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  • Store group's job axe hits 19 in Sussex

    Administrators of collapsed department store group Allders have made 19 staff redundant in Sussex. Kroll, which took over the company last month, announced 461 job losses at stores throughout the UK and a further 209 at Allders' headquarters in Croydon

  • Boss recalls blaze death at garage

    A garage boss fought back tears as he recalled how a trainee was engulfed in flames after an explosion. Glen Hawkins told a jury yesterday he still could not get what happened to Lewis Murphy out of his head. The 18-year-old apprentice mechanic suffered

  • Hoogstraten accuses judge of being an idiot'

    Property tycoon Nicholas Hoogstraten raised eyebrows in the High Court when he told a judge one of his colleagues on the bench was "an idiot" and "a pig". Mr Justice Lightman, after reading a document submitted by Mr Hoogstraten regarding a massive damages

  • Children witness workers in death plunge

    Children described how they saw two men fall to their deaths from the jib of a giant crane as they looked out of classroom windows. They gasped in horror as they watched the two crane workers fall more than 100ft to the ground on the building site in

  • Seagulls put shirts on Falmer

    Albion are getting shirty with the fans to help raise funds for their Alive and Kicking appeal. Hard-up Seagulls want to raise £2 million to help fund the public and planning inquiry costs for the Falmer project. They want to boost the coffers by players

  • Shaaban ready for trial

    Rami Shaaban revealed today he could swap the Champions League with Arsenal for the Championship with Albion. The Swedish-Egyptian goalkeeper steps up a fortnight's trial with the Seagulls next week by joining squad training sessions. Shaaban, a free

  • Hairdresser made up' to be Shania Twain

    Hairdresser Gemma Nelson swapped her curling tongs for cowboy boots when she was transformed into her music idol Shania Twain. After a nine-year wait Gemma received a call from producers of Stars In Their Eyes and takes her place in the limelight next

  • Human cargo pair jailed

    Dozens of illegal immigrants were smuggled into Britain by two ex-soldiers who acted as ferrymen for notorious "snakehead" gangsters. Allan Gallop, 49, of Cripps Avenue, Peacehaven, and Marcus Wakelin, 42, of Grassington Road, Eastbourne, were today starting

  • Greenhalgh follows in wake of Ellen

    While Dame Ellen MacArthur celebrated and slept off her record non-stop voyage around the world this week, a Brighton sailor planned his own global challenge. MacArthur has been lauded since she completed her 71-day voyage in the yacht B&Q. Sussex's

  • Bears set sights on new home

    Brighton Bears are set to agree terms to play at a state-of-the-art new seafront home. The club have been offered a three-year deal to stage games at Brighton International Arena, which is due to open in September 2007. Bears could play in an 11,000-seater