Albion manager Mark McGhee today pinpointed the danger posed to the Seagulls' Championship survival prospects by the young striker he tried to sign. Fellow strugglers Plymouth have extended the loan spell of Dexter Blackstock from Southampton. The 18-
A cash crisis is threatening to kill off a music and drama festival which has provided a showcase for young Sussex performers. The Springboard Festival has been running since 1924 and attracts about 2,000 musicians, actors and dancers each year. But without
Brain surgery of any kind is a frightening prospect. But imagine undergoing such an operation while you are wide awake and able to talk to the surgeon carrying it out. Teenager Alexandra Hodge is the youngest person in Britain to have endured this procedure
Adam Trimingham thinks people are whinging (The Argus, March 11. They are not. They are complaining loudly andd they expect to be listened to. Whinging is what children do when they have no just cause to complain or don't expect to be listened to. Patcham
I would like to thank everyone who braved the bitterly cold weather last Thursday to attend our meeting - Peacehaven sewage works: the alternative. The alternative presented at the meeting is called Starfish. It is to be located outside the western arm
A security guard has been left blind in one eye following an attack outside a supermarket. Gavin Wallis, 27, of Bevendean, Brighton, will have to have three metal plates inserted into his face to repair three serious fractures in his cheekbone. He was
Hopefully, Celia Barlow, the prospective Labour candidate for Hove will address herself to her own quote in the story about three gay candidates fighting Hove at the coming general election (The Argus, March 5). She said: "What really should count are
The ex-wife and former lover of a man accused of murdering his son came face to face in court. Mary Wragg listened as Shelley Ancell told how it was Andrew Wragg's wonderful way with children that made her fall in love with him. Wragg was with Mrs Ancell
As a resident of Lancing, overlooking Beach Green, I was pleased to hear a Thai restaurant with a bar and conference room is to be built on the present site of the old Mermaid Cafe. The cafe has been an eyesore for some time now and to think someone is
Nathan Jones and Paul Watson have more reason than most for wanting Albion to secure Championship survival as soon as possible. It could have a direct bearing on the futures of two of the club's longest serving players. Manager Mark McGhee has reached
Albion manager Mark McGhee today pinpointed the danger posed to the Seagulls' Championship survival prospects by the young striker he tried to sign. Fellow strugglers Plymouth have extended the loan spell of Dexter Blackstock from Southampton. The 18-
Three companies are bidding for a contract to build a new hospital. The £7 million community hospital and social care centre is planned for Littlehampton. Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust wants people to help it evaluate the proposals. The hospital
Nathan Jones and Paul Watson have more reason than most for wanting Albion to secure Championship survival as soon as possible. It could have a direct bearing on the futures of two of the club's longest serving players. Manager Mark McGhee has reached
Imagine handing manager Mark McGhee £250,000 to strengthen his Albion squad next season and pocketing £10,000 yourself? It sounds like fantasy football, but that is the prize on offer to Seagulls supporters and millions of fans up and down the country
Do try your best never to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital. That's the message of Joe Penhall's savage satire at the Theatre Royal this week. If you are admitted, you are likely to be trapped in a complex web of your own illness and the conflicts
A conman is travelling through Sussex cheating shopkeepers out of cash. The fraudster wheedled money out of three businesses in Worthing on Monday afternoon and has already struck in Brighton, Littlehampton, Arundel, Angmering and Lancing. In the scam
A manufacturing plant has been forced to shed six jobs after losing just one customer. Shep Plastics, in the Old Pottery, Lower Dicker, near Hailsham, made and dispatched pet care products for a firm which has instead decided to use a factory in Latvia
I know Easter is early this year but I never realised it was in fact the first weekend in March. How do I know this? From those wonderful people at Cityclean. They have already published their Easter collection rotas and for those, such as me, whose normal
The horrors of working in bomb-torn Baghdad contributed to a father's mental state on the day he killed his son, a court heard. Andrew Wragg's experiences as a bodyguard in Iraq, problems with his marriage and his son's worsening illness produced an "
Please, can someone tell me what the blue plastic barrier (about 25cm high) on either side of the A275 just outside Lewes on the way to Chailey is for? -Liz Bateman, Brighton
Brighton Bears are ready to spread the gospel in West Sussex. But they have laughed off suggestions they are soon to become the Bognor Bears. Nick Nurse takes his play-off contenders to the Bognor Arena on Sunday for a re-arranged league tussle with Plymouth
We live in a consumer age when the customer should come first. If you went to a restaurant and ordered a meal and it failed to arrive, you would leave. If the restaurant continued to treat its customers in such a poor way, the business would fold. So
Injury-ravaged Brighton Bears are down to six fit men for tonight's trip to Scottish Rocks. Cheyne Gadson (back) and Radhi Knapp (blood infection) are both expected to be left at home as Bears strive to head-off a third successive defeat. There are fears
With regards to your article on three gay candidates standing for the Hove seat (The Argus, March 5), we'll only have reached a worthy milestone once a candidate's sexuality fails to make headlines at all. However, while this is still a newsworthy subject
Imagine handing manager Mark McGhee £250,000 to strengthen his Albion squad next season and pocketing £10,000 yourself? It sounds like fantasy football, but that is the prize on offer to Seagulls supporters and millions of fans up and down the country
Tony Blair has pledged to provide a team of beat police in every neighbourhood in Sussex following an increase in the number of community support officers. The Government will spend an extra £340 million over the next three years to quadruple the number
A manufacturing plant has been forced to shed six jobs after losing just one customer. Shep Plastics, in the Old Pottery, Lower Dicker, near Hailsham, made and dispatched pet care products for a firm which has instead decided to use a factory in Latvia
If ever Indie bands formed themselves into a football team, The Doves would be the reliable left-back. The fans' favourite who never quite manages to make headline news on the back pages. While the crowd goes wild for Pete Doherty, the gobby, confrontational
