million during the next year. Birmingham-based Britannic said the

  • First-class care

    Having just spent one week in Erringham ward 10 at Worthing Hospital, I wish to thank all the great doctors and wonderful nurses. I received on the NHS care and attention of the highest standard. As for some of the discouraging reports of uncleanliness

  • Classes threatened by school bus axe

    Proposed cuts to subsidised transport could force church schools to reduce staff and cut classes. Brian Sheed, headteacher of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School in Rottingdean, said the effect of the plans by cash strapped East Sussex County

  • Still two towns

    Although we have been awarded city status, we will always be two separate towns. Our present council has shown it cannot run one, let alone two. If we do get an elected mayor, his or her first job should be to set up two management teams, one to run Brighton

  • Winter woe

    Mike Stimpson (Opinion, February 26) is lucky to get his heating allowance in March. I have just made inquiries to see what has happened to mine and am told I will not get it until June as the charges are drawn only every three months. Not much good to

  • Between You and Me, by Vanora Leigh

    Hell may never freeze over but in Bradford it does several times a year, often in February - which is why I don't usually go visiting my Yorkshire kinsfolk till May. Last week, however, was my uncle's funeral and saw me back in my old stomping ground,

  • Good talking point

    Can any Argus reader tell me where I can find, in central Brighton, a pub where people can have a nice, quiet drink and conversation without having their ears bombarded by incessant, unnaturally loud, thumping music? A bit of quiet background music, of

  • Wonderful life

    At a time when everything in the world seems to be disastrous - train crashes, floods, earthquakes, global warming, my old friends passing on - and I feel sad, I try to think of all the wonderful things in my life. The handsome faces of my lady-friends

  • Act on impulse

    Sidney Sloane has changed his career from broker to actor and attended an academy in Brighton. He has also changed his name into one that's highly unlikely but which he hopes will be memorable. Now he's landed a part in Roald Dahl's tale for children

  • Boost for affordable homes

    Almost £30 million will be spent on providing low-cost homes during the coming year. Brighton and Hove City Council and the Housing Corporation are jointly planning to spend £13.5 million in the city. Most of the money will be spent through housing associations

  • Football: Ryman League - Bognor, Horsham win

    Matt Russell hit a tenth minute winner as Bognor continued their great run last night. Russell volleyed the only goal at Bromley in a division one clash. Rocks were always on top with Jody Rowland rifling just wide and hard-working Neil Scammell going

  • Police chief's family deserves support

    I have been most disappointed at the mean-spirited attitude The Argus has shown towards the Chief Constable and his family. Most families, when their children get into trouble with the law, do not have to face the added burden of being further exposed

  • Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart

    Seven days in The Albion's current season can, like politics, be a long time. How many of the 3,000 fans who exploded into song and celebration at the final whistle at Brisbane Road on Saturday booed the team off the Withdean pitch a week before? How

  • Football: Dr Martens Cup - Crawley Cup delight

    Crawley Town progressed to the Dr Martens League Cup quarter finals after beating Baldock Town 3-0 in dreadful conditions. The Broadfield Stadium pitch deteriorated as the game went on but Reds were able to get the result they needed after finally overcoming

  • Seagulls surrender advantage after early strike

    Albion surrendered an early lead as they tumbled to a surprise 2-1 defeat against makeshift Scunthorpe last night. Paul Brooker put Micky Adams' promotion chasers ahead in the fourth minute with a well-taken goal, his third of the season. Danny Cullip

  • Tough time for travellers

    Police are promising a tougher approach to travellers who set up camps in public parks in Brighton and Hove this year. In addition, the city council is spending £60,000 on fencing to prevent travellers moving on to some sites. Hove and Shoreham police

  • Commuters complain of poor 'connex-ion'

    A rail user's pressure group wants improvements to the public address system at Brighton Railway Station after complaints of inaudible announcements. Recalling days of the much-maligned British Rail station announcers before privatisation, Brighton Line

  • Boss denies sex bias claim

    The former director of a group of children's homes told an employment tribunal she regretted telling a care worker she fancied him. Louise Collins admitted she told Ian Harrington she was attracted to him but she denied making sexual advances. Mr Harrington

  • Kids' ops halted by instrument shortage

    Three-year-old Ruby Naldrett is suffering months of agony because of a shortage of disposable surgical instruments. She is one of hundreds of Sussex children whose operations to remove their tonsils have been postponed. Her mother Linzi, who has spent

  • We lift lid on 'top secret' attraction

    A £13 million scheme to create a "world's first" visitor attraction at Brighton Marina is taking shape. The top-secret project will, it is claimed, be on a par with rides offered by major American theme parks. Marina spokesman David Courtney said he could

  • Trapped worker thought he'd die

    A workman who was trapped for seven hours when the trench he was digging caved in said last night: "I thought I'd had it." Peter Thompson, 38, expected to return to work today, just three days after his ordeal. The JCB driver from Hailsham had climbed

  • Immigrants held in police swoop

    Police have arrested 24 workers on suspicion of being illegal immigrants in a swoop on a book company's warehouse. The men and women, most of them Kosovan, were arrested as they worked the night shift at Gardners Books in Whittle Drive, Eastbourne. Police

  • 2,000 jobs go at Britannic

    Insurance company Britannic Assurance is to axe 2,000 jobs over the next year. Most of the redundancies will be within Britannic's direct salesforce as the company seeks savings of £82 million during the next year. Birmingham-based Britannic said the

  • Tomboy - Acting Funny

    A London broker gave it all up to become an actor. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards, magazine illustrations

  • Give farmers lotto cash

    With the farmers in despair over foot-and-mouth, put some of the Camelot money to use as subsidies instead of leaving it in the bank for Camelot to profit from. The farmers need it now. -G R Hills, Brighton

  • Still two towns

    Although we have been awarded city status, we will always be two separate towns. Our present council has shown it cannot run one, let alone two. If we do get an elected mayor, his or her first job should be to set up two management teams, one to run Brighton

  • Boost for affordable homes

    Almost £30 million will be spent on providing low-cost homes during the coming year. Brighton and Hove City Council and the Housing Corporation are jointly planning to spend £13.5 million in the city. Most of the money will be spent through housing associations

  • Between You and Me, by Vanora Leigh

    Hell may never freeze over but in Bradford it does several times a year, often in February - which is why I don't usually go visiting my Yorkshire kinsfolk till May. Last week, however, was my uncle's funeral and saw me back in my old stomping ground,

  • Did 'Beckham' see shotgun raider?

    Police believe a "David Beckham lookalike" could lead them to the man responsible for nine armed raids in Worthing since Christmas. The man detectives want to speak to was one of three witnesses at the Murco Garage in Sompting Road, on December 28, around

  • Sort it out

    During the mains gas works in recent weeks in Rottingdean, the morning traffic from Peacehaven and Newhaven flowed freely into Brighton or via Wilson Avenue for the A27. Bliss. So why, now it's finished, is the traffic back to crawling pace with the usual

  • Act on impulse

    Sidney Sloane has changed his career from broker to actor and attended an academy in Brighton. He has also changed his name into one that's highly unlikely but which he hopes will be memorable. Now he's landed a part in Roald Dahl's tale for children

  • Teenager's attacker gets seven years

    A 20-year-old man has been jailed for seven years after an "horrendous" attack which left a teenage boy brain damaged. Joseph Hague, of Farley Bank, Hastings, punched, kicked, and stamped on the 15-year-old as he walked home from Hastings Carnival. The

  • Self-inflicted

    So Miss Whitehouse and family feel they have been badly treated by the police, who should not have prosecuted poor little Miss Whitehouse because of the violence in her relationship. As I see it, Miss Whitehouse called the police herself on at least one

  • Football: Ryman League - Bognor, Horsham win

    Matt Russell hit a tenth minute winner as Bognor continued their great run last night. Russell volleyed the only goal at Bromley in a division one clash. Rocks were always on top with Jody Rowland rifling just wide and hard-working Neil Scammell going

  • Police chief's family deserves support

    I have been most disappointed at the mean-spirited attitude The Argus has shown towards the Chief Constable and his family. Most families, when their children get into trouble with the law, do not have to face the added burden of being further exposed

  • Football: Senior Cup - Shoreham fume at cup exit

    Horsham YMCA booked a semi-final date with Bognor amid controversial scenes at Middle Road last night. Hosts Shoreham were incensed by two penalty awards and argued a Phil Churchill strike should have been ruled out. Boss Roger Brace said: "I am distraught

  • Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart

    Seven days in The Albion's current season can, like politics, be a long time. How many of the 3,000 fans who exploded into song and celebration at the final whistle at Brisbane Road on Saturday booed the team off the Withdean pitch a week before? How

  • Tough time for travellers

    Police are promising a tougher approach to travellers who set up camps in public parks in Brighton and Hove this year. In addition, the city council is spending £60,000 on fencing to prevent travellers moving on to some sites. Hove and Shoreham police

  • Tomboy - Acting Funny

    A London broker gave it all up to become an actor. Tomboy appears daily in The Argus and is updated each day on this website. You can see more of Tomboy on www.moontoon.co.uk The Moontoon website also has comic strips, greeting cards, magazine illustrations

  • Give farmers lotto cash

    With the farmers in despair over foot-and-mouth, put some of the Camelot money to use as subsidies instead of leaving it in the bank for Camelot to profit from. The farmers need it now. -G R Hills, Brighton

  • Obscene sum

    In trying to find out more about the EU and the euro, I received some literature which informed me it costs this country some £11 billion a year to be a member of the EU. If my sums are correct, that is almost £500 a year for every adult. This is obscene

  • Adams slams "southern softies"

    Albion boss Micky Adams branded his players "a bunch of southern softies" after a sorry show at Scunthorpe last night. Adams was furious with a 2-1 defeat by a side missing EIGHT senior players through injury. The Seagulls surrendered the points, despite

  • Teacher charged with wife's murder

    A teacher has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife at their Sussex home. Mark Parnham, of Millmead, Ashington, near Storrington, appeared before Crawley magistrates this afternoon. His wife Jillian Parnham, 38 - also a teacher - was found

  • Sort it out

    During the mains gas works in recent weeks in Rottingdean, the morning traffic from Peacehaven and Newhaven flowed freely into Brighton or via Wilson Avenue for the A27. Bliss. So why, now it's finished, is the traffic back to crawling pace with the usual

  • Come together

    In Christopher Saxton's map of Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Middlesex dated 1575, Brighton was called Brighthelm Stone. Hove did not then appear to exist. Today, we have the City of Brighton and Hove. Using the above precedent of how names change in time,

  • Anyone there?

    Absolutely right, Mrs Martin (Opinion, February 27), the Opinion page in The Argus is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I certainly enjoy reading about issues near to home, particularly constructive criticism putting authorities in their place

  • Simple remedy

    Unless affiliated to Brighton and Hove City Council or a political activist spin-doctoring for the Labour Party (and there are some regulars writing in The Argus), few would disagree with Mrs Martin (Opinion, February 27): "There are too many political

  • Parking mad

    People with permits who cannot always find parking spaces near their homes are angry with Brighton and Hove City Council. It always lets out more permits than there are spaces because not every driver will be using one all the time. The alternative of

  • Self-inflicted

    So Miss Whitehouse and family feel they have been badly treated by the police, who should not have prosecuted poor little Miss Whitehouse because of the violence in her relationship. As I see it, Miss Whitehouse called the police herself on at least one

  • Plain sailing to success

    It has taken almost 40 years to happen but the marina has become one of the biggest attractions in Brighton. Back in the Sixties, the city in the sea was just a gleam in the eye of garage proprietor Henry Cohen. So much money was sunk into the harbour

  • Call of the wild

    I read with great interest your articles on the Frances Whitehouse affair and can only sympathise with her father, although the question has to be asked, did both parents exercise enough discipline throughout their daughter's upbringing? Is this yet another

  • Football: Senior Cup - Shoreham fume at cup exit

    Horsham YMCA booked a semi-final date with Bognor amid controversial scenes at Middle Road last night. Hosts Shoreham were incensed by two penalty awards and argued a Phil Churchill strike should have been ruled out. Boss Roger Brace said: "I am distraught

  • Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart

    Seven days in The Albion's current season can, like politics, be a long time. How many of the 3,000 fans who exploded into song and celebration at the final whistle at Brisbane Road on Saturday booed the team off the Withdean pitch a week before? How

  • Battle for extra pub hours

    A bid to allow Brighton and Hove pubs to stay open until 2am has been adjourned. Pub landlords want to be allowed to stay open for longer during the summer. They were today due to ask Brighton and Hove Licensing Committee to extend their opening hours

  • Broker gives it up for the stage

    Gary Gibson was a high-flying broker who thrived in a world of cut-throat competition ... until two years ago. He had good prospects for promotion and was more or less guaranteed a job as a director at a computer firm. Then he gave it all up and moved

  • No room for residents' parking

    A total of 5,151 households are vying for just 3,961 residents' parking spaces in Brighton and Hove. The council gives out an average of 1.3 parking permits for each available space in its 12 residents' parking areas. The figure rises to 1.7 parking permits

  • First-class care

    Having just spent one week in Erringham ward 10 at Worthing Hospital, I wish to thank all the great doctors and wonderful nurses. I received on the NHS care and attention of the highest standard. As for some of the discouraging reports of uncleanliness

  • Classes threatened by school bus axe

    Proposed cuts to subsidised transport could force church schools to reduce staff and cut classes. Brian Sheed, headteacher of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School in Rottingdean, said the effect of the plans by cash strapped East Sussex County

  • Winter woe

    Mike Stimpson (Opinion, February 26) is lucky to get his heating allowance in March. I have just made inquiries to see what has happened to mine and am told I will not get it until June as the charges are drawn only every three months. Not much good to

  • Obscene sum

    In trying to find out more about the EU and the euro, I received some literature which informed me it costs this country some £11 billion a year to be a member of the EU. If my sums are correct, that is almost £500 a year for every adult. This is obscene

  • Commuters complain of poor 'connex-ion'

    A rail user's pressure group wants improvements to the public address system at Brighton Railway Station after complaints of inaudible announcements. Recalling days of the much-maligned British Rail station announcers before privatisation, Brighton Line

  • Adams slams "southern softies"

    Albion boss Micky Adams branded his players "a bunch of southern softies" after a sorry show at Scunthorpe last night. Adams was furious with a 2-1 defeat by a side missing EIGHT senior players through injury. The Seagulls surrendered the points, despite

  • Teacher charged with wife's murder

    A teacher has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife at their Sussex home. Mark Parnham, of Millmead, Ashington, near Storrington, appeared before Crawley magistrates this afternoon. His wife Jillian Parnham, 38 - also a teacher - was found

  • Immigrants held in police swoop

    Police have arrested 24 workers on suspicion of being illegal immigrants in a swoop on a book company's warehouse. The men and women, most of them Kosovan, were arrested as they worked the night shift at Gardners Books in Whittle Drive, Eastbourne. Police

  • Good talking point

    Can any Argus reader tell me where I can find, in central Brighton, a pub where people can have a nice, quiet drink and conversation without having their ears bombarded by incessant, unnaturally loud, thumping music? A bit of quiet background music, of

  • Wonderful life

    At a time when everything in the world seems to be disastrous - train crashes, floods, earthquakes, global warming, my old friends passing on - and I feel sad, I try to think of all the wonderful things in my life. The handsome faces of my lady-friends

  • Come together

    In Christopher Saxton's map of Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Middlesex dated 1575, Brighton was called Brighthelm Stone. Hove did not then appear to exist. Today, we have the City of Brighton and Hove. Using the above precedent of how names change in time,

  • Anyone there?

    Absolutely right, Mrs Martin (Opinion, February 27), the Opinion page in The Argus is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I certainly enjoy reading about issues near to home, particularly constructive criticism putting authorities in their place

  • Simple remedy

    Unless affiliated to Brighton and Hove City Council or a political activist spin-doctoring for the Labour Party (and there are some regulars writing in The Argus), few would disagree with Mrs Martin (Opinion, February 27): "There are too many political

  • Parking mad

    People with permits who cannot always find parking spaces near their homes are angry with Brighton and Hove City Council. It always lets out more permits than there are spaces because not every driver will be using one all the time. The alternative of

  • Boost for affordable homes

    Almost £30 million will be spent on providing low-cost homes during the coming year. Brighton and Hove City Council and the Housing Corporation are jointly planning to spend £13.5 million in the city. Most of the money will be spent through housing associations

  • Plain sailing to success

    It has taken almost 40 years to happen but the marina has become one of the biggest attractions in Brighton. Back in the Sixties, the city in the sea was just a gleam in the eye of garage proprietor Henry Cohen. So much money was sunk into the harbour

  • Call of the wild

    I read with great interest your articles on the Frances Whitehouse affair and can only sympathise with her father, although the question has to be asked, did both parents exercise enough discipline throughout their daughter's upbringing? Is this yet another

  • Football: Dr Martens Cup - Crawley Cup delight

    Crawley Town progressed to the Dr Martens League Cup quarter finals after beating Baldock Town 3-0 in dreadful conditions. The Broadfield Stadium pitch deteriorated as the game went on but Reds were able to get the result they needed after finally overcoming

  • Hart of the Matter with Ian Hart

    Seven days in The Albion's current season can, like politics, be a long time. How many of the 3,000 fans who exploded into song and celebration at the final whistle at Brisbane Road on Saturday booed the team off the Withdean pitch a week before? How

  • Seagulls surrender advantage after early strike

    Albion surrendered an early lead as they tumbled to a surprise 2-1 defeat against makeshift Scunthorpe last night. Paul Brooker put Micky Adams' promotion chasers ahead in the fourth minute with a well-taken goal, his third of the season. Danny Cullip

  • Battle for extra pub hours

    A bid to allow Brighton and Hove pubs to stay open until 2am has been adjourned. Pub landlords want to be allowed to stay open for longer during the summer. They were today due to ask Brighton and Hove Licensing Committee to extend their opening hours

  • Commuters complain of poor 'connex-ion'

    A rail user's pressure group wants improvements to the public address system at Brighton Railway Station after complaints of inaudible announcements. Recalling days of the much-maligned British Rail station announcers before privatisation, Brighton Line

  • Boss denies sex bias claim

    The former director of a group of children's homes told an employment tribunal she regretted telling a care worker she fancied him. Louise Collins admitted she told Ian Harrington she was attracted to him but she denied making sexual advances. Mr Harrington

  • Sex attack on teenager

    A 15-year-old schoolgirl was subjected to a terrifying sex attack after a night out with friends in Crawley town centre. The victim was dragged from the Hollywood Bowl at Crawley Leisure Park on Saturday night and taken to a nearby secluded spot. Police

  • Man dies in smash with truck

    A man was killed in a road smash on the A24 near Dial Post last night after his car was involved in a crash with a lorry. The 31-year-old from Burgess Hill, who was driving a red Peugeot 205, was dead when ambulance crews arrived. The lorry driver was

  • Broker gives it up for the stage

    Gary Gibson was a high-flying broker who thrived in a world of cut-throat competition ... until two years ago. He had good prospects for promotion and was more or less guaranteed a job as a director at a computer firm. Then he gave it all up and moved

  • Kids' ops halted by instrument shortage

    Three-year-old Ruby Naldrett is suffering months of agony because of a shortage of disposable surgical instruments. She is one of hundreds of Sussex children whose operations to remove their tonsils have been postponed. Her mother Linzi, who has spent

  • Boost for police ranks

    More than 30 police officers are being recruited for the Hastings area after a funding boost. The Senlac division, covering Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill and the Rother district, has been awarded an extra £1 million over two years by Sussex Police Authority

  • We lift lid on 'top secret' attraction

    A £13 million scheme to create a "world's first" visitor attraction at Brighton Marina is taking shape. The top-secret project will, it is claimed, be on a par with rides offered by major American theme parks. Marina spokesman David Courtney said he could

  • Trapped worker thought he'd die

    A workman who was trapped for seven hours when the trench he was digging caved in said last night: "I thought I'd had it." Peter Thompson, 38, expected to return to work today, just three days after his ordeal. The JCB driver from Hailsham had climbed

  • Power station's exit postponed

    The demolition of a disused power station has been delayed because a crane has broken down. Work on knocking down Broomgrove power station, Hastings, was expected to start today. But workmen turning up to find a bearing had gone on the crane needed to

  • Immigrants held in police swoop

    Police have arrested 24 workers on suspicion of being illegal immigrants in a swoop on a book company's warehouse. The men and women, most of them Kosovan, were arrested as they worked the night shift at Gardners Books in Whittle Drive, Eastbourne. Police

  • No room for residents' parking

    A total of 5,151 households are vying for just 3,961 residents' parking spaces in Brighton and Hove. The council gives out an average of 1.3 parking permits for each available space in its 12 residents' parking areas. The figure rises to 1.7 parking permits