Workers at a manufacturing firm have a good reason to celebrate getting a year older. Managers at Cash Bases in The Drove, Newhaven, are letting employees take the day off on their birthday. The decision has unsurprisingly had huge support from all 210
A farmer has used his fields to change the fortunes of a wading bird once common to Britain. Martin Hole restored large swathes of his land to the favoured natural habitat of the lapwing. The number of the birds at his farm, near Pevensey, has increased
When i worked as a property and project manager for a well-known London company, the value of deeds to property was realised. There was a property in Burgess Hill where the residents were being charged per annum for parking within the grounds of the property
I was most interested to read Manus McGrogan's letter "Only Bush and Blair want our troops to stay in Iraq" (October 25). I have also asked myself how many more people must die in Iraq because of Bush's and Blair's lies. The regime change had been arranged
A struggling football club has been fined more than £3,000 for failing to turn its floodlights off on time. Burgess Hill Town Football Club was punished for breaching council planning orders six times. Club director Gary Croydon admitted failing to comply
So Labour's big idea for its last year of office is to bring Las Vegas-style mega-casinos to our cities. Tony Blair's Americanised vision of a New Jerusalem will mean expenditure on gambling will probably double to more than £12 billion a year - a sure-fire
Jamie Spence must qualify if he wants to compete on the European Tour next year. He needed a big finish in the Madrid Open last week to cheat the executioner's axe because he lay 120th in the rankings, fractionally below the crucial mark of 115 players
Crawley manager Francis Vines today urged his players to be inspired by the magic of the FA Cup. Reds travel to fellow Conference side Dagenham and Redbridge in the fourth qualifying round tomorrow having won just once away from home this season. The
Ajou Deng is ready to come out on top in the battle of British basketball's most explosive new big men. The 6ft 11ins Brighton Bear rookie with the all-round game goes head-to-head with Plymouth Raiders' 6ft 10ins defensive specialist Gerrick Morris as
Guy Butters can think of worse ways of spending his 35th birthday than adding to the list of great grounds he has played at. The veteran defender will be right at the heart of Albion's effort to get a result at Sunderland tomorrow. Butters had plenty
Danny Cullip declared himself fit today for high-flying Albion's trip to Sunderland and pledged: "We are going there to win". The Seagulls welcome back their talismanic captain for tomorrow's visit to the Stadium of Light, but Alexis Nicolas will be missing
Workers at a manufacturing firm have at least one reason to celebrate getting a year older. Managers at Cash Bases in The Drove, Newhaven, are letting employees take the day off on their birthday. The decision has unsurprisingly had huge support from
A seven-day music festival to showcase the talents of Brighton's best bands has been a big success, according to organisers. More than 500 musicians are taking part in the event which closes on Sunday and, by then, will have attracted about 14,000 music
Many Britons are living dangerously close to their financial limits and would be unable to cope with another rise in interest rates. A report by internet bank Cahoot found that 27 per cent of Britons said even a small increase in their spending, such
The UK's largest department store is heading for Crawley. Crawley Borough Council has reached an understanding with John Lewis that it will be the preferred flagship store when the northern part of the town is redeveloped. The council has teamed up with
It opens like a monsoon. Flickering shadows reveal a Pakistani vocalist suspended upside down, yet still giving his all to a thrilling Sufi song. Then there's a flash and downpour of Kathak chanting as seven dancers streaked with green and amber take
Before Terrence Rattigan finished the first draft of this play, he wrote a letter to a pal. The letter said that the play would be hailed 50 years later as: "The best work of a fashionable contemporary dramatist - ironically never performed in his lifetime
When four members of the family Followill, known as US guitar boys Kings Of Leon, released their debut album, Youth And Manhood, they shifted half a million copies. But the world was in the grip of an American guitar music invasion which saw almost any
One of the good things about The Argus is that it emphasises the positive. Here is another kindly act, which could so easily go unremarked. Yesterday I took my disabled son to the end of the Palace Pier but when we arrived, the rides were just closing
Argus readers have vented their spleen on the worst architectural eyesores in Sussex. We shortlisted the county's ugliest buildings as an antidote to the recent BBC series Restoration - which invited the public to vote for the British building most deserving
Brighton and Hove is not only the place to be - but it tastes good too. The city has been named Best UK Destination for Vegetarians in the Vegetarian Society awards 2004. And, to put the icing on the (vegetarian) cake, two city restaurants were runners-up
In response to Brighton and Hove City Council's proposed new beach bylaws, it would appear they are taking a similar route to Adur District Council, which introduced designated bathing areas this year. Adur sensibly sought expert advice by having a meeting
A condemed care home could be saved from demolition - too late for its occupants. Larchwood Resource Centre, in Waldron Avenue, Brighton, was earmarked for demolition when Brighton and Hove City Council's adult social care and health sub-committee gave
A woman relived the nightmare of her son's death when three cars collided just 50 yards away from the scene of his crash. Sheena Hogg's 13-year-old son Aaron was killed last month when two cars collided head-on at The Queensway, an accident blackspot
I couldn't agree more with Clive Wilkin's letter (October 22) about the bus service in Woodland Avenue. With only two buses an hour during the day and one an hour in the evening, the objections raised by the campaigners just make them look ridiculous.
Gunman Christopher Maitland could be jailed for life for shooting at police while he was on the run from prison. Maitland 21, was yesterday found guilty of using a firearm to resist his arrest or lawful detention after a shoot-out with armed police at
Further to your letters about the health service (October 25), my husband has received a notification of 28 weeks for "imaging". During 20 years of care for a heart condition at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, he suffered a stroke in March and lost
As a proud new great-grandmother, I am also an active and dedicated tetra campaigner. How can I not be, when my family are affected by mm02 Airwave tetra masts and I see other families around me who could also be affected? How can I, as a fellow human
It can be argued that Lewes District Council has an obligation to spend taxpayers' money investigating a major development on its land, as it did at the initial part of the Falmer stadium inquiry. However, there is an important point that Edward Goring
My partner has been working as a Brighton binman since January 2003. He has been employed by Catalyst, an employment agency, and the terms and conditions on short-term contracts provided by the agency are not equal to those employed by Brighton and Hove
Windsurfer Lucy Robson has been given a flying start after her bosses, insurance company FairClaims, agreed to be her official sponsors. The trainee solicitor, who practises her surfing off Shoreham beach five nights a week, is preparing to compete in
Women are closing the pay gap on men, according to new figures. Although full-time women workers earned 31 per cent less than men during the last financial year - £18,531 compared to £24,236 - their annual wage increased by 1.5 per cent more. The research
The new £500,000 bulk-handling terminal at Shoreham Port has taken its first ship - heralding the start of a long-term contract with a building materials firm. Shoreham Port chief executive Rod Johnstone signed a ten-year deal with Tarmac Topblock for
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline said it had lost more than £1 billion due to competition from rival copies of two anti-depressants. The company has posted a ten per cent fall in third quarter profits to £1.5 billion. Crawley-based Glaxo said generic versions
(PG, 91 mins): Starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell and Dustin Hoffman. Directed by Marc Foster. Tearing Peter Pan from the Lost Boys and stripping him bare of his elf-like clobber, Finding Neverland reveals the true origin
(Cert 15, 113 mins): Starring Stellan Skarsgard, Izabella Scorupco, James D'Arcy and Ben Cross. Directed by Renny Harlin. Three directors (one sacked, one dead), numerous re-writes, recasting and an entirely new shoot - God-fearing types would have taken
It has beem battered by wind, rain and fire, pulled back many times from the brink of destruction. Yet it is still in possession of its original attraction - the Vermillion Square Ballroom at its seaward end - Hastings pier has aged glamorously, if not
He may look like a dark angel and sing like a honey-voiced troubadour. But Rufus Wainwright has recently spent time in the very unpretty world of crystal meth addiction, "gay hell" and rehab. New album Want One, the first part of a double release, is
Along with The Streets, Dizzee Rascal (aka Dylan Mills) has been responsible for bringing urban music back to its origins. US rhip-hop stars may rap about how awful fame is while quaffing magnums of Crystal in clubs before retiring to their hotel rooms
