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  • Ivar backs Seagulls to return

    Ivar Ingimarsson switched to the play-off fight today after just failing to save Albion in their relegation struggle. The 25-year-old centre-back returned to Wolves this week to prepare for the semi-final first leg against Reading at Molineux after a

  • Inside View: Nathan Jones

    So the season has finally drawn to a close, and ultimately ended in relegation, after the team could not quite pull off the greatest of all escapes at Grimsby Town. There was a moment when we went 2-1 up in the second half, and with Stoke drawing at home

  • Gerry Armstrong: The three steps to heaven for Albion

    Albion can bounce straight back into Division One next season but they have to sort out three big issues first. The main one is the stadium. If they get planning permission for Falmer, that will be the best result they have had in years and will make

  • Is it a wrap?

    The Owl and the Pussycat used to live on the post of our gates at home; With the aid of a thief now they have gone in their pea-green boat on the foam; Our kids will despair they are no longer there and will weep many tears when they come. If the thief

  • Missing link

    I am angered that the person who "allegedly" set fire to Brighton's West Pier did so in the name of the Iraq war. Can someone please explain to me the link between the war and a historic building and what this person hoped to achieve? I appreciate some

  • Basketball: Steely Sonics reach cup final

    Sussex Sonics produced an outstanding display of wheelchair basketball to beat London Raiders 55-33 and reach the League Cup final. They took the first quarter 21-8, then kept a cleansheet in the second period, keeping Raiders' main shooters away from

  • Dying onstage

    The actor David Roper's tales of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (The Argus Weekend, May 3) brought back some happy memories. Like him, I studied at the school, although seven years earlier (1962-64), including the year Nat Bremmer took over as principal

  • Motorsport: Corke tackles quality field

    Sam Corke from Uckfield banked two fourth places in the privateers' category as the fourth round of the British Superbike Championship rolled into Oulton Park last Monday. Racing on the new Suzuki GSXR 1000 he secured with a £10,000 bank loan, Corke claimed

  • Take a break

    Well, okay then, if personal rudeness is to be the order of the day on The Argus letters page, I wish you would cease publishing letters from that self-opinionated old bore Roy V Hilliard, of Portslade. He appears to have an opinion on everything under

  • Motorsport: Club king Ballard makes it a treble

    Andrew Ballard had an unbeatable day at the BEMSEE King of Clubs meeting at Snetterton. The Portslade ace won all three races he competed in and is challenging for honours in two championships. Ballard won both Supersport 400 races and is now second in

  • Hope's gone

    In the present din of local politics and noisy politicians, let history speak for one quiet moment from 50 years ago. In 1953, a Crawley newspaper reported that "out of an electorate of 2,407, 1,402 people voted - a massive 58.25 per cent". In 2003, only

  • Jailed tycoon's place given new Nick name

    Bosses at a hotel which was Nicholas Hoogstraten's seat of power have renamed the restaurant Nick's Bar. But managers at The Courtlands Hotel in Hove say the jailed tycoon is not making his presence felt during his enforced absence - because it is named

  • Cricket: Lewry gets in the groove

    Jason Lewry is already contemplating life after cricket. Just do not expect him to make his living out of after-dinner speaking. The Sussex bowler endured enough of that during his benefit last year to realise there are more enjoyable ways of earning

  • Cash to help youngsters cope with death

    The Martletts Hospice has been given an £18,000 cash boost to help youngsters come to terms with the death of a loved. The money, given to the hospice in Wayfield Avenue, Hove, by the BBC's Children In Need appeal, will allow it to expand its bereavement

  • Drug user fails to cut jail term

    A drug user incapacitated by police as he tried to swallow a packet of heroin has failed in an Appeal Court bid to cut his jail term. John Waters, 42, was chased by police targeting drug dealers in Brighton on June 2 last year and was seen trying to swallow

  • Toddler died after patio fall

    A girl of three died after falling 25ft from a bedroom window on to a concrete patio, an inquest was told. Leonilda Veall, known as Nilda, may have been searching for a cat when she fell from the first-floor room at Churchdale Road, Eastbourne. The inquest

  • Kidnap accused was seen with boy

    The owner of a seafront amusement arcade told a jury how he raised the alarm when he saw a man befriend a ten-year-old boy. Joseph Gess, who runs the Monarch arcade, in Waterloo Square, Bognor, told Lewes Crown Court he was suspicious and decided to contact

  • Freedom hope for Morocco jail pair

    Families and friends of two men languishing in a Moroccan jail were last night anxiously waiting for news of their possible release. Friends Paul Humble, 41, and Greg Saxby, 45, could be among more than 9,400 prisoners handed a pardon by the north African

  • Mayor goes family-friendly

    The sleek limo used to chauffeur Brighton and Hove City Council's top brass has been swapped for a people carrier. The council leader, chief executive and mayor will share the family-friendly Seat for the next three years. Mayor-elect Jeane Lepper, who

  • Swans spark web of intrigue

    There are not many mothers who would want 100,000 people watching them give birth. But that is the number of people who have been tracking an internet web cam waiting for a clutch of swans' eggs to hatch. And finally, after more than 35 days of nesting

  • Search on for best builder's bum

    Microphones will be swapped for power drills in the latest "idol" idea to hit the streets but this time it is only Girls Allowed. Tool Idol 2003 is on the lookout for Brighton's sexiest builder's bum. Tool specialist CK Tools is launching the hunt for

  • Chris Adams: My bulging diary

    To be honest, with all that I've got on my plate this season there are occasions when I don't know whether I'm coming or going and the summer is only a couple of weeks old! As well as the challenge of captaining Sussex, I've also got a benefit to run,

  • Ivar backs Seagulls to return

    Ivar Ingimarsson switched to the play-off fight today after just failing to save Albion in their relegation struggle. The 25-year-old centre-back returned to Wolves this week to prepare for the semi-final first leg against Reading at Molineux after a

  • Inside View: Nathan Jones

    So the season has finally drawn to a close, and ultimately ended in relegation, after the team could not quite pull off the greatest of all escapes at Grimsby Town. There was a moment when we went 2-1 up in the second half, and with Stoke drawing at home

  • Terrace Talk, with Roz South

    I wonder how the events of this surprising season would have been reported if we had managed to scrape through and stay in Division One. Because this has been a very strange, if exciting, season for the Albion and there are many reasons that could be

  • Company will maintain sea defences

    Sea defences protecting a new housing development will be maintained by a private company. Anti-flood measures created in front of Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne, include the reinforcement of an unstable section of the frontage and topping up the shingle

  • Hard-hit pulpit

    I have been attending Immanuel Family Church, in Islingword Road, Brighton, for the past 11 years. It holds many memories, both good and bad. I was also married there last year so the fire is devastating news. I can't believe it has happened. I and many

  • It's their right

    On behalf of the Brighton and Hove Amnesty International group, I thank all who took part in our weekly vigil during the course of the war in Iraq. Every Friday evening at the War Memorial, up to 50 people turned up to light a candle as a gesture of peace

  • Dying onstage

    The actor David Roper's tales of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (The Argus Weekend, May 3) brought back some happy memories. Like him, I studied at the school, although seven years earlier (1962-64), including the year Nat Bremmer took over as principal

  • Cashier robbed at knifepoint

    A female petrol station cashier was forced to hand over cash and phone cards worth £1,500 when a man threatened her with a metal file. The robbery happened at Harwoods in Pulborough yesterday morning. The man, said to be 18 years old with a local accent

  • Motorsport: Club king Ballard makes it a treble

    Andrew Ballard had an unbeatable day at the BEMSEE King of Clubs meeting at Snetterton. The Portslade ace won all three races he competed in and is challenging for honours in two championships. Ballard won both Supersport 400 races and is now second in

  • £4.8 million damages for accident man

    A young man who was catastrophically brain damaged after being knocked down by a van is set to receive £4.8 million agreed High Court damages. Peter Hines was on the esplanade at Bognor Regis, West Sussex, with a group of old school friends, when the

  • Motorsport: Fuller's bidding for glory

    Budding racing driver Dan Fuller is playing a game of patience in a bid to reach the top of the sport. Fuller, 18, from Hassocks, dreams of racing in Formula One but knows he has a long way to go. The student was hoping to compete in the Formula Ford

  • Jailed tycoon's place given new Nick name

    Bosses at a hotel which was Nicholas Hoogstraten's seat of power have renamed the restaurant Nick's Bar. But managers at The Courtlands Hotel in Hove say the jailed tycoon is not making his presence felt during his enforced absence - because it is named

  • No hiding place for aggressive patients

    Violence and aggression in the NHS does not stop at hospitals. Unfortunately, it is also witnessed in GP practices and during visits made by health professionals to patients' homes. That is why, in Brighton and Hove, the zero-tolerance approach to violence

  • Cricket: Lewry gets in the groove

    Jason Lewry is already contemplating life after cricket. Just do not expect him to make his living out of after-dinner speaking. The Sussex bowler endured enough of that during his benefit last year to realise there are more enjoyable ways of earning

  • Cricket: Adams pushes Kirtley's England claims

    England selector Geoff Miller might not have been able to give Chris Adams much hope that he will win back his international place when the pair had dinner together last week. But there is no doubt that the Sussex captain took the opportunity to press

  • Cash to help youngsters cope with death

    The Martletts Hospice has been given an £18,000 cash boost to help youngsters come to terms with the death of a loved. The money, given to the hospice in Wayfield Avenue, Hove, by the BBC's Children In Need appeal, will allow it to expand its bereavement

  • Drug user fails to cut jail term

    A drug user incapacitated by police as he tried to swallow a packet of heroin has failed in an Appeal Court bid to cut his jail term. John Waters, 42, was chased by police targeting drug dealers in Brighton on June 2 last year and was seen trying to swallow

  • Toddler died after patio fall

    A girl of three died after falling 25ft from a bedroom window on to a concrete patio, an inquest was told. Leonilda Veall, known as Nilda, may have been searching for a cat when she fell from the first-floor room at Churchdale Road, Eastbourne. The inquest

  • Towers vision will 'rival' Pavilion

    Frank Gehry's eye-popping design for four wonky seafront skyscrapers has been dubbed the most extraordinary British building project for 25 years. Deyan Sugjic, editor of leading Milan-based architecture magazine Domus, believes Gehry's design for the

  • Pair named as raids suspects

    Police have named two brothers wanted in connection with the so-called Benson & Hedges robberies. David Whittle, 27, and Simon Anthony Whittle, 30, are from Manchester. Detectives took the unusual step of releasing the two names following nine armed

  • Cash to help youngsters cope with death

    A service which helps youngsters come to terms with the death of a loved one has been given an £18,000 cash boost. The money will allow The Martlets Hospice to expand its bereavement counselling service. It has been given to the hospice in Wayfield Avenue

  • Magic of spotlight changed my life

    By day she is a mild-mannered legal secretary. But after dark quite a transformation comes over Emma Clout. Beneath the calm, bespectacled exterior lies the heart of a showgirl, who will soon be seen clad in fishnet stockings wowing the audience at the

  • Search on for best builder's bum

    Microphones will be swapped for power drills in the latest "idol" idea to hit the streets but this time it is only Girls Allowed. Tool Idol 2003 is on the lookout for Brighton's sexiest builder's bum. Tool specialist CK Tools is launching the hunt for

  • Chris Adams: My bulging diary

    To be honest, with all that I've got on my plate this season there are occasions when I don't know whether I'm coming or going and the summer is only a couple of weeks old! As well as the challenge of captaining Sussex, I've also got a benefit to run,

  • Terrace Talk, with Roz South

    I wonder how the events of this surprising season would have been reported if we had managed to scrape through and stay in Division One. Because this has been a very strange, if exciting, season for the Albion and there are many reasons that could be

  • May 9: Warwickshire v Sussex (Close)

    Mushtaq Ahmed has been hailed as Sussex's new magician of spin. Skipper Chris Adams was singing the praises of his side's close-season signing after the county battled through potentially their toughest day in the field so far this season. Mushtaq's arrival

  • Police swoop on drug den

    Brighton police seized more than £4,000 of cannabis in a raid on a drug den. They also found crack cocaine and a large wad of money all stashed in a carrier bag. More than a dozen officers wearing full body armour and carrying pepper spray battered down

  • Hard-hit pulpit

    I have been attending Immanuel Family Church, in Islingword Road, Brighton, for the past 11 years. It holds many memories, both good and bad. I was also married there last year so the fire is devastating news. I can't believe it has happened. I and many

  • It's their right

    On behalf of the Brighton and Hove Amnesty International group, I thank all who took part in our weekly vigil during the course of the war in Iraq. Every Friday evening at the War Memorial, up to 50 people turned up to light a candle as a gesture of peace

  • Show of strength

    Emma Clout, from Hankham, changes from a legal secretary into a showgirl each night in Seaford. She is preparing to play the lead part of Katie Brown in Calamity Jane at the Barn Theatre. By day she's laying down the law. By night she's a law unto herself

  • People power

    Many years ago the mayor of Brighton went round in a Rolls-Royce with a cherished numberplate. The mayor of Hove also had a large chauffeur-driven limousine. Gradually the mayor's car became less posh until the first citizen was reduced to being chauffeured

  • Motorsport: Fuller's bidding for glory

    Budding racing driver Dan Fuller is playing a game of patience in a bid to reach the top of the sport. Fuller, 18, from Hassocks, dreams of racing in Formula One but knows he has a long way to go. The student was hoping to compete in the Formula Ford

  • Hours leave us fry and dry

    Bosses at a fast-food franchise have told police and councillors they are fed up at not being allowed to keep open two popular outlets into the early hours. Shan Trading, which runs Burger King restaurants in Madeira Drive and North Street, Brighton,

  • Life-savers

    After reading the letter (May 7) praising our ambulance service, I had to put pen to paper. Recently, my husband was taken ill during the night and in no time at all an ambulance had arrived at my front door. I, too, witnessed at first hand what heroes

  • No hiding place for aggressive patients

    Violence and aggression in the NHS does not stop at hospitals. Unfortunately, it is also witnessed in GP practices and during visits made by health professionals to patients' homes. That is why, in Brighton and Hove, the zero-tolerance approach to violence

  • Cricket: Adams pushes Kirtley's England claims

    England selector Geoff Miller might not have been able to give Chris Adams much hope that he will win back his international place when the pair had dinner together last week. But there is no doubt that the Sussex captain took the opportunity to press

  • Sussex salute their spin king

    Mushtaq Ahmed has been hailed as Sussex's new magician of spin. Skipper Chris Adams was singing the praises of his side's close-season signing after the county battled through potentially their toughest day in the field so far this season. Mushtaq's arrival

  • Burger bars to shut at 11pm

    Fast food restaurant managers in Brighton say they are being forced to shut early because of licensing restrictions. They felt so strongly about the issue they took out an advert in The Argus. Shan Trading Ltd, which has the franchise for the Burger King

  • Miranda's thoughts on life by the sea

    Capturing the essence of an entire city in words in one weekend is no easy task but writer Miranda Sawyer is more than capable. An award-winning contributor to The Observer, The Face, GQ magazine and others, as well as author of acclaimed book Park And

  • Streets heave with creative chaos

    Hundreds of performers flocked to the streets to show off a range of skills for the Brighton Festival. The Streets of Brighton event, which lends on saturday night, has attracted acts including clowns, can-can girls and costume-clad actors to the city

  • Downsmen get first director

    The oldest conservation organisation in the South Downs is to appoint its first director. The Society of Sussex Downsmen hope the new director will help forge closer links with councils, environment bodies and conservationists. Vice-chairman Jon Martin

  • Towers vision will 'rival' Pavilion

    Frank Gehry's eye-popping design for four wonky seafront skyscrapers has been dubbed the most extraordinary British building project for 25 years. Deyan Sugjic, editor of leading Milan-based architecture magazine Domus, believes Gehry's design for the

  • Pair named as raids suspects

    Police have named two brothers wanted in connection with the so-called Benson & Hedges robberies. David Whittle, 27, and Simon Anthony Whittle, 30, are from Manchester. Detectives took the unusual step of releasing the two names following nine armed

  • Magic of spotlight changed my life

    By day she is a mild-mannered legal secretary. But after dark quite a transformation comes over Emma Clout. Beneath the calm, bespectacled exterior lies the heart of a showgirl, who will soon be seen clad in fishnet stockings wowing the audience at the

  • Towers vision will 'rival' Pavilion

    Frank Gehry's eye-popping design for four wonky seafront skyscrapers has been dubbed the most extraordinary British building project for 25 years. Deyan Sugjic, editor of leading Milan-based architecture magazine Domus, believes Gehry's design for the

  • Gerry Armstrong: The three steps to heaven for Albion

    Albion can bounce straight back into Division One next season but they have to sort out three big issues first. The main one is the stadium. If they get planning permission for Falmer, that will be the best result they have had in years and will make

  • May 9: Warwickshire v Sussex (Close)

    Mushtaq Ahmed has been hailed as Sussex's new magician of spin. Skipper Chris Adams was singing the praises of his side's close-season signing after the county battled through potentially their toughest day in the field so far this season. Mushtaq's arrival

  • Police swoop on drug den

    Brighton police seized more than £4,000 of cannabis in a raid on a drug den. They also found crack cocaine and a large wad of money all stashed in a carrier bag. More than a dozen officers wearing full body armour and carrying pepper spray battered down

  • Is it a wrap?

    The Owl and the Pussycat used to live on the post of our gates at home; With the aid of a thief now they have gone in their pea-green boat on the foam; Our kids will despair they are no longer there and will weep many tears when they come. If the thief

  • Missing link

    I am angered that the person who "allegedly" set fire to Brighton's West Pier did so in the name of the Iraq war. Can someone please explain to me the link between the war and a historic building and what this person hoped to achieve? I appreciate some

  • Basketball: Steely Sonics reach cup final

    Sussex Sonics produced an outstanding display of wheelchair basketball to beat London Raiders 55-33 and reach the League Cup final. They took the first quarter 21-8, then kept a cleansheet in the second period, keeping Raiders' main shooters away from

  • Motorsport: Corke tackles quality field

    Sam Corke from Uckfield banked two fourth places in the privateers' category as the fourth round of the British Superbike Championship rolled into Oulton Park last Monday. Racing on the new Suzuki GSXR 1000 he secured with a £10,000 bank loan, Corke claimed

  • Show of strength

    Emma Clout, from Hankham, changes from a legal secretary into a showgirl each night in Seaford. She is preparing to play the lead part of Katie Brown in Calamity Jane at the Barn Theatre. By day she's laying down the law. By night she's a law unto herself

  • Take a break

    Well, okay then, if personal rudeness is to be the order of the day on The Argus letters page, I wish you would cease publishing letters from that self-opinionated old bore Roy V Hilliard, of Portslade. He appears to have an opinion on everything under

  • People power

    Many years ago the mayor of Brighton went round in a Rolls-Royce with a cherished numberplate. The mayor of Hove also had a large chauffeur-driven limousine. Gradually the mayor's car became less posh until the first citizen was reduced to being chauffeured

  • Hope's gone

    In the present din of local politics and noisy politicians, let history speak for one quiet moment from 50 years ago. In 1953, a Crawley newspaper reported that "out of an electorate of 2,407, 1,402 people voted - a massive 58.25 per cent". In 2003, only

  • Hours leave us fry and dry

    Bosses at a fast-food franchise have told police and councillors they are fed up at not being allowed to keep open two popular outlets into the early hours. Shan Trading, which runs Burger King restaurants in Madeira Drive and North Street, Brighton,

  • Life-savers

    After reading the letter (May 7) praising our ambulance service, I had to put pen to paper. Recently, my husband was taken ill during the night and in no time at all an ambulance had arrived at my front door. I, too, witnessed at first hand what heroes

  • Sussex salute their spin king

    Mushtaq Ahmed has been hailed as Sussex's new magician of spin. Skipper Chris Adams was singing the praises of his side's close-season signing after the county battled through potentially their toughest day in the field so far this season. Mushtaq's arrival

  • Burger bars to shut at 11pm

    Fast food restaurant managers in Brighton say they are being forced to shut early because of licensing restrictions. They felt so strongly about the issue they took out an advert in The Argus. Shan Trading Ltd, which has the franchise for the Burger King

  • Miranda's thoughts on life by the sea

    Capturing the essence of an entire city in words in one weekend is no easy task but writer Miranda Sawyer is more than capable. An award-winning contributor to The Observer, The Face, GQ magazine and others, as well as author of acclaimed book Park And

  • Streets heave with creative chaos

    Hundreds of performers flocked to the streets to show off a range of skills for the Brighton Festival. The Streets of Brighton event, which lends on saturday night, has attracted acts including clowns, can-can girls and costume-clad actors to the city

  • Downsmen get first director

    The oldest conservation organisation in the South Downs is to appoint its first director. The Society of Sussex Downsmen hope the new director will help forge closer links with councils, environment bodies and conservationists. Vice-chairman Jon Martin

  • Kidnap accused was seen with boy

    The owner of a seafront amusement arcade told a jury how he raised the alarm when he saw a man befriend a ten-year-old boy. Joseph Gess, who runs the Monarch arcade, in Waterloo Square, Bognor, told Lewes Crown Court he was suspicious and decided to contact

  • Freedom hope for Morocco jail pair

    Families and friends of two men languishing in a Moroccan jail were last night anxiously waiting for news of their possible release. Friends Paul Humble, 41, and Greg Saxby, 45, could be among more than 9,400 prisoners handed a pardon by the north African

  • Mayor goes family-friendly

    The sleek limo used to chauffeur Brighton and Hove City Council's top brass has been swapped for a people carrier. The council leader, chief executive and mayor will share the family-friendly Seat for the next three years. Mayor-elect Jeane Lepper, who

  • Burger bars to shut at 11pm

    Fast food restaurant managers say they are being forced to shut early because of licensing restrictions. They felt so strongly about the issue they took out an advert in The Argus. Shan Trading Ltd, which has the franchise for the Burger King outlets

  • Swans spark web of intrigue

    There are not many mothers who would want 100,000 people watching them give birth. But that is the number of people who have been tracking an internet web cam waiting for a clutch of swans' eggs to hatch. And finally, after more than 35 days of nesting