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  • Final whistle

    The apparent demise of ITV Digital and its knock-on effect on Football League clubs should serve as a wake-up call to both broadcasters and professional soccer. Fewer than 20 years ago, TV viewers were limited to just three channels. With the onset of

  • Coin collection is stolen

    A coin collection amassed over three decades has been stolen from the loft of a house. Among Frank Hauser's treasured collection were seven complete sets of three pence pieces, 20 Churchill crowns and boxes of crown coins. The £1,000 collection was stored

  • Miserable moments

    Reading P A Bond's miserable musings (Letters, April 1) over life and death brought to mind James Stewart's marvellous film It's A Wonderful Life, in which he says to his guardian angel: "I wish I'd never been born." Being trite, if Mr Bond had not been

  • On tram systems

    I read Councillor Morley's remarks with interest (The Argus, March 22). I suggest he looks at the whole of Croydon Tramlink, Sheffield's tram system and tram systems in European towns and cities. -Mike Walsh, Nesbitt Road, Brighton

  • The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham

    Everyone knows the stark difference there has been for centuries between the West End and the East End of London. But the same division exists in many other towns and cities throughout the UK. It started through the prevailing south westerly wind which

  • Letter clue to road rage thug

    An anonymous letter-writer could hold clues to the identity of a road-rage driver who hit a man with his car. The mystery writer told police he or she had spotted the offending pink or purple Ford Escort cabriolet soon after the incident. Officers now

  • Car theft pet home safe

    A couple whose car was stolen with their sleeping dog inside were celebrating after both were returned safely. Kirsty Smythe and her husband David were overwhelmed when Irish terrier Connor was returned to them safe and well after a nationwide media appeal

  • Food for thought

    A BBC Radio 4 programme rightly criticised the lack of reference to good food in Brighton and Hove's application for Capital of Culture status. This is understandable when one considers that among the hundreds of restaurants locally, very few are worth

  • Ex-Para's car petrol bombed

    A veteran paratrooper used to fighting in the world's most dangerous conflicts says he has landed in a new warzone - Hove. Nick Zaver, 48, served in the Falklands, the Gulf, Northern Ireland and Germany before becoming a bodyguard. However, he ranks sedate

  • Cut all ties

    We write to express our concern for our fellow students and other British citizens confined within the militarised zones in the Palestinian Authority. Seven Sussex students are still unable to leave Ramallah. Their requests for release on humanitarian

  • Royal views have altered

    Many people must have been sad when they heard the Queen Mother had died as hardly anyone could remember life without her. She had been in the limelight for 80 years, ever since her marriage to the future king, and no one else has had a public career

  • Honour given

    Much has been shown and written about that wonderful lady the late Queen Mother. During the Second World War, in 1944, I attended my investiture at Buckingham Palace, to be personally decorated by King George VI. On leaving the room, the Queen Mother

  • Flint double for YMCA

    Horsham YMCA moved into the semi-finals of the Sussex Floodlight Cup with a 2-0 win over Eastbourne Borough at Gorings Mead. Borough fielded their Reserve Section winning side, as they have done throughout this competition, but in the first half their

  • Lost for ever, such a gentle splendour

    Whoever you were, whatever your age, whatever you did or wherever you came from, the Queen Mother was always the same to everyone. Her completely natural personality and sparkling wit and charm truly put all who met her at their ease. As the Prince of

  • Rogers rolls back the years

    Paul Rogers rolled back the years for Albion reserves yesterday. The club captain struck with a left-foot volley in a 3-0 win for Dean White's side against Barnet at Underhill. Rogers was offered a new one-year contract last month to coincide with his

  • Adams made Leicester manager

    Ex-Brighton and Hove Albion boss Micky Adams has been confirmed as the new manager at Leicester City. Adams has taken over from Dave Bassett, who has been made director of football. Adams went to Filbert Street as Bassett's number two in October after

  • Baird remains deep in red

    Clothing group William Baird remained firmly in the red last year but said it had taken the action needed to revive its fortunes. The firm said the recent simplification of its product range would spearhead a return to profitability. Baird recorded a

  • Soldier to take part in royal funeral

    Soldier Anthony Winter will have the honour of representing his regiment at the Queen Mother's funeral. Warrant Officer Winter from Brighton will be one of four members of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) to take part in the funeral march

  • Cars crushed in tax clampdown

    Motorists lost their cars to the jaws of a crusher during a crackdown on road tax cheats. Scores of drivers were caught out within hours of the first day of the operation's launch. Drivers using one of Bognor's busiest roads were stopped and questioned

  • Your Queen Mother tributes

    What did the Queen Mother mean to you? Perhaps you met her or were somehow affected by her work. Whatever you want to say about her, we'd like to hear it. We'll post as many of your tributes online as we can. Send an email with the subject line Queen

  • School remembers Queen Mother

    Staff at Chailey Heritage School for children with disabilities say the Queen Mother will live on in their hearts. Verena Hanbury has been chairwoman of the school for children with disabilities in North Chailey, near Lewes, for 18 years. The Queen Mother

  • Commuters consider job switch

    One in three rail commuters has seriously considered looking for work outside London to avoid using the rail network, a survey claims. It found 31 per cent had seriously considered seeking work outside the capital in the last year. A total of 1,104 regular

  • Trio trapped in seafront lift

    Three men were trapped in a lift for more than an hour while making an inspection. Chris Buck turned up to inspect a lift shaft and carry out waterproofing work at the Concorde 2 night spot on Brighton seafront. Mr Buck, a director of Siteseal Services

  • Home help loses dismissal claim

    A home help who said she was forced to resign because of the unfair way she was treated when pregnant has lost her claim for compensation. Theresa Harris, who has since given birth to her baby, told an employment tribunal she became depressed after her

  • Search to relive family drama

    After 12 years plotting the twists and turns in Coronation Street, scriptwriter Daran Little is turning his attention closer to home. Mr Little, 35, is trying to unravel his family history as he brings his grandfather Sidney Horner's life story to the

  • £50,000 roof's wrong colour

    Developers could be ordered to spend £25,000 on replacing a roof because it is the wrong shade of green. The £50,000 aluminium roof of a new police custody centre at Centenary House, Durrington, Worthing, was supposed to be jade green to blend with surrounding

  • Ten-year payback reminder

    Cash windfalls worth hundreds of pounds are up for grabs to Sussex customers with good memories. Customers who bought goods including cookers, fridges and washing machines under a cashback scheme ten years ago must claim their money back this month or

  • Fight to save country centre

    Campaigners are galvanising last-minute support to save the Beachy Head countryside centre. They say the closure of the centre near Eastbourne, would be a sore loss to schools, historical and archeological societies. Council bosses on Tory-led Eastbourne

  • Reward for drug-busting cops

    Two police officers whose routine search of a driver led to the seizure of a large haul of suspected drugs are to be honoured. The tenacity of community PCs Ginny Jupp, 45, and Bill Simons, 48, led to the arrest of three other people at five properties

  • Musings on a muse

    Frank Sinatra once said he considered Something by George Harrison to be the greatest love song of the modern era. It has always been presumed George composed it for his wife at the time, Patti Boyd. However, an old friend has intimated in a tribute in

  • Bikers on course to find a home

    More than 600 scramblers from across Brighton and Hove have signed a petition urging the council to find them somewhere to rally. They are asking for a piece of land to be allocated in the area for dirt biking so they can practice their sport freely.

  • Final whistle

    The apparent demise of ITV Digital and its knock-on effect on Football League clubs should serve as a wake-up call to both broadcasters and professional soccer. Fewer than 20 years ago, TV viewers were limited to just three channels. With the onset of

  • Coin collection is stolen

    A coin collection amassed over three decades has been stolen from the loft of a house. Among Frank Hauser's treasured collection were seven complete sets of three pence pieces, 20 Churchill crowns and boxes of crown coins. The £1,000 collection was stored

  • Miserable moments

    Reading P A Bond's miserable musings (Letters, April 1) over life and death brought to mind James Stewart's marvellous film It's A Wonderful Life, in which he says to his guardian angel: "I wish I'd never been born." Being trite, if Mr Bond had not been

  • Heard World, By John Wilson Goddard

    It's a bit of a boast of mine that I may be the owner of the largest private collection of plays and theatre books in Braille in the entire country. Thirty years or so ago, I was aiming to be an English teacher and realised books were going to be of considerable

  • Letter clue to road rage thug

    An anonymous letter-writer could hold clues to the identity of a road-rage driver who hit a man with his car. The mystery writer told police he or she had spotted the offending pink or purple Ford Escort cabriolet soon after the incident. Officers now

  • Hobby woods prompt return to nature

    People looking for a place in the country are giving up on the search for a second home and buying pieces of woodland instead. Getting back to nature in so called 'hobby woods' is becoming increasingly popular as conservation minded investors in search

  • Ostriches' break for freedom

    Police spent much of the night hunting for three runaway ostriches which escaped from a farm and gave drivers a shock. One of the feathered fugitives, nicknamed Olli, remains on the loose today. Members of the public have been warned not to approach.

  • Cost of city living soars

    Home prices have soared by three times the national average in the wake of Brighton and Hove getting city status. New research found they rose by 25 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2000, the year in which Brighton and Hove was declared a city, to

  • Did death crash pilot fly too slowly?

    A Gatwick-based airline pilot killed during an airshow display may have been flying too slowly, according to an official report. Guy Bancroft-Wilson was killed when his Second World War fighter plane crashed in view of 50,000 people at Biggin Hill airfield

  • Gay delay

    I congratulate you on the sensitive coverage you gave to homophobic attack victim Graham Munday (March 27). Like you, I was shocked some of the attackers were only 12 years old. Despite their best intentions, teachers are prevented from discussing homosexuality

  • Cycling: Dennis triumph sets tone

    East Grinstead's Steve Dennis started a successful Easter for Sussex riders by winning the Crawley Wheelers 46-mile hilly time trial in a record 1hr.47min.4sec. Also making the top ten were Dave Pollard (In Gear), fourth in 1hr.51min.4sec, Dave Shepherd

  • Colour clash

    Developers are in trouble after they provided the roof to a custody centre at Durrington in Worthing, in the wrong shade of green. They are in breach of planning regulations by making it lighter than councillors had intended. If Worthing Borough Council

  • Cut all ties

    We write to express our concern for our fellow students and other British citizens confined within the militarised zones in the Palestinian Authority. Seven Sussex students are still unable to leave Ramallah. Their requests for release on humanitarian

  • Police praise

    At last there is some good news for Sussex Police who have had a troubled time in recent years. New figures show it is one of the few forces in England and Wales to be succeeding in reducing violent crime. Detections have risen every month since June,

  • Teen tip

    With the passing of the Queen Mother, I am sure there are people like myself who wish to share a personal reminiscence, albeit, in my case, from about 70 years ago. As a teenager, I once sewed sequins on a ballgown while working for Madame Isabel Hanson

  • Horsham set-up derby final

    Jamie Taylor struck the second half winner which sets up a local derby final for Horsham in the Sussex Floodlight Cup. They beat Burgess Hill 1-0 at Littlehampton in last night's semi and will now face neighbours Horsham YMCA or old rivals Crawley Town

  • Rogers rolls back the years

    Paul Rogers rolled back the years for Albion reserves yesterday. The club captain struck with a left-foot volley in a 3-0 win for Dean White's side against Barnet at Underhill. Rogers was offered a new one-year contract last month to coincide with his

  • Albion could be up by weekend

    On April Fool's Day last year, London launched a low point in the managerial career of Peter Taylor. Leicester's 2-0 defeat at Charlton was the catalyst for a wretched run of results which eventually cost Taylor his job at Filbert Street. The capital

  • MP blasts students' Palestine trip

    A group of students who became trapped in the Middle East violence have been accused of putting their lives and those of others at risk. Hove MP Ivor Caplin said the decision by nine students to make the trip to the war-torn West Bank was foolish. The

  • Taylor: We're not there yet

    Albion boss Peter Taylor has warned wins should not be taken for granted in the promotion run-in. The table-topping Seagulls need a maximum of five points from the final three matches to be certain of a place in Division One next season. They travel to

  • Cost of city living soars

    Home prices have soared by three times the national average in the wake of Brighton and Hove getting city status. New research found they rose by 25 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2000, the year in which Brighton and Hove was declared a city, to

  • Interest rates unchanged

    The Bank of England today kept interest rates on hold at four per cent for the fifth month in a row. But economists warned the low level of borrowing will not last. The widely-expected decision came amid concerns consumers were living beyond their means

  • Baird remains deep in red

    Clothing group William Baird remained firmly in the red last year but said it had taken the action needed to revive its fortunes. The firm said the recent simplification of its product range would spearhead a return to profitability. Baird recorded a

  • Cars crushed in tax clampdown

    Motorists lost their cars to the jaws of a crusher during a crackdown on road tax cheats. Scores of drivers were caught out within hours of the first day of the operation's launch. Drivers using one of Bognor's busiest roads were stopped and questioned

  • MPs praise unique royal

    Sussex MPs paid tribute to the Queen Mother in a special sitting of the Commons. Speaking at yesterday's recall of Parliament, Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames, who knew the Queen Mother for more than 40 years, said she had taken a strong interest in the

  • Your Queen Mother tributes

    What did the Queen Mother mean to you? Perhaps you met her or were somehow affected by her work. Whatever you want to say about her, we'd like to hear it. We'll post as many of your tributes online as we can. Send an email with the subject line Queen

  • School remembers Queen Mother

    Staff at Chailey Heritage School for children with disabilities say the Queen Mother will live on in their hearts. Verena Hanbury has been chairwoman of the school for children with disabilities in North Chailey, near Lewes, for 18 years. The Queen Mother

  • Home help loses dismissal claim

    A home help who said she was forced to resign because of the unfair way she was treated when pregnant has lost her claim for compensation. Theresa Harris, who has since given birth to her baby, told an employment tribunal she became depressed after her

  • Festival future in jeopardy

    A question mark hangs over the future of a seafront music festival after promoters pulled out in a row with the pier owner. Organisers announced yesterday that they would not be staging Rox 2002 on Bognor promenade. Last year's festival attracted 60,000

  • Search to relive family drama

    After 12 years plotting the twists and turns in Coronation Street, scriptwriter Daran Little is turning his attention closer to home. Mr Little, 35, is trying to unravel his family history as he brings his grandfather Sidney Horner's life story to the

  • Ten-year payback reminder

    Cash windfalls worth hundreds of pounds are up for grabs to Sussex customers with good memories. Customers who bought goods including cookers, fridges and washing machines under a cashback scheme ten years ago must claim their money back this month or

  • Fight to save country centre

    Campaigners are galvanising last-minute support to save the Beachy Head countryside centre. They say the closure of the centre near Eastbourne, would be a sore loss to schools, historical and archeological societies. Council bosses on Tory-led Eastbourne

  • Reward for drug-busting cops

    Two police officers whose routine search of a driver led to the seizure of a large haul of suspected drugs are to be honoured. The tenacity of community PCs Ginny Jupp, 45, and Bill Simons, 48, led to the arrest of three other people at five properties

  • On animal welfare

    How I agree with Dr John Mew about the selectiveness of animal rights activists (Letters, April 1). It is wrong to eat meat because a sheep or cow is killed, yet how many caterpillars, snails, slugs and weevils (and, as a result, birds) meet a ghastly

  • Credit where it's due

    Bob Hedle should give credit where it is due (Letters, March 30). Labour's pledge of £7 billion so the rail network could be bought and run in the public interest is of monumental importance, reassuring left-of-centre Labour principles. -C Cohen, Sheridan

  • Musings on a muse

    Frank Sinatra once said he considered Something by George Harrison to be the greatest love song of the modern era. It has always been presumed George composed it for his wife at the time, Patti Boyd. However, an old friend has intimated in a tribute in

  • Bikers on course to find a home

    More than 600 scramblers from across Brighton and Hove have signed a petition urging the council to find them somewhere to rally. They are asking for a piece of land to be allocated in the area for dirt biking so they can practice their sport freely.

  • Born to perform

    The Cuban-born pianist Jorge Bolet was four when he was taken to a piano recital and "knew where that man was sitting was where he wanted to sit". He began learning at five, won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia at 12 and played at

  • No fun now

    I would like to say how wonderful the two That's Entertainment films are, with their colour, talent and music, happy-go-lucky scenes and absence of violence. No wonder the world is as it is - there is no such happiness now. I met many of the stars in

  • Licence to kill

    Thank goodness for a really sensible letter (March 30) about handguns from Graham Barton of Battle Orders Ltd. Thanks to our do-gooders and trendies, a stupid government banned legal handguns a few years ago and all of them have gone underground. Some

  • Ground force

    While the cost of buying either a small flat or house is well beyond the means of the average working person, landlords are letting property at so-called market rents - this is another way of saying getting the maximum rent for property with the minimum

  • Joint farewell to Danny and his gran

    Grieving Ann Collard has arranged a double funeral for her son and her mother. On April 19 hundreds of people are expected to pay their respects at a requiem service for stabbing victim Danny Collard and his grandmother Sarah Parker at St Joseph's Church

  • Heart of Hove

    It is heartening Councillor Simon Battle (Letters, March 29) now addresses himself to the question of housing people in Hove rather than advising them to move but he makes a simple matter needlessly complex. Having told us at one time the King Alfred

  • MPs allow us to drift into a housing crisis

    It seems we are sleepwalking into a housing crisis. The onward march of house prices is having disastrous consequences, not only pricing low-paid workers out of the housing market and preventing first-time buyers from even getting a foot on the housing

  • Heard World, By John Wilson Goddard

    It's a bit of a boast of mine that I may be the owner of the largest private collection of plays and theatre books in Braille in the entire country. Thirty years or so ago, I was aiming to be an English teacher and realised books were going to be of considerable

  • Hobby woods prompt return to nature

    People looking for a place in the country are giving up on the search for a second home and buying pieces of woodland instead. Getting back to nature in so called 'hobby woods' is becoming increasingly popular as conservation minded investors in search

  • Police 'winning war on crime'

    Sussex Police is one of the most improving forces in the country, new figures show. With an increased detection rate and falling crime levels, the force claims to be one of the few in England and Wales to be reducing crime. The new figures are in stark

  • Cost of city living soars

    Home prices have soared by three times the national average in the wake of Brighton and Hove getting city status. New research found they rose by 25 per cent from the fourth quarter of 2000, the year in which Brighton and Hove was declared a city, to

  • School reunion

    Some friends and I are planning a 50th birthday reunion and I would like to contact girls who went to Varndean Girls School and took their GCE O levels in 1968. If you recognise any of these names - Sue Tucker, Anne Foard, Clare Boulter, Marian Hoare,

  • Did death crash pilot fly too slowly?

    A Gatwick-based airline pilot killed during an airshow display may have been flying too slowly, according to an official report. Guy Bancroft-Wilson was killed when his Second World War fighter plane crashed in view of 50,000 people at Biggin Hill airfield

  • Gay delay

    I congratulate you on the sensitive coverage you gave to homophobic attack victim Graham Munday (March 27). Like you, I was shocked some of the attackers were only 12 years old. Despite their best intentions, teachers are prevented from discussing homosexuality

  • Straight bats

    Was Alan Nunn's accusation of political parties "promoting sexual permissiveness as a political objective" (Letters, April 2) some kind of belated April Fool's joke? Mr Nunn seemed to deplore the fact that even the Tories have finally woken up to what

  • Table tennis: Sussex Grand Prix cancelled

    This year's Sussex Open Grand Prix has been cancelled, partly due to the absence of one of the organisers. The event has been run for 66 years by three generations of Hastings administrators. It has outgrown the capacity at Hastings, which can only accommodate

  • Cycling: Dennis triumph sets tone

    East Grinstead's Steve Dennis started a successful Easter for Sussex riders by winning the Crawley Wheelers 46-mile hilly time trial in a record 1hr.47min.4sec. Also making the top ten were Dave Pollard (In Gear), fourth in 1hr.51min.4sec, Dave Shepherd

  • Hope fades

    How are we to behave in the face of the tragedy unfolding in Palestine? The US appears unable to effectively influence the Israelis, having shown its partisanship by vetoing any criticism for 50 years. Yet we don't really want to damage our very effective

  • Colour clash

    Developers are in trouble after they provided the roof to a custody centre at Durrington in Worthing, in the wrong shade of green. They are in breach of planning regulations by making it lighter than councillors had intended. If Worthing Borough Council

  • Police praise

    At last there is some good news for Sussex Police who have had a troubled time in recent years. New figures show it is one of the few forces in England and Wales to be succeeding in reducing violent crime. Detections have risen every month since June,

  • Teen tip

    With the passing of the Queen Mother, I am sure there are people like myself who wish to share a personal reminiscence, albeit, in my case, from about 70 years ago. As a teenager, I once sewed sequins on a ballgown while working for Madame Isabel Hanson

  • Horsham set-up derby final

    Jamie Taylor struck the second half winner which sets up a local derby final for Horsham in the Sussex Floodlight Cup. They beat Burgess Hill 1-0 at Littlehampton in last night's semi and will now face neighbours Horsham YMCA or old rivals Crawley Town

  • Bears inches from being the best

    Nick Nurse has come within six inches of taking his Brighton Bears from worst to first. Now he wants them to move on and complete the amazing turn around by winning at Wembley. The south coast outfit were the laughing stock of the British League for years

  • Albion could be up by weekend

    On April Fool's Day last year, London launched a low point in the managerial career of Peter Taylor. Leicester's 2-0 defeat at Charlton was the catalyst for a wretched run of results which eventually cost Taylor his job at Filbert Street. The capital

  • MP blasts students' Palestine trip

    A group of students who became trapped in the Middle East violence have been accused of putting their lives and those of others at risk. Hove MP Ivor Caplin said the decision by nine students to make the trip to the war-torn West Bank was foolish. The

  • Taylor: We're not there yet

    Albion boss Peter Taylor has warned wins should not be taken for granted in the promotion run-in. The table-topping Seagulls need a maximum of five points from the final three matches to be certain of a place in Division One next season. They travel to

  • TV hopeful's shot at stardom

    Clinic receptionist Charlotte Grimes is getting ready to sing in the grand final of TV impersonation show Stars In Their Eyes. Charlotte wowed the audience in an earlier programme when she transformed herself into Catatonia vocalist Cerys Matthews. She

  • Interest rates unchanged

    The Bank of England today kept interest rates on hold at four per cent for the fifth month in a row. But economists warned the low level of borrowing will not last. The widely-expected decision came amid concerns consumers were living beyond their means

  • MPs praise unique royal

    Sussex MPs paid tribute to the Queen Mother in a special sitting of the Commons. Speaking at yesterday's recall of Parliament, Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames, who knew the Queen Mother for more than 40 years, said she had taken a strong interest in the

  • Ill-fated trip to big attraction

    A series of unfortunate circumstances may have contributed to the deaths of the Rashid brothers in Grenada. Normally Concord Falls, scene of the double tragedy and one of the biggest tourist attractions on the island, would have been busy with visitors

  • Tragic Umer was life and soul

    Umer Rashid was the life and soul of the party, as this picture taken days before his tragic death reveals. The photograph shows 26-year-old Umer enjoying a laugh and a drink with his Sussex County Cricket Club team-mates last Tuesday. The following Monday

  • Ostriches' break for freedom

    Police spent much of the night hunting for three runaway ostriches which escaped from a farm and gave drivers a shock. One of the feathered fugitives, nicknamed Olli, remains on the loose today. Members of the public have been warned not to approach.

  • Apathy over Queen Mother

    Only 42 people signed two books of condolence for the Queen Mother in the 24 hours after they were made available. The low turnout at the town halls in Brighton and Hove was in marked contrast to the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales,

  • On animal welfare

    How I agree with Dr John Mew about the selectiveness of animal rights activists (Letters, April 1). It is wrong to eat meat because a sheep or cow is killed, yet how many caterpillars, snails, slugs and weevils (and, as a result, birds) meet a ghastly

  • Credit where it's due

    Bob Hedle should give credit where it is due (Letters, March 30). Labour's pledge of £7 billion so the rail network could be bought and run in the public interest is of monumental importance, reassuring left-of-centre Labour principles. -C Cohen, Sheridan

  • Born to perform

    The Cuban-born pianist Jorge Bolet was four when he was taken to a piano recital and "knew where that man was sitting was where he wanted to sit". He began learning at five, won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia at 12 and played at

  • No fun now

    I would like to say how wonderful the two That's Entertainment films are, with their colour, talent and music, happy-go-lucky scenes and absence of violence. No wonder the world is as it is - there is no such happiness now. I met many of the stars in

  • Licence to kill

    Thank goodness for a really sensible letter (March 30) about handguns from Graham Barton of Battle Orders Ltd. Thanks to our do-gooders and trendies, a stupid government banned legal handguns a few years ago and all of them have gone underground. Some

  • Ground force

    While the cost of buying either a small flat or house is well beyond the means of the average working person, landlords are letting property at so-called market rents - this is another way of saying getting the maximum rent for property with the minimum

  • Joint farewell to Danny and his gran

    Grieving Ann Collard has arranged a double funeral for her son and her mother. On April 19 hundreds of people are expected to pay their respects at a requiem service for stabbing victim Danny Collard and his grandmother Sarah Parker at St Joseph's Church

  • Heart of Hove

    It is heartening Councillor Simon Battle (Letters, March 29) now addresses himself to the question of housing people in Hove rather than advising them to move but he makes a simple matter needlessly complex. Having told us at one time the King Alfred

  • MPs allow us to drift into a housing crisis

    It seems we are sleepwalking into a housing crisis. The onward march of house prices is having disastrous consequences, not only pricing low-paid workers out of the housing market and preventing first-time buyers from even getting a foot on the housing

  • On tram systems

    I read Councillor Morley's remarks with interest (The Argus, March 22). I suggest he looks at the whole of Croydon Tramlink, Sheffield's tram system and tram systems in European towns and cities. -Mike Walsh, Nesbitt Road, Brighton

  • The Sage of Sussex: Adam Trimingham

    Everyone knows the stark difference there has been for centuries between the West End and the East End of London. But the same division exists in many other towns and cities throughout the UK. It started through the prevailing south westerly wind which

  • Letter clue to road rage thug

    An anonymous letter-writer could hold clues to the identity of a road-rage driver who hit a Mid Sussex man with his car. The mystery writer told police he or she had spotted the offending pink or purple Ford Escort cabriolet soon after the incident. Officers

  • OAP hurt in hit-and-run

    A driver failed to stop after an accident in which an 82-year-old woman was seriously injured in East Grinstead. She was in collision with a car as she crossed the road. The driver failed to stop after the accident in West Street. The woman, who has not

  • Police 'winning war on crime'

    Sussex Police is one of the most improving forces in the country, new figures show. With an increased detection rate and falling crime levels, the force claims to be one of the few in England and Wales to be reducing crime. The new figures are in stark

  • Biker killed in collision

    A motorcyclist killed when his bike was in collision with a car as it emerged from a driveway has been named. Andrew Young, 37, of Dudlands, Cross-in-Hand, near Heathfield, was riding his Kawasaki ZX600 when it collided with a Toyota Celica on the B2096

  • Blaze prompts garages protest

    Residents today demanded action to stop private garages being used as car workshops after a serious fire almost caused an explosion. They say a long-running battle to halt car repairs in private garages in Fitzmaurice Avenue, Eastbourne, has amounted

  • Car theft pet home safe

    A couple whose car was stolen with their sleeping dog inside were celebrating after both were returned safely. Kirsty Smythe and her husband David were overwhelmed when Irish terrier Connor was returned to them safe and well after a nationwide media appeal

  • Food for thought

    A BBC Radio 4 programme rightly criticised the lack of reference to good food in Brighton and Hove's application for Capital of Culture status. This is understandable when one considers that among the hundreds of restaurants locally, very few are worth

  • Ex-Para's car petrol bombed

    A veteran paratrooper used to fighting in the world's most dangerous conflicts says he has landed in a new warzone - Hove. Nick Zaver, 48, served in the Falklands, the Gulf, Northern Ireland and Germany before becoming a bodyguard. However, he ranks sedate

  • School reunion

    Some friends and I are planning a 50th birthday reunion and I would like to contact girls who went to Varndean Girls School and took their GCE O levels in 1968. If you recognise any of these names - Sue Tucker, Anne Foard, Clare Boulter, Marian Hoare,

  • Straight bats

    Was Alan Nunn's accusation of political parties "promoting sexual permissiveness as a political objective" (Letters, April 2) some kind of belated April Fool's joke? Mr Nunn seemed to deplore the fact that even the Tories have finally woken up to what

  • Table tennis: Sussex Grand Prix cancelled

    This year's Sussex Open Grand Prix has been cancelled, partly due to the absence of one of the organisers. The event has been run for 66 years by three generations of Hastings administrators. It has outgrown the capacity at Hastings, which can only accommodate

  • Hope fades

    How are we to behave in the face of the tragedy unfolding in Palestine? The US appears unable to effectively influence the Israelis, having shown its partisanship by vetoing any criticism for 50 years. Yet we don't really want to damage our very effective

  • Royal views have altered

    Many people must have been sad when they heard the Queen Mother had died as hardly anyone could remember life without her. She had been in the limelight for 80 years, ever since her marriage to the future king, and no one else has had a public career

  • Honour given

    Much has been shown and written about that wonderful lady the late Queen Mother. During the Second World War, in 1944, I attended my investiture at Buckingham Palace, to be personally decorated by King George VI. On leaving the room, the Queen Mother

  • Flint double for YMCA

    Horsham YMCA moved into the semi-finals of the Sussex Floodlight Cup with a 2-0 win over Eastbourne Borough at Gorings Mead. Borough fielded their Reserve Section winning side, as they have done throughout this competition, but in the first half their

  • Lost for ever, such a gentle splendour

    Whoever you were, whatever your age, whatever you did or wherever you came from, the Queen Mother was always the same to everyone. Her completely natural personality and sparkling wit and charm truly put all who met her at their ease. As the Prince of

  • Bears inches from being the best

    Nick Nurse has come within six inches of taking his Brighton Bears from worst to first. Now he wants them to move on and complete the amazing turn around by winning at Wembley. The south coast outfit were the laughing stock of the British League for years

  • Adams made Leicester manager

    Ex-Brighton and Hove Albion boss Micky Adams has been confirmed as the new manager at Leicester City. Adams has taken over from Dave Bassett, who has been made director of football. Adams went to Filbert Street as Bassett's number two in October after

  • TV hopeful's shot at stardom

    Clinic receptionist Charlotte Grimes is getting ready to sing in the grand final of TV impersonation show Stars In Their Eyes. Charlotte wowed the audience in an earlier programme when she transformed herself into Catatonia vocalist Cerys Matthews. She

  • Soldier to take part in royal funeral

    Soldier Anthony Winter will have the honour of representing his regiment at the Queen Mother's funeral. Warrant Officer Winter from Brighton will be one of four members of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) to take part in the funeral march

  • Commuters consider job switch

    One in three rail commuters has seriously considered looking for work outside London to avoid using the rail network, a survey claims. It found 31 per cent had seriously considered seeking work outside the capital in the last year. A total of 1,104 regular

  • Ill-fated trip to big attraction

    A series of unfortunate circumstances may have contributed to the deaths of the Rashid brothers in Grenada. Normally Concord Falls, scene of the double tragedy and one of the biggest tourist attractions on the island, would have been busy with visitors

  • Tragic Umer was life and soul

    Umer Rashid was the life and soul of the party, as this picture taken days before his tragic death reveals. The photograph shows 26-year-old Umer enjoying a laugh and a drink with his Sussex County Cricket Club team-mates last Tuesday. The following Monday

  • Trio trapped in seafront lift

    Three men were trapped in a lift for more than an hour while making an inspection. Chris Buck turned up to inspect a lift shaft and carry out waterproofing work at the Concorde 2 night spot on Brighton seafront. Mr Buck, a director of Siteseal Services

  • Ostriches' break for freedom

    Police spent much of the night hunting for three runaway ostriches which escaped from a farm and gave drivers a shock. One of the feathered fugitives, nicknamed Olli, remains on the loose today. Members of the public have been warned not to approach.

  • Apathy over Queen Mother

    Only 42 people signed two books of condolence for the Queen Mother in the 24 hours after they were made available. The low turnout at the town halls in Brighton and Hove was in marked contrast to the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales,

  • Ostriches' break for freedom

    Police spent much of the night hunting for three runaway ostriches which escaped from a farm and gave drivers a shock. One of the feathered fugitives, nicknamed Olli, remains on the loose today. Members of the public have been warned not to approach.

  • £50,000 roof's wrong colour

    Developers could be ordered to spend £25,000 on replacing a roof because it is the wrong shade of green. The £50,000 aluminium roof of a new police custody centre at Centenary House, Durrington, Worthing, was supposed to be jade green to blend with surrounding