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  • King Alfred plans in disarray

    Plans for a £290 million redevelopment of Hove seafront by architect Frank Gehry are in disarray today after a Government report found gaping holes in the scheme's finances. The District Valuation Office (DVO), a wing of the Inland Revenue, says the

  • Wuthering Heights, Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne

    Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is one of the greatest love stories ever written. The smouldering passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw grips the imagination and every adolescent schoolgirl falls in love with the charismatic hero. Although

  • Eddie Izzard, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

    It can't be easy for any sort of performer to play before their home town audience. The experience probably sends them spinning back to a time of Christmas party pieces in front of plastered aunts, leering uncles, hyperactive cousins and comatose grandparents

  • War Of The Worlds, Brighton Centre, Brighton

    Jeff Waynes musical version of War Of The Worlds was the ubiquitous soundtrack to countless long, dull car journeys during my childhood. Its stirring, string and synthdriven prog rock, coupled with a scary and moving narrative, used to make every trip

  • Letter: No welcome here

    Council leader, Sue John, was very wrong when she said people would welcome the Burundian refugees (The Argus, April 6). My grandson has just come back from Japan with his Japanese wife and his child. When he asked for help, he was told he wasn't entitled

  • Purchase a peacock and get a free house

    A peacock has become an unlikely addition to an estate agent's portfolio, with a price tag of £1 million. Buyers who think that is a ludicrous figure for the bird may be interested to learn he comes complete with his own seven-bedroom house. The six-year-old

  • Former council leader's email sparks argument

    Former Brighton and Hove City Council leader Ken Bodfish has sent out emails which appear to suggest he will be away from his council office for more than a year. The move fuelled accusations by his political rivals that he has not been playing an active

  • Death crash car 'on wrong side'

    A car that crashed killing an eight-year-old girl inside was driving on the wrong side of the road, The Argus has learned. The Renault Megane, which had three adults and two children inside, may have been illegally overtaking on a single-lane stretch

  • Letter: We want a refund

    This country is a real rip-off. I am charged for water I cannot have but there is no choice as to whether or not I pay. Isn't it about time the masses rose up and demanded a refund? There's not enough water on the land and too much in the sea, the coast

  • Driver hit-and-run crimes on increase

    The number of hit-and-run incidents is rocketing, according to latest figures. Figures released to MPs reveal the number of injuries resulting from vehicle collisions in Sussex in which the driver sped off increased by 40 per cent from 497 in 1997 to

  • Letter: Early birds

    In Peacehaven, Lewes District Council has not issued us with wheelie bins and my refuse is normally collected at around 6.30am on Thursdays. As the collection is so early, to avoid problems with scavenging foxes and seagulls, our refuse has to be put

  • Letter: Let this English tradition live

    How sad John Glover has nothing else to do except complain to the Press about an English store selling a traditional English toy (The Argus, April 15). I was fortunate enough, some years ago, to work alongside a gentleman from North Africa who used to

  • Quicksand boy saved at the last second

    Two teenage friends told how they escaped death by seconds after sinking into deep coastal mudflats which dragged them down like quicksand. One was left with just his head above the muddy sand and was just about to go under when coastguard and lifeboat

  • Letter: Taking the Europe out of Brighton

    I am concerned the outside restaurant seating area in East Street, Brighton, is under review, with the possibility of it not being allowed to continue (The Argus, April 13). I have lived in Brighton since the Forties and I am proud to bring friends here

  • Letter: Coach disgrace

    I had the pleasure of attending a family wedding in Dublin last weekend and I chose to travel to Heathrow by National Express from Pool Valley coach terminal. I was impressed with the punctuality of the service and the comfortable coach was also a pleasant

  • Cricket: Prior will not play until next month

    Matt Prior will not play any cricket for Sussex until next month. The 24-year-old has been told to rest by England coach Duncan Fletcher even though is not on a central contract. A week ago Prior was vomiting on the outfield because of dehydration during

  • The £1m cost of relegation

    Albion manager Mark McGhee fears relegation could cost almost £1 million and the services of Gifton Noel-Williams. Noel-Williams, on loan from Burnley until the end of the season, has not ruled out the possibility of a permanent switch to the Seagulls

  • More buses link towns

    More buses will run between Brighton and Eastbourne as part of the new summer timetable. The Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company introduces its summer timetable on Sunday. Roger French, managing director of Brighton and Hove Bus Company, explained

  • Company of the year still relies on the best ingredients

    With the launch of this year's Sussex Business Awards (SBAs) just around the corner The Argus revisited one of last year's winners to find the key to success. Confectionary maker Kate's Cakes took the coveted Company of the Year Award at the SBAs 2005

  • Parking space row brothers escape prison

    Two brothers who attacked a neighbour in a row over a parking space have been spared jail. Joe and Sam Cooper left Robert Willis with cuts, bruises and black eyes when they attacked him in his partner's home at The Chestnuts, Sayers Common, Haywards Heath

  • Download could turn music lovers into life savers

    Trendy iPods may be a must-have gadget for fashionable music fans but the latest download on offer could help save lives. An ambulance service is the first in the UK to offer first aid and resuscitation advice which can be downloaded from its website.

  • Jenny Lewis, Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton

    It's my dream come true. Proper bluegrass country mixed with Sixties girl pop. Never did I dare dream such a heavenly combination could actually exist but thankfully I have been shown otherwise by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins. The former child actress

  • Letter: Small is beautiful at wildlife rescue centre

    Thank you for the wonderful, happy picture of Roger Musselle and the rescued baby wild animals - Chesworth the squirrel, Sammy the fox and Tansy the badger (The Argus, April 5). What a refreshing change from all the arguments among us humans. Thank you

  • Letter: No manners

    What on earth has happened to good manners these days - and I am not on about youngsters, either, but people of all ages. My husband and I caught the Eastbourne bus on Good Friday and, as the one before hadn't turned up, it was absolutely packed. People

  • Letter: Dancing for joy

    I read Alan Pipe's and Paul Martin's comments (Letters, April 12 and April 16) about a club night for older people with great interest, because I'm already doing it. I started Club 30-69, the first club night in Brighton for older people, last September

  • Injured couple thank carers

    A couple who narrowly survived an arson attack are raising money to reward the hospital staff who looked after them. Charlie Fearn, 66, and wife Chris, 60, are recovering from their ordeal at their new home in Shoreham. They plan to host a football tournament

  • Council 'failed to check on breeder'

    The owner of 206 dogs found living in pitiful conditions in a shed was last checked up on by the authorities eight years ago, it has been revealed. Elizabeth Stevens was issued a breeder's licence by Mid Sussex District Council, but it expired in 1998

  • Letter: Seagulls won't oust the ducks

    In yet another inaccurate letter from an anti-stadium campaigner, Helen Mason of Woodingdean baldly states the Albion refused to consider any alternatives to Falmer (Letters, April 14). This is quite untrue. The Albion analysed a host of other locations

  • Head loses out in bid to gun down seagulls

    A headteacher who wanted the right to shoot seagulls to protect children from bird flu has been refused a licence. Derek Greenup, of William Parker comprehensive school in Hastings, wrote to Government officials last month asking for a special licence

  • Letter: No more al fresco dining?

    With regards our much-regretted need to advise traders not to place tables in East Street: 1. When your article says: "For the past 15 years, three restaurants in East Street have paid a licence fee to Brighton and Hove City Council to use a plot of land

  • King Alfred plans in disarray

    Plans for a £290 million redevelopment of Hove seafront by architect Frank Gehry are in disarray today after a Government report found gaping holes in the scheme's finances. The District Valuation Office (DVO), a wing of the Inland Revenue, says the King

  • Letter: Not in the zone

    The home zone issue has proved hugely divisive for Hanover residents. Anthony Stanbridge is right (The Argus, April 7) - many of us favour the total regeneration of Hanover. It seems undemocratic and questionable for four streets to have £1m spent on

  • Letter: And so the war between the rich and poor begins

    Is anyone else beginning to feel nervous about living in Brighton and Hove? Last Wednesday, masked gunmen robbed a building society on London Road, where shoplifting has also reached court-blocking heights. Other big city-style problems we have include

  • Speedway: Eagles ace seriously injured in crash

    Eastbourne Eagles fear Adam Shields' season could be over after he sustained serious injuries riding in Poland. Shields is known to have suffered a broken hip in a first-bend pile-up riding for Sipma Lublin in their 54-36 defeat at Grudiadz in the First

  • Gatwick sets a passenger record

    A record number of passengers used Gatwick last year. Operator BAA said 3.28 million people passed through the airport during the year to March - an increase of 2.6 per cent on the previous year. BAA - at the centre of frenzied bid speculation - put the

  • Condemned beach sheds must be replaced or pitches lost

    Beach hut owners have been told to replace their seafront sheds with something smarter or give up their pitches. A row of 12 huts at Lancing beach has been condemned after Adur District Council sent a surveyor to check whether they were safe. The huts

  • Tournament day will raise funds for crash victim's schools

    Friends and family are staging a day-long football tournament in memory of a 16-year-old boy who died in a crash. Joshua Skinner was riding his moped home when he was hit by a car on the A27 Shoreham flyover on October 10 last year. His best friend Laurence

  • Relatives' fury at cemetery ruling

    Bereaved relatives who were distraught after cemetery workers destroyed tributes from the graves of loved ones have spoken of their anger. Families of the deceased say they have been left heartbroken after graves were stripped of cherished items without

  • Tributes to the lord of all ravers

    Friends of an eccentric lord who was found dead at his home over the weekend have paid tribute to an "original raver". Lord Jago Eliot's body was discovered in the bath at the farmhouse he shared with his ex-model wife Bianca Ciambriello on his father's

  • Jordan is 'bored' by Chantelle

    Glamour model Jordan has laid into blonde Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton. She attacked the reality show star after 22-year-old Chantelle announced she was tying the knot with Ordinary Boys singer Preston, 24. The couple became engaged

  • Bonnie Raitt, Dome Concert Hall, Brighton

    Bonnie Raitt had already enjoyed Easter in Brighton before the concert; sightseeing, the sunshine and the consumption of chocolate putting in her in a pro-Anglo frame of mind. Alluding to the crazily-designed Brighton Pavilion, she told a packed theatre

  • Kroon Kat Lounge, Komedia, Brighton

    Now a regular event at Komedia, the Kroon Kat Lounge's reputation as a great night out is deserved. The atmosphere is warm and friendly, people get dressed up for the occasion and it's the kind of night where cool cats in hep suits and smart girls in