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  • Silver screen

    I enjoyed Gordon Dean's piece about film actor Walter Abel, 1898-1987 (Letters, September 10). He was also in the first version of The Three Musketeers (1935), the Danny Kaye film Kid From Brooklyn (1946) and some very good war films. He was also James

  • Soldier's plea for mother

    The soldier son of a woman who fled to the Orkneys to escape family problems has pleaded for her to be given the chance of a new life. The Argus revealed last week how wheelchair-bound Ruth Taylor faces eviction from emergency accommodation in the Orkneys

  • Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw

    Our news quiz Last Saturday left Wish ward councillor Pat Murphy "intrigued". After reading our recent story revealing writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe had ruled himself out of standing for elected mayor in Brighton and Hove, coun Murphy was "intrigued

  • Think of it This Way, by John Parry

    Once in a while, I feel like giving up on this city of ours. It has a wild, weird and wonderful collection of inhabitants. Its glamorous and sordid extremes make for a stimulating, if sometimes testing ambience. Yet somehow it is run by a cabal of dreary

  • What about the workers?

    Andy Richards of Unison is quite right when he states that private-sector involvement in the public sector leads to worse working conditions for employees (The Argus, September 10). Would our MPs be happy to see their pay and conditions subject to a cost-cutting

  • Religious puzzle

    I just can't make up my mind about this painting. It's a stunning canvas in the window of The Gallery in George Street, Kemp Town, of a naked woman on a crucifix. Is it obscene and offensive or does it have legitimate meaning? It would be such a help

  • Cast irony

    One aspect of the terrible atrocity committed on New York is so ironic. Under its highly-effective elected mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, the city has achieved a remarkable transformation from a city of crime to one of the safest in the world. The safety of

  • River life still affected by pollution

    Fish are still dying in the River Ouse a month after it was polluted by pesticides. Investigations by the Environment Agency have revealed the deaths suffered by many of the bream were due to a severe and aggressive secondary infection in the water. Stuart

  • Sea-change

    I've been living in the US since leaving my hometown of Brighton in 1995. I've never seen Americans so angry and hurt. Something very central to the American character changed when the World Trade Centre was attacked. People's sense of security has been

  • Seaside boost

    It's taking a long time for spaces in the Aquarium Terrace development at the heart of Brighton to be filled. But today's announcement that one of the biggest clubs in Brighton is to go there is good news. The boards surrounding this key site have been

  • Saboteur exposes fake fox earths

    Hunt saboteurs from Sussex have claimed responsibility for exposing a network of artificial earths which they say are used to encourage foxes to breed. The West Sussex Wildlife Protection Group says it was the first to uncover a large number of artificial

  • Peace tribute

    I have watched the news over the past days with horror. Now I am left feeling numb and useless. Those poor people who were trapped and lost their lives. My thoughts and, I am sure, the thoughts of the people of this city are with them and their families

  • Golf: All change at Chartham Park

    East Grinstead's popular Chartham Park has had a change of ownership. The popular club has been sold by American Golf (UK) to Clubhaus, the golf and country club operator, for an undisclosed figure. Originally, Chartham Park was owned by a Japanese family

  • Life's value

    The US and Britain have seen fit to "promote" themselves as the self-appointed international police force, judge and executioner of the various sections of the global society in which we live. This has been the case for 50 years. Terrorism, in the guise

  • Golf: Graham looks for winning finish

    Steve Graham bows out of county and club golf tomorrow in his final appearance for Mid Sussex in the Davies and Tate Trophy final against West Sussex at Worthing. An ideal parting shot would be helping Mid Sussex gain their first Sussex Inter-Club Matchplay

  • Ryman League: Bognor extend run

    Bognor boss Jack Pearce handed his central defenders a compliment of sorts after his side extended their unbeaten run to seven matches. Rocks survived a late Wealdstone rally before winning 3-2 in midweek and Pearce said: "We deserved the points. "After

  • Non-League Football: Hillians eye big time

    Burgess Hill are heading for the Dr Martens League. That is the message announced by the club this week. The Hillians have set a two-year plan to follow the lead shown by the likes of Eastbourne Borough and progress from the Sussex County League. Such

  • Sussex land strike bowler

    Sussex are strengthening their attack by signing fast bowler Paul Hutchison from Yorkshire. The 24-year-old, who has been released by the county champions, is flying south today and will sign a three-year contract at the County Ground this afternoon.

  • Student grants conman warning

    College applicants are being warned about a scam which could cheat them out of a Government grant. Police issued the warning after a conman was reported calling door-to-door claiming to be from Brighton and Hove's education department. The scam involves

  • Computer choice of a better home

    A computer scheme is being launched to give people a better choice of social housing. Brighton and Hove City Council has received £500,000 from the Government for the Choice Based Letting housing kiosk project. It was one of 27 pilot schemes approved

  • Students are urged to donate blood

    Thousands of university students are being urged to give blood. Brighton and Sussex universities are being targeted in a new recruitment campaign by the National Blood Service (NBS) which involves sending text messages to mobile phones as reminders. The

  • Leak delays museum reopening

    Museum staff have been forced to delay the opening of a £10 million redevelopment after rain flooded through the roof. Water soaked into the walls at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery either through a gap in the tarpaulin or a displaced tile during roof

  • Oh boy! baby's born as mum has a bath

    Nature waits for no one as proud mother Caroline Shinn found out when her baby was born as she took a bath. Caroline tried to relax in the bath after her contractions started at home, while husband David went to call the midwife. But by the time he returned

  • Food discount for fined drivers

    A restaurant owner has barred traffic wardens from his premises and is giving a 10% discount to motorists with parking tickets. The protest comes after Brighton and Hove City Council launched a blitz against illegal parking on July 16. Neil Masey, of

  • Leah takes after mum on Miss World trail

    They say good looks run in the family and it is especially true of Leah Newman and her mother, Sandie. Leah, 19, has taken the Miss Euro Sussex Crown, 22 years after her mother was crowned Miss Hastings. It is the latest in a string of modelling accolades

  • Wardens keeping diaries of danger

    City parking attendants have been issued with diaries to keep notes of the attacks they suffer from angry motorists. Brighton and Hove City Council is refusing to discuss details of the journals, revealing only that they are being kept to preserve an

  • Nightclub deal gets go-ahead

    A deal has been struck to open a bar and one of the biggest nightclubs in the South at a seafront development in Brighton. Club operator Po Na Na has agreed to pay £150,000 a year for premises at the multi-million pound Aquarium Terraces development in

  • Beach blitz on litter

    A blitz on beach litter will take place this weekend with dozens of volunteers expected to visit Sussex beaches as part of Beachwatch 2001. The annual clean-up, now in its ninth year, is the most extensive monitoring programme for coastal litter in Europe

  • Wrong shelter

    Please can the powers that be reinstate the bus shelter at the junction of Roedale Road and Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton? There is one in pristine condition in Hollingdean Road, completely unused. Meanwhile, many people are inconvenienced by the lack

  • Soldier's plea for mother

    The soldier son of a woman who fled to the Orkneys to escape family problems has pleaded for her to be given the chance of a new life. The Argus revealed last week how wheelchair-bound Ruth Taylor faces eviction from emergency accommodation in the Orkneys

  • Disabled man and his dog barred

    A blind TUC delegate is urging Brighton restaurant owners to be more sympathetic towards the visually impaired after he was refused entry to two Indian restaurants. David Sheridan has reported the two restaurants, the Bombay Indian Cuisine and the Viceroy

  • What about the workers?

    Andy Richards of Unison is quite right when he states that private-sector involvement in the public sector leads to worse working conditions for employees (The Argus, September 10). Would our MPs be happy to see their pay and conditions subject to a cost-cutting

  • Rugby: Jon out to put the boot in

    Jon Graham has been given the chance to fire the points which can send Haywards Heath to a famous cup win at Blackheath tomorrow (3pm). The long-serving outside half will take over goalkicking duties in the National Cup first round tie at the Rectory

  • Island race?

    The terrorist catastrophe in New York may have possibly marked the beginning of the end of an open society in the US. This, coupled with President Bush's apparent insularity, does not bode well. No one knows, as yet, who is responsible for the attack

  • Seaside boost

    It's taking a long time for spaces in the Aquarium Terrace development at the heart of Brighton to be filled. But today's announcement that one of the biggest clubs in Brighton is to go there is good news. The boards surrounding this key site have been

  • Golf: All change at Chartham Park

    East Grinstead's popular Chartham Park has had a change of ownership. The popular club has been sold by American Golf (UK) to Clubhaus, the golf and country club operator, for an undisclosed figure. Originally, Chartham Park was owned by a Japanese family

  • Faith not fanaticism

    What can we do to show we care? That's the question being asked by millions of people in Britain today as the full horror of this week's atrocities in America are slowly revealed. The initial reaction on Tuesday was shock as people saw the destruction

  • Life's value

    The US and Britain have seen fit to "promote" themselves as the self-appointed international police force, judge and executioner of the various sections of the global society in which we live. This has been the case for 50 years. Terrorism, in the guise

  • Golf: Graham looks for winning finish

    Steve Graham bows out of county and club golf tomorrow in his final appearance for Mid Sussex in the Davies and Tate Trophy final against West Sussex at Worthing. An ideal parting shot would be helping Mid Sussex gain their first Sussex Inter-Club Matchplay

  • Sussex land strike bowler

    Sussex are strengthening their attack by signing fast bowler Paul Hutchison from Yorkshire. The 24-year-old, who has been released by the county champions, is flying south today and will sign a three-year contract at the County Ground this afternoon.

  • Crosby in clear the air meeting

    Albion defender Andy Crosby has had clear the air talks with boss Micky Adams. The centre half was unhappy that Matthew Wicks was preferred to deputise for the injured Danny Cullip in Tuesday's Worthington Cup defeat by Southampton. Adams revealed: "Andy

  • Student grants conman warning

    College applicants are being warned about a scam which could cheat them out of a Government grant. Police issued the warning after a conman was reported calling door-to-door claiming to be from Brighton and Hove's education department. The scam involves

  • Help needed to keep flood scheme afloat

    An exercise to test a town's new emergency flood plan has identified flood wardens as the key to its success. Authorities in Lewes are warning volunteers are urgently needed to take up the positions so parts of the town are not left without cover. Representatives

  • Students are urged to donate blood

    Thousands of university students are being urged to give blood. Brighton and Sussex universities are being targeted in a new recruitment campaign by the National Blood Service (NBS) which involves sending text messages to mobile phones as reminders. The

  • Plan to save rare beach plants

    A draft plan has been drawn up to protect some of the rarest plants in the world on Shoreham Beach if it is made a nature reserve. Several of the endangered plants found on Shoreham Beach can be found only there and in New Zealand. They include a colony

  • Council rap for revamp delays

    Investors trying to salvage a £25 million pound plan to rejuvenate Newhaven have accused the county council of dragging its feet. The two main firms behind the Eastside Business Park and road project which could bring 1,500 jobs to Newhaven have warned

  • Leak delays museum reopening

    Museum staff have been forced to delay the opening of a £10 million redevelopment after rain flooded through the roof. Water soaked into the walls at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery either through a gap in the tarpaulin or a displaced tile during roof

  • Pub gets go-ahead for late opening

    A pub's licensing hours have been extended to midnight on Sundays despite fears about increased noise. The Junction Pub, in Junction Road, Burgess Hill, was granted an extension of its Sunday licence by Mid Sussex District Council Licensing Committee

  • Driver is trapped in crash

    Firefighters cut away the side of a Ford Fiesta to release a trapped driver after the car crashed into a lamp post early today. The 2am accident near the junction with Old Worthing Road blocked the A259 at East Preston, near Worthing. The driver, who

  • Food discount for fined drivers

    A restaurant owner has barred traffic wardens from his premises and is giving a 10% discount to motorists with parking tickets. The protest comes after Brighton and Hove City Council launched a blitz against illegal parking on July 16. Neil Masey, of

  • Car ban solicitor's protest

    A solicitor banned from the road for drink-driving after visiting a police station has attacked officers for failing to advise him not to take the wheel. Adrian Carter, 50, a partner in Cooper Carter Claremont, in Eastbourne and Hailsham, was arrested

  • 13,000 new homes in county plan

    Plans to build thousands of new homes were revealed today. The new West Sussex County Council planning structure detailing sites for 13,000 new homes is sure to spark controversy. Both greenfield and brownfield sites will be used. The biggest planned

  • More jobs face axe at factories

    Workers at five Sussex factories face a fresh round of redundancies for the second time this year. Hundreds of people are waiting to find out how many jobs will be axed during a cost-cutting exercise at troubled BOC Edwards. The number of workers facing

  • Plan to save rare beach plants

    A draft plan has been drawn up to protect some of the rarest plants in the world on Shoreham Beach if it is made a nature reserve. Several of the endangered plants found on Shoreham Beach can be found only there and in New Zealand. They include a colony

  • When work is a pain in the neck

    Every year more than two million people in Britain are injured or made ill by their work and it is estimated one in ten GP visits are for work-related issues. Such injuries cost the UK economy £5 billion and more than 119 million lost work days every

  • Park protest

    Well done, the Preston Park protesters who locked the barrier to the park at the weekend. It was a joy to be there and know your children were safe from cars driving through. As I understand it, the only people who now have access to the park are the

  • Wrong shelter

    Please can the powers that be reinstate the bus shelter at the junction of Roedale Road and Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton? There is one in pristine condition in Hollingdean Road, completely unused. Meanwhile, many people are inconvenienced by the lack

  • End cruelty

    Elaine Tubby is the sort of Page Three girl I like to see (The Argus, September 10). Her stand against bullfighting is an example to us all. Let's fight to end this unspeakable cruelty which has no place in the 21st Century. -L Arnold, Esplanade, Seaford

  • Disabled man and his dog barred

    A blind TUC delegate is urging Brighton restaurant owners to be more sympathetic towards the visually impaired after he was refused entry to two Indian restaurants. David Sheridan has reported the two restaurants, the Bombay Indian Cuisine and the Viceroy

  • Rugby: Jon out to put the boot in

    Jon Graham has been given the chance to fire the points which can send Haywards Heath to a famous cup win at Blackheath tomorrow (3pm). The long-serving outside half will take over goalkicking duties in the National Cup first round tie at the Rectory

  • Island race?

    The terrorist catastrophe in New York may have possibly marked the beginning of the end of an open society in the US. This, coupled with President Bush's apparent insularity, does not bode well. No one knows, as yet, who is responsible for the attack

  • Racing: Gerry wants to keep it low-key

    Gerry Enright wants to keep his set-up low-key. The Lewes trainer was thrust into the spotlight when Gran Clicquot won at 100-1 at Brighton last month. But Enright, 12 years a trainer, has no ambitions to run an 80-horse stable or saddle 50 winners a

  • Fast mover

    Midwives arrived too late for David and Caroline Shinn when their baby son arrived at their home in Saltdean. Mum was having a bath but within a few minutes the baby had been born. The little boy almost got into hot water right from the start. He knew

  • Speedway: Dugard in search of fitting finale

    Eastbourne Eagles bid to halt their worst losing sequence for over two years against Elite League rivals King's Lynn at Arlington Stadium tomorrow night. If they do, it will be a fitting finale for skipper Martin Dugard, who makes his last home league

  • Faith not fanaticism

    What can we do to show we care? That's the question being asked by millions of people in Britain today as the full horror of this week's atrocities in America are slowly revealed. The initial reaction on Tuesday was shock as people saw the destruction

  • Time to stop the global trail of blood

    The slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania is a truly atrocious crime. The appalling truth is this was an act of audacious simplicity: Seemingly, four teams of three men apiece, armed with knives and airline

  • Crosby in clear the air meeting

    Albion defender Andy Crosby has had clear the air talks with boss Micky Adams. The centre half was unhappy that Matthew Wicks was preferred to deputise for the injured Danny Cullip in Tuesday's Worthington Cup defeat by Southampton. Adams revealed: "Andy

  • Clean up begins

    A huge clean up operation has been mounted to remove rubbish and building debris left behind by illegally camped travellers. Brighton and Hove City Council says it may take as long as five days to properly clean up the mess at Green Ridge, Brighton. Residents

  • Anti-mayor campaigners unite

    Campaigners against a directly-elected mayor have published a newspaper. Allies for Democracy, which is campaigning for a No vote in October's postal referendum, has published 120,000 copies of the paper, explaining why it believes the idea is bad for

  • Court told of fears over boy's injuries

    A foster mother raised the alarm after hearing how a four-year-old boy had tried to mutilate himself, a court heard. The boy's adoptive mother told Annette Cover how John Smith had used a pair of scissors on his penis. Mrs Cover, a children's nurse for

  • Sussex Tories welcome new leader

    Sussex tories have welocomed the election of Iain Duncan Smith as the Conservative Party's new leader. The eurosceptic Mr Duncan Smith convincingly saw off the europhile Kenneth Clarke winning 61 per cent of the vote. In the two horse race Mr Duncan Smith

  • More jobs face axe at factories

    Workers at five Sussex factories face a fresh round of redundancies for the second time this year. Hundreds of people are waiting to find out how many jobs will be axed during a cost-cutting exercise at troubled BOC Edwards. The number of workers facing

  • Silence for the victims of terror

    Britain came to a standstill today to pay tribute to the victims of the US terrorist attacks. A three-minute silence was held across the country at 11am. Thousands of people joined the silence which was marked in Brighton and Hove with a firing of lifeboat

  • Slaughter of an innocent

    A former cathedral chorister from Sussex is among the thousands of people missing, feared dead, in the terrorist attacks on New York. The Brighton College schoolboy, whose voice brought tears to his former music teacher's eyes, is believed to have been

  • Plan to save rare beach plants

    A draft plan has been drawn up to protect some of the rarest plants in the world on Shoreham Beach if it is made a nature reserve. Several of the endangered plants found on Shoreham Beach can be found only there and in New Zealand. They include a colony

  • When work is a pain in the neck

    Every year more than two million people in Britain are injured or made ill by their work and it is estimated one in ten GP visits are for work-related issues. Such injuries cost the UK economy £5 billion and more than 119 million lost work days every

  • Park protest

    Well done, the Preston Park protesters who locked the barrier to the park at the weekend. It was a joy to be there and know your children were safe from cars driving through. As I understand it, the only people who now have access to the park are the

  • Silver screen

    I enjoyed Gordon Dean's piece about film actor Walter Abel, 1898-1987 (Letters, September 10). He was also in the first version of The Three Musketeers (1935), the Danny Kaye film Kid From Brooklyn (1946) and some very good war films. He was also James

  • Feedback, with Simon Bradshaw

    Our news quiz Last Saturday left Wish ward councillor Pat Murphy "intrigued". After reading our recent story revealing writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe had ruled himself out of standing for elected mayor in Brighton and Hove, coun Murphy was "intrigued

  • Think of it This Way, by John Parry

    Once in a while, I feel like giving up on this city of ours. It has a wild, weird and wonderful collection of inhabitants. Its glamorous and sordid extremes make for a stimulating, if sometimes testing ambience. Yet somehow it is run by a cabal of dreary

  • End cruelty

    Elaine Tubby is the sort of Page Three girl I like to see (The Argus, September 10). Her stand against bullfighting is an example to us all. Let's fight to end this unspeakable cruelty which has no place in the 21st Century. -L Arnold, Esplanade, Seaford

  • Religious puzzle

    I just can't make up my mind about this painting. It's a stunning canvas in the window of The Gallery in George Street, Kemp Town, of a naked woman on a crucifix. Is it obscene and offensive or does it have legitimate meaning? It would be such a help

  • Cast irony

    One aspect of the terrible atrocity committed on New York is so ironic. Under its highly-effective elected mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, the city has achieved a remarkable transformation from a city of crime to one of the safest in the world. The safety of

  • Racing: Gerry wants to keep it low-key

    Gerry Enright wants to keep his set-up low-key. The Lewes trainer was thrust into the spotlight when Gran Clicquot won at 100-1 at Brighton last month. But Enright, 12 years a trainer, has no ambitions to run an 80-horse stable or saddle 50 winners a

  • Fast mover

    Midwives arrived too late for David and Caroline Shinn when their baby son arrived at their home in Saltdean. Mum was having a bath but within a few minutes the baby had been born. The little boy almost got into hot water right from the start. He knew

  • River life still affected by pollution

    Fish are still dying in the River Ouse a month after it was polluted by pesticides. Investigations by the Environment Agency have revealed the deaths suffered by many of the bream were due to a severe and aggressive secondary infection in the water. Stuart

  • Sea-change

    I've been living in the US since leaving my hometown of Brighton in 1995. I've never seen Americans so angry and hurt. Something very central to the American character changed when the World Trade Centre was attacked. People's sense of security has been

  • Speedway: Dugard in search of fitting finale

    Eastbourne Eagles bid to halt their worst losing sequence for over two years against Elite League rivals King's Lynn at Arlington Stadium tomorrow night. If they do, it will be a fitting finale for skipper Martin Dugard, who makes his last home league

  • Saboteur exposes fake fox earths

    Hunt saboteurs from Sussex have claimed responsibility for exposing a network of artificial earths which they say are used to encourage foxes to breed. The West Sussex Wildlife Protection Group says it was the first to uncover a large number of artificial

  • Peace tribute

    I have watched the news over the past days with horror. Now I am left feeling numb and useless. Those poor people who were trapped and lost their lives. My thoughts and, I am sure, the thoughts of the people of this city are with them and their families

  • Ryman League: Bognor extend run

    Bognor boss Jack Pearce handed his central defenders a compliment of sorts after his side extended their unbeaten run to seven matches. Rocks survived a late Wealdstone rally before winning 3-2 in midweek and Pearce said: "We deserved the points. "After

  • Time to stop the global trail of blood

    The slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania is a truly atrocious crime. The appalling truth is this was an act of audacious simplicity: Seemingly, four teams of three men apiece, armed with knives and airline

  • Non-League Football: Hillians eye big time

    Burgess Hill are heading for the Dr Martens League. That is the message announced by the club this week. The Hillians have set a two-year plan to follow the lead shown by the likes of Eastbourne Borough and progress from the Sussex County League. Such

  • Clean up begins

    A huge clean up operation has been mounted to remove rubbish and building debris left behind by illegally camped travellers. Brighton and Hove City Council says it may take as long as five days to properly clean up the mess at Green Ridge, Brighton. Residents

  • Computer choice of a better home

    A computer scheme is being launched to give people a better choice of social housing. Brighton and Hove City Council has received £500,000 from the Government for the Choice Based Letting housing kiosk project. It was one of 27 pilot schemes approved

  • Club get green light

    Football fans will be able to watch from a new stand after plans were given the go-ahead. But conditions attached to the scheme's approval could cost Eastbourne Borough FC thousands of pounds more than expected. The club's application to build a 300-seat

  • No housing on land to finance school

    A senior councillor has ruled out selling a prime piece of land for housing to salvage a £6 million scheme for a new school. People at Chichester are still reeling over the news that the city will not now get a leisure park complex. The complex, which

  • Anti-mayor campaigners unite

    Campaigners against a directly-elected mayor have published a newspaper. Allies for Democracy, which is campaigning for a No vote in October's postal referendum, has published 120,000 copies of the paper, explaining why it believes the idea is bad for

  • Tenants snap up rented homes

    Horsham has topped a list of Britain's housing hotspots, according to a survey published today. Would-be first-time buyers priced out of the market by the property boom are whipping up demand for rented homes. Landlords in the town can expect to have

  • Oh boy! baby's born as mum has a bath

    Nature waits for no one as proud mother Caroline Shinn found out when her baby was born as she took a bath. Caroline tried to relax in the bath after her contractions started at home, while husband David went to call the midwife. But by the time he returned

  • Leah takes after mum on Miss World trail

    They say good looks run in the family and it is especially true of Leah Newman and her mother, Sandie. Leah, 19, has taken the Miss Euro Sussex Crown, 22 years after her mother was crowned Miss Hastings. It is the latest in a string of modelling accolades

  • Wardens keeping diaries of danger

    City parking attendants have been issued with diaries to keep notes of the attacks they suffer from angry motorists. Brighton and Hove City Council is refusing to discuss details of the journals, revealing only that they are being kept to preserve an

  • Nightclub deal gets go-ahead

    A deal has been struck to open a bar and one of the biggest nightclubs in the South at a seafront development in Brighton. Club operator Po Na Na has agreed to pay £150,000 a year for premises at the multi-million pound Aquarium Terraces development in

  • River life still affected by pollution

    Fish are still dying in the River Ouse a month after it was polluted by pesticides. Investigations by the Environment Agency have revealed the deaths suffered by many of the bream were due to a severe and aggressive secondary infection in the water. Stuart

  • Phone mast protesters make their point

    Protesters against a 32ft phone mast have handed in a 174-signature petition. The petition was organised by residents of Little Copse Road and Friars Oak Road, Hassocks, against the Orange mast. It is the third time an application has been made for the

  • Riddle of wife who vanished on dawn walk

    Police are becoming increasingly concerned about a 59-year-old woman who went missing a week ago. Cindy Martin was last seen by her husband as she left her home in Bury, near Arundel, for a walk at 6am last Friday. Police say she was seen outside the

  • Court told of fears over boy's injuries

    A foster mother raised the alarm after hearing how a four-year-old boy had tried to mutilate himself, a court heard. The boy's adoptive mother told Annette Cover how John Smith had used a pair of scissors on his penis. Mrs Cover, a children's nurse for

  • Nightclub deal gets go-ahead

    A deal has been struck to open a bar and one of the biggest nightclubs in the South at a seafront development in Brighton. Club operator Po Na Na has agreed to pay £150,000 a year for premises at the multi-million pound Aquarium Terraces development in

  • Sussex Tories welcome new leader

    Sussex tories have welocomed the election of Iain Duncan Smith as the Conservative Party's new leader. The eurosceptic Mr Duncan Smith convincingly saw off the europhile Kenneth Clarke winning 61 per cent of the vote. In the two horse race Mr Duncan Smith

  • Beach blitz on litter

    A blitz on beach litter will take place this weekend with dozens of volunteers expected to visit Sussex beaches as part of Beachwatch 2001. The annual clean-up, now in its ninth year, is the most extensive monitoring programme for coastal litter in Europe

  • Silence for the victims of terror

    Britain came to a standstill today to pay tribute to the victims of the US terrorist attacks. A three-minute silence was held across the country at 11am. Thousands of people joined the silence which was marked in Brighton and Hove with a firing of lifeboat

  • Slaughter of an innocent

    A former cathedral chorister from Sussex is among the thousands of people missing, feared dead, in the terrorist attacks on New York. The Brighton College schoolboy, whose voice brought tears to his former music teacher's eyes, is believed to have been