Scott Murfin scored his 22nd goal of the season as Wick drew 1-1 at Worthing United to climb back up to third in County League division one. Murfin's 50th-minute strike cancelled out a Gavin Geddes opener for the hosts. Elsewhere, Rob Wimble's 12th
Eastbourne Town have signed rookie striker Nick Pearmine who goes straight into the side for Wednesday's Ryman League Cup showdown with Horsham at the Saffrons. Experienced midfielder Danny Simmons returns for the hosts against FA Cup heroes Horsham
Albion boss Dean Wilkins has told his players to go for the kill on the road to Wembley against Cheltenham at Withdean on Wednesday evening. The teams meet again in the southern section quarter-finals of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy following Saturday's
A 14-year-old boy who crashed a car into a house killing his 20-year-old friend has died. Sundeep Majhail, of Heathfield, Pound Hill, Crawley, died in hospital in London. He had been on a life support machine since being critically injured when the
A teenager died after crashing a powerful motorbike on a test drive. Seren Domin was killed when he lost control of a Honda motorbike in Old Worthing Road, East Preston. His parents were so worried he was interested in getting a bike that they had been
Campaigners tonight staged an all-night vigil outside Worthing Hospital before marching on a health headquarters to deliver a massive protest vote. Around 40 people gathered at the hospital's main entrance for the 6pm start of the vigil. A hardcore
A 31-year-old killed himself by pulling a condom over his head in a bizarre internet drug ritual to increase sexual stimulation. Gary Ashbrook was found naked on his bed beside several empty cans of nitrous oxide, a weak anaesthetic used for sexual gratification
A grieving widow lay on railway tracks in front of a 70mph train less than a year after losing her husband to cancer. Gill Tanner was killed instantly when she was hit by the train at Southwick railway station, close to her home in The Crescent, Southwick
A 16-year-old girl was attacked by a gang of men and sexually assaulted as she walked home alone after a night out. The girl was followed and then cornered by a gang of three men in the now derelict Teville Gate shopping area in Worthing during the early
A brutal rapist who put his victim through an AIDS-scare hell has been jailed for seven years. Stephen Osbourne mouthed "I'm sorry" to his 46-year-old victim as he was led to the cells. In an increbible display of compassion the woman spoke of her hope
An 85-year-old man was kidnapped from a bus stop by a gang of robbers posing as police officers. The pensioner was lured into a car outside the Lidl store in Brighton before being robbed of £200 and then dumped on the street. It is the latest in a string
Dozens of post offices due to close in Sussex next year will not be replaced with alternative outreach services. Altogether 51 post office branches could be axed in the government's Network Change programme, to make the system financially viable and
Horsham will stage their FA Cup second round tie against Swansea on Friday, November 30, provided their floodlights are upgraded. The match will be screened live on Sky TV if small improvements can be made to the ground. The club held a meeting with
It's been more than 30 years since breakdancing broke out on the streets of New York. Three decades on and there are b-boys and girls all over the world, and increasingly their skills are being exhibited on stage and screen. Life of a B-Boy is the latest
Oscar Wilde described his play as "a trivial comedy for serious people". However, there is nothing trivial about this current production, apart from the characters' attitude to life. It is hard to believe that when George Bernard Shaw reviewed the play
There is no one quite like The Cardiacs. Lead singer Tim might insist it is "pop music", but the break-neck tempo changes, intricate structures and orchestral flourishes - all played with a mania bordering on frightening - were like nothing you have ever
Albion's FA Cup saviour Doug Loft has been hit by an injury blow. A twisted ankle sustained in training today rules the midfielder out of tomorrow night's Johnstone's Paint Trophy tie at home to Cheltenham. Manager Dean Wilkins said: "He went over on
There are few better ways to spend a weekend than swanning around the glorious house which is West Dean College, with no meals to cook or chores to do. Better still to do this in the company of some 40-plus like-minded bookworms and writers. This fabulous
There are few better ways to spend a weekend than swanning around the glorious house which is West Dean College, with no meals to cook or chores to do. Better still to do this in the company of some 40-plus like-minded bookworms and writers. This fabulous
A teenager wept today as she escaped jail for killing her best friend in a high speed car crash. Samantha Cole was spared prison after the mother of tragic Dayna Mitchell made a plea for compassion to the judge. Dayna, 18, died after Cole lost control
Hundreds of experienced officers are being tempted away from Sussex Police for the better pay and perks of working in London. Up to 200 officers want to leave the force to work in London, according to the Police Federation. Forty eight officers have
Bouncers depicts a typical Friday night at a nightclub with hilarious effect. In addition to the security doormen, the cast of four men play all the other parts. One moment they are the brutish bouncers, the next dozy lads out for booze and birds
An alleged key member of a £53 million robbery gang accused a star prosecution witness of lying in court to save her own skin today. Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, told the Old Bailey he had nothing to do with the hold-up at the Securitas depot, Britain's biggest
Albion have changed the arrangements for frustrated fans trying to book Withdean seats over the phone for the double-header with Cheltenham. The club are now replying to e-mail requests, as well as phone calls, following complaints from Gold members
A supermarket has been forced to cancel its backlog of parking fines after a deluge of complaints from customers. The Asda store at Brighton Marina has been inundated with calls from angry motorists, many of whom have been sent fines for parking without
Please, no more graffiti. I was appalled to read that Brazillian graffiti artist Zezao was given permission to spray paint graffiti on the walls of the Brighton sewer system (The Argus, November 8). The sewers receive many visitors every year
A teacher has broken the British record for freediving after plunging 78 metres into the sea. Dave King, 33, a humanities teacher at Varndean College in Surrenden Road, Brighton, broke the record at the Freediving World Championship in Sharm-El-Sheikh
A councillor has won a battle to secure better public transport links between West Sussex and the new Eurostar station in London. Tex Pemberton, cabinet member for highways and transport for West Sussex County Council, has helped to secure a bus link
Cheltenham manager Keith Downing has hinted at making changes tomorrow (Wed) as he plans ahead for a tough run of fixtures. Five of Town's next six matches are away, including next Tuesday's FA Cup replay at Withdean prompted by Saturday's 1-1 draw at
Having taken part in the demonstrations against the sale of foie gras in restaurants in Brighton and Hove, I was shocked and disappointed to read the article about it (The Argus, November 8). It gave the impression from the title and some of the
My letter on the proposed 700- plus wind turbines (Letters, November 9) coincided with Adam Trimingham's "Hot air" article, (The Argus, November 7). Since then I have found out how our money subsidises these industrial turbines through the Government's
Ian Davey is way off the mark when he criticises the Conservative members of the planning applications sub-committee (Letters, November 5). They wanted extra parking spaces but certainly not at the expense of affordable housing and facilities for
Des Turner wrote a helpful and largely balanced article on the current possibilities for amending the 1967 Abortion Act (The Argus, November 2). The subject is not an easy one and there is a clear need for those on both sides of the debate to respect
His career history makes him sound like Indiana Jones. Jeremy Adams has spent the past three decades doing a job that has called upon him to skin tigers, dig up skeletons and identify the remains of Roman dogs. Now Mr Adams is about to step down from
Up to 180 people will lose their jobs at a struggling cosmetics company, just weeks before Christmas. Creative Outsourcing Solutions International (COSi) has operations in Littlehampton and Maesteg in Wales making cosmetics and toiletries. The company
More than 20 retired nurses will be forced out of their homes to make way for flats or a giant supermarket. Former nurses living in the John Howard cottages in Roedean Road, Brighton, have been told the land on which their homes sit is to be sold off
The cost of building Brighton and Hove Albion's Falmer stadium has risen by £9 million since a Government blunder delayed the project by almost two years. Despite the rise - caused by inflation and the rocketing cost of raw materials - the club
Pensioners like Maggie Akehurst are expected to be among the hardest hit by post office closures. The great-grandmother lives with her husband Mick opposite her local post office in Coldharbour Road, Upper Dicker, near Hailsham. But if the proposed
I hope common sense will prevail and that Worthing Hospital will retain its accident and emergency and maternity services. It is questionable whether the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton would be able to cope with patients from West Sussex
Council taxpayers are being charged millions of pounds over the odds to house people with learning disabilities hundreds of miles from Sussex. Green city councillor Keith Taylor has criticised the £8.2 million spent each year by Brighton and Hove City
The city of Brighton and Hove has a diverse range of entertainment but it is lacking the mainstream variety shows that Eastbourne and Worthing enjoy. Ken Dodd, for instance, visited both those towns twice this year but has not appeared on stage
Guy Butters does not have long left, or much more to achieve, in his career but the possibility of playing at the new Wembley is enough to set his pulse racing. Albion have two realistic chances to do that this season, by reaching the League One play-off
Click here to see a map showing the post offices concerned Dozens of post offices across Sussex are due to be axed by the end of next year as part of the Government's plans to curb losses. The hitlist of 49 branches was drawn up under the Network
A predatory sex attacker who raped and assaulted women has been transferred from Lewes Prison after reports he was beaten up. Mark Campbell, 38, was jailed for life on October 15 for 13 offences including three rapes, four indecent assaults
The proposed closure of dozens of Sussex post offices under the network's "change programme" has united politicians from all parties against the plans. Here four of them explain why they will be campaigning hard to save branches in their communities
He may have been performing for four decades, but this Gilbert O'Sullivan was as peppy and fresh as I remember him from my pre-teens, when I saved up to buy I'm A Writer Not A Fighter - a greensleeved album which came complete with an iron-on
The observations on transport in Brighton and Hove made by A Kelly were spot on (Letters, November 10). We were supposed to get joined-up government from Labour but since they came to power you can't take your bike on the train, and this from
I fully endorse Councillor Keith Taylor's comments about congestion charging (The Argus, November 10), but it seems that councillors are very good at advising us how to conduct ourselves. I would respectfully suggest that he follows his own advice
With the latest alarming figures about levels of air pollution in Brighton, this might be a good time to be reminded that, according to a World Health Organisation study, more people die and are treated in hospital as a result of car fumes than
In response to David Rogers (Letters, November 10), irrespective of whether you are for or against free bus passes for pensioners, the fact remains that everyone will eventually be a senior citizen and be entitled to free travel. But every generation
Friends and family of a skydiver killed when a stunt went wrong will install a bench in his memory. Mark Dare, a 21-year-old teacher from Shoreham, died in a tragic accident in the French Alps in June last year. On Saturday, friends will build a tribute
A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted as she walked home alone in the early hours of Sunday. The teenager was cornered by a group of three men in the deserted Teville Gate area of Worthing around 3.35am. One of the group, described as white, bald
A van and two motorbikes have been involved in two accidents on the same stretch of road today. The first accident happened at about 6.48am on the A259 Little Common Road near Bexhill. It involved a van and a motorbike. About 30 minutes later a motorcyclist
Few bands could feel as at home among the decadent settings of the Duke Of York's as San Francisco duo Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel. Named after a story by James Joyce and brandishing relentless, full-blooded punk and beautiful folk on their self-titled
