The appeal for witnesses for the new inquiry into the murder of Jay Abatan outside the Ocean Rooms Club on January 24, 1999, has produced some further details but we are sure there is still someone with information which might provide a vital clue. If
Mr Brown has been generous with this budget. Could it be because there is a general election looming? 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
I'm on my way to do my keep fit. The wind is blowing hard - very hard. I lean into it, but simply moving forward feels like exercise enough! Those words could be anyone's making that same journey at the traditionally leonine beginning or end of March.
Charlie Oatway has been ruled out of Albion's promotion challenge for at least two weeks. A recurrence of left knee trouble robs the Seagulls of the competitive midfielder for Saturday's home game against in-form Hull. Oatway will also miss next Wednesday's
Sussex MPs today demanded an end to trafficking in human cargo after girls in council care were sold into prostitution. Hove MP Ivor Caplin said: "I am very concerned at this trade and want it brought to an end. If this means lobbying parliament I will
It was raining. I was late and so very sorry. "It won't happen again," I blurted out. "Next time, I promise, I will get a ticket." The parking attendant, obviously pleased with my grovelling, let me go but not without an "If I catch you again, you will
Sorry, you'll have to help me a bit with the logic (if any) behind Mrs Whitty's warning (Opinion, March 2). She says that a woman begging in the street was obviously a fraud because, having told someone she needed £25 for a bed and breakfast place, she
May I take issue with some fundamentally flawed and downright pernicious assumptions lurking within the Argus editorial "More reforms are needed" (March 5). For example: "Some single parents are idle and feckless but many want to support themselves rather
Big sweeps have been made by truancy officers to pick up children who have skipped their lessons at school. Encouragingly, they did not find huge numbers of children playing hookey in Newhaven and Seaford but the picture might be rather different in large
The Argus, over the years, has done a great service to all kinds of people. Now we disabled drivers are asking for its support in relation to the continued abuse of disabled parking bays. The police cannot or will not take an interest. These bays, both
The debate on rental and purchasing prices in Brighton and Hove is long overdue. In recent times, the city has indeed become "London by the sea". For Charles Holcombe (Opinion, February 24) to deny it is incredible - except perhaps if one remembers he
Mayur Majithia is the new Crawley men's champion. In a thrilling final, he stopped Ritchie Venner's attempt to win for a ninth time 21-18, 11-21, 21-19. Nigel Eckersley has won the Western Open Grand Prix title at Bath. It was his second Grand Prix victory
Paul McCarthy is making a nonsense of the notion that there is no loyalty in football nowadays. He has just signed a new contract which will extend his stay with Saturday's shock FA Cup quarter-finalists Wycombe Wanderers to eight years. The Irish centre
If you could choose somebody to assist Albion's promotion push in the fraught finale to the season what qualities would you look for? Probably a proven track record. Almost certainly an appetite for a fight when the going gets a little tough. Perhaps
Simon Whyte, 30, lives in a single room of a shared house in Brighton, paid for by Government benefits. He moved to Brighton last summer and has been looking for work as a landscape gardener, a job for which he has eight years' experience. He said: "I
Nigel and Catherine Higley are a married couple living in Vallance Gardens, Hove. They have three children, Alexandra, 14, Isobel, five, and Fergus, three. Mr Higley, 41, is a partner in the retail bicycle business Sydney Street Bikes in Brighton and
The Chancellor was keen to please families and pensioners in the last Budget before going to the polls. There were no apparent losers in a string of announcements offering tax cuts and investment in public services. Schools and hospitals were promised
It's enough to make a beer drinker weep into his pint - a Sussex museum is about to pour ale and lager down the drain. However, the bottles that will be emptied are slightly past their sell-by date. Ale and lager, produced to mark a series of Royal events
A graffiti-busting cash injection has been promised to tackle the unsightly scrawls blighting Worthing's estates. West Sussex County Council has pledged £20,000 to combat vandalism and graffiti in the town. The fund will be dedicated to preventing the
A new housing estate has been vandalised, to the anger and despair of residents. Youths have daubed walls and signs with graffiti and left syringes and broken glass in the playground on Worthing's newest estate. Householders are outraged by the state
Amec saw its pre-tax profits rise by a quarter last year after securing a major acquisition. Amec, which provides services and engineering solutions, says the strength of the European and British economy has helped it make an encouraging start to 2001
Mr Brown has been generous with this budget. Could it be because there is a general election looming? 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
How do we know when we are old? It was first made clear to me when I was nearing retirement age and was stopped in the street by a lady with a clipboard doing a survey. Having covered all her questions, she seemed quite satisfied with the result. When
Adur District Council has not been forced to sell off its stock of paintings to avoid bankruptcy. The Tories, supported by the Liberal Democrats, chose to do so. The estimated proceeds, said to produce £1,200 of interest a year, equate to £23 a week.
I was disgusted to see that as part of its budget for 2001/2002 the Tory-controlled Adur District Council wishes to sell the eight paintings hanging in various offices of the Adur Civic Centre to save £1,200 a year (Argus, February 24). To me, these paintings
Most people don't care what their council does, as long as it keeps the streets clean and doesn't charge too much for any services. They don't even bother, for the most part, to vote for anyone every four years. Go along to most council meetings, or the
A graffiti-busting cash injection has been promised to tackle the unsightly scrawls blighting Worthing's estates. West Sussex County Council has pledged £20,000 to combat vandalism and graffiti in the town. The fund will be dedicated to preventing the
Sussex MPs today demanded an end to trafficking in human cargo after girls in council care were sold into prostitution. Hove MP Ivor Caplin said: "I am very concerned at this trade and want it brought to an end. If this means lobbying parliament I will
It was raining. I was late and so very sorry. "It won't happen again," I blurted out. "Next time, I promise, I will get a ticket." The parking attendant, obviously pleased with my grovelling, let me go but not without an "If I catch you again, you will
Sorry, you'll have to help me a bit with the logic (if any) behind Mrs Whitty's warning (Opinion, March 2). She says that a woman begging in the street was obviously a fraud because, having told someone she needed £25 for a bed and breakfast place, she
May I take issue with some fundamentally flawed and downright pernicious assumptions lurking within the Argus editorial "More reforms are needed" (March 5). For example: "Some single parents are idle and feckless but many want to support themselves rather
Big sweeps have been made by truancy officers to pick up children who have skipped their lessons at school. Encouragingly, they did not find huge numbers of children playing hookey in Newhaven and Seaford but the picture might be rather different in large
Saltdean's John Limpus raced to his second win of the season in the East Sussex CA's hardriders' time-trial, held over a tough 16-mile course at Bodle Street Green. Limpus (GS Stella) recorded 39min.45sec, an excellent time in view of the damp and cold
Gordon Brown's fifth and last Budget before the General Election is widely being regarded as a pointer to the next General Election. With the economy in good shape, the Chancellor could afford to be generous. The trick was to avoid being over generous
The Argus, over the years, has done a great service to all kinds of people. Now we disabled drivers are asking for its support in relation to the continued abuse of disabled parking bays. The police cannot or will not take an interest. These bays, both
Mayur Majithia is the new Crawley men's champion. In a thrilling final, he stopped Ritchie Venner's attempt to win for a ninth time 21-18, 11-21, 21-19. Nigel Eckersley has won the Western Open Grand Prix title at Bath. It was his second Grand Prix victory
If you could choose somebody to assist Albion's promotion push in the fraught finale to the season what qualities would you look for? Probably a proven track record. Almost certainly an appetite for a fight when the going gets a little tough. Perhaps
Cattle are being transported hundreds of miles because no abattoirs in the South-East have been licensed in a scheme to get livestock free of foot-and-mouth disease to slaughterhouses. The nearest abattoirs beef and dairy farmers in Sussex can use during
Cliff Ainsworth has run Trafalgar News for seven years and is a basic-rate taxpayer. He was previously sales director for a large national company but decided to be his own boss. He finds there is as much red tape affecting small businesses as larger
Simon Whyte, 30, lives in a single room of a shared house in Brighton, paid for by Government benefits. He moved to Brighton last summer and has been looking for work as a landscape gardener, a job for which he has eight years' experience. He said: "I
Graham Wiggins, 29, has been working as a laboratory technician in Brighton since 1993. He earns £15,000 to £20,000 per annum and is paying off a £56,000 mortgage on a three-bedroom house in Brighton. He said: "For the last few years it seems every time
Nigel and Catherine Higley are a married couple living in Vallance Gardens, Hove. They have three children, Alexandra, 14, Isobel, five, and Fergus, three. Mr Higley, 41, is a partner in the retail bicycle business Sydney Street Bikes in Brighton and
The appeal for witnesses for the new inquiry into the murder of Jay Abatan outside the Ocean Rooms Club on January 24, 1999, has produced some further details but we are sure there is still someone with information which might provide a vital clue. If
I was horrified to read that Brighton and Hove City Council hopes to shed its 290 home helps and then re-employ them through a private company to save around £300,000 a year ("Council plans to shed jobs", Argus, February 23). This suggests the new home
Mr Bryden refers to my comments on George Street as being "unkind" (Opinion, February 25). If saying what is true and needs to be said is unkind, then so be it. He has not replied to my comments about getting priorities right. Brighton and Hove City Council
I'm on my way to do my keep fit. The wind is blowing hard - very hard. I lean into it, but simply moving forward feels like exercise enough! Those words could be anyone's making that same journey at the traditionally leonine beginning or end of March.
Children who stumbled across bundles of 100 dollar bills in a safe stolen during a burglary mistook them for Monopoly money. The group of eight to ten-year-olds came across the black steel case stuffed with US $3,700 as they played at Hawthorns Recreation
Charlie Oatway has been ruled out of Albion's promotion challenge for at least two weeks. A recurrence of left knee trouble robs the Seagulls of the competitive midfielder for Saturday's home game against in-form Hull. Oatway will also miss next Wednesday's
Colleagues and relatives have paid tribute to a trainee teacher killed in a head-on road crash. Matthew Sands, 31, of Churchill Way, Burgess Hill, was well known for his work with the Mid Sussex Christian Centre in Loylands Road. He graduated in July
Youngsters playing truant from school were stopped and questioned in a sweep of town centres and shopping areas. East Sussex County Council and Sussex Police carried out a joint truancy sweep in Seaford on Monday and Newhaven on Tuesday. British Transport
Many of us pensioners are fuming about this unknown Green councillor, Keith Taylor, poking his nose into what we have had for decades. Firstly, what does "green" mean to us normal people? Cabbages of some sort. I refer, of course, to the Argus article
I, too, was a victim of the sobbing young girl of whom Mrs Whitty tells. But I was conned into giving her £30 because I felt so sorry for her and she seemed so desperate. She told me she had been discharged from hospital after having had a miscarriage
The Argus has printed many views and opinions about the possibility of Brighton and Hove citizens being allowed for the first time to vote for a mayor or city chief executive for a four-year term. Some local politicians have been honest enough to say
The news that bottles of ale are being poured down the drain in Horsham will at first affront any true beer drinkers. But they may be mollified when they find the booze was bottled back in 1977, 1981 and 1986 to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee and
I am sure Mrs Power will be pleased to learn Brighton and Hove City Council will continue to subsidise her daughter's transport to Cardinal Newman School (Opinion, February 26). I for one very much hope my own education authority, East Sussex, will decide
The debate on rental and purchasing prices in Brighton and Hove is long overdue. In recent times, the city has indeed become "London by the sea". For Charles Holcombe (Opinion, February 24) to deny it is incredible - except perhaps if one remembers he
Ian Mongan strode out of the weighing room, saddle under his arm, resplendent in a royal blue and yellow diamond top, to board Daunted. The Brighton jockey paused in the afternoon sun to say: "It's great to be back racing." Mongan was picked in a photo-finish
Paul McCarthy is making a nonsense of the notion that there is no loyalty in football nowadays. He has just signed a new contract which will extend his stay with Saturday's shock FA Cup quarter-finalists Wycombe Wanderers to eight years. The Irish centre
Albion had to settle for 0-0 Avon Insurance Combination draw at Bristol Rovers last night. The Seagulls dominated but were unable to find a way past a resolute defence, in which goalkeeper Ryan Clarke stood out. Lee Steele and Andy Crosby both played
Single mother Linda Lewyckyj is a learning support assistant at St John the Baptist Primary School. Making ends meet has always been difficult and last year she moved into a smaller home in order to be able to manage her mortgage payments. She has a nine-year-old
Neville and June Hayward retired from their hairdressing business in 1993. Mr Hayward, 75, said: "While working, we could never go out on the spur of the moment. Now we enjoy playing golf and eating out. "It was good to see the Chancellor realised the
The Chancellor was keen to please families and pensioners in the last Budget before going to the polls. There were no apparent losers in a string of announcements offering tax cuts and investment in public services. Schools and hospitals were promised
It's enough to make a beer drinker weep into his pint - a Sussex museum is about to pour ale and lager down the drain. However, the bottles that will be emptied are slightly past their sell-by date. Ale and lager, produced to mark a series of Royal events
An elderly woman was tied to a chair and gagged with a tea towel by two thieves who took more than £80,000 of antiques from her home. The 82-year-old, who has not been named, was subjected to a six-hour ordeal when two men barged into her home in Bognor
A former Red Arrows pilot who crashed into the sea off Eastbourne during a display could have become disoriented seconds beforehand. Thousands watched in horror as Ted Girdler's two-seat Czech-built L29 Delfin military plane went down during August's
An historic electric railway could run from the Palace Pier to Brighton Marina in a pioneering leisure development. Volk's, which started in 1883, is the oldest electric railway in the world and runs from the Aquarium to Black Rock in Brighton. Now Brighton
Albion had to settle for 0-0 Avon Insurance Combination draw at Bristol Rovers last night. The Seagulls dominated but were unable to find a way past a resolute defence, in which goalkeeper Ryan Clarke stood out. Lee Steele and Andy Crosby both played
Cattle are being transported hundreds of miles because no abattoirs in the South-East have been licensed in a scheme to get livestock free of foot-and-mouth disease to slaughterhouses. The nearest abattoirs beef and dairy farmers in Sussex can use during
Cliff Ainsworth has run Trafalgar News for seven years and is a basic-rate taxpayer. He was previously sales director for a large national company but decided to be his own boss. He finds there is as much red tape affecting small businesses as larger
Single mother Linda Lewyckyj is a learning support assistant at St John the Baptist Primary School. Making ends meet has always been difficult and last year she moved into a smaller home in order to be able to manage her mortgage payments. She has a nine-year-old
Graham Wiggins, 29, has been working as a laboratory technician in Brighton since 1993. He earns £15,000 to £20,000 per annum and is paying off a £56,000 mortgage on a three-bedroom house in Brighton. He said: "For the last few years it seems every time
Neville and June Hayward retired from their hairdressing business in 1993. Mr Hayward, 75, said: "While working, we could never go out on the spur of the moment. Now we enjoy playing golf and eating out. "It was good to see the Chancellor realised the
An elderly woman was tied to a chair and gagged with a tea towel by two thieves who took more than £80,000 of antiques from her home. The 82-year-old, who has not been named, was subjected to a six-hour ordeal when two men barged into her home in Bognor
A former Red Arrows pilot who crashed into the sea off Eastbourne during a display could have become disoriented seconds beforehand. Thousands watched in horror as Ted Girdler's two-seat Czech-built L29 Delfin military plane went down during August's
An historic electric railway could run from the Palace Pier to Brighton Marina in a pioneering leisure development. Volk's, which started in 1883, is the oldest electric railway in the world and runs from the Aquarium to Black Rock in Brighton. Now Brighton
A graffiti-busting cash injection has been promised to tackle the unsightly scrawls blighting Worthing's estates. West Sussex County Council has pledged £20,000 to combat vandalism and graffiti in the town. The fund will be dedicated to preventing the
A new housing estate has been vandalised, to the anger and despair of residents. Youths have daubed walls and signs with graffiti and left syringes and broken glass in the playground on Worthing's newest estate. Householders are outraged by the state
Amec saw its pre-tax profits rise by a quarter last year after securing a major acquisition. Amec, which provides services and engineering solutions, says the strength of the European and British economy has helped it make an encouraging start to 2001
I was horrified to read that Brighton and Hove City Council hopes to shed its 290 home helps and then re-employ them through a private company to save around £300,000 a year ("Council plans to shed jobs", Argus, February 23). This suggests the new home
Mr Bryden refers to my comments on George Street as being "unkind" (Opinion, February 25). If saying what is true and needs to be said is unkind, then so be it. He has not replied to my comments about getting priorities right. Brighton and Hove City Council
How do we know when we are old? It was first made clear to me when I was nearing retirement age and was stopped in the street by a lady with a clipboard doing a survey. Having covered all her questions, she seemed quite satisfied with the result. When
Adur District Council has not been forced to sell off its stock of paintings to avoid bankruptcy. The Tories, supported by the Liberal Democrats, chose to do so. The estimated proceeds, said to produce £1,200 of interest a year, equate to £23 a week.
I was disgusted to see that as part of its budget for 2001/2002 the Tory-controlled Adur District Council wishes to sell the eight paintings hanging in various offices of the Adur Civic Centre to save £1,200 a year (Argus, February 24). To me, these paintings
Most people don't care what their council does, as long as it keeps the streets clean and doesn't charge too much for any services. They don't even bother, for the most part, to vote for anyone every four years. Go along to most council meetings, or the
Children who stumbled across bundles of 100 dollar bills in a safe stolen during a burglary mistook them for Monopoly money. The group of eight to ten-year-olds came across the black steel case stuffed with US $3,700 as they played at Hawthorns Recreation
Many of us pensioners are fuming about this unknown Green councillor, Keith Taylor, poking his nose into what we have had for decades. Firstly, what does "green" mean to us normal people? Cabbages of some sort. I refer, of course, to the Argus article
I, too, was a victim of the sobbing young girl of whom Mrs Whitty tells. But I was conned into giving her £30 because I felt so sorry for her and she seemed so desperate. She told me she had been discharged from hospital after having had a miscarriage
The Argus has printed many views and opinions about the possibility of Brighton and Hove citizens being allowed for the first time to vote for a mayor or city chief executive for a four-year term. Some local politicians have been honest enough to say
The news that bottles of ale are being poured down the drain in Horsham will at first affront any true beer drinkers. But they may be mollified when they find the booze was bottled back in 1977, 1981 and 1986 to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee and
I am sure Mrs Power will be pleased to learn Brighton and Hove City Council will continue to subsidise her daughter's transport to Cardinal Newman School (Opinion, February 26). I for one very much hope my own education authority, East Sussex, will decide
Saltdean's John Limpus raced to his second win of the season in the East Sussex CA's hardriders' time-trial, held over a tough 16-mile course at Bodle Street Green. Limpus (GS Stella) recorded 39min.45sec, an excellent time in view of the damp and cold
Gordon Brown's fifth and last Budget before the General Election is widely being regarded as a pointer to the next General Election. With the economy in good shape, the Chancellor could afford to be generous. The trick was to avoid being over generous
Ian Mongan strode out of the weighing room, saddle under his arm, resplendent in a royal blue and yellow diamond top, to board Daunted. The Brighton jockey paused in the afternoon sun to say: "It's great to be back racing." Mongan was picked in a photo-finish
