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  • Let us put a special seabed in national park plan

    A historic legal bid has been launched to include the sea off the Seven Sisters coastline in the proposed South Downs national park. The South Downs Campaign is calling on the Countryside Agency to include seabed within a national park for the first

  • Ferry officer is suspended

    The first officer of a cross-Channel ferry which crashed into a harbour wall at Dieppe has been suspended. The Transmanche ferry MV Dieppe will be out of action for at least a week while a 2ft hole in the hull above the water line is repaired. The French

  • Our water is among EU's finest

    Water from our taps is some of the best in Europe, according to a report out today. The Drinking Water Inspectorate's (DWI) 14th annual report revealed Southern Water carried out 76,090 tests in 2003, of which 99.86 per cent complied with drinking water

  • Wife made plea for a confession

    Sion Jenkins' wife wrote to him in prison begging him to confess to Billie-Jo's murder, a court has been told. In the letter, sent by Lois Jenkins in April 1997, while her husband was awaiting trial, she wrote: "The girls would be relieved of an enormous

  • July 9: Harding set for new role

    Dan Harding has been earmarked for a new midfield role during Albion's pre-season programme. The youngster established himself at leftback at the expense of Kerry Mayo in the latter part of last season. Now manager Mark McGhee is planning to try Harding

  • Britney opts for cool wool outfit

    Britney Spears is famed for her skimpy outfits and outlandish wardrobe, so a knitted jumper is the last thing you might expect her to wear. But Britney is the latest celebrity to make wool cool after she snapped up a creation by a Brighton designer. Julie

  • Bogus service offers plague small traders

    Samll businesses are being targeted by callers demanding money for services that are unnecessary, non-existent or deceptive. There has been an increasing number of reports of small firms in Brighton and Hove being offered cheaper deals on utilities, such

  • City isn't on affluence scale

    Brighton and Hove has failed to make it on to a list of the 100 most affluent places in Britain. The only areas in Sussex listed were Chichester, which came 29th, Mid Sussex, 40th, and Arundel in 93rd place. Less than one in ten people living in Brighton

  • A Caribbean anniversary

    Accountancy firm KPMG brought the Caribbean to Brighton as it threw a huge party to celebrate twenty years in Sussex. Guests enjoyed traditional Caribbean cooking and music from band Tropical Entertainment at the party at the Alias Hotel Seattle at the

  • House prices are a worry

    The number of people who think property prices will fall has doubled since the recent warning by the Governor of the Bank of England. The Nationwide building society said just five per cent of people thought their home would have lost value by the end

  • £2,400 cost of kids' school holiday

    Working parents with two children at school will spend up to £2,400 on childcare and entertainment during the summer break, according to a study. Even before the cost of a family holiday, they will collectively spend about £1.78 billion during the six-week

  • Employees who link with the community

    Routine can turn the most rewarding of jobs into a bit of a grind. Even astronauts, floating around in space, must shrug with indifference when the Great Wall of China comes into view for the umpteenth time. Perhaps that's why more employers, particularly

  • Make or break for a shop's round window

    It is too round, too low, there's too much room between it and the floor above, and one person even thinks it looks like a fish's eye. People who live and work in Brighton's North Laine have been queuing up to complain about the £2,000 round window at

  • Let us put a special seabed in national park plan

    A historic legal bid has been launched to include the sea off the Seven Sisters coastline in the proposed South Downs national park. The South Downs Campaign is calling on the Countryside Agency to include seabed within a national park for the first time

  • Service on beach for windsurfer who died

    A champion windsurfer who chased his dreams was remembered at a tearful seaside memorial service. More than 300 people gathered in the sunshine on Seaford beach around the striking white coffin of Andy Funnell, 21, from Seaford, who drowned after a jet-skiing

  • Thieves take ten mobiles per day

    Ten mobile phones are snatched every day in Brighton and Hove. More than 1,600 people in the city have been robbed of their mobiles so far this year. Villains rack up hundreds of pounds in phone charges, for which the victims must often foot the bill.

  • Bogus service offers plague small traders

    Small businesses are being targeted by callers demanding money for services that are unnecessary, non-existent or deceptive. There has been an increasing number of reports of small firms in Brighton and Hove being offered cheaper deals on utilities, such

  • A Caribbean anniversary

    Accountancy firm KPMG brought the Caribbean to Brighton as it threw a huge party to celebrate twenty years in Sussex. Guests enjoyed traditional Caribbean cooking and music from band Tropical Entertainment at the party at the Alias Hotel Seattle at the

  • House prices are a worry

    The number of people who think property prices will fall has doubled since the recent warning by the Governor of the Bank of England. The Nationwide building society said just five per cent of people thought their home would have lost value by the end

  • Lawyers have helpful allies

    A law firm has become the first in Brighton and Hove to set up its own business support group. Solicitors Wynne Baxter, in Dyke Road, Brighton, has created a team that will be able to deal with virtually every legal query. If one lawyer does not have

  • £2,400 cost of kids' school holiday

    Working parents with two children at school will spend up to £2,400 on childcare and entertainment during the summer break, according to a study. Even before the cost of a family holiday, they will collectively spend about £1.78 billion during the six-week

  • Employees who link with the community

    Routine can turn the most rewarding of jobs into a bit of a grind. Even astronauts, floating around in space, must shrug with indifference when the Great Wall of China comes into view for the umpteenth time. Perhaps that's why more employers, particularly

  • Make or break for a shop's round window

    It is too round, too low, there's too much room between it and the floor above, and one person even thinks it looks like a fish's eye. People who live and work in Brighton's North Laine have been queuing up to complain about the £2,000 round window at

  • Rage at GP surgery

    A pensioner used a garden fork to smash up the cars of four doctors, a court heard. Victor Causabon-Vincent marched into his local surgery and told astonished staff they had stitched him up. The 72-year-old former electrician left after allegedly warning

  • Lying nurse had a cult of personality

    A nurse accused of seducing three anorexic patients had women queuing up for his "perversion of psychotherapy", an inquiry heard. Charismatic David Britten, 50, of Shortgate Lane, Laughton, near Lewes, used his "personality cult" to have sex with the

  • Service on beach for windsurfer who died

    A champion windsurfer who chased his dreams was remembered at a tearful seaside memorial service. More than 300 people gathered in the sunshine on Seaford beach around the striking white coffin of Andy Funnell, 21, from Seaford, who drowned after a jet-skiing

  • Thieves take ten mobiles per day

    Ten mobile phones are snatched every day in Brighton and Hove. More than 1,600 people in the city have been robbed of their mobiles so far this year. Villains rack up hundreds of pounds in phone charges, for which the victims must often foot the bill.

  • Bogus service offers plague small traders

    Small businesses are being targeted by callers demanding money for services that are unnecessary, non-existent or deceptive. There has been an increasing number of reports of small firms in Brighton and Hove being offered cheaper deals on utilities, such

  • Lawyers have helpful allies

    A law firm has become the first in Brighton and Hove to set up its own business support group. Solicitors Wynne Baxter, in Dyke Road, Brighton, has created a team that will be able to deal with virtually every legal query. If one lawyer does not have

  • Landlord hopes to cut it in new shop

    A landlord who faced financial ruin when a barber shop went out of business has celebrated the launch of his own salon. Paul Hart had just returned from a holiday abroad when he discovered his tenants had closed their shop in Whitehawk Road, Brighton.

  • Ferry officer is suspended

    The first officer of a cross-Channel ferry which crashed into a harbour wall at Dieppe has been suspended. The Transmanche ferry MV Dieppe will be out of action for at least a week while a 2ft hole in the hull above the water line is repaired. The French

  • Rage at GP surgery

    A pensioner used a garden fork to smash up the cars of four doctors, a court heard. Victor Causabon-Vincent marched into his local surgery and told astonished staff they had stitched him up. The 72-year-old former electrician left after allegedly warning

  • Lying nurse had a cult of personality

    A nurse accused of seducing three anorexic patients had women queuing up for his "perversion of psychotherapy", an inquiry heard. Charismatic David Britten, 50, of Shortgate Lane, Laughton, near Lewes, used his "personality cult" to have sex with the

  • Our water is among EU's finest

    Water from our taps is some of the best in Europe, according to a report out today. The Drinking Water Inspectorate's (DWI) 14th annual report revealed Southern Water carried out 76,090 tests in 2003, of which 99.86 per cent complied with drinking water

  • Wife made plea for a confession

    Sion Jenkins' wife wrote to him in prison begging him to confess to Billie-Jo's murder, a court has been told. In the letter, sent by Lois Jenkins in April 1997, while her husband was awaiting trial, she wrote: "The girls would be relieved of an enormous

  • Britney opts for cool wool outfit

    Britney Spears is famed for her skimpy outfits and outlandish wardrobe, so a knitted jumper is the last thing you might expect her to wear. But Britney is the latest celebrity to make wool cool after she snapped up a creation by a Brighton designer. Julie

  • Bogus service offers plague small traders

    Samll businesses are being targeted by callers demanding money for services that are unnecessary, non-existent or deceptive. There has been an increasing number of reports of small firms in Brighton and Hove being offered cheaper deals on utilities, such

  • City isn't on affluence scale

    Brighton and Hove has failed to make it on to a list of the 100 most affluent places in Britain. The only areas in Sussex listed were Chichester, which came 29th, Mid Sussex, 40th, and Arundel in 93rd place. Less than one in ten people living in Brighton

  • Landlord hopes to cut it in new shop

    A landlord who faced financial ruin when a barber shop went out of business has celebrated the launch of his own salon. Paul Hart had just returned from a holiday abroad when he discovered his tenants had closed their shop in Whitehawk Road, Brighton.

  • Let us put a special seabed in national park plan

    A historic legal bid has been launched to include the sea off the Seven Sisters coastline in the proposed South Downs national park. The South Downs Campaign is calling on the Countryside Agency to include seabed within a national park for the first time