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  • Letter: Let seals and otters live free

    I am astounded Brighton Sealife Centre is considering plans to house seals and otters in its marine zoo. The conditions they are proposing appear to be inappropriate for animals which should be in the wild where they belong. Furthermore I must disagree

  • Tory leader hits town in late bid for voters

    Conservative leader David Cameron walked around a Crawley shopping centre in a last-minute bid for votes ahead of tomorrow's election. Queens Square was quiet at 10am yesterday but his visit was well-planned, with babies on hand for kissing and a range

  • £100m Circus Street project promises to be class act

    An ultra-green £100 million development on the site of an old fruit and veg market has been given the go-ahead. Brighton and Hove City Council has chosen the Kent-based Cathedral Group to develop the area in Circus Street, Kemp Town. It plans to transform

  • County facing up to toughest water ban

    The strictest ban on water use for more than 15 years could be slapped on Sussex within a week. Southern Water expects to hear by May 10 if its application to ban all "non-essential" water use has succeeded. If Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett agrees

  • Mountain fire death: Tourist may be sued

    A tourist blamed for causing a fatal fire on Table Mountain in South Africa could be sued for hundreds of thousands of pounds by Cape Town authorities. Salesman Anthony Cooper, 36, from Brighton, was accused of starting the fire that killed an elderly

  • Letter: Projecting a bygone era onto silver screens

    The photograph showing the projection staff in the article "Dreams of past glories" (The Argus, April 25) brought back many happy memories. The man in the white coat is Fred Warner. He was chief projectionist when I joined the Astoria in 1956 as fourth

  • Sordid trail to child sex ring

    A reporter who answered a graffiti advert on a train toilet door asking for young girls for sex uncovered a paedophile ring. Ruth Lumley, who works for The Argus, alerted police who launched a ten-month investigation spanning several counties which found

  • Speedway: Fearless Bridger chasing under-21 glory

    Lewis Bridger has finally come across a meeting which has got him worried. But the seemingly fearless 16-year-old is not fretting over Elite League action. It is the prospect of facing his fellow youngsters which has brought the nerves on. The Eastbourne

  • Letter: At my time of life

    As convenor of the Hova Group, I was delighted to learn English Heritage has notified Brighton and Hove City Council of its disapproval of the King Alfred plan in its entirety (The Argus, April 26) - even if there is some ambiguity. It even seems appropriate

  • Letter: A tale of two plans for a very different city

    What a contrast. Two major new developments are at the planning stage, one on the King Alfred site in Hove and the other at Brighton Marina. Marina site and they are stunning. Brunswick Developments have come up with building designs which are dynamic

  • Hoggard back to face Sussex

    Sussex face a Test-quality attack in the Championship match against Yorkshire which starts at Headingley today. England's Matthew Hoggard plays his first game of the season after resting following his return from the tour of India earlier this month.

  • Reserves are beaten

    Albion's Reserves ended their home programme with an unfortunate 1-0 defeat by Gillingham at Worthing yesterday. Gavin Grant scored the only goal of the game for the visitors in the 74th minute, latching onto a header from Paul Shields to beat keeper

  • McGhee is on the brink

    Albion manager Mark McGhee is on the brink of parting company with the club. McGhee now seems increasingly likely to become a victim of a boardroom power struggle, revolving around relegated Albion's precarious finances. Chairman Dick Knight and chief

  • Bishop calls on shoppers to buy local

    The Bishop of Chichester has urged shoppers to go green and buy local produce. The Right Reverend John Hind, who oversees all Sussex parishes, said there was a Christian obligation to support local growers and environmentally-friendly producers. Bishop

  • Firm's bid to get nation airborne is grounded

    An airline has been barred from helping rebuild Afghanistan's aviation industry. Crawley-based Astraeus Airlines has spent months putting together a deal with Ariana Afghan Airlines. It planned to supply two refurbished Boeing 757 aircraft along with

  • Businessman wants to fuel his home on wind power

    A businessman who has launched a series of green-friendly schemes has submitted plans for the first domestic wind turbine in Brighton and Hove. Daren Howarth, the man behind Stanmer Park's Earthship and carbon balancing company C-Level, wants to install

  • Duo's write royal design

    A designer from Hove has created the logo for Prince Harry's charity, with the help of her nine-year-old son. Robina Newman, of Somerhill Avenue, asked her son Jacob to write the charity's name, Sentebale, which translated means "forget-me-not", because

  • Money pours in for dad

    An appeal to help a man with terminal cancer spend more time with his daughter has reached the £7,000 mark in less than a week. People from around Sussex and the country have been touched by the plight of Neil Cooper, from Portslade, and donations have

  • Extract of author's sequel revealed while publisher is sought

    A long-awaited sequel to the story of a young man seduced by an older woman has finally seen the light of day. Home School follows on from where The Graduate left off, about ten years after hero Benjamin Braddock liberates his girlfriend Elaine from her

  • Graffiti artist convicted of criminal damage

    A man who daubed graffiti over city buildings including a magistrates court has been sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work. Kevin Mason, 30, of Devonshire, Place, Brighton, was convicted of 19 counts of criminal damage totalling more than £1,000 between

  • Dirty Pretty Things, Concorde 2, Brighton, Weds, May 3

    "I'm kinda numb to all the mayhem now," reflects Carl Barat. "I don't want to grapple with ghosts and let something upset me on a regular basis. I want to carry on with what I always intended to do." You can sense Barat's anxiety from his response to

  • Taunts made my life misery

    A postwoman dubbed Miss Hotpants by male colleagues has told how sexual taunts forced her to quit her job. Stacy Micklethwaite, 23, of Upper Shoreham Road in Shoreham, spoke out after five postal workers were sacked in relation to the allegations last

  • Girlfriend row: Murder denial

    A father-of-three was stabbed to death by a former neighbour who made a pass at his girlfriend, a court heard. Ricky Smith, 21, is accused of murdering welder Matthew Jones, 25, in Churchill Avenue, St Leonards, last August. Prosecutor Michael Austin-Smith

  • Youth's part in attack 'does not make him a killer'

    A youth has admitted his part in an attack which led to the death of Gary Rae, a court heard. But the 17-year-old's barrister said this did not make him guilty of murder. In her closing speech to the jury, Anesta Weekes, QC, said the juvenile wanted to

  • Letter: Unique numbers

    Tomorrow morning, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again in our lifetime - in fact it will be approximately 400 generations before it happens again. Of course

  • Letter: Ban the fur trade

    Like many others, I watched the BBC documentary which showed the ill-treatment of animals in China where dogs and cats are skinned alive for their fur. As an animal lover, I will no longer buy any goods made in China and hope the EU ban the import of

  • Letter: To see the sea?

    Until recently, you could walk along the seafront in Hove and enjoy unobstructed views of the sea. All the signage about dogs, barbecues and so on was kept below waist height. That was thoughtful. Now, someone who has never enjoyed a walk by the sea has

  • 'Mad Mike' the killer avoids jail

    The widow of a man stabbed to death by a schizophrenic has blamed failings in the mental health system. Robert McKenzie, 43, had not been taking his medication when he killed 27-year-old father-of-two Chris Stones. Today he is facing an indefinite sentence

  • Letter: A new start

    Karis has described the adverse reports from English Heritage and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) on the King Alfred scheme as "minor" (The Argus, April 29) when they are in fact fundamental. Tinkering with the design

  • Around the world with a footie table

    Football-crazy Andy Sloan has followed the World Cup around the globe, playing in stadiums in 26 different countries. But the 27-year-old from Horsham didn't do it the traditional way. Andy lugged a football table around the world to take on the masters

  • Letter: A crooked house

    Looking at the picture of Frank Gehry's proposed building for the King Alfred site (The Argus, April 25), I find it very difficult to understand how anyone can praise it. It reminds me of the nursery rhyme about the crooked man, which ends "and they all

  • Letter: No third chance

    While I agree with Green Party convenor, Councillor Keith Taylor, that Karis should now withdraw its re-submitted application to develop The King Alfred, it would be unethical for this "preferred developer" to be asked to provide new designs yet again

  • My heart could stop at any time

    A mother may have to undergo a heart transplant to cure a one-in-500 defect which has killed her son and affected her grandson. Margaret Mayhew, 63, of Ditchling Place, Brighton, found the body of her son, Steven, in his bed after he died suddenly from

  • Letter: Marina plan ignores rare habitats

    With regard to the proposed Brighton Marina development plans, I visited the display of the proposals at Jubilee Library and spoke to the architect. What concerns me in particular is the lack of thought given to local wildlife which could be driven from

  • Letter: A good question

    Walking by Palmeira Square at the weekend I overheard a little girl ask her dad: "Why does it take hundreds of years to mend the road?" A similar question could be put to Tony Blair's cabinet ministers about how long it takes to resign. -Charles Townley

  • Letter: Spend no more

    I was under the impression Brighton and Hove City Council, elected by local people, should support its residents. It appears not. Despite ever-growing opposition to Karis's King Alfred development plan, deputy council leader Sue John insists it should

  • Terri Walker, Komedia, Brighton

    Soul singer Terri Walker kept apologising throughout this gig. She had a bad cold which had affected her voice. She needn't have bothered saying sorry - the audience barely noticed. The huskiness might have made it hard to understand what she was saying